Production and Performances
The festival creates a high-tech production with four working stages in an extremely rural outdoor venue. Built over a month-long period by a volunteer workforce, the festival land starts completely in its natural ecological state. After the week-long festivities, the workers tear down the entire operation and completely remove all non-organic materials from the land. The equipment is then stored in a variety of local barns and warehouses to be used the following year. By the time the last woman leaves the land, nothing remains as evidence of the event; even the electrical boxes that power the festival are buried at each festival's end.
The festival has absolutely no corporate sponsorship, with each year's festival paying for the next.
Since its inception, "the Michigan Festival...always has been an event for women, and this continues to be defined as women born women" (Lisa Vogel). This policy has gained notoriety for the festival, as it officially requests that the attendees be "women-born-women" (WBW) only. That includes only those who were born and raised as girls, and currently identify as women.
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