FoolishPeople

Prologue

Tonights Hallowe'en performances of The Abattoir Pages are now sold out. 

We still have limited availability for Sunday's the 1st of Novembers performances at 4:00pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm and 9:30pm. You can reserve tickets on 07597576075.

The Abattoir Pages closes on Sunday the 1st of November, the first day of the dark half of the year.

The four Abattoir Pages belong to a book which FP will manifest fully in 2010.

Thank you for joining us inside this prologue.

The Old Abattoir, 187- 211 St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS 

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The Abattoir Pages Article and Review by Gabriella Apicella at Notes From The Underground

 

“The Abattoir Pages” brings together characters, ideas, images, sounds, smells and senses from the old stories of long ago to give guests of this extraordinary experience the opportunity to understand what lies behind the myths and the people who helped create them. In so doing the authentic and true roots of Halloween are honoured."

The Abattoir Pages - Hallowe'en Weekend

This weekend the Abattoir Pages honours the earliest Gaelic rites which celebrated the first half of the year and our ancestors who passed into Aog. 

We look forward to blackening you. 

We've completely sold out on the following dates and entrance times.

Friday the 30th 7:30pm, 8:30pm
Saturday the 31st 8:30pm.

We still have limited availability on the other entrance times and Sunday the 1st of November.

Images by Yiannis Katsaris. Artwork featured - Magisterium by Lorraine Clark. The animal Masks by Jules Newman. 

The Abattoir Pages - Further Images by Yiannis Katsaris

To celebrate the completion of The Third Realm Puzzle Quest we have further images from the Abattoir Pages by Yiannis Katsaris. 

Third Realm is Solved

Someone was unlocked the final door! We decided when we started this game that the pursuit would be over when someone unlocked the final door and freed the king. That has happened and that person will take home a prize!

SPOILER ALERT!

Here is the next to the last clue. Do not click the link unless you want to know the next clue!

I will leave this up for a few more days to see if anyone else crosses over.

The winner and her prize will be announced on this site November 2 as well as credits for videos and puzzles.

Old prophet page here.

Address any OOG questions to: prophet@thirdrealm.org

The Abattoir Pages - First Images by Yiannis Katsaris

First images from 'The Abattoir Pages' - Photography by Yiannis Katsaris. More tomorrow. The Abattoir Pages runs until the 2nd of November.

 

'The Abattoir Pages'- Third wave of artists announced

I'm very proud to announce the third wave of talented artists who are collaborating with FoolishPeople and Guerrilla Zoo on 'The Abattoir Pages':

Lorraine Clarke

Jules Newman

Kara Rae Garland

Dijon Hierlehey

Join us tonight for the premiere of 'The Abattoir Pages'- the 7.30pm entrance is sold out but we have a few tickets still available for the 8.30pm & 9.30pm entrance. If you would like to reserve, please call: 07597576075.

Buy tickets now for other performance dates

Golriz Hashemi - Piano Recital

 

Golriz Hashemi will be in town from Iran again this October and will be performing at st James's Church,Piccadilly on 16th October the tickets are £15 on the door but we have online offer of £10 from the link above also check for more info : golrizhashemi.blogspot.com

The Abattoir Pages - 2nd wave of artists announced

I'm very proud to announce the second wave of artists collaborating with Guerrilla Zoo & FoolishPeople on 'The Abattoir Pages'.

Lee Adams

Joseph Matheny

Emily Dezurick-Badran

James Curcio

Antoine Bertin

Syban V

Victoria Karlsson

The 3rd and final wave will be announced next week.

Halloween is almost upon us - The Abattoir Pages - Opens Thursday 22nd of October 2009

  

The Gspot: John Harrigan

The Gspot: John Harrigan

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind.

All music provided by Veil of Thorns

Songs, in order:

• And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream
• Intellectual Institutional Object
• Thought Pollution Evolution

In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story

'The Abattoir Pages'- First wave of artists announced

We are proud to announce our first confirmed collaborators for 'The Abattoir Pages'. We're looking forward to working with such a talented group of artists and writers- I would recommend delving further into their work via their websites. 

Jenny Reina & Bryony Henderson- The Hunter Gatherers 
www.hunter-gatherers.co.uk

Emily Dezurick-Badran - Artist
www.dezurickbadran.com

Christina Williams - Artist
www.christinawilliams.co.uk

Lucinda Butcher aka LuLu Create - Artist
www.lulucreate.com

Iain Sommerville - Artist

Richard Webb - Artist
www.rawebb.com

Wes Unruh -Writer & Artist
www.wesunruh.info

P. Emerson Williams - Sound designer & Artist
www.veilofthorns.com

Samm Hain - Writer & Artist
www.flowerofkairos.com

The second wave of artists collaborating on 'The Abattoir Pages' will be announced soon.

The Abattoir Pages - New Performances added.

Due to the overwhelming response to the 'The Abattoir Pages' we're pleased to announce that we've added another date to the run. 

'The Abattoir Pages' now closes on the 1st of November instead of the 31st of October. We also have an extra matinee performance on the 1st of November at 4:00pm.

Joseph Matheny joins 'The Abattoir Pages'

I'm pleased to announce that Joseph Matheny is joining the core creative team on 'The Abattoir Pages' as Executive Producer of Online Strategic Development. 

Joseph is also working as an artist on the Abattoir Pages and has contributed an installation to the Open Source Myth.

A few of the things Joseph Matheny has achieved as an inventor, creator, marketer, product manager, CEO, CTO, writer and artist include: Playing a role in establishing and evangelizing standards and practices such as CD ROM, PDF, DVD, XML, RSS, Podcasting, ARG and digital video. He is the inventor of several matching and recommendation algorightms, is a published author of screenplays, white papers, technology, sci-fi, marketing and gaming books.  

He has been the executive producer and creator of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Podcast and the ABA All Star Game podcast. Currently: Hosting GSpot audio podcast, Greylodge Podcasting Company, a Independent film review site covered on MSNBC , Wall Street Journal and Boing-Boing, founder and executive producer of Alterati, an on-line culture zine, founder and CTO with Michael Mailer of Pilotlite and founder/director and executive producer of the Los Angeles Film Festival podcasting station.

http://jmatheny.wordpress.com 

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmatheny

Mythos Media join 'The Abattoir Pages' as sponsors

James Curcio has officially joined the core creative team of 'The Abattoir Pages', with Mythos Media now active sponsors.

James Curcio is a multi-media artist, writer, and theorist, who has spent most of his adult life exploring modern myths through media. This exploration has taken the form of collaborative novels, essays, Internet "round-table" musical albums, podcasts, live performances, and installations. These works commonly deal with controversial themes such as psycho-sexuality, the occult, and the exploration of consciousness. He is the Creative Director of Mythos Media alongside FP's P. Emerson Williams. Mythos Media are an arts collective formed to produce and present projects such as these to the public, and Synchronicity Studios, a freelance consulting and production house for client-work. James will sleep when he is dead!

www.jamescurcio.net

If you haven't checked them out already, we highly recommend a visit to: www.mythosmedia.net

The Abattoir Pages - Tickets Now On Sale

Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, an immersive Halloween event, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London's largest abattoirs. 

The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. 

This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story 'The Forest'. 

The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. 

Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.

Buy Tickets Online

Necro-Futurist -- Transmission - 8PM GMT Radio NightBreed

I can't recommend highly enough that you need to listen to tonight's transmission from P. Emerson Williams on Radio Nightbreed. 

I was lucky enough to hear a preview and tonight's show is very special. 

We believe Necro-Futurist is a direct portal to the Third Realm.

Necro-Futurist - Transmission - 8pm GMT Radio NightBreed.

The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young

The GSpot: HipGnosis- Eric Young

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Eric Young of HipGnosis, talking about life as an independent musician and more. Also, an episode of In Your Ear, Reviewing The Leviathan Chronicles – an Audio Adventure (http://www.leviathanchronicles.com/rss/podcasts.xml or http://www.theleviathanchronicles.com/ for high bandwidth – lots of animation, etc. Includes cast of characters, episode summaries, blog and all that kind of stuff). Also, a blurb from FoolishPeople about The Abattoir Pages.

Music in this episode provided by HipGnosis : Glitch 303 Rendered, Underground Loom Hight to Fly, DOC

Links:

• http://glitch.fm
• http://thereisnotwo.tk
• http://hipgnosis.us

Coming up next week: A special GSpot edition, talking to the organizers of Esozone!

BIO: Eric Young, born November 13, 1976, in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA.
Encouraged to have a wide variety of musical taste from a young age, Eric Young began collecting
influences and records from age 6, after hearing Kraftwerk and a lot of early hip hop. Growing up in
the Midwestern United States, Eric had plenty of time to focus on musical studies.
Beginning trumpet at age 9, Eric continued with private lessons in composition and performance and
participated in both school and extracurricular bands throughout elementary, middle, and high school.
Graduating in 1995, he gave up playing trumpet to focus on learning to play tribal hand drums and
singing. During this time, Eric was introduced to the electronic music scene and illegal raves in St.
Louis.

Eric attended college at Mac Murray College in Jacksonville, IL, studying comparative religion and
philosophy, with a focus on pre-christian pagan traditions and philosophies of the far east, in particular
the mystic and mystery religions. That line of study has continued after leaving college, into the present
day, as well as an interest in higher consciousness, energy work, and alternative healing methods.
After relocating to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1998, he began DJing bleepy acid house and IDM at
house parties and local clubs, eventually going on to host and DJ two separate radio shows on stations
90.1 WEFT and 104.5 WRFU. After several more years of independent study into subjects such as
brain change technology ( binaural tones, cymatics, and psychoacoustics) and still composing music, it
was a natural step to move on to production and studio engineering. That became Eric’s primary focus
from that point.

Since 2001, Eric Young has produced and released 9 albums through independent channels, featuring
other talented artists collaborating on many of the projects, most recently his instrumental release
“Scientific Illuminism (Is For Sissies)” on Lab Beat, in the UK. In addition to that, he is DJing,
producing, mixing, and mastering for artists and labels worldwide. He is currently living in Des
Moines, Iowa, and working on 3 new releases as well as putting out progressive, quality DJ mixes
regularly.

In July 2009, HipGnosis began hosting a 2-hour weekly show on http://glitch.fm . “Between Zero and
One” airs Wednesday nights 10 pm – 12 am CST, streamed live, with archives and setlists at
http://thereisnotwo.tk . More information on HipGnosis and links to his complete discography can be
found at http://hipgnosis.us .

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The Abattoir Pages

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - LONDON 07/09/09

Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present

The Abattoir Pages

Thurs 22nd - Sat 31st October 2009

Guerilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, an immersive Halloween event, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London's largest abattoirs.

The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style devices to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles.

Synopsis

This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story 'The Forest'.

The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival.

Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir.

The Abattoir Pages marks the evolution of the open source meta event as FoolishPeople partner with Guerrilla Zoo in an exciting first-time collaboration of two of London’s most renowned art organisations alongside cutting edge artists and performers. In addition we are excited to have the infamous purveyors of fine adventures, Hunter-Gatherers as part of our outstanding creative team.

The production follows FoolishPeople's critically acclaimed sell-out run of 'Cirxus' at the Arcola Theatre and precedes Guerilla Zoo's 'Season of Alejandro Jodorowsky' productions. ‘The Abattoir Pages’ is the prologue to a new, large scale work which will be undertaken by FoolishPeople in 2010.

Creative Team

John Harrigan
James Elphick
P. Emerson Williams
Joseph Matheny
James Curcio
Lucy Allin
Claire Tregellas
Victoria Karlsson
Tereza Kamenicka
Jenny Reina
Bryony Henderson

Listings Information:

22 October- 31 October 2009

7.30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm entrance times

Entry price £15

Limited edition tickets £20

Tuesday 27th Pay what you can- Subject to availability

Book tickets online: guerrillazoo.com or foolishpeople.com or call 07597576075

The Old Abattoir, 187- 211 St. John's Street, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS

Not suitable for people of a nervous disposition.

Notes to editors:

• Guerrilla Zoo is also producing a ‘Season of Alejandro Jodorowsky’ productions throughout November 09 including a theatre production, a live event, 2 major art exhibitions, exclusive talks and midnight film screenings.

• FoolishPeople is currently in pre-production for their forthcoming feature film entitled 'GraveLand' and are planning another large scale immersive event next year, forming a collaboration with Integrate design company.

• The Abattoir Pages will feature a transatlantic collaboration between sound artists P. Emerson Williams and Sonica Storm.

• Guerrilla Zoo curates and creates conceptual spaces and events with cross-platform ideas, promoting artists from contemporary music, art and performance, via their unique approach into creative platforms, networking and audience participation.

• Founded in 1989, FoolishPeople create immersive theatre, live art, collaborative events and film which aim to raise a numinous, transformative experience within the witness to instigate positive change.

For further information, please contact:

Lucy Allin, FoolishPeople

lucena@foolishpeople.org

FoolishPeople
Guerrilla Zoo
Hunter Gatherers

The GSpot: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl)

The GSpot: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl)

Joseph Matheny in conversation with Jon Lebkowsy about the beginnings of the public Internet, hacking, phreaking and the rise and fall of the "C" word (Cyber) , social media and a host of other remembrances of recent history.

Also, remember to come out to Book Soup 9/9/9 for Random Obsessions and Strange Stories with Nick Belardes, and others, including Joseph Matheny for a reading and a GSpot taping.