Lucidity (festival)
{{Short description|Festival in Santa Barbara, California}}
{{notability|Events|date=May 2021}}
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{{infobox recurring event
| image = Lucidity_festival_logo2015.jpg
| location = Santa Barbara, California
| years_active = 2012–2019, 2022–
| founders = Lucidity Festivals, LLC
| dates = April 13–15, 2012
April 12–14, 2013
April 11–13, 2014
April 10–12, 2015
April 8–10, 2016
April 7–9, 2017
April 6–8, 2018
05–07 April 2019
08–10 April 2022
| genre = Electronic dance music, devotional music, experimental music, folk music
| website = {{URL|lucidityfestival.com/}}
|frequency=Annually|status=Active|last=April 6–8, 2018|first=April 13–15, 2012|venue=Live Oak Campground}}
Lucidity is an annual, three-day transformational festival in Santa Barbara, California.
The festival's name alludes to lucid dreams; the events producers encourage attendees to "awake in [their] dreams".[http://lucidityfestival.com/why-lucidity/ Why Lucidity?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614091738/http://lucidityfestival.com/why-lucidity/ |date=2012-06-14 }}
The event has been compared to Burning Man,{{cite web|url=http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=86187 |title=Lucidity Festival - Robert Bernstein - Santa Barbara Edhat |publisher=Edhat.com |date=2012-04-18 |accessdate=2012-05-25}}{{cite web|url=http://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2012/04/lucidity-festival-to-bring-eclectic-blend-of-music-art-and-lucid-dreaming-to-sb |title=Lucidity Festival To Bring Eclectic Blend of Music, Art and Lucid Dreaming to SB | The Bottom Line |publisher=Thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu |date=2012-04-10 |accessdate=2012-05-25}} Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Lightning in a Bottle, Electric Daisy Carnival, and the San Francisco New Year’s Eve event Sea of Dreams.{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2012/apr/09/lucidity-festival-live-oak/ |title=Lucidity Festival at Live Oak The Santa Barbara Independent |publisher=Independent.com |date=2012-04-09 |accessdate=2012-05-25}}
It features performance arts and music stages featuring bands, spoken word artists, dancers and DJs. There is a large vendor area, including a focus on local foods, jewelry, clothing and sustainable goods.
Live Oak Campground has been the site of many other music festivals, such as Lightning in a Bottle, from 2006–2008, until that event outgrew the venue.
Lucidity went on hiatus for 2020 and 2021, although virtual festivals were held. It returned in person in 2020.
In September 2024, the 12th year of the event, the Lucidity Festival organizers, citing “unforeseen last-minute changes in requirements” imposed by Santa Barbara County, announced that the festival had to be canceled. Subsequently, shortly before the event was to take place, the organizers stated that they could not financially recover from the “postponement” and announced there would be no refunds for the already-purchased passes. Ominously, Lucidity warned that if a location to host the event cannot be secured by April 2025, they will declare bankruptcy and end the festival for good.
Vision and environmental ethic
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Much of the ethic of the event is rooted in the general philosophy of "burners". The event sponsored a "Greenest Campsite" contest and a motto of "Leave It Better". There were copious reminders to pack out trash and constant activity to remove trash and keep the grounds looking well.
According to Daphne Carpenter, the festival was organized around "six themed villages that revolve around archetypes much in the same way as our dream characters represent aspects of ourselves". She lists these as Renegade Outpost, Family Garden, Healing Sanctuary, Warrior's Way, Lunatic Fringe, and Lover's Nest.
Art
The event features large sculptural art. One of the signature installations over the years has been an environment entitled Walkabout Woods, which consists of artificial trees constructed by the Fishbon collective. Others have included:
- Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Floats
- Branches Mobile Gallery
- BambooDNA
- PyroBar
- Vajra’s Temple
- Space Monkey Creative
- Nature Dreamweaver
- Symbiotic Creations
- Kid’s Karma Zone
Lucid Stage
The Lucid stage, the main music environment at the event, often has both live performers and DJs spinning wide varieties of Electronic Dance Music. The closing performance of one year was Phuture Primitive featuring an array of dancers and an avant-garde drama between an onstage photographer disguised as a spooky computer/robot.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} File:GeofBardPhoto CCA3 PhuturePrimitiveatLucidity2012.jpg
Alive Stage
This alternative acoustic stage features both local and worldly bands, many with jugglers, exotic dance performances or spoken word.
See also
{{Commons category|Lucidity Festival}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://lucidityfestival.com/}}
{{Electronic music festival}}
Category:Music festivals established in 2012
Category:Counterculture festivals
Category:Music festivals in California