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Magical gnomes have toiled feverlishly at their desks to give you a godlike overview of next weeks events at Hedeland quarry. Soothe your Fear Of Missing Out by clicking, downloading and printing this What Where When guide to Borderland 2018.
Remember to plan ahead, keep time and arrive precise to the concert, cuddle party and tarot reading or any of the 380 sceduled events. Or just follow your intuition. The quarry will give you what you need.
By: Laura Sagen, Caroline Bergmann, Khormo Libera and Diana Mo
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Sanctuary is your emergency medical and psycological welfare service. They need your help to buid and take a shift.
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Sanctuary needs you to swing a hammer, put a band-aid on or serve a cup of tea
I want to invite all of you to think of The Sanctuary as your project - as our project. Sure, right now you may not know as much as us about how things will work, but that can change quickly if you want.
The first Saints have allready arrived at Hedeland to start construction of Camp VatiCamp, the support camp of The Sanctuary. Almost all shifts are filled, but a few have opened up and things tend to move around the last few days. Have a look at the shifts here. Organizational structure here.
Please, do come by and help out during construction and you'll catch up in no time :) The Sanctuary will be located next to Working Class Heroes, Helm and Clown Police HQ. The Sacred Tea House will be the hub of The Sanctuary, where you can always find a supervisor.
Come to build and workshop
Sunday we will raise the tents for The First Aid Bay, The Sacred Tea House, and The Inner Sanctum. This also involves decoration, supervised by Camp VatiCamp. Please join! At 17:00, we'll take a break and have an open meeting regarding what the hell we're doing. Please join for the 17:00 meeting even if you can't join before then!
Monday, we'll finish up whatever we left Sunday and get the tea house up and running. At 15:00, we'll host a practical training session intended for Supervisors, First Aid Saint On Call, and others who are interested in the workflow of The Sanctuary. This training session will establish how we do things at The Sanctuary.
Tuesday, we host workshops. At 14:00 there will be a workshop on first aid, at 16:00 there will be a psych. welfare workshop (mandatory for Inner Sanctum shifts), and at 6pm there will be a workshop on consent.
Help needed Thu-Sun nights
If you want to be part of The Sanctuary, we encourage you to take part in as much as possible during these three days. It will prepare you for the rest of the week. But even if you can't join for any of this, that's also fine. Please read The Sacred Scripts, be on time for your shift, and talk to the supervisor on duty.Don't have a shift? No worries - we are likely to need more help, as little missions pop up all the time. Feel free to approach the supervisor on duty and ask if there is something you can do. We are likely to need more help during nights, especially Thursday-Sunday.
Bring blankets and fruit
You can never have too much blankets and fruit.
That is all. See you in the land between dreams and reality!
By: Filip Bromberg
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Delia writes her personal story of finding the other world that waited for her.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride
Ahead of any big event, most, if not all of the attendees will ask themselves some pivotal questions such as: How am I supposed to get there, and what the hell am I going to do once I have arrived? In case of The Borderland, I imagine the preceding anxiety to be no less if not even more pronounced, given the circumstances of the change of location only weeks ahead of the event. So if you’re feeling nervous in any way about your upcoming journey and the things that await you at your destination, I am here to hopefully ease your mind by sharing some vital insights. First of all, how does one get to The Borderland? While the journey will obviously be unique for each one of us, the destination remains the same and has been incessantly calling and beckoning us all, in some cases for a long time already.
My journey started in the 1990'ies
Personally, my journey roughly started over two decades ago. It carefully began to manifest at a dress-up party that included what we would nowadays call a fluffing station bigger than anything my then five-year-old Me had ever seen before. I emerged as a radiant, sparkling space-cat-fairy-knight, which is what I probably still am deep down to this day. My journey became clearer when I was told by classmates that I wasn’t supposed to dress the way I did when I was around ten. And even more when my parents found and deeply worried about my self-created BDSM-comics and short stories at age thirteen. And when I founded a Grunge-Punk band and died my hair red about a year later. Basically every time I did something that I felt totally in-synch with and was judged for by others, my path became clearer. And luckily, as challenging as it was sometimes, I increasingly began to enjoy the side-effects of my radical self-expression. There is something deeply satisfactory about the looks you get when you’re a skinny blonde-haired teenage girl at the ticket booth of a Death Metal concert. Or the purple-haired punk at the Opera. And the introverted storyteller in drama class. And as a side-effect, all that controversy also immensely helps you to grow.
What I remember the most about the entirety of my hitherto journey to The Borderland, though, is that from the moment it started, I have always felt that somewhere there must be a place where I belong. Where my sparkling inner space-cat-fairy-knight would fit in and feel right at home, without being judged or oppressed. It did take, among other things, many years, a lot of self-work and eventually a Swedish filmmaker to put me on the home stretch aka introduce me to the Burner Community, and now I am finally on my way to The Borderland.
It will be allright once you get there
So, in case you are still wondering how the hell you are going to get to that magical, wonderful place, worry not: you have most likely been on your way there for a very long time already and couldn’t stay away even if you tried. Like a moth to a flame you’re being drawn to it, and once you get there, it will be right where you are supposed to be and give you exactly what you need.
Speaking of which, enough now with all the highly practical advice on journeying there. Let’s address the serious business of having arrived. Once you get to The Borderland, certain things will inevitably happen and they will shake your world. The bad news is: you won’t be able to prepare for them. The good news is: you won’t be able to prepare for them. What you can prepare for are occurrences like a snoring tent neighbor (earplugs), a music-loving camp right next to you when you want to sleep (again, earplugs), or mosquitos, sunburn, rain, hangovers, scratches, food poisoning and dehydration. You get the drift. In case you have no idea what do to about things like that, go ask your Mom, Google, Siri or My Dick, whichever you feel closest to. What you can’t ever truly prepare for, however, are that life-changing conversation you will have at three in the morning with a person you have never met before. And that deep connection you will feel to people, nature and most of all yourself that will be one of the most intimate experiences of your life. That kiss you will share with someone in that absolutely perfect moment. That mind-altering trip you will be on, whether induced by a substance or simply by your being completely immersed in the moment. That sexual fantasy you weren’t quite sure you even had, but now that the opportunity for it presents itself, it’s all you can think about. And that transforming, unconditional love you will be showered with, just for being yourself.
As David Mitchell wrote in his novel Cloud Atlas: Travel far enough, you meet yourself. I am looking forward to meeting you and playing with you all at this exciting destination we call The Borderland, which is truly a mere pitstop on an even bigger journey, but is certainly going to be an unforgettable, impactful and hopefully magical experience filled with love and joy for each and every one of us. Only a little more journeying lies ahead until we shall all finally meet. And to quote Mitchell one more time:There is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.
By: Delia
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