JUNE 18th, 19th & 20th 2010
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 6th Anniversary, the Festival is adopting the concept of “Six Degrees of Separation” as our official theme for 2010. Try and see how you might contribute this theme for yourself and for your neighbors by centering your efforts around this concept of connectivity, networking, and community. We do ask that your projects be courteous, tasteful, and safe.
“Six Degrees” focuses on the web of connections between our event, our attendees and the world around us. Network theorists describe human society as a “small world”, in which most individuals could reach any other person on the planet through an average of six links. You may only have a certain number of friends, but your friends have friends, too, and within six degrees you have a social network spanning the world. In short, we are all connected. These findings have been instrumental to social science, psychology, literature, music and art. We hope 6∞ inspires our attendees to bond with one-another and build relationships, art and camps representing this connectedness.
DRIVE CAREFULLY AND OBEY THE SPEED LIMIT
Please remember to obey all traffic laws and drive safely to and from the event. The speed limit on Spring Shores Road & Arrowrock Road is 25 miles per hour. This is unmarked for the last mile or so of paved road and for most of the dirt road. Both Ada County and Boise County Sheriff regularly patrol this high traffic area and will pull you over for speeding. A significant number of last year’s attendees were pulled over for speeding and cited for various offenses. Also remember that the dirt road is very narrow, has many switchbacks and can be quite dangerous, particularly if you have had a long drive or are coming in at night. If you are coming from out-of-state, we advise you to have someone who is well-rested drive this last stretch of road. If you are local, please remember this is a high traffic time of year and there are many drivers unfamiliar with the terrain.
This should go without saying, but remember to obey all local, state and federal laws both on and off the Twin Springs property. Boise County Sheriffs will be patrolling the roads around Twin Springs and will cite you for reckless driving, open containers and minor consumption, among other offenses. Esthetic Evolution is an 18+ event, does not sell alcohol and only allows drinking by legal adults with the proper identification and wristband. Attendees will be ejected from the event if staff catches them drinking as a minor, distributing alcohol to minors or breaking other laws.
The Boise County Sheriff is here for your protection and to ensure attendees make it to and from our event safely. If you are pulled over or questioned by a police officer, please remember to be respectful and courteous at all times. They are professionals and will treat you respectfully if you do so for them. It is your personal responsibility to know your legal rights if pulled over or detained. If you would like to know more about your rights during an arrest or traffic stop, please visit the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) website at:
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/know-your-rights-bustcard
or download their handy “bustcard” at:
http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/racialjustice/rp_bustcard_eng_20090929.pdf
LEAVE NO TRACE
Esthetic Evolution is a Leave-No-Trace camping event. Each participant is encouraged to stay all weekend and is respons
ible 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.
COMMERCIAL SALES & OTHER VENDING
You have undoubtedly had difficulty finding any information related to vending at Esthetic Evolution 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.
PROMOTERS
RYAN DULEY
STEVIL
JARED YATES DECKER
People Of Earth
DEVIN KELLY
STORMSHADOW
LOST
JESSA
CONTACT US
General Inquiries
Including general event information, website feedback, and other requests:
Admin@EstheticEvolution.com
Theme Camp Inquiries
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ThemeCamp@EstheticEvolution.com
Sound Camp Inquiries
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SoundCamp@EstheticEvolution.com
Art Related Inquiries
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Art@EstheticEvolution.com
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Tickets@EstheticEvolution.com
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