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About Me

ComFest (officially The Community Festival; is an annual festival currently held at Goodale Park in the Short North area of Columbus, Ohio. The festival bills itself as "The Party with a Purpose" and is "arguably the largest free, non-corporate urban music and arts festival in the United States."[1] To accomplish this goal, the festival relies on community members to participate in the planning and operation of the festival serving on committees and work teams including clean-up and recylcing, safety and first aid, entertainment, and street fair.
The festival was first held in 1972 as a showcase for a collection of progression community organizations including the Free Press, Free Health Clinic, Food Co-op, Tenants Union, Crisis Hotline, and Recylcing Center. The festival continues to provide a forum for alternative lifstyles and collective activity.
The Purpose of the Party can be summed up in the "statement of principles" that govern the festival:
1) "We think that people ought to work for the collective good of all people rather than for personal gain. We support cooperation and collective activity rather than competition and individual profit.
2) The basic necessities of life are a right and not a privilege. People have the collective right to control the conditions of their lives.
3) People should strive to conduct their lives in harmony with the environment.
4) We recognize that there are primary attitudes which divide and oppress people. These attitudes are usually shown by prejudice against people on the basis of age, class, ability, income, race, sex, and sexual preference/ orientation.
5) We seek to eliminate these attitudes."

My Interests

Progressive politics, culture, art, music.

I'd like to meet:

People interested in helping out with ComFest! Volunteer! Be a part of the fun! Go to www.comfest.com for more information on how you can volunteer.

My Blog

ComFest Needs You to Voluneer Early!

The volunteer database is now up and running for the 2008 Community Festival. Go to http://www.comfest.com/forvolunteers.htm, sign-up and mark your calendars now and help us meet our volunteer goals!...
Posted by COMFEST on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:19:00 PST

Ask not what ComFest can do for you. Ask what you can do for ComFest!

It’s beginning to look a lot like spring outside! That means one thing, ComFest planning is now in full swing. ComFest needs YOU! If you love the festival, plan to volunteer. (We’ll pos...
Posted by COMFEST on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

Design the 2008 ComFest Logo

Be part of a legacy. Every year since the 1973 "Good Vibes" t-shirt (volunteers at the first festival in 1972 wore armbands, just like the federal marshalls who walked Ruby Bridges into William Frant...
Posted by COMFEST on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:10:00 PST

Community Festival 2008 Performance Applications Now Available!

It may be stupid-cold and blustery outside now but 2008 ComFest applications are available online for the party with a purpose. ComFest welcomes applications from all kinds of musical and performance...
Posted by COMFEST on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:56:00 PST

Hot Times Festival

This weekend, the Hot Times Community Arts & Music Festival will be going on down at 240 Parsons Avenue (where the Columbus Health Department is located, also known as the former Highway Patrol ac...
Posted by COMFEST on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:23:00 PST

Just a few weeks away...

Just a few weeks remain until this year's Community Festival, being held June 22, 23 and 24, at Goodale Park here in Columbus.   Can you feel the excitement yet?   But... we still need volun...
Posted by COMFEST on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:21:00 PST

ATTENTION, BANDS, VOLUNTEERS, ETC.

http://www.comfest.com/applications.htm Please click on the above link if you are interested in working at the Community Festival 2007.  This MySpace is merely for informational and social networ...
Posted by COMFEST on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

COMFEST 2007 is coming soon!

As the subject says, this year's COMFEST will be here before you know it!  And, as usual, volunteers are needed!  The online form is not up yet, but you cna either check back at http://www.c...
Posted by COMFEST on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:48:00 PST

got nothing better to do?

well, check out some videos on youtube from this year's comfest!   http://www.youtube.com/results?search=comfest&search_typ e=search_videos...
Posted by COMFEST on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:33:00 PST

the weather gods smile upon comfest!

okay, now, most of you who are in the know about comfest know that we have the slogan "rain or shine, it's comfest time!" - in the past, this has rang quite true.  in recent memory, watching scra...
Posted by COMFEST on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 06:40:00 PST