Meetings at the Church of Totem will take place every Friday throughout the duration of the show, from 7 until 9 p.m. or until participants decide it is time to go home.
These “meetings” can include discussions on art and life, performances of amazing or not so amazing ideas, musical performance, theatrical performance, group hugs, demonstrations of creative impulse, joke telling, sharing of food, dancing, silliness, mathematical equation quotations, scat singing, biology experiments, scared silly attempts at almost anything, sitting in silence, trying to grow eight-feet tall, seed sharing, canned goods barter, sewing, haircuts, poetry at the top of your lung capacity, group hugs, word invention games, marriages, piercing, clothing exchange, statistics of shoe sizes, admissions of amazing or not so amazing things you have done or want to do, grooming, gymnastics, book readings, sharing of secret life of computers, history lessons, mud baths, yoga, dreaming, dreaming, singing, playing the organ, listening to grandma or grandpa, observing candle flame, popular mechanics stories, kissing, making of major or minor decisions, questions for me, answers for me, being an oxymoron, juggling, attempts at healing, sharing with friends and strangers, feedback, sleep, professor dragging (demo by Totem), playing dress up, pretending you are somewhere else, playing with dolls, exclamations of great import, deciding nothing, watch a movie, creative writing, whirling dervish demonstrations, OHM … , henna painting, sharing of recipes, sharing of something amazing you have made with your own hands, art exchange, drumming, discussions on different hats for different occasions, face painting, looking at the art, being art, group hug, group poetry, discussions about native flora and fauna, file sharing, realizations that you are the church, talks on dogs and cats, family picture sharing, archeological digs, auto mechanic tips, hair color discussions, gardening tips, sharing of plans or plants, cultural observations, hopes for the future, mock burials, observations on the weather, specialty pastry tastings (if you bring them), burning man discussions, sharing of hot spring stories, humming, freestyle dentistry, more joke telling, therapeutic massage tips, trying something on for size, Kodak moments, demonstrations of yodeling and field hollering, esoteric realizations, celestial dreaming, wild writing, café rating, Tuvalu throat singing, banjo pickin, discussion on wild berry gatherin, how to be trained by a cat, readings of great import, book discussions, designing of a better world, bread recipe exchange, knitting basics, quilting, etc, etc, etc.
