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The O+ Festival is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that hosts festivals of art and music in cities around the United States. The organization is headquartered in Kingston, New York, where the first three-day, multi-venue festival launched in 2010. During the annual event, all participating artists and musicians exchange their contributions to the festival programming for free and discounted health and wellness services from a volunteer-staffed "pop-up clinic," serving as a "band-aid solution to unaffordable health care for the creative community." == About O+ Festival == The O+ mission states that its aim is to foster "complete physical, mental, and social well-being by connecting artists directly with a coalition of health care providers and health resources, in a shared vision to nurture the individual and the community,".〔 Participating artists and musicians submit intake forms along with their stage plots, and are paid for their performances and artworks in health services: dental work, addiction counseling, cancer screenings, physical therapy and more, during a weekend triage clinic staffed by doctors who opt to treat artists outside the system, with case-by-case opportunities for follow-up care. Some health care providers who volunteer their time at the clinic have said they participate because they recognize the value of art as equivalent in a community to the services they provide. One opinion among expressed by a clinic volunteer is that artists "contribute so much to what makes a community worth living in." O+ is working toward national expansion with a Bay Area festival, the first of which took place in the Mission District, San Francisco in November 2013, and will move to Petaluma, California in November 2014. Artists, musicians, and physicians from Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, Berkeley, and Lowell, Massachusetts, have contacted O+ looking to replicate the model. "It seems like something that should be everywhere and could definitely be everywhere," says Julia Henderson, a 32-year-old writer and development coordinator at a San Francisco theater who hopes to bring O+ to Berkeley. In Kingston in 2012, the event drew 2000 attendees who were treated to the work of 45 visual artists and 35 bands (note: 150 musical acts applied for these spots). A record $78,000 in care was given by 85 healthcare providers and four dentists. The 2013 festival provided health, dental and wellness services that they valued at more than $95,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「O+ Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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