Festival Culture

Social Differentiation, Creativity and the Ecstatic Experience. Alchemy 2013 Emergent themes that I am exploring through my participation in "Transformational" festival culture. NOTE: This not at all an academic article. It's just the seed thinking for a number of possible articles not to mention some semi-metaphysical musings and rambling thrown in. Theme #1: Creativity in relation to organization and labor. Creativity is , inherently within its unfolding processes, self

https://thebloom.tv/ This is the organizational approach to Festival Culture that I referred to in the "Electronic Awakening" post. Below...

For me, there is a lot to think about here. These transformational festivals are, I think, creating something important within American...

This is an excellent introduction to Electronic Dance Music [EDM} and it's also a good introduction into the history of Festival Culture in general. I also highly recommend the entire Bloom Series (below) and what they call "Transformational Culture". The Bloom festival producers differ markedly from the Burning Man cultural ethos in that they explicitly encourage commercial entrepreneurship so that people can integrate their lives, their livelihood, into their cultural par

Here are some preliminary thoughts on Burning Man, the temple, and what drew me to Burning Man in the first place- taken from my old...