Dubstep Circus #6: Recap!

Waaaaaaaaaaaah-hooooooooooooooooooo!!

HOLY HOPPIN' HOOPERS!

Dubstep Circus #6 was set to be our first outdoor festival, and due to circumstances beyond our own control, we had to find a new venue (and new everyyyythingggg) last minute.

So yes, we scrambled. But we did it! And it was fun!

I love this motto: "Everybody is trying their best." I like to repeat it every so often so that I can be brought back to our roots of collaboration and a genuine love for building community. The people who come together to make these events happen are wonderful and loyal and crazy-talented! They sacrifice lots of SLEEP FOR ALL OF YOU!

They also sacrifice sweat and passion and creative hands and ungodly amounts of time, so thank you thank you thank you, to everyone who makes this thing what it is.

Speaking of gratitude, we are blessed to have photographers on our team. Joe Le and John Wiley captured some truly awesome moments from the night:

Loooook at these photos, hell yes! I feel really proud, I know Grant and Scott do too, and probably you if you're reading this, for what we've created. It is not perfect, it is not without faults, but everybody is trying their best, working with what we've got, and still the support is overwhelming - so yay for all of us weirdos!

Our community outreach excites me too. Together we raised over 1,000 children's books for Sampson-Webber Academy in Detroit. We've already handed many of them out, mostly to 2nd and 3rd grade students, and gosh they just absolutely freakkkk over these books. It's awesome to hear about how positive and anxious they feel about getting their hands on a good book. Thank you to all who came out and donated.

We were also able to donate a nice amount of money to Motor Moms and Dads, a cool local project that is committed to the "development of basic motor skills which are important for the achievement of early learning success in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade." In other words, they promote acitivity in early elementary age children, because studies have shown that an active childhood is positively correlated with success in the classroom. Motor Moms also truly needs the money to vamp up their resources and improve the conditions for the project. For example, their balance beam exercise right now is a ten foot long 2 x 4 on the ground. Our donation of a portion of our financial proceeds is going to help them greatly - another yay!

Dubstep Circus #6: A Festival for the Freaks turned out to be a jolly ole time. Cirque du Womp looks forward to taking the upcoming production to a whole new level. We are pushing ourselves HARD on this one, from the community outreach to the visual stimulization to the performance to the ambiance to the music. We are refocusing our efforts and working to get back to our original vision of spreading love and inspiring positivity within the community.

Lots of tune-ups and improvements to be made, and we can't wait to show you what we got in store on this next show.

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ULTRAVIOLET UNTZ: A Higher Octave of Art, Music, & Movement

November 6, 2010

Majestic Theatre, Detroit

9pm - 4am

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See ya at the Untz!

-angela

Dubstep Circus #6 Outreach Project : Back to School Book Drive

The Dubstep Circus is coming back to Detroit! Swing by Bert's Warehouse on September 18, 2010 for a frenzied freakshow. Here are some photos from our last event, the Dubstep Circus #5 at Majestic Theatre, Detroit:

We are very excited to host our Back To School Book Drive at the upcoming Dubstep Circus #6.

The last time we held a book drive, you all helped to raise over 2,000 gently used and/or new children's books for Sampson-Webber Academy in Detroit. Our generous donation and activist work was greatly appreciated by the students and the organizers of the Sampson book warehouse.

And so we ask you to bring the books again! We figure with school starting back up, now is the best time for this literacy outreach.

The outreach will allow for Detroit schoolchildren to access a variety of books which they would otherwise probably not have access to at home. The book drive also provides you with a chance to enter the circus for a few less dollars. Entry fee is $17 at the door or $14 with a minimum of 3 children's books, reding level k-8, either gently used or new condition. The condition of the books is more important than you may think - remember the underlying message we may send the children...

TAKE CARE OF YOUR LITERACY!

Please read some select quotations from Sally, the woman who first taught me about Motor Moms, and who also heads up the book warehouse at Sampson-Webber Academy:

"We plan on continuing to give books out to all grades to build home libraries and encourage literacy. We also plan on using some to begin a "leveled" library for K-4. This will give the kids an opportunity to learn how to use a library as their school library is not functioning at this time. We are currently trying to set up a library/motor mom room to accomodate this."

"We passed out books last week already to first and second grade. I took a couple women with me who want to go down weekly. They loved it (both my friends and the kids!). I was amazed how many kids said they went to the library over the summer. Not sure how many actually did but even for them to feel the desire to respond that they did is a positive in my eyes. Thank you so much for your help in this. I really do believe it will have an impace on literacy in the lives of these kids. Slowly, but surely..."

In addition to our book drive, we will be donating a portion of our proceeds to The Motor Moms and Dads Project. This project seeks to stimulate activity and encourage motor skills in young schoolchildren. Right now, their resources are scarce and/or bare minimum. We can help them out, and so we will!

Click here for more detailed information on the Motor Moms and Dads Program.

Our work and our activism matters, and together we really can make a difference in the life of a child in our city. So please don't forget to bring your children's books this Saturday to Dubstep Circus #6 at Bert's Warehouse!

See ya there!

Signing Off...

~ angela