Tiki Event-What do you wanna see? - Other Events

M mbonga Member La Mesa, California Joined: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 556	M mbonga Posted posted on Tue, Feb 28, 2006 5:12 PM I'll just throw out a few more opinions and ideas here. Opinions: Entertainment: I still don't like the idea of professional shows for such an event, except maybe one show that won't interrupt the continuity and spirit of the gathering. Too bad there's an "us and them" attitude about top entertainment, and that professional performers aren't expected to play, dance, or socialize with their audience, but rather to sit apart, idolized, for a couple hours, then to discretely disappear by limo after sneaking out the back door. Background music groups would fit fine, though. Event-specific mugs: I don't really collect mugs (yet), so that's not very important to me. I think mugs might be one of those "would-be-nice" things that might take more work than it's worth. If the event's nice, I'd be very happy to settle for a CD-R with good quality photos of the event to remember it by. That would be a lot easier and cheaper, and would be a better capturing of the event. Bawdiness: I'm all for it, especially wet T-shirts and even topless dancing. But laws are insane now: I heard of one clothing store that was charged with violating adult entertainment laws because some of their models on modeling night wore lingerie. It's also too bad that our society regards any show of breasts as "adult entertainment" unsuitable for kids (compare this to how kids used to grow up in the South Seas, where everyone ran around nude or seminude all the time), but there's not much can be done about that. Maybe such special events, if legally cleared, could be held indoors with restricted access, later at night when the kids have (supposedly) gone to sleep. Midwest: To me it mostly depends on time and money. As long as the weather is warm and it doesn't require me to take time off of work (assuming I've found a job by then!) or to spend too much to travel there, any unharassed, warm locale is fine with me. The better the events are, the more I'm likely to spend to get there. Mostly I envision an outdoor event rather than indoors, since I expect a lot of fire and torches, knives and grinders, running and dancing, sawdust and spilled drinks, and other things that don't go too well with the indoors. Bars and entertainment might be exceptions, but then you start splitting up the crowd, some inside, some outside. Might be OK, though, if there are enough people. County fairs are like that, with indoor displays, vendors, etc. More ideas: I happen to like Micronesian stick charts, which are ocean maps made with palm and small cowries. It might be cool to make some modernized versions of those instead of mugs as souvenirs, showing highways and cities instead of currents and islands, say showing the location of the event. http://www.janesoceania.com/micronesian_stick_chart/ Spear throwing contests. Hawaiians used to practice catching or deflecting thrown spears, but even with a helmet that sounds pretty dangerous. http://fanaticus.org/DBA/armies/IV12c/index.html Spear throwing contests with targets might be good, though. Anybody of any age, skill, or gender can compete in something like that. Photo sessions with models. I'm really into photography myself, and I think a lot of other people here would love to have more photos of nice models posing draped over tikis, especially female models wearing grass skirts or swimsuits. Male models are also a possibility, depending on the amount of interest. That could be considered legal "adult" entertainment of sorts and would incidentally provide additional documentation of the event. It could also bring in a significant amount of additional income for models and the event, if there were a fee charged per photographer. Many ideas for classes or lessons: mixology, Hawaiian language (I'd like to master the sound of the glottal stop, myself), making nets, playing ukulele, usage of carving tools, opening coconuts, making floral perfume, making shell necklaces (especially how to drill the shells), and just about anything else that has a skill, art, or science associated with it. Coconut opening contests, to see who can open or dehusk a coconut the fastest. I've seen a demonstration of how fast a skilled person can dehusk a coconut, and it's impressive. Palm tree climbing contests (or lessons). A bit dangerous, though. Rope ladder making. Also a bit dangerous. I can think of two types: ladders strung between two trees, and conventional free-swinging rope ladders. Conventional park/lake entertainment: races, rope swinging, hammocks, maybe coconut croquet? Making of abalone trivets? (Does anybody still make these, or are they pure '60s kitsch by now?) Those would make beautiful souvenirs of the event, actually made at the event. Photographs of the event can also be inserted, or could be mounted on laquered boards with a similar effect. Making of resin grapes? (Uses toxic chemicals, though, per earlier threads.) Carving coconut monkeys? Pig catching with homemade nets? Another great souvenir idea: Record the results of drum circles or ukulele jams there at the event, and make an audio CD (or even DVD) available of the music later, for sale. making doorbeads? (strung bamboo segments, maybe with shells) races/fights on bamboo stilts, stilts made at the event? iguana races? custom-made portraits/busts carved onto coconuts? mudman mask making? All it takes is a little mud and a little creativity. An excuse for adults to play with mud/clay again. http://www.planetware.com/picture/papua-new-guinea/sharp-toothed-clay-mask-of-a-mudman-in-the-mudman-village-png-png140.htm http://www.planetware.com/picture/papua-new-guinea/example-of-a-mudmans-oversized-clay-mask-png-png139.htm http://www.pngbd.com/photos/showgallery.php/cat/586 land diving? very dangerous but also very thrilling and fun http://www.survivorfever.net/s9_land_diving.html tiki-shaped fortune cookies? lottery with a prize to whosever tiki fortune cookie contains a pair of (edible) pink boots! The Lightbulbeyedtiki Mystery Man Impersonation Contest. See who can come closest to looking like the mustached mystery man of this earlier thread: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18382&forum=1&hilite=light%20bulb http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18382&forum=1&start=15&hilite=light%20bulb Contestant photos to be posted online later. Customized confections: powdered sugar shaped into branches of white coral, cookies with a jelly underside shaped to look like opihi (limpets), ginger or vanilla flavored cookies shaped like tikis didgeridoo making, didgeridoo painting, circular breathing lessons. If somebody has the mathematical formula relating pipe length and width to pitch, a number of these could be made on site and played in harmony. http://www.mainzdidgeridoos.com.au/didgeridoo.html http://www.boomerangsrus.com/didgeri.html http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26367/pvc.htm boomerang throwing and/or lessons and/or contests hermit crab races hermit crab beauty pageant pig tattooing blind mudman race. Everybody with a mudman mask is blindfolded, then races 100 yards to the finish line. If your mask cracks open through a collision on the way, you're disqualified. shrunken head making, using shriveled apples. The apples must be prepared at least three weeks in advance. http://bizarrelabs.com/shrunken.htm Have a John Frum celebration and parade. Carry red crosses, carry models of 4-propeller cargo planes, chant, drink kava, make a spectacle. http://www.vanuatuatoz.com/j.html [ Edited by: Tikiwahine - to remove a bunch of tag lines - 2006-03-01 17:16 ]

I'll just throw out a few more opinions and ideas here.

Opinions:
Entertainment: I still don't like the idea of professional shows for such an event, except maybe one show that won't interrupt the continuity and spirit of the gathering. Too bad there's an "us and them" attitude about top entertainment, and that professional performers aren't expected to play, dance, or socialize with their audience, but rather to sit apart, idolized, for a couple hours, then to discretely disappear by limo after sneaking out the back door. Background music groups would fit fine, though.
Event-specific mugs: I don't really collect mugs (yet), so that's not very important to me. I think mugs might be one of those "would-be-nice" things that might take more work than it's worth. If the event's nice, I'd be very happy to settle for a CD-R with good quality photos of the event to remember it by. That would be a lot easier and cheaper, and would be a better capturing of the event.
Bawdiness: I'm all for it, especially wet T-shirts and even topless dancing. But laws are insane now: I heard of one clothing store that was charged with violating adult entertainment laws because some of their models on modeling night wore lingerie. It's also too bad that our society regards any show of breasts as "adult entertainment" unsuitable for kids (compare this to how kids used to grow up in the South Seas, where everyone ran around nude or seminude all the time), but there's not much can be done about that. Maybe such special events, if legally cleared, could be held indoors with restricted access, later at night when the kids have (supposedly) gone to sleep.
Midwest: To me it mostly depends on time and money. As long as the weather is warm and it doesn't require me to take time off of work (assuming I've found a job by then!) or to spend too much to travel there, any unharassed, warm locale is fine with me. The better the events are, the more I'm likely to spend to get there. Mostly I envision an outdoor event rather than indoors, since I expect a lot of fire and torches, knives and grinders, running and dancing, sawdust and spilled drinks, and other things that don't go too well with the indoors. Bars and entertainment might be exceptions, but then you start splitting up the crowd, some inside, some outside. Might be OK, though, if there are enough people. County fairs are like that, with indoor displays, vendors, etc.

More ideas:

I happen to like Micronesian stick charts, which are ocean maps made with palm and small cowries. It might be cool to make some modernized versions of those instead of mugs as souvenirs, showing highways and cities instead of currents and islands, say showing the location of the event.
http://www.janesoceania.com/micronesian_stick_chart/
Spear throwing contests. Hawaiians used to practice catching or deflecting thrown spears, but even with a helmet that sounds pretty dangerous.
http://fanaticus.org/DBA/armies/IV12c/index.html
Spear throwing contests with targets might be good, though. Anybody of any age, skill, or gender can compete in something like that.
Photo sessions with models. I'm really into photography myself, and I think a lot of other people here would love to have more photos of nice models posing draped over tikis, especially female models wearing grass skirts or swimsuits. Male models are also a possibility, depending on the amount of interest. That could be considered legal "adult" entertainment of sorts and would incidentally provide additional documentation of the event. It could also bring in a significant amount of additional income for models and the event, if there were a fee charged per photographer.
Many ideas for classes or lessons: mixology, Hawaiian language (I'd like to master the sound of the glottal stop, myself), making nets, playing ukulele, usage of carving tools, opening coconuts, making floral perfume, making shell necklaces (especially how to drill the shells), and just about anything else that has a skill, art, or science associated with it.
Coconut opening contests, to see who can open or dehusk a coconut the fastest. I've seen a demonstration of how fast a skilled person can dehusk a coconut, and it's impressive.
Palm tree climbing contests (or lessons). A bit dangerous, though.
Rope ladder making. Also a bit dangerous. I can think of two types: ladders strung between two trees, and conventional free-swinging rope ladders.
Conventional park/lake entertainment: races, rope swinging, hammocks, maybe coconut croquet?
Making of abalone trivets? (Does anybody still make these, or are they pure '60s kitsch by now?) Those would make beautiful souvenirs of the event, actually made at the event. Photographs of the event can also be inserted, or could be mounted on laquered boards with a similar effect.
Making of resin grapes? (Uses toxic chemicals, though, per earlier threads.)
Carving coconut monkeys?
Pig catching with homemade nets?
Another great souvenir idea: Record the results of drum circles or ukulele jams there at the event, and make an audio CD (or even DVD) available of the music later, for sale.
making doorbeads? (strung bamboo segments, maybe with shells)
races/fights on bamboo stilts, stilts made at the event?
iguana races?
custom-made portraits/busts carved onto coconuts?
mudman mask making? All it takes is a little mud and a little creativity. An excuse for adults to play with mud/clay again.
http://www.planetware.com/picture/papua-new-guinea/sharp-toothed-clay-mask-of-a-mudman-in-the-mudman-village-png-png140.htm
http://www.planetware.com/picture/papua-new-guinea/example-of-a-mudmans-oversized-clay-mask-png-png139.htm
http://www.pngbd.com/photos/showgallery.php/cat/586
land diving? very dangerous but also very thrilling and fun
http://www.survivorfever.net/s9_land_diving.html
tiki-shaped fortune cookies?
lottery with a prize to whosever tiki fortune cookie contains a pair of (edible) pink boots!
The Lightbulbeyedtiki Mystery Man Impersonation Contest. See who can come closest to looking like the mustached mystery man of this earlier thread:
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18382&forum=1&hilite=light%20bulb
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=18382&forum=1&start=15&hilite=light%20bulb
Contestant photos to be posted online later.
Customized confections: powdered sugar shaped into branches of white coral, cookies with a jelly underside shaped to look like opihi (limpets), ginger or vanilla flavored cookies shaped like tikis
didgeridoo making, didgeridoo painting, circular breathing lessons. If somebody has the mathematical formula relating pipe length and width to pitch, a number of these could be made on site and played in harmony.
http://www.mainzdidgeridoos.com.au/didgeridoo.html
http://www.boomerangsrus.com/didgeri.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26367/pvc.htm
boomerang throwing and/or lessons and/or contests
hermit crab races
hermit crab beauty pageant
pig tattooing
blind mudman race. Everybody with a mudman mask is blindfolded, then races 100 yards to the finish line. If your mask cracks open through a collision on the way, you're disqualified.
shrunken head making, using shriveled apples. The apples must be prepared at least three weeks in advance.
http://bizarrelabs.com/shrunken.htm
Have a John Frum celebration and parade. Carry red crosses, carry models of 4-propeller cargo planes, chant, drink kava, make a spectacle.
http://www.vanuatuatoz.com/j.html

[ Edited by: Tikiwahine - to remove a bunch of tag lines - 2006-03-01 17:16 ]

Post #218023 by mbonga on Tue, Feb 28, 2006 5:12 PM