$50 Weekend MardiGrass Golden Bud Pass gives entry
to all events Friday, Saturday and Sunday
One Day MardiGrass Bush Pass for Sat or Sunday events
$25
If the Town Hall looks like getting overcrowded for
any event, priority will be given to Golden Bud Passes (i.e.
Full Weekend Passes)
Advertising space is available in the Print Program of 2012
Nimbin MardiGrass, the 20th annual Rally for Cannabis Law Reform.
30,000 copies were printed last year and we will print at least
that many again. We will distribute the 2012 program all year
from the Embassy promoting the virtues of Hemp for food, fuel,
fibre, medicine and as a recreational substance of choice.
You can place your advertisement for $250 in 82mm wide, 55 mm
high in CMYK at 150dpi as a PDF, Tiff or jpg.
Larger sizes are available at the same width. Or contact us
for your requirements. head@hempembassy.net
The deadline for print is April 13th. Thank you for your support.
Ads will be automatically included on MardiGrass website program
for 2012.
We reserve the right to reject ads deemed not in keeping with
the aims and objectives of the MOB. (MardiGrass Organising Body)
You can find previous editions of the 16 page MardiGrass
Program online. http://www.nimbinwave.com/wordpress/print-mardigrass-2010.pdf
http://www.nimbinwave.com/nmg/2011-mardigrass-program.pdf
Less than 4.5MB downloadable files for Adobe Reader.
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MardiGrass will become a Festival
when we can celebrate the herb without fear of prosecution and
persecution. When the Police Riot Squad have a float in the
street parade behind the Ganja Faeries, Big Joint & POLITE,
then we really will have a proper festival and celebration.
In the meantime, this annual event is a POLITICAL
PROTEST RALLY.
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Nimbin MardiGrass 2012
MardiGrass 2012 is
now on with similar venues and programming to last year. We
tried to say we were a protest and not a festival to avoid a
few hundred pages of Council paperwork and costs, but to no
avail, and have now submitted a Development Application for
every possibility, depending on weather. We will be back in
Peace Park for the HEMP Olympix and music on a big stage, either
down on the flat next to the bowling green if it is dry, or
if it’s too wet, up on the old basketball court area above
the new skatepark. If it’s raining music will be in the
Town Hall.
Sunday’s Twentieth Annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally is
now planned to march along the same route as last year, starting
at the cop shop and marching to Peace Park for speeches and
music.
We were threatened
in a solicitor's letter with an injunction and litigation for
costs if we went ahead without getting permissions.
Police are concerned about our MardiGrass protest plans and
we agreed people are not to trespass on the Police Station land
nor blow smoke in any police faces. Either act will give cause
for arrest. We have agreed to again this year march from the
copshop along the traditional route to Peace Park, not from
Peace park to the Police Station as originally planned.
Police want the MardiGrass weekend to be non confrontational
and we agree. It’s critical we are peaceful protestors
and respect is maintained. They want to emphasise they don't
make the laws and they support our right to protest and in particular
support our protest march in Lismore on May 1st to the two local
politicians offices, Janelle Saffin and Thomas George, who do
make the laws.
The 20th annual Cannabis law reform rally and gathering begins
on Tuesday May 1st when we march from Lismore Court House to
the Police Station (Next Door), then to the office of our local
MP Janelle Saffin, and on to the office of Thomas George to
deliver them requests to treat us and our choice of medicine
as part of everyday life - not a criminal matter
The Weekend proper begins Friday May 4th at dusk with the Opening
Ceremony and the Pickers' Ball in the Town Hall.
Saturday May 6th, main events include the heats of the Hemp
Olympix, the Kombi Konvoy, 4.20 Mass Enlightenment and the evening
Harvest Ball. More music in Mingle Park, and on the Market Stage.
While you are at MardiGrass make sure you sign the Petition
to the new NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell asking him to hold another
Parliamentary Drug Summit (like they did in 1999).
Sunday May 6th, finals of the Hemp Olympix and the main street
float parade and rally with the Ganja Faeries and Polite Big
Joint preceding the rally speakers.
This is a not for profit event sponsored by the Nimbin
HEMP (thats Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Embassy which is
run by volunteers and dedicated to ending the ridiculous war
on cannabis, one of the planet's most useful plants. We need
you to buy an armband to support cannabis law reform and we
guarantee you a great and educational weekend at Nimbin's Yarndi
University.
The Lismore City Council and NSW Police are vowing to be tough
on roadside camping and we recommend you go into one of the
official campsites. They love to watch at night for the flick
of the bic lighting the bong in the car and sneak up on you
so be aware!!
If you are visiting for the day only the Nimbin Headers Sporting
Club have an off road carpark site for you separate from camping
areas.
Volunteers
Mardigrass is run by volunteers
and you can be one if you come in the week beforeand are happy
to get your hands dirty. For that you will get an armband and
a campsite and maybe even a meal or two! Previously we have
been flooded with volunteers and it becomes difficult to manage.
So if you want to be part of the MOB volunteers come as early
as the Monday before. We need all sorts of skills from cooks
to builders, to artists and joint rollers. We are especially
looking for electricians, cooks, artists, recyclers, NSW licenced
traffic controllers (Royal treatment for these!), and skilled
video and camera persons. Here's a
link to the forum if you want to register as a volunteer,
and maybe tell us your skills and time of arrival.
Traffic controllers would be with the Jungle
Patrol.
Can you imagine a Mardi Grass beyond prohibition? In 2012,
the Nimbin Mardi Grass is hosting MARDI GRASS MIND CANDY - an
array of national and international thinkers and speakers to
discuss the past, present and future of cannabis law reform
from many different angles. On Saturday afternoon of the festival,
we’ll be exploring issues from cannabis and spirituality
through to cannabis and sex; the tough love of prohibition;
imagining and creating a legal cannabis market; advances in
cannabis as medicine. We will hold a special 2-hour forum on
Sunday to give voice to various drug law reform groups and individuals
to share visions and ideas for future change. Leading campaigners
will be joined by a variety of local activists, media provocateurs
and other movers and shakers, who all have a vision beyond prohibition.
Mind candy? Afternoon distraction or hours of brain bending
banter? Contribute, experience and decide!
Saturday 5 May
12 noon – 12.30pm - ENTHEOGENIC
PERSPECTIVES
For some, the kind herb provides what theologians of old called
a “sanctifying grace”, a state of mind in which
the divine presence resides in our hearts, infusing the fleeting
days with a sense of holiness. Psychoactive plants and substances
that promote this sense of the spiritual element of human life
are known as entheogens. Is Cannabis an entheogen? Are we just
getting stoned, or do some stoners get more out of their weed
than others? While there are many ways to use Cannabis, this
session explores the spiritual context, including:
- Getting “out of it” by “putting into it”:
the merits of intention and ritual in optimising the stone-zone
- Marijuana and institutionalised religions: Sadhus, Rastafarian,
and more recent Cannabis Churches
- What are the myths surrounding sex & cannabis? Cannabis
has been used as an aphrodisiac for thousands of years for both
men and women.
FACILITATOR: Dr Des Tramacchi [Entheogenesis Australis]
PANELISTS: Stephanie Barlow [Happy Herb Company],
Margaret Cross & Shane Huebner [Circle Spaces and Beyond],
Mamakind [Cannabis Campaigner, Journalist and Author], Michka
[Founder of the Smoke Museum (Musee du Fumeur), author, and
ardent anti-prohibitionist], Moose [Medical Cannabis Educator]
12.30 - 1pm: QUALITY, CONTROL AND MEDICINAL
USE OF CANNABIS IN AUSTRALIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
SPEAKER: Ivan Casselman [Researcher]
As one of the first cultivated crops, cannabis has had a very
long-term relationship with humans. This plant is now used for
food, fibre, medicine and consciousness expansion. After millennia
of human use and centuries of prohibition, how does the cultural
use of this plant manifest itself today? To date the majority
of the ethnographical studies have failed to explore the prevalent
cannabis culture in “western” or “industrialized”
countries focusing instead on countries in Africa, South America
and Asia. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic data from Canada,
the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia, this presentation
will explore three aspects of modern cannabis culture. How law
enforcement has affected the cost and quality of cannabis, how
national “epicentres” of cannabis culture and legalization
are developed and maintained, and finally will compare and contrast
how the use of medical cannabis in the aforementioned countries.
Under UN convention the use of Cannabis is prohibited globally,
however, nations differ in how these conventions are enacted.
This presentation will conclude with a discussion of these differences
and the growing civil disobedience in defiance of these laws.
1 – 2pm – GREEN BOUNTY:
ADVANCES IN CANNABIS AS MEDICINE
This will be a free ranging discussion of the wide and wonderful
medicinal bounty of cannabis:
? Medicines, including scientific developments in the use of
cannabinoids in the treatment of cancer
? Political, philosophical, moral, strategic implications of
medical marijuana
? Medical authority and our right to grow herbs to treat ourselves
? Challenging the medical establishment's view that we should
only ever restore baseline health, and not exceed it
FACILITATOR: Erik van Keulen [Entheogenesis Australis]
PANELISTS: Tony Bower [Mullaway’s Medicinal
Cannabis], Ivan Casselman [Researcher], Graham Irvine [Campaigner],
Dr Andrew Katelaris [Cannabis Campaigner], John Kaye [Greens
NSW MP], Mamakind [Cannabis Campaigner, Journalist and Author],
Moose [Medical Cannabis Educator], Matt Riley [Independent Activist]
2 – 3pm – TOUGH LOVE: DOES
PROHIBITION PROTECT US FROM HARM?
We often hear that prohibition is justified because it “saves
young lives”. Illicit drug use is probably the only lifestyle
and health-related issue in our society that seems to require
criminal sanctions to control! In October 2007, Richard Brustrom,
the Chief Constable of North Wales in the UK, called for all
drugs to be legalized. Prohibition, he claimed, was harmful
in itself, causing five key harms: increasing crime, causing
a crisis in an already overloaded criminal justice system, economic
harm, undermining public health, the destabilization of countries
producing drugs, and the undermining of civil rights. Is prohibition
an effective policy to “save young lives” or is
the implementation of prohibition causing more harm than the
drugs themselves? Where is the line between our right to privacy
and the need to “police” dangerous substances?
FACILITATOR: Prof Paul Wilson, Chair of Criminology,
Bond University
PANELISTS: Steve Bolt [Solicitor], Cambedelic [Social
Worker], Paul Cubitt [Law Enforcement Against Prohibition],
Annie Madden [Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League],
James Moylan [Civil Liberties Observer Group], Ann Symonds [Founder,
Australian Parliamentary Group on Drug Law Reform], Dr Alex
Wodak [Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation]
3 – 4pm – IMAGINEERING
THE FUTURE: REGULATING DRUG SUPPLY
Regardless of their legality, and aside from the growing problem
of fake drugs, some drug deals are better than others, even
under prohibition. Most dealers provide at least some information,
not just the drugs. But there seems to be a 2-tiered market,
where poor people buy anonymous "Bubble" of dubious
quality, while the rich can afford identified white powders.
Risk is shared unevenly across industry players; and some production
methods are more toxic than others. So what is best practice?
And how we can ensure responsible and ethical supply in a post-prohibition
world? How can regulation minimize real harms and maximize the
benefits we seek when we choose to use drugs?
FACILITATOR: Erik van Keulen [Entheogenesis Australis]
PANELISTS: Cambedelic [Social Worker], Nell Jones
[Happy Herb Company], Mamakind [Cannabis Campaigner, Journalist
and Author], James Moylan [Civil Liberties Observer Group],
Ann Symonds [Founder, Australian Parliamentary Group on Drug
Law Reform], Dr Alex Wodak [Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation]
Sunday 6 May
12 Noon – 2pm - OCCUPY NIMBIN!
WHO’S DOING WHAT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
In 1973, almost 40 years ago, Nimbin was first “occupied”
by the Aquarius Festival, and twenty years later in 1992, Bob
Hopkins heralded the next “occupy” cycle with his
one-man protest-surrender at Nimbin police station. Where are
the politics of change in 2012 - locally, nationally and internationally?
What has evolved, for the better or the worse, over the last
four decades? Is 2012 the beginning of a new wave of drug law
reform activism? Is there anything to learn from the successes
of other political/social movements who have also struggled
for fairness and justice? This special 2-hour session is for
organisations and individuals to share their plans, visions
and information about their activities, as well as providing
an opportunity for seeding synergies and alliances. Join us
and let us know how you’re planning to contribute to drug
law reform in 2012 and beyond!
FACILITATOR: Rak Razam [Media Provocateur, Journalist
and Author]
PANELISTS: Graham Askey [Help End Marijuana Prohibition
Party], Stephanie Barlow [Happy Herb Company], Paul Cubitt [Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition], Mamakind [Cannabis Campaigner,
Journalist and Author], Annie Madden [Australian Injecting and
Illicit Drug Users League], Steve McDonald [Psychedelic Research
in Science & Medicine], Moose [Cannabis Campaigner], Jim
Moylan [Civil Liberties Observer Group], Matt Riley [Independent
Activist], Ann Symonds [Founder, Australian Parliamentary Group
on Drug Law Reform], Dr Alex Wodak [Australian Drug Law Reform
Foundation]
Honour
Roll
Friends of MardiGrass Who Have
Passed.
Buy
a MardiGrass all weekend pass, including camping
at the Show Grounds. This costs $100. Without camping it's $50
but then you may have a parking problem.
You can buy the usual weekend
and one day passes there too.
SHOWGROUND CAMPING
Down Cecil Street
* Limited powered sites $20 weekend....first in best dressed!
* Camping open from Tuesday before MardiGrass...each extra night
$15 per person.
* Firewood supplied.
* Hot showers.
* 3 areas set aside...quiet area; noisy area; family area.
* Nifty Nev's Eatery open all weekend.
MardiGrass Ganja Faeries meet
at the Market Stage each Thursday 5:30pm for practice, until
MardiGrass.
Musicians, Entertainers : Contact Essie
Thomas 0437100787
Parking and Traffic Changes over MardiGrass
Restricted/no parking will be in place in the village
from 12 noon Friday May 4th to 11pm Sunday May 6th. Below are
areas affected:
* Sibley St may be closed to traffic from Cullen
St intersection to Thorburn St. Residents in Sibley are asked
to limit any vehicle traffic over that weekend from 12 noon
Friday.
* The central section of the village will have no
car parking this year. Chill Central safety zone will have no
cars from the ‘blister’ outside the Museum to the
garden before the pedestrian crossing. On the eastern side there
will be no parking permitted from the Hotel all the way to Perceptios.
* There is also no parking on the southern side of Cecil Street
from the Showgrounds to the creek to allow pedestrian traffic
easy access to a new proposed pathway from 12 Cecil St to the
Town Hall parking area. This will have security and lighting
and ease the pedestrian traffic along the footpath around the
Hospital.
* Thorburn Street from Silky Oak Drive will have a road closure
managed by the Backpackers to ensure clear access to and from
the campsites and their parking.
* Road Closure Sunday from Peace Park, up Cullen and turning
into Cecil St. from 2pm - 2.45pm.
* The western council carpark is to be free of any camping –
all camping is to be directed to the Showgounds or Backpackers
camping sites. Roadside camping is not permitted. Authorities
will target this after some dangerous traffic situations developed
when people parked in inappropriate places, locked their cars,
and walked away.
*
Vehicle parking paddock areas this year are being run by The
Nimbin Headers Junior Soccer Club, all profits go to them. Please
respect the volunteers and listen to them.
PARKING; $5 a day per car - but occupants must buy armband passes.
There will be NO CAMPING at any of the Day Parking areas. You
may sleep in your car but in NO WAY - Light fires - Set up tents
- Disrupt Traffic flow - and PLEASE only poo in the toilets
provided, use Bins supplied and Respect Our Unique Village.
ALTERNATIVE HERB BLENDS FROM HAPPY HIGH
HERBS TO ENJOY AT MARDIGRASS
THAT ARE 100% LEGAL.
Available as ready rolled joints from the Hemp Embassy, Nimbin
Museum and Town Hall info or as 30g packs from Nimbin Happy
High Herbs.
1. Mellow Yellow
A tasty blend of prime smoking herbs intended to promote a
tranquil, dreamy space. Rich, well-rounded flavour. Blends well
with tobacco or other herbs. Mugwort, Californian Poppy, Nettle,
Calendula, and Calea. Relax and enjoy!
2. Flower Power
A base of Raspberry leaves gives this blend a creamy base,
topped with sweet, uplifting Rose and Red Clover petals and
succulently combined with three varieties of Lotus Flowers.
The result is a smooth, silky smoke that relaxes body and mind,
leaving you open to feel deeply into every blissful moment.
Smoke alone or with other herbs.
3. Pot Luck
Well cured herbal blend containing Catnip, Lionstail and other
herbs. Mixes well with Pot as a tobacco alternative.
4. Mullein Magic
The connoisseurs choice. The ultimate in smooth, tasty smoking
and a pleasure to roll. Not only does this blend burn well and
taste great it also looks wild, with bright blue petals blended
with soft, fluffy mullein leaves. Leaves you feeling happy and
high.
Happy Herbs is a most generous supporter of the Nimbin MardiGrass.
ALL THESE HERB MIXES AND MANY MORE AVAILABLE AT THE
HAPPY HIGH HERBS SHOP IN NIMBN
Polite Force Cookie Caution
If you take THC orally (eating cookies, cakes, etc), you could
be in for quite a ride. The liver metabolises THC into 11-OH-*9-THC,
a compound three times more psychoactive. Foods made with high
THC "heads" or hashish can give a powerful, almost
psychedelic experience, which can be very uncomfortable if you're
not expecting it. The effects are slower to come on (1 to 2
hours) and last considerably longer (around 4 hours).
Different people have different experiences. While one person
might go to sleep, another might smile and laugh excessively,
while another might have a panic attack. These are classic responses
but they are by no means definitive. Experiences vary. If smoking
cannabis makes you nervous or agitated, then
consuming cookies (and indeed other temporarily mind altering
drugs) may be inadvisable.
Do not assume cookies from different sources are of the same
strength. Even different batches from the same source can vary.
Know thyself. Stay in your comfort zone? If unsure, try half
a cookie first, and wait an hour to assess the effect.
Chill Spaces:
Birth and Beyond....Ask at the Town Hall if you need help.
The Rain- by Thomas Kinkade
Weather
Nimbin sometimes has wild weather and floods. In the days leading
up to MardiGrass you can check the weather on the rain radar
from these links.
* Musicians and performers wanting
to play should enter the busking competition.
* Local residents or businesses with special needs or requests
please get in touch.
* If you want to get involved as a volunteer please drop in
and write in the book when and what you want to do, what skills
you have, contact no etc etc.
We are looking for people with
a NSW traffic control certificate who would be available to
assist us over the MardiGrass weekend. Please contact Heidi
if you would like to be a part of this very important task.
Special Privileges apply!
Although we urge young people to abstain from alcohol,
tobacco, and other drugs, our national surveys show that many
do not heed our warnings. To prevent adolescents who do experiment
from falling into abusive patterns, we need to create fallback
strategies that focus on safety. Putting safety first requires
that we be careful to provide our young people with credible
information and resources. We also need to teach our teenagers
how to identify and handle problems with alcohol and other drugs—if
and when they occur—and how to get help and support.
Join us in advocating reality-based approaches to drug
education at home and in school that foster open and honest
dialogue around the risks and consequences of drug use. We also
invite you to critically examine random student drug testing,
an invasive policy that can erode relationships of trust between
students and adults at school and unintentionally direct students
to more dangerous behaviors.
*
KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE... Nimbin Aquarius Foundation... Come and meet us at the Nimbin
Aquarius networking space in the Nimbin Community Centre garden
area during MardiGrass and throughout the year. Locals and visitors
to Nimbin are always welcome to visit us and share their stories.
We will have tea,
coffee and cold drinks for sale, as well as some delicious food.
Music will be playing
in the garage with N.O.O. (Nimbin Organic Orchestra),
show-casing a wide variety of musical talent. They welcome donations
to help with future events.
* BUSKERS' 'Grassed
Stand.
Designated busking zones for MardiGrass 2012. The winner of
the 'most popular' busking performance during the big weekend,
whoever collects the most "tokes", gets to play on
the Town Hall Stage after the Rally on Sunday. Keen buskers
can register for their preferred locations at the Town Hall
info booth or at the Embassy on the day.
* Pot Art in the Hemp Bar and Embassy, drop entries in from
April first .....Pot Prohibition Protest Art Awards.
* The Hemp Rope Tug-O-Peace
is a ramped up event in the Hemp Olympix again this year so
get your team of 5 (five) together. All five team members have
to have something in common! Once again we have a Police versus
Polite event scheduled for mid-day Saturday to kick off the
HEMP Olympix. Last year the Polite Squad had a greatly entertaining
victory, which they even repeated to quell all disbelief!! Rumour
has it the Police team have been training hard to avoid a repeat
of that this year!
* Comedy in the Town Hall! Saturday Night
8 till 10pm!This year Alan Glover and S Sorrensen who have had
a huge year touring the country and makin’ ‘em laugh
will take great pleasure in presenting their mate and one of
Australia’s most loved comedians, Steady Eddy, to the
MardiGrass audience.
(Due to the popularity of this event, you will probably need
a Golden Bud full weekend pass for entry.) Council say 300 audience
limit. If there's room left, $15 for
those without passes. *
MardiGrass POLITE PLOT!
The Nimbin POLITE SQUAD was created in response to the Police
Riot Squad raids on April Fools Day 2008 on the HEMP Bar and
Nimbin Museum. This years MardiGrass Polite recruitment drive
is looking for more overalls and bodies to fill them, and for
the first time our new division, the Polite Undercover Surveillance
Squad (PUSS), is taking enrolments and there are unlimited vacancies
left. Bring a camera if you have one and a mobile phone for
Undercover Polite work.Since last year, the POLITE Missions
have taken the BIG JOINT to Sydney and Canberra to meet Obama.
They've certainly made their presence felt from the HEMP BAR-POLITE
BUREAU attached to the Embassy. As ambassadors for cannabis
law reform and advocates of medicinal cannabis, the POLITE will
champion the cause again at this years' Rally on May 5th and
6th, carrying the parade flagship BIG JOINT at 2.30pm on MardiGrass
Sunday. During the big weekend, Nimbin POLITE will coordinate
with Jungle Patrol, the Justice Action Group (JAG) and the Civil
Liberties Observer Group (CLOG). They will document all civil
liberty complaints and also witness the behaviour of law enforcement.
New 'Undercover Operatives' will be trained to mingle with the
crowd and detect suspicious activities! Watch out for a MardiGrass
warm up at the now annual April Fools Day Polite Raids.
*MardiGrass Arm Bands and Passes:MardiGrass
has always been about trust but it doesn’t happen all
by itself. Months of preparation and ground work go into the
weekend so the village as a whole benefits as well as the thousands
of visitors. We’d like it to happen in such a way that
everyone who attends it has an uplifting experience. Accordingly,
the MardiGrass organisers ask that everyone understands the
critical importance of buying armbands. Without you buying armbands
we are history. Some businesses even give preferential service
to armband wearers and we support that. We need your support.
Please buy one.
If you are thinking it's safe to smoke in your parked
car, don't. Police officers home in on the flick of lighters
and glowing joints in cars at night, checking it out and busting
people. So smoking bongs/billies in car parks at night is not
a good idea.
CLOG
¤ 2012
The Civil Liberties
Observer Group for the MardiGrass of 2012 is a joint community
action being hosted by the LEXUS Union of Students of Southern
Cross University on behalf of and in partnership with the Nimbin
Justice Action Group, the MardiGrass Organising Body, and the
Hemp Embassy of Nimbin: towards assisting in the non-violent
realisation of peace and harmony via organised and informed
prudential observation
all violence is
counter-productive
informed observers
make better coppers
better coppers
make fewer arrests
Thursday
and Friday before MG at 4pm in Town Hall .....POLITE, CLOG (Civil
Liberties Observer Group)
Check out the 2NimFM radio
podcast site at http://nimbinradiomedia.libsyn.com/
This site includes podcasts of many of the 2NimFM radio programs
broadcast during last MardiGrass. They will be recording events
over this MardiGrass and posting new material as it comes in.
While
at MardiGrass, Tune your FM radio to
Nimbin's own NIM
FM 102.3, broadcasting and interviewing
live from venues around the village.
Let's Roll!
FRIDAY
May 4th
Town
Hall:
10:00am
- Town Hall Information Booth
opens All MardiGrass Passes Available
Here!
Join the HEMP Party!
The MardiGrass Family
Cafe in the Town Hall open all weekend serving healthy meals.
6:00pm
Picker's Ball Entry:
Show a Weekend Pass, otherwise $15. (Concession $10) - Tune in,
Turn on and Lighten Up:
4:20pm
- Web Cam Broadcast begins at H*E*M*P Party Bar
:NimbinHempBar.com
includes Church of the Holy Smoke MardiGrass Blessing with the
sacrificial $US100 note lighting the joint on the very moment
of 4:20. Pot Art on display here also. HEMP Party Members
meet 6:00 pm each evening here.
6:00 pm GREY POWER
A gathering of grandparents, parents and children outside the
H*E*M*P Embassy. The POLITE Service will capture evidence in images,
that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is multi generational
support for Cannabis Law Reform. If you're a Grandparent (or look
like one) please join this very POLITE Photo and youtube movie
gathering.
Max Stone www.BigJoint.org
Allsop
Park * 5:00 pm -
Opening Ceremony �
with Nunukel Kunjeil – Music until the Hemp Olympix Torch
Bearer arrives from the South with the Eternal Flame For The Victims
Of Prohibition. From 29th April to May 7th 1770 are the dates
of Captain Cooks stay at Botany Bay, when he raised the flag.
In our MardiGrass Opening on Friday evening when we do the "Introduction
to Country" by the local elders there will be a smoking ceremony
and stories for the Thanksgiving where you can bring gifts to
share. There will also be a minute's silence for all Victims of
Prohibition and speakers, followed by the Pickers Ball.
Street
Drumming * Please leave the street open for traffic though!
Hemp Bar and Polite Bureau
serving hempseed food and coffee with the Pot Art Exhibition on
all weekend. The Bar and Embassy start taking entries
for Pot Art from the beginning of April.
Armband Entry.
Mingle Park
* DRY CAMP * Behind the Museum
Bush Theatre * A magic
spot by the river at the northern end of Nimbin is running MardiGrass
Movies and music all weekend. The Hemp Solution, past MardiGrass
Movies, Cheech and Chong, Environmental Films, DJ Fab and more.
Great Food. Great Food. Movies, food and music all weekend.
Friday and Saturday 7.30 pm SAVING GRACE on the big screen MardiGrass
weekend
Nimbin Hotel * Music * Kharnage
7.30
The Nimbin Aboriginal Arts
and Culture Centre, in Sibley Street on the way
to Peace Park, will be open throughout the MardiGrass weekend
with Bush Tucker, an Art Exhibition and a chance to talk with
Local Elders. A forum, "Yarndi in Koori Communities"
Saturday at 1:00pm
Roll On!
SATURDAY
May 5th
Peace Park 4:20am
to Dawn * Peace Park * Mahawana Sunrise Meditation
11am *
Kaptan Reefer and the Konescrapers plus Johnny (No Cash) Ganja
11:30 * Hemp Olympix registration
12:00 * Tug O' Drug War between
Police and Polite with the Big Hemp Rope followed by the Hemp
Olympix First Heats of the Bong Throw and Yell, followed by
the Growers Ironperson Event. Hosted by S Sorrensen and Alan
Glover. Special Event: The Inaugural Special Distance and Accuracy
Alan Jones About Face Bong Throw.
Members of the Northern Rivers
Hemp Association are keen to meet any potential farmers, product
processors or anyone interested in the NSW hemp industry, at
their display in the MardiGrass Market (See map). Check out
fibre and seed samples from the 2011 crop, hemp fabrics, papers,
building materials and plastics, footage of the first NSW commercial
hempseed food crops and a video of hemp building. Building with
HEMP demonstration all weekend. (Klara
Marosszeky will have a stall at the markets all weekend
too .)
Find out about the Northern Rivers Hemp Association and what
they're doing."
6:00pm
* Chronic - Cannabis Documentary Discussion with Richard Baron
Town Hall Garden
Medical Cannabis Tent
* Town Hall Garden*
MULLAWAY MEDICAL CANNABIS - Register for Tony Bower's Medical
Cannabis Clinic, the first in the country. MS, HIV, cancer and
chronic pain sufferers are invited to be part of Australia's
first medical cannabis dispensary trial. Bring medical documentation
to confirm your condition if you are a new applicant. Vaporizer
Demos all weekend.
12.00pm
*Kog's Grower's Workshop * Sharing Knowledge
and Practical Tips in the Tent where he will sign copies of
his Golden Book on growing, or the CD, which will be showing
in the Embassy and Museum all weekend. All users and growers
welcome!
1:30 pm * "Bubblebag"
Hash Making Demonstration * Vaporizer demonstrations
throughout the weekend and Bubblebag demonstrations (using Lavendar!)
on Saturday and Sunday in the Medical Cannabis Tent Tent at
1.00 pm. (If fine weather these demos may be near the Low THC
tent at the Bubblebag stall)
3:00 pm * Workshop:
Medical Cannabis Use & Cultivation * with Tony Bower
LoTHC Tent * Town Hall Gardens*
12:00 *HempCrete Building Demo with Dr Andrew Katelaris
12:30 *Industrial Hemp & Hempseed Uses Forum with Dr Keith
Bolton, Andrew Kavasilas, Darius Dunn, and Dr Katelaris.
2:00pm * Hemp, Marijuana and Sir Joseph Banks with Dr John Jiggens
& Dr Neil Pike
3:00 pm * Biochar/Permaculture Demo/Talk with David Perry
Town Hall:
Chill Zone, Medical Cannabis meeting place, Forums, Food, Peace
& Quiet in the Garden. The MardiGrass Family Cafe in the
Town Hall open all weekend.
11:00* Forums on everything
Cannabis all day in the Hall and Medical
Cannabis Tent in the Town Hall Garden. FEATURING GUEST
SPEAKERS:
4:20
pm * Kombi Konvoy turning up outside.
5:00 pm * Hemp Olympix Joint
Rolling First Heats (Speed, Artistic and Adverse Conditions)
and a chance for everyone to roll a "joint" for the
Global Marijuana March after. (Due to the popularity of this
event, you will probably need a Golden Bud full weekend pass
for entry.)
Harvest
Ball - 6:00pm - Town Hall Concert for Cannabis Law Reform
MardiGrass
Big Saturday Night Out.
8
till 9:30 pm Stand
Up Comedy Show ......Saturday night only... hosted by S Sorrensen &
Alan Glover with Steady Eddy and others..
(Due to the popularity of this event, you will probably need
a Golden Bud full weekend pass for entry.) Council say 300 audience
limit.
If
there's space and you have no pass: $15.00
Other Roadside Attractions:
Global Marijuana
March * 4:20pm * meets the Kombi Konvoy for a world record
attempt at the most joints ever lit at once in the one place.......Everyone
encouraged to roll something that looks like a joint from herbs
provided, so that, outside the Embassy, when the Konvoy has
passed, we can, at the call, light up simultaneously, and please
blow as much smoke as possible for the cameras. The whole world
is watching....whatever sort of joint you feel comfortable with?!
Nimbin
Museum* Register for the MWSCC
(MardiGrass World Stoned Chess Championship) in the Museum by
Midday Saturday. Winner decided by Sunday sunset. Drug testing
will be compulsory, but not after every move!
The Nimbin Aboriginal Arts and Culture
Centre, in Sibley Street on the way to
Peace Park, will be open throughout the MardiGrass weekend with
Bush Tucker, an Art Exhibition and a chance to talk with Local
Elders. A forum, “Yarndi and the impact of prohibition
on Goori Communities,” will be held Saturday at 2:00 pm
with local and visiting Elders discussing the impact of prohibition
on their culture and people.
HEMP
Party Bar
and POLITE BUREAU - Fair Dinkum stand up voters can register
here to join the HEMP Party!
The H*E*M*P*Bar (and web camera) will be
"Demonstrating" a wide selection of highly delicious
and nutritious (zero THC) Hemp Foods during the MardiGrass.
Hemp Burgers, Hemp Cakes, Hemp Cookies and Chocolate Hemp Truffles.
We will also be offering all varieties of hot and cold coffee,
tea and chai as well as local Love cordial.
As we all know the H*E*M*P*Bar can only seat 42.0 people
comfortably at any one time, so a MardiGrass Pass will be required.
8.30 till late * The H*E*M*P*Bar and Polite Bureau
will be hosting a W.A.N party, where the focus is to be on uploading
images and other information to youtubes, facebooks and other
networks, bring your laptop, mobile phone and camera.....
12:00
* MardiGrass World Stoned Chess Championship registration closes,
competition begins, in the Museum.
4:20pmKOMBI
KONVOY arrives in Nimbin, having wended
its way from Byron Bay, via Lismore.
Sponsored by Rvbyesque - Could people in the crowd please refrain
from jumping on the back bumpers of Kombis as they pass through
town, as it can damage the vehicles. Pliz sho' respekt bro'.
4:20
pm * The Global Marijuana March
Where well over 1 million cannabis law reform activists in nearly
300 cities around the globe will be protesting. In Nimbin we
will once again aim to break the world record for the most joints
ever lit at once in the same place at the same time.
Be smart and bring a "joint"! After the last Kombi
has passed, wait for the call and we will light up, and produce
as much smoke as possible for the cameras recording the event.
Viva la Fume!
6:00 pm * HEMP Party Members meet 6:00 pm
each evening in the HEMP BAR.
Nimbin Community Centre * MardiGrass Market Stage * Family Friendly *
Cranking music all weekend:
Pot
Art - entries can be left or sent to the HEMP Embassy
from April First
Nimbin Hotel
*
Food, drink, and live entertainment Azadoota
- 1.30
Resin Dogs Sound System with DJ Katch - 7.30
Bush Theatre * Armband
Entry to Movies, or $10) * A magic spot by the river at the
northern end of Nimbin is running MardiGrass Movies all weekend.
The Hemp Solution, past MardiGrass Movies and Music; Cheech
and Chong, Environmental Films, DJ Fab and more. Great Food.
Movies, food and music all weekend.
Friday and Saturday 7.30 pm SAVING GRACE on the big screen MardiGrass
weekend Ph 66891111
Mingle Park
* DRY CAMP * Behind the Museum
..Music and comedy from midday Saturday with "Yarndi Yarns
3:00 pm JAG (Justice Action Group) BBQ with free legal
counselling, includes Rubbish Bong Race where contestants have
to make a bong from whatever they can find, and show it works.
Music throughout the weekend including Paranoia Club, Louis
Burdett, Manu, and Chris Fisher.
MC Robert Corowa says."Freedom is for all plants and animals
as well as humans. No one has the right to tell me what I can
or cannot eat."
The BOWLO
1:00pm at the *BOWLO* Open
all weekend* Great food * Legal Drug (alcohol)
Bush Theatre
* Possibly the Sixth Hemplore Pro Pot Art Tattoo Show will happen.
To be confirmed! Looking like may not
happen this year, unfortunately. (Entrants register 10:00am
to 12:45pm)
Silent Doof in the Village!
(Earphones!) A MardiGrass First. More Info Soon!
8:00pm on * NIM
FM MARDIGRASS ALL NIGHT DANCE PARTY "WikiDoof"
........bring your radio, headset, phone, earphones or whatever
you need to tune in to 102.3.
The very first attempt at Prohibition!
"Don't eat the Fruit of the Tree
of Knowledge of Good and Evil."
So what's the first thing they did?
Ate the forbidden fruit.
The failure of Prohibition has a long history.
Roll it up!
SUNDAY
May 6th
Town
Hall Garden
Medical Cannabis
Tent
All Day * Town Hall
Garden* MULLAWAY MEDICAL CANNABIS MEETING - Register for Tony
Bower's Medical Cannabis Clinic, the first in the country. MS,
HIV, cancer and chronic pain sufferers are invited to be part
of Australias first medical cannabis dispensary trial. Bring
medical documentation to confirm your condition if you are a
new applicant.
11:00am Official HEMP Party
meeting in the Medical Cannabis Tent to discuss the next Federal
election campaign and more. Anyone interested in being a HEMP
Party candidate should attend.
12.00pm
*Kog's Grower's Workshop * Sharing Knowledge
and Practical Tips in the Tent where he will sign copies of
his Golden Book on growing, or the CD, which will be showing
in the Embassy and Museum all weekend. All users and growers
welcome!
1:30 pm * "Bubblebag"
Hash Making Demonstration * Bubble Bag demonstration
- Come see and learn how to use official Bubble Bag brand water
filtration bags so that you can produce the highest quality
resin extract from your plants. This will be a demonstration
using lavender.
6:00 pm * Hi & Lo THC
Cooking, hempseed oil products discussion, Vaporizer workshop
and how to cook your medicine rather than smoke it.
Town
Hall:
Chill Zone, Forums, Music, Food, with Medican Tent in the Garden.
The MardiGrass Family Cafe in the Town Hall open all weekend.
10:00 am * The Pot
Poets Breakfast......MC David Hallet .......A potted pot-pourri
of some of the region's top performance poets will be poeting
their infamous pot poems....visiting pot poets welcome.
11:00 am * Legal Advice
Session with Steve Bolt and James Moylan.
12:00 - 2:00 pm * MardiGrass
Beyond Prohibition Workshop. Special guests;
Dr Alex Wodak, Paul Wilson and friends.
2:30 pm * The Rally is on,
starting from the top of Cecil Street!
5:00 pm * Joint Rolling
Finals, followed by the Plantathlon Award for the best Hemp
Olympix All-rounder, in memory of Chicken
George, the legendary Plantem of previous
MardiGrass. (Due
to the popularity of this event, you will probably need a Golden
Bud full weekend pass for entry.)
LoTHC
Tent * Top O' Peace Park *
11:00 am * Hemp, Marijuana and Sir Joseph Banks with Dr John
Jiggens & Dr Neil Pike
12:00 *Industrial Hemp & Hempseed Uses Forum with Dr Keith
Bolton, Andrew Kavasilas, Darius Dunn, and Dr Katelaris.
Peace Park:
Dawn * Mahawana Sunrise Meditation
11:00 am * Seed Swap
11:30 * Hemp Olympix registration
for Last Heats.
12:00 till 2:00 pm * Hemp Olympix
* Last Heats and Finals] Growers Iron Person, Hemp Rope Tug
O' Peace & Bong Throw and Yell.
Members
of the Northern Rivers Hemp Association are keen to meet any
potential farmers, product processors or anyone interested in
the NSW hemp industry, at their display in the MardiGrass Market
(See map). Check out fibre and seed samples from the 2011 crop,
hemp fabrics, papers, building materials and plastics, footage
of the first NSW commercial hempseed food crops and a video
of hemp building. Building with HEMP demonstration all weekend.
Find out about the Northern Rivers Hemp Association and what
they're doing."
Other Roadside Attractions:
12:00 Market Area *
Industrial Hemp Forum, - Speakers include Dr Keith Bolton, Dr
Andrew Katelaris and NSW hemp farmers. If you are interested
in being involved in the local hemp industry, come to the Hemp
Forum. Demonstration of
building with Hemp over the weekend.
Mingle Park
* DRY CAMP * Behind the Museum
..Music and comedy from midday Sunday
including Paranoia Club, Louis Burdett, Manu, and Chris Fisher.
MC Robert Corowa says."Freedom is for all plants and animals
as well as humans. No one has the right to tell me what I can
or cannot eat."
HEMP
Party Bar - - Fair Dinkum stand up voters
can register here to join the HEMP Party! Polite Bureau serving Hempseed food and coffee
Nimbin Community Centre 10: 00 am to 6:00 pm* MardiGrass
Market Stage * Family Friendly * Cranking music all weekend:
Nimbin Hotel
*
Food, drink, and live entertainment. Blue Skillet
Rovers - 1.30
Andrea Soler Band - 6 pm
Bush Theatre * A
magic spot by the river at the northern end of Nimbin is running
MardiGrass Movies all weekend. The Hemp Solution, past MardiGrass
Movies, Cheech and Chong, Environmental Films, DJ Fab and more.
Great Food.
CANNABIS LAW REFORM RALLY AND PARADE * Prohibition
is an incitement, not a control!
2:00pm
* Gather and get ready for theMardiGrass Parade. If you want to
be in it join us all outside the Police Staion at the top of
Cecil Street. The march is the main event, so please come.
HAPPY HIGH HERB
SHOP
Pot
Prohibition Protest Art
Competition
..
A first prize of $1000 cash and two smaller prizes
of $250 and $100 worth of HHH gift vouchers....
CONDITIONS:
Height – Floats must not exceed 3.2 metres from
“the road”.
Width – Must not exceed 2.4 metres wide.
Length – Should not exceed 4.2 metres long,
however this is a bit flexible.
Floats must be peopled or green powered.
You will be given a competitor number at the beginning
of the Protest/Parade. Floats may feature a single
person or group, or may be a centrepiece of a larger
on foot display.
These floats are our opportunity to present a powerful
message to the outside world of both celebration and/or
protest. Your float can express whatever you feel
or want to share. We need floats and displays that
reflect our area, our people, our pride and desires
for the future, our fun and festivity.
Drug Law Reform is a major focus of this festival
and we encourage all to have their say.
JUDGING:
Judges will remain unknown until the day of the event.
They will be women and men, and mostly not part of
the Happy Herb Company.
A 1-10 point score method will be adopted.
1. Judged pre-parade whilst assembling:
Use of recycled materials
Originality
Punctuality
2. Judging During Parade:
Function (Locomotion)
Costumes
Message power
Overall effect
Crowd response
PRIZES will be presented to nominated heads of winning
floats in Peace Park after the Rally. Contact the
HEMP Embassy for details on 66891842
2:30pm CANNABIS LAW
REFORM RALLY The Parade begins at the top of Cecil Street led by
the Widjibal Elders of the Bunjalung Nation, with children holding
the Koori flag, and makes its way to the Rally at Peace Park.
Sometimes the parade might stop while the Ganja Faeries up front
do a brief performance. This keeps the parade from being too
hasty and allows the crowd a better opportunity to take it all
in. Everyone waits behind the BIG JOINT until the procession
continues. No rush. Percussionists who have not been practicing
with the Ganja Faerie troupe are asked to form a second Drumming
Troupe, further back in the parade to provide a continuing accompaniment
for the parade. People are asked not to occupy the space between
the Ganja Faeries and the first group of Drummers.
Parade Float prizes will be awarded before
the MardiGrass Harvest Celebration takes over the stage.
Short speeches by Bundjalung Elders, Steve Bolt, Neil
Pike, Dr Andrew Katelaris, Ann Symons, Alex Wodak, Paul Wilson,
Dr Keith Bolton, Michael Balderstone and Overseas Guests.
"This is our twentieth consecutive annual Rally for Cannabis
Law Reform. We vowed to Rally every year on the first Sunday in
May until we are no longer criminals for using this herb. The
recent Australia 21 Report says, "...we are making criminals
of our kids" For over three decades they have been picking
on the pot smokers in Nimbin with very expensive operations which
have made little or no difference other than to create more young
people with criminal records for life. Building more jails is
a primitive approach to what is obviously a health and social
issue."
After the
Rally - More Music: The Beyond Prohibition Ball!
THANK YOU ONE
AND ALL!
Next up, MardiGrass
XXI
2013
40th Anniversary of the Nimbin Aquarius Festival
20th Anniversary of MardiGrass
Sponsors
Ray's Rave:
Addictions and How Herbs
Can Help
Addiction, whether it be cannabis,
alcohol or opiate, are quite serious conditions which requires
dedication and willpower to overcome. The Happy Herb Company is
now putting alot of emphasis on assisting people with their addictions.
We believe that plants play a very important role in giving people
alternatives to the habits that they desperately want to change
in order to increase their quality of life.
Herbal remedies can offer help,
especially in the following areas:
1) Alternatives for use reduction
2) Natural treatment for withdrawal and recovery
3) Interruption of the desire for the substance
4) Nutritional support.
Visit your local store today or
call the warehouse to find out more.......it could change your
life.
To
register for 
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FRIDAY
Street
Drumming * Please leave the street open for traffic though!
SATURDAY
Town Hall Garden
4:20
pm * Kombi Konvoy turning up outside.
8
till 9:30 pm Stand
Up Comedy Show ......Saturday night only... hosted by S Sorrensen &
Alan Glover with Steady Eddy and others..
(Due to the popularity of this event, you will probably need
a Golden Bud full weekend pass for entry.) Council say 300 audience
limit. 
HEMP
Party Bar
4:20
pm * The Global Marijuana March
Where well over 1 million cannabis law reform activists in nearly
300 cities around the globe will be protesting. In Nimbin we
will once again aim to break the world record for the most joints
ever lit at once in the same place at the same time.
Pot
Art - entries can be left or sent to the HEMP Embassy
from April First 
SUNDAY
Town
Hall:
LoTHC
Tent * Top O' Peace Park * 
Members
of the Northern Rivers Hemp Association are keen to meet any
potential farmers, product processors or anyone interested in
the NSW hemp industry, at their display in the MardiGrass Market
(See map). Check out fibre and seed samples from the 2011 crop,
hemp fabrics, papers, building materials and plastics, footage
of the first NSW commercial hempseed food crops and a video
of hemp building. Building with HEMP demonstration all weekend.
HEMP
Party Bar - - Fair Dinkum stand up voters
can register here to join the HEMP Party!
..
A first prize of $1000 cash and two smaller prizes
of $250 and $100 worth of HHH gift vouchers....
