Bella Terra Music & Arts Festival
OVERVIEW
Bella Terra Festival is an outdoor music and arts festival that occurs over multiple days and nights and features several stages of performances, artists and other programming. Gardner’s Farm in Stephentown, New York will be home to the third annual Bella Terra Festival, located between Albany, New York and The Berkshires in western Massachusetts.
Bella Terra Festival is an outdoor music and arts festival that occurs over multiple days and nights and features several stages of performances, artists and other programming. Gardner’s Farm in Stephentown, New York will be home to the third annual Bella Terra Festival, located between Albany, New York and The Berkshires in western Massachusetts.
Bella Terra celebrates a positive and progressive outlook and lifestyle, grassroots organization and activism, consciousness and creativity, self expression through artistic mediums, and the pursuit of a holistic existence that balances body, mind & spirit. Music and art can be a great platform to promote awareness, consciousness and sustainability and unite a people to affect societal progress. Bella Terra Festival uses this platform to call attention to the need to reestablish a spiritual connection between mankind and the Earth and perpetuate an ideology of global unification.
Bella Terra Festival recognizes that changing one’s own life for the better goes hand in hand with improving the world around us. This is why Bella Terra advocates that each person pursue his or her own dreams, open their minds and realize their maximum potential. To help meet these ends at Bella Terra Festival, many classes, workshops, and lectures in music, art, nature, politics and beyond are offered, in addition to a host of other programs and entertainment to help deliver our message.
ORIGIN
Bella Terra: Arts, Music & Culture Festival originated in 2009 as a benefit event to raise funds for Berkshire County, Massachusetts Arts Scholarships. The first annual Bella Terra festival took place at Bogie’s in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, July 30 – Aug 1, 2009. And it was a wash – literally. The event flooded, with a river going over the crest of the embankment upstream and causing a channel of running water to dissect the festival, as deep as 2 ½ – 3 ft in some areas. By morning, the only thing above water was one small piece of land with a sign that read ‘camping.’ And that was surrounded by the largest puddle a festival has ever seen (bigger than many ponds). Regardless, we pulled through and went onward to put on the festival again in 2010 and now in 2011. Although we no longer are purely a benefit for a nonprofit arts scholarship, Bella Terra Festival still aims to provide the same multidisciplinary atmosphere for local and national artists to showcase their work while integrating local youth talents (and other aspiring artists) into the greater arts community. Bella Terra aims to contribute a portion of our proceeds to worthwhile charitable causes and provide a platform for those charities to further their cause and extend their network.
COMMUNITY
Bella Terra Festival strives to find ways to help contribute to the improvement of the community. One of the ways we do this is by integrating non-profit and activist organizations into our event, with informational tables/booths, workshops & seminars, lectures about relevant social, political and environmental issues. We aim to offer progressive programming that inspires our patrons to ‘think globally and act locally.’ In previous years, we’ve had programming from organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, Berkshire Environmental Action Team, Strangers Helping Strangers, Western Mass Labor Action, West Side Farming Project, and other entities.
WEBSITE: BELLA TERRA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
TWITTER: @TheBellaTerra
FACEBOOK: BellaTerraFest
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