It's not a rave. It's not an art exhibition. It's not a concert. It's none of the above, though it's also kinda all of the above.
It's a Blue Dot, and it's most easily described by what it isn't than by what it is.
Whatever it is, it's happening this Saturday night, from 11:30 p.m. 'til sunrise, at the Tannery building in downtown Kitchener.
When I attended a Blue Dot in the winter of 2003, artist and creator Ian Newton told me the Blue Dot is a "cross-pollinary extra-dimensional sensoratorium." Believe it or not, that pretty much sums it up.
Another attendee tried (and failed) to accurately describe the Blue Dot thusly: "It's sort of post-modern modernism, you know? It's a socialist, hippy,
anarchist, whatever-the-hell kind of thing." I tried to expand on such statements in the big story I wrote about the 2003 Blue Dot.
This much is certain: Saturday's Blue Dot event, which is part of the fantastic Open Ears Festival, will be a mind-expanding mish-mash of art, music, spatial experimentalism, possibly some dome-like structures, dancing and sleeplessness.
You can sleep the next day. That's what Sundays are for.
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