jennyarntzen.music

  Neighbourhood Folk practices a musical aesthetic of sharing and playing together rather performance or polish.  The 10 Principles of Burning Man Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the 10 Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed   Regional Network . They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception. Radical Inclusion Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community. Gifting Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. Decommodification In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand rea...

 

For our annual block party this year we tried something new. We hosted a folk festival on our front porch. Our concept was simple, we wanted to invite our family, friends, and neighbours to share a song or a story from our makeshift stage on the front porch. Any one musician could share up to three songs, and they could ask anyone they wanted to come and join them on the instrument of their choosing. There was no requirement for professional polish to the song sharing. It was more important to try something that took courage and passion, than it was to do something that had been polished to perfection. The stage was open from 2 pm to 6 pm. It was full of music the entire time. We had a tap-dancing ukulele player, performing for the first time. We had a well-known art furniture maker singing with a microphone for the first time. We had an accomplished general contractor singing in public for the first time. We had musicians who have performed for decades sharing their songs with a rag t...