Esthetic Evolution 2009

Information & Contact

INFORMATION & CONTACT

JUNE 19th, 20th & 21st 2009

Esthetic Evolution is a community based, participant driven music and art festival centered around progressive thinking and self-expression. The event features live electronic music performances and art installations covering an entire weekend, and encourages attendees to contribute to the collective experience by any means of their imagination. The festival’s main premise is to provide a backdrop upon which participants can project their inner artist through a spirit of acceptance, collaboration, gifting, and love.

If you are ready to start planning out your projects for the coming Event, keep this year's theme in mind while you do so. To commemorate our 5th Anniversary, the Festival is adopting the "Five Senses" as our official theme for 2009. Try and see how you might contribute this theme for yourself and for your neighbors by centering your efforts around our remarkable senses of Sight, Smell, Hearing, Taste, and Touch. We do ask that your projects be courteous, tasteful, and safe.

Please E-Mail us with any questions:

Admin@EstheticEvolution.com

LEAVE NO TRACE

Esthetic Evolution is a “Leave-No-Trace” camping event. Each participant is encouraged to stay all weekend and is responsible for their own trash and other personal items they bring with them. The ethic is very simple; if you bring it to the Festival, you take it home with you (Pack It In / Pack It Out). Please respect our Mother Earth and your fellow community members by cleaning up after yourself. You are asked to contribute as much time as necessary to keeping the space you occupy at the Festival as close as possible to its natural state before your arrival and show no sign of your presence once you leave.

We also appreciate any effort you can make to keep the Stage areas and the meadow outside your camp just as clean as your personal space. Please take anything you may bring with you to one of the Stages, back with you once you return to your camp. If you are away from it OR if you notice someone discarding trash where it doesn't belong, please ask them to do the same.

It is essential that you plan ahead for a place to put your bags of trash to transport them back to your home or the city where they can be disposed of properly. Due to the remote location of the event, neither the Event nor Twin Springs can provide trash services for the number of attendees at Esthetic Evolution. Any further effort on your part in regards to recycling your discarded items upon you arrival back to your home destination is greatly appreciated by your mother earth and strongly advocated by all of us here at pr0cess & People Of Earth (P.0.E.).

We absolutely cannot stress the importance of this issue enough. If the Event has to begin assuming responsibility for your trash, the expense of the Festival will be increased dramatically. This is something we have tried very hard to avoid. In addition, if irresponsible participants leave their trash on the side of the road or do not otherwise properly dispose of their trash and recycling, it is very likely that the Festival will be shut down by the county or we will lose our privilege at the resort location.

Please visit the Location & Camping Page for some Tips & Tricks to reducing your waste at the festival.

SOUND CAMPS

We realize that as Esthetic Evolution continues to grow, there is more and more desire for campers and theme camps to provide their own DJ setups and sound systems. Due to the close proximity to your fellow campers-- as well as to both of our Sound Stages-- we CANNOT allow all campers to set up their own sound. This year we will be allowing 3 individual Sound Camps up in the meadow. An application process to accommodate both the Event’s and your needs was established and the 3 camps have been selected at this point in time.

If you were hoping to bring up your own sound for your camp, you MUST contact Esthetic Evolution for specifications and permission. Individuals or Camps that have not contacted us will NOT be allowed to use sound on the meadow. Please recognize that in no way are we trying to limit your creativity or desire for FUN! We are simply trying to make this Event as esthetically pleasing and enjoyable as possible for all who attend.

[These regulations do not apply to small portable stereos, car systems or individuals playing acoustic instruments within a reasonable sound level.]

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. Please E-Mail us with any questions or concerns:

SoundCamp@EstheticEvolution.com

COMMERCIAL SALES

& OTHER VENDING

You have undoubtedly had difficulty finding any information related to vending at Esthetic Evolution in the past because this is a non-commercial event. In the spirit of de-commodification and gifting, the Festival is based upon self-reliance and community-based support. We do not wish to substitute consumption for participatory experience.

We encourage attendees to give of themselves unconditionally and with no contemplation of return or an exchange of something for equal value. We seek to create a social environment that is unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising of any kind. Therefore, put simply, we do not allow vending at Esthetic Evolution. The Event is supposed to be as much a celebration of music and art as it is an experiment in socio-economic revolution.

In some respects this may seem like a contradictory philosophy considering that we ask attendees of the Event to pay for admittance to the Festival. Unfortunately, this is a reality that we must contend with by the very nature of living within a capitalistic society. Another reality is that if we allow vending, the Event would be held responsible for additional regulations imposed by the County which would be very costly. We as promoters of Esthetic Evolution have tried very hard to keep the cost of the Event as low as possible while still providing world class performances and support for local art.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. We certainly hope this does not keep you from attending Esthetic Evolution Festival and sharing your unique talents openly with the community. Try to imagine a contribution that you might be able to make and embrace a concept of community where there is no expectation and all things are possible. It is a difficult philosophical message for us to relay and one that only participation can teach.

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MYSPACE

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RECORD EXCHANGE

TWIN SPRINGS

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