Everyone is encouraged to give their single or multi-tent camp a theme. It's an exciting part of the culture and an excellent way to participate.
Theme Camps can be as simple as a massage table or as elaborate as a geodesic dome art gallery. The more interactive your Theme Camp, the better. Sound, music, games, art, sculpture, light - use your imagination!
Creating/running a Theme Camp is easy - and a lot of fun!
- Pick a theme and plan how you're going to achieve it. Figure out how people can participate, then build or decorate accordingly. You will probably want to make a sign so people will know what's going on.
- Always keep the weather and elements in mind when planning a Theme Camp. How can you prevent your stuff from blowing away? Will it survive cold, heat or rain?
- It's also a good idea to educate the people who will be camping with you so they can continue the effort when you're away from your campsite.
- Every Theme Camp is different. There is no blueprint. Just do what you can and expect things to evolve as you go along.
- Consider MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) when creating your camp. Are you using the least MOOPY materials? If you have a messy communal area, think about laying down a tarp or drop cloth that can be folded up when you break camp. That method could spare you picking up a lot of MOOP from the floor of your camp. Does your camp have a MOOP Plan and is everyone aware of it? Do you have plenty of trash bags available?
- In your mind, pretend that you're another camper and you've just found out about your Theme Camp. What do you expect? What do you want to know? Who will tell you, or are there signs?
- How can you participate? How could the camp be organized to help you participate and what materials would you need to do it?
- Please feel free to set up your own Theme Camp lighting. Electricity will not be provided so you must make your own with generators, batteries, solar, etc.
- ALL THEME CAMPS SHOULD BE CLEANED UP AND DEPARTED FROM THE PROPERTY BY 2PM, SUNDAY OCTOBER 9th unless previous arrangements have been made with the event coordinators. PLAN ACCORDINGLY
Hosted by: The Keepers
We are the Resonance Leave No Trace Earth Guardians. We are the Resonance Planet Patrol! Looking for dedicated volunteers to help at the RPP station and to stay behind to make sure we do not leave a trace. Contact Ren and join the RPP Yahoo Group. We will be providing recycling services, Lost and Found, and performing a final MOOP sweep of the grounds after the event.
Resonance Doozer HQ
Hosted by: The Keepers
Need something built? Moved? Destroyed? Lit on fire? Rangers Beaten? Beer Drank? Then you've come to the right place. We gladly accept any and all alcoholic donations. General activities will include drinking, dodging wrenches and general disarray. Contact njn to be down with our badass crew.
Burner Elite
Hosted by: Koneka
Test your true burner merit! We will be providing pure pepper extracts (capsaicin)! Are you a true keeper of the flame, or will we burn you out? Endorphines will be released as you suffer the through the smoldering agony, so try the natural high! Beware... you might wanna tap on the doorknob before you walk through this doorway! Not for faint of heart, anyone with pepper allergies forfeit now!
Activities include: The Wheel of Flame - Various extracts will be on a spinning wheel, whatever you land on you endure! Burner vs Burner - go head to head with a burner friend of choice! 3rd degree Burn - take as many drops of extract as you can handle! Winner will be crowned pre effigy burn and will hold Resonance title as ""Burner Elite" or the "1337" and will keep crown til next years event!
The Doors of Reflection
Hosted by: Shimmer and Clay
Step inside and see your reflection. Open the doors to the universe and feel where you belong. Relive the doorways you've opened and closed in this mortal life that have brought you to THE NOW! Sit, chill and reflect or get up and play in this interactive structure. A portal enlightenment burn will take place here Sunday @ 2 am. Come get a front row seat to build energy and FEEL THE LOVE!!!
Heavenly Hookah Lounge
Hosted by: Gaia, Shimmer & Mad Maeven
Step into the realm of ultimate relaxation at the Heavenly Hookah Lounge. Come sit and feel the autumn breeze while toking away or making some jewelry! We will have several flavors of shisha for your pleasure, or bring your own flavor if you have an all time favorite to share! Charcoal and tobacco donations are always welcome! Also, we will have a vast array of beads, hemp, and string located in the lounge. You could make yourself, an old friend, or a new friend something pretty to take home!
Alice Through the Doorway
Hosted by: Ren & Lili
Come join Alice and friends as she travels past through the doorway. What wonders and spectacles will she encounter this time? Come participate, costumes encouraged.
Activities include: Crepe bar, Mad Hatter Tea Party & Black Light Queen's Croquet.
Asphodel Meadows
Hosted by: Sub.Netwerk & Playground Legendz
The Asphodel Meadows is where the souls of people who lived lives of near equal good and evil rest. The Asphodel Fields are the first region of Hades (Erebus), the spirits that dwell in the fields have no memories of their former lives. Having falling into the River Lethe the stream of forgetfulness, you struggle to the shore you have, of course, lost your memories and you must recover them before Charon will allow you passage to the Erebus Caves and your eventual way back to life. After drinking from the river, not only do you lose any memory of the past, but you become a being who lives only in the present... forgetting anything that may have happened just moments earlier. your memories reside within the fields in the form of an orb, the pieces of which being scattered with various puzzles to be solved in order to retrieve them. Feel free to come up with fun puzzles for fellow campers to solve!
Activities include: Full sound stage, bar and lounge.
Doorway to Expression (formally known as The Cave)
Hosted by: Kelly
Come inside and express yourself artistically in a black light lit room. Poster board and hi-lighters provided, YOU bring the art!
Alternate Stage
Hosted by: Woot Monkey Camp
Your stage to perform and/or play whatever you want to inspire creativity in all its glorious forms.
Activities include: Music, performance art, plays and whatever else you want to do. This is your stage to shine! Comments: Sign up sheet on facebook or find Zach, Ren, Asrah, or Drew for time slots available. Music requires 3.5 headphone jack, video will be available via projection screen. Either send us your video before hand or bring it on a USB flash drive.
Temple of Rememberance
Hosted by: Resonance Temple Crew
This sacred space collects all the grief and sorrow that participants want to leave behind. Feel free to leave a piece of yourself or a piece of your past. The Japanese style pagoda is in memory of those who lost their lives in the recent disasters in Japan. Find solitude here to accept your grief, then let it all go when the temple burns to the ground at 4am on Sunday morning. You will find comfort in the cleansing.
Reso Giving Tree
Hosted by: Resonance Planet Patrol
Does the passion for giving burn deep within your soul? Do you have extra tent stakes, a pack of smokes or some costume pieces you would like to donate? Well then, we've got the spot for you! The Reso Giving Tree will be located near the Resonance Planet Patrol HQ for all to see. Drop off any gifts or useful items that you want to share. If you see something you like or need, you may take it in return!
Woot Monkey Camp
Hosted by: Zach, Asrah & Drew
A lounge in the trees (hammocks). Bananas, vines, and various primates that is welcome to all who just need to "hang" out.
Activities include: Monkey Wars at various times for nobody expects the Monkey Inquisition.
Submit this form by October 2nd, 2011 to get your Resonance 4.0 theme camp listed here and in the Front Gate Handout.
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