Saturday June 21 - "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

PsyTrance Solstice Party at Boom! with special guest DJ Junya (Phantasm Records, UK)

All Pagan DJs, Pan, Bacchus, Dionysus, Druids, Nymphs the whole Bacchanalia with DJs (in order of appearance) Machinelf, IcyCoil, Dima, DJ Junya (Phantasm Records, UK), tag team set from Berzerx (Israel), Ben Light-o-matic. 152 Spring between West Broadway and Wooster. $10. ID21+. 10pm-4am. Free before 11pm, free for drummers, those in costume, and those who can name the Cupid-like character who goes around making various people fall in love with the first being they see upon waking. (Hint: Go _uck yoursElf!) Pixie art by Lori & Boris of Burning Elf, thematic décor by Ben and Jamie (Light-o-Matic) and Darryl (who designed much of the chillout at the Omnifestival) and door giveaweays. Print this page out to get in for $7.

Through the house give glimmering light,

By the dead and drowsy fire:

Every elf and fairy sprite

Hop as light as bird from brier:

And this ditty, after me,

Sing and dance it trippingly.

First, rehearse your song by rote,

To each word a warbling note;

Hand in hand, with fairy grace,

Will we sing, and bless this place.

Now, until the break of day,

Through this house each fairy stray,

To the best bride-bed will we,

Which by us shall blessed be;

And the issue there create

Ever shall be fortunate.

So shall all the couples three

Ever true in loving be;

And the blots of Nature's hand

Shall not in their issue stand:

Never mole, hare-lip, nor scar,

Nor mark prodigious, such as are

Despised in nativity,

Shall upon their children be.—

With this field-dew consecrate,

Every fairy take his gate;

And each several chamber bless,

Through this palace, with sweet peace;

E'er shall it in safety rest,

And the owner of it blest.

Trip away:

Make no stay:

Meet me all by break of day.

"The sentiment of a difficult play such as A Midsummer Night's dream, so far as it can be summed up at all, can be summed up in one sentence. It is the mysticism of happiness. That is to say, it is the conception that as man lives upon a borderland he may find himself in the spiritual or supernatural atmosphere, not only through being profoundly sad or meditative, but by being extravagantly happy. The soul might be rapt out of the body in an agony of sorrow, or a trance of ecstasy; but it might also be rapt out of the body in a paroxysm of laughter."