I am going to do my very best to explain the whole thing to you and to answer some of your questions.
This journey began with an experience I had in April. I had never been to a music festival and I could not have imagined the effect the environment would have on me. I went to Coachella valley music and art festival. I did not know what to expect going there, my friend invited me a week before. Right when we hit traffic in the California valley did I realize that I was about to enter a world from which I will never be the same again.
It was amazing. The sense of love and community is over whelming. The most amazing thing is that I always feel like an outsider, people always tell me I am weird for wanting a world of people who love the same things I do and who want to live with freedom of expression and imagination, not rules and regulations only to live a boring life and at Coachella i did not feel like a weird weirdo, i felt surrounded by weirdos and i was so comfortable. After I came back it took me 5 days to adjust to “normal” life or “reality.” I was right, after that experience of eternal freedom, love, music, dance parties, endless friends, safety my mind never thought the same.
I want to create a type of world like I experienced. I want to do it my way and provide happiness and a wonderland experience to people like I had. I knew I wanted to get into the entertainment business but I didn’t know that I would start my own company, wonderland entertainment, and I would start a festival. It was an epiphany one day, of course I am going to start a music art and imagination festival because that is the place I want to be.
A huge help, mentor, and hand holder was Anthony Trugman. He works at The Hut as the stage manager and music booker. I met him back in September and we got to talking about music and music festivals and once I brought him the business plan and the idea that I was doing it and this is what I wanted we got started.
The way I picked the artists was just listening to music day and night, which isn’t a burden because I love love love doing that anyway and discovering new artists right under my nose is so exciting. Anthony did give me a few suggestions along the way and I booked some bands that I saw at a show and loved like March Fourth and the B-side players. I discovered 8 minutes to burn from digging through myspaces and I love every single band that played. I found the road runners while I was out to dinner one night and they astounded me, especially because the boy robby lee is only 13 and has the voice of louis Armstrong.
I picked flam chen because they are amazing. I worked with the Sculpture Resource Center for a painting by Joshua woodhall and moises orozco built the wonderland arch way. Moises lives with a few members of parasol and he told them about his latest project and leah from the paracol contacted me. Now we are all friends and I ove it. I am so glad that they did because now I love them and they brought a special something to the event. I used to be a ballerina, a serious one and I love to perform and I have a respect for performers.
I want my festivals to be special, to have elements of imagination and creativity. Not just music not just art but dancing and fire and sculptures and jam sessions and writing and photography and skits, creativity and imagination festivals that leave lasting memories is what I want.
-It took me about 3 months to plan. I like working fast.
-The hut was not my first choice. I wanted to do it at a park to really have a festival vibe but for my first festival Anthony suggested the hut would be a great place to start.
-I sub as a bartender at the hut sometimes and that is how I got all those contacts, plus Anthony helped a lot.
-the mermaids are not part of flam chen, a girl by the came of Lauren malanga.
List of performers are all on my website. Enterthewonderland.com
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