We are here. This is now. And in the immortal words of the great, lion crowning baboon…

It is time.

You are a Super Ape. Be evolution.

Ladies and gentle folk, here come the vibrations…

This Friday 11th May, only at Passing Clouds, Dalston, welcome to our swing special.

Another dose of turbo charged evolutionary mayhem served up by the makers of Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival, the community focused performing arts festival in the Clouds.

Prepare to shake your tail feathers as we blend vintage sounds with pumping bass riddums in the most unlikely of venues: an original Passing Clouds collective mash up.

Two floors of swing styled beats and bass ft. The Zen Hussies, Franky & the Jacks, the delightfully dubbed DJ Moneyshot, Madame Electrifie and a Glorious New Regime fronted by Clayton Blizzard, plus burlesque and fire courtesy of Hackney hooper Anna the Hulagan.

Not sure how to swing? Brace Yourself will teach you how, with FREE dance lessons early doors.

Run exclusively by volunteers, every penny we raise is invested in radically localised and resilient community building via our brand new guerrilla fundraising model, the mighty Koyaanisqatsi Trust.

http://koyaanisqatsi.org.uk/

This is the revolution, in a dicky bow. So don your dancing shoes and be evolution.

Life on Earth is somewhere in the region of 4 billion years old. According to the experts, single celled molecules first evolved a nucleus around 2 billion years ago.

Vertebrates? Around half a billion years old. And mammals? We’ve been birthing live young for over 220 million years.

Eventually came the supra primates, something like 50 million years ago. And not too far behind them, the primates. From little monkeys evolved bigger apes. Then roughly 15 million years ago, naked, forest dwelling and fruit eating, our most ancient of ancestors, the Great Apes slowly emerged to dominate the tree tops.

The fossil records say we’re little more than peculiar African apes, 98 per cent genetically identical with chimps, our closest living relatives. And for most of our extended family, not much has changed. Still naked. Still forest dwelling. Still fruit eating.

So how did we get here, teetering on the very precipice of time, boldly going where no ape has gone before, in 2012 and beyond? What makes you so different from a chimp?

How exactly did we become Super Apes?

Yes folks, our 2012 festival theme has landed.

Borrowed from an emerging tribe of regular fundraisers, we invite you to be evolution in 2012. Join us, on our unfolding cosmic journey through space and time.

Unsure whether you’re a Super Ape? Follow the link below for our fullest, longest, most elaborate explanation.

Go on, click on the big monkey’s belly.

Stay tuned for the final countdown of our Great Unleashing, ending in a supernova of love and light early next week with our full power Shearing Stage line up.

Remember Cuckoos…

We are here. This is now. And in the immortal words of the great, lion crowning baboon, ‘It is time.’

You are a Super Ape. Be evolution.

There is no space. There is no time.

…infinite, eternal existence.

- United Vibrations, 2011

Newly indigenous in 2012, just in time for the end of time…

The Cosmic Pyramid

Space: 40 ft Little Top Mayan Pyramid

Powered by: Magnificent Revolution. 100% reconnecting human powered energy.

Hosts: The Passing Clouds Collective, The Artful Badger, Scrap Dragon.

Director’s Cut: “Wear your rubbish home” on Sunday, courtesy of our endlessly resourceful and boundlessly creative Scrap Dragons.

In a Nutshell: Universally conscious by day, our tribe of ornately decorated Scrap Dragons, storytellers and myth makers will inspire and inform. By night, the Pyramid descends through the underworlds. Reconnect with your inner Goddess, enchanted by the Artful Badgers…

The Artful Badger

http://www.theartfulbadger.com/

The Artful Badger’s legendary brand of feral, festival mayhem must be experienced to be comprehended. Wild and instinctively playful, the Badger’s dancing, mask making, DJs and samba will artfully inspire a recollection of our essence, rooted firmly in primal intuitions and expressive animism.

Enter a magical realm, a nocturnal wonderland of mystical creatures and mythical spirits, from dusk till dawn…

An ecstatic disregard for convention…whipping the crowd into one whirling, communal flash mob.

- The Independent Review

Scrap Dragon

Scrap Dragon’s tribe of theatrical litter pickers and creative costume makers bring their unmistakable brand of reverence to the Pyramid each day till dusk.

Aztec Gods and Goddesses invite you submit yourself to their ancient traditions, relearning our sacred connection with the ecology in which we coexist.

Re-imagine the waste which you unconsciously condemn to landfill, by ‘wearing your rubbish home’, or join our junk orchestra, courtesy of on-site scrap metal magician, Duncan the Cosmic Welder.

The Passing Clouds Collective

Spawning forth from the legendary Dalston ex-squat and venue, the Passing Cloud Collective have long ago established themselves as the dominant creative juggernaut behind the Clouds.

All pervasive in their influence, the collective’s infectious energy will be channelled in 2012, mostly through the life affirming conduit of the Cosmic Pyramid.

Stay tuned for full details of a line up of inspired speakers, from Earth Mysteries to New Paradigm technologies, plus spoken word, conscious cinema and live, hand crafted percussion.

Magnificent Revolution

Another day, another slice of festival pie to get your beak into…

Ladies and gentle folk, back again in 2012…

The Cuckoo Club

Space: 1967 Routemaster Double Decker, with all the trimmings.

Powered by: The Big Red Bus, complete with full power sound system.

Hosted by: The Gentleman Jeeves (Tea) Vs. Grant Jarvis (Cocktails)

In a Nutshell: An original speakeasy, the Cuckoo Club opens early and late. Resident mixologist Grant shakes the martinis downstairs, while Jeeves brews the finest chai on site, upstairs in our VIP lounge. Two decks of debauchery.

Director’s Cut: Flash Mob Charleston’s with Brace Yourself. Go on, shake your tail feather.

Open from brunch, whether Bloody Mary’s or builder’s tea, till very late indeed, this is the double decker which never sleeps.

Swing by our speakeasy for a full power festival in miniature, plus refreshments. With resident DJ’s set to include Mum’s Old Vinyl, Fake Champagne, Madame Electrifie and John Hendicott, you may hang around for most of the weekend…

Stay tuned for a full programme of dance workshops, including swing, hula hoops and retro 90′s power aerobics, coming soon.