If you have been caught at property consuming all fashion of media through the COVID-19 pandemic, increase a digital podcast festival to your listing of what to pay attention to up coming.

Podapalooza is a two-working day event occurring April 25-26 that will provide with each other much more than 100 podcasters although increasing cash for GiveDirectly. The nonprofit is supplying funds payments to susceptible homes in spots most difficult hit by the ongoing wellbeing disaster.

The party is the creation of the staff at Glow, a Seattle-dependent podcasting know-how startup, that is teaming with its friends in the group. A spinout of Pioneer Square Labs, Glow elevated $2.3 million very last summer months.

“Think Reside Support, but at residence, in your sweatpants, listening to podcasts,” reads a tagline on the function site. Glow suggests the idea was a sketch on a piece of paper 3 weeks in the past that got texted to podcaster pals.

Now, the festival will feature some of the greatest names in the medium, which include podcasts these as “LeVar Burton Reads,” “Lore,” “The NoSleep Podcast,” “Imagined Lifetime,” “Meet Cute” and additional. A variety of “stages” include things like Binge-worthy, Get Down to Company, What’s Happenin’?, Brain Candy, Talkin’ It Up and Kids’ Corner.

Listeners are expected to purchase a ticket with a pay out-what-you-can design, and will get a lineup and timetable in their inbox. In the course of the pageant weekend, new acts will drop in the Podapalooza podcast and your application of option to listen to. The episodes are pre-recorded and a combine of new and past content material.

Check out the Podapalooza web-site to get tickets and the FAQ for additional facts on how it all will work.