Festival Culture, Indigenous Peoples and Collective Liberation
Electronic music and arts festivals offer a chance to model new cultural norms. But in spite of our best intentions, the gender,
race and class inequalities that underpin our society are often
reproduced at these events.
Evolver Talks at LIB
Evolver is proud to hosts a series of talks and workshops at the Lightening in a Bottle Festival this week in Temecula, CA.
The Headdress Thing – Festival Culture, Native Culture, and the Death of Culture
One topic that enjoys frequent and fervent percolations on FB is the issue of insensitivity and cultural appropriation in today's Transformational Festival culture where non-natives wear replicas of feathered Plains
Nations headdresses.
Remember to Bounce: Reflecting on Sonic Bloom
My experience at Sonic Bloom 2012 inspired me to examine the dreams and
feelings in the background of transformational festivals, the value of
psychedelics, and the controversial notion that we can control our own
reality.
Transformational Festivals Are a Symptom of Dissociation
I have dedicated years of my life to the aims and values of transformational festival culture. But I cannot feel the conversation is complete without acknowledging that the very existence of transformational festivals poses as much of a problem as a solution.
OM Vibrations – A Convergence in Longhorn Cavern
OM Vibrations is a yoga and music festival in Austin, Texas. Evolver Austin sat down with coordinators Rose and Jason Hahn to hear about it.
Artificial Paradises
To an outsider, Brazil may seem like an easygoing and morally loose
society. We do have, in some ways, an easy-going, openhearted
nature. But in truth, we have a profoundly moralistic ethos inherited
from our Roman Catholic colonization. It makes dealing with
the chaotic amorality of the rave scene's bacchanalia difficult.
Conscious Convergences: Festivals and Conferences
Reality Sandwich's guide to festivals, conferenes, and major events for the transformational community.
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RECOMMENDED EVENTS
JANUARY, 2013
A Letter from Australia: EGA, Lost Tribes and The Origins of Consciousness
Australia has a hugely vibrant psychedelic community. This island continent is steeped in shamanic tradition; it’s the spiritual home of the Dreamtime and the timeless dances practised by indigenous Australians to tell ancient stories, invoke spirits or send off a loved one.
Incendiary Person in the Desert Carnival Realm (A Burning Man Story)
I had come to the High Desert Carnival Realm with a magical agenda: to
ritualize the experience by associating the Incendiary Person with
aspects of myself that I wanted to transform, aspects I linked to
Thanatos, the death drive, so that the burning would parallel my intention to transcend.
