The Concrete Rituals Events

To the Danger Makers,
You are invited to join The Concrete Rituals.
http://www.concreterituals.com

You probably already know this, but we're fucked. It's not
the type of fucked that can be fixed by voting, blogging,
protesting, donating, or drinking until delirious. We've
tried all that. We're still fucked. This goes deeper.

Our nation is cursed.

It all became clear after the second hurricane hit, after
the second war erupted, after the second tower fell. It all
became clear in the path of the H2, in the glare of the
Jackson trial, in the face of the new Pope. It all became
clear in the seconds after the second election. We are a
nation crumbling under the curse of fiasco. Despite many
attempts to turn it around we continue to fail fantastically.
So now it's time to try something wildly different.

Welcome to the Concrete Rituals.

From Halloween Night to Fat Tuesday we will be hosting one
hundred twenty one nights of art, ritual and wild abandon to
lift the fiasco from this cursed nation. These rituals will
be tiny and vast, sincere and preposterous, beautiful and
drastic and all in the streets. Anyone can create a ritual
and we hope everyone will.

This is how we save ourselves.

The start of this is obvious. Halloween. New York City. A
Renegade Parade. A night of fire and brimstone and
elaborate walking effigies. We bring the battling tribes,
brown-bag-liquor, big brass bands and back-pack stereos.
You bring the nefarious energy, your elaborate costume and
others like you.

Our first ritual will be:
The Ash Masquerade, October 31st

This is not just a party, or a passive night of performance
watching. You are invited to be with us, in the NYC
Halloween parade and on to an undisclosed after-location.
You are the artstar and the street is your stage.

For the artist call see:
http://www.concreterituals.com

To parade with us come to our artist meeting where we will
go over the plan of action, performance aspects, costumes
and the big surprise at the end. This is less a meeting and
more of a pre-performance party.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience.

Come to:
Bar Thirteen : 35 East 13th St. @ University Place
Wednesday, October 26th : 7pm to 9pm

Come late if you need to.
Two for one drink specials, just for us.


More details on this project will be posted next week.
You are the danger makers and this is your era.

Tags:   artists, costumes, halloween nyc, masquerade, performance party

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Posted on 10/24/2005 ( Permanent Link )
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