Love During Wartime comes Saturday, September 2. I am delighted to be a part of this. Check it out:

Saturday September 2nd 2006
at The Paradise, 969 Commonwealth Ave. Boston MA
V.I.P. 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM / General 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM
18+, $10.00 to raise funds for a local artists' grant
Presented by Ben of Scene Feeder and Ian of Happy Endings
Part of The Boston Phoeinx's "Excuse" event series

14 DJs spin for 30 minutes each. Confirmed DJs:

Bethany (The Plan)
A weekly indie, rock, dance night at Great Scott
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Knife (Marinate)
One of Boston's best hiphop DJs, often over at The Milky Way
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Terrence (The Pill)
From M.I.A. to MOZ, the man loves that which is from Europe
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EMarce (Paper)
DJ for one of the city's most packed college/indie nights
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Sir Loins (Hot Lunch)
Helping to create awesome punk and dance nights for radical queers and their buddies
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David Day (Square Productions)
Forced Exposure, films, DJing, production. David does it all.
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Claude Money (Soul-le-lu-jah)
The soul reason ZuZu pwnz Saturday nights. <3 his 45s.
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Joseph Colbourne (formerly of Dynasty & Number Six)
Every city needs a disco / Italo know-it all. We have the best.
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Lone Wolf (Gold Chain)
Southie's fun-loving artist-teacher-dj gets you crunk
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Matt (of Dead Disco / Ready Steady Yo!)
Non-stop quality selections, from indie-dance to UK grime.
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Ian (of Happy Endings)
Venue seller-outter and co-promoter for L.D.W.T.
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Red Foxxworth (of Hearthrob)
Dude likes Three 6 Mafia and Skinny Puppy. Say no more.
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Video Artists:
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Matt (Dust Bunnies, Blanks)
His love for video is only outdone by his love for nice hoodies.
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Joe Dinkin
One of those smart-arts types. Projects 'films' not video. Duh.
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Robotkid
Old school beat-head and creator of fantastic visuals.
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Sarah (of Memories Forever) and Ben are designing 2 sides to a 4x6 promo card to hit the streets in August.

The Details

We want to raise the bar. Just think: what if a dance night was a platform for community growth? How could we maximize having 500+ people in a room together? So we're throwing "Love During Wartime", a dance party with the end goal of helping the local underground arts, music, and non-profit communities. Here's a quick breakdown of how we plan to do this:

1. Get 14 DJs from some of the best nights across the city
2. Get one of the largest rock venues in Boston on-board
3. Get the largest weekly indie newspaper to back us
4. Get 500+ people at this one-of-a-kind all-out genre-mash
5. Pay every DJ, promoter, artist involved a flat rate of $50.00
6. Put all post-cost profits into a fund
7. All artists involved become part of a voting team
8. Ask the public to submit funding-proposals
9. Our team votes, and awards a member of the community with a grant
9a. If we sell this thing out, we could be looking at a $2,000.00 award!
10. Follow up / check in on the award winner / keep progress blog
11. Put up a 'how to' PDF / explaininghow the entire night came together