Groovement Day Festival ~ Tomtar & Troll ~ Saturday May 13th

Budding trees and bumblebees — Spring is here, and we're heading into the forest for fresh air dancing under the sky and cosying up around the fire with fellow funkateers throwing down among the evergreens for the next rendition of GDF: ~ ~ ~ Groovement Day Festival ~ ~ ~ You're invited to partake in an experience out of the ordinary, weaving together layers of our somatic experience in ceremonial (and seriously silly) ways to celebrate the incredible capacities of our physical form and awareness. The vision is simple ... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ we breathe, we move, we play, we connect, and we jam ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ... but the event concept is jam-packed with ingredients: 👇 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ Secret Sauce Overview ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 13:30 ~ 🙌 Hangout (Drop-in) 14:00 ~ 🔔 Opening Circle 14:15 ~ ☯️ Somatic Reset 17:00 ~ ✨ Dinner Delight 18:00 ~ 🧞‍♂️ Super Serious Games 18:30 ~ 🥁 Jam Session 19:00 ~ ⁉️ Workshops 20:00 ~ 🔊 DJ-set 21:00 ~ 🙏 Closing Circle 21:30 ~ ❤️‍🔥 Afterglow ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... wait, "Sauce"? Let's see that again, a bit closer: 👇 👇 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Secret Sauce (Overload) Overview ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 🙌 Hangout (Drop-in) 🙌 Some time to land in the venue and vibe ~ 🔊 Groovy Downtempo DJ-set ~~~ 🔊 Apadiel ~ 🌈 Open playground 🌈 : ~~ 🤸‍♂️ Movement Jam ~~ 🚶 Slackline ~~ 🤹 Flow Dojo ~~ ⁉️ Play 👇 🔔 Opening Circle 🔔 ~ ℹ️ General info about the venue and event ~ ℹ️ Info about the Somatic Reset ~ 🤐 Entering nonverbal space, diving into our somatic experience 👇 ☯️ Somatic Reset ☯️ Loosening up our monkey suits and dropping into embodied play. We'll guide you through some... ~ 💨 Breathwork ~ 🗣️ Vocal Activation ~ 💆 Somatic Self ~ 🤸‍♂️ Movement ~ 🦶 Ecstatic Dance 🦶 : ~~ 🔥 Guided Warmup ~~ 🐒 Free Flow ~~~ 🔊 DJ: Amanda Käck ~ 🫠 Meditation ~ 🙏 Closing Circle / Breakouts ~~ Coming back to verbal communication through sharing & integration 👇 ✨ Dinner Delight ✨ We share a Legendary Lentil Stew. Feel free to grab some coffee / tea while at it ~ 🥣 Food / Hangout ~ 🌈 Open playground 👇 🧞‍♂️ Super Serious Games 🧞‍♂️ We'll fire up the 🌈 Open Playground with some Super Serious Games. You'll have to try real hard to not have fun ~ 🥷 WOOSH! ~ TBD ~ TBD ~ 🌈 Open playground 👇 🥁 Jam Session 🥁 Improvised jam session led by Leon & Julia. Grab an instrument or flex your vocal chords. Newbie-friendly! ~ 🌈 Open playground 👇 ⁉️ Workshops ⁉️ Parallell tracks, pick one at the spot ~ 🎤 Beatbox 🎤 with Feelhip ~ 🚶 Slackline 🚶‍♂️ with Adam Normark ~ 💆 Conscious Intimacy 💆‍♀️ with Simon Jonsson ~ 🌈 Open playground 👇 🔊 DJ-set 🔊 The closing DJ-set of the night ~ 🔊 Apadiel ~ 🌈 Open playground 👇 🙏 Closing Circle 🙏 Wrapping up our shared day festival 👇 ❤️‍🔥 Afterglow Good times, good people, soft landing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yup, that's alot. You're free to participate as you please. If you're curious about details, you can sneak a peek in the 'STORYLINE' doc (soon) linked below. We'll announce DJ's, live acts, workshops and facilitators in the days leading up to the event. Next up is everyone's favorite thing to read: 👇 +🏴‍☠️ Terms & Conditions 🏴‍☠️ + ++++++++++++++++++++ 💸 Tickets 📜 + Limited amount: the first 50 who Swish or volunteer + Ticket prices (sliding scale): +++ Student / Low income: 200-300SEK +++ Regular: 300-400kr + Tickets are transferrable + Refunds only if event gets canceled + Karma-ticket: Co-creators go for free (sync with Mikael/Jens for finding ways to contribute) + Sign up via Google Form: https://forms.gle/tjpKriU4r7FVkfw87 📌 Location 🗺️ + In an Evergreen Forest near Härlanda Tjärn + Bus 17 will take you there, and there's parking nearby + Exact location will be shared with signed up participants the day of the event 🕑 Arrival 🐣 + In time to land before the Opening Circle at 14:00 + After 17:00, if you can't make it before 14:00 ☀️ Weather ☔ We'll bring enough firewood to keep us warm for days + If there's rain, we'll have tarps strapped up to keep us dry + If there's a storm, and we cancel the event, you get refunded 🥣 Food & Drinks 🍵 Dinner around 17:00 + Legendary lentil stew with rice (included) + Water, tea and coffee (included) + No boozing 📱 Phones & Photos 📷 We keep the dance floor & chill area free from phones/photos/videos during the Somatic Reset + No photo/video sharing without consent from the people visible + No phone use on + No photos/videos during the Somatic Reset + No photo/video sharing without consent from the people visible 🤐 Wordy Mouth Noises during Somatic Reset 🙊 + No talking in the Main Hall after the Opening Circle + Late arrivals are asked to welcome themselves into their body, but save their speech until after the Somatic Reset is wrapped up +++++++++++++++++++++ 👇 👉 ~ S T O R Y L I N E ~ 👀 Here we sneak a deeper peek into each activity on the agenda, in narrative form, with a rambling preamble: 👇 👉 👉 👉 SO THE THING IS... 👇👇👇 ... to jam out deep into the groove, we better tune our instruments. In groovement, that fundamentally means tuning our bodies and minds. 70's intergalactic groovester George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic said it straight: "Free your mind... And Your Ass Will Follow" To free up our minds, we offer our fibrillating nervous systems a gentle, yet groovy ... ☯️ Somatic Reset ☯️ We practice some Breathwork, Somatics, Movement and Ecstatic Dance to... ...TO BE CONTINUED if/when you feel like it, in the Storyline doc (SOON posted) below: ~ ~ ~