What Is Recycled Rainbow?
Recycled Rainbow is a four-day event inspired by the Burning Man festival. Everything is organized, built and paid for by volunteers with their own resources. There are no trash cans, so you’ll have to pack your trash out with you. There are no vendors, so you have to bring enough food, drink and whatever else you need for four days. There are no schedules or rules, so you’ll have to make things happen yourself and respect your neighbor.
Tickets
Tickets are no longer available online. Please go to the tickets page to see a listing of walk in venues selling tickets.
DeceptiConference 2010!
[ March 20, 2010 8:00 pm to March 21, 2010 2:00 am. ]
2010 Call For Submissions & Next Year’s Theme
It’s hard to believe 2010 is almost here! As the holidays approach, it’s more difficult to imagine preparations for a new event have already begun.
While there were certainly mistakes to learn from, we shouldn’t ignore our successes in 2009. This was artistically and organizationally our most participatory year to date. Despite a surprising 50% growth in attendance (and three major burns), we left it cleaner than previous years. All those with burning art installations took responsibility to clean the debris and plant seed in its place (some even came back a week later to ensure this was done.) Today, a couple months after RR 2009, there is already some grass replacing the scorched earth. Fuck yeah!
All the participants who built and tore down the city (filled with structures people building, cooking, drinking, eating, performing, & dancing) once again left no trace.
Despite the most relentless rainfalls since RR has gone outdoors (turning many tents into swimming pools) there was a major growth in collaborative art structures & villages.
We have seen outstanding readiness & preparation from those who learned from previous years (and no major injuries to report!)
All the team leads, and I mean this, all of them did a kickass job of building talented, responsible, and effective teams who played a major role in this year’s success. Our greatest achievement was collaborative radical inclusion, and we wish to push it even further in 2010. I am proud to say we have gotten the official invite to return to the same land, and we accepted. Recycled Rainbow will begin on Thursday September 23rd, and end on Sunday September 26th.
A once sleeping event awakens to new opportunities & challenges; opportunities for growth (internally and externally,) and there are challenges to build an even more imaginative invisible city.
It starts with our most grueling process of the year: DESIGN!
Elevation Decompression: October 10th, 2009
[ October 10, 2009 2:00 pm to October 11, 2009 4:00 pm. ] 
Hey Ho All! CampDaddy here wanting to send out a great big Thank You for participating at RR09!
Thru Armageddon, a bad case of Mutation and upward to Elevation, Recycled Rainbow is what we, as a community, make it. This year was the best RR to date thanks to all of you!
While RR09 is over, the one and only Official Recycled Rainbow Elevation Decompression is on the schedule! RR Decomp includes not only persons who attended RR09 but anyone who wanted to but could not. Anyone who attended and has friends that want to be there to see a mini version are welcome too.
Decompression is scheduled for October 10 at Crystal Springs Campground, 31478 Bagley Road , North Ridgeville , OH 44039 . Entry fee is $10 per person to cover the portajohn rental. There is no re-entry fee. Overnight camping is permitted and encouraged.
BE AWARE!! The section RR will be using is completely primitive. No running water, no electricity. The verge is well trimmed. There is a stand of trees for camping in and setting up rain shelters. There will be one portable restroom present. Bring warm clothes. Bring rain shelters. Bring waterproof boots. Bring ear plugs. Don’t drive faster than 5 mph when entering the campground (SERIOUSLY!) No big bonfires are permitted per North Ridgeville fire department. We can have lots of small campfires.
Click here for a list of other places to find us for updates.
Even tho RR09 is ended, RR10 is now less than a year away! Announcements for the theme and dates will up coming sometime after the first of the year. As will announcements concerning Primer for sometime in May.
Rumor mill advocates seem to think a shake up about the theme of RR10 will occur. Keep an eye out for details.
Now Hear This! Now Hear This! Set Recycled Rainbow Preparation Level Bravo point Six!
Repeat!
Set Recycled Rainbow Preparation Level Bravo point Six!
That Is All!
See you soon…
Online ticket sales have been shut down, so you’ll have to buy tickets from one of the walk-in locations for $45 or spend $55 at the gate. The DBS truck is loaded. The set-up crew is arriving tonight and the gates open tomorrow at 9am. See you in the Invisible City soon.
Report From The Field: 9/20/09
Pre-emptive task force Foxtrot Sierra was deployed to Big ARB’s campground this last weekend. They found out some important last-minute information for you. The following is stuff you really, really want to know before heading out to the Invisible City this upcoming weekend.
Click link above for important information.
Gettin’ Ready
September 24 is when it all begins folks, and holy-moly is it about to begin…
Notacamp’s dome and The Failure Society’s Meaningless Tower prototyped at Primer, Memorial Day 2009
Everyone I talk to is getting ready for RR at the end of the month. Signs are being painted, lamps assembled, sculptures built. The last RR meeting before the event happened on August 29 with a lot of discussion about gate policy, rangering, greeting and emergency services. The energy is palpable.
Miscellaneous products of DGs sculpture installation for 2009
RR this year looks like it will include (at least) five large-scale installations from five different teams including Notacamp, the Failure Society, 9VHH, Dirt Goddess and a crew of volunteers planning and building our first temple. But that’s not all. Bar Soul/Ever is Camp 362s gift boasting a jaunty atmosphere, formal wear cocktail parties and an elevated sense of style for RRs hub of social imbibement. Metamorphosis (RR’s underground dance club/immersive visual environment) will be expanded and a new and improved Cyberdelic will be unveiled this year.
One quarter of 9VHH’s 2009 installation
The RR DBS has been building gates with their own special theatrical “flair” with a more utilitarian approach to the Invisible City’s utilitarian blank slate.
Pieces of the new Cyberdelic
Stay tuned for more as the photos and news trickle in as we get close to the big event.
Cheers!
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Walk-In RR Ticket locations!
Thank you to all the venues that have agreed to sell tickets for us!
Please note there may be additional fees charged when paying by credit card.
My Mind’s Eye – 13727 Madison Ave., Lakewood, OH 44107
Literary Cafe – 1031 Literary Rd., Cleveland 44113
Visible Voice Books – 1023 Kenilworth, Cleveland 44113
Carol & John’s Comic Book Shop – 17448 Lorain Ave. Kamm’s Plaza, Cleveland 44111
Square Records – 824 W. Market St., Akron, 44303
Turnup Records – 257 North Water Street, Kent 44240
Music Saves – 15801 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland 44110
