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shuttle schedule
thursday friday
saturday
sunday 3:00pm - 3:00am
12:00pm - 10:30pm
12:00pm-7:30pm
10:00am - 3:00pm
Belden Town, CA
JULY 2 – JULY 5, 2015
meals by convergence
In addition to selling yummy snacks and beverages, Convergence will serve meals:
thursday 7pm - 9:30pm a la carte meals
friday brunch*
dinner*
10am - 1:30pm
6pm - 9:30pm
saturday 10am -1:30pm sunday
brunch*
5:30pm - 9:30pm dinner*
9am - 12pm brunch*
If you pre-purchased a meal plan, pick up your
wristband at the Convergence Catering Booth.
For food safety, we are composting, rather than
reusing, plates this year. But please wash and
resuse your utensils and cups!
And, as always, the Belden restaurant is open
during Priceless.
*These meals are included in the Meal Plan ticket.
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Amelia Mouse Piano
by Ramon Yvarra
One day Amelia mouse came upon something
she’d never seen before, and soon fell in love with
this “piano.” She made her home inside, and now
brings music to those who love to listen. Come play
with this 1920s player piano that received a digital
rebuild.
Astro Botanicals
by Stan Clark
Giant soft sculpture flowers welcome you to a
meditative magical playground. Sacramental lotus
blossom lamps trigger deep connection and comfort
at the intersection of Nature and Imagination. Color
changing interactive dream creatures offer a sanctuary of glowing flower space. Enter and experience
the pollinator’s perspective.
The Bamboo Lantern
John Dang
Bringing you edible delights at the moment you
need it most, and when you least expect it.
Beach Stage
by Alvin Shiu, Avio Collective
With Priceless reaching the big 1 - 0, we should
staying young on the beach with beautiful people,
Bill Murrays and a giant… pinwheel. Yup. Get
entranced this year with awesome music and spinning optical stimulation.
Belden Putt
by Bonnie Barrilleaux, Gabe Martin-Dempesy & Gretchen Perkins
Priceless’s first distributed minigolf course, evoking
childlike wonder and the joy of good old-fashioned
hitting things with sticks. Playing the course will take
you on a journey into space, let you keep safety
third, and shrink you down into a microscopic
speck, among other adventures.
Boolean Lounge
by Igor Serebryany & Abi Kelly
Escape the wearing complexity of the nuanced
world. In the Boolean Lounge, everything is simple.
Plus, there’s soup.
Doctor Brainlove
by The Phage
Doctor Brainlove focuses on the interactivity of the brain
with art. The project uses LEDs with interactive EEG
controls to map your brain activity onto a large climbable brain sculpture. It is intended to be an illustration of
neuroscience writ large. At Priceless we are presenting
one module.
Broken Promises Shattered Dreams
by Claire Ray
This is a playful project, colorful, light and delightful.
The name comes from the feeling of being overwhelmed,
being let down and disappointed but with the elation of
feeling like ‘fuck it, life goes on’.
Climbable Horn
by Andrew Barton-Sweeney
A climbable sculpture. A twisting tentacle, or a ram’s
horn, or the trunk of a tree? Constructed from reusable
pipe and bolts, generated by a computer to create an
organic and rigid shape. Highly efficient and secure
climbing (or living) structures need not only be shaped
like cubes or domes!
Clitteral Canopy
by The Clitterati
An alluring, relaxing and luxurious sanctuary of renewal.
The lounge space will shade during the day when the
pleasure-loving will find it to be a place of rejuvenation.
In the evenings the Clitterati will serve tea while guests
look up towards the stars and our projected atmospheric
visuals.
ConnecTable 2
by Moldover
ConnecTable is a jambox - like an old school jukebox,
but different in that people remix the songs on the fly
together with other people. ConnecTable embodies the
idea that even modern electronic music can be a simple,
fun, hands-on experience of interacting with instruments
AND with other humans!
Dirt Stage
by Jamie Emerick, Louisa Bukiet, Issac Roth and
many volunteers
This year’s design was inspired by the stained glass
windows of Frank Lloyd Wright and the reflections of a
hanging beaded curtain in the woods. San Francisco
artist Jamie Emerick creates immersive spaces, theatrical
environments and enveloping art around themes of life,
death, and the passages between.
Pewter Casting & Solar Flux @ The Dirt Stage
Pewter casting + solar flux = metallic souvenirs and
hot and sweaty Dionysian glee! Come join this rapid
prototyping session to produce pewter objects. Learn to
construct solar ovens, make two-part molds, and heat,
pour, and clean molten metal. Bring an apron or clothes
you don’t mind getting dirty!
10:45 AM
Breakfast & Bass @ The Beach Stage
Have some coffee with your morning bass.
11 AM
Somatic Earth Meditation with Eleni
@ The Outpost
Drop into your body and connect to the Earth. Shed
tension and stress and allow yourself to awaken your
embodied, grounded sense of being from the inside out.
1 PM
Off-piste Bocce Ball Tournament meets
@ The Lodge
Join us for the first annual off-piste bocce ball
tournament. We supply the balls, you bring eager
hands. All of Belden is your court and the tournament
will wander as we play.
2 PM
Baseworks @ The Forest Stage
Baseworks is a lifestyle approach incorporating movement, physiology, and contemporary
philosophy. Inspired by hatha yoga, the Baseworks
Practice System combines corrective movement and subtle breathing to create a balance of strength, flexibility,
and introspection. 90 minutes.
3 PM
Painting @ The Outpost
Feeling creative? Come sit down, relax, and watch
what emerges from your fingers. We will provide
acrylic paints, brushes, boards, drawing tools, and
photos for inspiration.
3:30 PM
Meditation with Miles @ The Forest Stage
Join Miles, fresh from a solo retreat in rural New
Mexico, for guided meditation. Good for beginners
or more experienced meditators.
4:30 PM
The Art of Improvisation @ The Outpost
Learn the art of improvisation from one of our very
own Priceless Troubadours! Through the arts of storytelling, acting, and singing, you’ll learn how to be in
“the flow” of improvisation.
5 PM
Airbrush Transformation Station opens
@ The Lodge
Are you ready to transform yourself? Would you like
to become the art? Yes? Then you are invited to the
Transformation Station! Bring out your inner Avatar or
put on the mask of the one you wish to be.
5:30 PM
Belden Bucket Marching Band meets on grass
next to the Lodge/Dirt Stage
Grab a plastic bucket, decorate it, and express yourself! Learn rhythms for marching, then drum about as
we march through Belden Town! Materials provided,
but but bring anything you’d like for inspiration.
sunday morning send-off
10am - 12pm: Join us at main stage to celebrate the 10th birthday of Priceless. We’ll gather for some birthday
games, photos, and of course music. Don’t forget to sign Priceless’ birthday card on Sunday morning before you
head out!
1pm: Priceless 2015 is officially over…. Drive safely!
fire, hydration, and other safety needs
STAY HYDRATED...because it’s good for you! And you’ll have more fun. Drink lots!
FIRE and SAFETY
The mountains we are in are a tinderbox in the summers. This one time at Priceless, there was no Priceless, because
the whole area was nearly engulfed in flames.
As we all know, this year’s fire season is already in full swing and a hot one at that. Calfire and the Forest Service
have stepped up their fire restrictions in response, so please review the following info so we don’t stress out the
nice folks at CalFire:
If you have a campstove, you’ll need to get a permit. If you didn’t get one before you got here, you can find them at entrance of Belden at Check In
No personal BBQs or grills. There are communal propane BBQs available to use, if you have a BBQ to use for your personal camp, please keep it packed and don’t use it.
Smoke responsibly: Use lidded ashtrays and please dispose of waste safely.
Please be extra careful with any cookstoves and remember: ABSOLUTELY NO FIREWORKS, CAMP
FIRES, GENERATORS, CANDLES, OR FIRE SPINNING ARE ALLOWED.
Priceless is a Leave No Trace event, so please remember to:
•Pack out your personal camp recyclables & trash. (We only have limited dumpster space.)
•Bring your floatie home! Label it so you know which is yours.
•Do a moop sweep of your campsite after packing up.
activities
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Wanting to learn something new? Or maybe you just want a little break from all the music and dancing. Or a
different kind of space to let your brain and body play. Don’t forget a yoga mat! Please note—activities are 1 hour
unless otherwise noted. Activities schedule is subject to change. Be sure to check the bulletin board next to the
Lodge for the latest and greatest!
provided; contributions welcome.
thursday
4 PM on
DIY Welcome BBQ @ The Picnic Tables
BYO meat and more! Hosted by Sam.
friday
10 AM
Sound & Rhythm Meditation @ The Outpost
Start your Priceless mornings by getting tuned up with
somatic sound. Begin with a guided sound meditation
using breath, voice, quartz & Tibetan singing bowls.
The second half of the session is movement-based
meditation. No experience necessary! Sessions are
guided by certified sound healing practitioner Shawn
Feeney.
11 AM
Intro to AcroYoga @ The Forest Stage
Join for a lesson on the foundational poses of
AcroYoga. This workshop is accessible for absolute
beginners, with more challenging modifications for
those who have prior experience. Bring a partner or
meet someone there. 90 minutes.
12 PM
BeldenPutt Kick-off @ The Lodge
The PGA (Priceless Golfers’ Association) introduces
the BeldenPutt Distributed mini golf Tournament! The
Tournament is distributed in both space and time.
Find and play the holes at your own pace or join for
a guided introduction. To find the last hole and win
fabulous cash prizes, collect a themed flag from each
hole and bring them to the gentleman with a golf tee at
the Binary Ball.
1 PM
New Games @ The Forest Stage
We’ll be playing non-competitive group games to
bring smiles and laughs to all involved. Be prepared
to jump, run, yell, and stretch. Relive the glory days
when you had nothing to worry about but playing silly
games!
2 PM
Juggling @ The Forest Stage
Do you want to juggle? Anyone can learn! There will
be tools for play—feel free to bring other objects to
manipulate for this lighthearted hangout.
3 PM
Yoga with Miles @ The Forest Stage
Join Miles for mindful movement at the Forest Stage.
Good for all levels! 90 minutes.
Miasma: or Suspicions about the Hidden
Realities of the Air @ The Picnic Tables
Fight the deadly pestilence of Belden. Join us for a
Plague Doctor costume workshop. Doctors will root
out the sick, quarantine the infected, and administer
cures to the morally decayed. Some materials will be
4 PM
Integrate Your Peak Experience @ The Outpost
Join for a playshop to provide a framework and tools
for learning how to integrate festival, journey, retreat
experiences into your daily life.
5 PM
Bonding Through Bondage @ The Forest Stage
Come discover how to facilitate intimacy through the
beautiful and sensual art of rope bondage.
The Art of the Bag: Cooking Meat Sous Vide
@ The Picnic Tables
Join for an interactive and delicious foray into a
modern cooking technique that offers unprecedented
control over the transfer of energy into our food.
Airbrush Transformation Station opens
@ The Lodge
Are you ready to transform yourself? Would you like
to become the art? Yes? Then you are invited to the
Transformation Station! Bring out your inner Avatar or
put on the mask of the one you wish to be.
6 PM
Dreamhacking @ The Forest Stage
Learn ways to use dreams to play with your mind.
Liminal dream exercises help you become adept at
working with hypnagogia and hypnopompia so you
can surf the roiling edge of consciousness.
11 PM
Frontier Games @ The Train Tracks
Frontier Games brings together the best of old and
new frontier amusement including Railroad Tie [Down],
Knife Toss, Blindman’s Bank Robbin’, Damsel in
Distress, Bedroom Bindle Tying, Syphilis Spin the
Bottle, and the Famous Shot Wheel.
Midnight
Words, Words, Words @ The Train Tracks
Bring poems to read or recite.
saturday
10 AM
Sound & Rhythm Meditation @ The Outpost
Start your Saturday getting tuned up with somatic
sound. Begin with a guided sound meditation using
breath, voice, quartz & Tibetan singing bowls. The
second half of the session is movement-based meditation. No experience necessary! Sessions are guided
by certified sound healing practitioner Shawn Feeney.
The Power of Play: Yoga & Clown
@ The Forest Stage
Come to move. Come to stretch. Come to hoot, holler,
shake, giggle, and slap your friends in the FACE
(without actually causing damage). Clowns learn to
display and exaggerate true emotion. In this introduction, we play games to discover our inner joys and the
catharsis of releasing them. Laughter will ensue.
The FluoroFlower Tree
by Ashley Newton
A fluorescent tree with limbs and flowers brought alive
with techno-magic. During the day, it glows brightly from
the sun’s light. At night it glows with the help of another
sort of light. Don’t be afraid: while the tree has a personality of its own, it is benign.
you need after a hard day’s night at Priceless.
Our services are available at the following times
(and possibly more):
Friday 12-2pm and 6-9pm
Saturday 12-2pm and 9-11pm
Juxtaglow
by Kirsten Mollema & Nate Adams
Juxtaglow is a series of laser cut lanterns with LED lights
gradating through the color spectrum to bring a visually
brilliant yet calm ambiance to the natural surroundings.
Seville
by Christopher Schardt
Seville is 16 LED strips spiraling down, forming a
cylinder. The LED Lab iPad app generates imagery
displayed on the LEDs using photos, videos, algorithms,
and the iPad camera (yes, it’s interactive). At Priceless,
two synchronized Seville pieces will mark an entrance.
Kodama-sama
by Ellen Juhlin & Jason Asbahr
A magical place in the forest where you can sense the
invisible tree spirits and other creatures frolicking around
you. These tree spirits are called “kodama”, and the
Japanese tradition of celebrating them is called
“kodama-sama”. Wander into the woods, away from
the noise, to serendipitously discover this special spot.
Shadows & Mirrors
by Lonnie Kurlander, Robb Walters & Sean
Stevens
“Shadows & Mirrors” is a delightful functional art
piece which combines a need for ground lighting with
thoughtful surprises. Large hexagonal mirror-lanterns
and small shadow “fairy” lanterns can help light your
way to a beautiful evening.
The Light Aquatic
by Scott Morgan
An underwater light sculpture consisting of ten serpentine
forms of computer-controlled LED strips. Street murals
from SF’s Mission & Tenderloin districts provide the color
palettes that drive the light and animation. A highly
abstracted rendering of urban street murals in an underwater rural setting. With electricity. What can go wrong?
Spid3r
by Sean Stevens
The Magic Garden of beautiful interactive flowers has
a new inhabitant: Spid3r! With watchful eye(s) of laser
disco-ball thermal vision, it may come from above to
investigate you. Spid3r will react to your touch, but
mostly Spid3r likes to hang out and party, and
sometimes dance.
A Moveable Feast
by Daniel Busby
A Moveable Feast will be returning to Priceless! Hop on,
and pedal through Belden Town on the fanciest dining
table on the road! Wear your finest attire, as the chandelier will be lit and the table will be set… for adventure!
The Spirit Guide
by Hannah Pourang
An exploration of the connection between the human
experience and spirit world. This art series honors the
ancient wisdom of animals and the messages they
whisper to us in our dreams. A visual arts collection
meant to heal the heart.
Newtonian Fluid
by Helen Lurie
A human sized fluid-flow simulation teaches the
audience about isotropic incompressible fluids through
participation.
The Puppet Kissing Booth
by Michael Whelpley
The Puppet Kissing Booth will provide participants the
chance to live out all of their smoochy fantasies, via the
medium of manually-animated stuffed animals. Bring a
friend, choose your puppet makeout avatars, and have
all the fun of first base with none of the saliva!
S.S. Belden Barge
by Charles Philipp, Justin Silver & Peretz Partensky
S.S. Belden Barge: the largest ever vessel to sail the
Feather River. Let that sink in. But before it does, please
join us for a cocktail cruise.
Sensual Services
brought to you by Malaise Airways™
A gentle caress, a deep eye gaze, the promise of a
kiss—Sensual Services brings you the seductive affection
troubadours
Sprocket Spectacle
by Daniel Busby
Sprocket Spectacle is an intimate interactive art piece.
Users will be able to turn the handcrank and make the
sprockets dance. Chains and gears interact to create a
surprising and mesmerizing 3D display. Take a moment
in quiet reflection to ponder the complicated, intricate,
yet simple connections all around us.
Squared Mini
by Charles Gadeken
An interactive light tree with bold mathematical
aesthetics that generates complex patterns with customdesigned hardware and software.
Touchtone
by Chris Linder
Touch is an integral part of human interaction, yet in
most social situations friends and acquaintances aren’t
presented with many opportunities to touch other than
in greeting. Touchtone provides an opportunity for
people to share touch and captures a sense of wonder
and delight.
Roving about Priceless in the year 2015, an eclectic group of talented
musicians, constantly forging soundwaves. Allen Myers, Brent Bishop, Bisi Obateru, Joshua Smith, Kevin Land,
Sansa Asylum, Tyler Garnett, and Tyson Ayer will share spontaneous jams, and If you happen to miss those, then
look for their solo and collaborative sets at the Outpost on Saturday.
dirt stage
thursdayfriday
7:00pm
8:00pm
saturday
Party Within A Party - Binary Ball
5:00pm Tom Lattanand
8:45pm
Palindrome
9:30pm
Devin Kroes
9:45pm
9:30pm
11:30pm
12:00am
Ruxpin
Obi-J
11:00pmyMe
ALXNDR
Tinker
Troyboi
Mr. Bill
7:00am
set in sand
Michna
AMB
Barrio Lindo
1:30am
Edamame
David Last
Nicola Cruz
2:30am1974
Kid Kameleon
Ametsub
Sleep party
Contact Field Orchestra
Ganucheau
4:00am
Sleep party
Sixis
5:30am
Sleep party
Knowa Lusion
beach stage
Spoken Bird
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fridaysaturday
Kid Kameleon
11:00am
SheRa
GKEN-E
12:00pmJK47
Sharps
Piotron
1:00pm
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saturday
Mashimon
James Fonda w/ Saideh Eftekhari
ill.gates
4:30am
6:00am
Tones
4:30am
influence & Galen (Dr. Whiskers)
3:30am
5:00am
AMB
Digital Rust
2:30am
4:00am
12:30am
3:30am
1:30am
Elevated Mind
Tinker
3:00am
1:00amSugarBeats
3:00am
Dr. Toast
2:00am
12:30am Undercat
Broxtronix
1:00am
12:00amGriff
2:00am
Daniel Berkman
11:00pm
10:30pm
12:45am
Evolutionista
10:30pmwatsonix
10:00pmBodhi
11:45pm
saturday
10:00pm
B. Bravo
10:45pm
thursdayfriday
6:00pm
Tumbledown House
9:00pmXPRXO
forest stage
party within a party
BK Willy
2:00pmOrphic
J*Labs
3:00pmCloZee
benchun
4:00pmDefunk
Troyboi
5:00pmNeptune
outpost
In the dark mists of time when this party began… all was homogenous grey and confusing and
we made it up as we went along.
Nestled deep in the woods of Belden you will find the Outpost, a cozy respite hosting eclectic performances
and activities throughout the weekend. Come by to check out our complete performance and activity schedule!
(Check the map for our exact location in the boulder field).
Now, Priceless is ten. 1-0. And like all grown-ups: we know. It is black, and it is white.
thursday, 8pm-midnight
Welcome to Priceless! The first 50 attendees to come by the Outpost will receive a sweet surprise, along with the
opportunity to get crafty. Music by the Troubadours Roving Dance Party and other special guests.
As the evening draws in, the bell tolls seven. Now you are grown, now you are ten,
now — oh how!? — you must choose: ebony or ivory?
Don your ash blacks, or your shining wisp whites. Come one, come all to the Black and White
Binary Ball! As the sun sets on Belden Town, walk in the light or the shadows, or stand on both
sides of the battle.
The Ball will be attended by the excellent Sir Alxndr on decks. Black and white face magic
courtesy of Madame Liya. Heckling by the Sensual Services. Photo Booth by the gracious Mister
Tom. Coffee is served at 7:00pm. Dance Battle starts at 8:00pm.
friday, 8pm-1:30am
Cozy up with friends and tea by the firelight with the sounds of Tom Lattanand, Holly Mead, Noam Smooha,
Bisi Obateru, Marrow and the Bone (Oceana), Belen Vance, Daniel Berkman, Tumbledown House, and other
special guests.
saturday, 11:30am
Sonotropic
saturday, 8pm-midnight
A night of music and special performances with the Troubadours, hosted by Bisi Obateru.