2025-2026 Season Series

What Is: noncompliance

What Is: noncompliance positions music as direct action. The music we present is not designed to stream quietly in the background.

This festival is a multipart performance and engagement series that examines the threads that tie music together. This year’s edition doubles down on the belief that music is not to be messed with. At a moment of global upheaval, capitalistic stripping of creative industries, and a growing precarity for artists, we must remind ourselves sound is not only art to be consumed, but a force capable of enacting change.

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