Free Press Houston

Omar Afra and Day for Night, 2015—2017

A crosswalk from the canonical contributor record to the festival's three documented editions, its held visual record and the principals the archive evidences alongside him.

Archive-evidenced role: Co-founder, producer and music curator · 2015—2017

3
Editions documented
8
Held visual records
0
Recovered lineup names
0
Credited contributors

Edition records

2015
Day for Night 2015

2015-12-19 — 2015-12-20 · Silver Street Studio, Sawyer Yards · Houston

2 held · 0 lineup names

2016
Day for Night 2016

Exact dates not yet established from a held source. · Former Barbara Jordan Post Office - Now 'Post HTX' · Houston

3 held · 0 lineup names

2017
Day for Night 2017

2017-12-15 — 2017-12-17 · Former Barbara Jordan Post Office - Now 'Post HTX' · Houston

3 held · 0 lineup names

Held visual record — 8

Day for Night 2015 — Day for Night 2015 official lineup poster. Black sheet with the cyan Day for Night circular mark; the SOUND list opens Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Philip Glass Ensemble, Dillon Francis, and the LIGHT list opens Casey Reas and Zach Lieberman. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2015 official lineup poster. Black sheet with the cyan Day for Night circular mark; the SOUND list opens Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Philip Glass Ensemble, Dillon Francis, and the LIGHT list opens Casey Reas and Zach Lieberman. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2015 — Final site map for Day for Night 2015 at Silver Street Studio, Sawyer Yards, Houston. Four sheets, drawn by Brungardt Enterprises, L.L.C., revision dated December 14, 2015 and circulated December 16, 2015 as the map to be used from that point. Supersedes the earlier R9 map of December 4, 2015. First sheet shown; the original is held in full.
Final site map for Day for Night 2015 at Silver Street Studio, Sawyer Yards, Houston. Four sheets, drawn by Brungardt Enterprises, L.L.C., revision dated December 14, 2015 and circulated December 16, 2015 as the map to be used from that point. Supersedes the earlier R9 map of December 4, 2015. First sheet shown; the original is held in full. · Brungardt Enterprises, L.L.C.
Day for Night 2016 — Day for Night 2016 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet with the concentric teal circular mark, reading DEC 17–18, 2016, Houston, TX and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list opens Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Björk Digital, Kaskade, Travis Scott, and Nick Murphy, and the LIGHT list opens United Visual Artists, Björk Digital, Golan Levin, and Nonotak, beneath the Consequence of Sound quote "America's most exciting new festival". Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2016 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet with the concentric teal circular mark, reading DEC 17–18, 2016, Houston, TX and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list opens Aphex Twin, ODESZA, Björk Digital, Kaskade, Travis Scott, and Nick Murphy, and the LIGHT list opens United Visual Artists, Björk Digital, Golan Levin, and Nonotak, beneath the Consequence of Sound quote "America's most exciting new festival". Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2016 — Public-facing site map for Day for Night 2016, revised and approved December 8, 2016. This is the audience map prepared for the festival website, printed on-site use and wayfinding screens. It supersedes the December 7, 2016 public draft and the intermediate revisions, none of which the archive holds. Held unaltered.
Public-facing site map for Day for Night 2016, revised and approved December 8, 2016. This is the audience map prepared for the festival website, printed on-site use and wayfinding screens. It supersedes the December 7, 2016 public draft and the intermediate revisions, none of which the archive holds. Held unaltered.
Day for Night 2016 — Final Heineken × Day for Night Instagram carousel treatment, December 2016. Titled "Houston Day for Night Festival IG Post"; carries the approved post copy and five carousel frames. Circulated as final posting creative on December 14, 2016 and approved before publication.
Final Heineken × Day for Night Instagram carousel treatment, December 2016. Titled "Houston Day for Night Festival IG Post"; carries the approved post copy and five carousel frames. Circulated as final posting creative on December 14, 2016 and approved before publication.
Day for Night 2017 — Day for Night 2017 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet set in red and white type with the split circular Day for Night mark, reading December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list is headed Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St. Vincent, Tyler, the Creator, James Blake, Pretty Lights, Jamie xx and Phantogram, and the LIGHT list opens Ryoji Ikeda, Matthew Schreiber, Conditional Studio + Processing Foundation and James Clar. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2017 official lineup poster. Black vertical sheet set in red and white type with the split circular Day for Night mark, reading December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas and www.DayforNight.io; the SOUND list is headed Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St. Vincent, Tyler, the Creator, James Blake, Pretty Lights, Jamie xx and Phantogram, and the LIGHT list opens Ryoji Ikeda, Matthew Schreiber, Conditional Studio + Processing Foundation and James Clar. Supplied to the archive by Omar Afra.
Day for Night 2017 — Day for Night 2017 schedule grid, one page, circulated December 14, 2017. Columns are set by day — Friday Dec 15, Saturday Dec 16, Sunday Dec 17 — and by stage: RED 17k, GREEN 9k, BLUE 6k, YELLOW 2k, with a Friday Summit block running 4:00–7:00. The sheet is headed FINAL PENDING and carries a status key reading CONFIRMED / LIKELY / OFFER SENT / IDEAS, so it records the schedule as it stood on the eve of the festival rather than a settled final programme.
Day for Night 2017 schedule grid, one page, circulated December 14, 2017. Columns are set by day — Friday Dec 15, Saturday Dec 16, Sunday Dec 17 — and by stage: RED 17k, GREEN 9k, BLUE 6k, YELLOW 2k, with a Friday Summit block running 4:00–7:00. The sheet is headed FINAL PENDING and carries a status key reading CONFIRMED / LIKELY / OFFER SENT / IDEAS, so it records the schedule as it stood on the eve of the festival rather than a settled final programme.
Day for Night 2017 — Relix full-page advertisement for Day for Night 2017, printing December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas, the SOUND and LIGHT lineups and www.DayForNight.io. Recovered from Free Press Houston correspondence dated October 18, 2017.
Relix full-page advertisement for Day for Night 2017, printing December 15–17, 2017, Houston, Texas, the SOUND and LIGHT lineups and www.DayForNight.io. Recovered from Free Press Houston correspondence dated October 18, 2017.

In the archive

Day for Night

Outside reporting held

Day for Night was the last of the paper's productions, after the Westheimer Block Party, Summer Fest and HOU Decide; that sequence is set out in From Newspaper to Cultural Infrastructure: Omar Afra and Free Press Houston, 2003–2018.

Canonical record: Omar Afra