It’s Election Time. Youth enrolment is too low. Young voters aren’t engaged.

The Ōtepoti youth music community is gonna do something about that...

together they present:

ROCK THE VOTE - Live at Southern Lights

Southern Lights Yard (Outdoors) 18 Devon Street

An all day music festival, reminding you, your vote counts, your voice matters

SATURDAY OCTOBER 3rd

Featuring:

Bunchy’s Big Score , Coward, Deaf Raccoon, Dolly Possum, Grace Gemmell, Motheaten, Rheumy, Seek Help!, Sivle Talk, Sogg, Strap, Talking Furniture, the pink opaque, U-No Juno, Vagina Dry

with DJ Selectors curated by Tina Turntables

ON-SITE VOTER ENROLMENT

Gates open 12.15pm

DJ Selectors will be playing between acts as well as at the beginning

(from 12.15pm) and the end of the show ( 8.30pm)

Live Music runs from 1pm - 8pm

ALL AGES / ALCOHOL FREE

Under 13 must be accompanied by an adult

Production and organisation gifted by

Southern Lights https://www.southernlights.net.nz/

& DUN Records https://www.instagram.com/dunrecords/

When you book your ticket you can also book a seat on a FREE BUS to get you to and from the Bus Hub and the venue

https://events.humanitix.com/rock-the-vote-bus

These buses will be making round trips at both ends of the day:

12 noon - 1pm - Bus Hub to Southern Lights

8pm - 9pm - Southern Lights to Bus Hub

Seats are free but you must make sure you catch the bus that is on your ticket

ALL AGES / ALCOHOL FREE EVENT

There will be food trucks, free water - you can bring your own food too.

PLEASE NOTE bags will be checked and any alcohol or such like will be confiscated. Make it easy on the security and just bring what you need to

Rain or Shine!

(the site will be covered if raining)

"How this came about it Michael Cracroft from Southern Lights approached me and said, for his significant birthday that is coming up, he wanted to give back to the incredible Ōtepoti all ages music scene. He offered the Southern Lights yard and all the staging, production, crew and everything needed for the artists to put on an outdoor music fest with space for a big audience. Such an incredibly generous gesture.

The criteria was, the bands are rangatahi, and have been contributing heavily to the all-ages scene. The musicians were offered the opportunity to design what sort of show they would like to do and the idea to Rock The Vote came up quickly. And here we are.

Another aspect is the very accessible ticket pricing. Michael also said from the start that 100% of the ticket income would go to the musicians. The good hearts of the members of this music community are keeping the ticketing as low as possible so everyone can come along and aren’t expecting to make money from this.

This is therefore a good opportunity to talk about supporting artists in NZ right now. As in, how little support there is from, well anywhere for Ōtepoti musicians.

So for these performers, at the ticket site there is also a donation button, where - if you are able - you can donate as you buy your ticket and that will go to the musicians. Everyone performing has an important project happening, and not one of them is receiving financial support from any music industry grants, government grants, nor local council grants / investment. So here’s your chance to support our musicians directly, while they once again work hard to fight for yet another important cause.”

Natasha - DUN Records