Band Promotion: The Whitewater Festival

This is a part of Tapestry’s promotional material for the Whitewater Festival Concert, which happened early in its career.

The band frequently used words and phrases with ecstatic connotations in order to compete against other activities, such as the Dream Gardens and the worship services for Yilrega. The experience Eràsis had with an Oracle must have encouraged this approach.

More specifically, she makes a subtle play on words and iconography. The Narahji word for tapestry, sùmbha or sàmbha depending on the dialect, sounds much like the word sombha, or world. These words are often contrasted in traditional Narahji poetry because some creation stories describe Gyisfen weaving the worlds together with rainbow threads from primordial spiders and worms. The rainbow coloring on this advertisement only proves the connection.

The Whitewater Festival happens at the peak of monsoon season, when the rivers and streams have reached their apexes, and originally was designed to propitiate the Gods against flooding and mudslides. Since the Restoration, the festival has become more like a carnival, with bands and improvisational acting troupes performing all across the Canyons in large tents while the rain pours down. Tapestry was the keynote band two years in a row.

A Tveshi translation follows the image.


TAPESTRY

[logo]

Masàra Docks, Eighth Hour
Whitewater Festival

see the world
encounter the all
find your fire

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When I had attained the ripe old age of five weeks, my parents brought me to an amateur astronomy convention called Stellafane. A journalist doing a piece on children at the convention recorded that my mother called me “a refugee from Betelgeuse,” a red giant star in the constellation Orion.

In a small American town, my mother revealed these origins to me and I set out on my life mission: to explore strange new places, to seek out new experiences and new perspectives; and to boldly pursue my dreams.


I graduated from high school in May 2005. By that time, I had several novel drafts, a large and brilliant constructed language, and notebooks of emo poetry to back up my claims to the Betelgeusian throne. At Smith College, I learned to hone my writing and editing skills. (My emo poetry from college only fills ¼ of a notebook.) I also developed a passion for current events, politics, public policy, astronomy, and literary science fiction.


Now, a recent Smith College graduate, I blog and go to grad school. My web novella, Akačehennyi on a Diet of Dreams, was completed earlier this year. I also write KALLISTI, a Hellenic Polytheist-oriented blog. My poetry has appeared in print in AlienSkin and in Eternal Haunted Summer.

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