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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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Herbs and Music!

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Soundings, Music, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, Events, Workshops.

Today went so well that we had to sit down immediately and start writing.  A  big group turned out to enjoy music and to learn more about how to use herbs medicinally.  Our friend Kaitlin put on THREE workshops for the public explaining how to make salves, tinctures, and fire cider!  Hannah Rose, Travis Hendrix, Tyler Wagner, I Cut People, and Low Five all played music and proved that they were some of the best artists in our county.  We also planted a new herb garden for Community Market!   It was a great mixture of sounds, smells, and do-it-yourself energy…

This project was a joint effort between Bite the Hand Productions, Vuildings Building Themselves, and Santa Rosa’s Community Market.  For more information on Buildings Building Themselves, cleck here:  BBT Web Page   For more information on Community Market, click here:  Community Market Web Page

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Come Make Some Cheap Art!

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Music, Free Mind Media, Events, Workshops, Philosophy, Cheap Art, The Pharmakon.

Art is an everyday thing and it is for everyone. No matter how much money you manage to make, no matter what time of year it is, we remain artists. That is what Cheap Art is about. Bite the Hand Productions is devoted to pushing forward the Cheap Art Movement in Sonoma County through articles in The Pharmakon, the displaying and selling of Cheap Art at our gallery at Free Mind Media, and through reoccurring Cheap Art Days- the first of which is taking place this Sunday at a little home called Assa Ni Assa.

So, come on down to 1560 Humboldt Street and spend the day with your fellow Cheap Artists! We will be making all sorts of arts and crafts to keep or put up in our gallery (whichever the artist prefers). There will be acoustic music as well as refreshing food. Also, we will be holding a harmonica workshop in the afternoon! Everything is free, so come over and put your energy into the Sonoma County Cheap Art Movement!

Call 326-5274 for details.

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Cheap Art Day and Harmonica Workshop!

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Music, Events, Workshops, Cheap Art.

Come join us at our Cheap Art Day and Harmonica workshop at Assa ni Assa (1560 Humboldt in Santa Rosa) on Sunday the 16th of March!  We will have acoustic music to make art to and we will have Justin Walters facilitating a fun little workshop on how to play the harp!

Assa ni Assa is a wonderful home located on Humboldt Street in Santa Rosa.  The residents, Lena and Willow are amazing ladies.  Lena contributed the latest piece of Cheap Art to our gallery at Free Mind Media and Willow is the artist who is behind our monthly “Shady Dealings” comic.  Come on by their house and share the day with us!

For more information, call 707-326-5274.

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And Now… The Bite the Hand Society!

Posted on February 9th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Our Webpage, Operation:Venue, Bite the Hand Society, Needs/Haves, Music, Events, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, Workshops.

Bite the Hand Productions is founding a society at Sonoma State University! We will be using the society to provide more artistic and activist opportunities for university students and for our local community. Here are three main goals of that we will be working on:

1. To hold activities on campus that involve making food, art, and community. This entails workshops, field trips, discussions, publications, and demonstrations.
2. To serve as an interface between local artist/activists and the university population. This means arranging ways for local groups to get on campus and share what they do with the student body and faculty. It also involves bringing students out to local events.
3. To publish students’ work in The Pharmakon periodical and to distribute The Pharmakon throughout the university.

We are going through the chartering process right now and will be having meetings and events very soon! Keep checking our web site for updates!

Are you a JC or SSU student? We want to have more members among SSU students. We also want to start up a society at the JC. E-mail us at thepharmakon@gmail.com if you are interested!

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Improv Workshop #3!

Posted on January 19th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Immediate Theatre, Films, Events, Workshops.

Tomorrow is Sunday, January 20th and it is our third improv and storytelling workshop!  Call us at 326-5274 and come on by Bite the Hand Studios (935 Spencer St) from 2-5pm and have some fun!

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New Life in a New Year

Posted on January 4th, 2008 by The Captain.
Categories: Soundings, Immediate Theatre, Operation:Venue, The Crux, Events, Philosophy, Cheap Art, Workshops, The Pharmakon.

We are entering a new life in a new year. Bite the Hand Productions has a couple things to say during this time of rain, reflection, and journeys.

This is January and it is a time of change. All of our dreams and experiences past, all of our surroundings and thoughts alike are mushing together and transforming. At this magical time, we have these wishes:

May our land’s lack of venues and the pestilent boredom of our streets ferment into ectstatic insurrection and joyful presence in our homes.

May all of our personal and professional miscalculations and miscommunications serve to pollinate parts of our self and social awareness that we may have ignored in the past.

May those we love know our love and return it.

May we come together and rejoice in the acts that feed ourselves.

Already, we at Bite the Hand Productions can see the heap of history creating new life. We see great things in store in the upcoming year. In 2008, we can look forward to:

More issues than ever of The Pharmakon periodical coming every month all over Sonoma County!

Monthly improv and storytelling workshops as well as our “Feed Yourself” workshops with special guests!

Cheap Art craft days at Free Mind Media, where our community can meet and create art together to sell to the public!

New Bite the Hand events that we call “Soundings.” These are innovative collaborations between local artists and non-profit organizations. Look for our first one in March!

The first full-length album by The Crux will be coming out in 2008!

We are already plotting the Second Annual Insect Carnival for this August!

And so much more…

So, peace be with you on this New Year. A peace that pushes its roots deep into the pavement and touches the burning core of the Earth. A peace that is open to the winds of change and as stubborn as a mighty boulder. We wish you a good season of change and a greater awareness as the rain falls in waves. Let us be like the Roman god Janus, and look to the past and the future at the same time.

-Bite the Hand

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Improv Workshop #2: Success!

Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by The Captain.
Categories: Immediate Theatre, Events, Workshops.

On Sunday, December 2nd, we had our second Improv and Storytelling workshop!  It was themed “Spontaneity and Story” and it went marvelously!  A mix of experienced anf inexperienced improvisers met at Bite the Hand Studios with our facilitator, Josh Stithem.  We were boring, we were interesting, we found stories without even thinking!  Everyone was really pleased with the experience and it got us to thinking…

Could this lead to more frequent Improv and Storytelling workshops?  We think so.  Joshua is looking at our Bite the Hand schedule to see if we can start doing these at least twice a month.

 Could this lead to a performance group for Bite the Hand Productions?  That is an interesting question.  We have a lot of ideas for plays and performances.  Does anyone want to help us put on some shows…?

Leave a comment if you are interested in making some theatre in Sonoma County.

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Six Month Success!

Posted on November 19th, 2007 by The Captain.
Categories: The Boogie Room and Gardens, Free Mind Media, Food Not Bombs, The Crux, Music, Workshops, Events, Local Businesses and Non-Profits, The Pharmakon.

We had great time during our Six Month Spectacular this past Saturday! We played the music, danced the jig, ate the food, read The Pharmakon, drank the cider, and ate the grub!  Click on an of the images above to zoom in on them (they are pictures of Button Making, The Semi-Evolved Simians in our basement, and Food Not Bombs grub).

Something that was really amazing about this event was the fact that so many local organizations and collectives showed up together.  Here is a list of who represented themselves:

Bite the Hand Productions ran the whole shindig.  We booked the bands, sold The Pharmakon, organized the button making workshop, and the whole thing happened at Bite the Hand Studios.

Food Not Bombs made food for every guest.  No one went hungry and the grub went great with Bite the Hand’s Crux Theatre Bread (baked fresh that day).

Free Mind Media set up in the studio’s “Free Mind Free Nook” and sat happily, slinging information at the guests and discussing issues.

The Boogie Room and Gardens sold cider by candlelight.  They were fundraising for the ol’ B R and G.  Kyle Martin rocked our socks off!

The Pirate Punx and The Lost Boys showed up in astonishing numbers. These guys and girls can teach us a lot about community.

Lots of local groups (We know Brown Bangs and Lost Lamp Recording were in there in spirit!). It got us thinking… let’s co-ordinate our projects more and come together when we put on events! If we work together, we all will excel in our projects because the community will grow stronger and supportive. We can have more successful events like this Six Month Spectacular!

Of course, thanks to everyone who dug deep into their pockets and dished out some cash to Bite the Hand Productions!  We can now afford to print a jumbo-sized issue of The Pharmakon this December! We done good, folks.

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Our Second Improv Workshop!

Posted on November 19th, 2007 by The Captain.
Categories: Immediate Theatre, Events, Workshops.

Did you enjoy our last improv workshop?? Did you miss it and are kicking yourself in the pants?? Well kick no longer, because on Sunday, November 25th the crazy folks at Bite the Hand are doing it again!!

This month, our theme is “Spontaneity and Story.” We will be zooming in on methods that help us unlock our natural spontaneity and we’ll be learning how to enjoy following a story as we create it. It will be fun! We will work together! We will have snacks.

The workshop will be from 2pm-5pm on Sunday, November 25 at Bite the Hand Studios (935 Spencer St, Santa Rosa). Call 326-5274 for more details.

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