Featuring MC Peter Glantz

1-2pm ACCO
2:30-3pm Super Chief Trio
3:30-4pm Tallahassee
4:30-5:30pm ZuKrewe
6-6:30pm The Rice Cakes
7-7:30pm Amil Bylckie Band
9pm Cherie Lily
10pm Andrew W.K. Special Solo Show
11:30-12 Triangle Forest
12:30-1am OSS

1-2pm Urban Barn Dance
2:30-3pm The Silks
3:30-4pm Volcano Kings
4:30-5pm Brother Kite
5:30-6pm Panther Moderns
6:30-7pm Daily Life
7:30-8pm Idiot Vehicle
8:30-9pm Tem. Blessed
9:15-9:45pm Manni Headphonez
10:15-10:45pm Soldiers of Life
11:15-11:45pm Worms in Women and Cattle
12:15-12:45am White Load

In addition to having select items from their Allens Ave shop for sale, Amigos will host an on-going zine swap. As a bonus they are offering free Derek Aylward prints in a Foo Fest-only edition -- just create your copy on their Print Gocco. Amigos Publishing & Shop can be found on the second floor of Conley's Wharf, 200 Allens Ave, Studio #7F. Visit them some Friday, Saturday, or Sunday by passing through Entry #3 under the green "Patrick's Pier One" canopy, taking the elevator to the building's second floor, and following the signs!

Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth is a community arts organization that provides free, professional arts education to youth ages 8-14. Access to ¡CityArts! programming is unhindered by socio-economic barriers and celebrates the arts as a means for building communities, fostering creative thinking and expression, promoting positive social development and engaging youth in public service and social change.

The mission of Girls Rock! Rhode Island is to help girls and women empower themselves through the development of musical skills in order to foster self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-efficacy. Through this work we hope to build an environment conducive to the active participation and respect of women as creative producers of our culture. We envision a future where women and girls are prolific, independent creators of all aspects of modern culture.

Kidoinfo returns to Foo Fest with another round of interactive Fairy House Building. It was a smash in 2010, so its back! Bring the little ones by KidoInfos installation for some free fun! Kidoinfo is a hip online resource for parents and kids based in Providence, Rhode Island, and reaching out to the world. This independent weblog is brimming with information, creative ideas, things to do, places to go and links to family resources. Creator, Anisa Raoof lives in Providence with her husband and 7-year-old twin boys. She works on finding ways to make parenting easier, still fun and even a little cool. Being a parent means not staying put and being open to new adventures. Anisa created Kidoinfo in early 2007 to be the central source for everything about kids in the Providence area. But Kidoinfo also goes beyond the city borders, wherever our kids will travel. This essential online guide is for parents, caregivers, and families living in the area or just visiting.

The mission of the Providence Children's Museum is to inspire learning through active play and exploration. The Museum presents hands-on exhibits and programs that explore art, culture, history and science. For more than thirty years the Providence Children's Museum has been an integral part of Rhode Island life and with over 8,000 square feet of interactive exhibits it is a place where children are nurtured and celebrated.

Make some spin-art to take home after the Fest. Remember how to play. Check out some animations created iduring RIMOSA programs! The Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art (RIMOSA) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to using Rhode Island’s rich resources in the arts and sciences to make an innovative, interactive, informal learning center for older children and adults. Our target audience is aged 11 and up - too old for children's museums, but too young to have lost the desire to tinker, experiment and create. Although RIMOSA doesn't have a permanent site yet, we are continually developing and testing open-ended, hands-on exhibits and programs that emphasize the attributes shared by both artists and scientists – observation, curiosity, experimentation and communication.

Celebrate New England D.I.Y Rhode Island’s own Mini Maker Faire, featuring hands-on making, building & hacking, culinary crafting, garage technology, arts and creativity for sale, and robots!

RiverzEdge Arts Project is a youth development program giving educationally and economically disenfranchised youth (ages 12-24) in northern Rhode Island paid employment in the arts and a voice in their community. Based in Woonsocket, one of RI's poorest cities, RiverzEdge engages teens in a lifestyle of creative expression, disciplined effort, and economic self-reliance.

Concrete Couch works with kids and community groups to create public art, to build community, and to create environments and experiences that humanize our world. Foo Fest  participants can make their own recycled materials art tee shirt using original low tech techniques, including splatter paint, stencils, etc.,and using dyes made from house paint, and spray-atomizers made from to-go salsa containers and straws! The shirt produced is wearable and washable!

Recycle-A-Bike (RAB) is a volunteer-based community organization that connects people with refurbished bikes, provides practical bike knowledge, and advocates bicycle use by safer, more confident cyclists.Bike Valet encourages people to bike to destinations and park nearby worry free of their bicycle’s safety.

The Anarchist Book Fair, a tradition-bucking tradition at Foo Fest! The book fair often presents radical workshops and brings in great vendors from tiny presses and collectives. If it wasn't awesome they wouldn't be there - because we fight hard to keep Foo Fest from falling into the mold of the festival as outdoor mall. If you want to vend or present, fit into their mold! The Book Fair has books by such favorite anti-authoritarian vendors as: AK Press, PM Press, and Wooden Shoe Books as well as locals such as Libertalia Autonomous Space, Fellow Workers Farm, FIERCENESS, NEFAC, Revista Amauta, the IWW and many other local social justice organizations.
Be responsible, educate yourself.

The Magic City Projects are an on-going series of participatory collaborative works staged by Andrew Oesch, Ian Cozzens, and Meg Turner. This iteration of the project mines past creations to construct a landscape upon which people will be able to build their own buildings. Exploring utopian fantasy and fanciful architecture through collaged stickers and text, the project invites dreaming about what our built environment can be.
Andrew Oesch is an Artist Educator living in Providence, RI. He is interested in moments when many meanings pile up... particularly through social and art/design mediums... the processes and work surrounding these moments are messy, ephemeral, ambiguous, and a great deal of fun.

Carmel is a costume and crafts artist working at AS220's Dreyfus artist studio.Carmel will be using fabrics and materials collected over the years to make creative and unique masks for Foo Fest participants. 

As a painter with an unfocused social conscience at age eighteen, I began designing and painting urban murals, and while I enjoyed the public, participatory format, I have always resented the sanitization of content on the part of property owners, municipal governments, and clients that many public artworks suffer. In 2009, Christian Caldarone of the Smith Hill CDC invited me to paint "anything I wanted" on a house in our neighborhood that was slated for rehab. I painted a visual narrative about a carousel horse that escapes the carousel, and which, though mutilated and partially mutated, manages to join the other animals in the kingdom of peace. I painted it as fast as I could using only donated materials. Since then I have been hard at work organizing and painting HousEART in Rhode Island and beyond. I have really latched on to this idea of quick and dirty artworks on vacant homes. I appreciate the agenda-free power of visual storytelling upon uninhabited structures, which, though intended to house families, become like monuments or temples when vacant. I like the urgency and expressiveness of an artwork that humbly seeks to address an entire web of social ills, and that will ultimately be destroyed in order to give someone a home. I hope that HousEART will bring joy, dignity, and inspiration to people living in ravaged neighborhoods.

In 2006 my Uncle Albert (also known as AJ or Al) was moving out of the Rutland house where he, my father and all of their brothers and sister had grown up. At one time, there had been 14 people living under the roof, but slowly over the years they moved outwards and onwards until it was just my grandmother and AJ. When my grandmother passed away in 1986 AJ stayed on by himself in the 2nd floor apartment often referred to as "The Roadhouse". As a kid I had not often been allowed up there, likely because the decor was well suited to melt fragile juvenile minds. I think it could best be described as 60's radicalism meets Mad magazine with a few 1950's pin-ups. There was color, comedy, politics, sexy ladies, and a year-round christmas tree made out of beer cans. The few times I got a glimpse of it I was sure that it was the coolest place that I'd ever seen. So when word came that AJ was moving, I decided that I should go up to Vermont to document the house with my old fashioned film camera one frame at a time. When I arrived at the house I found it more filled up with stuff than I had ever imagined. I absolutely have "collecting" tendencies and on that adventure came to think, based on the habits/decorative choices made by my uncle, that some of this might be genetic. This footage was later turned into the movie "Born to Never Throw Anything Away". On that trip I also was perhaps a bad influence. While AJ's brother & sister were working hard on getting him to get rid of stuff, I convinced him that it would be really tragic if his legendary tee-shirt collection ended up at the "rag-man" which is where it was headed. AJ had first started collecting t-shirts when he was about 20 and for upwards of 30 years, whenever any of his friends or family went anywhere they'd bring him back the funniest, weirdest or coolest tee-shit they could find. AJ was (and still is) the photographer for the local paper and was out shooting pictures at public events every day, any restaurant, bar or business owner in the area who had t-shirts advertising their places gave him one to wear as a walking billboard for them. He also had friends in the military who sent him tee-shirts from all over the world. His sister had set a limit on how many tee-shirts he could bring to his new house (i think it might have been around 500). The Confession: (da da dun dun!) the way that i convinced AJ not to send his t-shirts to become future futons at the rag man was by volunteering to take them myself! The boxes have been sitting in the space above the "office" at my studio, The Dirt Palace for about 5 years now and I've always felt like before they can go outwards and onwards in the world that i needed to document them as a collection. When I told my mom this idea she took it and ran and started to make a public access TV show where AJ showed off and discussed a number of his t-shirts from the "permanent" collection. These movies can be seen at: www.vimeo.com/user7960922.
Today: so today the goal is to get as many of these t-shirts documented as possible and then send them on their way to new loving homes (with you!!). So step up and model a piece of history as told through an epic t-shirt collection. Then take your t-shirt with you! If you like you can take it over to the print shop screen printing booth and print it with an image originally designed for AJ's old softball team: Big Al's Hose Co.
Tomorrow: ok not literally tomorrow (more likely in a month or so)...but in the future, go to my website to see yourself, for 1/6 of a second, as part of the finished t-shirt collection re-direction documentation project!!

The Empire Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque, special guests and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month at AS220. Keep an eye out at Foo Fest when they take it to the streets!

Matthew Underwood received his BFA in Electronic Arts from Alfred University in 2006. His work has been shown in the European Media Art Festival and the ZKM Center for Art and Media (DE). He recently completed an installation for RK Projects in Providence, Rhode Island. Special thanks to the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY, where many of these video recordings were made.

Interactive video animation project that allows participants to draw creatures and see them become animated.

The Divination wheel returns to Foo Fest this year with a lunar and other worldly theme. Invited artists and members of the truley providence-based Skull Kingdoms art collective have created work based on dreams, visions, science, psudo science, imagination, drug-inspired stupors and psychotic episodes. Enter our orical lare! Spin the wheel, and learn your fate or at least something of your current state. Do not fear, you will not be left alone to interpret -A seer/critic/medium will be on hand for consultations. Skull Kingdoms art collective is a group of RI natives who are friends and collaborators. Together we are artists who work in space, in visuals and in sound. We make interactive work as well as events. We are historians, mystics, writers and designers. Our work is alchemy. The wheel was built by Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti and Sam Holland for Foo Fest in 2010. They are members of SK.

A minature museum installation featuring the artists' collection of things gathered over the years, such as spray paint can lids, antique locks, dead bugs, etc. Patrons will be able to use an installed rotary phone to leave a message of what they would have in their personal Museum of Collections.

Jackie Frole holds a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from RISD, where her interests ranged from onsite installation to kinetic collage. Her art continues to incorporate themes of consumerism, voyeurism and parody. She has exhibited work in Rome, New York (where it was poorly received) and Providence (where it was welcomed with open arms). She has written for and edited various music magazines and is currently the co-author of sporadic live show reviews at HalfBiPolar.com. For Foo Fest 2011, she is making a 12-foot Mancala board for all to play, the first in a series of board games for giants.

We will identify potholes and cracks on the pavement on Empire St. and transplant small trees into them for the duration of the 12 hour Foo Fest. We will retrieve the plants and return them to their original location once the Fest is over. This activity aims to highlight the temporal-ness of civilization and reveal what is underneath this thin layer of cement.

This tapestry belongs to the people of Providence, Rhode Island.  The weft is comprised of locally found or donated materials, and viewers participate in the weaving process.  Beginning at Wolly Fair and continuing to Foo Fest, the project takes place in the public realm. Participants can sit a t the loom and weave a line of fabric into the tapestry. Once complete, the tapestry will serve as documentation and evidence of the Providence community as a collective whole. Recently, at the Wooly Fair a full tapestry 7.5 feet long by 34 inches wide was completed. Lets do it again!

"Artist in a box" is a mobile affordable artist live/work studio designed and occupied by artist Umberto Crenca. The "box" is equiped with solar lighting and ventilation. In addition to providing affordable live/work artist space. The "box" can also be applied as a mobile gentrification initiator. Moving from neighborhood to neighborhood this "avantgarde" live/work studio can be commissioned by developers on a temporary bases to help initiate the gentrification process in poor underdeveloped communities. Rental fees will be proportionate to the projected profits of the client/developer.

Artist/Game Developer Will Brierly has produced many interesting games in his time, from his FPS (first-person soda) soda-drinking simulation entitled Soda Drinker Pro, to Pixel Clicker, an online game where you have to click on a single pixel. He also developed the music video game for the band Wheat's song Living 2 Die vs. Dying 2 Live and a full-size cabinet arcade game entitled Get Outta My Face. His work has been featured at SXSW, Joystiq, and many other national events and media outlets. He will premier his latest work at this year's Foo Fest: a game where you play the consciousness of over 100 characters all existing in different parts of the universe at the same time.