This year get your vinyl fix during the Version festivities with a special one-day only pop-up record fair located in the heart of the community of the future.
Against the Grain, Ale Syndicate, Artisanal Imports, Breckenridge, Baderbrau, Ballast Point, Begyle, Destihl, Deshutes, Evil Twin, Finch’s, Five Rabbits, Founder’s, Gigantic, Great Lakes, Greenbush, Half Acre, Lagunitas, Mikkeller, New Belgium, Petrus, Pipeworks, Red Streak, Revolution, Scratch, Solemn Oath, Stone, Summit, Three Floyds, Tighthead, and others.
Version ⑬ An Urban Operating System ⋅ June 14- 22, 2013​
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For the past 12 years Version Festival has introduced innovative projects that tackle local social and urban issues. The festival highlights projects and people that engage public interest and promote the cultural use of public space.​
This year Version will focus on beta testing a collectively produced open source operating system for our urban environment. We call it an Urban OS. It's not just technology based, It's a human network. We will present works and projects that serve the common good and connect us to services that everyone can use in our neighborhoods and cities. This collection of real world software can help us manage the hardware of our urban environment and create another opening for renewing our public space.​
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Version Festival 13 will present projects by cultural workers, community developers, social entrepreneurs, artists, designers, boutique manufacturers, food interventionists, public space hackers, service mediaticians, urban planners, cultural geographers and adventure capitalists, to share their ideas to develop a collective hack of the current urban operating system.​
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This June 14 through June 22 2013, we're inviting you to demonstrate your skills, share your ideas and your visions to build a better city. We will be utilizing public spaces in Bridgeport to demo a version of an Urban Operating System. Highlights include a new outdoor festival in our parks called Above the Pavement: The City Fair, and events that promote the social engagement of our communities. The Urban OS will continue throughout the year with a series of projects and platforms that will be networked to our local communities.
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The festival is co-produced by Public Media Institute (PMI) and dozens of our neighbors, community groups, friends, and business owners here in Bridgeport. PMI is a non-profit 501(c) 3, community based, arts & culture organization located in Chicago, Illinois. Our mission is to create and incubate innovative arts programming and cultural infrastructures to transform people - socially and intellectually – through the production of festivals, art spaces, events, exhibitions, community projects, artifacts and media. Public Media Institute is committed to the region's cultural ecology and is evident through our series of programs, spaces and projects.