Afterparty announced last month that it will host the world’s first NFT-gated art and music festival in Las Vegas on March 18 and 19. The First Annual Afterparty NFT Art and Music Festival recently announced its first headliners, The Chainsmokers and The Kid LAROI. The festival will bring NFT art, music and a creator-led Web3 community to the city for the world’s first token-gated festival. Using NFTs as the tickets to enter.
Afterparty has chosen AREA15, an immersive event and entertainment district to host the event. The venue is located minutes from the Strip. Guests will be captivated by digital art through an experimental journey of NFT art shows, live music performances and metaverse experiences.
“The crypto world can seem like the next Wall Street. We see it as unlocking the Art Basel and Coachella of tomorrow. The Afterparty Festival is the coming together of the Web3 community that captures innovation and the arts that uplift, inspire and unite us all,” said David Fields the co-founder and CEO of Afterparty. “Whether you’re a crypto titan, performer, creator or fan, Afterparty is your community to experience the real and authentic merging of human connection, NFT art and creative expression.”
NFT artists, Nate Mohler and Alec Maassen, are co-creative directing the NFT art program. The program will transport guests into an immersive, interactive experience. The NFTs will be showcased as the centerpiece, celebrating the NFT movement in real life. And produced in partnership with former Life is Beautiful partner, Ryan Doherty, and former Kaaboo executive, Chris Racan.
“NFT art deserves to be seen and celebrated through an experience that is just as innovative as the NFT art itself.” said Ryan Dohery. “We’re creating a festival that captures that energy and enthusiasm that fits into a future-ready environment that intensifies the impact these pieces have on the viewer.”
The digital art gallery activations will feature Afterparty’s Utopian NFTs and other innovative digital art pieces. Far from being thumbnails on OpenSea, these pieces will come to life via human-scale 4K and 8K displays. Transforming your typical gallery into a multilayered intersection of imagery, sound, light and space.
“This festival centers around NFT artists and their art in a multimedia forum that will showcase the future and experiential value these NFTs hold. In my time as an event producer, I’ve never been part of an event that so completely empowers creators to showcase 21st-century creativity,” said Chris Racan. It’s time we celebrate the excitement around digital art, music and the creator economy and I couldn’t be prouder to partner with Afterparty to bring all of this to life.”
Afterparty’s generative Utopian NFT collection doubles as digital art and “all-access” festival passes. Each NFT holder will be able to bring one guest and will have two passes to invite friends or sell. Each of the collection’s 1,500 NFTS are completely unique, exclusively live-minted and live on the Ethereum blockchain forever. Sia, Just Maiko and jxdn are among the first creators to live-mint Afterparty’s NFTs at a secret location in the Hollywood Hills.
Along with 25 supporting music acts and more than a dozen world-class NFT artists will join The Chainsmokers and The Kid LAROi as part of the two-day lineup. The full music and NFT artist lineup will be announced this month.
There are two ways to hold one of these NFTs now on the secondary market:
- Buy a MintPass to mint a Utopian: opensea.io/collection/afterparty-mintpass
- Buy a Utopian NFT: opensea.io/collection/afterparty-utopians
The party doesn’t stop in Las Vegas. Afterparty’s Utopians act as “memberships” that unlock access to the community. Including more experiences such as the Afterparty Super Bowl Weekend Event, NFT art gallery showings at the Afterparty House, the Afterparty Pop-Up House at Art Basel 2022 and more unveils coming soon.
To learn more visit afterparty.ai/festival. To join Afterparty’s discord, head to Discord.gg/AfterpartyNFT.
