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Ø♠️ Druid🤝Occultist, Writer 🌀✨
Co-Founder Mad Tea House ☕️🫖✨
Workshop Managr @symmetryfestival✨
Booking @heathenmadjesty 🎸🧚‍♀️✨

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Make it to the end for our big shouty love!

This is the people who tracked it through the mud every single day to bring you a piece of the experience of the mad teahouse at the pop-up party.

A special shout out to those who were in the thick of it and helped keep the spirits high- every-single-day. Starting half a week before the festival and half a week after.

As cofounders, we would like to extend our deepest love and appreciation and acknowledgment for just how amazing you all are!

We will be creating a special thank you, for all of our volunteers. We will also be posting our GoFundMe that we had planned on sharing at the festival. So that we may earn the money to buy our own 10 x 20 tents and continue to bring the Mad Teahouse to other fest.
We will start sharing that here soon.

Thank you for enjoying the teahouse and thank you so much to every single one of our volunteers -whom we can’t wait to acknowledge in a soon, upcoming post.

💕IF you enjoyed the mad teahouse at the SAVE Symmetry party feel free to drop some love about what was your favorite part! We weren’t able to bring you half of our experiences, but we were happy to be there in any capacity that we could. 🖤

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Now that the weekend has passed, we want to show you the reality on the grounds: mud. Historic, unprecedented rainfall over the previous 6 weeks meant that mud was everywhere. It made the site a major slipping hazard and extremely dangerous for vehicles. Any vehicle entering the mud immediately got stuck or slid unpredictably.

To manage this, we had to build the festival using a few tractors to tow everything in place, and moved our people around with just a couple of UTVs.

And we almost got it done. All stages, primary vendors, and activations were built and ready. The final hurdle was getting you into the campgrounds. We hoped Friday morning’s sun would dry the ground, but even our firmest areas remained squishy and the wettest spots were impassable.

Our team kept fighting, using heavy equipment to back-drag mud from key areas to reveal firmer soil beneath. It worked, but with only precious hours between the rain stopping and doors opening, we ran out of time to get all of the key areas dragged.

Canceling was our hardest decision we’ve ever made, and we only made it when no other options remained. We are deeply sorry to everyone who arrived early and was placed on site. Seeing you trek back and forth with gear broke our hearts. The hayride plan simply couldn’t service everyone in need.

Still, we created some beautiful moments together:

On Thursday night, Krewella threw down an incredible surprise set at the Cider House, supported by Osyris, Dad Jokes b2b Kollapse, Two Dudes One USB and Gigi.B.

On Saturday night, with Onhell and an insanely stacked lineup, we pulled off creating an indoor mini-festival in about 5 hours, and you packed out the house with love, energy and support.

These turnarounds gave us a big shot of optimism and momentum.

If you believe in Symmetry’s future the way we do, please consider donating on our homepage. We need to raise at least $200,000 to bring this back for a proper Year 3, but every dollar helps. Donate now at symmetryfestival.com 💜

The rain didn’t stop pouring for all of September, giving us 13 inches of rain, a record for September in all of Fairfield history

The grounds on the last day of hard rain

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Words can't even attempt to describe how lucky I am to have been surrounded by so many amazing and talented individuals this week. Thank you to the volunteers /everyone who showed up and made this a week worth remembering! I am so happy to have met and gotten to know you guys, I just know that we will have many more exciting adventures together😻🥳

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HEY SYMMETRY !! 🌀🌊🖤
Did you know?? clothing textiles take up anywhere from 79-87% of all landfills ((on average)) Come join the fight against fast fashion, big corp, and global warming !!
Show up for the community or show up with bags full of clothes ! Your adventure starts at our clothing swaps!! Leave with a whole new festie wardrobe and some new friends 🫂💞

We will be swapping @ the MAD teahouse
FRIDAY 2-4pm
If any of you lil aliens have questions just dm me!

—love and hugs Mothership Aubs 🛸🖤

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Ayee guys! Almost one week away!! We can’t wait over here at the MOTHERSHIP 🤞🛸🛸🛸

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One of my life goals?
To encourage creatives to shoot their shot.
Ask to paint that mural, ask that local business if you can put up your art, build that thing you keep telling yourself is unrealistic, start the project you only have a week to do just to see if you can do it.
Ofcourse you’re going to fail at a couple things, that’s just apart of being human but it feels so much better to say you tried instead of not doing it at all. Duh the feeling of failure isn’t the best feeling but guess what? Throughout that failure you just learned how to do things better next time!!!
I am begging you PLEASEEEEE get lost in the sauce of following your DREAMS!!!✨

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Man, these are one of my FAVORITE interviews I have ever done, I’m not going to lie, how deep everyone got with their Answers is the type I convos I love to have!! Maybe it’s the Ausie in me 😆 🧠 but it sure was stimulating! Thank you everyone at the @heathenmadjesty MisFit Frequencies RAVE!
#rebellion #rave #iowa #deep #intelectual

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Thank you so much @heathenmadjesty and @catalyzed_void for letting us bring your imagination to life! It was a blast working with you and making some truly rebellious memories 💜💙🩷 Thank you @dudesfinerthings.artistry for the videos and all your painting expertise, and thank you @lucidjourneys_productions for your amazing sound as always! If you haven't checked out these amazing people stop clowning around and do your soul a flavor! 🤡🫶

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It was An amazing time at the @heathenmadjesty MISFIT FREQUENCIES Rave!
#love #community #iowaevents #rave

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@subrosa_sound expressing community and rebellion through music and getting the body moving 👏🔥
#rave #iowaevents #iowa

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@marissacardella showing us amazing form of art digitally and expressing their creativity over all!
#iowaevents #art #creativity #heathen #misfit

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@dudesfinerthings.artistry giving us a little insight if what ways they revel with their creativity in repurposing art in a sustainable way! #iowaevents #art #repurpose #sustainable

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