Every year, we offer festival-only passes at a reduced rate that get attendees access to everything at XOXO except the conference talks — four nights of festival activities, including our parties, Social, Arcade, Tabletop, Story, Music, and Film & Animation.

This year, for the first time, we’ve asked some friends to help pull together a lineup of interesting things to do during the day on Saturday and Sunday while the talks are running. Here’s our Day Festival lineup:

Electric Objects Salon

Saturday, 11am–1am. Bring Internet art into the real world with an art exhibition curated by Feel Train’s Darius Kazemi and Courtney Stanton and presented on the Kickstarter-funded Electric Objects EO1, in collaboration with Kickstarter and Dots. All ages until 7pm, 21+ after 7pm. Open to non-badgeholders by RSVP.

Saturday Stage — Curated by Patreon

Saturday, 12–5pm. Jack Conte, Patreon’s co-founder/CEO and one-half of indie band Pomplamoose, hosts a showcase of performances by five Patreon-funded musicians on our outdoor stage, followed by interviews.

12PM • Amanda Lee
Best known for her English adaptations of popular anime and video game music on YouTube, Amanda’s fans support her with over $2,600 for each new song.

1PM • Kyle M. Terrizzi
Kyle M. Terrizzi is a Berkeley, California-based singer/songwriter whose latest collection of songs, Volume One, is free to download now.

2PM • Shawnee Kilgore
Austin-based singer-songwriter Shawnee Kilgore just releasedher fourth album, while collaborating on a six-song EP with writer/director Joss Whedon.

3PM • Nick Pitera
While working at Pixar, Nick Pitera found fame on YouTube with his “one man” covers and absurd range, with fans supporting him with over $1,200 per video. (Oh, and he sang the TripleDent Gum jingle in Inside Out.)

4PM • Future Sunsets
Jose Mostajo and David Michael Frank formed Future Sunsets last year from the ashes of their former band, King the Kid, and soon embarking on a national tour and releasing their new EP.

Sunday Stage — Curated by Ground Kontrol

Sunday, 12–5pm. Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade curated a lineup of five Portland-based DJs and bands for our outdoor stage.

12 PM • DJ Dylan Reiff (CAPCOM DJs)
1 PM • Mechlo
2 PM • DoublePlusGood
3 PM • The Ghost Ease
4 PM • Ancient Heat

Virtual Reality Lounge — Curated by Voices of VR 

Continuously. Grab your deck, load up your SimStim, and try out a rotating selection of some of our favorite virtual reality projects—including SUPERHYPERCUBE and Headmaster for the Sony Morpheus, and the debut of Soundsketch, a new audiovisual toy from Wieden+Kennedy. Curated by Kent Bye, creator of Voices of VR, an interview podcast funded by Patreon subscribers.

Tabletop Library

Continuously. We’ll have a large selection of independently-produced board and card games available for casual play, including several featured at past and present XOXOs.