OZY Fest Announces Free Bandshell Area, Providing Full-Blown Festival Experience for All

OZY Fest Line Up Includes Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Founder and President of Emerson Collective Laurene Powell Jobs, Common, Passion Pit, Chelsea Handler, Malcolm Gladwell, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Michelle Wolf, and MANY more.

The BBC set to live-stream OZY Fest

 

(New York, NY) July 10, 2018 - Today OZY Media, the daily news source for “the change generation” (Forbes) announced they will make a portion of their hit summer Festival, OZY Fest (now two days, July 21-22 , Rumsey Playfield, Central Park), free and open to the public. Located in NYC’s Central Park Bandshell area, the OZY Fest Bandshell, taking place on Saturday, July 21st, will democratize the festival experience for all 8 million New Yorkers by offering a world-class array of open-access arts, politics, delicious food and fun. The BBC will also live-stream the festival.

The addition of the Bandshell will expand OZY Fest’s footprint exponentially, with a marathon of groundbreaking conversations with Christian Siriano (fashion designer), Roxane Gay (author/activist), Ruth Zukerman (Flywheel founder), Steven Pinker (author), and more, for an unmissable day that’s equally intellectual and entertaining. There will be talks on activism/gun control and allyship, mouth-watering food trucks including DO Cookie Dough, and family friendly multimedia activations and games. As part of the “best fet yet” (New York Daily News), the Bandshell will help spread OZY Fest’s mission to get people to “see beyond” their self-created thought bubbles and expand beyond borders both real and imagined to thousands more people.

The Bandshell is the latest addition to OZY Fest’s packed 2018 programming schedule, featuring an eclectic mix of talent including Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Founder and President of Emerson Collective Laurene Powell Jobs, Alex Rodriguez, Chelsea Handler, Michelle Wolf, Rose McGowan, Common, Passion Pit, Malcolm Gladwell, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Isaac Mizrahi, Hasan Minhaj, Laverne Cox, Grouplove, Young the Giant, Taye Diggs, and many more. The brainchild of OZY Media CEO/Founder Carlos Watson, OZY Fest is the only festival exclusively and annually contracted to Central Park, and tickets are on sale now.

 

To learn more visit:

http://www.ozy.com

OZY.com/ozyfest

https://www.facebook.com/OZYFEST

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About OZY Media

With 40 million monthly unique users and 4 million subscribers, OZY brings readers “the new and the next,” offering 100 percent original content with a focus on the future, via unique OZY News, OZY Magazine, OZY TV and OZY Events products. Called “the new media magnet for the news hungry” by Fortune magazine, OZY’s in-depth and high-quality journalism has attracted a number of high-profile media partners including The New York Times, NPR, PBS NewsHour, TED, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post and many more, as well as guest editors including Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

 

Founded in 2013 by Emmy Award–winning journalist Carlos Watson and co-founder Samir Rao, the OZY team is based in Mountain View, California, and backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Laurene Powell Jobs, Ron Conway, David Drummond, Larry Sonsini and Dan Rosensweig and a significant investment from publishing giant Axel Springer.