The Coal Creek Festival is a music festival in Bienfait, a town of a few hundred people in Saskatchewan’s old coalfields. When the website was scoped the festival had no name yet — the proposal calls it SSEPFest, then adds “or whatever the festival ends up being called,” which is a fair description of how a first-year festival actually gets built.
That uncertainty set the design brief. Everything that changes annually — the lineup, the dates, the sponsors, the schedule — was built to be swapped rather than rewritten, so year two is an afternoon of updates instead of a second project. Every artist has their own page, which does the work of a lineup poster while also giving each act something to share. Tickets hand off to an outside platform rather than being rebuilt badly in-house. And there is a page the public never sees, holding load-in times, sound-check slots and stage plots for the people actually playing.
