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Be the Riottt! Festival on 11/11/06 in San Francisco, CA
Progressive, Genre-Spanning Festival Takes Place November 11, 2006
At Bill Graham Civic Auditorium In San Francisco – Noon to Midnight
Lineup Includes The Rapture, Clipse, Diplo, The Wrens, Girl Talk, Explosions In The Sky, Metric, Asobi Seksu, Sage Francis and Tokyo Police Club.

Riottt.com was created to become a symbiotic interface between all aspects of culture, a one-stop destination that will act as a catalyst for an emerging generation that’s not content with the corporate homogenization that often passes for pop culture. The Riottt website is a place where like-minded individuals can engage in dialogue and join a community that will align itself with the most creative writers, artists, musicians, designers of our generation. BE THE RIOTTT!, The Festival, will plunge participants into a multi-disciplinary circus of sight, sound and sensation, allowing people to experience the Riottt ethos for themselves.

“This is the definitive showcase of our generation – a quality culure expo unparalleled to all the mundane “music and arts” festivals our there” says Riottt.com founder Sean Miyashiro. “BE THE RIOTTT! will communicate our distinct tastes through the live experience as we will throw a genre spanning celebration that will bring together many of the forces that continue to influence our world view. We are bringing together the elite in music, art, fashion and dance – the splinter cell of the constant evolution of our culture.”

BE THE RIOTTT! will be a 12-hour celebration – from Noon to Midnight - on four stages. The main stage will feature The Rapture, Clipse, Metric, Explosions in the Sky, Sage Francis, the Wrens, Living Legends, Deerhoof, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Diplo, Saul Williams, Asobi Seksu, Breakestra, RX Bandits, Visionaries, The Presets, Tokyo Police Club, Girl Talk, the Fall of Troy, Busdriver, Showbread, Weird Science, Fingerbangerz and surprise acts still to be named. There will be two smaller music stages on the main floor as well as a stage dedicated to street culture, art, and style. The Festival is also sponsoring on the largest dance competition in the US, a free style battle featuring the best B-Boys in the world, with representatives from France, Korea, New York City, Seattle, and more.

“BE THE RIOTTT is our formal introduction to the world and there is no better place to do it then San Francisco.” Miyashiro says. “San Francisco is a city with such unparalled diversity and progressiveness that we felt like it was without question that it should be the home of the festival. We chose San Francisco in large part because San Francisco is home to us, and it doesn’t have a music festival of this magnitude to call its own. It’s really a for the people, by the people event, a gathering with a rooted touch to propel sound and culture. With mix of groundbreaking music and an emerging community of culturally relevant art galleries and street fashion collectives, BE THE RIOTTT! will be a progressive, genre-spanning throw down for the ages.”

RIOTTT.COM MANIFESTO

Mass Culture has forced most people into accepting a monotonous mindset pervaded by ignorance and inaction. Riottt’s aim is to engage, enable and align like-minded cultural movers: those who already have an agenda, those who will not settle, those living to make change, those dedicated to inciting independent thinking and righteous dialogue. Whereas a riot is a militant, physical reaction to injustice, our battle will be fought on the intellectual plane, through the sharing of ideas and the creation of an empowered community. Through your participation, a new paradigm will arise to engage and encourage the constant evolution of this movement. Join the cause! Others are already poised and ready to rebel - The cliché must meet its demise.

Riottt’s goal is to subvert the “mass culture” that has been forced upon the majority of the population by creating an on-line community of writers, artists, musicians, designers and activists with the goal of becoming the on- line destination for a new generation, a home for the 5% of people who influence the other 95% the population - the forever-forward sect. The site includes a peer-to-peer interface, a magazine, video and musical content and plans for an e-commerce platform.

The company’s principals include:
Sean Miyashiro, co-founder and Director of Marketing. Miyashiro created Sole Division, a local San Francisco Bay Area confabulation of music, art and design that foreshadowed the BE THE RIOTTT! gathering. He has conducted various alternative marketing campaigns for companies such as Scion, Red Bull, and Hudson, “I was born and raised in the Bay Area, did the corporate thing for about a minute, then did Sole Division and started producing events for various companies before conceptualizing Riottt”
Sky Gellatly oversees the video content of the site including music videos and self-generated video content. He was the host? Of MTV's Sneak Attack and was the force behind a lot of MTV shows, although he didn’t get credit for them. He’s based in New York City.
Rickey “Mr. Kim,” creative director, web design and over all esthetic. Rickey was the man behind Evil Monito, an online magazine that deconstructed popular culture. He’s a noted photographer and runs his own photo studio The Social Trust.
Kevin Craft editor and curator of editorial content.
Craft is formerly editor of Vapors magazine and will oversee original content as well as culling the best relevant material from other sources for the site.

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