Preparing for the Black Wedding (letter from Annie and Beth)

Very soon we are all about to meet up in Gijon. Thanks to Pedro, Laboral Centro de Arte and Diana Pornoterrorista for making this all happen. Thank YOU for being willing to come join us, and work with us. We are so honored to have your participation in this great life/art experiment.

Our intention is to all get together and explore what ecosexuality is, and what it can become, by changing the metaphor from Earth as mother to Earth as Lover. So we will be very romantic with our earth’s wonderful mineral, coal. So we will have a Black Wedding to Coal! Beth and I will be brides, however everyone is basically a bride or groom and can also marry the coal if you want to with us. We aim to make some good performance art, visual art, and photo/video documentation which will live on past these days. Think about what you might want to do in a wedding. For example, we have a flower girl, and our officiant. But need a ring bearer, toast master, bridal party members, etc. We use the traditional elements of a wedding, but make them very experimental. We call it radically traditional. So feel free. Bring no material gifts, your participation is the gift. You can also make decorations, boutonnières, bouquets, party favors, and other wedding items.

We speak a little spanish. But there will also be people who can help us with translation into spanish. WE’d love to have our Ecosex Manifesto translated into Spanish, if you know anyone that might want to help us do it. http://www.sexecology.org/

The reason we are marrying COAL is because coal mining can be so harmful to the environment. Gijon has some issues with the air quality, we are told. And we, Beth and Annie, have been very involved in fighting the coal mining destruction of the Appalachian Mountains where Beth is from in West Virginia. Its heart breaking what greed does to the environment and the people, plants and animals in these areas. So together with you, we will learn about the politics and the environmental issues around coal in Gijon. But also we want to really honor our Earth for all it gives us, including coal. We want to make love with nature, because nature is making love with us all the time. If this sounds crazy, well then thats fine with us! Its a hell of a lot of fun working on these ecosex wedding projects. And we really are quite confident you are going to have a wonderful time there with us in collaboration and in creative spirit.