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I woke up too early to enjoy the Oregon Country Fair In The CloudsTickets, please?
Tickets, please?
If there’s a downside to living in the middle of the city, it’s that fairs just really aren’t a part of my life. But then, with the whole Covid-19 pandemic going on, it’s not like there are many being held this year anyway. In place of their usual mud n' music happenings, however, theOregon Country Fair In The Cloudshas taken the 50-year-old folksy festival online, constructing an endearingly makeshift (and somewhat surreal) virtual arts fair that’s free for everyone, local or not.
That’s timezones for you, eh?
Built with Mozilla’s Hubs Cloud tool for creating “immersive spaces”, the Fair In The Clouds is a fascinatingly janky rendition of the Oregon Country Fair. While removed from its half-century location some 13 miles west of Eugene, OG, the virtual space aims to recreate the festival in its entirety with art stalls, walking spaces, murals and afull weekend scheduleof talks, performances, poetry and workshops.
Eventually, I find my way to the main stage, deserted save for cut-out crowds. As per Sok-Stories, there’s a remarkable talent in using flat images to build simplistic structures like fences and art booths. Festival boundaries are drawn in local healthcare resources and links to Black Lives Matter fundraisers as often as they are literal pictures of fences.
