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Aquarelle Meeting Documents & Production Check Lists

Below you’ll find the text of the documents shared with all attendants in each of our Aquarelle Meetings. We’ll update each week the latest check list shared at the weekly meeting. Come back here often if you’d like to stay in the loop on all Psychonaut Production related matters. For your convenience, we’ve numbered each section by the Aquarelle Meeting Number starting with the latest.

“Poets are the hierophants of an un-apprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present… Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #19

(July 13th, 2007)

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The Buddhists insist -rightly so,- on the value of the trip itself over the preponderance of the destination. Although Psychonauts has taken a major detour from its original inception, in a universe so vast, we’ll make the ship land somewhere.

For the time being, we’re trying to be practical and focus our efforts on keeping the momentum of the production alive by turning our efforts into a CDP fundraiser. If we can obtain a suitable place that requires minimum production, we may be ready to do this fairly soon with your help.

Our target audience for this fundraiser event is between 100-200 attendants at a cost of 50 dollars per ticket. We believe this is a very manageable number even without the need of major publicity since we’ve done this many times in the past.

How can you help us during these in-between times? In many ways, your support is what keeps this project going so we hope to continue counting on that. Most importantly, we hope you’ll agree with us that in order to plan for a series of outdoor events we need to be realistic and plan on acquiring our own piece of land a few hours from LA. Another key support you can lend us is purchasing a few tickets for this upcoming fundraiser.

Although buying land may sound a bit unrealistic, we’ve shared with you a few examples of properties that could be suitable and are not overly expensive. We’ll be checking another option near Joshua Tree in the next week and we’ll share with you the results of our search.

Just to keep it in perspective, once we find a venue for the fundraiser event, because so many individual artistic acts are almost ready, the main focus of this mini production will be on the actual tickets pre-sale effort. Remember also that we won’t be using many of the main acts and perhaps only a few teasers. As a fundraiser, this event has to cost us the least amount of money so that the funds collected via ticket sales can offset the event production costs and leave some for the land purchase efforts. Our goal is to spend 2000 dollars producing it or less and bring in between 100-200 paying fundraiser supporters. Bringing two hundred would leave a profit of 8000 dollars while 100 would only leave us with 3000 dollars.

We’re also considering the option of selling or auctioning some art at the fundraiser event donated by CDP artists. We’ll have to think of a tasteful way to incorporate this auction or ‘raffle’ as part of the event. We’ll keep you posted about developments on this.

As some of you know, several artists are exhibiting their individual art, notably, Fernando Ventura is being featured in an amazing exhibit called Feminine Mystique. Make sure to ask for one of his flyers to come and support his event opening at NoHo Gallery.

As informed, projects continue all over. Silvia Askenazi obtained the X-Rays that will be used as part of the structure enclosing Fernando Ventura and Ana Cardenas’s live welding.

New dates for rehearsals will also be announced soon via email and the site.

 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #18

(Friday July 6th, 2007)


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Dear friends, we’d like to believe that many other projects facing similar challenges than ours probably wouldn’t have survived by now. So once more we thank you for keeping the faith & for your continued support here at the Aquarelle meetings as well as with all matters related to CDP. We are trying to do the same on our side while we try to figure out a profitable way out of this present situation.

We’re still considering many options and trying to see what makes sense to us and to the project itself. On one side, we’re considering that a good way of taking advantage of our ongoing momentum would be to organize a fundraiser. First, we could recover some of the money lost so far; second, we could get closer to our plans of purchasing undeveloped property somewhere within a few hours drive from LA.

One undeniable benefit derived from the postponement of our Psychonauts event is that many of us realized the urgent need to purchase our own undeveloped piece of land where we can honestly make plans for an event without depending on some outside factor.

On that regard, we’ve spent considerable time this week looking for additional properties that might fit our needs. We’ve also posted as suggested by Fernando Ventura, our first Craigslist ad looking for both an outdoor venue location and also secluded land for sale. We hope that this will bring some results we can report to you soon.

We’ve also listed ourselves with several real state websites specializing in undeveloped land and we’re getting a steady stream of emails. However, our low budget makes us not very attractive to Real State agents looking to make a kill on either homes or undeveloped plots.

After locating the properties for sale, several lots in the high desert area of considerable size have also been checked out using Google Earth. There are two promising multi-acre properties at fairly accessible prices.  We’ll share some info with you about these at the end of the meeting.

We’ll be looking at the possibility of obtaining a very exclusive and wild location for our upcoming fundraiser. Keep your fingers crossed for us. We’ve visited this location once in the past and if we can get if for our event, it will be memorable. Candles, intentions and good wishes all welcomed.

As some collaborators return from their summer breaks and holiday getaways expect some projects to resume as planned. We urge you to continue working on whatever part you were involved with before so that the entire project continues rolling along.

In case you didn’t notice or had a chance to log in, we’ve updated our front page and have taken down the postponement announcement. We’ve left a somewhat generic and abstract write up until we can figure t what’s our next move.
 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #17

(June 29th, 2007)


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‘Begin with the end in mind’, says the famous adage: we’re still staring, from where we stand, at the end. Psychonauts and its entire production efforts are still the main focus of our work here at CDP.

Although our event has been postponed, our work internally hasn’t slowed down: we continue checking options for outdoor venues that might work with our format. On this topic, Driss Muezin, part of the Psychonauts production as a set designer already, has just told us about a possible desert land in the Mojave Desert (up the 14 Freeway) that could work for our event.

We’ll be setting an appointment with the landlord to survey the land and see if it fits the needs of our project.

As mentioned in our email, this past Monday we traveled 2 hours north of here to inspect a 30 acre desert lot being sold for very little money (18,300.00 or 610.00 dollars per acre). The location is in a very secluded area near several dry lakes similar to the one in Black Rock desert where Burning Man takes place each year.

After one hour of excitement surveying the land and climbing the surrounding rock formations, we got terribly startled by an explosion. Within minutes another, then another. In about 2 hours, we heard between 4-5 sonic booms, which are actually what the explosions were. It turns out that NASA’s Dryden High Speed Flight Research facility is just about 70 miles south of there and apparently, that area in the desert is where their planes surpass the sound barrier with their consequently loud boom.

Although we can be almost sure that on weekends there’s no such sonic tests, it’s somewhat unsettling to contemplate the possibility of owning land in a place where your friends or event guests might be startled or shocked by the loud booms.

But as might be expected, there are plenty of other lands around although somewhat more expensive and also smaller. We’ll show you a site at the end of the meeting where you can get a brief idea of current prices for open land in somewhat secluded areas.

This week Alicia Villa and Samantha Miller announced a two week break for the weekly rehearsals happening at a rented studio in Venice for actors and dancers taking part in the Psychonauts main performance. After several members return, the new dates and location for subsequent rehearsals will be announced.

As promised, we’ll be sharing with you a detailed account of expenses for the last 12 months or so incurred by the production so far. We hope this report will put in perspective for all of us involved that even small ventures like ours take significant amounts of money to materialize them. On the other hand, we’re pleased that this is the first time we’ve had an official budget from where to draw money to get the ball rolling. Of course, regardless of the budget, your help has been CDP’s most important asset and for that we don’t mind repeating it once again: thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We’ll continue exploring the possibility of purchasing an inexpensive lot somewhere within a few hours of LA while we also continue to look for indoor venues. A few people familiar with the content of our event have suggested a gallery called Bedlam somewhere in Downtown LA. We’ll give you more details soon.

Last week we also had the opportunity to share some time with Gabriel Lopez, one of the organizers behind the Dia de los Muertos celebration at the Hollywood Forever cemetery. This is an event attended by over 25 thousand people and Gabriel is offering the possibility of presenting a few short vignettes of our overall program to create some publicity toward CDP’s activities or toward the event if we haven’t had it yet by the end of October (which is when this celebration takes place.) Even if our Psychonauts event has taken place already, we’re still considering taking him up on his offer for exposure sake.

We know that it’s unsettling to work in a project where the end seems a bit foggy under the present circumstances but we want you to know that we’re working as fast as we can to sail to clearer waters where a firm date and format can be announced for our Psychonauts event. So much has been achieved that we hope you’ll maintain the faith on such a solid group of professionals working together. Like Yoland Trevino would say: “in every group or organization, something already works intrinsically well. To recognize what works already is to take an ‘appreciative inquiry approach’”.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #16

(June 22nd, 2007)


(Check List)

Worthwhile objectives aren’t easy to achieve, that’s why not just everyone commits to do them. All of us at CDP have shown over the years that we’re neither common nor ordinary and that has always shown in our final products. This time is no exception: we intend to carry on until Psychonauts can be materialized. With your help, it can still happen in a way that leaves us all satisfied.
But where to go from here?

We have many options and we’re trying to systematically analyze each and every one to determine a sensible course of action. Unfortunately, not a single option is clearly the best one; each has things going for it and against it.

Regarding our search for an alternate venue, we are still on the hunt for an outdoor location but chances seem dim at the present. Part of the reason we went to the length of trying to secure the venue prior to the beginning of the production was because we realized how difficult it would be to just run into a suitable locality while in the middle of the production itself. This is now our reality and that’s why we’re still trying to find a fitting outdoor venue that might work for our 24 hour event.

We’re also considering that if too much time goes by and no outdoor venue materializes, we’ll be forced to carry out Psychonauts even if this means that its program needs to be shrunk and the hours reduced in order to carry it out at an indoor venue. One way or another, our event won’t vanish into the air.

Of course, many factors need to be considered: what kind of price will we be able to charge at the door if our hours and venue are different? Will most people still consider it a good value? One promoter we know who’s moved his event indoors for the same reason than ours has kept the same price at the door even though his event is also shorter and in a facility instead of a forest. We’ll be in contact with him and will get further details to share with you by next week.

Other issues indoors have to do with restricted night hours depending on the location of the venue, fire limitations or complete banning, possible noise and alcohol curfew hours and police presence, among others. We need to consider all this factors since they all contribute to the overall atmosphere of our event.

Regardless, we continue with our Psychonauts production uninterrupted as mentioned in our email: this week there was another rehearsal at the rented Venice studio for most of those participating in the main performance. Alicia Villa reports wonderful progress in the dance vocabulary being developed by the different performers and dancers according to the Jungian characteristics proper to that particular archetype. We hope that soon we’ll be able to show you their work in another of Damian Quevedo’s Video Updates.

Ana Cardenas has began discussing with Alicia Villa specific details about preparations of outfits and costumes for performers including our very own Opera Diva Angie whose dress will be created by none other than exquisite designer Benny Cahoole.

As new possibilities develop –and we’re considering just about every option that seems feasible- we’ll keep you posted. Above all, we hope to continue collaborating with each of you in this project which by itself, has acquired its own life and the process itself to get here, has been very rewarding. Perhaps this is a good reminder that the destination isn’t the whole trip.

 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #15

(June 8th, 2007)


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All this week our priority, as you might imagine, has been to try and identify possible venues where we can relocate our Psychonauts event. You may also realize that finding a suitable venue is not easy at all but we’re checking as many alternatives as we can come up with. Feel free to begin spreading the word about our need for a location.

Alicia Villa has been in the phone several times this week with a company that specializes in finding film locations. We can’t certainly guarantee that we’ll be able to afford them but two look promising and we’re discussing a special arrangement where less money may be required as down payment. We’ll share with you at the end of the meeting some pictures of these locations.

Anyone is welcome to do their own searches in Google, Yahoo or Dogpile for possible locations. Also take some time and browse through sites like Craigslist. We spent some time in Craigslist but found nothing so far.

We still haven’t heard from many individual promoters who were contacted this week about our need for a new venue. Most of them –having shared the same venue we’ve lost- are also looking for venues for their own productions. We hope that as they also look for their own venue, our chances increase of finding one for ourselves.

There’s also the possibility of a smaller venue, about 15 acres, in the Antelope Valley an hour north of here. More details to come soon.

An email was sent earlier today to all individuals who purchased tickets at the 50 dollar level for our Psychonauts production notifying them about their full refund credit on their ticket’s purchase. We’re happy to inform that some individuals have chosen to keep their tickets in support of the production. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity and trust.

Also several media outlets which had featured our event in their publications were notified about our postponement. Some had assigned journalists to attend and we’re hoping thru the work of our publicist, Lynn Hasty, we’ll be able to lure them back once a new date is announced.

For anyone participating in the performance for the main program, please contact play coordinators Alicia Villa or Samantha Miller for full details. As announced in our weekly email, four rehearsals have been officially announced for the cast. The rehearsal studio is located in the Venice area for the convenience of most performers.

We have tonight once again our amazing choreographer, Wendy Carcano. If you’re participating in the main performance, this is your chance to discuss with her any pertinent dance vocabulary.

CDP thanks Andres Salcedo for sharing his amazing Kirtan session with the entire group tonight. We need all the positive ionization of the airwaves that we can get. What the blip do we know?

We’re trying to define by this weekend if we’ll do something communal this coming June 17 to commemorate our postponed event. Ideas are welcomed. We’re considering a Waterfall outing in the Ojai River for about 30 to 50 people. Inquire for details if you’re interested after the meeting is over.

 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #14

(June 1st, 2007)

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In the Tao of War is suggested: when smashing against a wall, turn yourself into water, and triumphantly pass through. We’re trying as fast as possible, to do just that to try and overcome this hurdle of finding a new venue.

Last Sunday we visited a spot about 1 hour south of LA that offers many advantages: it’s privately owned; the owner is young and happens to know about our event, his venue is not ‘hot’ since there’s only been 1 public event in his 40 acre property.

The location also offers ample camping and parking space with many more flat and shaded areas than our previous location. Given its corridor layout, sound can be isolated better for those wishing a peaceful environment while the electronic music goes on. The access road is also much better kept and easier to navigate. The land already has a major tent set up that can reduce our costs since this major structure can be a major lounge area or coffee shop.

There are also issues against it: it’s about one hour longer drive than our previous site. The corridor layout, while allowing for sound isolation also scatters participants and the only few open spots for large crowds are not shaded. Also, an anal retentive neighbor called the rangers and they showed up at the door of the event although they never stepped inside nor did they threaten to shut the event down.

The event was advertised as a ‘film shoot’ where each attendant was an ‘extra’ and the ticket was sold as a ‘membership fee’. We’ll be meeting the owner soon to find out if this could be a real alternative for us and we’ll keep you posted.

We’ve also obtained detailed information and a Special Events Questionnaire from the National Forest about the possibility of renting Live Oaks Campground, the location where the Do Lab hosts Lightning In a Bottle about half hour north of Santa Barbara. (2.5 hours north of here)

Although the option exists, the number of legalities and hoops are onerous and difficult to meet not to mention expensive: Besides the actual cost, much higher than our current budget allows, there’s also a major issue: this campground is actually a Fire Department Emergency location point and in case of forest fires nearby, the local Fire Department has ‘first rights of use’ to the park which translated to simpler terms means that in such a case, they can ask us to leave and dismantle our entire production without any previous warning.

Their requirements, among others, are: Liability Insurance for 1 million dollars plus 2 million dollars aggregate. Liability Waiver. Fire Exit Plan approved by the Fire Department. Handicapped ready Porta-Parties (1 for every 3 regular porta-parties), Sheriff’s Notification, Food Vending Permit, 12 Midnight Sound Shut off. No fires allowed in entire campground.

As you can see, this last option might be viable for future events when we can attempt a multi-day festival where the entrance ticket can be sold for a higher price to amortize the daily cost of renting the Live Oaks Campground (about $3500.00 per ‘festival’ day plus $750.00 for each day needed for set-up and tear-down). At this point however, it seems very expensive for a smaller event of less than a thousand people.

On CDP and Psychonauts’ news we got lots going: performers met this week with choreographer Wendy Carcano to further the development of the main program piece. Check with Alicia Villa or Samantha Miller for current schedules and locations.

As mentioned, most artists and collaborators have received the news of the postponement with great optimism and most have gone right back to work, we ask each of you to continue doing the same. We’re trying to announce within the next month the final location and date for Psychonauts. We’re trying to arrange an impromptu event at the ranch on June 17 to broadcast part of it live on the net as a commemoration. We’ll keep you posted about this via email and the site.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #13

(May 25th, 2007)

Check List:

After four and a half months of Production we want to thank you for trusting and supporting Circo de Poesia and collaborating in all the unique ways you have so far.

Today, Psychonauts’ success is a direct consequence of the immense support and commitment from the professional team that has sustained it.

Yesterday we were featured in Los Angeles Times Calendar section. Although small, the article was well written and thoughtful. At the same time we keep receiving both congratulations and inquiries from new artists interested in being part of this project.

We have pending for next week a meeting with the director of Hair the musical to see how we can incorporate the play into our Program.

DJ’s for Psychonauts have being already contacted. Flyers are printed and ready to be distributed.

The script for our main piece, Psychonauts’ Journey into the Unconscious’ is done, the cast is almost complete, more props and costumes have been assigned to their respective creators, rehearsals are on track and individually organized. Stage, lighting and sound are still in development.

A new video by Damian Quevedo, featuring Sculptor Fernando Ventura and his assistant, Paper Mache artist Ana Cardenas was published in our Psychonauts Video Updates page last night.

Some new production assistants and several hard workers have been confirmed for days prior to the event.

One more truck has been offered to us to help transport and deliver props, materials and tools.

As you can see, there have been incredible amounts of individual agreements and arrangements made on behalf of the success of our Psychonauts event while making it an unforgettable achievement for everyone who felt moved by the intentions behind this project.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #12

(May 18th, 2007)

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As usual, many developments this week:

As mentioned in our email, CDP granted a phone interview to LA Times Writer Justin Hampton for a short feature in their pullout Calendar section for next week.  We’ll share the coverage with you as soon as it comes out

This Thursday rehearsals began for all performers participating in the main program. Around 12 people came & most will perform either as Archetypes, Psychonauts or character/dancers. As the individual groups evolve and consolidate in their efforts, we’ll inform you here of their progress. This performance is directed by Alicia Villa & Samantha Miller plus Wendy Carcano working with a separate group of dancers. Arrangements for the drum procession are still being worked out.

This week we’ll be concentrating on Logistics and once again are headed for the ranch this Sunday afternoon for some more planning about the location of props, installations, stages, etc. A preliminary map will be published soon to share with all collaborators.

This week, Stella Sosa, Ana Flores, Ana Cardenas & Laura Rey went to Downtown LA to begin purchasing fabrics for props, costumes and other accessories for the event.

Fernando Ventura has begun his preparations for the Symbiosis sculpture along with Ana Cardenas. More details to come.

We’ve began testing a battery system that will allow us to plug into it low wattage items like Christmas lights and IPods connected to speakers for ambiance in areas too remote to be plugged to the main generator.

We’ll be finalizing details about dimensions for the main stage this week in order to begin calculating material & labor costs.

As of yet, our ticket sales remain very low and we’re inviting you once more to support this production by purchasing a few tickets and selling them to relatives, friends, co-workers etc.

The Psychonauts postcard has been sent to the printer and we should have them by Friday morning of next week, just in time for our Aquarelle Meeting #13. Please, don’t leave next meeting without a handful of postcards so that you can help us distribute them around town.

Requests:

Two more performers are still needed for the main program. Inquire with Alicia or Sammy about these roles.

Do you have a truck and are willing to help us pick up items around town? Please let us know since we’ll need a truck in a regular basis for the next few weeks. Perhaps we can coordinate amongst several truck owners and accomplish this with minimum effort for all parties involved.

Still about a dozen people needed for several key logistic positions. Some pay available. Help us operate the coffee shop or with stage assistance and technical support. These roles are key to insure the smooth operation of our event. You’ll be working with a manager that will direct you during the event at all times, be it Audio/Video, Lights, Sound etc.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #11

(May 11th, 2007)


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5 weeks to go.  That alone should send a tickle up or down your spine. In our case, it does.  Only time now for essentials, for bringing each project down to Earth in order to materialize it.  If we’ve been asking for your help all along, this is it; we need your skills and positive energy on our side from this point forward.

Many things accomplished this week:

Great news from Lynn Hasty, our publicist, also publicizing Lightning in the Bottle up in Santa Barbara.  CDP’s Psychonauts event will be featured in the LA Times Calendar Section with its own little article and pictures. Considering they are the largest & oldest LA paper, we’re very stoked to get this coverage precisely the Thursday before the event. More details to come.

For the second time, the Stage Set Up Team went to the ranch for one more look at logistics, locations, materials, etc. We’ll be making public soon a Google Earth Map with ‘marks’ over it showing the Psychonauts Village so you can appreciate the progress made so far.

The verbiage for the back of the official Psychonauts Flyer is being finalized this weekend.  It will be printed next week in 4 colors with text on the back side. Help us reach those around you by taking a few flyers when they become available.

Tonight, several performers and dancers participating in the first half of the main program will be meeting here tonight –probably at a separate room-, advancing their own script and development for this key part of the night’s program.

Storage will be rented this week. We could use your help if you can spend a few hours calling around for different storage prices around Sylmar, Pacoima or Lakeview Terrace. We’ll be storing here dozens of objects needed for our production like mattresses, carpets, chairs, materials, fabrics, etc.

Damian Quevedo continues helping the direction team with lots of side jobs related to this production: besides curating the videos to be shown at the Bedroom movie theatre, he’s also compiling music play lists for several spots within the village.

Don’t leave tonight without sitting briefly with Sergio Martinez to complete your one-paragraph bio to be included in CDP’s website alongside the program.

Props are also being built by many collaborators like Driss Muezin who’ll start building some fabric props as well as the Question Mark Stage. We’ll keep you posted of the progress here.

Requests:

Urgent: we need 1 or 2 qualified construction carpenters or carpenters period to help us build staging, flooring, temporary structures etc. Please, if you know of someone willing to help, contact us at the end of the meeting.

Drummers and Archetypes needed for the opening part of the main program. Please help us in these positions.

Want to help in the production before the event? Join us at the ranch from June 11th until Junt 16th, the day of the event for endless opportunities to leave your mark in the immense village being put together.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #10

(Friday, May 04, 2007)


Although it doesn’t seem so, almost 3 months have elapsed since we launched Psychonauts on February 11th at the ranch. Lots of work and progress since then.

Please check out CDP’s website and click on Psychonauts Video Updates to check out a new YouTube video uploaded in our page. The video, edited & shot by Damian Quevedo, shows Veronica Vainstoc working in her impressive and inspiring Mandala garments and props. She’s a natural.

Next in the list to be filmed for this video series is Fernando Ventura and Ana Cardenas with their meticulous casting work of several body parts from many original members of CDP. After that, probably Tiffany Trenda will be the next featured artist.

Help us spread the word. We need your assistance getting our flyers posted all over town –even out of town-. Visit our Street Poster Campaign link under Navigation and begin printing some flyers for your own particular area. Post them in areas like coffee houses, net lounges, work and school lounge areas, etc. Your help is pivotal. We need to sell about 20 tickets per day from now until the day of the event and we’re still very far from our goal to draw 800 paying attendants.

If you can afford it and find it in your heart, we’re encouraging any of you with enough funds to purchase a few tickets and then help us resell them to friends, relatives and associates. Truly, the future of CDP depends heavily on our ability to recover costs and hopefully end up with some profit to move forward.

This week, thanks to the steady and creative collaboration between Alicia Villa, Samantha Miller, Ana Flores, Laura Rey y Sergio Martinez, the first outline of the main program script has been completed. We’ll begin working on a script this weekend to share with all collaborators who are part of the main program. This script will include detailed information about staging, movements, displacements, lighting, sound, logistical support and other relevant data necessary for performers. Please check our site and your email as we’ll be publishing soon the rehearsal dates for the individual groups who are part of the main program: Opening Drum Procession, Fire Hoopers, Archetypes plus Cover & Uncover the Body.

Samantha Miller continues developing the workshop schedule (on top of her creative collaboration with the program). Samantha will need an assistant to help her organize and run all aspects of the workshops during Sunday. Also, if you want to offer a workshop, this is your last chance before we officially close the program.

We have published a condensed version of our 24-hour program in our site. You can find it listed in the Psychonauts Front Page (on the right hand side of the site, under Navigation).

We’re discussing a possible Carl Jung impersonation carried out by a Chicago-based actor recently transplanted to LA named Curtis Gaulnier who comes courtesy of Cabaret Voltaire producer Christian Meoli.

We’ve also approached the LA Burning Man website for some possible advertising of our event in their site. We’ll keep you posted about further developments on this.

Psychonauts will appear in Ciudad magazine on their June issue. Other potential coverage includes: Music Magazine (a glossy, pocket-size mag), Yogi Times (possible editorial)

 

Requests:

We still need models, actors, production assistants, stage manager & assistants, lighting & sound tech’s, traffic guides, coffee shop attendants, maintenance assistants etc. Please help CDP save considerable money by volunteering for one of these positions so that we don’t have to hire someone to fill-in these key positions.

We’d like to challenge each of you here tonight to print a flyer and post it in your favorite hangout spot. We truly think unless we all are enthusiastic about this, we can’t inspire others to join us. Let’s surprise ourselves and begin running into someone else’s posted flyer. It would be neat to hear from some of you and where have you posted your flyer… don’t be surprised that many people attending our event will only see the flyer that you’ve posted.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #9

(Friday, April 27th, 2007)


Fitting for a number that denotes anticipation (ten represents closure), we have lots of anticipation as literally dozens of new artists and collaborators join this Psychonauts production.

Last Sunday we hosted a very successful Main Program Artists Conference. 28 artists from all walks of life attended & shared very valuable input. We’ll be publishing a complete Main Program Script in the next few days in which many of your ideas will be incorporated.

Katina Le Kerr, an Image & Fashion Consultant sharing generously her skills on this project will be addressing us tonight with some of her suggestions for wardrobe, staging, etc.

Yesterday we visited Wendy Carcano for the opening of her modern dance piece shown as part of UC Irvine yearly dance showcase. Wendy will be joining us in Psychonauts as a choreographer & performer. From now on, we’ll include in these check lists and in our weekly emails, brief mentions about on-going or upcoming exhibitions or shows from artists participating in our Psychonauts production. This allows us to all try to support these fellow artists and collaborators in their personal projects and endeavors.

Just last week, Arnaud Damasceno also had several of his paintings shown as part of a group exhibit still going on. Support him and stop by to see his work at The Whole 9 Gallery in Culver City.

As mentioned in our email, we’re extremely happy to announce that Damian Quevedo, one of the original producers and creative forces behind CDP has joined us again for this production. He’ll be doing, among other things: curating all film material to be shown at The Bedroom Movie Theatre. (Notice our brand new name for this setting.) Damian will also begin compiling music for some stages as well as filming individual artists as they work on their own Psychonauts projects. This footage will be edited and turned into streaming video clips that will be added to a new section in our site titled Psychonauts Video Updates or something similar.

World-renowned Hillel The Balloon Man and his graceful wife Leticia visited us last Tuesday. We’re crossing our fingers about their possible participation as part of the Psychonauts Main Program. If you think magic is about finesse, then his act will mesmerize you. We’ll announce here soon his involvement as we confirm his attendance.

Alicia Villa visited Veronica Vainstoc studio for a glimpse at the progress on the Mandala Dome project and the news are incredible: both Vero & Arnaud are also working together on several aspects of the dome, flooring, etc. Veronica will be the first artist video-filmed by Damian for our Psychonauts Video Updates files so make sure to check out some of her amazing work in this flick.

Samantha Miller (having abandoned the illusion that she’s not involved up to her neck in this) continues to weave her own amazing thread outside of Circo Headquarters. She has met this week with several people for matters regarding workshops, costumes, staging, performers and many other details regarding the first half of our Main Program. We need more brave and committed souls like her to continue making headway in this gigantic project. Please join us.

We had another meeting with Driss Muezin, the incredibly talented booth designer. We’ll be working with him in the next couple of weeks securing material for the first couple of commissioned props that he’ll be building for us. Like most artists, he’s waived his professional labor fee and has offered to charge only cost of materials. A candle to his generosity.

OK, the nice part of the meetings is over, now, the reality is in front of us: we have less than 60 days to sell 800 tickets. Roughly speaking, that’s about 15 tickets each day. So far, with only a dozen or so bought mostly by many of you members and hardcore supporters of the production, we really need to begin reaching out to friends, co-workers, relatives and everyone else in our radius of influence to begin selling tickets. Be brave and help us by purchasing a few tickets and re-selling them to your friends. These funds are much needed in this time of the production.

Requests:

We need still models & actors for many roles during the main program. Also proficient drummers for the Opening Procession.

We also need still a couple of dozen bodies for key positions on the production side: stage managing, lighting & sound tech’s, traffic guides, coffee shop attendants, gate & security, maintenance & power (generators, cables, extensions, etc). Please apply for one of these key roles and be part of the back bone structure making this event possible.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #8

(Friday, April 20, 2007)

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This coming Sunday, April 22nd, we’ll be hosting our Psychonauts Main Program Artist Conference. What is it? It is a 3 hour conference related to Carl Jung content for the first part of the main program running from midnight ‘til 1:30 am. In this section, Circo de Poesia will produce 3 performances designed to open the main program: Drum Procession & Fire Hoopers, Archetypes & Cover & Uncover the Body.

This past Thursday we visited the venue with the Stage Set-Up Team. Great progress was made during this key meeting between the main scenic artists, sculptors, builders & technicians helping us with overall sets, stages and props, among others. For the first time, the entire team had an overall sense of where the Circus Village will be built, where main stages and sets go etc. We thank each of you who took the time to attend this important tour of the property: Laura Rey, Francisco Leon, Arnaud Damasceno, Fernando Ventura, Ana Flores, Ana Cardenas, Armand Legg (Tansar) & Steve Malawski. As a result from this meeting, a set of sketches will be done showing where main structures are going to be built.

Arnaud Damasceno has completed the Psychonauts logo. We’re working out the last details about text & verbiage in order to send the card to print.

We’re meeting next week with world-renowned magician, Hillel the Balloon Man and his amazing wife and stage assistant, Leticia.  We hope, after witnessing their otherworldly show at the Magic Castle, that they’ll consider participating in our main program.

Tiffanny Trenda has confirmed her participation with Psychonauts. Last financial details are being worked out but we’re very pleased to have confirmed this exquisite artist first scoped for our Psychonauts event back on New Year’s Eve 2005. As you can see, persistence and faith do pay off.

Requests:

We need actors for Cover & Uncover the Body, The Archetypes and also drummers for the Opening Procession.

Can you help us in any of the management positions still open? You can assist us with gate, security, coffee shop, traffic guides, stage managing, open mic, etc.

Silvia Askenazi has begun creating an inventory of furniture and items which people are willing to bring to this production. If you’re collaborating with Psychonauts and have cushions at home, funky furnishings or objects, please let Silvia know to include it in this inventory. Fabrics will be needed in industrial quantities for this event. If you have extra fabric at home or know of a place where it can be bought inexpensively, please let us know.

We’re also looking for carpet. Lots of rolls of carpet will be needed to provide comfortable lounge areas for visitors in the many hang out spots. If you know of a business that replaces carpet, they normally throw away old carpets just replaced so maybe we can request that they save it for us instead of simply discarding it.

Do you have a big truck that you can offer for the week prior to the event? We’ll be renting storage soon and we’ll need transportation from this storage place to the actual venue on days prior to the event. Please contact us if you think you can help in this regard.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #7

(Friday, April 13, 2007)

If you know where important event information is in our page, you can become an incredible asset on behalf of this Psychonauts’ production. We’ll take 20-30 minutes to briefly introduce you to the most relevant information and its location within Circo de Poesia’s homepage.

Psychonauts front widget (is the small section on the right hand side of the website directly under navigation)

> >> you can click on both the word Psychonauts at the top or read more at the bottom to be taken to the Psychonauts Front Page. Inside this page, you can access several other pages related to the production like Event Info, Tickets, Volunteer, Street Poster Campaign, Aquarelle Meeting Documents -such as this- & Carl Jung Notes for Psychonauts. Each section contains invaluable information containing all sorts of details about the event.

Within Event Info, you can check: Event Guidelines, Survival Tips, Costumes, Location & Directions.

Under Tickets, you’ll notice the three different price levels depending on date purchased.

Within Volunteer, you can see the many areas where your skills can also be put to great use. You can also post your own comments here.

Street Poster Campaign is where you can view & print several flyers meant to increase street buzz and exposure.

Aquarelle Meeting Documents & Production Check Lists is the page to go to if you want to know where we are in our Psychonauts Production. Check the latest Aquarelle Meeting weekly lists published here and be in the loop of all things related to this production.

Carl Jung Notes For Psychonauts. Go here if you’re a performer or artist working in the main program to familiarize yourself with some of the main concepts behind the structural aspects of Carl Jung’s theory of personality. We also hope this material will be immensely useful for all creative artists now contributing with all aspects of the project, including staging, props, sets, etc. Of course, you don’t have to be a performer, you could just be curious to find out more about this brilliant and compassionate philosopher’s ideas.

Another section being added soon in the Psychonauts Front Page will be Event Program & Artists Bio, please don’t forget to send us a short, one-paragraph artist bio if you’re participating with us in this production.

Check List

We continue to finalize last details with all performers participating in Psychonauts, from individual artists and independent companies to the Circo artists participating with content acts during the main program. With the exciting line-up of performers confirmed, please take your place in this production.

Mark your calendars for Sunday, April 22nd, from noon to 3pm, we’ll be conducting an important conference with all artists involved in the content (Jungian) aspect of the main program. Namely: opening drum procession, Archetypes and Cover & Uncover the Body. We’ll announce also in this conference the dates of the 4 rehearsals scheduled for May for this key portion of the night’s main program. Please, more models & performers are needed, please spread the word among your friends and acquaintances and help us fill up these important roles. This conference will take place in Long Beach.

Fernando Ventura is sharing tonight with all attendants his idea for welding a metal sculpture live in the middle of the forest as part of the main program.

Next week we’ll be meeting with Nathalie Gaulthier of Gaulthier Artists to discuss their possible involvement in our main program. Nathalie is an amazingly inspirational teacher, aerialist, writer & producer. Her experience includes stints with Cirque du Soleil & collaborations with many other artists from Circuses from around the world. She also runs her own children academy where kids learn trapeze as well as other arts. We hope she’ll join us for one of these meetings soon.

Requests:

Carpenters or people with construction experience for venue set-up the week prior to the event. (June 11th thru June 16th until the time the event opens)

Traffic Guides to help during the peak hours of Saturday night from around 6pm ‘til about 2am on Sunday. No traffic guides are needed for exodus.

Coffee Shop assistants: the coffee shop remains open from 8pm on Saturday until 4pm on Sunday when the communal pot luck begins so there are 20 hours to cover with at least two people on 8 hour shifts behind the counter taking care of arriving attendants. Armand Legg (Tanzar) will be covering one of these shifts.

Safety Rangers for a few hours on Sunday. We only need about 4 rangers to patrol the inside perimeter of the event, preventing people from starting unauthorized fires, garbage disposal, traffic guidance & overall event information.

Stage Managers: we’ll need at least two stage managers to run the two main areas where most performances will take place. If you like the pressure and the reward of highly challenging work, this is one of them. We need solid, consistent people for these roles as they might be bombarded with many unpredictable needs at the moment of the main program.

 

 

Aquarelle Meeting #6

(Friday, April 06 2007)

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As mentioned in our email a few days ago, there have been many exciting developments this week:

First, we are now able to accept credit card orders for Psychonauts tickets. Please, support Circo de Poesia in this vital area and order a few tickets for you and friends. We need to sell 800 tickets in the next two months to make our financial goal and recover part of our overall investment. We’re happy to inform that several artists and contributors helping with the Psychonauts project have also volunteered to purchase a ticket as a way of supporting the overall project. If you can afford it, we encourage you to do the same.

Many artists contacted in weeks past have all practically resurfaced with very positive responses:

Vlad Levitanski, a compelling mime we’ve seen live a few times, has committed ‘unofficially’ to the project. He’ll be back in town in about two weeks and we’ll meet him personally to make it official.

Tiffany Trenda, an amazing multi-media performance artist has indicated her desire to meet us to further discuss her involvement for Psychonauts. Visit her site for a quick glance of her amazing brand of performance art… www.tiffanytrenda.tv   

Aerialist company Gaulthier Artists, led by its director, Nathalie Gaulthier, has agreed to participate in Psychonauts’ Main Program. We’re very excited about their involvement and what they can bring to our event. (www.gaulthierartists.com)

James Petersen, a contrapto-sculptor of incredible talent, has also agreed to meet us to discuss how his amazing light contraptions could be used for Psychonauts. One of Petersen’s light sculptures was featured in Circo de Poesia’s fifth anniversary event, ‘In the Midst of the Hierophant’. The crowd simply loved it. (www.artcontraptions.com

Pooya Majd, a very good personal friend and an incredible percussionist and daf player, has also agreed to lead the opening procession. More details to come.

This week we’ve contacted a modern theatre company: Empire of Teeth, an incredibly eclectic theatre group. More details to come.

We’re racing this coming week to finalize the most relevant details related to Pschonauts’ program –and within it, the main program-. If you’ve offered to participate or are thinking about it, we’ll host a conference for all artists involved in these content-related performances produced directly by Circo de Poesia. (In contrast to outside artistic companies who already bring their own finished pieces to fit as part of the main program or elsewhere). After this conference, a minimum of 4 rehearsals are scheduled for May for all participating artists and performers.

A FAQ Page about Circo de Poesia & Psychonauts is being finalized and so is a Press Page. Please don’t forget to send us a short one paragraph bio along with a jpeg headshot since there will be a link to the program and the artist’s bio sections in the Press Page that’s being published this week since we’re starting our media campaign also.

We need lots of help with Street Poster Campaign.

Requests:

We need still lots of assistance:

We need labor for upcoming props to be built during a second additional weekly meeting (besides Aquarelle Meetings).

We need still more performers for Cover & Uncover the Body and the Archetypes. We also need drummers for the opening procession

We still need carpenters to help us build stages & settings

Collaborate: If you can spend a couple of hours on Sunday the 17th after your contribution as an artist, it would help us tremendously with hired labor costs. Inquire in these meetings about areas still in need of help: coffee shop, parking, gate, banquets, technical staff, etc

Aquarelle Meeting #5

(Friday March 30th, 2007)


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This week we met with Fernando Ventura in his amazing home-studio to further discuss his artistic collaboration for Psychonauts. He’s offered to display at the event several of his incredible sculptures and paintings.

Tomorrow at noon, we’ll be meeting with Driss Mouezin, an incredibly talented designer to begin ordering material for the question mark prop and to discuss cost for that prop and others.

Next Tuesday we’ll be meeting a mechanical engineer to consult with him about some structures we intend to build for the event.

As officially announced, we’ve secured Green Galactic as our PR firm to handle most publicity matters. We say most because you can also help us individually by going to our Street Poster Campaign page where you can print several one page flyers promoting our event. The publicist will begin working on our campaign from April 3rd until June 17th.

Darren Saravis a friend, inventor and amazing artist, has offered his help with a video piece as part of Cover & Uncover The Body.
Samantha Miller is now the Workshop Coordinator. If you’d like to offer a workshop, please submit a short proposal outlining your needs, materials, workshop length etc.

We need a short artist bio from all of you to load in our page. A link will also be added in the Press Page so that as media people are looking to do a feature or mention of us, they can reference the artists participating in the event.

Arnaud Damasceno is helping us with some sketches for the first flyer going out to print. If you’re also a good sketch artist, we still need more help on drawings related to stages, sets, etc.

Ana Flores has signed up for the Stage/Set Team which so far includes: Steve, Sergio, Arnaud, Driss,  Fernando Ventura & now Ana. Others are being confirmed.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #4

(Friday March 23 2007)

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Excellent news to share with all of you this week: Circo de Poesia hired its top choice for PR & Media campaign. Her name is Lynn Hasty and her Publicity company is called Green Galactic (could you think of anything more fitting for Psychonauts? We didn’t either.)

Amazing artist Cynthia Tom from San Francisco, has granted us permission to use one of her paintings for our Street Poster Campaign. If you haven’t visited this page yet, it’s listed under Navigation in our website (www.thepoetrycircus.com or www.circodepoesia.com) Here, you can download or just print several Word documents that act as advertising flyers for our Psychonauts event. Please take a minute to print a few of these and then post them in all relevant places in your social life: coffee shops, internet cafes, work-school-university lounge rooms, parties, etc.

We’re still working out with Cynthia for a possible exhibition of her work during the event but her health is not in best of conditions at the moment. We’ll fill you in further. Visit www.cynthiatom.homestead.com for a look at some of Cynthia’s incredibly surrealist work.

We met this week with Steve Malawsky, a friend who’s also an aerospace mechanic. He has lots of technical know-how on several key areas for our event such as generators, battery systems, pipes etc. He’s also volunteered as a model & performer and –work schedule permitting- for the construction team that will be working on stage & set building at the actual venue the week prior to the event.

Last Sunday we met Veronica Vainstoc in her studio for a more detailed conversation regarding her involvement in the Mandala Dome. Stay tuned for more details, she’s putting together an amazing performance with lots of meaningful information to share with attendants.

A Press section will be added to the website this week with a Press Release for Psychonauts, Pictures, Video and more relevant info about Psychonauts & Circo de Poesia. This link is meant for anyone from the Press or Media looking for additional information on our event. We also need a short one-paragraph bio from all contributing artists which will be published in our website and linked to the Press page as well as to the Psychonauts Program page.

This week we officially opened our first Circo de Poesia bank account which will be used to receive payments via credit cards for tickets purchased online. We also set up this week an account with Pay Pal in order to be able to accept & process ticket payments securely & conveniently. Users will be re-directed to Pay Pal to finish their credit card purchase and returned to our site after the transaction is completed. An HTML expert may have to be hired to implement the proper links to the site but we foresee being able to carry out monetary transactions online in the next couple of weeks.

Laura Rey will discuss soon with us a more detailed plan for her proposed organic sculpture. More details to come.

We’ll be meeting next week with Fernando Ventura to see some of the art works he’s offering for this production. An incredibly talented wood artist, he’s also offered his help for the construction team setting-up the week prior to the event.

Arnaud Damasceno has offered his skills as painter, sketcher and also has offered his help as part of the construction team mentioned above. He’ll be showing us some artistic sketches to be considered for the Psychonauts logo.

Renata Frigerio (“Paloma”) has confirmed her collaboration for the project as a jewelry artist, performer & open mic appearance.

Benny Kokoole, a costume designer with big film credits, has agreed to participate with outfits & hats for some performers & models.

Suzette Brantley, a friend, promoter and model, has offered to model for a yet undetermined section of our program and to help scout for more models for Cover & Uncover the body and possibly other performances.

We’re also trying to confirm this week with a soprano & some classic musicians to play some live arias as part of the main program.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #3

(Friday March 16 2007)

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Do you want to help Circo de Poesia with its advertising street campaign?

We have now published a very important page within our site: Street Poster Campaign. In this page, anyone collaborating with us can download several 1 Page Word documents (.doc). These documents are flyers & teasers advertising Psychonauts. There are about 8 in total –and more to come soon- 5 of these documents contain a graphic and text and the remaining three only text. We ask that you print a few of these and take some time to go around your neighborhood and post it in your favorite local spots: coffee shops, net lounges, school/college cafeteria and announcement boards, or anywhere you see fit to help us gain some exposure and to increase ticket sales.

Next week check out our website for a new Video page. There, people not familiar with Circo will be able to watch a 5 minute video clip featured in TV back in 2003.

Circo has officially begun collecting objects and props for this production. (Dress, table, foam cylinders, magnets)

Samantha Miller, in conjunction with Alissa Simon has confirmed a musical workshop for Sunday, June 17th, 2007, involving Dulcimer & Percussion. Both Samantha and Alissa will teach their respective classes and after completing them, they will host a joint performance with all workshop participants from both classes.

Veronica Vainstoc will be meeting with us this weekend to continue developing her mandala performance which will also include about a dozen of her hand-woven mandala garments.

Andres Salcedo has confirmed his interest in conducting both a yoga class & a Kirtan chanting session. Details are being worked out.

Darren Saravis has agreed initially to participate with his incredible nude photographs as part of one of the 4 stations within Cover & Uncover the Body.

Laura Rey has offered to build a special organic sculpture for Psychonauts. We’ll be working out further details with her in these coming weeks.

We’ll have a final answer on our PR agent no later than next Friday.

We went out this past Tuesday night to informally meet with Producer Mark Bava who may help us contact several performers which we’d like to feature in our own event such as Video Artist Tiffany Trenda, Hula-Hoop Master Extraordinaire Caresse.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #2

(Friday March 9, 2007)

Check List

First Prop commissioned (Question Mark)

Online Ticket Ordering will be available in the next two weeks. Support us by purchasing your tickets either online or during your attendance to our meetings.

Circo is negotiating the final price with a PR company for a two-month period starting this coming April 16th. Several companies have quoted us between 2500 to 4000 dollars per month. We’ll announce in the site shortly which company is the one that will help Circo de Poesia with its many media and advertising needs.

Veronica Vainstoc has confirmed her participation with an exquisite line of hand-woven Mandala garments to be showcased inside the Mandala Dome. We’re also looking for a person to conduct a Mandala workshop. Inquire in this meeting for more details. (If you know about building a dome or where to buy a used, inexpensive dome, or where we can borrow one, get in touch with us. Dimensions: between 16-32 feet in diameter.)

A set designer has also offered us his large flat bed truck (he also has a professional driver’s license to drive the vehicle) during the peak days of Psychonaut’s production.

Circo will rent a storage room by the end of March or middle of April in the Sylmar area.

Circo de Poesia has begun advertising Psychonauts and twice a month in several internet bulletin boards such as LACN, Los Angeles Culture Net, Folk Arts, Downtown Life & Afrocuba.

We’ll meet next week with an engineer friend of ours that can help us with advise on the metal pipe structures needed for some of the large Circus structures. We’ll also be meeting a set designer we met at Burning Man last September to gauge his interest in the project.

Also next week we’ll meet with Mark Bava, a well known producer in LA of events such as Sea of Dreams, Anon Salon and LA Burning Man Decompression. We hope he’ll connect us with a couple of amazing performance artists for our own Psychonauts event.


Requests:

We’re looking for models (you don’t have to be beautiful in the western, traditional way) for a fashion catwalk and human nudity installation.

We’re also looking for one or two body painter artists and several body tattoo models. Consult with Alicia for further details.

We need people to begin helping us collect objects for several sets and forest settings and also one person to volunteer for the overall coordination of the collection of these objects for their final transportation to our storage.

Psychonauts - Minimum Staff needed on-site (8 hour-shifts)

Dividing the event between 6 managers and the two of us (Alicia & Sergio)

• One person managing security and front door. (Distributing event programs).

• One person managing bathrooms and parking. Plus two helpers during main hours.

• One person managing coffee shop and banquettes. Plus two helpers during main hours.

• One person managing main stage for performances and Dj’s, plus two helpers during main hours.

• One person managing second stage (probably question Mark stage) for Open Mic, plus two helpers during main hours.

• One person managing workshop’s schedule happening. (We can use first and second stage for workshops also), plus two helpers during main hours.

There are other areas that will need management at certain times like the Movie Theatre, the Mandala Dome and the Another Way of Juggling spot.

As the project develops we’ll add more positions as needed.

 

Aquarelle Meeting #1

(Friday February 28, 2006)

Aquarelle Meeting Topics
Psychonauts’ Production

Performers
Circo Performances
Cover & Uncover the Body
Opening Procession
Loose Archetypes
Independent Performances
Rochelle Fabb
Gaultier Artists
Vlad Levitanski
Magicians and Mentalists from Magic Castle

Workshop Instructors
Yoland Trevino
Fire Star
Care
Jackie Chroniss
Silvia Askenazi
Alissa Simon & Sam Miller
Mandala Workshop

Production
Event Production Team
Advertising Campaign
Street Poster Campaign
Tickets
Event Program
Main Program Script
Logistics
Gate & Event Security
Porta Potties
Traffic
Power
Trash
Food Stand
Artist Quarters

Set Technicians
Set Design
Props
Sets
Trapeze Dress (curtain fabric, trapeze, rope, cute dress, calico effect
Empty Frame Garden (wood, easels)
Tea House (children furniture and tea objects)
Forest Bedroom (oversize bedroom with linen & pillows)
Forest Libraries (books, old bookcases, pillows, carpets)
Question Mark Set (Wire, Paper Mache, Lighting)
Record Player Set (old record player, old coffee table with scotch glasses
Candy Spot (floating translucent furniture & oversize candies)
A New Way of Juggling Spot (table, chair, sign, juggling objects, photog.
City of Symbols Spot (collected & found objects)
Tiffany Trenda Spot (to be defined)
Vlad Levitanski “Office” (could be foldable mabou mines stage)
Mabou Mines Foldable House Set (painted foldable stage.)
Circus Structures (tubing, fabrics, wire rooftops, anchoring)
Tubular Wind Chimes (metal pipes pre-cut to size for proper tone)
Word Balloon Setting (helium balloons and string)
Magic Forest Setting (furniture objects scattered thru venue)

Stage Set Up
Volunteer Labor
Paid last-minute Labor

Lighting
Audio
Video