Denver, Colorado

Own
the party.

OurFest is a community-owned events co-op. You bring the venue or the act, the members vote on it, and we organize the events. One member, one vote, and a mission to buy festival grounds that belong to all of us.

1 = 1member, vote
$350a seat in the co-op
27crew roles open

First 100 on the list go on the wall at show one.

Get the first invite

One form, whole movement. Email is all we need. The rest is optional.

One more thing, optional.

Want to play, paint, hoop, lend gear, or build the night? That door is here.

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Crowd at a daytime show in Denver, Colorado A night crowd at a Denver show Crowd and stage lights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Denver People gathered close at a Denver show
OurFest Launch Show date and venue in the works How this gets built → Members steer it →
Planning 3% Funding $0 of $1500 We build in public. This bar is the real state of show #1.
WHO SHOULD WE BOOK?

Suggest an act or a venue. No membership needed.

Drop a link below to an artist or venue you want at one of our events. These are nominations, not votes: anyone can submit up to three per day, no membership needed, and members vote on what we book. The ones the crowd wants most are the ones we chase.

Submitting adds you to the list for show news. One nomination per person, and members vote on what we book.

Most wanted

Tap one to see its link.

01 · THE MODEL

You bring it. Members pick it. We run it.

Propose a venue or an act

Know a venue that fits, or an artist who draws? Put them up. Anyone can nominate a venue, a band, or themselves.

The members vote

One member, one vote decides what actually happens next. The act with the real audience wins, not the one with the best promoter.

We organize the events

OurFest handles the booking, the promo, the door, and the crew. You bring the draw, we run the show around it.

The land is the mission

Every show and every hoodie moves Denver closer to community-owned festival grounds. That's the long game.

Read the full story

02 · THE LADDER

Small shows fund bigger shows.
Bigger shows buy the ground.

1
Now

House-scale

DIY shows, park meetups, brewery takeovers, 50 to 150 people. Cheap to run, impossible to fake. Every one grows the list and trains the crew.

2
Next

Club-scale

Ticketed shows at partner venues, 200 to 500 people. First real revenue, first press moment, membership table at every door.

3
Then

Flagship OurFest

A one-day festival, a thousand-plus people, produced top to bottom by the co-op. The public proof that community ownership throws a better party.

4
The mission

The grounds

Festival grounds owned by the members and stewarded for community use. Funded the right way, transparent numbers always. It's a mission, not an investment pitch.

See the full roadmap

03 · THE BUY-IN

One ticket. One owner.

$350 one-time community share · pay in full or six monthly payments of about $58

What it gets you: an equal vote in a real cooperative, member pricing and priority access to everything we produce, member-only gatherings, and a patronage rebate in the years the co-op does well.

Membership, not investment: a vote and a place in the co-op, never a share of profit or a claim on the land. Pay in full and your vote turns on now; on the monthly plan you get member benefits now and the vote at full payment.

Become a member How membership works
04 · THE NIGHT

More than a concert

Producers and DJs on the house system. Fog. A face paint table at the door. Hoopers and dancers in the crowd. A live painter on one wall. A photo corner. Everyone who builds the night gets credit on the flyer and the books, a membership, and two plus-ones.

Nobody buys a date and a room. People say yes to the night first. When the wall hits the number, we book the room and the address goes to the list.

Build the night See the wall
05 · STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions, answered

Is this an investment?

No. Membership is patronage, it buys you a vote, member benefits, and a stake in the community, not a financial return. Nobody at OurFest will ever pitch membership as a way to profit, including from land the co-op may someday own.

How do you pick venues and artists?

Anyone can nominate a venue or an act, no membership needed, up to three a day. Members vote on the nominations, and we go after the ones that bring their own crowd, then organize the show around the winners. If you can bring an audience, nominate yourself.

When do events start?

We're lining up the first Denver show now, picked by member vote. Email subscribers hear about every show first, that's the whole point of the list.

What does the $350 cover?

It's your one-time community membership share, about the cost of a single festival ticket, payable in up to six monthly installments. It funds the co-op you co-own, and it comes with member pricing that works to pay you back.

Who's behind this?

A Denver founding team running OurFest as a Colorado cooperative (FAIT Coop). One member, one vote, and the bylaws are public, read them here.