I have been told that the contract is being re-negotiated again. People have been very critical of the last 2 festivals but they have no idea of the difficultities. I am astounded there has been a festival in 2003/2004 at all. In almost any other city in the world staging a festival there would be (1) major support from the city, (2) corporate support and (3) a supportive media. But staging a festival without those? I think it's only the tenacious people in Detroit who could make it happen. I think Derrick and Co are amazing.
> Here's something that's stunningly relevant to this mailing list. > > While there are a lot of people from all over the world on 313, there > are still a bunch of people in the Detroit metro area on 313. Some of > them are even somewhat in the know about what's going on, or are on > good speaking relations with people at KMS and Transmat. > > Could someone maybe have a chat with the folks nominally in charge of > Movement, and get a status report? > > I don't really care about specific names of performers as much as > whether the infrastructure is in place, whether the City is going to > be supportive, whether potential sponsors has been contacted, whether > the EFFING THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. Stuff like that. > > Without exaqggerating the importance of the people on this mailing > list, if there IS going to be a festival, we're an enthusiastic street > team, who can be very helpful to the festival in many ways. It's not > too much to ask them to throw us a bone. and I don't mean DJ Bone. > > Those overseas especially would be greatly aided in their decisions > about buying plane tickets, making hotel reservations, etc.. It's > only 5 months away!
