January Spore: Give It Up!

Evolver Baltimore will be hosting our first party! It promises to be a night of celebration and exploration of gift giving culture and consciousness expansion. Join us for a night of live music, dance, performance art, gallery exhibition, food, costumes, and more...

Start to think about your gift, what you would like to contribute to the night. It may be food, a costume, your hula hooping, a donation for our Haiti relief fund (this is hugely needed and would be greatly appreciated), an item to add to our gifting altar (yes, gifting altar! bring whatever has meaning for you- you can reclaim your item at the end of the night if you like)-- but most importantly bring yourself, and be the art! Radical self expression is participation!!! Think playa, Burning Man culture and local burns...

Music will include:

Cj3j (Baltimore/Miami)
http://www.myspace.com/cj3j

Soohan (DC)
http://www.myspace.com/soohansmyspace

Alvin Risk (DC/Maryland)
http://www.alvinrisk.com

Aligning Minds (Aleph Zero, Eighty Eighty DC)
http://www.aligningminds.com/

MegaDrives (Baltimore)
http://www.myspace.com/themegadrives

Performing Artists will include:

Brian Langston, Karla Mancero, Matt Muirhead, Susurrus Din (aka: Ryan Coffman)
http://www.mayhemonward.com/war/

Paco Fish
http://www.pacofish.net/

Effervescent Collective
http://effervescentcollective.com/

and more...

$5 *** B Y O B ***

Here are some further details and description on how this theme is being explored sporewide in other cities:

"Evolver.net and Burners without Borders present:

Evolver Spores: Give It Up

Debt-based currencies controlled by closed syndicates of private banks are not the only way that humans can make an economy. Many tribal cultures have organized themselves around an entirely different way of exchanging value: The gift. Where our financial system expertly moves resources from the many to the few, gift-based cultures like to share what they have – as writer Lewis Hyde noted, “The gift moves toward the empty place.” At a time when billions are enslaved by passionless work while inequity reaches new historic heights, we are seeing a postmodern revival of sharing and gifting, with examples ranging from the open source movement to the annual Burning Man festival.

In this Spore, we explore the abstract theory and practical dynamics of gifting, the challenges of implementing this innovative, yet archaic, way of getting what you want and wanting what you get. We invite fellow Evolvers to bring their precious gifts – whether it be witticisms or wood-carved totems to the Spore and spread them around.... "

http://www.realitysandwich.com/evolver_spores_give_it