This Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 from 9pm until LATE, at Akbar, it’s VALENTINE SQUAREDANCE BONANZA!!!
Project: Valentines… duh. And Square Dancing, ha!
SPECIAL GUESTS: Triple Chicken Foot playing LIVE music with expert calling from the foxy sublime Ms. Cory Marie Podielski!
$2 processing fee, please – NO DANCE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY, We got you covered. And yes, we’ll have the usual supplies for coloring, cutting, gluing valentines and the like.
$4 cosmo drink special – very romantic!
This upcoming Valentine’s Day is going to be Sunday the 14th, what better way to prepare than crafting and receiving valentines, imbibing cocktails and square dancing with real fiddle, guitar and bass?!? IT’S GOING TO BE SO MUCH FUN!!!!
This night is very special, but for some of you, this night might be one big BLACK HOLE. There are many people who feel funny about ARTS-N-CRAFTS, DANCING and VALENTINES DAY. All three of these things might make you break out into a cold sweat, or have feelings of instant weirdness. If this is you, here’s my personal pep-talk:
At some point in your life, maybe someone was TOTALLY DUMB and said something derogatory about your drawing/painting/craft project, whether it be a well-meaning teacher, a critical relative, or some kind of competitive/jealous bully. And perhaps at another interval, you saw someone snickering at your badass dance moves, or you slipped and bit the dust trying to do the moonwalk and split your pants in half and never lived to hear anyone talk about anything else for three weeks. And MAYBE you made a Valentine for someone and they didn’t even notice, or worse, they did notice and behaved like an ignoramus, and you decided protect yourself forevermore by adopting the theory that Valentines Day is just some kind of lame corporate ploy to make people spend money, it’s all pressure and dumb stuffed bears, etc. etc. etc. (enter bitter speech here.)
You have THREE choices:
1.) Give in to your fears and pass on one of the BEST nights of your life at Akbar/Craftnight this Wednesday. SAD!
2.) Dissect your fears in a detached and bemused fashion that makes you rationalize stuff to the point of being like :Oh Well, yeah, whatever, it was what it was, but I don’t feel like going, I’m going to stay home and watch TV. ALSO SAD!
3.) You can TRULY REFLECT on your fears, and remember that BIG BAD BULLY, or UPTIGHT CRITICAL RELATIVE or APATHETIC NON-RESPONSIVE CRUSH FROM 7th Grade (or community college), and those UNRELENTING COOL KIDS are waaaaaay back there, from some other part of your life! Those naysayers, critics, bullies, sticks-in-the mud not only aren’t around, but they never had any real say in how awesome you are, and THEY STILL DON’T!!! When you hear those constricting voices from the past, those ancient crusty thoughts trying to break you down, just kick ’em in the crotch and LET GO. Allow yourself to manifest, emerge and be free! Jump the brick walls and have some fun, dammit.
Crafts are about INSPIRATION, Dancing is about JOY, Valentines Day is about LOVE.
You’re a Crafter, You’re a Dancer, You’re a Lover.
You have it all, don’t let it go to waste, join us Wednesday night, we’ll be waiting.
See you at the Craft Table,
JP Craft Captain
