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What do tech, opera, AI, and community have in common?
MozFest!
We harness the collective power of unexpected partnerships to disrupt the status quo and reframe and reimagine our online world.
Here are a few examples of how we’re doing that next week. That’s right — our festival begins Monday!
(Don’t have your ticket yet? Get yours today!)
Parable of the Sower 
This year, we’re creating immersive experiences throughout the festival that draw from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. It’s a story about change, seeding new worlds, and developing systems to mitigate the loss of freedom people face when technology, policy, and economics are consolidated and weaponized.
These exciting experiences include: - our artistic collaborator, Toshi Reagon, joining the opening circle with a sonic offering. Toshi is the co-creator, composer, librettist and musical director of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower — An Opera, which she created with her mother Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
- the MozFest Science Fair, where an experimental and interactive imagining of the Parable narrative will come to life. This interactive experience will celebrate themes of sustainability, decolonization, planting seeds, and emergence through projects that propose possibilities for our shared future and the technologies that will get us there.
- a Dialogues and Debates panel on Building Ancestral AI, featuring Toshi Reagon, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Céline Semaan, L. Franklin Gilliam, and J. Bob Alotta. Panelists will discuss how cultural traditions and ancestral technologies can help shape the present and future.
MisinfoCon 
This year, your MozFest ticket gets you access to two festivals! MisinfoCon is a global online summit, hosted on the MozFest Plaza, that will focus on the challenges that misinformation raises for the information ecosystem, government, and platforms in four areas: trust, content moderation and democratic speech, election, and regulating disinformation.
MozFest Zine Fair 
For the first time-ever, MozFest will be hosting a Zine Fair on MozFest’s social platform, Spatial Chat. You’ll be able to explore a 2-D space, read digital zines, and meet and talk with other zine enthusiasts and newcomers from our global community, all to the soundtrack of a DJ/VJ!
Hope to see you on Monday at MozFest!
Sarah Allen
Mozilla Festival Director
Keep The MozFest Momentum - Listen to the Latest MozFest Podcast. Another podcast has dropped! We’ve joined forces with Let’s Get Litical, a fortnightly politics and pop culture podcast hosted by Helen Femi Williams, to bring you a series of podcasts about the people and issues powering the Spaces at MozFest 2022. Listen to the most recent podcast, “Does AI Have A Seat In Government?”.
- Join The MozFest Scavenger Hunt! Test your MozFest skills in a fun and interactive way and unlock a special edition MozFest 2022 Digital Badge. All entries will also have the chance to have a 20-second spotlight on our LIVE MozFest Studio segment, as well as have the segment shared on Twitter.
- Bookmark the Pocket List. This curated list on Pocket includes the stories, videos, and podcasts that inspire the MozFest Wranglers and team as they bring the virtual festival to life this year.
- Tweet this: Join me online for @mozillafestival 7-11 March. Can’t attend live? They’re offering on-demand access for 90 days afterwards! mzl.la/tickets
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