Event

MAYHEM! 2013

Mayhem happens every year in May just outside Wilmington NC. Hundreds of artists, performers, and creative types form a temporary environment where everyone is the entertainment. Overnight camping is encouraged. Groups of people can combine resources, to form themed camp or interactive areas for others. A conglomeration of multiple simultaneously occurring projects spanning every genre of the arts, this temporary village has something for everyone.

There are no vendors, and no main stage. Once inside the event, money is worthless, and a gift economy prevails. If this sounds like your classic hippie fest, you couldn't be farther from the truth. It's a morphing of entertainment and art, interactivity and surprise, science and fun. In other words, it's Mayhem. And everyone is welcome to participate in its creation.

The theme this year is TIME. We encourage you to create art, or environments that loosely fit around this theme. Saturday night, the burning of a large hourglass effigy will be the highlight of the evening.

Your ticket money goes to basic infrastructure and land costs necessary to producing this event, while additional proceeds for Mayhem assist local Wilmington artists involved in the annual Cape Sphere project, by assisting in the transport of several environments from Mayhem as an artistic outreach to other communities at larger regional events.

Cape Sphere is a networked circle of thrill seekers, interactive and physical artists, performers, and exhibitionists, with an ever-changing collective that assembles annually to present one of Wilmington's wildest and most unique events each May.

While this event is not related to, or endorsed by Burning Man, we are inspired by, and aspire to follow the guiding principles of Burning Man, while abiding by all local, state and federal laws, and creating a participatory environment unmediated by commercial transactions.