The tour travels with twelve people: four performers, three technicians, four staff members and a cook. Each person is scheduled for fifty-five hours of work per week. Guest presenters and entertainers would be flown in for one or two days and lodged locally. Understudies are planned for the performers and would either be work/study students or interns. Staff members and technicians could be rotated if necessary. Local labor would also be used for assisting technicians and staff. Mobile phones would be utilized and 800 numbers would be used for continual updates of location and access numbers. Remote, on-line computer access would be available at all times. Tour personnel who are “off-duty” are encouraged to participate in the workshops and presentations.The facility can be set-up and removed in ten hours each. It travels in three semi-tractor trailers and a fourth trailer contains the kitchen and rest-room facilities. The cast and crew would travel in two vans. The tour would start out in the South in the spring, working its way north as the summer progresses and returning south as the weather cools. The distance between locations would be no more than five hundred miles. Heating units for the main dome are budgeted. Parking would be off-site and busses would be used to shuttle participants to and from the parking lot.
Promotion of the tour would be handled by local promoters in conjunction with the staff and scheduled presenters. A wide network already exists of people who have been active in producing related workshops and these people would be offered incentives for their assistance in promoting the tour. A World Wide Web, Internet site would be created to provide computer access to tour information and for on-line communications. Some presenters already have their own network of promoters and presenters who have recently published material would have an excellent opportunity to promote their new works.
The tour is designed to pay for all capital and operating expenses within its twenty-two week duration while still allowing for a profit to be made through increased attendance. The facility would also be available to presenters who were interested in producing their own events and this would allow for breaks in the tour schedule while still generating income. As a means of generating considerable publicity and motivating attendance, it could be announced in advance that the facility would be given away at the end of the year to the community that had generated the highest attendance per capita. This would allow for both the creation of a more refined facility for subsequent tours and for the seeding of such “sacred space” around the world.
The following is a typical weekly schedule based upon four days of events:
9AM-Noon
2PM-5PM
6PM-7PM
7:30PM-9PM
9PM-11PM
Thursday
Introductions
Workshops
Dinner with Music
"Of E.E. I Sing"
Music and Dancing
Friday
Workshops
Workshops
Dinner with Music
"Of E.E. I Sing"
Music and Dancing
Saturday
Presentations
Presentations
Dinner with Music
"Of E.E. I Sing"
Music and Dancing
Sunday
Presentations
Presentations
Dinner with Music
"Of E.E. I Sing"
Off
Monday
Pack-up
Pack-up
Pack-up
Travel
Travel
Tuesday
Set-up
Set-up
Set-up
Set-up
Tech. Rehearsal
Wednesday
Day Off