Megatripolis

In the late 1980's Fraser the creator and editor of the Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, (EPi) a London based magazine, which achieved international recognition & wherein he developed the concept and coined the phrase Zippie, with the idea of saving the planet, encouraging a consciousness craze and to embrace technology.

Evolution followed in 1990 and was the flagship magazine of the rave culture and gained wide recognition both here in the Uk and America , thus paving the way for his next move into dance culture.

Megatripolis was founded in 1993 and was one of the first people to recognise the synergy arising from combining New Age ideology with Rave culture. Creating the first UK in-door festival where people were exposed to cross-cultural ideas and experiences.

Megatripolis was a pioneer of the "Parallel University", the concept of offering live talks by philosophers, scientists and activists (along with supporting literature) to club-goers. Visits from speakers such as Allen Ginsberg, Terence McKenna, George Monbiot, Howard Marks and Ram Dass were common.

Megatripolis spawned a thousand imitators and is perhaps Fraser Clarks most enduring legacy.

In the late 1990's, Fraser teamed up with the genius alternative theatre writer / actor / director Ken Campbell to create The Warp Experience, 24 hour stage play by Niel Oram, within a 24 hour trance party.

The Warp Experience was based at The Drome - the cavernous tunnels under London Bridge Station now known as seOne. After it finished, a number of the production crew went on to create The Synergy Project - now known as Luminopolis.

Fraser's trailblazing has led directly to the amazing parties that we run today - he is our spiritual grandfather.

***

The Line-up

The main room . . . .

Cathedral

DJ's playing Shamanic + Mega-T classics only.

22:00 - 23:30 Darius Akasaic

23:30 - 1:00 Richard Gray

1:00 - 1:30 A miracle on the dance floor?
Everyone who wishes will gather on the main Heaven dance floor to Love bomb the man who started it all.

Love is the only answer, and this could be a hugely powerful application of applied love our love will flow to Fraser as deep and holy healing, surround and overwhelm him! He will absorb it and allow it to work within him, bathing all his cells in golden light. As he sends the love back out to us, we will visualise the flow of golden energy radiating out, healing, carrying all dis-ease with it, transforming discomfort into joy and worries into peace, activating a beautiful Circle of Love that will flow out through London, the planet's Heart Chakra. This is our time. Fraser will no doubt ascend to Higher Heaven at this point, disappearing in a lightning flash! (TBC)

1:30 - 4:00 Marco Arnaldi

4:00 - 5.30 Nic The Record

5.30 - 6.30 All the above DJ's will play 1 record each in rotation.

***

2nd room . . . .

Cauldron

Inspiral and Luminopolis (formerly The Synergy Project)

The Magic Cauldron of Creation invites you to a soiree of creative expressions with many of our artists linking back to the days of Megatripolis

With Contributions from

Solarquest and Friends

Sandra the Dancer

Organismic aka Rhythm of Space

Precious RGB's AV set

What's her Name - the word on the pavement

Darren Sangita sounds

A triple back to back set from Giani (Synergy Project), Aliji (InSpiral) and Zak(Luminopolis)

A Jam by the Binky Bonk Collective

and poetic contributions by Lee Harris with tails from the grove

Further Visual Delights by
Billy Tantric
ShivaMonkey

Deco by
Liquid Drops - Little Green Planet
Shiva Monkey

***

3^rd room . . . .

Techno Silence Suite

A Celebration & investigation of the life, work and ideas of Fraser Clark, a giant of the Counter Culture and Shamanarchic Rave Scene. We will talk, discuss, network, meditate, pray, and even dare to be silent.

Is Fraser now being proved right in predicting (and advocating) the extinction of Dinosaur culture?

Did the old hippy/raver/tribal elder get it right?! As Western Capitalism flounders, will the New Shamanarchic Paradigm come to the fore and a more loving, harmonious, inner-travelling and non-competitive world come into being in our lifetime? How exactly will this scenario play out?

Panellists

Mark Heley, Kate Magic and other thinkers plus (health allowing)
Fraser himself.

MEGATRIP FOREVER TRIBUTE: Friends, colleagues and allies of Fraser will talk about his personal influence on their lives and ideas. Audience contribution encouraged. [The MEMORY WALL will be created here, so please bring images, flyers etc from past events]

MEGATRIPOLIS FOREVER BOOK: Kate Magic will talk about her forthcoming book 1988: The Untold Story of a Revolution, focusing on her chapter on Fraser and his concepts etc.

Megatrip Forever Meditation & Prayer: Spiritual groups will be onstage to pray for Fraser's health and vitality to be restored.

Megatrip Forever Theatre: Performances from both Neil Oram's The WARP play, and Fraser's own coming MEGATRIPOLIS@FOREVER RAVE HOPERA.

Megatrip Forever Poetry: Poets will recite poems related to Fraser's life, work and person.

Megatrip Forever Film: A shamanic theme in our surprise film premiere. Expect to go on a journey.

Megatripolis Forever Connections: All night we'll be meeting, RE-CONNECTING, networking, and, dare I say it, loving each other.

Featured Performers

Neil Oram - Writer of The Warp

Kate Magic - Rave Author: '88 The Untold Story

Mark Heley - Rave Culture Conceptualiser /Journalist

BuddhaField - Buddhist Meditative Guides

Paradox - Poet Extraordinaire

Niall McDevitt - Poet Extraordinaire

SpaceGirl - Poet Extraordinaire

John 'The Crow' Constable - Visionary Mystic/Playwright/Poet

Yogi G./Gina Feitelson - Actress/Comedian

George O'Gurdjieff - Spiritual Teacher

Pok Star - Bard Extraorinaire

Supporting Performers

RainBow Lizzy - Muse
Sionaidh K. - co-founder Megatripolis
Caress StoryTeller Supreme
Brian Barritt - Author/Muse to Tim Leary)
James Hamilton - Writer/Encyclopedia Psychedelica
Dom Spiral - Synergy Project/Inspiral Founder
Lyn Lovell - RainBow Circle/Rainbow Family Focaliser
Raga - All Arounder
Lee Harris - Alchemy/Homegrown founder
Katee Kaos - Southwark Mysteries
Jaunt-E - Superdog

HOST: Jeff ('JeffMan') Laster - Parallel Youniversity/Luminoplois

Room Organiser - Alex lee - Luminopolis

***

4th room

Room 23

Mix Master Morris

Foolish Felix

Eddy Lovechocolate

***

MEGATRIPOLIS benefit event for legendary
party promoter Fraser Clark

Thursday 13^th November 2008
Starting at 10pm and finishing at 6am.
Heaven Night Club, Villiers Street, London WC2N 6NG, UK

Tickets
£8.00 at the door

Advance online tickets are available at:

Access All Areas

Donations
http://www.accessallareas.org/payment

Order over the phone Tel: 02072678320 and 02072676148

Physical Tickets from

Access All Areas - 2nd Floor, 30c Camden Lock Place, London NW1 8AF

Inspiral Lounge - 250 Camden High Street, Camden Lock, NW1 8QS

What the press have said

NEWSWEEK - "Clark espouses a philosophy that attempts to unite the spontaneous and flexible aspects of the hippy right brain with the logical pragmatic left. There's an aura of 21st century tribalism; a dash of Mad Max mixed with a Robert Bly retreat in the midst of a hippie love-in"

ARENA ( UK ) - "Dubbed the 'Timothy Leary of the E Generation', Clark has helped alter the development of a whole subculture. He grabbed the new youth Rave cult by the scruff of the neck and pumped it full of hippy idealism"

VILLAGE VOICE - "Beneath the funhouse evangelist lays a great freak, wily and openhearted. He knows that when you put loud repetitive beats, space-age synthesizer doodles, psychedelics and dancing bodies together, you not only engineer ecstasy, you set up the potential emergence of radically different models of self and community"

MONDO - "Though possessed of an Honours degree in Psychology from one of Britain's most ancient seats of learning, Clark dances as well - and nearly as much - as he talks, and often when he talks"

THE INDEPENDENT ( UK ) - "Many drop out only to drop in again. Not Fraser Clark. He has kept the faith and his time has come. He is that rare type, the idealist who has cradled his dream, biding his time, awaiting planetary conjunctions, and then acted upon it"

NEW YORK TIMES - "Mr Clark is lord of the new techno-shamanism. Such cybernetic celebrities as Timothy Leary, Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow and Ken Kesey have expressed support for the Clark gospel."

HIGH TIMES - "Clark possesses an almost childlike sincerity, that of a born-again pagan who's seen the future in the flicker of a disco ball. He's looking to bootstrap the hedonic bliss and communal vibe of the rave party into a mass movement for planetary awakening. For all the media high jinks, Fraser Clark is tapping a genuine desire by people to gather and reach for something larger than themselves"

EVENING STANDARD - "Eloquent, friendly, and endearingly upbeat."

LA TIMES - "Crank up the music. Spread Peace and Love. Plug into the Internet and meet the Zippies, a cyber-rave, altered states kind of movement led by shamanic zippy elder Fraser Clark"

VSD magazine ( France ) - "Between Yoga, Dollars, the Road, LSD, Ibiza, India and California, Clark explored everything before discovering the pleasures of technology and creating the Zippy."

OUTSIDE magazine/Rolling Stone ( US ) - "We reporters are drawn to the peculiar energy of the zippies like helpless thumping moths. Newsweek is here, Life, Rolling Stone, Spin, Paris Match, the BBC, and several German magazines. A couple of know-it-all photojournalists work the periphery, manically narrating the scene like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. 'We're witnessing history here' one of them says, dead earnest. 'Years from now we'll tell our kids: Yeah, I was there - I was with the Zippies'. A 51 year old Dionysius with a look on his face that says something sneaky is afoot and he's at the centre of it, Clark moves with a studied languor as though he's providing clues to the zeitgeist with every facial tic and gesture. 'I'm just a guy' the happy impresario told one reporter, adding helpfully, 'Jesus was just a guy too, of course' He wants to perform a cultural marriage to bring together two heretofore separate tribes - the techno heads of US rave culture with the good old fashioned hippies - in an unstoppable new super tribe. 'It would send a message to the world's leaders: New Scene in town! No more bullshit!' Must have a permit, the officers demand. Bollocks, Clark amiably replies."

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - "Fraser Clark, editor of Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, the magazine that first identified the 'hippies with zip', is the shamanic zippie spokesperson for a loose-knit movement of people who aim to change the world - while having the best time of their lives"

WIRED - "The most radical musical invasion of America since the Beatles and the Stones first kicked up the shit 30 years ago."

NEWSDAY (NY) - "Gaunt, long-haired Scotsman Clark spearheaded Megatripolis in London which became ground zero for zippydom."

CLUBLIFE (San Francisco) "Fraser is a trouble making zippy instigator/ fun loving zippy prankster depending how you look at it."

"Deep down this man is a teacher, a spokesman and advocate for the modern urban neopagans who has dedicated his life to the spread of archaic consciousness, specifically through the Youth Culture, which he sees as our last hope for planetary survival. Like their ancestors and most current mathematicians and physicists, Zippies have abandoned organised rules of logic in favour of reality hacking - riding the waves, watching for trends, keeping an open mind, and staying connected to the flow. For the Zippy, exploration itself is a kind of understanding, and the process of exploring is the meaning of life." - Douglas Rushkoff: Cyberia (Harper Collins)

"Clark is marketing himself as a pop guru. He's saying: 'What's at stake here isn't just a new thing for the kids to wear this summer; what's at stake is a change in evolutionary consciousness'." - Kodwo Eshun, music editor Modern Review

"Clark has tried to draft an ideology on to the British subculture. I see him doing something really unexpected." - Matthew Collin, former editor i-D magazine

"Zippy means affirmation. I's not against anybody. It's for life, youth, the individual, the psychedelic vision and the immediacy of feeling." - Terence McKenna

Fraser Clark