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Sending Out A Special Message from Us to All of You...
(Thank You's, Props, and Lots of Love for Everyone Involved in Symbiosis Gathering 2006)
Maybe we are biased... Maybe we just really like going out to the middle of nowhere with our friends and listening to very loud music... Maybe, since we were involved, attachment blurs our feelings...
Whatever... This was some of the sickest shit ever...
We sincerely want to thank everyone that came out and showed support. Symbiosis proved to be a potent reference point for a great many people.
The decorations were in a class by themselves, thanks to Adam CyberQuest, Rob, Jessie, and Mr. Hyde from Cosmosis, and thanks to Tony for getting the flags (they really tied the room together). Thanks to Katya for making the Porch stage a comfortable and intimate gathering place. Thanks to Josh for building the foundation upon which the music was based upon (the stage, of course).
The sound work was super pro thanks to Pascal, Guthrie, the Turbo sound people, and all the other folks who were working behind the scenes... Thanks especially to Dave Abel for heading up the Radiant Atmosphere & Coil lighting crew and doing things that I have no clue about. The lights were amazing. Thanks to Naasko and Jervais for managing the stages... To Tim Tryptamine for an assortment of technical knowledge, and thanks to Dylan BLVD for going above and beyond the call of duty for a drummer... Thanks to Danny for sourcing all kinds of amazing artists.
Give it up to the parking crew, who enabled all of those folks to fit in a relatively small space... Icarus... You know who I'm talking about... Thanks to Trevor Greensector for his long drives, time, energy, ideas, and inspiration... Thanks to Eric for his work on the gate, thanks to the In-Tickets crew for being the guardians of the threshold... (and thanks for walking into the woods because these are the stories that great events are built on.)
Thanks to Zoriaan for disarming a potentially dangerous situation and bringing our neighbors into the fold. Thanks to edIT for helping mobilize the troops. Thanks to Pablo, Paul Psynthetic, Lisa, Tarek, and all our other rockstar chauffers. Thanks to Adrianna, Griffey, and Ben for helping set up and teaching us how to fix oilpans. Thanks to Jeff Wood for a phenomenal poster.
Thanks to the bands, DJs and producers (and puppets) that raged a top notch sound system immersing the land and people with sound therapy and collective vibration. Thanks to the speakers for knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration. Much respect and thanks to Gabriel, Chlorophil, and the other 'TBA' and 'standby!' musicians who helped us transform moments of chaos into blissful surprises.
Thanks to the Mia for all the little things, thanks to Matty just because, and to all the permaculture instructors and students for raising the bar, pushing the envelope, and redefining what a gathering can be... and whoever made that sign on the road that said "Breathe." Thanks Famer Dave for inspiring,activating, identifying and solving.
Thanks to Nikos for holding down the movie dome and capturing some footage for posterity... Thanks to Roman and Jen from Tribe 13 for catalyzing the art gallery and making the forest come alive with some visionary journey-space... Thanks to Kris D and J Garcia for the live art. Thanks to JacobEye and Boris Videolicious for mashing holes in the space time continuum (where are we again?)... And thanks to everyone who shared their photos online. We were too busy to take many ourselves.
Thanks to Lynx and friends for reflecting our spiritual nature in the Equinox Ritual, and to Veronica and the Healing Angels in the 'Shanti' Space... Thanks to Phoenix Rising for their mesmerizing relationship to fire, and thanks to Pure Cirkus for the painted faces, juggling balls, and general horseplay.
Thanks to Jared and Adam for putting on phenomenal exhibitions of highly technical glass blowing, and thanks to Jared's mom for feeding amazing dinners to the rest of the vendors, staff, and everyone else who came within 20 feet of her. Thanks to William for piloting the fire truck and negotiating our water situation and special thanks to Goldilox, the last DJ on the grounds (quite literally) for her extensive and intimate knowledge and efforts towards recycling.
Thanks to the volunteers and staff who helped us pull off a helluva party, thanks to the control center for guiding us to our missions and being ambassadors for our tribe, thanks to the Symbiosis Six for bringing the thunder... and thank God for Sundays...
Next year is gonna be crazy...
In the words of Hunter S. Thompson: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..."
With love,
The Symbiosis Six
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Kevin
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posted 10/04/06
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