Like Festivals?

Try Howl!. It is five days of dance, music, performance, poetry & writing.

This is the "purpose" as defined by the website writer people:

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does." --Allen Ginsberg

The annual Howl! Festival named in honor of the groundbreaking poem by Allen Ginsberg and produced every summer celebrates the East Village and Lower East Side's role as a preeminent locus of culture.

Centered in Tompkins Square Park, the festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors bringing to the clubs, galleries, parks, streets, and theaters of Manhattan's Lower East Side an explosion of dance, film, food, music, performance, painting, poetry, sculpture, and theater.

Luminaries like Boy George, Steve Buscemi, Steve Earle, Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Luis Guzman, Jim Jarmusch, Moby, Lou Reed, Ed Sanders, and Suzanne Vega draw the festival's crowds but its real stars are the hardworking independent artists and writers who continue to invigorate the neighborhood with their inconoclastic [sic] spirit.

I think Boy George is definitely a luminary!