Initial schedule of events is up! Visit our Line-Ups & Locations page for all the info!

You can also connect to our Facebook Event Page or Fan Page for all the latest updates!

A final Schedule of all Film Screenings, Art Exhibitions and Musical Performances will be listed Sept.21st!

Better late than never! The 6th Harvesting the F.A.M. Festival kicks off just two weeks from today! Expect music line-ups listed this afternoon and full listings of the this year’s free eight day inter-arts extravaganza by the end of the weekend!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Area Independent Arts Festival Receives Largest Contribution To Date

Windsor, Ontario – September 20th, 2010

Harvesting The FAM (Filmmakers/Artists/Musicians) Festival organizers are pleased to announce its largest monetary contribution to date. This contribution is of particular importance because it comes a business with no direct ties to the festival or its operation. In past years the downtown festival has operated with a modest budget that has come directly from spaces playing host to official events. Local mortgage team, Dan Burke and Robert Redmile, of Real Mortgage Associates have matched the festival’s entire operating budget allowing the festival grow, create a better experience for involved talents and fans alike as well as ensuring the festival’s operation in the future.

“Dan and I are excited to be a part of bringing together the business and arts community through this unique cultural event. We recognize FAM Festival as an essential part of our area’s art experience. We have so much talent in our community and want to ensure that this festival will have the means to showcase as many artists in 2010 and in years to come.”
Robert Redmile – Mortgage Agent

“I am ecstatic about this contribution, especially seeing it come from a business outside our usual sphere of sponsors. I really think it shows a dedication to the community we live in and the immense amount of cultural output Windsor-Essex County produces. Knowing that parties we don’t directly benefit see a value in the work we’re doing, it really gives our volunteer team a lot of motivation. ”
Murad Erzinclioglu – Festival Coordinator

Harvesting The FAM is Windsor, Ontario’s largest independent inter-arts festival designed for the promotion and development of Film, Artistic and Musical talents, working in any medium or genre. This year’s festival will take place October 1st-9th/2010 at a variety of venues and spaces transforming the downtown core of Windsor into a cultural mecca for the masses.

The Festival will act as a collective call to inform the people of Windsor, as well as communities throughout Canada, that creativity lives here. This, the 5th FAM Festival, will once again play home to over a hundred filmmakers, artists and musicians of all disciplines.The line-up looks to feature a great array of talent from Windsor, Detroit and Southwestern Ontario ranging from industry standard professionals to emerging creative talents.

With FREE entrance fees for fans and creative talents alike, the festival creates a positive, open-minded space, for a diverse array of artists to exhibit, promote, perform and sell their works.

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In the process of posting all our lineups and a complete schedule of events! This year’s festival looks to be our best yet! Check it out!

Harvesting the FAM Festival is back with our 5th happening October 1st-9th throughout Windsor’s downtown core! Organizers have further refined the festival’s format to create an even greater opportunity for fans to see and for talent to be seen! Harvesting The FAM is Windsor Ontario’s largest independent inter-arts festival designed for the promotion and development of independent Film, Artistic and Musical talents, working in any medium or genre. With FREE entrance fees for fans and creative talents alike, the festival creates a positive, open-minded space, for a diverse array of artists to exhibit, promote, perform and sell their works.

Organizers are currently seeking talented Independent Film Makers, Artists and Musicians as well as volunteers to take part in this year’s festivities.

Check out the Submissions and Volunteer tabs for more information on how to get involved!

We couldn’t be more excited to still be in the running for the Searchlight! This is easily the most promotion we’ve ever gotten or will get (or so it would seem)! Grant Lawrence said ‘FAM Fest’ on National radio. Seriously. This means the world to us.

There has been so much positivity that has stemmed from this competition for us… talented acts are starting to contact us in regards to our next fest, people in town who had no idea who we were are getting behind the festival and I’ve been seriously encouraged to make the next festival our best yet. The fact that we’re still in the running really shows me that there are A LOT of people that appreciate what we’re doing here in Windsor… and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel great!

So, thanks again CBC3! And even bigger thanks to all of our voters in Windsor and across the Country (and even the world in some cases)! We sincerely appreciate all the support!

Viva La FAM Fest

-Murad (FAM-ily Man)

Vote For FAM Fest Daily @ http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/searchlight/vote

Check out the bottom of this receipt!

Infinite thank yous to Mat Mathias, the owner at Chanoso’s Restaurant in downtown Windsor! Local support has been growing by the day and it’s totally working! On wednesday we mad it into the TOP 40 Festival List, we were contacted by two music acts from out West last night telling us they’d like to get involved with this year’s festival, and more and more people around town seem to know who we are. Thanks so much to all our voters! Let’s keep pushing for that next round… VOTE DAILY!

If you haven’t heard the news we’ve been nominated by the CBC Radio 3 as one of the Best Music Festivals in the Country! I kind of laughed about it at first but quickly realized that this is probably the biggest opportunity we’ll have as a low-budget, completely independent festival to gain this kind of National exposure. Realistically, I can’t think of a better way to do good by all of our past and future participants than making a legitimate push to make a small dent in this competition, because at this point, we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Even if we don’t make it past the first round of voting, we’ve already gotten people in town who didn’t know about FAM Fest to turn their head and perk up their ears… and that’s almost prize enough… almost.

As of today, we have 305 daily voters (via our Facebook Voter Reminder Page), ‘Attend the event if you’d like that same reminder.

We’ve also taken the CBC’s advice and created a Radio 3 Profile & Playlist… Check it out!

BIG Thanks to everyone who has voted thus far. Let’s keep the Searchlight on Windsor!

-Murad Erzinclioglu

Holy Smokes! FAM Fest got nominated as one of the best music festivals in the Country! Pretty exciting news… so now it’s time to vote!

http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/searchlight/vote

Vote Daily!

Thanks in advance for the support, let’s keep Windsor on the map as the best cultural City in Canada!

-Murad Erzinclioglu (FAM Fest Organizer)

Been getting a few emails about this the last day or so. Most music venues are 19+. Here is a breakdown of our All Ages areas, which still feature a complete F,A,M experience:

Milk – Fashion/Art/Music
Buda – Film (Discretion Advised)
Black Kettle Bistro – Art
WWAC – Art
Terra Cotta – Art
Artcite – Spoken Word & Art

We’re working on a big all-ages event… potentially for the Spring, more to come… until then come and see what you can of THIS year’s festival, it features twice as many All Ages Venues than last year.