228 S Main St, Sebastopol, California 95472
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Participation Picnic
June 06, 2015 @ 11am – 6pm
Mosswood Park
3612 Webster Street
Oakland, CA 94609
You are invited to join your fellow volunteers / creators / newbies for The Participation POTLUCK Picnic (event formerly known as Bar-B-Que-a-Noobie) in Oakland’s Mosswood Park, just a hop, skip, and a jump away from MacArthur BART!
This year we are inviting Burning Man staff and Volunteer Coordinators, artists, theme camps and newbies. You are the people that make Burning Man happen and the Volunteer Resource Team wants to thank and support you!
Please bring your favorite eats / treats to the POTLUCK to enjoy food, drinks and games in the sunshine as your gift to your fellow Burners.
Come share what you are excited about for this years Burn and connect with VRT to figure out ways we can support you during crunch time and on playa.
The Volunteer Resource Team is providing entertainment and games… and Bar-B-Que basics!
Bocci Ball
Kick Ball with a little slosh
Hula Hoop Jam
Yoga
Bar-B-Que Basics
Burgers & Dogs
Buns and Chips
Condiments
Veggie options
Water
non-alcoholic drinks
Have questions? Contact the Volunteer Resource Team
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MPYRE – Monterey Burning Man Regional Group Presents
MPYRE Strikes Back
A Community Gathering & Celebration
Saturday, June 6, 2015
12p—10p
Monterey Bay Park @ Del Monte Beach
699 Del Monte Ave
Monterey CA 93940
$10 Suggested Donation
One Inspiring Day of:
…Art
…Fun
…Music
…Fire
…Dancing
…Creativity
…Community
…Connection
Join us for the only Ongoing, FREE to the Public, Official Burning Man Regional Event in the United States! Bring your happy energy to create the 10th edition of MPYRE’s beach burn at Del Monte Beach!
Call for Participation – Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Add ‘E’ for ‘Ecosexual’ to GLBTQII at SF Pride
We are particularly in need of Safety Monitors for this event. The Safety Monitors will be given a thank you dinner at 6:30 pm in addition to receiving some fun gifts.
Thank you so much, Natasha
Contact: Kate Fritz, kate.d.fritz@gmail.com
Website: www.theEcosexuals.org
Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Add
‘E’ for ‘Ecosexual’ to GLBTQII at SF Pride
San Francisco, CA—Celebrated Bay Area performance artists Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle will create the first official ‘Ecosexual contingent’ at the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 28th. They will march with their human-powered ‘Pollination Pod’ parade float, and a group of over one hundred collaborators who embrace the ecosexual identity. The contingent is sponsored by the Center for Sex & Culture and is part of the Queer Arts Festival. Everyone is invited to participate.
Stephens and Sprinkle want to raise the visibility of Ecosexuality and have it recognized as an identity alongside lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender and intersex. The Ecosexual parade event will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to ‘Add the E’ to LGBTQI’E’ and a water toast. “We’d like to see more queer people involved in the environmental movement, so we want to make the movement more sexy, fun and diverse,” says Sprinkle.
In 2008, the two artists made a commitment to infuse the environmental movement with more play and sensual pleasure to counteract prevailing doom and gloom narratives. That led them to hold nineteen public ecosex weddings to marry nature entities such as the sky, sun, soil, sea, and moon, with thousands of participants in nine countries. They also made a documentary, Goodbye Gauley Mountain—An Ecosexual Love Story, 2014, in response to mountaintop removal coal mining in Stephens’ home state West Virginia, just released by a respected distributor, Kino Lorber.
Stephens, a professor of art at UC Santa Cruz and longtime environmental activist says, “The Ecosexual movement is really about imagination and desire, and creating a more pleasurable and loving relationship with the Earth. Ecosexuals say that humans are not better than other species, and we are not separate from the ecosystem around us. We are part of it and it is part of us.” Annie Sprinkle adds that “Ecosexuality is an inclusive identity—you can be gay, straight, queer, or even celibate and identify as ecosexual.”
The artists agree that their work is inspired by the direct action tactics of highly visible movements like ACT UP in the 1980’s. “These are very serious issues we’re addressing. There’s almost nothing more serious than California’s current water situation. Our activism is celebrating the Earth as our lover using performance art.”
The Pride event will launch the “Here Come the Ecosexuals” California summer tour, in which Stephens and Sprinkle will lead ecosexual walking tours, glamping trips, and start a new documentary film to raise awareness of California’s water issues.
SF Pride starts at Beale and Market at 10:30AM on June 28. Ribbon cutting & toast at 10:00AM. For details how to collaborate, join contingent and attend ribbon cutting toast: www.theEcosexuals.org
It’s the ninth annual precom and Regional Burn in the Los Gatos hills! Get ready for three days and two nights of community, dance, art, performances, drummers, musicians, theme camps, random acts of radical self-expression, and more!
20600 Aldercroft Heights Road Los Gatos, CA United States
http://www.southbayburners.