2 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 3 ISSUE NO. 03 FESTIVAL GUIDE CONTENTS GET TO KNOW US! CALENDAR: FESTIVAL FIRE is a central hearthfire, a source of news and inspiration serving the transformational JANUARY ...................................16 festival community. Follow our blog, watch our calendars for upcoming events, get dressed for fest in FEBRUARY & MARCH............28 our store and enjoy our digital publications – packed APRIL ........................................29 with photos, interviews and important dates! MAY.......................................30-31 “Transformational Festival” refers to cultural JUNE ...................................44-47 transformation or the re-invention of humanity on earth. These are not your ordinary music events. J U LY.....................................48-54 We are building a culture of caring - for each AUGUST........................54,64-65 other, ourselves, our neighbors, our planet. These gatherings are collaborative open-sourced villages, SEPTEMBER ......................66-67 devoted to experimentation and inspired co-creation OCT / NOV / DEC ..................67 of the world we want to live in. And we believe that YOU, that everyone, has gifts to bring to the feast! FLOW ARTS .......................68-75 PUBLICATIONS FEATURES: www.FestivalFire.com/festival-guide JEDI RISING ........................................18-26 SHOP FESTIVAL FIRE ELECTRONIC AWAKENING .......32-40 www.ShopFestivalFire.com FINDING OUR CONNECTION ...56-60 OUR BLOG www.FestivalFire.com CREDITS: NEWSLETTER www.FestivalFire.com/subscribe Thank you to our amazing photographers, Kyer Wiltshire, FACEBOOK Jazzwall Sharad, and Zipporah www.Facebook.com/festivalfire Lomax, our work would not be possible without your immense SERVICES talent and great generosity. www.FestivalFire.com/services 4 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 5 SHAMANISM Explore. Learn. Discover. HEALING • RITUAL • JOURNEY • CEREMONY • PILGRIMAGE w o r l d r e n o w n e d s h a m a n & h e a l e r www.SHAMANISM.com 6 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 7 WELCOME BACK! Are you ready for another stellar year in transformational festivals? And This year we’ve got a BONUS SURPRISE for you! what a year ahead! The East Coast has exploded with more than half a We collaborated with your favorite artists from fests dozen new events, and others are popping up across the Midwest. We had and put together a second flipbook, called more than twice as many fests to squeeze into the Guide this year, and had to cut anything outside of North America, just so you could download it! THE FESTIVAL MUSIC SPECTACULAR! The movement is growing like crazy - if there’s an event you want to be at, get your tickets early – many are selling out. Be sure to watch our posts for early release dates. Inside these pages, you’ll meet JEDIRISING, a fresh new theater troupe combining dance, music, fire spinning, flow arts, storytelling and lots more. (page 18) We also look into ELECTRONIC AWAKENING, an exciting film telling the story of our move from Rave dance floors to outdoor weekend gatherings; read our interview with film maker Andrew Johner. (page 42) And once again ELLIOT RASENICK, founder of Beloved Festival, shares his deep inspiration in Finding Our Connection. (page 66) Enjoy the pages ahead my friend, and may your adventures be many. This year, you’ll see more color, more flavor, more art, more music, and more workshops than ever before. The weather report says it’s going to be the hottest year on record, so pack plenty of sunscreen, a wide brimmed hat and your refillable water bottles…and take good care of each other! to get your Have a fantastic 2015! BONUS GIFT! Saphir Lewis It’s filled with free track downloads...hours and As you navigate this guide, remember to CLICK! All Links in the Ads and Articles are Clickable. hours of music. A little bonus gift to follow your Festival Guide. Enjoy! 8 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 9 10 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 11 Reuben Smith and David Pricco photo by Jazzwall 12 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 13 SECTION TITLE HERE’S TO THE FESTIVAL PRODUCERS by Wesley Wolfbear Pinkham, October 2014 Here’s to the Festival Producers, splayed out on a couch at 2PM on a Saturday afternoon. Though the music thumps from just beyond the trailer, the need for sleep reigns supreme. Here’s to the Festival Producers, reminding one another that you have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. Still, stretching themselves to the brink of exhaustion, sleeping with one lucid ear listening to the chitter chatter on walkie talkie squackboxes. Here’s to the Festival Producers, stewards of land and guardians of initation. In celebration and ceremony, they stand at attention around spires of flame, at box office gates, at information booths, reverential with obligation. Here’s to the Festival Producers, engaged but not engulfed in emotional readiness, never completely consumed by the swirling energies, always grounding, grounding, grounding and searching for consensus. Here’s to the Festival Producers, the first on-site and the last to go to bed on Sunday night, when the magnitude of success and failure come rumbling through backstage. For those few sets that you catch, for those few dance moves which burst from your tired limbs with singularity and expression. For those moments where time stands stills and the glowing crowd, unaware of so much sacrifice, gives off the deepest expressions of gratitude to no one and everyone at once. Here’s to the Festival Producers, golf carts stuck in mud! Here’s to the Festival Producers, plumbers and electricians none! But you are today! You have leveled up so long as you have not become submerged in slosh or shocked! Here’s to the Festival Producers, for today you have been a Parking Attendant, Healer, Cook, Negotiator, Security Guard, Sound Tech, Janitor, Volunteer Coordinator, Vendor, Artist, Flow Master, Jedi and Trembling Scared Up To Your Neck Tears Streaming From Every Pore While You Make The Hardest Call Of Your Life That Only You Can Make. All before 11:00 AM and you didn’t even have time for coffee. Here’s to the Festival Producers, champions of sleep deprivation, self-flagellating with responsibility and somehow sustaining a sacred vessel capable of modeling a new future of community and creativity. Here’s to the Festival Producers, who, when the morning light comes streaming in, get up and do it again. 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Be part of a global eco-conscious movement that is shaping our future and experience the beauty of the landscape, healing undertones, artistic expression, and the “Pura Vida!” way of life. envisionfestival.com Oregon Country Fair photo by Kyer Wiltshire Envision Festival photo by Kyer Wiltshire 16 | FESTIVAL GUIDE festivalfire.com | 17 SAPHIR: I know very little of your history, piece that is directed at the individualized INTERVIEW / JEDIRISING / BY SAPHIR LEWIS let’s start at the beginning? soul, teaching him about their element. (Earth-Benjamin Moss, Air-Ashley Keith, DYLAN: From the beginning...I’m a Fire- Mark Wolfe, Water-Ivy Elwyn) The performer (hoop dancer) and I’ve been Air Dance is an aerial silk piece. The fire doing that for about 3 years. I started to get dance is our Fire God with a double dragon the notion that I wanted to do something staff. Then the Water Dance which includes greater than just myself. So I spent about dancing with giant bubbles. We created 2 - 3 months meditating, spending time in characters for the music, even down to the the woods, really focusing and channeling instrumentation. We sampled splashing a statement of intention. After 3 months of water against the shower and used it as the doing that, I came out of the woods, and snare. Every element was integrated into went to a New Year’s Eve party where I met each act and piece. BuddhaBee (aka BlondeOnyx), who makes electronic music. That was the beginning. It From that moment it culminates, as the was the Explosion of JediRising. Shaman, acting as the midwife, says, “Now you’re grounded in the four elements. BUDDHABEE: At the same time, I had seen You’re grounded in time and space.” traveling musician troupes like Liberation Movement; powerful clusters of people And then the Shaman introduces the who came together to create a larger Magickal elements. performance with a message. Rather than one super star creator, they were a whole DYLAN: There is also the understanding constellation of super stars. We each had of the masculine and feminine duality, the that inspiration and then we met, shared ability for us to hold both in our being. ideas, and birthed the entire thing. The story line just came through to us. BUDDHABEE: The Shaman can impart into you anything you need to know, without meet The first incarnation became our 2014 using so many words, using the art of performance, (which will be reborn and dance. Teaching the lessons, perhaps he Bliss Camp re-molded into several different story lines moves in this one way that makes you think JEDIRISING photo by Kyer Wiltshire for 2015).