Right about now, with the last icy fingers of winter wrapped around our throats, people don't feel like burning effigies, they feel like burning everything down to the ground.
Enter a great new way to de-stress: Burning shit!!
The burning away the winter blues festival was planned at exactly the right time- March 21, 2009. Well, I think it could happen every week and we'd still feel totally psycho.
You can bring bits of rage scrawled onto paper, cigarette containers, paper-mache bosses...and watch them light up with red fury. Paper products only, please, think of the environment. I am very much looking forwards to it. I love the symbolic (yet harmless!) idea of burning your enemies as an effigy...
It reminds me of an effigy-burning I witnessed at a huge festival in Spain, but that was a happy time, when everyone raced into the ink-black sea to welcome the good times. This one is very different.
Ideally it is a happy festival, but I have a feeling it is mostly so people don't go around destroying property or burning houses or places of work down. A happy compromise, we'll call it. Let's watch our fears, anger, worries, concern and hatred flame into the sky and then dissipate into a gentle ash, coating us.
If only life was that easy!
Festival created by Whitehorse local Arlin MacFarlane.
Bow down to the Pagan gods of FIRE.
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