Both spectacle and festival combine theatrics, storytelling, crafts, and other arts into a community of performance. Both festival and spectacle incorporate food, story, theatrics, music, art, and other entertainment. I want to open up the question of what is festival for more rigorous exploration. They are oftentimes found together, occupying the same time and place. The same work organization has both festive and spectacle garniture.
People do resist spectacle - there is hope for spectacle transformation.
Turning Point for example runs full-page ads to raise questions about the impact of technology and transnational corporate strategies on the environment and the ability of nations to sustain growing populations with a quality of life for their people. It is in this context that I am proposing transorganizational theory and praxis rooted in festivalism and efforts to contain the spread of spectacle. Simplicity, for example, is a movement to cut out unneeded consumption and production in the hopes that others on the planet will have the means to live. The Schumacher Society. Last year, Americans, who make up only five percent of the world's population, used nearly a third of its resources and produced almost half of its hazardous waste.