New Camp - Faux Forêt Cabaret and Fabularium

[Faux Forêt]

Faux Forêt and Erno are proud to announce a brand new Burning Man theme camp for 06 called the:

Faux Forêt Cabaret and Fabularium (see way below).

The camp is registered and should show up on the Burning Man web site any day now.

We are trying to gather a multifarious, committed community of 15 to 20 people with actors; readers; performers; creative geniuses; costume designers; set designers; musicians; prop handlers; technical wizards; projectionists; artists in many media; cheerleaders; hosts; goofs, and general tomfoolerers. This is a unique opportunity to build a community within the big community from the ground up. And it’s going to be wicked fun.

There will be a fast ramp up to get this all together in two months: lots of scavenging and building and testing to do, lots of dreaming, and creating, and composing; lot’s of ideas to percolate and put into action.

We have started a web site (just a pretty splash screen till next week) at:

http://www.fauxforet.com

We will have most features of the site going within the next few days, for now we can communicate by email.

If you are even remotely curious please contact us at:

[email protected]

On the web site we will have ongoing supply lists where we can log scavenged and purchased materials, member contacts, meeting schedules, participation lists, discussion forums, an accounting database for full transparency on expenditures, etc., links to burner sites, and whatever else we think we need. We will have public and private sections as the site will have links on regional burn sites, the burningman.com site, etc..

Also—this is important—this is about building a community, so please, pass this invitation to anyone you know who seems like that perfect match for what we’re setting out to do.

Cheers,

Faux Forêt

Here’s what the theme camp is all about:

Faux: There is no single word in English that encapsulates the breadth of meaning inherent in the French word “faux”. The French use it to describe any of the following:

adulterated, apocryphal, artificial, awkward, bent, buckled, copied, counterfeited, covered, derived, disguised, distorted, doctored, erroneous, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fiddled, fixed, fooled, fooling, forged, hidden, illusory, imaginary, imitated, inadmissible, incredible, indefensible, inexact, invented, mimicked, parodied, pastiche, perjured, plagiarized, pretended, rigged, secretive, sham, simulated, specious, strained, surreptitious, unbearable, unpunctual, untenable, untrue, warped, wrong

At the Faux Forêt Cabaret and Fabularium it can mean any, or all, of the above.

Forêt: The forest; the woods ; symbolically, it’s the dark creepy place that represents the unknown or the unfamiliar; it is the abyss, the precipice, the cave, the jungle, the heart of darkness, unspoken love, untested experience, unreached potential, unexpressed anger, hidden truths; it is a place that only the heroine or the healer can brave; home to creatures and crawly things, dastardly deviants and satans and satyrs and sirens and satirists, critics and crapauds, polemical poltergeists; it is Ann Coulter’s brain, Dick Cheney’s smirk; it is fear.

Yet, once discovered, or breached, or embraced, the forêt is a fantasy, a dreamscape, a serendipitous seraglio, a cornucopious carnival, a sanctuary, a hearth, a shelter, a community; it is Artemis and Gaia, a stage for bacchanalia and magical discourse; it is attainment and courage and harmony; it is a gathering place and a heartfelt hug; it is experience and knowledge and sharing ; it is the campfire and the copse and the glen; it is the experiment, the leap, the reach for the apple; it is the sensual shiver along the shoals, the slippery sensation of new tongues, new connections in the midst of calamity, new courage, new tastes, new voices; it is change it is momentum and radical expression; it is hope.

It is the Playa.

So what is a Faux Forêt?

The stories we tell, the webs we weave, the knots and unknottings we humans create to scare ourselves, bolster ourselves, manipulate ourselves are faux forêts. It is the fairy tale and the ghost story; it is disinformation and intentional fibbery; it is the spin; it is the jingle; it is pompous circumstance, tribal dance, tipsy tattling, spurious speculation; it is poetry; it is fact broken into a million little pieces, fiction erupting from a million monumental truths; it is the silly; it is the sacred; it is the diverse and the deviant, the delightful and the dark; it is what you make it.

Faux Forêt Cabaret and Fabularium . . .

. . . is a theater of the performed word or other forms emotive expression that tell a story. There will be scheduled and unscheduled readings, a well-stocked library of folk-, fairy-, fantasy-, epic-, trippy-, silly-, luscious-, subversive-, erotic-, psychotic-, hypnotic fiction for the folks.
We will have costumes and proppy things, amplification and audience participation, plenty of pillows and party favors, and occasional sippies and savories. We are a fictive forum for bubbly Bunburyists and bombastic burners, a place to speak up, flop down, or flop around. Bring us your stories and your voices, or your story and our voices, or our stories and your voices, or . . .