2009 Theme Camps
Here are the theme camps that have chosen to have their information listed on the website.
If you'd like your theme camp listed, just fill out this form. Registering your theme camp before attending is not a requirement, it simply gives you a mechanism to promote your efforts here. You may wish to join the AlchemyTalk list and talk up your plans there as well.
Camp SCIENCE!
Coordinator: Mike Alberghini
Camp Science is still trying to clone dinosaurs for the BBQ... until then we will have lasers and lights and lab coats and screaming and stuff...
Area 51
Coordinator: SugarKayne
Cool chillout space in the woods with sofas and chandeliers. Perfect spot for great jams or an alien abduction.
Zombie Invasion Survival Camp & Blood Orgy Cantina
Coordinator: Andrew Barnes
The Camp will be offering survival training from Zombie survival experts. Topics will range from pre-invasion preparation to escape and evasion from urban areas to starting a new way of life in the post-zombie-apocalypse world. We will examine in depth the effectiveness of various weapons, strategies and structures for survival among the undead. And of course we'll have blood orgies! Be prepared!
The Bleeder
Coordinator: Runaway!
This isn't a camp, this is a friggin' roller coaster! Starting at the top of the hill near the Effigy Bar; over 250 feet of hills, thrills and spills await you on The Bleeder. There will be pain.
Baron Samedi's VIP Lounge
Coordinator: Kegas
Come chill out in the VIP Lounge of the Voodoo god of sex and rum. Chill space with house beats, and home of the Ball Pit.
Scheherazade: Hookahs, bellydancers & Turkish Delight
Coordinator: Dawn Flury a.k.a. Sahara Silk
Scheherazade: Hookahs, Bellydancers & Turkish Delight! Come lounge with us in a decadent wonderland.
Kamp Krieg
Coordinator: Warhammer
Kamp Krieg is the locus of industrial mayhem at Alchemy. Bring your stompy boots and fire toys and be ready to dance, you kinky bastards.
Maybe Bacon Camp
Coordinator: John Everett (BuBba JoHn)
Let's just say Hmmm Hmmm Good cooking. Contact BuBba JoHn for membership info. Cooking meat and non-meat foods again this year. Beware of the Bacon Zombies!
Moon Station
Coordinator: Justin Majors
Prepare yourselves to enter the world of the Moon Station. A heavy UV atmosphere that will be a community based event space. The Moon Station will be in a large tent and will hold events such as dance parties, tea parties, movie watching, poi workshop, and whatever you want to bring to the table. I will have my PA system (permanent) , "some" DJ equipment for use (I recommend you bringing your own as I may store it for any reason), and plenty of decorations. I envision this space as having something different going on every 1-2 hours. We will have tunnels off the camp leaving to other projects and other theme camps. Send an email to justmajors(at)yahoo(D0T)com with your idea of event and 'preferred' time. We already have several movies including Wizard of Oz w Dark Side of the Moon / Mirror Mask / and Space Odyssey w Echoes / and several DJ's playing cutting edge electronic music.
Green Man Camp
Coordinator: Mehl Renner
So, are you by chance keen on green? The Green Man Theme Camp will be a very earth friendly group that has genuine concern about our environment but are otherwise all about fun in the sun. The Green Lady and I will be welcoming extremely creative members who want to be involved in all avenues to express being green. Be entwined in vine, next to nature and bloom in a way that makes it easy being green! We are flower children of the sixties seeking soilmates any age. Grazing in the grass is a gas - can you dig it? Are you interested in participating? Our first attempt at a theme camp at the most recent Transformus event was a great success. We are seeking participants that are artists, musicians, mask makers, costume makers, body painters, puppeteers, earth nymphs and anyone with a strong inclination toward creativity with a green flair! Do wear green, design your own fig leaf and at the very lest wear a flower in your hair! Our Green Man puppet that is especially made for the ‘Burn’ ceremony is a somewhat large Olympic size creature that will require three persons to operate. The center pole with face and fabric body will need someone reasonably strong. Tell us your talent and if you are interested in camping close to us. No carbon footprints allowed - add your green footprint to our tree of life tapestry. Contact us at greengaily@boonenc.org or mrenner@carolina.rr.com. Mehl & Gail Green Burners 07
Camp Camp
Coordinator: S.C. Libertine
"Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit!" Eggmen, Grizeldas and Lu-Lus welcome. “the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration…” Not for the faint of heart or those opposed to cha cha heels and yelling at people. "Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you? Tell her this isn't some communist daycare center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!" Camp Camp is not a spectator camp. Camp Camp requires active participation. Camp is not a spectator sport. Camp Camp has no gender, moral compass or interest in your bourgie histrionics. Camp Camp has a reputation to ruin. Namely, yours.
AtlPsy
Coordinator: Dylan aka Uncle Swilly
Atlanta Psytrance is a consciousness-pioneering organization of DJs, musicians, artists, performers, and supporters whose mission is to cultivate the positive vibrations and healing energies of Psytrance throughout the Southeastern US.
The Temple of Jedi Boom
Coordinator: Christian Johnston
TJB is a collective of Djs and musicians and artists devoted to bringing you the twisted thumps that make you wanna get down. The artists will showcase many of the well loved and practiced genres of electronic music. Be prepared for the BOOM!!! Come join the Jedi in witnessing the arts of sonic manipulation!!
Camp Enigma
Coordinator: Usagi Mist
You remember the echoing sound of our Crow Nation War Cry! Can you guess who are the founding four behind the chant that makes our presence known? ~More to come...
Kasa De La Kosee
Coordinator: the energy pusher
A lounge, a meeting ground, a place to meet your friends or meet new friends...it's home. Welcome to the Kozees's, rest your tired feet, enjoy great conversation while being entranced with slow familiar beats, all the way to the 80's! You never know what we will be playing! Be doused in our elaborate display of intelligent lights, lasers, bubbles and fog! UV dress wanted, but not required! AND...Long live the Koosh!
EOI Chill Hut
Coordinator: Eric Wilson
Lose yourself in an ambient world surrounded by art and tapestry in our circular bamboo forest. Melt into the countless pillows covering the earth. Drown out the heat from the day, and recover from the mentally expanding evenings in the EOI Chill Hut 2.0
The Sidewalk's End
Coordinator: Sister Discordia
"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -Shel Silverstein. The Sidewalk's End is the Alchemy Kid's Camp! Kids of all ages always welcome. Surprises and chaos, as usual!
Cauldron Bubbles
Coordinator: Kat Bartel
Come make some joyful accidental art with water color bubble medium. Liquid Watercolors are mixed in bubble juice allowing the creative expression of color and random outcomes. Camp will have a hand washing station, bubble medium, paper and markers to create until your heart is happy. Bubble juice may stain clothing. Participate at your own risk of leaving more colorful than you could imagine.
Camp Brew Ha Ha
Coordinator: Zareena Yvonne Faroqui
Camp Brew Ha Ha will be serving Morning Coffee daily throughout Alchemy Burn 2009, or until it runs out. Bring your mugs and your faces. Cups are not provided but sugar and cream are. Serving size limit, no thermoses please. We are a Coffee Joint. We serve Caffeine, Joe, Mud, Gut Rot, Java, Buzz Juice! You won't find a half-caff or a venti latte here, It's Coffee, Not art.
Candy Camp
Coordinator: Kelly Warfield
Craving Something Sweet, Sugary, Tangy, Sour, or Tart....Come Visit Us At Candy Camp And We Shall Put A Smile On The Face Of The Kid In Your Heart. Take One, Take Two, Three, Four, Or Five. We Have Plenty Of Candy For When Your Sweet Tooth Comes Alive.
Tantrika
Coordinator: Chandra & Guapo
Enjoy a sensual & spiritual tantric massage from a professional therapist and her skilled partner. Tantric philosophy is one of intrinsic goodness, divine bliss & full awareness of the senses. We offer you an opportunity engage the divine play of shiva and shakti in your body, opening to the kundalini energy in the body.
Camp Ballz
Coordinator: Ray Ingram
Like to tell a story fit to entertain a king? You better have a good one, or the king might just call BALLZ on the whole tale! BUT, if you do gain his favor you will be plied with a shot of liquor from his royal bar!!
The Erotic Exotic Social Psychotic Fruit Stand
Coordinator: Ross
feeling lucky, pray to your gods, as the pagan wheel of fortune spins! what is your fate? centurion surprise, sacked by a celt, the collesium. not much longer, anticipation makes the blueberry pomegranate homemade wine that much sweeter.
SouthTown Compound
Coordinator: Alabama Steve
welcome home. we're a smörgåsbord from all over the south. come by and experience everything on the line. we'll have drinks, coffee for mornings, tea for the evenings, and maybe something for the daytimes. we'll even have a treasure hunter giving lessons on how to find the coolest of things. we'll also be practicing some non-violent violence. come by and wallop a friend with some cushy foam in foam battle fit for the middle ages.
Total Information Transmission Squad
Coordinator: Megan Van Deusen
Back with a vengeance we bring you the Total information Transmission Squad (TiTs) coming to share some peace, love, obnoxiousness and of course information. We're happy to help while we heckle. Tell us what your camp is doing, and we'll go tell everyone else! We also welcome other bull-horners to join the squad. Just remember, I'm not that guy, we're those people.
Heavenly Respite
Coordinator: Chuck Thomson and Heather Brown
Come chill with the family in the front yard, and when you get the munchies come inside the RV for tasty vegan treats and comfy lounge space. We also can make tasty treats out of donated food. :) And we have a massage table for healing arts and energy work.
Camp Shit Sandwich
Coordinator: Jen
Mmmmmm... Spontaneously delivering tasty shit sandwiches throughout the weekend. Yum.
Camp Mythos
Coordinator: Kat
Calling all gods, goddesses, fairies, mythical creatures, heroes, heroines, gnomes, and anything that rocked the socks off of your fav children’s book. Camp Mythos will be offering up some good old fashion ambrosia and lounging. You are all invited to our Epic Pillow Battle Sat. Arm yourselves with a non-feather pillow and pj’s!
The Philosopherz Stone
Coordinator: Midnightt
Wander through the woods and hang out in one of the hammocks and ruminate on your existence in the universe of burner-land. Party in Philosopherz Absinthe Asylum with the Green Fairy to a soundtrack of goth, steampunk, industrial, synthpop & electronic tunes (plus other miscellany and whatever is it you are Not expecting). Listen to or share stories, ponder mixed and remixed lectures and other forms of Audio Assault, read from our free Philosophical Library, or rant or sing at occasional Open Mics (Saturday afternoon 2-4pm and SOAP box anytime). Well-mannered arguments and confusing (il)logical discussions are frequently available! We'd love to be told about your Transformed Revelations - feel free to find inspiration in our thought stones. Watch out for the roaming and flapping purple version of the Philosopherz Stone on the STEAMBUG this year! Be prepared to Philosophize! Read more at www.philosopherzstone.com
S.P.O.R.K.
Coordinator: Tyler Haynes
S.P.O.R.K., or Southerners Perpetuating Okra and Roux Knowledge, is a not-so-secret society with the goal of expressing our culture and mirth through the sharing of true southern hospitality. As symbols of our movement, we have chosen Okra, without which no real gumbo can be made, and the spork, the culmination of over five thousand years of utensil evolution. Along with Dixie Cups of hot gumbo, our guests will receive a keenly decorated bamboo spork. Service of traditional libations such as Hurricanes and Iced Coffee will keep us pulsating and cool. Saturday Brunch is de rigueur.
Big Puffy Yellow
Coordinator: Michael Starseed
BPY brings a sound camp to Alchemy! We are happy to welcome anyone with a belly button to join our Yellowness. Do you feel Puffy?
Novel-Tea-Lounge
Coordinator: Patrick Ironwood
Parisian style tea stall centered around a mod panel van, which will be transformed with a psychedelic atmosphere including a no trace fire, hookah lounge & ambient music. This will be a parked camp, not a mobile one.
Pleasure Pyramid of Earthly Delights
Coordinator: Melissa Coffey
Mission Statement: To inspire wonder, awe and mystery, while raising the bar of possibilities for actualized human beings... a THEME CAMP -- there will be a communal kitchen and chill zone near by the pyramid. Join in to make it a fun, cooshy camp! Please set up your camp near us! It will help with community, organization, classes...and an unforgettable experience! The Scene: while exploring a magical land full of infinite possibility, you stumble across an unexpected parade: stiltwalkers carrying banners, people banging gongs, jugglers, hoopers, and barkers with flaming megaphones all beckoning you to come join in and head to the mystical realm of ethereal carney delights, playful and mischevious, mysterious and beautiful. Our Stage is an enchanted grove in a forest beside a tranquil lake. At the center stands a timeless steel pyramid, the legs flaming, lighting the bacchinalian performers as they solemnly play massive steel bells and gongs, perform acrobatic dances, flatter their figures with flames, and tempt you to let go of hesitation and slip into the physical reality of play.
A.A.: Alchemists Anonymous
Coordinator: Hayden Hinton
i know what you're thinking and no... that's not a pile of human bodies we keep on display at our camp, its a giant twister board! so strip down to your most comfortable attire and dive in. Take the excuse to wrap your body into a shape that you might not have known you could. its about geometry, symmetry and oh yea,touching!: fun:encouraged clothing: optional participation: you know you wanna when your done let our alchemists mix you up a cocktail of volatile solutions and if you don't find us don't worry... we'll find you