Multi-venue or Single-venue?

[holly]

First AVit took place in a single building (Corn Exchange?)

AVit Chicago was a multi-room, multi-level space but for the most part was one building? One location....

Brighton was several nearby locations...? Was this simultanious (make a choice and miss something) or was it about venue hopping as one event finished and another began across town...?

SanFrancisco has a few large venues, but many many small venues. Are people thinking about a large club that is already set-up, or a raw space that can serve multi-purpose, or several small simulatanious events with a single badge/pass as entry to all...? Daytime workshops, nightime performances? Do they all need to be under one roof?

[Anyone]

As I said in the other thread,

another way of making this financially viable
is to maybe try an get a few of the bigger clubs to book a VJ
for their club and pay for the travel/accomodation...

1015 for example I'm sure would be able to afford it...

for the "on" festival a single focus point would be important,
as we saw in Brighton the Pressure Point was quite far away
from the other venues and suffered in attendance because of this...

but for the "off" part,
I think AVIT should profit from a party city like SF
to try and infuse the club scene with a few international VJs
while they're in town...

I for one would love to do visuals in one of the big SF gay nights...

Ne1

[vjculture]

We are looking into multi venues for AVIT SF
Think Castro Theater, SOMARTS, a new entertainment center venue and multiple clubs.
club 1015 is already down for the event and so is Studio Z. (maybe we can sneak in another video riot)

Sorry for being late replies, I have had my busiest month ever.
Still trying to get my feet back on the ground.
I will be working with the headz on this next week.
Currently, we are looking at June but we have a lot of schedules to work out.

Grant

[vjrei]

I would like to be involve of that since I'm so capitalist. I could find a few DJs with some name to play at night and charge a cover for it. I do not know, I know about AVIT what you know about Venezuelan colonila history.

Maybe next year:rolleyes:

BTW, did any of you contacted Roland or Korg for sponsorship? They can offer a clinic of their equipment and help with some expenses. I do not know, as I said, I know AVIT is a VJ convention, that is all.

[PilotX]

I think that the distance between the pressure point and brighton centre was too much, especially given that most stuff was going on in the brighton centre.. I'd go for a single venue in the daytime (or at least ones which are litterally around the corner from each other, ie: not more than a minute walk). didn't make it to chicago last year, but the setup there sounds like it was great..
at brighton it was a case of lots of stuff happening at the same time, you had to make a choice what to see and miss, but at the same time that meant we could offer lots of things for people, and I think was in part why the daytime stuff seems to have gone well..
so yeah, multi venue in one location if you can..

[murph]

I favor one venue by day, one to three (depending on situation, and preferrably very close by) at night.

[spark]

both!

one concept that hasn't been mentioned so far, and one that brighton really polarised to me, is the concept of core+fringe. a slick core conference, effectively run professionally, surrounded by fringe events that can largely take care of themselves through the locals and legions of people signing up to travel over.

toby

[spark]

... and so, a slick core conference would be a manageable, single venue where everyone would be 'pushed' through for the one-to-many events and maximum trade exposure, and a multitude of fringe spaces operating outside of the core hours where things can be more experimental and niche (woah, theres a lotta niches!).

toby

[Anyone]

we just need to make sure 2 events aren't happening at the same time
our crowds are already small, let's not make them even smaller...

Ne1

[RayV]

I so agree with pilotX
the fact that you are about to miss something you REALLY want to attend coz its too far from the other place & soon, here begins the other, & knowing you never going to make it, was almost upsetting. hence, I?d think the best would be to do day-time / workshops in one place or around the corner from each other, but as for gigs ? it would be good to have few venues each night, or even afternoon chill-out gigs in a lounge / dance bars.

[murph]

Originally posted by spark
... and so, a slick core conference would be a manageable, single venue where everyone would be 'pushed' through for the one-to-many events and maximum trade exposure, and a multitude of fringe spaces operating outside of the core hours where things can be more experimental and niche (woah, theres a lotta niches!).

sounds like how the furthur festival operated, with a main tent going all night, and smaller DIY tents going all over the place during the day. (the inverse of brighton?)

I dunno, I think 2 or 3 venues close to each other is ideal.

[vjculture]

Spark, I like your thinking.
Whether we want fringe or not we will get it.
Personally, I think that is a good thing if we embrace it.
We are looking into one venue for the classes, discussions and panels. Saturday trade show will be another venue but everyone will be in the same place.
Friday night might be one or two big name performances ending earlier so everyone can go out to other clubs to either make money or checkout others work.
Saturday night's event will be hosted in one place with fringe events happening elsewhere.
Sunday social will be in one location.
Oh and by the way, anyone in personal contact with Bill Viola please contact me.