A music and art festival is pairing artists in need with the health care they deserve.
The O+; Festival — a three-day, multi-venue festival of art and music which launches in Kingston, NY this weekend. Participating artists and musicians submit intake forms along with their stage plots, because they’ll be paid in health services: dental work, addiction counseling, cancer screenings, physical therapy and more, during a weekend triage clinic staffed by doctors who opt to treat artists outside the system, with case-by-case opportunities for follow-up care. O+ will also aggregate resources from organizations that already offer low-income or independent health care access, via a public health resource expo. Some artists will take part because they need the care, and some because they care about the cause. For the nearly 100 participants (Phosphorescent, Amazing Baby and Tracy Bonham among them) and festival volunteers who will have access to specialists of their request this weekend and after, it’s preventative medicine.
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