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Last 24 hours! Registration for the final XOXO closes tomorrow, Wednesday May 29, at 12pm PT/3pm ET. We'll begin distributing passes through our lottery shortly after! 2024.xoxofest.com/
New this year: XOXO Sideshow is an evening with some of our favorite projects from the internet, including the first live Never Post with @mikerugnetta , The Pudding (@puddingviz), @SmallBuStudio, Every Frame A Painting, @depthsofwiki LIVE and more to come.
We’ve teamed up with our friends at @panic, @BackerKit, and @fastly/@glitch to bring back our Arcade, Art Code, and Tabletop events with some of our favorite indie videogames, creative code, and tabletop projects. As always, we’ll keep adding things until the day of the event.
Everything is half the price of past years: $250 for the full festival and conference. Surveys are open until 12pm PT/3pm ET on Wednesday, May 29, and passes will start going out via the lottery shortly after. Hope to see you in August! 2024.xoxofest.com/
🎉🎟 One last time, XOXO returns this August 22–24 with three days of people and projects we love from the internet. Registration is now open, surveys close Wednesday, May 29! 2024.xoxofest.com/
Along with Pulitzer-winning journalist/author Ed Yong (@edyong209), and Hugo-winning author/podcaster Charlie Jane Anders. Plus, three of our favorite past speakers will revisit their XOXO talks: Panic’s @Cabel Sasser, Darius Kazemi, and The Verge’s @sarahjeong.
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the first XOXO. It was a pretty scrappy thing, an experimental festival with a lot of rough edges, but it ended up being better than we could have imagined — in no small part because of all the incredible creative people who showed up.
ALT Black-and-white photo of the Yale Union Laundry Building, a two-story brick industrial building in Portland, Oregon. A large marquee saying "XOXO Festival" hangs off the side.
We originally thought XOXO might be a one-off, but the electricity in the room convinced us to try it again: we knew we could make it better if we had another chance. We tried to carry that nervous energy of experimentation and improvement for six more years of the festival.
ALT Photo from the back of the room of attendees watching the opening talk at the first XOXO
If we weren’t in a global pandemic, XOXO 2022 would have been last weekend. Like the past two years, we felt its absence like an XOXO-shaped hole in our hearts. We miss all of you so much! Hope to see you again next September.
ALT Photo of exhausted XOXO founders Andy Baio and Andy McMillan sitting side-by-side in front of illuminated "XOXO" letters on stage at the end of the first XOXO.
It was a tough call, but there will be no XOXO 2022. While cases are low right now, we still feel there’s too much uncertainty and risk to safely commit to holding the festival this September. Hope to see you again soon! 🤞
We’re sorry to announce that there will be no XOXO in 2021. Although we had dates held and our fingers firmly crossed, it’s just not clear that it will be safe for us to gather again by September. See y’all in 2022, all being well! 🤞
After we announced that we’d decided to cancel XOXO 2020, many of you reached out to ask how you could support us. We have an answer: please consider donating to this fundraiser to help our production staff Rachel and Steph. gofundme.com/f/xoxo-producti…
📚🙌 Support your local independent artist! Our friends at Microcosm just set up an XOXO bookstore, featuring titles from past speakers, performers, and folx in our community!
We were devastated to hear about @xoxo deciding to skip 2020, even if we completely understand. #xoxofest has become a cornerstone of our festival circuit in the past 2 yrs. Y'all love our books and we love y'all, so we put together our virtual booth here: microcosmpublishing.com/topl…