Podcasts about communikey festival

My guest today is creative community builder, Kate Lesta.  Kate was brought up around art, theatre, and non-traditional education. Raised in both Boulder, Colorado and Ibiza, Spain, Kate followed a natural inclination towards creating intercultural expressions in order to build new platforms. Her artist cooperative that she commenced just at age 16 later evolved into event production work devoted to the intersection of digital technology, electronic music, immersive experience, and progressive mediums. She has executed hundreds of successful events, both large scale and local/private, over the course of the last fifteen years. The Communikey Festival, which Kate founded and directed, lead her to involvement with festival networks that span the globe. These include Decibel Festival, MUTEK Montreal, Club Transmediale Berlin, Unsound Krakow, and ICAS, to name a few. With a unique understanding of diplomacy, the music industry, and curation, Kate continues to facilitate sustainable systems, safe spaces, and interpersonal growth via community connectedness. She is well-versed in talent buying, budgeting, building code and compliance, US immigration bureaucracy, and pre-/post-production.  In this episode, you'll hear: Why Kate got involved in community The role empathy in Kate’s work Kate’s draw to creative community What Kate learned from CMKY How creative arts lead to personal transformation Kate’s experience at Meow Wolf Kate’s take on why Mutek has maintained it’s integrity How franchise models can potentially scale creative projects What Kate learned from supporting the community affected by the 2016 Oakland warehouse fire Kate’s advice for people who want to create creative community

Lauren HIggins ignites experience, pioneering new ways of working in organizations and enterprises that help both teams and leaders respond to the challenges and opportunities of the sustainability era. Lauren is known for her interdisciplinary work in organizational development and design, event production and curation, economic innovation, and her focus in collaborative governance, and learning in organizations and society. Her passion lies at the intersection between creativity, collaboration and strategy, inspiring her to develop large-scale visions into meaningful projects. She works as Experience Lead as part of the Impact Hub Global Team, and orchestrates large, network-wide projects relating to learning, innovation exchange and global events that empower the 72+ Impact Hub teams worldwide to better support the entrepreneurs and change-makers in their local cities. As an artist and organizer she has also co-created many festivals and curated many innovative events, including the Communikey Festival and Catapulta Festival.

Lauren HIggins ignites experience, pioneering new ways of working in organizations and enterprises that help both teams and leaders respond to the challenges and opportunities of the sustainability era. Lauren is known for her interdisciplinary work in organizational development and design, event production and curation, economic innovation, and her focus in collaborative governance, and learning in organizations and society. Her passion lies at the intersection between creativity, collaboration and strategy, inspiring her to develop large-scale visions into meaningful projects. She works as Experience Lead as part of the Impact Hub Global Team, and orchestrates large, network-wide projects relating to learning, innovation exchange and global events that empower the 72+ Impact Hub teams worldwide to better support the entrepreneurs and change-makers in their local cities. As an artist and organizer she has also co-created many festivals and curated many innovative events, including the Communikey Festival and Catapulta Festival.

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In advance of the 2015 Communikey Festival — which takes place April 16-19 month in Boulder, CO — Experimental Housewife was tapped to record a Headphone Commute mix showcasing the more ambient-leaning portion of the festival programming. Bookended by a pair of tracks from the lauded Silent Season artist Segue, the mix traverses a wide range of styles, from Charles Cohen and Neel’s modular abstractions to the flickering drones of Colorado-based artist Radere and beyond. The end result is an evocative mix that is at turns friendly and creepy, calling to mind the very atmosphere of the Front Range region itself as it moves through its shadowy soundscapes. For more information about this mix, please visit headphonecommute.com

This week's guest is the one and only Miss Heidi Higginbottom. She's lived many places, but I will forever associate her with Boulder, CO even though she currently resides in Paris. Heidi is probably the closest person to the project (other than me) because she is definitely the person I am closest to in my life. We met a few years back when she was in NYC for a Bunker party, and I immediately was drawn to her. Maybe it was her eyes, or possibly her incredible name! Over the years, we would see each other in various cities and it was always a treat. Last year at Communikey Festival in Boulder, we became extremely close. We both moved to Europe around the same time, and now she knows almost everything there is to know about me. She's quite possibly the sweetest person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, is one of the most imaginative and creative people I have ever met, has incredible taste in music and is more that just a little bit easy on the eyes. ;) I could go on and on about how wonderful she is, but maybe you should just ask me in person. Or, maybe you can ask her yourself sometime! So, thank you Heidi for the lovely selections, and to you for listening.