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Recently I've been feeling pretty disconnected from the zeitgeist at Flux. I'm not a big fan of video projections or sound installations. Sure, they involve work just as much as any other kind of art, but I prefer something you can see the artist's hand in, something personal and not technological (although LJ more than anything might be the best example of the intersection between the two).

But last weekend we went caroling with pots and pans and kazoos, and came home and Nick and Ben wrote songs for the accordion, and the Santacon folks made toys in the living room, and it felt right again.

I realized that if I want Flux to be a certain way, I have to make it that way, instead of castigating others for making it their way.

I think the Land of Ice is going to be hysterical. I am in charge of hot chocolate.

invitation follows:Flux Factory Presents:

THE MAGICAL WONDERFUL LAND OF ICE, Starring The Snowman and his SubZero Friends!

Part musical theater/ part carnival/ part playground!!
Guide your child through a whimsical land of (simulated) snow and fun, in which one may

Crawl through the labyrinth of The Ice Cave
Brave the blinding snow of "the Blizzard Room"
Play with the Snowman. Get a "Frosty Foto"
Sing and Dance with Giant Ballet Dancing Wintertime Birds
Witness Professor's Slush's Cauliflower-to-Ice Cream Transmogrifier
Make SnowGlobes. Mini-Ice Sculptures and Puppets! Collect Prizes!
Eat Free ICE CREAM and HOT CHOCOLATE!! Rock out!

Live entertainment includes:

The Imperial Penguin Puppets
Thin Ice Tap Dancing by Stephanie Larriere
Accordian Soundtrack by Benjamin Ickies
Mechanical Madness by Brian Matthews
Clowning by Mister Mustard
organized by Alice Murray Higgins and Nick Jones
hosted by Nick Jones

An interactive wintertime adventure for children ages 4-8! Think of it as "Burning Man for Kids."

Sunday, December 15, 2-7 pm
$5 per kid, adults free (if accompanied by kid)
Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd St.
Long Island City, Queens (near Pathmark)
G/R to Steinway, or 7 to 40th st.
www.fluxfactory.org
for directions: 718-707-3360

A CREATIVE INDOOR NONDENOMINATIONAL EVENT