Dark Daze, an all-ages underground music festival and art market, is set to take place in Anchorage this Friday and Saturday. The event aims to reclaim the darkest days of the year by offering a community-driven celebration of alternative music and art. Co-organizer Deven Lind emphasizes the festival's mission to bring back all-ages music spaces, which have been dwindling in Anchorage.
Dark Daze organizers Robbie Raychel, left, and Deven Lind are holding an all-ages alternative music festival and art market at 221 E. Fifth Ave. near downtown Anchorage on Friday and Saturday. Photographed at the stage being set up for the event on Thursday.
His band’s label, Dog Yard Records, is producing the event at a new Anchorage venue called Club Nyt Lyt on Fifth Avenue. The event will be alcohol-free, and staffed with a safety team trained in de-escalation. As age-unrestricted venues in Anchorage have become endangered in the last decade, Lind said he’s been inspired to recreate the community spaces of his youth. He’s also doing it when the help of 17-year-old event co-organizer Robbie Raychel, who said the desire for music spaces that welcome teens in Anchorage is huge.“People my age, and under 21, there’s definitely a thirst for shows,” Raychel said in a phone interview after a calculus final.
“I think this is going to be something that’s going to stick around for a while,” Raychel said of Dark Daze.
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