Houston Chronicle Profile: Omar Afra and Day for Night (2017)

Annotation

Published the week before the third and final edition of Day for Night, this Houston Chronicle profile is a contemporary newspaper account of Omar Afra at the height of his festival work. It is independent reporting: written by Chronicle staff writer Margaret Kadifa and published by the Chronicle, not by Afra or any organization connected to him.

The article traces a line from Free Press Houston, the independent arts and news paper Afra founded in 2003, through Free Press Summer Fest to Day for Night, the music and new-media art festival he co-founded with Kiffer Keegan. It is useful as a record of how the festival and its producer were described locally in December 2017, before the festival ended.

Researchers should read it alongside primary records. The Free Press Houston Archive’s Day for Night collection holds site maps and production schedules from the festival’s three editions. This page summarizes the article; it does not reproduce it, and statements attributed to the article should be checked against the original.