FLYING PIG SEX DISASTER

THE FLYING PIG SEX DISASTER FUNDRAISER

(Pictures from event)
Initial tally is @$7,000 raised for the BORG2 Art Fund

Date & Time: Saturday, February 5, 2005
9:00 PM
Location: The Shipyard (www.theshipyard.org)
1010 Murray St
Berkeley, CA. 94710
Advance tickets tickets can be purchased through PayPal:
http://www.borg2.org/Donate.html (once you donate your name will be noted on the list)

BRING OUT YOUR CHANGE FOR ART!

We're spare changing our way to a quarter million dollars!

And we're going about it in the normal sort of way, by asking you to bring us your spare change, so we can put it inside a giant articulated metal sculpture of two pigs making beautiful love, which we will then set on fire as they fly around the Shipyard in Berkeley; as they burn, the change will fall out of the pigs and onto a giant metal collection plate, cling clack cling, making sweet music as only two flying, fornicating, bursting to the seams with spare change pigs can. Nothing weird about that; the pigs love it, we get money to fund art at Burning Man, and you get rid of all that spare change that's been sitting around your closets in coffee cups, shoeboxes and old fishbowls.

Bring your change and stuff the pigs! We're asking everyone to bring whatever spare change they have laying around. We already have a $1,000 donation, FIFTY POUNDS of change to go into the pigs, and, ultimately, come falling back out, musically.

Got change? Want to help BORG2 but can't make the fundraiser? We'll come and PICK UP YOUR CHANGE. Email us at jclemente@fastmail.fm, and we'll come to your house or anywhere you want to meet us (within reasonable radius of Berkeley/SF,) pick up the change you want to donate to the cause, and dump it into the pig construction before the big date with flame. We'll make sure your donation gets counted, and that you get credit for it. And you get to keep your Saturday night open, should you want to attend another, potentially more interesting mating pig burning spectacular taking place at a competing locale on the same night.

You can also paypal a donation to us and we'll convert it into change and place it into the pig for you. Paypal here:

http://www.borg2.org/Donate.html and include a note letting us know your donation is for the pig.

OR. Not in the San Francisco area but still want to play with the pig? Why not organize your own "Spare Change Pig" night in your own town? Bring a piggy bank to a bar and invite your friends over. Get drunk and clink clink clink. Every little oink helps.

We'll take pennies. We'll take nickels. We'll even take coins that are all worn down and grimy black and you can't even see Lincoln's head anymore. You bring the change, we'll do the counting, and we'll all watch the pigs combust in mid-air together. Spectacular, right? But that's not all. We'll have entertainments galore before the Bonfire of the Swine, including but not limited to...

LIVE MUSIC

* The moderately famous Tangelrs will set 'em up and knock 'em down, beginning with square dance lessons for all us city folk who don't know shinola from shinola: get tangled up in paralellograms, obtuse triangles and perhaps some squares too!

* The Saddle-ites, featuring America's hillbilly sweetheart, Cari Lee, will break yer achey hearts with their unique blend of rockabilly and country swing sounds, and ten thousands pounds of rhinestones.

LEADEN PIG TOSS

Amaze your friends with a display of strength and power as you hurl a leaden pig through the air in the Leaden Pig Put Arena. Winner will receive a sore arm, and no fair dropping it on your foot.

HYPERWHISKEY WHEEL OF TERRER

Spin the dreaded wheel and win a prize. Or be asked to perform a task. Or receive a jolting blow to the head (steel helmet provided)! Anything could happen, as long as it's one of eight or so different things, and it's all for charity!

TALK TO THE PIG

Explore the complex dimensions of the turbulent life of a Sacrificial Pig through this amazing sound installation. Ask the pig advice on whatever you like; you are guaranteed to get some sort of answer, even if it's sort of a pig-type answer. Looking for a new job? ASK THE PIG. Can't get a date? ASK THE PIG. Confront the pig with your inner turmoil! THE PIG KNOWS ALL, SEES ALL*

* - some restrictions may apply.

And after you've done all this stuff, and you're sitting around waiting for the pigs to burn, come enjoy our well-stocked bar, and when we say "well-stocked," we mean at least three or four completely different and separate sort of beverages. For a small premium, you will find it completely possible to have slightly inebriated conversations with a perfectly sober pig. Which is not something you can say most of the time and be literal about it.

Hey look, there's MORE, JUST FOR YOU:

- Kiki and Scott will be running the Egeria Firefall. Hold fire in your hands, but don't get burned. Meshuggene!

- Liam promises a secret show with his washing machine music box, as well as a curious assemblage of bells, tanks, plates and metal whatnot below the pig for the coins to cascade through. Zang!

- Steve Valdez will debut some rattling spider thing that crawls along the sides of a container and makes a BUNCH OF ANNOYING NOISE. Wow!

- Chris Schardt will be running the prototype of his rotating pulsar orb of fiery death. Boooooom!

- And Jim Mason will be doing absolutely nothing whatsoever, other than driving the forklift around, rushing to get the pigs in place high overhead for their meeting with the Maker of Pigs when the clock strikes midnight. FUNKY COLD MEDINA.

Coin stuffing starts around 9 PM and the whole thing burns around midnight. Other entertainments will continue on until 2 AM, or whenever the cops show up. You don't want to miss this. This may never be repeated. It's far to dangerous to taunt the pigs like this...

THE FLYING PIG SEX DISASTER
9 PM - 2 AM, Saturday, February 5
The Shipyard, Berkeley
1010 Murray Street
Cover: $10-$20 donation at the door, sliding scale.
Advance tickets tickets can be purchased through PayPal:
http://www.borg2.org/Donate.html (once you donate your name will be noted on the list)