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UPGRADEmag// april 3 2001
AS FIRST-STAGE RAVE CULTURE CAPTURES AMERICA,
sees the return of Fraser Clark's Parallel YOUniversity, with his latest initiative to "push the envelope of clubbing as far as it can go." The 58-year young zippie creator of legendary "festival in a club" Megatripolis at Heaven, and the 24 hour Warp Experience with its 24 hour theatre play, 3 dancefloors, and a Meta Conceptual art gallery, is launching a new "next level club". NEW LONDON CLUB TAKES ITS GLOBAL HQ TO NEXT LEVEL He says THE DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT is aimed at "filling a gap in the market and the soul." Spurning the massive, culture-changing carnivals of before, he reckons "a regular, intelligent, artistically experimental club for body, mind, spirit & planet" should play a socially crucial role for years ahead. So only one of the 4 available spaces in his new venue is a dancefloor - though he insists it'll be "pushing enlightening sci-psy trance, accompanied by live instruments like violin, sax, keyboarsd." The first party has Mark Sinclair and Jace (Pendragon) + ULTRA who (some say) invented trance. YOU KIDS NOT INTERESTED IN THEATRE?! BULLSHIT! Then there's the CROW'S NEST theatre, and Fraser says he's found the "ultimate pagan, shamanic ravers' play" to follow the "24 hour Hippy Hamlet" that was The Warp. THE SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES, written and directed by John Constable, has been performed in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and in Southwark Cathedral to the acclaim of much of the high-brow cultural media ‘Constable’s Southwark Mysteries kick serious theological ass!’ QX Magazine This magic theatre/cabaret is hosted by John Crow, ably assisted by pagan poets and trickster troubadours, featuring Niall McDevitt and Michelle Watson from The Warp. Love priestess Jahnet de Light unveils the mysteries of Siva-Sakti, orchestrating the tantric fun and games in Crow’s playroom. Fantasmagoria play enchanted songs from the dark side, and Hattie Hatstar sings her sassy, sexy and wickedly satirical street ballads. John Crow will watch over the proceedings, ensuring a safe shamanic space for this Group Mind leap into the unknown. There will be opportunities for audience participation (be there by 11!), culminating in a group trance dance. As The Crow’s Nest evolves, people will have a chance to present their own work and to perform in selected scenes from the epic cycle of Southwark Mystery Plays. ******** 3am AFTER PARTY! YOU 2289 London FRI APRIL 6 A magic night of cosmic exploration and illumination ZONE ONE - multi experimental chill, dub, reggae, jazz ZONE TWO - live psychedelic journey, trip hop, drum'nbass, poetry / performance ZONE THREE - multi-sensory hyper-spatial navigatiins with Liquid Connective @Elektro Werkz, 7 Torrens Street, Angel. 10pm - 6am. £8. YOU 2290 JESUS APPROVES OF SHOPLIFTING John Papworth, 79 year old former aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury, editor of Fourth World Review, ecologist, baker, priest, economist, journalist & futurist (jailed with Bertrand Russell for '60s ban the bomb activities), kicks off the DEN OF ENLIGHTENMENT'S Playshop Zone by educating ravers how to organise their own local people revolutions, and opining that Jesus would approve of shoplifting - the publicly expressed viewpoint that lost him the Archbishop job! Remember the scandal at the time? PLUS Guru Dave's Club Dialogues. Then there's the Tribadelicatessen, an ethnic/ electronic/ ambient music zone by Now Age Radio and Pok Star from legendary Glastonbury band The Space Goats). ******* 3am AFTER PARTY! Veteran DJ Frankie Dee's after party doses late nite boyz and girlz around town with sooper-sophisticated jazz-funk loons & toons. YOU 2291 SAT APRIL 7 ALSO: vegan/hemp food from qualified health nutritionist Rainbow Lizzy ("Discretion is the better part of dinner".), the real-life Wizard of Iz, Head-Master Fraser taking on all comers at GO, the oldest game in the world.etc THERAPY Yasmin Perez, ITEC & Liz the Holistic Hippy, IIHHT Diploma in Holistic Therapies with vtct) offer Gestalt, Shiatsu, Chiropractic, Ayurveda, Thai, Vibrational/Singing/Dance Massage,.Swedish body massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Crystal healing. CLUB DESIGN - TopsyTurvy in external ParaYOU//Central St Martins College of Art collaboration
"the only regular intelligent, intimate shamanic little club
Den of Enlightenment PREVIEW LAUNCH PARTY - SAT APRIL 7. 11-7am. £10/£6 in the planetary capital of Rave Culture" @ Imperial Gardens, 299 Camberwell New Road, SE5. LAUNCH PARTY SAT MAY 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parallel YOUniversity Faculty / Kitchen Table: Rabbi Schmuley Boteach (L’Chaim Activities) Ken Campbell (Psycho Cosmic Theatre) Lynn Rainbow Circle (Practical Magic & Astrology) Fraser Clark M.A.Hons (Shamanic Psychology) Jeff Guberman (Alternative History) James McCabe (Mini-star without Portfolio) James Hamilton (Soul Networking) Mark Heley (Ethnobotanical & Temporal Studies) Jason Keehn (Rave Culture) Susanna Lafond (Future-Normal Anthropology) Dr John C. Lilly (Human Bio-Computer Studies) Lokabandhu (Buddhist Practice) Howard Marks (Cannabis Deportment) Baron Peter von Massenbach (Global Networking) Shane Collins (Green Practice) Terence McKenna (Novelty Expansion Studies) Monkey Pilot & Mary (Global Whirl-Y-Giggery) Neil Oram (Being Really Here) Jamie Reid (Spiritual Art Activism) Rosanna Rofe (World Peace Building) Shane Collins (Green Activism), Youth (Reformation of Ancient Enchantment) ========================================================================= YOU 2292 APRIL 7 1 - 5PM Underground internet radio station Radio V is cooking up a "Digital Be-In" component for the Den of Enlightenment whereby Michael Gosney and Stefan Gosiewski are convening a parallel daytime salon discussion group at their San Francisco studio on Be-In themes and netcasting the event. Geoff Gilbertson (Dark Gods author) will be running things in the PlayZone where people will be able to participate. Music & Video Iconography and cut aways to different archive speeches from past Be-Ins will be broadcast between segments of the 4 hour discussion, including Tim Leary, Terence McKenna, George Clinton and many other luminaries who have appeared at the Digital Be-In over the years Radio V will be working with Digital Space to create an online virtual Be-In event in coming months by employing Adobe Atmospheres, the new avatar-based virtual world scenario released in beta form. YOU 2293 BRINGING THE CITY AND COUNTRY CLOSER TOGETHER. Peter McCaig The countryside has been ridiculed and caricatured by the recent debate on hunting as a place for hard bitten souls who take life and death in their stride, and their role as stewards of the land has been much maligned, but in truth this is a warped image, as if a ruse to disenfranchise the affections of us city folk. I am one who believes that ordinary farmers, if left alone and given appropriate support, are the ones best suited to care for our natural environment - they have the knowledge of generations in their bones. So when the animals they have cared for and the land they have tended for generations are taken from them, one can¹t help but wonder at the engineering behind it. I see a scenario where they are forced to witness a heritage of hundreds of years of work being wrestled from their care - and handed over to those who care the least. Their problem, it seems, is the same as ours - how best to stave off the tyrannical oppression of a political, social and economic system that is accumulating more and more control of our lives into a centralised, unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy. A world owned and controlled by banks - where ordinary citizens have no say, not even on their own land. Once the land is passed on by the banks to commercial farming it will be denuded of its fertility and abundance - turned into prairie by those who think that big is best, and a featureless monoculture of genetically modified crop and beast the best way to feed the world. That is the real story - and not one that you will read in the mainstream press because who owns them, do you think? What we are witnessing is the continuing story of a land grab that has been going on since the Clearances, and found its ultimate vehicle in the Common Agricultural Policy which has turned European Farming into a stack of dominoes just waiting for a stiff breeze. The ordinary farmers don¹t understand it - they have been forced into a corner by its contradictory policies against their common sense. They have tried their best to do what the regulators expect of them, and this is the outcome - they can no longer see the wood for the trees. Well maybe now they will have more empathy with we environmentalists (however seldom we have to muck out) because it seems we have a common enemy - one who would rob them of their independence, their autonomy, make them victims of macro-economics, until they become strangers in their own land, robbed of their heritage, bereft of community, unable to decide what they should or shouldn¹t grow, how they should farm, who they should sell their produce to, what price they are paid, what their cattle should feed on, how to tell whether they are sick or not, why they should be killed. It is not only the cows that have no choice. The land needs animals, and man needs the land, and we have not learned to live in co-existence all three together. Traditionally the wealth and security of the tribe lay in its animals, they were only slaughtered in times of need. How far have we come from that - when a piece of cow on a bap forms a regular snack. If there is one clear solution it would be to stop the slaughter, clear farmers of their debt, encourage them to farm organically, tend the land as their fathers did and as they would teach their children. We might not eat meat as often and have to pay more for milk & eggs, but these are the values which will keep our land abundant and save us in times of drought or famine - the very things we are creating in a world where interest rates are our main concern. I know a vision of such a world where words like 'sustainability¹ and 'ethics¹ become the common watchwords - and not just a marketing cliche - is a lifetime away, but my intention is every bit as strong as those who would have it another way. Peter McCaig / Green Events pmccaig@onet.co.uk www.greenevents.fsnet.co.uk YOU 2294 SAT APRIL 7 3AM AFTER-PARTY MARCO ARNALDI TO CHILL CROW'S NEST Marco Arnaldi, mainfloor resident DJ for years at the original Megatripolis, has agreed to play a chilled set in the Crow's Nest with some of his weirder and more wonderful sound nuggets. Lie down and be counted! HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH * YOUR PLANET NEEDS //YOU! this HipList grows by recommendation. RECOMMEND SOMEONE 2DAY!!!!!!!!!! * to be REMOVED from the HipList, simply hit REPLY with the word REMOVE in the Subject box * to debate anything in the UPGRADE, dubbleklik: http://www.parallel-youniversity.com/CleanSlate/ * we never have space to publish everything, so check the EMAG on our site for the longer, deeper stuff * yes, yes, send us edutaining news’n views no need to ask! :-) |