Twan’s List

Lightning in a Bottle is On!
Fabulously Fun Festival in the Forest

Friday thru Monday
May 23, 24, 25, 26, 2008

As of today, as in NOW, Lightning in a Bottle has opened her sexy gates. If you know what’s good for you, this is where you’ll be. Visit the Lightning in a Bottle website for all the details.

Lightning in a Bottle Gate Schedule:

• Friday May 23 - Gate opens at 7am and closes at 2am
• Saturday May 24 - Gate opens at 7am and closes at 2am
• Sunday May 25 - Gate opens at 7am and closes at 8pm
• Monday May 26 - No Entry.

SHUTTLES

There will be shuttles running to help take you and your camping equipment from the parking lot to the campgrounds. See LiB website for shuttle schedule

Music and Live Entertainment

The stages will be live and in effect starting on Friday from 3pm till midnight, and from around 10am to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. Three whole days! After midnight expect special surprises, acoustic jam sessions and other fun stuff to carry the festival through the night. And there’s no need to dash out on Monday. The gates close Tuesday at noon, so you’re free to stick around ’til then and enjoy the forest!

LiB Camping Info

Camping for the entire event is included in the weekend pass ticket price. There will be plenty of space in the grass and under the trees for setting up your campsite. There is no camping for day passes.

Lockers

Keep your stuff safe! For your convenience and for the safety of your valuables, there will be lockers available to rent at LIB.

Vehicle Camping at LiB

There is a very limited amount of vehicle camping space available on the festival grounds. If you want to camp with your vehicle, you will need to have purchased a car camping pass, which are now sold out. For those not camping with their vehicle, there will be bio-diesel shuttles to drive you and your camping gear into the site.

RV Camping

A limited amount of RV camping is available for $75 per RV. All RV’s must purchase passes in advance through our online ticketing page starting April 2nd. RV passes are now sold out! If you haven’t already purchased an RV camping pass, please leave your RV at home. We will have limited space in the parking lots and RV camping will not be available in these or any other areas without an RV camping pass.

Parking at Lightning in a Bottle

We will have secure parking near the festival entrance for your vehicles and you will be able to access them throughout the duration of the event. Parking in the general lot is free.

Lightning in a Bottle 2008 Workshop Info

Workshops are FREE throughout the weekend!

Vending

Our vending village is located at the center of the festival grounds and offers a wide variety of community made goods including clothing, jewelry, hula hoops and more. It’s much better than your daily trip to the mall, so take advantage of the opportunity and get some of the best goods of the year. Some old food vending favorites and a handful of new ones will be preparing meals for us at LIB this year. You can expect a wide variety of organic vegetarian food choices to enjoy throughout the festival. 3 meals a day, consider it covered!

• This is an all ages event, anyone under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

• Underage drinking and illegal drug use is NOT permitted! Non-compliance with this could jeopardize the future of LIB.

• Amplified sound is not permitted in camping areas! Please leave your sound systems at home.

• Dogs and other pets are NOT allowed. If you show up with a dog, you will not be admitted into the event. Elephants and giraffes are ok.

• LIB is STRONGLY encouraging pre-cycled trash and pack-it-in/pack-it-out practices for the weekend. Less trash really does equal more fun!

• Since there are no lifeguards on duty and there is also a no-drowning rule at LIB, absolutely NO ONE is allowed in the river! Individuals caught in the river may be fined by the rangers on site and could jeopardize LIB’s ability to use the location in the future.

• LIB guests with allergies (and those without) should be aware that there are bees, wasps, poison oak, and the occasional rattlesnake at the location.

Have fun! See you at Lightning in a Bottle!

ArtMonastery.org Fundraiser

In Support of
International Art

Come out on Sunday, April 6th to lend your support for an amazing project championing international art in its many varied manifestations.

The Art Monastery Project, based just outside of Rome, Italy, is a project worthy of your time, money and passion.

The Art Monastery was founded by local artists, musicians, and performers living overseas the past few years.

Exciting details at the Art Monastery website.

When:
Sunday April 6th

Time:
between 3:00pm and 5:00pm

Where:
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd.

Donation Suggestions:
$20 Suggested donation
$40 Patron’s donation

Silent Auction of
Art and Culture

Great music that will captivate, mesmerise, and move your soul! Brought to your happy eardrums by beautiful divas with angelic voices.

Classical Concert

Classical Concert featuring Beautiful and Inspiring Divas:

• Moira Smiley
• Kristen Toedtman
• Kerry Walsh

The Burning Man Opera Connection

Christopher Fulling, one of the founding directors of the Art Monastery, and Twan have a history in that they were both involved with the Burning Man Opera, which was a major event at the Burning Man Festival from 1997 through 2002. Christopher served under master artist and sage Pepe Ozan as director, co-writer and co-producer, and Twan as co-producer. Visit the Burning Man Opera website for the history of this amazing (and sorely missed) experiment of cooperative art, community participation, and multi-composer musical scores… and a cast of thousands!

CuriousJosh.com presents

THE PIRATE PARTY!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 16th.

Optional Dinner Reservation Seating (see below!)

Featuring a special all original Pirate Themed show by

THE MUTAYTOR

with

• OSCURE
• SAMMY BLISS
• MARK ZABALA

7pm Happy Hour - Quaff $2 Pirate Pabsts with

• DARKMATTER

8pm Pirate (and Ninja?) Burlesque with the

• HELLS BELLES DANCERS

* Ride the Prometheatrics Hypercube Crow’s Nest!
* Pirate Floggings by the Red Light District *
* Talk Like a Pirate Contest, with Prizes! *
* visuals by eyePscience

TABLE RESERVATIONS and DINNER available in advance.
So do you get hungry like a Pirate? Do you like Burlesque? Have Dinner during the Pirate Burlesque Show!

Only $12.50 additional per ticket, in advance.
A Dinner Entree and Salad comes with each Seat Reservation.
Vegetarian and Vegan options available

ONLY 45 TABLE SEATS ARE AVAILABLE ON FLOOR
Pirates are grabbing them up, make sure to get one!
You can come see the Burlesque without a reservation, but you gotta stand!

Can you say aaaaaargh? Can you act like a swashbuckler? Or maybe you just like flirting with all the Pirate Folk!

Then come on down and get your Pirate on!

I’ve got my eyepatch and poofy shirt… how about you? hmmn… or maybe you’ve got some other kind of special stealth outfit from the Orient… I hear there are some Ninjas in these parts!

Curious Josh

FIRST 30 TICKET PRE-SALES ARE ONLY $13.50!
$15 presale available at www.curiousjosh.com
$20 at the dock (aaargh, I mean door!)

Park for free (after 7pm) in Safari-Sams HUGE 160 space parking lot.
Valet is only $5 after the lot is full.

FireSpinners… BRING YOUR GLOW TOYS
The stage will be open for 5 minute spin sets during DJ sets
Oh, c’mon…. you know we’ll do something like this if a firespinner throws a party

at Safari-Sams
5214 w. Sunset Blvd (3 blocks east of Western)
7pm to 2am

Kerry Walsh, Soprano

With Guest Baritone Eric Castro

In Benefit Performances for the Art Monastery Project

• 3:00 pm Saturday and Sunday,
• November 10th and 11th
• Suggested donation 40$
• Reception following performance

Performance given in a beautiful Coldwater Canyon home:

3710 Alta Mesa Place
Studio City CA 91604
(see map below)

RSVP (305) 778-1264
kerry@kerrywalsh.net

Parking is extremely limited, please call ahead of time

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Nov. 2 Day of the Dead 3-D Teslathon

6:30 pm to 9 pm
UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Tesla coils, UV lights, and fire.

50 science exhibits on Tesla, light, electricity, fire, 3-D and more.

Wearable light art, day glo, el wire, encouraged.

There will be a special Burning Man in 3-D show.

Contact me before Fri. at msimon@physics.ucla.edu to attend the 3-D Burning Man show and I’ll give you the details.

Up to date information at
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/dod/