27 Dec 2007
Get involved
One of the founding principals of Splore was that the festival isn’t about just coming along and consuming the experience, instead it has always been about getting involved. Since then interactivity has been entrenched into the way the event is organised. At the most obvious level dancing to the music is an interactive experience, but at Splore you’re encouraged to do more than that. There is so many ways to get involved at Splore; Theme Camps, The Living Lounge, the Art Trail, the Kid Zone, and workshops.The Theme Camps have grown out of the Splore community’s enthusiastic approach to camping at the party. People started bringing along lounge suites, palm trees and their own sound systems, others said “Hey I know what this festival needs it’s a ….” and bought that along. Rather than discouraging creativity, Splore has created a whole arena that is purpose built for the extremely creative campers in the community. If you’re one of these people, best you get your act together right now and submit a comprehensive proposal outlining content, amplified sound and power requirements to info@splore.net by 10 Jan 2008. Please do it, we’d love to see what makes you tick…
The Living Lounge is a multifunctional space that features workshops and acoustic music during the day and becomes a music stage at night. On Saturday night it magically slips a dimension and emerges as The Butterfly Zoo, which has a compulsory ‘dress in theme’ requirement for entry.
Although submission dates for the art trail and the Arts Village have already passed, there will still be plenty of opportunity for interaction with the artworks that have been created for the festival. The artists who have been selected for Splore 08 have either submitted finished pieces or have been given a brief to create works that are ‘site and situation’ aware, environmentally responsive, conceptually reflective and interactively friendly. Sounds good to me.
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