We invite you to kick back, relax and plunge into the creative frenzy of our Fourth Annual ARTLAND extravaganza.

IDA's 243 acre playground turns into your fun art land for the week of SEPTEMBER 15-21 when queer men, wimin and friends gather on our faerie farm. Artland is a unique festival of artists and lovers of arts.

LUXURIOUS LODGING Pitch a tent by our new flower mandala and wake up to the sight of bursting colors and the sound of the creek rushing past.

AESTHETIC EXPLORATION Every ARTLAND is unique and we never know what triumphs of art will result. Last year, focused events included a gallery opening, a week-long creation of a play and performance, a cave rave party, unvielling of an ARTLAND-created pottery-pole, a watercolor workshop, a stilt-walking ballet, drumming to the beat of a thunder storm, and much more.

FOREST FANTASIES Secluded in the woods, our imaginations run wild. Dip in the creek, go pear picking, hike to the waterfall, harvest bamboo and build a sex-lair pyramid, run through a field of flowers in your most elegant frock, lie in the sun naked to catch the fading rays of summer.

ORGANIC DELICACIES Pesto runs thick as we celebrate the abundance of harvest time with fresh basil and garlic. Dig up sweet potatos, pick a colorful salad, then cap the meal with some chocolate decadence (sorry, we don't grow that here!)

All of the ARTLAND activities are a celebration of community - people coming together to create art, explore nature, make new friends, and share our vision of a queer world of personal empowerment, non-hierarchy and cooperative madness. Everyone lends their sensibilities and help to make ARTLAND what it is.

• When: Monday thru Sunday, September 15-21, 1997
• Where: At IDA, about 90 minutes east of Nashville, TN. Near Smithville off Hiway 70N.
• Cost per day for meals and supplies $10.00.
• Pick-up / delivery service to Nashville Airport or Bus Depot: $25 round trip.
• Pick-up / delivery service to Murfreesboro or Cookville Bus Depot: $15 round trip.
• Accomodations are primitive: Outdoor lavatories, hot/cold running water "pour la toilette", adjacent and remote camping sites as well as barn-loft sleeping spaces (call soon).
• Men, wimmin and kids welcome! (Sorry, no pets).
• Three organic, vegetarian meals a day.
• "Agenda" (sheeeeesh!) collaboratively established as week unfolds.
• Lots of time for your specific workshop, salon, colloqui, etc to be conducted.
• Fabulous group activities happen all the time ( hikes, swimming in the creek, picnics,etc).
• You can join the fun anytime during the week, but you'll miss lots of extraordinary opportunities to try new things, shed old habits, wear funny clothes, and be with zany, crazy folks-into-folks here in the depths of the hollow.

No one turned away for lack of funds!!

IDA is located about 10 miles from Short Mountian Sanctuary and is part of the ever-growing "family" of queer folk coming together in Middle Tennessee. Artland is planned to coincide with the SMS Fall Gathering early in October.

Is a queer artists' community in Tennessee.

Is a bunch of faeries living together in a homo hollow (nearly 250 acres of forests, waterfalls, and gardens)

smack dab in the middle of the not-so-shiny bible belt buckle.

Some cool things the 9 - 10 of us do:

and can almost taste the faerie wackiness of our outfits in every organic bite we take.