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<p><strong>HONK! Fest 2010: Band performances &#038; other fun in Harvard Square</strong><br />
<img alt="Writing Press Release" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4087/5084399293_4e9013035f.jpg" width="400"/><br/><br />
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9161595@N03/5084399293">Chris Devers</a></i><br />
Quoting from the <a href="http://honkfest.org/wp-content/images/2010-Press_Release.pdf" rel="nofollow">HONK! Festival 2010 – Press Release, including Participants &amp; Schedule of Events (as of 9/10/2010)</a></p>
<p><strong><em><u>HONK! FESTIVAL 2010</u></em></strong></p>
<p><span id="more-267"></span></p>
<p>FIFTH ANNUAL</p>
<p>this year featuring<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Veveritse</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Titanium Sporkestra</strong> (Seattle, WA)<br />
• <strong>Springville All Star Marching Band</strong> (Springville, NY)<br />
• <strong>Seed and Feed Marching Abominables</strong> (Atlanta, GA)<br />
• <strong>Rude Mechanical Orchestra</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Minor Mishap Marching Band</strong> (Austin, TX)<br />
• <strong>Leftist Marching Band</strong> (Portsmouth, NH)<br />
• <strong>Himalayas</strong> (NY, NY)<br />
• <strong>Extraordinary Rendition Band</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Environmental Encroachment</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>DJA-Rara</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Detroit Party Marching Band</strong> (Detroit, MI)<br />
• <strong>Bread and Puppet Circus Band</strong> (Glover, VT)<br />
• <strong>Brass Liberation Orchestra</strong> (Oakland, CA)<br />
• <strong>Black Bear Combo</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>Barrage Band Orchestra</strong> (Baltimore, MD)</p>
<p>with locals<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>AfroBrazil</strong><br />
• <strong>AMP</strong> (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band<br />
• <strong>Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers</strong><br />
• <strong>Dirty Water Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Expandable Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Factory Seconds</strong><br />
and<br />
• <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong></p>
<p>October 8-10</p>
<p>based<br />
in<br />
<strong>Davis Square, Somerville</strong><br />
&amp;<br />
<strong>Harvard Square, Cambridge</strong></p>
<p><strong>ALL</strong><br />
<strong>[EXCEPT FOR ONE VERY AFFORDABLE EVENT]</strong><br />
<strong>FREE AND OPEN TO ALL</strong></p>
<p>(Somerville &amp; Cambridge, MA) Born out of a need for street bands to celebrate their social activist side, the increasingly popular <strong>HONK! Festival</strong> is back for a 5 year with opportunities galore for participants and festival goers to enjoy themselves immensely. Rain or shine on Columbus Day weekend, October 8-10, the streets primarily in and around Davis Sq. and spilling out into Harvard Square will be teeming with bands raising a good time ruckus.</p>
<p>The confirmed <strong>HONK! band count is currently at 25, with one to two new ones being added weekly. But when the</strong> final count is in, this year up to 30, there’ll still be no stopping individuals who suddenly feel the need to jump in at the last minute. In today’s parlance, HONK! 2010 already has an app for that! Opportunities abound not only for festival invitees but for the spur of the moment merry maker, including a chance to play music with the October 10th impromptu “community band” made up of individual musicians, who are not affiliated with any of this year’s <strong>HONK! bands, but are interested in participating in the gigantic HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet.</strong></p>
<p>Festival updates can be found at <a href="http://www.honkfest.org" rel="nofollow">www.honkfest.org</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/honkfest/" rel="nofollow">twitter.com/honkfest/</a>, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/honkfestival" rel="nofollow">www.facebook.com/honkfestival</a>, or by calling 617-383-HONK (4665). Listed on the next few pages is the festival schedule as it now stands:</p>
<p>2010 WEEKEND SCHEDULE:</p>
<p>Friday, October 8, 1-5 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! In The Neighborhoods</u></em></strong><br />
Visiting HONK! bands will team up with their local counterparts to perform and interact at several Boston-area Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as at other non-profit venues or gatherings. At this writing the following clubs and organizations who will be participating are:<br />
Yawkey Club of Roxbury, 115 Warren St., Roxbury; Charlestown Club, 15 Green Street, Charlestown; Blue Hill Club, 15 Talbot Ave., Dorchester; South Boston Club, 230 West Sixth Street, South Boston; Union Square Main Streets, Union Square, Somerville; Zumix, 260 Summer St., East Boston; and the Food Not Bombs gathering at Park St. on the Boston Common.<br />
Many of these events are free and open to all.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Saturday, October 9, 12:30 pm-9 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! On Davis Square</u></em></strong><br />
Up to 30 activist street bands, from near and far, will perform outdoors for free. An Opening Ceremony to be held at 12:30 pm in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade.</strong><br />
Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, noon-2 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet</u></em></strong><br />
Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge, the parade will feature all the <strong>HONK! bands</strong>, plus the <strong>Bread &amp; Puppet Theater</strong>, the impromptu <strong>“community band,”</strong> and many local arts and community organizations, such as <strong>Green Streets Initiative, Bikes Not Bombs, 350.org, Open Air Circus, Puppeteers Cooperative, Livable Streets</strong>, and <strong>Sprout</strong>. The parade assembles at 11 am, and the route starts in Davis Square, Somerville, at noon, making its way to <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong> celebration in Cambridge. To participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contact parade@honkfest.org.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus<br />
connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 2-6 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! at Oktoberfest</u></em></strong><br />
Several HONK! bands will be featured in <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong>.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information, visit <a href="http://www.harvardsquare.com" rel="nofollow">www.harvardsquare.com</a>, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 8 pm-midnight<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Blow-Out</u></em></strong><br />
Featuring all the HONK! bands, performing up to 10 minute sets each. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA- Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong>.<br />
Somerville Theatre<br />
55 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Ticket:  general admission.<br />
For tickets and information: (617) 625-5700, <a href="http://http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/" rel="nofollow">http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/</a></p>
<p>Leading up to this year’s Columbus Day weekend events, there are several preliminary events worth noting:</p>
<p>Through Thursday, September 30, 2010:<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Photo Exhibit</u></em></strong><br />
Features 7 photographers: <strong>Greg Cook, Tiffany Knight, Mark Dannenhauer, Jesse Edsell-Vetter, Benjamin Greenberg, Chris Yeager &amp; Akos Szilvasi</strong>. Their photos are inspired by HONK! Festival 2009.<br />
The <strong>Inside-Outside Gallery</strong> (aka the CVS windows)<br />
CVS Pharmacy<br />
1 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all.<br />
For more information, photoshow@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Monday, September 13, 7-8:30 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>We Love HONK! Volunteers Meeting</u></em></strong><br />
Sign-up gathering to help in all the ways that make HONK! possible. Individuals and groups interested in participating in the parade, to be held from noon-2 pm on October 10th, are also encouraged to attend. Fun is guaranteed!<br />
Somerville Public Library (West Branch)<br />
40 College Ave., Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact volunteers@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Tuesday, September 21, 10 am-11 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>Flatbread Pizza For HONK! Benefit</u></em></strong><br />
All day, with a special 7:30 pm performance by the <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong>. Flatbread in Somerville is donating a portion of the cost of every pizza pie purchased during the day to the <strong>HONK! Festival</strong>.<br />
Flatbread Company<br />
45 Day Street, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact benefit@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival is a good idea coming to fruition. A need had been identified, not only on the part of musicians — of a particular persuasion — who have a penchant for gathering to raise a awareness about issues that need attention. But also a need is there on the part of the audience — not necessarily of any persuasion — to bask in the glow of this unusual phenomenon.</p>
<p>As often as bands congregate to HONK in protest, they also perform to celebrate the causes and institutions they support: multicultural festivals, peace conferences, social forums, artists’ collectives, community gardens, block parties, neighborhood fundraisers, relief benefits and homeless shelters. In every case, the HONKers’ ultimate goal is to have fun, to relish the art of making fun as a form of individual and collective transcendence, and to encourage others to see and do the same.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival Committee would like to give special thanks to the following for their support of this year’s<br />
HONK! Festival: <strong>City of Somerville</strong>, the <strong>Somerville Arts Council</strong>, RESIST, <strong>Harvard Square Business Association</strong>, <strong>Davis Square businesses</strong>, and last but not least, the local <strong>Davis Square community</strong>, whose support in terms of in-kind donations of food and public services, housing for upwards of 300 musicians, and cash contributions, is vital to keeping the HONK! effort going.</p>
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<p><strong>HONK! Fest 2010: Parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square</strong><br />
<img alt="Writing Press Release" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4099/5074040438_6519c16084.jpg" width="400"/><br/><br />
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9161595@N03/5074040438">Chris Devers</a></i><br />
Quoting from the <a href="http://honkfest.org/wp-content/images/2010-Press_Release.pdf" rel="nofollow">HONK! Festival 2010 – Press Release, including Participants &amp; Schedule of Events (as of 9/10/2010)</a></p>
<p><strong><em><u>HONK! FESTIVAL 2010</u></em></strong></p>
<p>FIFTH ANNUAL</p>
<p>this year featuring<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Veveritse</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Titanium Sporkestra</strong> (Seattle, WA)<br />
• <strong>Springville All Star Marching Band</strong> (Springville, NY)<br />
• <strong>Seed and Feed Marching Abominables</strong> (Atlanta, GA)<br />
• <strong>Rude Mechanical Orchestra</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Minor Mishap Marching Band</strong> (Austin, TX)<br />
• <strong>Leftist Marching Band</strong> (Portsmouth, NH)<br />
• <strong>Himalayas</strong> (NY, NY)<br />
• <strong>Extraordinary Rendition Band</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Environmental Encroachment</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>DJA-Rara</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Detroit Party Marching Band</strong> (Detroit, MI)<br />
• <strong>Bread and Puppet Circus Band</strong> (Glover, VT)<br />
• <strong>Brass Liberation Orchestra</strong> (Oakland, CA)<br />
• <strong>Black Bear Combo</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>Barrage Band Orchestra</strong> (Baltimore, MD)</p>
<p>with locals<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>AfroBrazil</strong><br />
• <strong>AMP</strong> (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band<br />
• <strong>Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers</strong><br />
• <strong>Dirty Water Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Expandable Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Factory Seconds</strong><br />
and<br />
• <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong></p>
<p>October 8-10</p>
<p>based<br />
in<br />
<strong>Davis Square, Somerville</strong><br />
&amp;<br />
<strong>Harvard Square, Cambridge</strong></p>
<p><strong>ALL</strong><br />
<strong>[EXCEPT FOR ONE VERY AFFORDABLE EVENT]</strong><br />
<strong>FREE AND OPEN TO ALL</strong></p>
<p>(Somerville &amp; Cambridge, MA) Born out of a need for street bands to celebrate their social activist side, the increasingly popular <strong>HONK! Festival</strong> is back for a 5 year with opportunities galore for participants and festival goers to enjoy themselves immensely. Rain or shine on Columbus Day weekend, October 8-10, the streets primarily in and around Davis Sq. and spilling out into Harvard Square will be teeming with bands raising a good time ruckus.</p>
<p>The confirmed <strong>HONK! band count is currently at 25, with one to two new ones being added weekly. But when the</strong> final count is in, this year up to 30, there’ll still be no stopping individuals who suddenly feel the need to jump in at the last minute. In today’s parlance, HONK! 2010 already has an app for that! Opportunities abound not only for festival invitees but for the spur of the moment merry maker, including a chance to play music with the October 10th impromptu “community band” made up of individual musicians, who are not affiliated with any of this year’s <strong>HONK! bands, but are interested in participating in the gigantic HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet.</strong></p>
<p>Festival updates can be found at <a href="http://www.honkfest.org" rel="nofollow">www.honkfest.org</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/honkfest/" rel="nofollow">twitter.com/honkfest/</a>, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/honkfestival" rel="nofollow">www.facebook.com/honkfestival</a>, or by calling 617-383-HONK (4665). Listed on the next few pages is the festival schedule as it now stands:</p>
<p>2010 WEEKEND SCHEDULE:</p>
<p>Friday, October 8, 1-5 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! In The Neighborhoods</u></em></strong><br />
Visiting HONK! bands will team up with their local counterparts to perform and interact at several Boston-area Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as at other non-profit venues or gatherings. At this writing the following clubs and organizations who will be participating are:<br />
Yawkey Club of Roxbury, 115 Warren St., Roxbury; Charlestown Club, 15 Green Street, Charlestown; Blue Hill Club, 15 Talbot Ave., Dorchester; South Boston Club, 230 West Sixth Street, South Boston; Union Square Main Streets, Union Square, Somerville; Zumix, 260 Summer St., East Boston; and the Food Not Bombs gathering at Park St. on the Boston Common.<br />
Many of these events are free and open to all.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Saturday, October 9, 12:30 pm-9 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! On Davis Square</u></em></strong><br />
Up to 30 activist street bands, from near and far, will perform outdoors for free. An Opening Ceremony to be held at 12:30 pm in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade.</strong><br />
Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, noon-2 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet</u></em></strong><br />
Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge, the parade will feature all the <strong>HONK! bands</strong>, plus the <strong>Bread &amp; Puppet Theater</strong>, the impromptu <strong>“community band,”</strong> and many local arts and community organizations, such as <strong>Green Streets Initiative, Bikes Not Bombs, 350.org, Open Air Circus, Puppeteers Cooperative, Livable Streets</strong>, and <strong>Sprout</strong>. The parade assembles at 11 am, and the route starts in Davis Square, Somerville, at noon, making its way to <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong> celebration in Cambridge. To participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contact parade@honkfest.org.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus<br />
connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 2-6 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! at Oktoberfest</u></em></strong><br />
Several HONK! bands will be featured in <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong>.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information, visit <a href="http://www.harvardsquare.com" rel="nofollow">www.harvardsquare.com</a>, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 8 pm-midnight<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Blow-Out</u></em></strong><br />
Featuring all the HONK! bands, performing up to 10 minute sets each. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA- Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong>.<br />
Somerville Theatre<br />
55 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Ticket:  general admission.<br />
For tickets and information: (617) 625-5700, <a href="http://http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/" rel="nofollow">http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/</a></p>
<p>Leading up to this year’s Columbus Day weekend events, there are several preliminary events worth noting:</p>
<p>Through Thursday, September 30, 2010:<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Photo Exhibit</u></em></strong><br />
Features 7 photographers: <strong>Greg Cook, Tiffany Knight, Mark Dannenhauer, Jesse Edsell-Vetter, Benjamin Greenberg, Chris Yeager &amp; Akos Szilvasi</strong>. Their photos are inspired by HONK! Festival 2009.<br />
The <strong>Inside-Outside Gallery</strong> (aka the CVS windows)<br />
CVS Pharmacy<br />
1 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all.<br />
For more information, photoshow@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Monday, September 13, 7-8:30 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>We Love HONK! Volunteers Meeting</u></em></strong><br />
Sign-up gathering to help in all the ways that make HONK! possible. Individuals and groups interested in participating in the parade, to be held from noon-2 pm on October 10th, are also encouraged to attend. Fun is guaranteed!<br />
Somerville Public Library (West Branch)<br />
40 College Ave., Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact volunteers@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Tuesday, September 21, 10 am-11 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>Flatbread Pizza For HONK! Benefit</u></em></strong><br />
All day, with a special 7:30 pm performance by the <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong>. Flatbread in Somerville is donating a portion of the cost of every pizza pie purchased during the day to the <strong>HONK! Festival</strong>.<br />
Flatbread Company<br />
45 Day Street, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact benefit@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival is a good idea coming to fruition. A need had been identified, not only on the part of musicians — of a particular persuasion — who have a penchant for gathering to raise a awareness about issues that need attention. But also a need is there on the part of the audience — not necessarily of any persuasion — to bask in the glow of this unusual phenomenon.</p>
<p>As often as bands congregate to HONK in protest, they also perform to celebrate the causes and institutions they support: multicultural festivals, peace conferences, social forums, artists’ collectives, community gardens, block parties, neighborhood fundraisers, relief benefits and homeless shelters. In every case, the HONKers’ ultimate goal is to have fun, to relish the art of making fun as a form of individual and collective transcendence, and to encourage others to see and do the same.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival Committee would like to give special thanks to the following for their support of this year’s<br />
HONK! Festival: <strong>City of Somerville</strong>, the <strong>Somerville Arts Council</strong>, RESIST, <strong>Harvard Square Business Association</strong>, <strong>Davis Square businesses</strong>, and last but not least, the local <strong>Davis Square community</strong>, whose support in terms of in-kind donations of food and public services, housing for upwards of 300 musicians, and cash contributions, is vital to keeping the HONK! effort going.</p>
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<p><strong>HONK! Fest 2010: Band performances &#038; other fun in Harvard Square</strong><br />
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<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9161595@N03/5084363589">Chris Devers</a></i><br />
Quoting from the <a href="http://honkfest.org/wp-content/images/2010-Press_Release.pdf" rel="nofollow">HONK! Festival 2010 – Press Release, including Participants &amp; Schedule of Events (as of 9/10/2010)</a></p>
<p><strong><em><u>HONK! FESTIVAL 2010</u></em></strong></p>
<p><span id="more-266"></span></p>
<p>FIFTH ANNUAL</p>
<p>this year featuring<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Veveritse</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Titanium Sporkestra</strong> (Seattle, WA)<br />
• <strong>Springville All Star Marching Band</strong> (Springville, NY)<br />
• <strong>Seed and Feed Marching Abominables</strong> (Atlanta, GA)<br />
• <strong>Rude Mechanical Orchestra</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Minor Mishap Marching Band</strong> (Austin, TX)<br />
• <strong>Leftist Marching Band</strong> (Portsmouth, NH)<br />
• <strong>Himalayas</strong> (NY, NY)<br />
• <strong>Extraordinary Rendition Band</strong> (Providence, RI)<br />
• <strong>Environmental Encroachment</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>DJA-Rara</strong> (Brooklyn, NY)<br />
• <strong>Detroit Party Marching Band</strong> (Detroit, MI)<br />
• <strong>Bread and Puppet Circus Band</strong> (Glover, VT)<br />
• <strong>Brass Liberation Orchestra</strong> (Oakland, CA)<br />
• <strong>Black Bear Combo</strong> (Chicago, IL)<br />
• <strong>Barrage Band Orchestra</strong> (Baltimore, MD)</p>
<p>with locals<br />
[subject to revision]</p>
<p>• <strong>AfroBrazil</strong><br />
• <strong>AMP</strong> (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band<br />
• <strong>Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers</strong><br />
• <strong>Dirty Water Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Expandable Brass Band</strong><br />
• <strong>Factory Seconds</strong><br />
and<br />
• <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong></p>
<p>October 8-10</p>
<p>based<br />
in<br />
<strong>Davis Square, Somerville</strong><br />
&amp;<br />
<strong>Harvard Square, Cambridge</strong></p>
<p><strong>ALL</strong><br />
<strong>[EXCEPT FOR ONE VERY AFFORDABLE EVENT]</strong><br />
<strong>FREE AND OPEN TO ALL</strong></p>
<p>(Somerville &amp; Cambridge, MA) Born out of a need for street bands to celebrate their social activist side, the increasingly popular <strong>HONK! Festival</strong> is back for a 5 year with opportunities galore for participants and festival goers to enjoy themselves immensely. Rain or shine on Columbus Day weekend, October 8-10, the streets primarily in and around Davis Sq. and spilling out into Harvard Square will be teeming with bands raising a good time ruckus.</p>
<p>The confirmed <strong>HONK! band count is currently at 25, with one to two new ones being added weekly. But when the</strong> final count is in, this year up to 30, there’ll still be no stopping individuals who suddenly feel the need to jump in at the last minute. In today’s parlance, HONK! 2010 already has an app for that! Opportunities abound not only for festival invitees but for the spur of the moment merry maker, including a chance to play music with the October 10th impromptu “community band” made up of individual musicians, who are not affiliated with any of this year’s <strong>HONK! bands, but are interested in participating in the gigantic HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet.</strong></p>
<p>Festival updates can be found at <a href="http://www.honkfest.org" rel="nofollow">www.honkfest.org</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/honkfest/" rel="nofollow">twitter.com/honkfest/</a>, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/honkfestival" rel="nofollow">www.facebook.com/honkfestival</a>, or by calling 617-383-HONK (4665). Listed on the next few pages is the festival schedule as it now stands:</p>
<p>2010 WEEKEND SCHEDULE:</p>
<p>Friday, October 8, 1-5 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! In The Neighborhoods</u></em></strong><br />
Visiting HONK! bands will team up with their local counterparts to perform and interact at several Boston-area Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as at other non-profit venues or gatherings. At this writing the following clubs and organizations who will be participating are:<br />
Yawkey Club of Roxbury, 115 Warren St., Roxbury; Charlestown Club, 15 Green Street, Charlestown; Blue Hill Club, 15 Talbot Ave., Dorchester; South Boston Club, 230 West Sixth Street, South Boston; Union Square Main Streets, Union Square, Somerville; Zumix, 260 Summer St., East Boston; and the Food Not Bombs gathering at Park St. on the Boston Common.<br />
Many of these events are free and open to all.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Saturday, October 9, 12:30 pm-9 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! On Davis Square</u></em></strong><br />
Up to 30 activist street bands, from near and far, will perform outdoors for free. An Opening Ceremony to be held at 12:30 pm in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade.</strong><br />
Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, noon-2 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet</u></em></strong><br />
Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge, the parade will feature all the <strong>HONK! bands</strong>, plus the <strong>Bread &amp; Puppet Theater</strong>, the impromptu <strong>“community band,”</strong> and many local arts and community organizations, such as <strong>Green Streets Initiative, Bikes Not Bombs, 350.org, Open Air Circus, Puppeteers Cooperative, Livable Streets</strong>, and <strong>Sprout</strong>. The parade assembles at 11 am, and the route starts in Davis Square, Somerville, at noon, making its way to <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong> celebration in Cambridge. To participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contact parade@honkfest.org.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus<br />
connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 2-6 pm<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! at Oktoberfest</u></em></strong><br />
Several HONK! bands will be featured in <strong>Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest</strong>.<br />
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all; rain or shine.<br />
For information, visit <a href="http://www.harvardsquare.com" rel="nofollow">www.harvardsquare.com</a>, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com</p>
<p>Sunday, October 10, 8 pm-midnight<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Blow-Out</u></em></strong><br />
Featuring all the HONK! bands, performing up to 10 minute sets each. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: <strong>AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA- Rara, Emperor Norton&#8217;s Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse</strong>, and <strong>What Cheer? Brigade</strong>.<br />
Somerville Theatre<br />
55 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Ticket:  general admission.<br />
For tickets and information: (617) 625-5700, <a href="http://http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/" rel="nofollow">http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/</a></p>
<p>Leading up to this year’s Columbus Day weekend events, there are several preliminary events worth noting:</p>
<p>Through Thursday, September 30, 2010:<br />
<strong><em><u>HONK! Photo Exhibit</u></em></strong><br />
Features 7 photographers: <strong>Greg Cook, Tiffany Knight, Mark Dannenhauer, Jesse Edsell-Vetter, Benjamin Greenberg, Chris Yeager &amp; Akos Szilvasi</strong>. Their photos are inspired by HONK! Festival 2009.<br />
The <strong>Inside-Outside Gallery</strong> (aka the CVS windows)<br />
CVS Pharmacy<br />
1 Davis Square, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
Free and open to all.<br />
For more information, photoshow@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Monday, September 13, 7-8:30 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>We Love HONK! Volunteers Meeting</u></em></strong><br />
Sign-up gathering to help in all the ways that make HONK! possible. Individuals and groups interested in participating in the parade, to be held from noon-2 pm on October 10th, are also encouraged to attend. Fun is guaranteed!<br />
Somerville Public Library (West Branch)<br />
40 College Ave., Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact volunteers@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>Tuesday, September 21, 10 am-11 pm:<br />
<strong><em><u>Flatbread Pizza For HONK! Benefit</u></em></strong><br />
All day, with a special 7:30 pm performance by the <strong>Second Line Social Aid &amp; Pleasure Society Brass Band</strong>. Flatbread in Somerville is donating a portion of the cost of every pizza pie purchased during the day to the <strong>HONK! Festival</strong>.<br />
Flatbread Company<br />
45 Day Street, Somerville<br />
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]<br />
For more information, contact benefit@honkfest.org.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival is a good idea coming to fruition. A need had been identified, not only on the part of musicians — of a particular persuasion — who have a penchant for gathering to raise a awareness about issues that need attention. But also a need is there on the part of the audience — not necessarily of any persuasion — to bask in the glow of this unusual phenomenon.</p>
<p>As often as bands congregate to HONK in protest, they also perform to celebrate the causes and institutions they support: multicultural festivals, peace conferences, social forums, artists’ collectives, community gardens, block parties, neighborhood fundraisers, relief benefits and homeless shelters. In every case, the HONKers’ ultimate goal is to have fun, to relish the art of making fun as a form of individual and collective transcendence, and to encourage others to see and do the same.</p>
<p>The HONK! Festival Committee would like to give special thanks to the following for their support of this year’s<br />
HONK! Festival: <strong>City of Somerville</strong>, the <strong>Somerville Arts Council</strong>, RESIST, <strong>Harvard Square Business Association</strong>, <strong>Davis Square businesses</strong>, and last but not least, the local <strong>Davis Square community</strong>, whose support in terms of in-kind donations of food and public services, housing for upwards of 300 musicians, and cash contributions, is vital to keeping the HONK! effort going.</p>
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<p><strong>Wolf River &#8211; head of navigation</strong><br />
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<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/86039650@N00/110252520">Gary Bridgman</a></i><br />
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<p>Late April 1998. Raymond Skinner prepares his canoe at the head of navigation of the Wolf River. This is in the upper part of the Holly Springs National Forest in Benton County, Mississippi. The river flows north from there into West Tennessee&#8217;s Fayette County and into Memphis, where it spills into the Mississippi. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfriver/sets/72157594572079868/">There are a lot more images of our exploits on the Wolf River here.</a></p>
<p>Here is my account of this canoe trip, published in <i>Oxford Town</i>  and the the Wolf River Conservancy&#8217;s newsletter in the summer of 1998.</p>
<p><b>A River Creeps Through It</b></p>
<p>by Gary Bridgman</p>
<p><i>OT editor&#8217;s note: On May 1, 1998, Ole Miss graduate student, William &quot;Fitz&quot; FitzGerald, became the first person in recorded history to travel the entire length of the Wolf River. WRC board member and Oxford, MS, resident, Gary Bridgman, became the second person to do this&#8230;about three seconds later (he was in the back of the canoe), as the two completed the &quot;Wolf River Survey.&quot; Gary and Fitz hiked and paddled from Baker&#8217;s Pond to the foot of Union Avenue to help raise awareness about the river as a whole. Sponsors included the Wolf River Conservancy, Outdoors Inc., Ghost River Canoe Rentals, and BellSouth Mobility. What follows is Gary&#8217;s rather unscientific, non-chronological account of the trip.</i></p>
<p>There&#8217;s a distinction between being drunk on a river and being drunk <i>with</i> a river. One does not need alcohol or drugs to have mind altering (or life changing) experiences in a canoe. Fast moving streams like the Nantahala and the Ocoee are what I call &quot;adrenaline rivers,&quot; while the Wolf is an &quot;endorphin river.&quot; It offers canoeists a priceless glimpse of what all other rivers&#8217; headwaters in this region looked like before the Corps of Engineers channelized them. </p>
<p>William Faulkner described such swampy, untamed rivers as &quot;the thick, slow, black, unsunned streams almost without current, which once each year ceased to flow at all and then reversed, spreading, drowning the rich land and subsiding again, leaving it still richer.&quot; They are intoxicating, to say the least. </p>
<p>The Wolf River is teeming with wildlife and wetland vegetation, but my favorite part about our recent &quot;expedition&quot; was not its biodiversity, but its psychodiversity: all the interesting people I met in the process &#8212; interesting people like the two cops who almost busted us for vagrancy. </p>
<p><i>&quot;Good Cop/Bad Cop&quot; </i><br />
Memphis, May 1, 8 miles from the Mississippi River: &quot;Hey! Get up! MPD!&quot; shouts a Memphis police officer. </p>
<p>William FitzGerald (&quot;Fitz&quot;) and I are stumbling out of the tent into the glare of their Mag-Lites, my left leg is still tangled in my sleeping bag. </p>
<p>&quot;What are you doing here?&quot; the other officer calmly asks. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s 3 a.m. We are camped illegally in a city park located on the Wolf, having built an equally illegal campfire. I&#8217;ve explained that we aren&#8217;t vagrants and that there is a canoe hidden in the tall grass over there and that we&#8217;re paddling the entire length of this river on behalf of the Wolf River Conservancy. </p>
<p>Now the policemen are more relaxed. They&#8217;re even giving me pointers on how to delay being raped or murdered in case some of the local toughs come by. (It didn&#8217;t look like a rough neighborhood from the river.) </p>
<p>We had been at it for six days by the time the police woke us up in Kennedy Park: hiking and paddling (and wading) some 90 miles by that point. Just a few more miles to go to reach the Mississippi River . . . . </p>
<p><i>&quot;Thirteen Weeks Earlier&quot; </i></p>
<p><b>Moscow, Tenn., January 24:</b> The whole thing started when my friend Chris Stahl, who runs a canoe rental service on the Wolf River, asked me how he could attract more people to the river. &quot;Canoe the whole thing in one lick, man,&quot; I said, not very helpfully. </p>
<p>Chris was asking me for ideas about popular day trips for families and church groups, not about some kind of pilgrimage out of the heart of darkness into the middle of industrial North Memphis. There were remote sections of that river no one had navigated in decades &#8212; too shallow, too narrow, too overgrown, too full of fallen trees. We could count on crawling out of the canoe to lift it over logs several hundred times in the process. </p>
<p>Chris liked my thinking anyhow, but business commitments and common sense kept him on the shore for most of the trip. So I enlisted Fitz to make the trip with me instead. From January onward, one or both of us spent nearly every weekend scouting different sections of the river and meeting peculiar people. </p>
<p><b>Walnut, Miss., February 8:</b> &quot;You can put this in the Bible if you want to, but I like snakes more than I like most people,&quot; said one man we met while scouting a swamp. &quot;You can trust a cottonmouth; all you have to do is know how his mind works.&quot; He viewed our &quot;People&#8217;s Republic of Oxford&quot; Lafayette County license tags with suspicion, wondering if we were more &quot;dope smoking a__holes&quot; trespassing on his land, but we&#8217;ve since developed an interesting friendship. </p>
<p>&quot;Gary, so far I think you&#8217;re a decent person, but if you ever cross me, I can give away one of my motorcycles to someone in Memphis who&#8217;ll do anything to you that I ask!&quot; Great. I gave up being a Republican for this? </p>
<p><i>&quot;The Trip Begins&quot; </i></p>
<p><b>Baker&#8217;s Pond, Holly Springs National Forest, April 25, 98 miles from the Mississippi River: </b>We had to hike around and wade through 18 miles of swampy bottomland this first day of the actual trip. (Our canoes were waiting for us downstream). </p>
<p>When we scrambled up to the first dirt road that crossed the Wolf, a nice lady in curlers skidded her old pickup truck to a halt beside us. &quot;Are y&#8217;all the canoe people?&quot; she asked with a disbelieving smile. We were now 30 seconds into our 15 minutes of fame. </p>
<p><b>Canaan, Mississippi, April 26, 80 miles from the Mississippi River:</b> This was the hardest day of canoeing in my short life. <i>Fitz and I were joined by Ray Skinner (pictured above) and Bill Lawrence, who is something of a Yoda or Ben Kenobe figure in the uppermost Wolf and an invaluable guide to us for this section.</i> We pulled our gear-heavy canoe out of the shallow water and over fallen trees almost every 150 feet of river channel. We only made five miles that day. It rained its butt off that night, which was good. Come Hell or high water, I&#8217;ll take the latter. </p>
<p><i>&quot;More Cops, Three Mayors, and a Waitress&quot; </i></p>
<p><b>LaGrange, Tenn., April 27, 60 miles from the Mississippi River:</b> I was driven up to town from the river bottom by a Fayette County sheriff&#8217;s deputy at the end of a long, but very productive day &#8212; triple the mileage of the day before. The deputy had been dispatched at the request of Mayor John Huffman of nearby Piperton, Tennessee. </p>
<p>John, who is also the president of the Wolf River Conservancy, was having a lot of fun keeping track of us via walkie-talkies. Here&#8217;s an excerpt from and e-mail he copied to dozens of people two hours later: &quot;Who would like to bet that this was the only time in young Bridgman&#8217;s life that he was happy to find out that the Law was looking for him? With the lightning and heavy rain present in Fayette County, they are no doubt thinking about how it might of been if they had not made it to LaGrange and been forced to camp along the river.&quot; </p>
<p>Actually &#8212; at that very moment &#8212; I was thinking about pouring another glass of cabernet while that massive thunderstorm was making the lights flicker. Fitz and I were holed up in a bed &amp; breakfast two miles upland, owned by a Conservancy member. I refilled the glass of LaGrange&#8217;s mayor, Lucy Cogbill, who stopped by to check on us and enjoy a dry view of the passing monsoon from the back porch. </p>
<p>But I was also thinking about how the mayor of Rossville, Tennessee (25 miles downstream) didn&#8217;t give a crap about our expedition because he was having to supervise the partial evacuation of his town due to flash flooding. </p>
<p>My friend Naomi visited briefly, then drove west back into Memphis along the length of the river&#8217;s floodplain. &quot;Driving out of LaGrange,&quot; Naomi wrote in her own mass e-mail report, &quot;the radio was reporting: flood advisories for Collierville; tornadoes in northern Mississippi; and flash flooding, evacuations, and possible road closure at Rossville. This should make for a speedy and exhilarating ride for Gary and Fitz tomorrow.&quot; </p>
<p><b>Rossville, Tenn., April 28, 45 miles from the Mississippi River:</b> Exhilarating. Right. More like &quot;intimidating,&quot; as we constantly ducked under tree limbs that were coming at us at twice their normal speed. I took the only unplanned swim of the trip after being swept out of the canoe by one of those passing limbs. </p>
<p>Fitz is a very even-tempered First Lieutenant in the National Guard, but he sounded more like a drill sergeant as he coached me up onto a half-submerged tree. &quot;Get up on that tree, Bridgman! Let&#8217;s get some adrenaline flowing!&quot; he shouted. I obeyed both commands. Fitz carefully maneuvered the canoe underneath my unsteady perch, enabling me to flop down into the boat like a stunned raccoon. </p>
<p>That night, near Rossville, we stayed in a hotel after stuffing ourselves at the Wolf River Cafe. Our waitress, Dorene, was the first of many people to give us the once-over, trying to figure out why we were wearing two-way radios and carrying cell phones while our shabby personal appearance suggested that we lived in an abandoned station wagon. </p>
<p>Earlier that morning, Fitz and I floated through the most amazing stretch of the river, known popularly as the Ghost River section. </p>
<p>Keith Kirkland once described it this way: &quot;About halfway through the trip, small braids of river begin to split off the main channel, disappearing into a dense, standing-water Cypress-Tupelo Gum swamp just before the river abruptly hits a dead end. Only one among the dozens of narrow, twisting corridors splitting off to the left of your canoe will lead you through the full mile of swamp. The rest dissolve into a forest of impassable knees and floating islands of Itea and Buttonbush. The river seems to be everywhere, but nowhere &#8211; like a disorienting funhouse hall of mirrors.&quot; </p>
<p>April 28 was my 35th float through the Ghost River section and in our haste we paddled it in near-record time, but it&#8217;s never, ever a &quot;routine&quot; trip for me. I see something new and wonderful every time! </p>
<p><b>Germantown, Tenn., April 29, 15 miles from the Mississippi:</b> The next mayor on our itinerary was Germantown&#8217;s Sharon Goldsworthy, who fed us her prized beef stew and corn muffins while hearing about our progress. </p>
<p>The next cop on our itinerary was at Germantown Centre, the city&#8217;s sprawling performing arts and recreation complex. </p>
<p>&quot;Hello, Mayor!&quot; he said in a cheerful-yet-bewildered tone as Sharon walked us through the health club on the way to the showers. It was fun watching his eyes dart back and forth between his commander-in-chief and the two muddy hoboes trailing her. </p>
<p><i>&quot;The Voyage Home&quot; </i></p>
<p><b>Memphis, May 1, 0.5 miles from the Mississippi:</b> The journey began where the Wolf River is three feet wide, in a county that hasn&#8217;t a single traffic light. On this last day, in the shadow of the Pyramid, it was nearly 300 yards wide. </p>
<p>I was glad to see that Wood Ducks and Great Blue Heron were thriving on the river all the way downtown. </p>
<p>As we passed under the Hernando DeSoto Bridge (which also spans the Mississippi) and then the monorail bridge leading to Mud Island, within sight of the mouth of the river, we heard a terrible racket: screaming school children. </p>
<p>&quot;Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? Gary and Fitz! Yeahhhhh!&quot; they chanted, having been tipped off about us earlier. </p>
<p>This &quot;endorphin river&quot; was becoming more of a hallucinogenic river. Speaking of which . . . </p>
<p>The night after my first float through the Ghost River section, in 1992, I had a weird dream. No plot to it really, just an image of the water slowly flowing in the darkness, beneath the canopy of trees and dense shrub and rotten logs, while I lay safe in my Midtown Memphis home. </p>
<p>I remember feeling strangely guilty that I wasn&#8217;t still out there with the current, but also relieved to no longer be in that stygian gloom. I&#8217;ve since come to love that gloom, and all the surrounding light that defines it. And as Fitz and I neared the Mississippi River, I knew that I had finally accompanied that current all the way to its home. </p>
<p><i>Gary Bridgman is a WRC board member whose devotion to the Wolf River&#8217;s protection is only equalled by his penchant for getting gloriously lost in its swamps. </i></p>
<p>Copyright 1998, Oxford Town, Wolf River Conservancy, Gary Bridgman</p>
<p><strong>Scott Belsky at NXNEi</strong><br />
<img alt="Creative Writing Ideas" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/4704804994_48664c3219.jpg" width="400"/><br/><br />
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76323119@N00/4704804994">Matthew Burpee</a></i><br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/scottbelsky" rel="nofollow">Scott Belsky</a> speaking about the Action Method and making ideas happen at  <a href="http://www.nxne.com/interactive" rel="nofollow">North by North East Interactive</a>. Scott is the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.behance.com/" rel="nofollow">Behance</a>, a company that develops products and services for creative industries. </p>
<p>Rough Notes:</p>
<p>Scott Belsky on Making Ideas Happen: Key Insights on Creative Execution</p>
<p>Execution more important than creativity<br />
Top SCM Company: Not Walmart and such but Apple </p>
<p>Organize with a Bias to action: Verbs<br />
3 things:<br />
1) Actions Steps (verbs)<br />
2) Back burner tems<br />
3) Reference Items</p>
<p>Measure the outcome of a meeting with action steps<br />
Meetings: Needs to be rethought. Meeting in search of agendas. Leader might just be insecure. Measuring the value of meetings in actions steps.</p>
<p>Have a culture of capturing action steps. Write it down.<br />
- Create a Back burner Ritual<br />
- Prioritize projects visually: Energy Line (not time but energy)</p>
<p>The Doers, the Dreamers and the Incrementalists<br />
- We can all identify with one of these<br />
- The Doers are frustrated with things not written down. Poking holes, not fun to be around them, keeping things on track.<br />
- The incrementalists are the previous two. They makes too many things happen. The start things, then don&#8217;t focus on one concept. Align ourself to overcome difficulties.</p>
<p>Share Ideas Liberarlly.  Creative to Create<br />
Stealing? Most ideas never happen to begin with. It would have been a bad play if the barriers to entry are so small.<br />
Share ownership of ideas: The benefit of letting them own it outweigh the costs</p>
<p>Seek Competition: noah kalina photographing himself every day 5 yrs  see&#8217;s woman doing gallery opening with same idea so then does Youtube video and it took off, being on morning shows, starting career. He did it because he loved it. </p>
<p>Fighting your ways to breakthroughs ruthlessly away from apathy which will screw the customer and other stakeholders. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t become burdened by consensus</p>
<p>Leaders Talk Last (Silence the visionary). Jumping to the answer without allowing others talk to save time is helping people to move away as you are not valuing them.</p>
<p>Developing Other Appreciations<br />
- What do you appreciate about the story others tell.</p>
<p>Self Leadership<br />
- Reduce the amount of &quot;insecurity work&quot; such as tracking stats and analytics. Farm it off it you can.<br />
- We have now have stats done automatically. Consuming our days. Work that doesn&#8217;t achieve anything. Set a time during day to do it. Or delegate someone to tell you when it doesn&#8217;t look good.</p>
<p>Value of The Team&#8217;s Immune System<br />
- Need a way to kill ideas. Project immune system.<br />
- Need to kill off some new ideas when they start.  Need these people who do this who are not excited by creativity side. Empower them and they need to know when to repress themselves</p>
<p>Hiring People<br />
- History? Not imp.<br />
- Judge based on initiative not experience</p>
<p>2 greatest addictions in world. heroin, and a weekly salary.<br />
Society celebrates what society shuns&#8230; steve jobs started in a garage</p>
<p>Feedback<br />
1. Ask person if they are interested in feedback.<br />
2. What they should start, stop, continue. </p>
<p>scott@behance.com  @scottbelsky</p>
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