Music Safety Summit 2.0:

Join us for the Music Safety Summit 2.0 on Friday, October 16th at EMP Museum, JBL Theatre. At this event, young people, involved in the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scene, will come together with medical, legal, and harm reduction experts to discuss ways to make events and festivals even safer. The Music Safety Summit 2.0 will explore best practices and empower peer-to-peer educators to make a difference in the EDM community. 

FREE with RSVP

EVENT PROGRAM:

3:30PM                 CHECK IN @ EMP'S JBL THEATRE

4:00PM                 INTRODUCTION  (Kate Becker, Director, Seattle Office of Film + Music)

4:15PM                 SCIENCE & MEDICAL PANEL
Medical and security experts will discuss what they are seeing at events in Seattle and across the country. We will explore new trends, understand how medics treat patients, and fact-check common misunderstandings about substance use. 

4:45PM                 LEGAL & LOGISTICAL AWARENESS PANEL
Charting a path towards greater safety involves many participants. Venues, promotors and attorneys weigh varied considerations, including insurance coverage, when making safety decisions. We examine all the factors that go into producing events and festivals, and keeping them safe.

5:15PM                 PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING & EDUCATION PANEL
Harm reduction experts and EDM participants discuss the best ways to cut through the fog of apathy and denial to inspire positive change. Public health campaigns are better known for their failures than their successes. We discuss essential elements for a public information effort that will change behavior, and get results.

5:45PM                 PERSONAL STORIES

6:00PM                 PROGRAM CONCLUDES

6:00 - 7:00PM        EMP POP! KITCHEN OPEN FOR HAPPY HOUR
Music Safety Summit participants are encouraged to network, make new connections, and continue the Music Safety Summit conversation at EMP's POP! Kitchen open for happy hour until 7PM.

This event was produced in partnership with Seattle Office of Film + Music; USC Events; King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services Division; and EMP Museum.

An EDM Community Advisory Group was established to provide insight and advise event producers on the overall event objective and to help identify the focus and content of panels to better resonate with the EDM community. 

EDM Community Advisory Group members are:

Kelcie Boring: 22 year old communications student at the University of Washington with experience working for both Decibel Festival and Q Nightclub in Seattle. As a dance music veteran, she has developed a strong passion for harm reduction education and techno music. 

Philip Francis: Lead Harm Reduction Correspondent for Dance Music Northwest and avid lover of Electronic Music. 

David Lopez: A founding member of USC's Conscious Crew, David has been going to dance music events for over 5 years. He dedicates his free time volunteering at dance music events to ensure the events, and participants, are as safe as possible.

Taylor Losey: A Registered  Nurse who works in the field of behavioral health and specializes in harm reduction, outreach, drug and alcohol education and psychedelic crisis. She has been the Safe Room Nurse Manager and Lead RN for USC Events and Conscious Crew for over a year and is dedicated to helping to support and strengthen a sustainable dance music community with safety at the forefront.

Gabriel Ossa: An active member in Seattle's dance community for over 10 years. What started as a love for dance music grew into a career, beginning with producing small shows in college to his current position as Marketing Manager, and driving force behind the harm reduction team Conscious Crew, for USC Events.  

Ashton Soete: has been an EMT (Emergency Management Technician) for three years and avid participant in electronic dance music shows. He has a passion for his job and the dance music community.  

Stuart Williscroft: An active member of the Seattle EDM community for nearly a decade. Stuart volunteers with Stay Safe Seattle (the local Dance Safe chapter), works with USC's Conscious Crew and ANKORS, and is the founding member of Seattle Test It.

Promotional outreach provided by C89.5 FM and Dance Music NW.