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Lovesphere is a 67-year art/music/theater project featuring 100's of participants. Lovesphere is held in New York every March to celebrate the Spring Equinox. The festival was first conceived and presented by musician/producer Gary Heidt and singer/performance artist CitiZen One at the Museum of Sound Recording in 1996. Lovesphere is now a community-based large-scale collaboration in its 6th year of production.
"Music has to become a statement of the fact that innovation and spirit are not opposites of mass appeal. If the last twenty years has been one in which the spirit has been squeezed out of Americans, one tool in that war on the population has been spiritless music on the radio. But if the music industry as a whole is not devoted to the service of Spirit, why do they thrive? The Zohar gives the answer: "It may be that they have taken them over from others, and that they were built originally in righteousness."
"The reconciliation of free jazz - the wild, the individual, the prophetic voice - with traditional forms and the seductive appeal - is a deep riddle that is the key to human happiness on Earth. If we can figure out how to harmonize without hierarchy, for example, or truly listen to life, or work together as equals, we will create a vibration which will spread the message of that New Order."
-Gary Heidt, Dec 16, 1997
"After all, psychological warfare can be anything from the singing of a hymn to the most extraordinary acts of physical sabotage."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower to John Foster Dulles, quoted in U.S. State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series, GPO
Lovesphere 6: Psyops (Psychological Operations) explores for 7 days, through Music, Art, Performance Art, and Theater the limitless beauty and possibilities of the human mind unfettered by the chains of indentured moral servitude, political correctness and psychological violence/warfare: the official doctrine of the current system.
Lovesphere
6: Psyops - March
21-27, 2001
Six Nights - 5 Venues - One Love
Wednesday
March 21st - Opening Night
"L'of" @ CB's Downstairs Lounge
313 Bowery at Bleecker, Free
212-677-0455. 6 to Bleecker or B, D, F, Q to Broadway - Lafayette St.
7:30 Dawoud Kringle and the New Culture Ensemble
8:30 "Bleeding the Walls" installation and performance by Liz West
9:00 Dimebagel madhouse trio of destruction
10:30 Mammals of Zod free jazz big band
Black List and Code Room installations by RoBo
Thursday March 22nd
"Drums and Voices" @ Raw Space
529 W. 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Aves. $10
212-643-6399. A, C, E to 42nd St.
8:00 Garden Snake improvisational music
9:00 Super String Theory guitar orchestra
10:00 "Drums and Voices" Sabir Mateen's concept ensemble
8:00 "Synchronicity: A Secular Oratorio" multi-media art performance
10:00 General Hospital funk folksongs
Deep Cover installation by RoBo
Friday March 23rd
"The Talking Stick" @ ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St. between Clinton and Suffolk, $5
212-254-3697. J, M, Z to Delancey St. or F to Essex
8:00 Talking Stick
The Lovesphere Jam
Everyone bring your stories and acoustic instruments!
Hack Shack installation by RoBo
Saturday March 24th
"Pirates from Outer Space" @ Medicine Show Theater
549 W. 52nd Street, 3rd Floor, between 10th and 11th Ave., $15
212-262-4216. C, E to 50th St.
8:00 Elyas Khan as "The Nervous Cabaret"
9:00 CitiZen One with the Ambient Outlaws "Crater Lake Cantata"
10:00 Fun with Toys by "George"
11:00 The Gametones
"Pushed & Pulled" art installation by Catherine Saxida & Leanne French
Spatial Geometry Resonance Map of Crater Lake by tomchess
"Nature Spirits of Love Prevail Over the Media-ocracy" by Emmallyea Swon-Young and the Faeries
"Thought Waves" installation by RoBo
Monday
March 26th
"Psyopolis" @ Theater for the New City
155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets, $10
212-254-1109. L to 1st Ave.
7:00 "The Birth and Theft of Television" opera by Evan Hause, Yuji Takematsu director
8:30 "Family Portrait" performance by Belen Cortizo. Directed by Viviana Steiner and Belen Cortizo.
10:00 "Use of Empty City" opera by Corky Maul
Live music by bombpop
Live paintings by Twisty
Beeswax Prayer Chamber installation by Haideen
Belly Dancers and Breakers
Blanket of Noise installation by RoBo
Tuesday March 27th - Closing Night
"Psyopolis" @ Theater for the New City
155 1st Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets, $10
212-254-1109. L to 1st Ave.
7:00 "The Birth and Theft of Television" opera by Evan Hause, Yuji Takematsu director
8:30 "The Love Alternative" an improvised play directed by Kid Lucky
10:00 "Oedipus Complecticus" by Charlie Camus
Live music by bombpop
Live paintings by Twisty
Beeswax Prayer Chamber installation by Haideen
"Nature Spirits of Love Prevail Over the Media-ocracy" by Emmallyea Swon-Young and the Faeries
Idiomatic Dissuasion installation by RoBo and eric whitaker
All 6 Nights Also Featuring:
L6 Catalog edited by Becky Nordmann
Live Cybercasts on http://www.metal-tiger.com and http://www.lovesphere.org
Video Projections by Terri Ferrari and Metal Tiger Technologies
Thought Spaces: Environments and Theory by RoBo
Guerilla Theater by Kishiko Hasegawa, Primy Rivera, Elizabeth Speck and TNCites
Museum of Sound Recording: audio documentation by Dan Gaydos
Doors open 1/2 hour before first act each night.
http://www.lovesphere.org - Lovespherians Unite!
Lovesphere6 Festival Pass, $30 covers all six performance nights.
Available by credit card at www.lovesphere.org,
or cash/check at Theater for the New City box office:
155 1st Avenue, NYC between 9th & 10th Streets, weekdays between
the hours of 10am and 6pm. Tel. 212.254.1109.
For more info about the event go to http://www.lovesphere.org
click on 6.
or email: sugarstarfish@yahoo.com
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