Circus Jerk looking for performance tent

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:12 am

Circus Jerk needs a performance tent for our camp and we have to decide whether to a) rent, b) buy, or c) make it ourselves. Oddly enough, commissioning a company to make a striped circus tent for us is much cheaper (shipped from Oklahoma) than renting, but it's still expensive and they can't really do much in terms of artistic design.

We have resources and skills to build our own tent, about 20 feet in diameter, 14-feet high; you can check out our design on www.circusjerk.com. At this point we're leaning toward fabricating our own tent because we can make it exactly as we'd like and save some $$. But it IS a project. I wanted to poll you guys to see if anyone has advice or another suggestion for us. We thought about a hexayurt for about 10 mins, and then decided we really want the vintage circus thing-- but totally nailed down for the Playa winds.

We've got about two weeks before we have to make a decision. If you've got a tent that might work for us, let us know. If you've had experience building your own tent, say hi and we'll have questions for ya. Or if you just wanna say something, you can do that too!

Cheers, peeps!

Bluemandrew · Post by **Bluemandrew** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:09 pm

I read that quickly and thought it said "Circle Jerk"

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:59 pm

... how do you know it's not a typo? ;)

Actually that's intentional. If you check out our website, you'll see we're a gay circus camp.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:32 am

Looking forward to it.
Straight people can be jerks and clowns too, you know.

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:25 pm

I love burners... so cool and non-descript!

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:33 am

Thanks for your input!

wedeliver · Post by **wedeliver** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:54 am

have you looked at this tent?

from here:

http://www.nizamcanvas.com/tentmarket/party.htm

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:49 am

Thanks for this! Hadn't seen this one. We might need to pick one of these up.

trystanthegypsy · Post by **trystanthegypsy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:14 am

But will you have an aerials rig?

GoatWeedy · Post by **GoatWeedy** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:21 am

No... no aerial rig! :) We're actually scaling down quite a bit. We've experienced a few financial casualties, due to the economic downturn, and won't have the circus tent as planned. We're still working on putting together the public space, tho, and the events. NEXT YEAR... we hope to have the big tent.

Circus Jerk looking for performance tent

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Circus Jerk looking for performance tent

Well...

aw. sum!

Tent issue resolved

Hey wedeliver-

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