Greening and Activism
In 2009, and with the help of Clean Vibes, Bonnaroo was able to divert over 160 tons of waste from the onsite landfill. That is almost 5 pounds of waste for every person who attended the festival last year. Leave nothing behind. Be part of the solution this year by taking the Clean Concert Pledge. If everyone pitched in and took the time and responsibility to take care of their own waste, together we can leave no garbage behind to put in the landfills. Keep Bonnaroo clean! But it doesn’t have to end there. It shouldn’t. Do your part everyday to keep the planet clean for the sake of all future generations that are to come. Visit Carbon Rally to learn more about what you can do. Visit the Seed Savers in the Planet Roo Academy this year, for workshops on how to collect and store seeds, and why seed saving is important to sustaining local food systems.
Bonnaroo has teamed up with Conscious Alliance this year, in hopes of collecting 10,000 pounds of food donations to benefit the Good Samaritan Food Pantry of Manchester, Tennessee. Donation tents will be located outside the main entrances to the concert areas, and you can also visit the Conscious Alliance “Art that Feeds” Gallery, located in Planet Roo. The first 1,500 patrons that donate 10 non-perishable food items will receive a free, limited edition Bonnaroo poster created by rock artist Robert Marx.
Art
Bonnaroo has teamed up with the American Poster Institute to showcase the work of some of the most relevant poster artists working today. Find prints of some of the biggest artists that have been part of Bonnaroo’s past. You can find the American Poster Institute located just across from the Official Merch tent in Centeroo.
Win Tickets
Bonnaroo has teamed up with Fuse TV, for the Twix Keys to the Barn Sweepstakes, to send you and ten lucky friends to Bonnaroo this year, including round trip transportation and keys to your very own private, air-conditioned, weatherproof barn. Enter the contest here.
Updates – May 11
Adult Swim
As if there’s not enough to see and do at Bonnaroo already with over 160 bands playing over the four day event, the festival has added a new feature this year, making it seem even that much more like its own world within our world. Entitled “The Adult Swim Ragbag of Jollification”, this area will be located inside Centeroo, and will feature an arcade, games, prizes, a one-quarter quarter mile putt-putt track and even a “colossal mound of meat.”
Payment Plan Extended
Because of popular demand, the payment plan has been extended through Friday, May 21. Tickets won’t be around for too much longer though, as the festival will be already happening in exactly one month. General admission payment plan tickets purchased now through May 21 will include two easy payments of $125, while VIP payment plan tickets will be two payments of $712.50.
Art at Roo – Dr. Sketchy’s and POD Art
Bring out the artist in you at Bonnaroo 2010. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a cabaret-style art school, will feature daily life drawing sessions where burlesque beauties and sideshow freaks will pose for you. There’s also all kinds of drawing contests featuring a lot of fun and fancy prizes including Bonnaroo swag.
Pods are placed all throughout the six-hundred acre Bonnaroo farm, featuring unique, interactive art. This year, Bonnaroo is collaborating with artists from the Knoxville Museum of Art, although you can join in to and show off your creative skills. Here’s a brief description of the pods you’ll find this year:
!ND!V!DUALS (Pod 1) will be an installation featuring wooden sculptures representing life-sized animals playing various musical instruments.
In Pod 3, artists will be building four bicycle-powered can conveyor belts used to construct a house made entirely of cans. Turn your trash into art.
The Night Owl Observatory Project (Pod 5) is a transparent dome that will display a layered montage of time-lapse images captured at the festival. Campers are encouraged to bring digital images to this pod to have them strobed by projector, which will go throughout the duration of the festival.
Pod 6 is where you want to go if you’d like to create spontaneous, collaborative sound in a geodesic dome. Feel free to participate in a number of workshops including instrument building, where you can learn how to turn phone receivers into pick-ups, tape decks into distortion pedals and scrap metal into reverb.
Ater-Nation (Pod 7) is a carnival booty-tique where they’ll use donated clothes and upcycle them with other recycled items. Also includes onsite spray paint stenciling, block prints. Patrons are encouraged to bring hoards of bottle caps, can tabs, corks and clothes, especially t-shirts to refashion.
Totem of Dance (Pod 9) will be a ten foot structure with arms and legs that will be covered in a disco ball surface using cut up junk cds. Once complete, the structure will move and sway to appear as if it was dancing. It will also be topped off with a giant disco ball head.