In collaboration with talented Forester Kate of Kalamazoo College (follow her at instagram/k8belew!), HQ presents a Choose Your Own Adventure Forest tale - Part 5! If you missed the previous part of the story, go here to read it first: bit.ly/1yDqlpV “Let’s get weird!” you say over the sound of funk music coming from the center of the forest. You swivel your hips a little bit, walk through a cluster of strobes, and you’re off through the midst of the nighttime Sherwood Forest to the Silent Disco. You walk behind the Sollun and under a canopy of giant lit up Jellyfish that shine down on the woodchip trail, offering their glowing presence as a guide. Soon you walk right up to the entrance of the Silent Disco without even meaning to. “This must be it,” your friend says,“we’re here!” A row of headphones is lined up on a table and you grab a set as you enter. At first you’re confused. The channels on your headphones have the ability to flip between green and red, and with a flip of the switch the music changes. You realize there are two DJ’s on stage and you can choose between which music to dance to. You both pull your headphones off and the grove is silent. You laugh out loud and put your headphones back on. Your friend listens to one channel, while you spin around to another. The trees have canvases stretched between them, illustrating paintings, while lights flash around the perimeter of the tree circle. You dance your way to another group of people, and they join you bobbing up and down to the different beats. As the DJ set ends you slip out of the silent disco and back into the forest. Your friend pulls out a disposable camera and asks a guy behind you to take a picture of the two of you. You throw your arms up and around each other. The light flashes, and the guy hands the camera back. You continue to walk in the woods until something catches your attention tucked back into the forest. It’s The Giving Tree. As you approach it, you see a small group of people surrounding the base of it. You dig into your backpack and pull out a lighter that you had glued googly eyes on sometime earlier that spring. You set it down among the roots, and hope that the right person finds it. The woods appear to be a maze of adventures at night. Your friend grabs your hand and pulls you in the direction of a tiered hut and you dive into the cutout entrance of the bottom layer. As you climb up through the levels, small groups of people greet you, give you a high five, or ask you to sit with them and you do. The forest glitters just outside of the hut’s tiny windows, and you look out at the shining world. Your friend leans her back against the wall and breathes in deeply. “There’s nothing like this place,” she says to herself, and you smile, because you were thinking the same thing. “Let’s see what the stages look like at night,” you proclaim. “Do you want to go see who’s playing at Tripolee, or Sherwood Court?” she asks. Choose Your Own Adventure: Exit the forest to Sherwood Court Or Run through the festival to Tripolee Comment Sherwood Court or Tripolee below to vote for where we all go next!
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:15:12 +0000
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