Well, aren't I just Posty McPosterpants today!
Not only have I posted a lil' snoogums for my sweetie, a bizarre dream, and some more videos all on the same day, now I'm gonna spam y'all with a superduper neato-keen event I'd like to go to on Saturday!
"Field Trip"
Saturday, September 8, 6pm to midnight
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
RSVP required to ian.charnas@gmail.com
Let's get right to the point. You are hereby invited to what some
will call the greatest party/fundraiser of their lives. Sounds like a
lot of hot air and braggadocio, doesn't it? Well lend me your ear for
just a moment...
The theme for the party is "Junior High", which means we're starting
at 6pm with "recess" (dodgeball, kickball, four-squares) on the lawn
just outside the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which we will
TOTALLY OWN for the night of Saturday September 8th. At the same time
"music class" and "science class" will be outside, represented by an
enormously wet and playable water-organ (so big we have to hook it up
to a fire-hydrant), and a giant tesla coil for when it gets a little
darker. After a school meal (sloppy tacos) we'll be taking a field
trip inside the museum, where "students" can use their time to take a
Sex-Ed class (taught by the young firebrand woman that's teaching
progressive sex-ed to cleveland's youth), test out a real-life Hickey
Machine, get checked at the Lice-Check station, play some Pinball, try
to get their friend's older sister to buy them something at the cash
bar, pet the opossum and other live animals, check out the custom
amped-up version of the plantetarium show, attend Gym Class with
Cleveland's "Double Dutch Will Take You Higher" performance jump-rope
team, take in a "Drama Club" performance by Columbus performance
artists Queen Mae and the Bells, and party through a Homecoming dance
with Afro-Electronique music by Mifune echoing off the dinosaurs in
the Kirtland Hall of Prehistoric Life... and that's not to mention a
few surprises we've got planned. The museum is ours, and we intend to
rock out.
The purpose of the party is that it's a fundraiser for the C-Space
community center (clevelandspace.org). They need money for rent on
the building and insurance for the children or adults using the
center. Nobody gets paid to work there, it's all 100% volunteer.
So, we're taking $5 - $10 suggested donations at the door ($2 for
kids), then there will be donations at the Hickey Machine and for the
food, and of course the cash bar proceeds will go towards the
community center as well. All of the performance artists and
bartenders and hall monitors and chefs and cleanup crews and
industrial designers and scientists are donating their time in order
to make this dream happen. All you need to do is attend and have the
time of your lives! Free parking available in the museum lot, on wade
oval, and overflow parking at the VA hospital lot 1 block away. Easy
to get to from the E. 120th stop on the red-line rapid, or any bus
that goes to university circle. Just behind the art museum.
With the help of some friends, we printed, signed, and delivered 1000
invitations. We're all out! If you would like to come and you
haven't received an invitation, please send an email with your full
name to ian.charnas@gmail.com saying you'd like to be on the list, and
your name will be put on the list at the ticket table. Don't forget
this important step!
"Field Trip"
Saturday, September 8, 6pm to midnight
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
RSVP required to ian.charnas@gmail.com
Let's get right to the point. You are hereby invited to what some
will call the greatest party/fundraiser of their lives. Sounds like a
lot of hot air and braggadocio, doesn't it? Well lend me your ear for
just a moment...
The theme for the party is "Junior High", which means we're starting
at 6pm with "recess" (dodgeball, kickball, four-squares) on the lawn
just outside the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which we will
TOTALLY OWN for the night of Saturday September 8th. At the same time
"music class" and "science class" will be outside, represented by an
enormously wet and playable water-organ (so big we have to hook it up
to a fire-hydrant), and a giant tesla coil for when it gets a little
darker. After a school meal (sloppy tacos) we'll be taking a field
trip inside the museum, where "students" can use their time to take a
Sex-Ed class (taught by the young firebrand woman that's teaching
progressive sex-ed to cleveland's youth), test out a real-life Hickey
Machine, get checked at the Lice-Check station, play some Pinball, try
to get their friend's older sister to buy them something at the cash
bar, pet the opossum and other live animals, check out the custom
amped-up version of the plantetarium show, attend Gym Class with
Cleveland's "Double Dutch Will Take You Higher" performance jump-rope
team, take in a "Drama Club" performance by Columbus performance
artists Queen Mae and the Bells, and party through a Homecoming dance
with Afro-Electronique music by Mifune echoing off the dinosaurs in
the Kirtland Hall of Prehistoric Life... and that's not to mention a
few surprises we've got planned. The museum is ours, and we intend to
rock out.
The purpose of the party is that it's a fundraiser for the C-Space
community center (clevelandspace.org). They need money for rent on
the building and insurance for the children or adults using the
center. Nobody gets paid to work there, it's all 100% volunteer.
So, we're taking $5 - $10 suggested donations at the door ($2 for
kids), then there will be donations at the Hickey Machine and for the
food, and of course the cash bar proceeds will go towards the
community center as well. All of the performance artists and
bartenders and hall monitors and chefs and cleanup crews and
industrial designers and scientists are donating their time in order
to make this dream happen. All you need to do is attend and have the
time of your lives! Free parking available in the museum lot, on wade
oval, and overflow parking at the VA hospital lot 1 block away. Easy
to get to from the E. 120th stop on the red-line rapid, or any bus
that goes to university circle. Just behind the art museum.
With the help of some friends, we printed, signed, and delivered 1000
invitations. We're all out! If you would like to come and you
haven't received an invitation, please send an email with your full
name to ian.charnas@gmail.com saying you'd like to be on the list, and
your name will be put on the list at the ticket table. Don't forget
this important step!