why stockton?

4.23 was in plan­ning long be­fore we re­leased FLOMM!

ART HO­TEL sort of stoked the flames.
Got us off our col­lec­tive asses.
It’s been years since I’ve co­or­di­nat­ed some­thing like this.
Last time was in Los Angeles.

The DADA con­cept of an un­pre­dictable night of en­ter­tain­ment, art, art mak­ing, print­ing, dress-up, more art mak­ing, more en­ter­tain­ment as part of the FLOMM move­ment was just sit­ting there. Like every­thing else that is FLOMM. In­spired by history …

In sto­ries of Berlin Cabaret (this would be where I link to an in­cred­i­ble doc­u­men­tary that was ONCE on­line, pre­sent­ed by Alan Cum­ming – all about Cabaret, Ish­er­wood, et al.),
the sa­lons of the DADAists (this book ir­rev­er­ent­ly ex­plains how to do DADA),
and un­ex­pect­ed evenings in NY as part of the great PER­FOR­MA se­ries.

So that’s WAT 4.23 is. A night of FLOMM.
 

Stu­dent-cre­at­ed event poster – with Not Ac­tu­al Build­ing – from the lat­est ver­sion of my BAU sem­i­nar
 

And we’re go­ing to sup­ply the materials,
you get to show up, make and en­joy. Oth­ers will be mak­ing too. We’ll have cloth­ing and poster pa­per and MOR on hand — every­one walks out with ART. And we’ll be dress­ing up and we’ll be stu­pid. Be­cause DADA did this 100 years ago. And they were STU­PID too.

And we’re in­spired by KANDIN­SKiY.
And flom­mist Jes­si­ca likes LIS­SiTZKY even MOR so it’s not just KANDIN­SKY. It’s KANDIN­SKiY AND LIS­SiTZKY. Músik in­spired by synes­the­sia (Kandinsky’s road to ab­strac­tion) and Prouns (Lissitzky’s road from paint­ing to ar­chi­tec­ture).

And then there’s STOCK­TON.
Which has a bunch of roads lead­ing to it. Get on Franklin in Sacra­men­to, head due SOUTH and you’ll see it was the old high­way to the heart of Stockton.

Yes, STOCK­TON, Cal­i­for­nia, US of A.

‘Why the hell are you do­ing this in STOCKTON?’

Well,
as some­one who has dri­ven all over BIG CHUNKS of this con­ti­nent and has found a lot of COOL off the beat­en path — far away from the In­ter­state or the pre­fab­ri­cat­ed malls with the same chain stores AL­WAYS – I’ll put it this way: IT IS STOCK­TON BE­CAUSE STOCK­TON IS NOT EVERY WHERE ELSE. It’s got its own char­ac­ter, its own per­son­al­i­ty AND it has things go­ing on that peo­ple just do not know about. BE­CAUSE peo­ple do not get off the free­way. BE­CAUSE peo­ple just want to hit up tourist traps and do what EVERY­ONE else is doing.

And
I’ve been look­ing for a venue for a FLOMM event that is out of the norm, out of the way and out of the minds of WHERE THINGS NOR­MAL­LY HAPPEN.

And
MADERA was­n’t quite it. Nei­ther was FRES­NO. But maybe next time. Did you know there’s in­cred­i­ble BASQUE cui­sine in BAK­ERS­FIELD? Yes, there is. We’ll let you know.

This think­ing also means
I want to do a FLOMM event — some­day — in BARTLESVILLE, Ok­la­homa. Be­cause there is COOL there too. Even if it’s just ME sit­ting there by MYSELF.

So
We’re putting on 4.23 in STOCK­TON in the über­cool LOFT-style Vi­su­al Arts build­ing of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the Pa­cif­ic — and their stu­dents — love KANDIN­SKY and LIS­SITZKY and DADA and they want to have fun too.

So
you’re just go­ing to have to trust us on this one. This is a ONE NIGHT ONLY event. With FLOM­MISTS and a bunch of COOL stuff that you get to KEEP.

Get TICK­ETS here (tix are just to cov­er costs; there is no prof­it here).

AND we have a list of what else is COOL in STOCK­TON. So we’re not the only rea­son to dri­ve over.

Be­cause we love what we do. Join us!
 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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