Yes - I DO NOT have a ticket or camping
Tyler Tonnesen
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Colin Shor
TylerTonnesen
Tyler Tonnesen
David Tonnesen (Father)
- Tuesday, April 2nd (Pre-event)
- Wednesday, April 3rd (Pre-event)
- Thursday, April 4th (Pre-event)
- Friday, April 5th
- Saturday, April 6th
- Sunday, April 7th
- Monday, April 8th
- Tuesday, April 9th
- Wednesday, April 10th (Post-event)
1st Time Volunteering: Worked w/ Clean Vibes to take care of Double JJ ranch post-event at Electric Forrest 2023. Agreed to work two six hour shifts the two days after event in exchange for free festival ticket and camping.
*Then the Great Storm hit out of nowhere*
Although the radar had nothing on it, a monumental storm came through the last day of the festival destroying over 90% of all the campsites (and I believe somewhere around 120,000 people had attended this last year).
~ when we showed up to volunteer after the conclusion of the festival, it truly looked apocalyptic. Quickly, I saw the quality of recycling efforts getting mitigated just to desperately try to even clean the venue of its waste and trash. Although sad to see the disposable side these events can have when not planned for, it was beautiful being able to stay for an extra ten days after the end of the event when the job clearly was not going to get done.
Not having a personal need for speed, it felt natural leaning in with others there to facilitate grounding, and presence to the task at hand as dirty and cumbersome as it may have been for the organization.
Biggest Strengths utilized within working festivals this season:
1) First Responder instincts from doing Ocean Rescue back home in the Outer Banks.
~ led a team of four strangers in a medical call I ran upto in the middle of an Illenium set peak hours Saturday night. We carried a 240 pound completely nonresponsive unconscious man from the front middle of the crowd main stage at Electric Forrest this year. Waiting for over 30 minutes for medics we ended up utilizing two doses of Narcan and resuscitating him somewhat with letting him start in recovery position and moving to sternum rubs. The thought arose within me to create decompression zones at future events and facilitate better communication with critical teams to event success and the safety of attendees.
I then did exactly this when volunteering as a vendor a couple months later at Imagine Music Festival in Atlanta. Cross-communication between the organizers, police and medical teams, as well as internally seemed very disjointed early on in the event. By the first night, police were even telling vendors they could not play music in their shops past 12am even though this was a four day camping event and people anticipated music going til 5am each night.
With nowhere for people to sit, decompress or checkin with themselves or others, I stayed open without music all night as the only vendor or food option up at this point simply to let people gather, rest and breathe,, or ask for help as we ran 2 or three medical calls as people just walked up asking for help with nowhere else to go.
My last career of eight years was also in training, leading and growing a large door to door sales organization from 0 to 60+ and over 11 highly trained managers. Human connection, psychology, and our awareness of our selves as people always were the biggest components of fostering growth in sales reps and leaders. Unique to the industry, we would hold morning mediations, physical and emotional health checks, and maybe most noteworthy: from the first interview into two weeks of pre job training the only thing employees and I would talk about is their own personal daily routines, and taking them to the next level with a ceremonial commitment. We deeply connected the neural paths between this daily practice with conversations on the person they show up as and feel like during and after this form of self-discipline & deep love. This taught us together to hold what we can control—our internal state, anwareness, and physical health—to the highest standards to help deal with the massive amounts of the expected unexpected that naturally arises with growth.
Since these experiences, I’ve continued on in providing my time and love to being truly in each moment with those that cross our path. My partner Ivey and I’s concept Bizarre Common has been our biggest channel of aligned action this year. Our shared mission is to provide a pillar within festival culture of connection, creativity, and community through curating comfortable cushy spaces for attendees to decompress, connect and create art with supplies our friends donate from their galleries and studios. While then providing artists, volunteers and all creators in the local markets and at each event with unique opportunities and versatile spaces to teach, sell and expand their art, their networks, and their hearts in collaborating live with our attendees at events or afar in sessions post-event in our growing digital community.
Coming into contact with Mark and reading all of the information online about the energy surrounding Invisible Intersection feels like true universal alignment. If open to it, Ivey & I would LOVE to bring any to all of our setup (to which we are 100% flexible to your thoughts & feelings) and create/operate a collaborative co-creation space within the Invisible Intersection at Eclipse. Our hearts are swelling just thinking of it. We are also happy to work a hybrid schedule or just remain flexible in helping out any other ways that are needed as well 🙂
Synchronicities that arrive, especially when I find myself deeply caring for my own process and growth, I’ve learned to trust & fully embrace. Everywhere I’ve traveled the last two months domestically and abroad, each soul brother and sister I met have continually suggested or asked if I would be attending Eclipse.
& funny enough the day before Colin Shor connected me with Mark I looked at Ivey that morning shrugging as we had yet another universal wink to head that way and had decided without any plan set yet, that we would.
Within 12 hours the Invisible Intersection became visible to a shared vision of service we have and my gut is smiling knowing what we can create together 🙂
People with PASSION 🙂
It’s hard for me to not get into music regardless of frequency when there’s true intention behind it.
Getting to experience Pretty Lights, The String Cheese Incident, and countless other hybrid instrumentalist groups probably have the lion share of my ears curiosity right now 🙂
Loving the livetronica groups like Boogie T.rio, jam seshes with friends like Jason Leech, Zone Drums, G Space, Josh Teed and Sunsquabi creating new projects like the live band gradient perspective event recently in Denver at Cervantes.
And my soul fills with the most support for projects like LSDream’s lightcode, immersive healing sound baths and group kittens and yoga, as well as a newfound love for an artist met at Envision named Ruby Chase.
Negative
~How you Show up as You Are is exactly Enough
~feeling deeply grateful for the time you took to get to know why I love this space we share and our pouring love into
~thankful for this opportunity to write & reflect
I’m ready to build something beautiful with you all 🙂
