Pedestrian Service Exquisite’s Professional Welcoming Fairy

Melissa “Ultra” Sharlat started playing underneath her parent’s piano at the tender age of three. One day she actually played it, and has been performing ever since. An ordained reverend and self-taught drummer, Ms. Sharlat sings with The Frontier Dentists, has performed with many fabulous bands and in several Fluid Movement extravaganzas.  As a founding member of the highly acclaimed comedy/improvisation troupe, The Flying Tongues, Ms. Melissa toured the country with them and quit after she made her millions. An ordained reverend, Ms. Sharlat can officiate a non-denominational and personalized service for any occasion.

Olivia the Sea Turtle is at it again.  When Olivia thinks May Day she thinks of anarchists, specifically the black block. And stereotypically she assumes that black block equals havoc and terror! Those damn anarchists! Arbitrarily ruining and destroying everything in their path! Right? Well, that’s Olivia’s impression.
Olivia plans to join the destruction by dressing in black and wrecking havoc all over town. You might catch her lighting sparklers, or randomly yelling at people. Maybe she’ll hide behind buildings and spook people as they turn the corner. She is acting out her own stereotypical impression of what anarchy is.

Black Block Terror is a project of Virginia Warwick

Virginia Warwick was born in 1982 and grew up in Frederick, Maryland where she currently resides today. After graduating from University of Maryland, she entered Rinehart School of Sculpture. While attending Rinehart she was part of the Artscape Outdoor Sculpture Competition for two consecutive years. Since graduating Rinehart she has been showing consistently.

Revival Tent by Katrina Ford

Om Boom Drum Drone

om for spirit
boom for sound   drum for rhythm
drone for tonal harmonic connection
A tribal revival to cure the modern meltdown of the void, the disconnection from the energy between us, beyond culture and beyond religion. A gathering to break the barrier of language through bone and antler technology, celebrating the Magdalenian Revolution…to invoke musical and non musical energy exchange. A reconnection in a sacred environment (temple cave), through guided meditation,tonal improvisation and rhythmic psionic resonation. Aura, aural, oral, choral and vibrational chant and dance to freely interpret what the trance of communal transcendence could be. MICROCOSMIC TO MACROCOSMIC (SEE MAHARISHI EFFECT) IN THE SPIRIT OF:Haitian carnival style RA RA music Poly-rhymic shamanic drumming Dionysian hypnotic inducing rituals of dance and music Sympathetic magic through animal calls Ecstasy of whirling dervishes Carnatic and Gamelan style micro-tonal expression I hope to return the war cry with the warrior call for peace, light and love, by removing the hard shell of modern artifice and social constraint with a musical return to primal liberation in the future presence of a “now”.

This performance is based around a book. The book consists of a few pages of sewn-in journal writing. In the generally normal writing style I’ve taken I go on to describe various ridiculous ways to convey a message, like printing sentences on billboards or have a novel spread out like an accordion. These explorations of words, images and art consume my life to the extent that the borders are impossible to build between them. In this light, I compare my devotion to the book to my grandfathers devotion to his Islamic practice.

The Book  is a performance by Deniz Olcay.

My name is Deniz Olcay. This is a Turkish name.I am half Turkish.
When I was born in New Jersey, on May 28, 1991 my parents gave me this name
so that in America I can be a like a ”Denise”, while still having a Turkish name.
I’ve regretted always not learning Turkish, but somehow I began to study Italian.
I saw that misunderstandings and flaws in communication are so sly that even
the two engaged are unaware of it. This notion sunk deep within me, and
without any desire of controlling of it, my life and explorations all lean
towards my desperation of knowing how a language has changes the mind, the body
and any relationship.

I will lay out a mat that I have woven and assigned spaces to and cast a series of objects upon it. This series of objects in conjunction with the allotted placements on the mat determines the fortune told to the participant. My goal with this method is to help the participant recognize thoughts that they may have already been having through chance and random happenstance and provide some clarity to their own inner thoughts.

The Memory of an Idea is a performance of Catherine Yard

Catherine Yard  is a Medium, a Leather Crafter, a Weaver and a Trapeze artist hailing from Trenton, New Jersey. She has  developed a method and ideology of weaving where she see’s the loom as a portal between worlds and as a place to manifest materials from other worlds.

Emily Schubert, roams the streets as a monster mouth  cackling, cat-calling, and talking up a storm whether person, tree, or trashcan and performing Kalib and the Water Spirits puppet show in a suit case about the necessity of keeping our oceans on our side by helping them stay clean and healthy.

The fabulous members of Sticky Buns Burlesque will give pasties to the pedestrians of the PSE for a Pasty Twirling Workshop. Sticky Buns Burlesque will give  a twirling demonstration and work with everyone to get all those pasties spinning!

Spontaneous, roaming accordion player Art “Bellows” Cohen

Madeleine Cutrona - In Tracing the Invisible Lines, I respond to the physical architecture of the city at a set of traffic barriers that separate and redirect vehicular traffic between two distinct neighborhoods. The action is a deliberately simple gesture designed to echo frequently overlooking and/or treating physical divisions, which nonetheless impact social scenarios, as part of the “natural” landscape.