POWER UP 2023

In Collaboration with Pioneer Works

August 28th - September 1st, 2023 > 4.00 am - 7.30 pm

POWER UP is a 5-day workshop series based on the critical belief that understanding technology equals the power to determine our future. POWER UP is an opportunity to explore what it means to live now in this increasingly digital world while simultaneously honing community, creativity, and digital literacy.

This year POWER UP will explore the various intersections and multiverses of technology 

POWRPLNT offers a stipend of $50 to the participants who attend the five sessions.

*This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov

SCHEDULE:
✦  Monday, Aug 28 → Tools to Articulate Your Process for Electronic Musicians, by Concrete Husband @concrete___husband

✦  Tuesday, Aug 29 → Design Justice Play Date, by Sonia Prabhu @heartcore.94

✦  Wednesday, Aug 30 → Photogrammetry, by Java Jones @001.jav

✦  Thursday, Aug 31 → Visualization and materialization, by Luna La Sirena aka Ixel (Ish-el) Batres -Espinoza

✦  Friday, Sept 1 → Ableton and Djing 101, by Princess Peggie @princesspeggie

More info:
POWERUP is curated by Pauli Cakes, POWRPLNT Board Member and Programming Committee Leader. Pauli Cakes is a New York City born & based globally recognized interdisciplinary artist, dj, rave organizer, youth advocate, and more. 

They are the founder of radio, rave, and fundraising platform @xCakesnyc, co-founder of formerly acclaimed @discakesnyc and programming coordinator at @powrplnt 

Pauli's first interaction with POWRPLNT was in highschool as a student intern for a residency at Red Bull Studios.