email gumbothunder@gmail.com for location
Sunset ritual @ 8:30
Effigy destruction spectacle @ midnight
No admission or reentry after 3a!
❄️❄️About ❄️❄️
There are many earths ,
There is the world where Burning Man happens in Black Rock City, NV, the 1st week of September, where Thunder Gumbo embarks every year with our best friends and our legendary art car.
Then there is also the world of Thunder Gumbo… where for the fifth year in a row, FREEZING MAN takes place in the belly of a legendary sinking ship in an obscure, polluted Brooklyn waterway, calling in the spirit of winter to fight against the scourge of global warming!
Unlike many festivals, at Freezing Man we celebrate for an entire week in A SINGLE NIGHT! The transdimensional enviroshifter must be activated annually to bring on the cooling of the planet, conquer the existential threat of global warming, and to one day bring peace and unity to the galaxy.
Come join us at our annual decommodified mini-festival commemorating The Great War Against The Sun that takes place across a sprawling, historic, and floating underground venue, jam-packed with fantastic live bands, body moving DJs, mind-bending performances, intimate theatrical installations, lots of snow machines, and the magical contributions of the greater NYC Burning Man community! This event is powered by community, and encourages the participation of all our guests as the Thunder Gumbo collective comes together to raise funds for our legendary art cars, immersive and participatory art installations and DIY history! We can’t wait to come together to celebrate the power of community and the warmth of our friendships in this time of cold, darkness and fear.
❄️❄️MUSIC ❄️❄️
2 stages of DIVERSE CHAOS from old friends and special guests!
being:sound DJ set (Future Clear / Joro Boro x Keena)
Brooklyn Gypsies (Live)
DJ Dirtyfinger (Black Label)
Dirty Looks (BangOn!NYC)
The FMs (Subvert, Live)
Jeff Omega (Bangarang / PEX ~ The Philadelphia Experiment / PHILLY GO HARD)
Matt Dallow (Live)
Matt Sebastian (BAE)
Rasta 4 Eyes (Stampede Sound / ambient set)
Rhiannon Catalyst (Lunatarium / Birthday Sun Songs Live)
Sami x Sky (Future Clear)
Shhhhhhhhhh (aka PartyFoul5000™, Thunder Gumbo)
Travisty (Trifucta)
YUNG ELDR (aka 2Melo, JunXion)
❄️❄️ART & PERFORMANCE❄️❄️
THE FREEEZINE R. MANN MEMORIAL EFFIGY by Phil, with a WILD SURPRISE DESTRUCTION SPECTACULAR @ midnight!
Come early for an exhibition run from the JAMAICAN BOBSLED TEAM and cheer on the the CROSS COUNTRY BOOTLEG ARCTIC BEAST CHARIOT RACES at 10:30 Sharp, led by John Candy as played by ORIEN MCNEIL
A FEMININE and SECRETIVE encounter TRAVERSING THE RIVER CHARON WITH A BEWILDERED PERSEPHONE by JENNA HOFF & special guests
BROKEN BOTTLE VIP BOTTLE SERVICE by LINDSAY and MISHA
MAJESTIC underwater sea creatures transubstantiated in to photonic being by RHIZOME NYC
Top deck RAVE ICEBERG dj booth by George Ingalls & Clear Studios
Thrill to DINO DIORAMAS depicting the FALL of the DINOSAURS to the EVIL SUN by Kate Relish
Portal to a STICKY DIMENSION by Lauren & Kat
Talk show SPECTACULAR by Ariel with special guests from Aquatorium, Land Sea Air Society, and Thunder Gumbo HISTORY, with videography by Lauretta
Custom ORC TEETH made to order by PSYCHIC DENTIST
Bodacious bFreezing BOOTYLICIOUS Burlseque from BOMBAZEEN BEAN
LUMINOUS northern lights by PERRY WOHLBERG
LUXURIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE human carpet services by the infamous Georgio Carpet
Have the VEIL PARTED to reveal your glorious future with VULGARIA the DRUNKEN GYPSY FORTUNE TELLER KING
Tanya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan BURLESQUE by Madgalena & Perry
PRIVATE DANCE LESSONS with master dance teacher and legendary art car driver DANCE MASTER FLIP
MAGICAL POTIONS from ethical and beautiful sources from AMBROSIA ELIXIRS
Perry playing ZEPPLIN RIFFS on ROLLERBLADES w a 2foot Hindenberg blow-up zeppelin is dangling a front where his Willy would be.. black pants
Delicious FREE EGGS & BACON at SUNRISE lovingly hand-crafted by SHALIN, your BRUNCH MASTER
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN in TRENCHCOATS & LINGERE with SECRETS
BOB FOR APPLES in FROZEN WATER for SEMI PRECIOUS PRIZES
With ****HELLA SURPRISES**** TBA
❄️❄️COSTUME SUGGESTIONS ❄️❄️
Yeti Royalty
Bobsled Driver
Deconstructed Snow Gear
Bewildered Persephone
Beastly
Han Solo in the Carbonite
Glowing Ugly Christmas Sweaters
Nuclear Winter Wonderland Survivor
Not-So-Vanilla Ice
Famous Reggae Superstar Yellow-Snow-Man
Ice Queen
Trench Coats + lingerie
Naked in the Snow
Bobsled Runner
❄️❄️STORY ❄️❄️
In 1847, Freeezine R. Mann, the founding matriarch of the Thunder Gumbo arts collective, completed the trans-arctic crossing from Norway to Alaska by lion-sled. Pressure from the evil ice king and queen bent on the destruction of the peaceful Yeti empire did all they could to impede her progress. Yet she and her crew were determined. Some say the Gods themselves raised her team of giant ice-lions, the strongest ever born. It is said that Hephaestus and Thor took turns hammering away to create her sled made of time crystals.
Of course, she persevered. Upon reaching Alaska the world rejoiced!
It was then that Freeezine knew what to do. She invited the world to what shall forever be remembered as the first Freeezine Mann festival complete with a primitive effigy constructed by Norwegian pagans, gogo dancing yetis, sideshow performers, mystics, and the Abominable Snowlympics athletic competition. It was tremendous, with 200,000 attendees gathering all the way at the North Pole. Lovers of the cold, beasts, adventurers, and those proud of this momentous human achievement gathered together. Their love and revelry in defiance of the evil ice king and queen created so much heat the polar ice caps began to melt. They receded to a point that wouldn’t be seen for another 170 years.
Time has charged its toll! In a world out of balance, the wise elders of the Thunder Gumbo Arts collective have decreed that in an age of global warming, hot tempers, and potential heatstroke, that the gods of summer need Freezing Man to happen in mid-summer, to bring the planet itself back to balance before the polar ice caps melt and the world’s ice cream supply melts away...
F. Mann’s memory as a community leader and pioneer lives on as the founder of our current decommodified non-profit community arts and expedition fundraising event! For the past 170 years, the Thunder Gumbo community has carried on this tradition. Since her death in 1996, a skeletal xylophone constructed from castings of F.R. Mann’s skeleton plays a mournful yet celebratory dirge at the stroke of midnight at every Freezing Man Festival.
❄️❄️NON-PROFIT ❄️❄️
Thunder Gumbo is a not-for-profit event and art collective. All funds go directly towards art upgrades and necessary maintenance of BOOGA, our legendary art car, which has gone many times to the Black Rock CIty desert for the annual Burning Man festival as well as Dance Parade, Gratitude, Halloween Parade, Freeform, and more.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
8:00pm - 4:00am EDT-
Secret, historic floating location
near Morgan L train, Brooklyn, NY 11237