think local, act like you're at a festival - house party 2.0
Edit - so, evidently, I'm not able to make this happen. I am totally stoked that it's a good idea, and I'm going to try again next year.
Ok, here's an idea to run by you. It's essentially a festival made up of house parties, lasting for 4 days - Friday through til Monday, with the capacity for about 100-150 people.
Here's how it'll work:
Designate 4-5 mates' houses, all around Victoria Park, about 20-30 minutes walk apart from each other.
Each house is decked out like for a house party, but with an important difference - there is a designated sleeping area (e.g. tents out back or a few airbeds on the top floor, etc) and there is a designated food area (kitchen with some soup and bread).
The festival starts on Friday at noon. Get some clothes, maybe a sleeping bag in a pack, go to the main house, get your wristband. Woohoo! Festival time!
Rule 1: No going home until you leave the festival! Even if you live a couple of tube stops away!
Each of the 4 houses will be manned in some capacity for the whole festival.
Each night one of the houses will have a totally sick party, and one of the houses will have a chilled party e.g. acoustic gig.
If you want neither, you can go to one of the other 2 remaining houses, where people will be monging around in small numbers. You could shower,or perhaps have an early night.
That's it. Consider this the first pass at a manifesto for "urban fest summer 2007", or whatever it's called:
1. Re-imagine your home and local life as places where routine and drudgery aren't compulsary. This is important, because otherwise we start believing that home is boring and we have to spend money in flash clubs or go far away in order to have any real memorable fun.
2. If you think you're in a festival, if you're always within 20 minutes walk across the grass from somewhere with dancing, if you're surrounded by like-minded happy people with nothing to do, and no home for the next 3 days, then you ARE in a festival.
3. You don't have to have a loaded posh cousin with farmland to start your own festival. Yay!
We could theme the festival however we wanted - fancy dress like Bestival, or different themes for different houses - I have some ideas here.
What do you reckon guys? Up for it? I volounteer my house first, and put forward the August Bank Holiday weekend as a tentative date.
Ok, here's an idea to run by you. It's essentially a festival made up of house parties, lasting for 4 days - Friday through til Monday, with the capacity for about 100-150 people.
Here's how it'll work:
Designate 4-5 mates' houses, all around Victoria Park, about 20-30 minutes walk apart from each other.
Each house is decked out like for a house party, but with an important difference - there is a designated sleeping area (e.g. tents out back or a few airbeds on the top floor, etc) and there is a designated food area (kitchen with some soup and bread).
The festival starts on Friday at noon. Get some clothes, maybe a sleeping bag in a pack, go to the main house, get your wristband. Woohoo! Festival time!
Rule 1: No going home until you leave the festival! Even if you live a couple of tube stops away!
Each of the 4 houses will be manned in some capacity for the whole festival.
Each night one of the houses will have a totally sick party, and one of the houses will have a chilled party e.g. acoustic gig.
If you want neither, you can go to one of the other 2 remaining houses, where people will be monging around in small numbers. You could shower,or perhaps have an early night.
That's it. Consider this the first pass at a manifesto for "urban fest summer 2007", or whatever it's called:
1. Re-imagine your home and local life as places where routine and drudgery aren't compulsary. This is important, because otherwise we start believing that home is boring and we have to spend money in flash clubs or go far away in order to have any real memorable fun.
2. If you think you're in a festival, if you're always within 20 minutes walk across the grass from somewhere with dancing, if you're surrounded by like-minded happy people with nothing to do, and no home for the next 3 days, then you ARE in a festival.
3. You don't have to have a loaded posh cousin with farmland to start your own festival. Yay!
We could theme the festival however we wanted - fancy dress like Bestival, or different themes for different houses - I have some ideas here.
What do you reckon guys? Up for it? I volounteer my house first, and put forward the August Bank Holiday weekend as a tentative date.
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