Ephemerisle 2019
History: 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - Overview
- More / better official ferries
- More / better platforms
- More distance between islands (seemed more incidental than intentional)
- More big sound systems
- Good relationship with marina (Korth’s Pirates Lair). They stayed late, and even made official looking signs for Ephemerislers.
Dates: July 22 - July 28
Location: Mandeville Point
Contents
Islands
Dumbo
Elysium
Barge was spud anchored, which was easier, safer, and less costly (time/labor).
WUYC
Art Projects
APOTHEOSIS
MUSIC . LIBATIONS . CURSES . PROPHECY
Join us for a live performance of APOTHEOSIS, a theater event debuting on Siren Island this Ephemerisle.
Artist: Siren Island Crew
Arts And Entertainment District
A magical art park of sculpture, chill space, interactive art, and public space environments.
The Arts and Entertainment District will be an inter-island effort and include varied music, interactive art and games, talks and workshops, climbable things, chill spaces, art boats and interisland ferries, live music, and more. There will be daytime activities, nighttime magic, interisland cruises, and play.
Join us: artphemerisle@gmail.com
Organized by: Stellar Grey
Have You No Shame?
Have You No Shame? An Interactive Social Hygiene Teaching Game
Have You No Shame are a set of "Adopt-a-Shame" cards featuring festival and boating mishaps and social faux pas. Adopt someone else's abandoned Shame and pose for a proud photo as a new Shameparent. Look for the person who actually did the bad thing. Also, don't ever do that thing again.
Have You No Shame may attempt to be a photo booth for 2019. There will at least be a cool sign, by Dawn Ho.
Join us: tenminutedate@gmail.com
Artists: Sharon Kubo and Stellar Grey
Siren Island
Siren Island is modeled off the greek mythology of the Seirēn, it makes relevant the powerful untamed feminine that bestows healing powers and offers the wisdom of nature. Through archaeological and ethnographic research on the history and use of olive oil, our treatments revolve around oil bathing, giving the island its phrase ET OLEVM AD INFLVVNT, meaning “The Oil Will Flow.” We repair what has been stripped from our skin and teach what has been forgotten from our language. We commune with the earth and bathe in the harvest. They had nectar and ambrosia, but we have olive oil, and The Oil Will Flow.
Artist: Serena JV Elston
Swimming Tree
A living tree installation.
The Swimming Tree will grow from a floating platform that sits at the center of the Arts District and acts as a swimming dock. During the day, swimmers will relax on cushions under the tree’s shade. At night, lights will peak from the canopy and create a quiet and magical place.
Artist: Emma Ainge
Art Boats
Floating Delorean
The Entanglement
The Entanglement: pontoons below, beats above. Creating a space for creative expression through dance and music.
Artist: Woody
Video with The Entanglement and Venom.
The Pontunery
For the third year, The Pontunery Shade Platform returns to Ephemerisle to host live music jams, performances, and workshops on our beautiful floating porch.
The Pontunery first arrived at Ephemerisle as a pontoon boat in 2016, hence the name. We rented a pontoon boat and transformed it into a live music jam space with comfortable seating and shade. In 2017 we created a 12x16 hand-built floating porch for waterside music playing and lounging in the shade. We have hosted karaoke, workshops and talks, a dance party, and much music-playing.
Artist: Stellar Grey
Venom
Fundraisers
Arts And Entertainment District
The Entanglement
The Pontunery
Maintenance and support fund ($600/yr maintenance and upgrades): Paypal to Pontunery@gmail.com
Siren Island
For Siren Island and APOTHEOSIS.
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Swimming Tree
Events
Wut..Huh? Whoa! guide
Ephemerisle! Are you considering hosting an event? Are you bringing any art? Would you like to give a talk, run a workshop, host a happy hour, teach a class, organize a happening, activate an activity?
Dance parties...cooking competitions...naked memorial services...lightning talks...swaddling meditations...how are *you* going to make Ephemerisle weird and/or wonderful this year?
If you would like to promote your event, please add it to this year's Wut...Huh? Whoa! guide!
Instead of attempting to print and distribute copies this year, we'll post tiny URLs all over for your clicking pleasure.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19WBpcQjbFIn-Bw400PxMsnHa-Be1EZWu-Q93w-Mejxk/edit?usp=sharing
Transportation
Elysium ferry rides wanted!
Are you planning to be aboard Elysium Archipelago at Ephemerisle 2019? Are you planning to take the ferry to and from Elysium? If so, please fill out this survey so that we can schedule the ferries in the best way to meet the demand.
https://formview.io/#/bjwhsbxofdwhpqg/elysiumferrysignup&header=1
Driving to the event with an empty seat? Need a ride (by car--ferry rides are separate) to the event? Please put yourself on the rideshare:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O3YB_RzShAyiw-AMbUDgzB6FptRLWZijXGb3s2l4BfE/edit?usp=sharing
Announcements
Berths Available
For berths available announcements see the berths available for 2019.
Elysium ferry drivers wanted!
Still looking for volunteer ferry drivers for Elysium (et. al.), so if you are willing but did not already indicate interest, it is not too late to sign up:
Fill out this survey to indicate your experience and availability: https://forms.gle/D2Az8n4HXxT5eTH9A
Join the volunteer ferry planning call tonight (Monday, July 1) at 8:30PM PT. If you fill out the form above prior to 7:30PM, Reo will email you dial-in instructions.
Inexpensive pontoons wanted
Got a project pontoon sitting quietly somewhere? Want to rent/loan/trade use of it to us? We'll turn it into art or living space.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/boa/d/isleton-wanted-to-rent-your-old-low/6922432380.html
