.... hey people .... There are many things going on in the world and many things being dreamt of here and planned but many of them are prospects for the future and many don´t get off the ground ... the first step is just getting out there and taking that first step, I have a truck down in Valencia, spain at the momnet where i travelled with someone making shows on the road and various other places, .. now unfortunately my other half of the show has taken up full time dance school so we can´t continue together which is a shame but oads do split ... this leaves us gathering new people to continue what has been begun, I create, with others fire shows with dance and poi and ythings that burn and music, music music ... The feeling we create is amazing and life is really good, performing is all I live for and the road with beaytiful people ... I want to find a few people who want to come down to Valencia and live in the truck, make yurts, so everyone has thier own space outside the truck to chill in and together spend a month making a new show and learning new stuff. making costumes making stuff .. www.freewebs.com/kissa-ja this is me and a little of what we do .. I also do sculpture from materials found in streets etc and wnat to begin putting on all kinds of workshops during a tour of Spain and portugal from now into the summer .. then head over to japan for a month to live on the beach and perfom in varous places which are semi arranged at the moment ... or whereeevr the road leads ... forever how long ... this is a serious thing .. its happening now, but as i said earlier people change and paths splitt and now is the time for new people to get together and make more magic .. the whole world is open this year and offers keep coming in .... At the end of the month i am going to buy some silks, cords, and trapeze and i want to learn this too .. especially the elastics .. wow .. amazing stuff ... if this intersts you .. you dont need to be able to do anything ,, everything can be learnt together in a short time and ideas can be developed etc ... if this sounds good for you email me gilesmcpherson@hotmail.com and we can chat etc. anytime .... anyways ... so many things so little time and words dont do justice .. specially form me, its not my strongest point .. ............................................................lots of love ... giles mm
hi giles! sounds great! i love painting, did a few firewalks, though i'm still scared about that stuff it would be a great show-thing... i'm a fast learner and travelling is something i've been doing for a while. but i'm in canada right now, maybe in florida soon, but june 8 i'll be back in holland again, maybe even sooner depends on how things work out on this side on the ocean, right now i'm just stuck here in canada cuz i made the desicion to leave the highwaychild bustribe. anyway, i love the idea of joining you with this, it sounds great. and its in europe... and europe is home haha
get in touch when you get back over this way .. will let you know where i am and how its going .. you have my email .... keep safe
Alright Gil man, this sounds real interesting. You have caught my attention. Unfortunately at the moment i have to get a job and start saving to go to university, cuz it is going to cost me €5,000 and starts in september. But i am still interested and will think it over if u are interested in me coming over. Peace and Love
its about passion and a life fella ... not a summer holiday good luck with the job, uni and the 5,000
wow. that sounds awesome. is there a certain age range of people that you are looking for? because im 16 and my friend 19 and weve been looking for a place to go and its my dream just to do that kind of stuff.
.... well thats a tricky question in the way that i have never thought about till just now .. no there isn´t really an age thing .. suppose if you were 94 it might be a bit difficult but there would be somthing to do always ... the most important thing is passion and wanting to really be part of somethign outside the norm .. what most peoiple call security for the future and all that crap we ae led to believe .. i know from my parents that you can be financially okay most of your life even prosperous and then at the last hurdle before retiring have it all taken away .. society as most of us know it doesn´t offer any guarantees ... and i could go on on this topic but most of us here understand that, even if we haven.t yet found an alternative which works personnally. you are 16 .. your friend is 19 .. that only presents a problem in the respect of your parents and how they might be slightly terrified of you floating about europe with people they and you have never met .. that is something which may need to be addressed .. it's possible and if it is something you want to do then i will do anything possible to put their minds at ease and give them confidence. This will be up to you and your passion to do this in the end, you will make it happen if you want. At the moment we range from 18, to 36 .. there are about 7 of us who are from various places on the planet, uk, holland argentina and spain. a mixture of differnt people with different skills a few with nothing in specific but the most important thing is people who are going to live and work together producing something which will be absolutley amazing. That i know. We are going to meet in valencia spain early may and then go up to this wee house 50 kilometres out of Valenciawhich has its own spring, swimming pool and is set in a box canyon and we aill live there for 3 weeks to a month .. that will be enough time to get to know each other, see if everyone is happy with one another and to practise and learn things for a show which will last say 20 mins at first, we will have to make about 4 yurts to take with us in the truck so everyone has their own space to sleep and relax in .. then we come back to valencia and put in on in the street .. (because thats a great place to work, bringing life to the steets instead of just shoping) .. and also to a few other different venues which are being organsied at the moment. From there we will tour round spain for a bit .. maybe two months then if possible i would like to get us all over to Japan to perform there. we would be building a wee house on the beach near a friends bar and living there. The chance of earnig money is good there and this is the kindof thing which makes the winter easier for poeple to bugger off to differnt countries to see families seperate or together etc ,, then get bcak together after the new year .. and do it all again but bigger and better. well thats kind of how the dream goes in my head, and after spending the last year doing similar with a couple of people but to a diferent extent it works. but the important thing is ..it only works if you have the passion and we all share life together ... we can and will do it, we can and have to trust each other................ i have come across a few arseholes over the last year and it has been frustrating ,,, i had to learn lots of lessons myself and notihg is more important than honesty and loyalty to your own group ... nothing more .. that is the only thing i expect .. its okay to fuck up .. thats how we learn .. we stand by one another no matter what. If you want to come and do this then yes come and do it .. one thing i have always wished is that i had known about this feeling and this life at 16 and been able to have the balls to go chase it .. i wasted all this time figuring out why i didnt wnat to have a 9 to 5 job to earn money to pay for the weekend with my mates and a car and a mortgage .. arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh .. but know i know. poeple will throw the arguments at you .. well what about the future .. what about security when yoou are old .. what about hospitals if you break your leg ... what about ... and on and on If you need help with any of those argument then we have some answers and things ithe pipeline to answer those and will share them with whoever needs re assuring that its not just a lark round the festibals for the summer messing about .. we entertain .. we live .. i have found nothing which gives me more of a buzz then having my face painted blue and freaky and tossing fire around to live music we make and so on .. so there you go ... hope that answers more questions than it raises ... and my email is gilesmcpherson@hotmail.com .. if you need to chat more ... if you want to come be part of this then we´d love to have you here ... but all the issues with your folfs and the law (us law states you are an adult at 18) and peace of mind need to be sorted, trouble can mess our dreams up too .. its up to you and your determination. love and peace and may your path be cluttered with fools so you can show them the way ... jejejejeje giles
I'd like to say something about the age thing, I'm 18 and have been travelling for a while now. Your age can be a problem, mostly because you are from the States. Doctors, police, borders, they will want to call your parents, want you to show prove of that both parents aprove of you living here, and will want your parents to know about every step you make. And my parents have told me many of times, go to school, think about the future, blah blahhh blahhh... I always knew the way I want to live is the way that I feel is best to me. My best argument to them? I learn about different cultures, have the oppertunity to learn other languages, and I learned to do a lot of different work. Also, have you checked out if you need a visa? I could stay in the States for 3 months, going in and out of Canada or Mexico did not make my visa last longer. I hope it all works out for you, It's sad that if you know what you want, and have a feeling of it being the absolute right choice to make the government can still make you stop from living that way because of your age. I was 'lucky' my parents didn't care. They'd just write a note and say, aah well she can go. It was easy for me to go away because I'm European. Try and look into everything they can do to you to make you stay right where you are, study it, then find your way through it to your goal. It's like a labyrinth. You can do it! Hope to see you soon!
... i'd like to add something more on the age thing .. frankly the attitude in general is shit .. but i realise that there are bad people about and that makes me frustrated .. I spent a year living at a protest camp in Scotland where i met some of the best people i have ever met and people who taught me a lot about life .. one of those people was a girl who was 16 at the time i met her .. she became a best friend .. a brilliant person who scales up the side of cranes in iceland to stop corporations destroying the wilderness in the name of greed .. someone who spent a week in a tiny treehouse with me in gales, 40 feet up a tree uin order to try stop the goverment building yet another pointless and dangerous bypass through yet another hamlet to try improve the traffic flow for trucks .. a scheme opposed by most locals .. so 16 .. hahahaha .. now she is just turning 18 and she has been living this way for a few years .. her father and mother support her in her choice and even come down the camp to see her and us .. fucking amazing that she has had the support to follow her own mind .. i have not come across someone who is stronger and more confident of herself and happy. oh .. now she is touring spain on the saving iceland tour .. go see http://www.savingiceland.org lots of love
thats the hardest thing man, I mean I agree 100% though its not human nature to do so, people pass blame and leave ....not all but it does happen so maybe I should say some people ...I have had many many folk live and learn threw our troubles out on the road and it just makes us stronger. how long have you been putting this thing together? my tribe will be over in late september, id like too see one of your shows, I have never been over to eroupe im only 1st generation canadian, I cant wait to see where my familys from, maybe we can meet up at some point , Im sure things work differently on that side of the pond, but im pretty confident we can make it threw....do you guys have any structure set up or anything? consensus, guidlines? cash outlines? I learned the hard way to make sure folk knew what to expect concerniong finances.... if you dont, some will eat and others wont...it just happens that way. and I mean decisions and such, ... good luck brother peace
fuking years and years .. tho i found my passion in life and set off after it 3 years ago ... the only way i knew by putting one foot in front of the other the best i could .. over the last year and a half i hve know exaactly which direction i am going .. the person i was doing this with now is learning dancing full time here in valencia so i now look for a new partnee to do acro balance with which is an integral part of what i do .. and also others who can make this kind of lfe work .. not a drive through the world but chasing a vision of beauty and living on the road is part of it at the moment. As it will always be but there is a time,chance and opprotunity to make a base to travel from ... so its still evolving and will find its true direction and stability from those who really have the balls and passion that i have .. i´m listening to david bowies five years as i type this and my brain is tired so if i am wandering or talking shite and not making sense i apologise ...[/QUOTE] sure ... no consensus structure or guidelines whatso ever .. no laws written down just a way to behave and we all know how .. people fuck up .. the oly thing is honesty .. honesty .. break that once and its in vairibly difficult to trust again .. so honesty is all .. people who take the piss dont last and are soon sen for what they are .. and they will just float away like they always do .. onto another thing and on and on and on .. the day to day living and the ins and outs evolve naturally from the people in the group .. as we begin to put this new show together we will find our ways around each other and the ways round any obstacles in our paths from our combined exeperience or lack of it when we come across such things. i have a truck ... we will build yurts to enable us all to have a space of our own .. its not a case of its my truck i have the idea of this trip .. fuk that .. its a truck .. we all responsible for it ..if it doesnt work we all find a way to fix it .. if for some reason i dont get it all tof¡gether here and have to go to another place to do this .. then i give the truck away .. sell it for a token amount if poss . failing all that i would have no qualms about torching it .. should be a spectacular fabuloso and a fitting end ... basically it a possesion and i wont let it hold me back or to be used as a means of manipulation. cash we have what we have .. no one goes without .. but no one is expected to have the same as the next .. or to pool it .. you have what you have it yours and what you do with it is up to you always .. the kind of people i choose to be with this is never an issue .. simple. .... agian those who take the piss don´t do so for long ... they just isnt any room for them to do so .. its not a hippy bus driving through the world .. but a vision and a dreeam creating performance and arts and crerativity and there is a focus on the future .. sorry but i refuse to be someone who is going to drift round the festival circuit ... i want to make the parties .. be part of the show .. get high form performing and have the chance to influence people and be one of a million and more trying to bring some balance and harmnony back into this fucked up world. then i want to be able to go back to my home and shut the door and be with someone who wants to be with me ... knowing that the ret of the family is only a stones throw away if needed ... peace and light brother .. listen to those around you .. not those who praise you .. nor those who kick you .. but those who you an hear and want to help you .. keep putting the next foot in front of the other Giles
hey man, liked your last response there. that wholle money thing is a bother to me, I dont like when people go without or hoard...but thats me, glad to hear you never had that problem come up. I rarely do festivals, though we can make good dough there, it usually mor like a stop over and something to do, not a tour feste to feste .... we do fire shows sometimes, a few of us spins and many folk play instruments, we usually do pretty good doing that on the back of my last bus it said "they say one man can not change the world, but maybe we ALL can" I too feel the drive, I love the road, been doing this for ten years....its my passion as well. It makes me really happy that others are doing similar things around the world, I know of a tribe in south america on horse back, there meeting us in mexico, and doing kinda an exchange thing for a few miles, I met a few other tribes in toronto folk just getting there buses or rides together for the summer...canada is extremely difficult to live in a van/bus during the winter temp gets minus 50/60 in some places colder. from what I know each tribe does things a lot differently but each have there own similarities... most of the time its the folk I meet out on the road that stay the longest, folks I leave with after meeting them on line, dont seem to work out....alot of folk think its going to be different then it is. best of luck bro, never easy but pretty freaking rewarding eh? yeah I usually give away my bus to the folks on the bus when I leave......hmmm but torching it...wow, thats primal man I like that!!!! whats your worst situation you had to handle with a group? peace !
stop speaking to me lisa your bad mojo , you never walked two hours for food you chose to walk to get a shower,,,kinda dumb when the pool is a block down queen. I work my way threw the road, and I dont like going to shelters begging for food. Id rather not eat.......it always works out if I just wrok threw things. you'll learn your own lessons once you dry your ears. sorry giles didnt want to corrupt your thread man. ever had anyone leave your tribe then follow you around and write wierd shit about you?? its actually happened to me more than once....I must be doing someting wrong here! peace
but you did want to corrupt my thread in young hippies? stop playing those games. stop playing innocent.
