For just one week in June, Comfort & Joy’s “Faetopia Festival” transforms an empty storefront into visions of the potential future utopias we could create together versus the various dystopias that surround us today. Featuring local artistry, performance art, Cuddle Cinema and workshops throughout the week, the Faetopia Festival explores how vacant commercial [...]

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Following the fabulous success of the Queericulum benefit, we’re excited to present the new HD trailer for “Skinnyfat“right here on Playajoy.org!  The film features many familiar faces from our community and was written and directed by Andy Bydalek with production support by Comfort & Joy.
We are very excited to announce that “Skinnyfat” will be premiering [...]

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It can feel like you’re in a cartoon or video game when you visit Comfort & Joy’s Village at Burning Man. With over 20 colorful dayglo flags created by Chickpea, the village courtyard is filled with moving colors that glow under solar-powered blacklight floodlights at night. Orange/Yellow flame flag sewn by Frieda Laye. Video [...]

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Check out last year’s program here).

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FINALLY READY!!!! designed to close up tight & hunker down quickly in the event of a dust storm, this DJ-booth-on-wheels magically appeared this week in the Castro. It took 5 days to create… check out this Facebook photo album to see how it happened…

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Detail of “Cat’s Cradle” by Twinkle Toes, 2006 (Photo by Tristan “Loupiote” Savatier)
Twinkle Toes is a longstanding member of the San Francisco art, radical faerie and Burning Man communites… as well as one of Comfort & Joy’s freshest collaborators!
At Burning Man in 2006 Twinkle Toes produced “Cat’s Cradle“, a large-scale interactive art installation that [...]

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Space of Comfort & Joy presents to the community two positively orgasmic techno mixes for the fall 2008 season.  For free.  You can download them, or, if you can find Space at GHOSTSHIP on November 1st, he’ll give you a copy.  It’ll be like “Where’s Waldo”, only way more cool.

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NK Guy takes ridiculously wonderful pictures of people & art at Burning Man, like the above & below. See 10 years of his beautiful photographs at BurningCam.com.

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Now that we’ve had a few fundraisers & can afford the materials, WORK HAS BEGUN on a fabulous new Comfort & Joy blacklight art installation for Burning Man.

The project: an oversized bouquet of 30 foot tall flowers that GLOW under our blacklight spotlights. These things are ridiculously huge…. kind of like Chickpea’s blacklight projects [...]

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