2010 What Where When that’s what’s up The Philadelphia Experiment is an informal non-profit arts & culture organization intent on fostering creative expression Hafiz: All the Hemispheres and civic engagement. Through participatory events and Leave the familiar for a while. community service initiatives we open doors of collective Let your senses and bodies stretch out opportunity to help drive positive change in the world. Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Table of Contents Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving General information 4 Upon our intimate assembly. 5 PARTICIPATION & Leave no Trace Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Workshop descriptions & Times 6 Lie beside an equator In your heart. 17 theme camps Greet Yourself In your thousand other forms 18-19 Map As you mount the hidden tide and travel Back home. 20 LIVE Performance descriptions & Times All the hemispheres in heaven Art installations 24 Are sitting around a fire Chatting 27 Scheduled events While stitching themselves together Into the Great Circle inside of Master Schedule 29 You. The Philadelphia Experiment Summer Festival 2010 3 General Information Gate Gate will be open 24 hours a day during the duration of the event. Everyone must be off the property by Monday noon. Upon entry, all guests will be required to register and receive a wristband, which must be worn AT ALL TIMES throughout the duration of the event. Ins and outs are strongly discouraged. In the case of emergency a re-entry pass will be issued for $25 per vehicle. Everyone must be off the property on Monday by 3pm. Fires Do not light fires on bare ground or dig pits, leaving scars. Please use a burn barrel or burn platform. Burn only clean untreated wood or paper (nothing synthetic.) Jung 2009 Daniel PEXSF Make sure you have a fire extinguisher properly placed where everyone can access it. ABSOLUTELY NO FIRES ON THE GROUND. Participation Swimming A Lifeguard will be on duty at the pool during the daytime. There is NO We are honored to have the contributions of such an amazing and multi-talented group swimming in unsupervised waters. of energetic people at our events. YOU have been the reason PEX has been able to do Camp Stoves & Barbecues Camp stoves and barbecues are allowed in your so much with so little. We know that every moment of time, every bit of energy, that is camping areas, but please use extreme caution and be responsible. Always make sure contributed will aid in fostering the mission of PEX as we construct events that nurture your stove is in an area which is clear of dry grass and brush, and never leave a stove the evolution of the human spirit. unattended while it is burning. If you are using a camp stove, make sure you have a fire We would like to thank all of our friends, family, and community that have supported us extinguisher properly placed where everyone can access it. over the years. Especially the hard working team that has worked for months to make all of this possible. We also like to send a special thank you to all of the participating artists, Fireworks Absolutely no fireworks, firearms, rockets, or other explosives are allowed. performers, musicians, speakers, teachers, volunteers and YOU. You are all helping create If you are caught using any of the aforementioned, you will be asked to leave the event. a place where knowledge, freedom and celebration come together as one. Meal Plan All meals will be served in the dining hall along with iced tea, juices, teas and coffee. A full salad bar and vegetarian entree will be available at each meal. The meal Much Love & Respect plan includes five meals: Friday Dinner, Saturday Brunch, Saturday BBQ Dinner, Sunday Brunch and Sunday Dinner. Meal times are: Brunch 11am-1pm & Dinner 6pm-8pm. There are also food vendors on site serving food 24 hours. Medical First Aid is available at the Medical Tent located on the Lawn of the White Leave No Trace House. In case of emergency, locate the closest Event Staff. Emergency Response Team is on call 24 hours during the event. The PEX Summer Festival is a leave no trace event. Our Ice & Water Ice is available for purchase at the Canteen located on the ground floor community respects the environment. We are committed to of the Pool House. Water can be located at spigots, water fountains and sinks on site. leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. Cabins No fire in or around the cabins. This includes smoking and incense burning. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, Please leave the cabins the way you found them. Leave no trace in the cabins. to leave such places in a better state than when we found If it doesn’t come from your body, it doesn’t go in the potty! Please, do not put trash in or around the port-o-potties. them. This includes the cabins, as well. Please, pick up trash as you go 4 PEX Summer Festival is a LEAVE NO TRACE EVENT! The Philadelphia Experiment Summer Festival 2010 5 FRIDAY Workshops various styles of dance, Acrobalance, hoops are incorporated. All levels welcome, Workshops Adagio Balance and Icarian Games. This hoops provided but feel free to bring your own. contemporary sport is very accessible and PEX Summer Festival strives to bring you the cutting edge of culture and thought. accommodates many body types. Acrobatic LAKE We are catering to the intellectual and imaginative desires of our community. For this Yoga highlights the strength, coordination, reason, we are hosting a variety of interactive workshops that will explore topics balance, flexibility, and range of motion that Beginner Contact Staff: Lucky unique to the interests of social and cultural evolution. the human body can attain. Partnering can Take your staff spinning to the world of occur in same sex and/or coed base and contact as we review core concepts of rolls, These workshops will be open to ALL attendees at no additional cost. We believe that promoting flyer roles. steves, stalls and whatever you can handle thought and education is an essential ingredient to the mission of PEX events. New participants are quickly inspired without using your thumbs. The class will to create new sequences and moves. give you a basic understanding of how Note: All workshops are rain or shine. Beginners and experienced athletes alike contact staff works and allow you to begin Please use the following alternate locations if it’s raining: observe positive results rapidly, making moving the staff across your body without Meadow Alternate Location: Rear of Gym | Lake Alternate Location: Front of Gym this sport very satisfying, and leaving the use of your hands. Beginners welcome. participants hungry for more. http://mo-de. Bringing a staff is recommended as they will be in limited supply. net/acrobaticyoga MEADOW FRIDAY ROADSIDE BY THE POOL Intro to Aerial Hoop: BARN 10:00 Stephanie Radia Hope Dragon Spirit Yoga™: Gabrielle: Monumental Welding: Dan Das Mann Dan Das Mann has been creating The aerial hoop (also known as This workshop will focus on performing a monumental sculpture around the world PAVILION the lyra, aerial ring or cerceau) is a circular combine series of still postures, moving for over 20 years. In this workshop, you will steel apparatus (resembling a hula hoop) meditations and breathing that places African Balafon and Song Workshop: learn how to mig weld. suspended from the ceiling, on which importance on the synchronization of Shawn Hennessey and Gina Ferrera one may perform aerial acrobatics in static mind, body and spirit through Taoist Yoga Learn how to play the mystical instrument positions or while swinging or spinning. techniques. The particular style of Dao Yin 2:00 from Africa… THE GYIL! This magical In this beginner workshop learn how to Lung Shen (“way of the dragon spirit“) instrument comes from the north of Ghana. mount the hoop, assume basic poses, and is a combination of classical Chi Kung & PAVILION It is a 14- keyed balafon (marimba) that you experience the freedom or swinging or Kundalini Yogic exercises. The roots of this play with mallets. You will learn about the spinning while suspended. No experience, practice lend itself to the traditions of Taoist The Ease Approach: Aron Heintz history of the instrument and how to play strength, or flexibility necessary, legends; associating particular Chinese This workshop is designed to develop one piece of traditional music. myths with animal spirits (Dragon, Tiger, your “approach skills,” how you present This workshop will be led by members of LAKE Monkey etc.), mystics (Monk, Warrior, yourself in a first encounter. Useful in Leana Song and The Gyil Fusion Project – Goddess etc.) the Five Elements found in dating, business, and social networking, Drumming Workshop: Carlos Izaguirre Shawn Hennessey and Gina Ferrera. They nature (Water, Metal, Fire, Wood & Earth). you will develop the ability to identify WHO will take 4-6 people per hour hour for two Born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised Principals of cultivating the balance of is approachable in a crowd and you will hours so that means space is extremely in Caracas, Venezuela, percussionist J. the body’s Yin & Yang energy are applied be trained in HOW to approach them that limited. We will run the workshop on two Carlos Izaguirre is a multi-talented artist to opening Chakras while awakening the guarantees a positive reception and opens different days..