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Insect Carnival 2008

Posted on August 21st, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: The Boogie Room and Gardens, Immediate Theatre, Annie The Ghost's Art, The Crux, Music, Events, Films, Workshops.

Bite the Hand Productions and The Boogie Room and Gardens invite you to celebrate with us on August 29, 30, and 31 at the Second Annual Insect Carnival! Come camp out with us and share in a weekend of music, theater, workshops, gardening, games, and more!

This is a conscious event that is being held at a private residence. We appreciate your cooperation and your respect. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you attend the celebration:

• We encourage bike riding and camping at the Carnival. Our guided bike rides will be departing from Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and Cotati. See the schedule for departure times.
• If you cannot bike to the Carnival, please carpool.
• Please show up before 6:30pm if you intend on camping at The Boogie Room.
• Gates close at 10:30pm each night.
• We are asking a $5 donation per day that you attend the Carnival.

We will be having amazing performances in the day and the night! The performances are listed in the order they will be appearing:

• Friday the 29th of August
  • 12:00 noon
    • Guided bike rides leave from Santa Rosa’s Community Market, Sebastopol’s Whole Foods, and Cotati’s Oliver’s Market
    • The Insect Carnival begins!
  • 3:00pm
    • Guided bike ride leaves from Santa Rosa’s Community Market, Sebastopol’s Whole Foods, and Cotati’s Oliver’s Market
  • 3:00-6:30
    • The Crooks, The Mighty Chiplings, Banjomama, Eucalypt, and The Highlands
    • Guided bike ride leaves from Santa Rosa’s Community Market
  • 6:30-7:30
    • “The World’s Biggest Comedy Duo” Improv Comedy Show
  • 7:30-8:30
    • Yarn Arms and Gitar
  • 8:30-9:00
    • “Fire and Ghosts” Storytelling by the Campfire
  • 9:00pm-1:00am
    • The Semi-Evolved Simians, Litany for the Whale, Not to Reason Why, and Goodriddler

• Saturday the 30th of August
  • 10:00am
    • Yoga
  • 12:00 Noon
    • Breakfast and goat-milking
    • Guided bike rides leave from Santa Rosa’s Community Market, Sebastopol’s Whole Foods, and Cotati’s Oliver’s Market
  • 1:00-3:00
    • Mud Wrestling with Laundry Detergent (Batman vs Predator)
  • 3:00pm
    • Guided bike ride leaves from Santa Rosa’s Community Market
  • 3:00-4:30
    • The Haxaw Ditch Dwellers, Travis Hendrix, and Andrew Maurer
    • …and The Free School with Richard Speaks!
  • 4:30-5:00
    • Boogie Room Public Meeting
  • 5:00-8:00
    • Banjomama, Low-Five, Ferocious Few, and Santiago
    • …and workshops on gardening, fermented foods, and cheese-making!
  • 8:00-8:30
    • The Crux Tent Revival, Chapter Two
  • 8:30pm-2:30am
    • Nikos Eliot, Fishbear, A Pack of Wolves, The Iditarod, and DJ Underwater

• Sunday the 31st of August
  • 12:00 Noon
    • Breakfast and Performances
    • Guided bike rides leave from Santa Rosa’s Community Market, Sebastopol’s Whole Foods, and Cotati’s Oliver’s Market
  • 1:00-3:00
    • Lemonade and Open Mic (come play!)
  • 3:00pm
    • Guided bike ride leaves from Santa Rosa’s Community Market
  • 3:00-9:00
    • uMana, Erstwhile Medicine Show, Leila-Anne, Ramon and Jessica, Mark Growden, and Kyle Martin
    • …and a workshops on cheese-making, event-organizing, and goat-milking!
  • 9:00-12:00 midnight
    • I Cut People, Shampoodle, Bill Wild, Brandon the Clown, and The Crux
  • 12:00 midnight
    • “The Pharmakon,” a documentary about Sonoma County

Call us at 707-326-5274 for…
… specific times of performances and workshops!
… directions to The Boogie Room and Gardens!
… help finding carpools and bike rides!
… opportunities to volunteer!

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Phoebe Washer

Posted on June 18th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Individual Artists.

There are so many young artists coming out of Sonoma County. They are the bright lights of our cities and the burning fires of our communities.  It is so sad when one of these lights goes out; and when such a tragedy occurs, we need to speak.

It has been brought to our attention that a Sonoma County lost one of its young artists this year.  20 year old Phoebe Washer of Petaluma died this last May, leaving a life of art and loving friends and family.  Bite the Hand Productions has produced this post in memory of her, and to show our appreciation for her artistic vision and commitment.

Her art is amazing and she touched many lives in her community.  We encourage everyone who reads this post to learn about Phoebe’s life and see her amazing art here: Phoebe Washer Web Page

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The Pharmakon One-Year Anniversary!

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Food Not Bombs, Bryce Style's Poetry, Music, Events, The Pharmakon.

This Sunday, June 1st, we will be celebrating ONE WHOLE YEAR OF THE PHARMAKON PERIODICAL! Come on out to Santa Rosa’s Doyle Park from noon to sundown and enjoy a day in the park with Bite the Hand Productions!

It is going to be a great day! Here is the schedule of the musical acts:

• 12:00- Jugbone
• 12:30- Drugstore Chemist
• 1:00- The Semi-Evolved Simians
• 2:00- A soccer game with music by Blue Shift
• 3:00- Erstwhile Medicine Show
• 3:30- Three Mile Island (featuring Bill Wild)
• 4:15- A Mother Like Sun
• 5:15- Goodriddler
• 6:00- Hannah Rose

Bring something to barbeque! We will have food from Food Not Bombs, poetry by Bryce Style, and more! Also, the whole event will be hosted by Timmy Redface and The Skinny Man in their new musical project- The Crooks! We want to fill the park with Pharmakon fans, so bring your friends!

$5 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Call 707-326-5274 for details and directions.

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Some More of Annie’s Art

Posted on May 19th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Annie The Ghost's Art.

The event at Dardevils and Queens Saturday night was lots of fun. The crowd got to see Annie’s fantastic art as well as musical and theatrical acts. We can’t wait for her next art show.

As you know, Annie had to change the date and make a new flier. We wanted to post her original flier here, because we like it so much.  Click on the image for the full picture.

To see more of Annie’s art go here: Annie the Ghost’s Art

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Annie The Ghost’s Art Show!

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Annie The Ghost's Art, The Crux, Music, Events.

Come out to Daredevils and Queens in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square on Saturday, May 17th and listen to some music as you experience the art and atmosphere of Annie Montgomery (aka Annie the Ghost).   It is going to be a circus!  Scheduled performers are:  Jugbone, Internet Explorer, Mesa Pegasus, Goodriddler, and The Crux!

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Local Literature

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Poetry, Bryce Style's Poetry, Books.

The words coming from our community are strong and Bite the Hand Productions is working to make them heard.  Whether it is an article in The Pharmakon, Bryce Style’s upcoming book, or the poem below by Liz Peters, our words form a a deep foundation.  They are growing along with our community, and we need to share them in the form of books, speeches, poems, songs, and more.

So write it down!  Pass it around!  Contact us if you want to talk about future publishing projects!

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A Poem From Liz Peters

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Poetry, Individual Artists.

Mental Eclipse at Salmon Creek Beach

On the yellow streaming euca way there hair and smiles flying compact
car careening
this car is a fucking
car is a
fucking!
car is a fucking
drive!
fucking drive on the beat man drive on the hella tank tank beat man
drive on the beat beat beat
FUCKING drive
this car is a
fucking
 faraway
 fleeing freedom
Coleman Valley coming
Coleman Valley deer hoof hoo-la-la
Coleman Valley Oak snapping kaleidoscope CACKLE!

you know or maybe the first time we went there
the dark edge
 so pretty
(we know)
but we can’t find the Cadillac headlights
cha hey if the road’s a vein
we can live in our hearts
fog and dark -
fine we just go
driven
this thing
under water in my dreams anway

and then THERE
at Salmon
this pretty flicking folding paper pixie fox girl
the one with the burning face
she knows how the moon feels
a really glowing sadness
a lightbulb exploded our heads exploded
but somehow we both turn into fireworks

maybe mustard seeds in the sky open up into new mustard seeds in the
sky and that’s how come we soar around with super power arms smiling
hey that lady showed us her fetus ha

and a while later that night

the music
like floating nets
brings butterfly
back to the beach house
back from off the sloping hands
of nighttime dunes

but yeah now

her eyes are turning
neon fatigue
absinthe green

and she

falls through windows
when her winded wings
trumpet pink

then she kisses flutes
and cigarettes off tile floors

and when cingy strings of light spin to swashy
she supernova pukes up
carpet chunks of scripts
tomato pizzas some guy’s robot oh some sticks of stage
some little dolls
and things she used to say

how can she cry bigger than her body?
fill the theater earth
and ocean
to overflow
past presidium sunrise soul?

down from the soul place
the Sonoma County Cat Men
(cunt co cut co rocko men)
carry baby
up the stairs
down ladders
silly striped like redwoods
up tunnels phosphorescent rainbow like sound like
screams
got lost
inside her ears

and they

make music
that pisses the sun off so bad she slams the sky for good
and they set the solar system stage lights on
and circus seance speakers spitting sparks
and they tousle curly stars and x-ray every inch of dark
and now they dance with moon masks
sparkling with snakes

 Salmon Creek spins like carousels
or oranges
skirts
things in your head
scream

Rockos pull a curtain to a bathtub

She crashes in
with sounds like if her limbs
were baseball bats
And she cries out painted scarves and kites of tears out across the blackness
She is a red
 accordion wringing
colors in
and out and
 in and
out until they’re only noise and hot water sea foam

in the front room
the schizofrenic man shouts apocalypse
 he knew it he knew we were all golden angels in that room and everywhere

but in the bathroom
she
dreams she shards her heart on shreds of mirror
so the beaches burst
and disappear

break her body laughter laughter laughter
the sound of laughter
the sound of laughter
the sound of laughter
resonating so real they can’t hear
the sound of lauhter
so real she has no face
and she could die
she sees g-ds faces laughing
this is real

Love,
Liz Peters

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New Dates for Annie’s Art Show

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Annie The Ghost's Art, The Crux, Music, Events.

In the last Pharmakon, we advertised that Annie Montgomery (Annie the Ghost) is having an art show at Daredevils and Queens in Santa Rosa’s Railroad Square.
We are writing you this post to inform you that the event has been changed to Saturday, May 17th. The Crux and Goodriddler will still be playing. Be sure to come on by!

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Pharmakon 11 IS OUT!

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Tim Dixon's Art, The Pharmakon.

Our April issue of The Pharmakon (titled “Unbinding”) is out on the streets. We’ll be dropping it off over the next couple days at all of our usual spots:

COLOR issues will be for sale at Copperfields in Sebastopol and Petaluma, and at Community Market in Santa Rosa.

FREE BLACK AND WHITE copies are at Community Market, Treehorn Books, Flying Goat Coffee, 1710 Coffee, The JC, Free Mind Media, The Last Record Store, Aquus Cafe, Coffee Catz, Hardcore Espresso, Sonoma State, North Light, and Zone Music.

This issue is loaded with words, art, and events! You’ll read about our project to help get farmers markets at Sonoma State, learn how to make an herb and vegetable spiral, find out about Annie the Ghost’s new art show, and much more! Buy one if at all possible, or you can always pick a black and white copy up for free! Enjoy! 

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Art From Annie

Posted on April 8th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Individual Artists, Annie The Ghost's Art.

Bite the Hand Productions is featuring art from Annie the Ghost. We will be posting at least one piece of hers weekly on this website. Click on the picture above to zoom in. Enjoy, and come back soon.

To see her online gallery, click here: Annie the Ghost’s Art

COME TO ANNIE’S ART SHOW on Friday, the 25th of April at Daredevils and Queens at Railroad Square in Santa Rosa!  The Crux and Goodriddler will be there, so come on down!

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