We will be back for the 3rd year in the row at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore, MD this weekend.
www.virginmobilefestival.com/#/home/
They cut their budget, so we scaled things down a bit and will just be performing with 4 fire dancers for a 30 minute show each night at 9PM. We will be on a fenced platform stage between the north and south stages (closer to the north/main side) next to a 25 foot fire sculpture so we shouldn't be too hard to find. The good news is they also subsidi... read more

Many of you know that my life is in total chaos right now. My daughter is leaving for college, I'm moving out of my house in two weeks, I will be homeless when I return from the Playa, and I don't even know exactly where I want to move to start my new life. Not the most logical way to do things, but it seems that I need to extricate myself from this life (though there are many people here I don't want to leave) in order to even begin to look for a new one. Call it a leap of faith -- or may... read more

okay, I visited Kaihea yesterday and she's very sick. The hospital room was so sterile (except for her best stuffed Panda friend and a wonderful giant smiley faced flower balloon). I've been racking my brain about what to do to bring some of our spirit and love into that space. I asked Manko about a quilt and heard that the belly dancers made a special one already. Today, I got to thinking about scarves. Each of us could get or give a beautiful one that we could then pin on a line which ... read more

Thursday, July 17th, 2008
THE WEIRDO SHOW
9:00 PM
Price: $10
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up for The Weirdo Show, the world-famous Congress of Curious Peoples, DC's own variety show featuring weird, strange, unbelievable freaks, wonders and curiosities, as well as the best in Burlesque, Vaudeville, Dance, Circus, Sideshow and Variety arts. So hurry hurry, you won’t want to miss a single moment of our astounding assortment of aberrations of nature and culture! You... read more

Thanks to Lorne's web hosting generosity, our 2008 Conclave Application video is now available online. As many of you know, it is a rush job at the end to get the video submitted by July 1st. Thanks so much to Wil and Sherri for all of their work and sacrifices to get this film edited during crunch week. It will be even more dramatic when all of the performers are together on the playa so there can be flowing transitions between the segments with the lighted fire tools. I do think it capt... read more