This year, our annual festival will take place on a digital landscape,
SXSW Online from March 16-20. Along with musical showcases, film screenings, competitions, and more, Conference sessions are organized by seven themes specifically focused on our unique moment in history and a glimpse into what the future could look like.
Conventional wisdom from entertainment industries has lost its shine in the face of evolving consumer habits, technological advancements, and an increased focus on social issues. These pressures are forcing a much needed metamorphosis. What lessons can music, film, television, sports, and gaming learn to keep up with an ever-accelerating pace of change?
Restaurants, gyms, personal care services, theatres and non-essential businesses are open across that region. Most sports can also resume.
Margret Rea, Veronica Hart and Barb Harper wear masks as they place an order at the Olivea restaurant in Kingston, Ont., on Feb. 10, 2021. The Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health unit has moved into the green zone, which allows restaurants to open for in-person dining.(Lars Hagberg/Canadian Press)
Social gatherings at private homes, backyards or in public parks can have up to 10 people indoors or 25 people outdoors. Organized events can be larger.
People are asked to only have close contact with people they live with, be masked and distanced for all other in-person contact and only travel for essential reasons, especially between differently coloured zones.