The mistake is common. Throughout the years we’ve received a lot of erroneous feedback as to who we are and what we stand for, so we’d like to offer some clarification.

While the rainbow symbol is used by the GLBT community it is also used by many other organizations and peoples. From the beginning, we chose the rainbow as the symbol of creativity, forever recycling old ideas into new. RR began in 2002 as a large group of noisy found-sound collage artists carving their own performance venue into a house in the Cleveland, Ohio metro. Performances would start in the mid-afternoons, consume multiple rooms in the house, and continue for nearly 24 hours without pause.

Throughout the years it evolved into other art forms (video, poetry, paintings, large inflatable sculptures, geodesic domes, plays), outgrew the house, and moved outdoors. This was not to make the event more hippie or tribal, but simply to offer a larger canvas to the growth of artists and their increasingly demanding space requirements.

RR was, from the very beginning, a festival of noise and artistic chaos. While it has evolved and mutated over the years, the attitude of noise and chaos has never disappeared (and in some ways, elevated.) But we’re not a noise festival anymore than we’re a GLBT festival.

Recycled Rainbow is certainly gay/lesbian/bi/transexual friendly (we work with members of the GLBT community to organize this event!) but we do not *represent* the GLBT community or any community for that matter. We follow a principle of Radical Inclusion welcoming and embracing anyone and everyone who wishes to attend.