We wish you could come! We have some new additions to announce:
Infinite Connections announces additions to AION Costume Ball that make it the definitive place to be December 31st. In addition to the three rooms of music, art and performance, you’ll find multiple sources of divination, transformational decorations and two VIP areas filled with special treats.
AION – an Ourobourus – is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and symbolizing ideas of cyclicality, unity, and infinity. Kristina Kokonis’s use of color and texture throughout the Capitol Hill Arts Center will bring to life the spirit of AION through a Roman Temple of Jupiter and a Mithraeum Temple showing you the contrast and unity between light and dark.
To find out what 2008 will bring, Nikki Ross has brought together the most talented palm reader, psychic and tarot reader Seattle has to offer. They will be available for personal readings throughout the night. And if you’d like to add a little something to your costume, Cleo Wolfus will be there with her incredible, hand-made designs. There will also be a special craft area for manifesting your new year’s resolutions.
VIP guests are in for some extra special treatment including catering by Barbelo Lounge, a brand new club/lounge and community performance center coming to Seattle. Andras Jones from Radio8Ball will be there for individual divinations. If you haven’t had a check out his show, you should. The Pop Oracle is a musical divination format where questions are answered by picking songs at random and interpreting the chosen song as the answer to the question, like picking musical tarot cards.
All this adds up to one amazing night. Pick out your favorite costume and join us!
Cleo Wolfus has worked making hand made leather jewelry in Seattle since 2001. Her original designs are inspired by a love of tribal hand crafts and strong woman archetypes. Practicing fair-trade and staying competitive, Cleo Wolfus’s designs are hand made in the U.S.A. by the artist herself. (This is no small feat when competing with the barrage of inexpensive handiworks commissioned by Western companies for cheap labor abroad.) Preserving the thrill she remembers having as a child playing dress up, much of Cleo’s work is made to be worn in the spirit of costuming. Her collection consists of jewelry and hair accessories for adults to get dressed up with. Cleo Wolfus Designs has gained a following of people who appreciate American hand crafts and who dress to party. http://cleowolfus.etsy.com
Andras Jones is the host and creator of The Radio8Ball Show. Andras grew up in Olympia, Washington where his father, Richard M. Jones, was a teacher of dream psychology at The Evergreen State College. The senior Jones led dream seminars, described in his book The Dream Poet, which bear a striking resemblance to the Radio8Ball format. In the dream seminars people would interpret each other’s dreams as if they were poetry and, as the younger Jones says, “in Radio8Ball we interpret poetry and music as if they were our dreams.†The Radio8Ball Show classic does musical divination using the CD shuffle function. The AM version features live musicians, celebrity guests, and calls from the audience. Between Radio8Ball work Jones pens a column on New Masculinity for Daniel Pinchbeck’s online magazine Reality Sandwich. http://www.radio8ball.com