Community

Greetings bass fanatics! Lia Holland here. Bassnectar Labs is neck-deep in the planning of a Fall Tour the likes of which the Eastern US ain’t never seen. With that underway, it seems appropriate to let you all know that Bassnectar is packing a lot more than sweaty bodies and bass into those vibrating venues. This fall, the labs will once again be featuring the best and brightest from among fans and friends, highlighting the ways that local organizations need YOUR help to make change in YOUR community. It is the personal request of Bassnectar Labs that every attendee engage with atrocious enthusiasm. Do you know an organization, like those featured on the Spring Tour Community Blog, that would like to be represented at a show in your town? Fire an email off to getactive(at)Bassnectar(dot)net and let’s make it happen! And, that, of course, is never all… With the Cozza Frenzy Tour, the Labs would like to present the debut event of the Cozza Connection Project, to take place in Detroit, MI in the 7th of November. For this project, Bassnectar Labs is facilitating a fantastic evening for budding community activists and several of the most excellent community organizations known to

Atlanta marks the last installment of our spring activism extravaganza, and we are looking forward to collaborating this Fall even more symbiotically with local organizations around the country. If you know of an organization that should be involved, please shoot me, Lia, a line at Basscorsair(at)bassnectar(dot)net I’d love to hear from you. However, we ain’t sayin’ our fond sayonaras ahora. Atlanta’s activism scene is ridiculous, and we felt mean limiting ourselves to the space constraints. So here’s the creme of the crop, the prime selection of ninjas and fans who are righteously raisin’ the ruckus in already raucous Atlanta. Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition This coalition facilitates a volunteer activist network across a wide spectrum of different ages and backgrounds, allowing Georgians to coordinate their action and education efforts in support of the peace movement. We all have heard the hippie mantra that peace begins in the home, and the patchouli might have discouraged you from agreeing at the time, but international peace really will arise from our communities being healthy enough to move our focus beyond our borders. Georgia Peace and Justice concentrates their efforts on both the local issues on which we need to be aware and active,

CAMP- The Community Arts and Media Project The Community Arts and Media Project of St. Louis is an experience in cultural fusion. These people fight la guerra buena to bring the best in resources- those free and sustainable- to their city. Aside from gallivanting with and reaching out to people with rainbow tiedye bunny ears and rings of glowsticks that make them look like they’re training to join the Pa Dong tribe, these fantastic people find diverse means of empowering their community. In their lives as social activists, CAMP facilitates a gorgeous space and beautiful events to focalize their community on collaborations to improve every aspect of living in St. Louis, whether it be through alternative media, sustainable technology, a free school, a massive zine library (do they have a zine on the Pa Dong?) Anything you can think of because YOU are invited to make it happen. In fact, it all happens only because of people like you, whether you’re handy with a hammer, have a bike fetish, love to teach, or enjoy webninjaing. Diverse? Si. Worthy of your help? Sin duda. But wait, there’s more… Academy of Rock I read somewhere that your average ten year old has

The Coalition To Save Community Studies Welcome, my friends, to activism in action. The 40-year-old Community Studies Major at UCSC is about to be downsized, and we, Bassnectar Labs, will not let the program Lorin got his Bachelor’s Degree from go down without the UCSC bureaucracy gettin’ womped! (In the bad way.) The Coalition to Save Community Studies, a student-led group, came to educated, fundraise, and hellraise over the downsizing of a program that, according to its website, “has maintained a focus on identifying, analyzing, and helping to construct sites for social change and cultural transformation.” Isn’t that exactly what we all need to be learning right now? Sadly, UCSC has decided to stop supporting the programs that really matter. The Coalition asserts that there are many social science programs at UCSC that are hiring new faculty and receiving extra resources. This fact and other lead students to believe that the budget cuts are about more than the money- politics. These people are working very fast and very effectively to save their department, and we at Bassnectar Labs request your full support, whether it be on the ground at UCSC, through an email, or through addressing a similar travesty in

Vagaboom KKKAABOOM! Or, Vagaboom to be more exact.  We don’t know exactly where they came from, but these lovely ladies seem to have swooped down from the sky to salvage the arts and physical education programs in SF schools utilizing our favorite means: having an awesome time while rockin’ others’ sockz clean off. Vagaboom is on a mission to fuse circus arts, music, theater, acrobalance and stage production with K-8 education. Looking back at our public school experiences, we want to shove these people in a time machine so that they can go back to play with us. Vagaboom can always use talent and resourceful individuals to further their mission of transforming education into the experience that it should be. Their website is fun for the photos alone. We want to play dress up, too! CELLspace San Francisco, meet CELLspace, although we hope you have already. CELLspace is an activist venue, but not in the traditional sense of activism. Instead of protesting, CELLspace offers a space for both at risk youth and artistic adults to gather and create, learn and teach. And, any profits CELLspace gains from events go back into the programs they sponsor.  By providing the space for

“In the face of adversity, they have banded together like the cables connecting Lorin’s laptops and used their difficulties as inspiration to work harder, to write, to dance, to sing, to rap. Umojafest is not only an entity of its own; it is lusciously hopeful tangle of several pillar organizations that have been active and effective for years.”