Alchemy 2019 Pocket Guide Contents Important Notice ................................................................................................................................ ................................... 2 Are you bored? ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Stages ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Camp Guide ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Things to See ....................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Things to Do ......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 1 | P a g e This Guide, like so many other parts of our event, would not be possible without the communal effort of many participants, both past and present, and it is from their collective wisdom that this Guide was created and offered to you. Important Notice The river is out of bounds at the event. This is at the request of the county fire department as they do not possess rescue services in the event of an accident. There is a zero-tolerance policy for crossing the event boundary and doing so will result in immediate ejection from the event. Are you bored? Read this. If you’re still bored, it’s your own fault. Immediacy. Participation. Go try them! Check out this guide for all the places you can go, all the things you can see, and all the things you can do while you enjoy the magic of Alchemy. Except the river. You can’t go there or do that. You can look at it. Stay out of it. Seriously. 2 | P a g e STAGES Here are some places to go show off a little! Make sure you read the descriptions to see what kind of show-offs the stage likes, and when it likes them. optimal environment for you to show 3 Old Men Camp NO CAMPING us what you're all about! 118 Temple Loop 301 Crosstown Serenity: Firefly Base Camp 3 Old Men welcomes musicians of all Stage Name: kind to stop by and play, especially PERFORMING PROHIBITED 551 High Street during the rituals. Serenity Live Music Performance Space Invitation: Join in on a variety of Bizarre Bazaar, The Camp This is Art.... Get it? scheduled and/or impromptu 539 High Street engagements such as live music, stand- 549 High Street We have a 30 ft diameter circle for fire up comedy, and fashion shows. We will have a lit fire spinning ring performers and a DJ booth as part of Symptoms may include spontaneous Forward Operating BassCamp the Spectral Subverse. evocation and radical self expression. All performers are welcome to Void where prohibited. See stage for 205 Access Road showcase their skill in the "Subverse details. Bass Stage West. Inviting DJs who want Fire Circle" big wubs to fill unscheduled time slots Camp Called By The Fire *please bring fuel if you can! :) all evenings of the burn. 619 Downtown Ave Circus Combustus Third Floor Society Presents: The Called By The Fire Flow Space - Come 525 High Street spin fire to heavy metal with us! Too Late Show with Dr. We will have performance space but Beelzebub Crow, The Business Casual we are putting on a show 625 Downtown Ave 306 Crosstown Psytrance Fucking Sucks The stage at our camp is collapsible The Briefing Area (bring your own short 12x5x6 ""structure"" consisting out of 617 Downtown Ave story/poem/song, etc) lighting, a couch, and a table. These Our sound camp will feature semi-open Dragon's Den, The can be deconstructed and put in a sign up for DJ sets throughout the wagon to take around the burn. entire weekend (24 hours of sound). If 517 High Street you or someone you know would like RHYTHMN ON FIRE ---The Dragon's Den Zoltar's Odditorium And Wishing to play at the Psytrance Meme is bringing you the first ever physical Post Machine, please fill out the form manifestation of the global, lifetime 403 The Connector below! Psychedelic music at night and movement founded by Rhythmn Sin to Zoltar's Sideshow -- Can you tell multi-genre during daylight hours. bring the vision of Christ consciousness fortunes, belly dance, play with fire, or (unconditional love energy) into any perform cool tricks? Do you have a and all spaces through circus arts, snazzy outfit and would you like to be sacred sensual and medicinal healing, Zoltar for an hour or two. and political revolution... and most importantly, the childlike wonder of discord1a magick and fairytales. We will have a 623 Downtown Ave large jam-style fire circle and a dance Rubaiyat Stage: Bring instruments floor with pole and platforms. Contact and play Rhythmn Sin to organize presenting your own showcase for any performance art or to join Rhythmn On Fire's collaborative fire show. I want you to help me help you create the 3 | P a g e CAMP GUIDE In no particular order. That’s a lie. They’re in alphabetical order. contemplation and discussion before default-burn through spontaneous 3 Old Men and after participation. happenings which transmute us all 118 Temple Loop from individuals into something greater 3rd Aid Wellness/Spiritual and weirder. We want to expand 211 Access Road The focus is a 4-path labyrinth of fabric consciousness to envision a world and tent stakes, an octagon 40 feet in Adults, Wellness/Spiritual, Chill without work, without rulers, and to diameter with a 10 foot ritual space We run several massage tables and make the counterculture dangerous around it. Based on a 15th-century have basic medical bits on hand for any again so we can be safe together. design, it has four outer entrances and action hippies in need of repair Alcoholic Alliterators four entrances to the center, therefore throughout the event. Please keep in 207 Access Road participants are able to choose their mind that our availability may vary exit as well as their entrance. depending on human factors [this shit's Booze, Adults hard work and we are all volunteers]. We are the Alcoholic Alliterators. The labyrinth is open for One way or another our tables and oil Accurately accentuating acts of exploration/meditation 24/7, but are open for anyone to use so if you'd awesome, We willfully welcome weary several times a day the 3 Old Men like to swing by and hang out or make wanderers from near and far to come perform their ritual: they strip, apply use of our space feel free. Welcome to and convene with us for comradery white kaolin to their bodies, and walk Third Aid, un-fuck your burn. and convoluted collaborations of the labyrinth themselves to their colorful consonants. We shall also Have AAAE - Assistant Animal Auditory appointed space. There they don their a bar, full of secretly skillful sipping- ritual skirts and take up their staves. Enablers liquids, run by the Whiskey Wizard ! 519 High Street Where you can come and bring the The 3 Old Men—the officiants—then Wellness/Spiritual, Chill commutative calamity of colorful stand at three of the four entrances of conversations. Representing all the overworked, the labyrinth. Each officiant offers a unappreciated and underpaid animals Alpalcalypse Now different gesture/agon to an exiting in the burner world! Burner (who need not accept it): 144 Temple Loop ABC Adults, Chill • bless the participant 209 Access Road A group of burners patiently waiting • ask to be blessed by the participant Sound/Party, Adults the Llamagheddon... Possibly playing • offer to struggle with the participant yard games Back for a most triumphant return to At the fourth entrance there is no the most bodacious of events so put BDE agon, i.e., no blessing and no struggle. your dance shoes on, be excellent to 401 The Connector each other and party on! Food, Adults, Chill, Dick shenanigans In the center is a temple bell and an Acid-Communist Guerilla Training BDE is the way in which we come to altar, upon which Burners may leave or Camp take items that are meaningful to love ourselves. Whether you have an them. 611 Downtown Ave innie or an outie, it's all about Food, Kids, Adults, Wellness/Spiritual, unleashing your inner awesomeness. Each path to BDE is different. Our BDE We leave the meaning of this Chill, Experimental / Political experience open for each participant. is as it should be. BDE has no gender. Acid-Communist Guerilla Training We welcome the participation of Only we can find our BDE. We come to Camp is an experiment in autonomous drummers and other musicians in times in our lives when we are tested-- intervention which aims to abolish the support of the participants’ journeys. our BDE will get us through. BDE is our default world entirely, and disrupt the We also provide a space for 4 | P a g e teacher. We stay true to our BDE. Self Broken Drum! Filled with heroes and Bringing to you sweetness for your love is the greatest love. Camp BDE! deviants alike, we keep the beer soul~ Arrive around sunrise for a fresh flowing in our comfy neighborhood flower crown, made by our hands right What we do: strap-on sword fighting, pub. Just watch out for the wizards, on site, and get a tarot reading to go booty battles, LED art, hair braiding, they tend to get rowdy and set things with it. Arrive in the afternoon for (real fun interactive games and activities, on fire...we also plan to have our or faux) cocktails made with tropical and Cooking with BDE: soup on Friday, costume shop, Damsel in Dis Dress! fruits from our Florida garden. Arrive in goldfish burgers on Saturday, and the evening for screenings of Miyazaki Brownie Brothel bacon/cheese quesadillas Sunday movies. You are welcome to chill in our morning. 404 The Connector space and refresh your soul. Food, Kids, Adults Camp Bards & Nobles Important to our camp: solar and ""Fuck your waistline,"" call the 107 Temple Loop renewable energy resources, following denizens of the Brownie Brothel, the 10 principles.