On Thursdays at 6 p.m. there will be a Mutiny Drum Circle at the library garden of the Mystic/Noank Library (near the Mystic Baptist Church on Zion Hill).
In the mythic/poetic reality, the most true reality, in the truth of the Prophet Herman Melville, (see The Mutiny www.libbyhome.blogspot.com) Ahab's ship 'Pequod' encounters another whaling ship from Nantucket, the 'Town Ho'. Tashtego, the Wampanouag harpooner from Martha's Vineyard, after swearing elaborate, arcane oaths of secrecy is told the story of the Steelkilt Mutiny (a mutiny led by one Steelkilt, a Lakesman from Buffalo, N.Y . a.k.a. The Buffalo) that had occurred on the 'Town-Ho'.
Tashtego must take these elaborate, arcane oaths of secrecy because the implications of the narrative of the mutiny are considered to be so dangerous by the crew members of the 'Town-Ho' that tell the story. The narrators of the story know they are telling a story that is explosively revolutionary, heretical, so fundamentally opposed to the business-as-usual (b-a-u) of the whale fishery, of the (b-a-u) of the world.
The intent of the Mutiny Drum drum/dance circles is to bring the Steelkilt Mutiny into the world of the b-a-u. The Mutiny is a catalyst for the not-business-as-usual (n-b-a-u). It is a mutiny that is to manifest, constellate in percussive impact, in dance, in theatre. The first official scheduled gig of Mutiny Drum will be at the New London Sailfest on July 16th and July 17th. The further intent is for Mutiny Drum to become the basis of a theatrical production.
But this is, in all ways, a mutiny. We, band of mutineers, intend nothing less than the overthrow of the master of this vessel of the (b-a-u) that we all find ourselves aboard.
We drum for the transcendent liberation.
Bring your drum.
Bring Mutinous Intent!!!
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