On June 1st The Masters Of Succession Presented:

The 3rd BENEFICIAL MUDBALL BENEFICIAL MUD BALL
(The MudBall Ball)

A Garden Celebration of Bioremediation & Symbiosis.

The MoS Collective comes together to Seed Serendipity
one Piazza at a time.

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What is the MudBall Ball?
The MudBall Ball is a beneficial ball room ball where we do what we do … and we make beneficial mud balls while doing what we do. The beneficial mud balls are a waterway restoration project. The event now includes all bioremediation practices in which citizens can participate. Making mud balls to clean waterways is one of the restoration activities. The mud balls are mixed with a solution of food based microorganisms proven to revitalize polluted unhealthy water systems.

At the MudBall Ball, full name is The Beneficial MudBall Beneficial Mud Ball, the goal is to relax, go deeper into relationships and deeper into the languor and tranquility of the summer. We enjoy the outside and pay tribute to the community gardens which were once neglected piles of rubble now they have been remediated. We also support the tradition of cleaning-up our neighborhood by offering fun participatory activities that also bioremediate.

For metaphorical fun, contradiction and fable-making we wear ball gowns with mud boots to make mud balls, eat oysters and dance in a procession to throw the shells into the waterway

Guidelines for participants: Please bring what you like to do. Eligible activities are ones that support the lifestyle of bioremediation; designed to help clean the water, air, soil and self as a mere by-product of the activity. This is not a tabling event nor a skill share. It is “a doing” event where we all enjoy do stuff we like to do.

The MudBall Ball this year and years to come will create a network of interconnected activities. The Ball this year evolved with more activities offered by participants of the Masters of Succcession. MôS towians offered something they wanted to do that also helped along the succession of a healthier ecology. We have also added “the piazza” context to stress these village centers of serendipity. I grew up with a piazza and want to build this idea again where I am.  The community gardens have the greatest potential of doing this. A regular NYC park does not engage me as much as a community garden.  For my PDC I drew up an extensive 80 page village revitalization plan, 7 illustrations and slide presentation. It wasn’t supposed to be so long but the domino effect took over and I couldn’t stop.

EL Jardin Del Paraiso’s MudBall Ball Center is named the “Piazza Paradiso”. The Fall Ball will be at Smiling Hogshead Ranch and the center will be named “La Piazza Sourisi”. The ephemeral piazzas disband at the end of the day and the seeds of our experiences are planted. The piazza is a place to cross paths with new and old neighbors, to share ideas and inspire or support one another.

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The piazza connections are cellular experiences that continue to grow or awaken networks of interrelating activities, sharing more needs and more and more resources.

And if you keep reading “pizza” instead of “piazza” you will be happy to hear the cob ovens we will be building at these piazza gardens make great pizza.

At the MudBall Ball, full name is The Beneficial MudBall Beneficial Mud Ball, we wear ball gowns and big boots to make mud balls, eat oysters, dance in a procession to the water to throw to create oyster habitat with the shells.

The first Mudball Ball started off as a mud ball making party to have help stockpile mud balls for “The 1st EM-1 beneficial mud ball throw in the US” at Figment Project NYC on Governors Island in 2011. Figment, is an annual participatory arts event for which the Spring Ball is dedicated. We make mudballs while eating raw oyster and saving our shells to make more oyster habitat. Originally, we made a New Orleans theme to tie-in with Katrina flood issues before we had the Sandy flood issues. Now It is open to any flood tie-in. (Japan-Thailand etc0. The first year we honored Captain John Krevey for his community building water front work, who passed away. This year we honored Toshi and Pete Seeger.

WHAT ARE Beneficial MUD BALLS?
The mud balls we make clean water with a combination of food based microorganisms that eat the waste, breakdown the toxins and bind the remaining toxic elements to other things so they can not be taken up into the food chain. EM-1 microbial inoculate is the solution mixed into the mud balls. It has 3 types of microbes that work together symbiotically with the environment as they also do in our bodies and around us everywhere. Beneficial microbes are vital to our health and to our biomes. We are adding them back to polluted and sick places to kick start beneficial succession. Read more on this search “EM-1 mud balls”.

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SPRING BALL 2014?
We set up the ephemeral piazza where the ball takes place, the town square at El Jardin del Paraiso community garden in the East Village in NYC. The garden has a large grassy knoll where a round red colorful spread indicated the center — the heartbeat of the piazza. Other spreads around the perimeter of the open area completed the piazza space. We put at the center, splat in the middle of the red dot, the silent advocate: the Giant Mud Ball and kids rolled it around. Each spread had a sign of the activity at that spot. The centers were placed in relationship to the resources needed and the wastes and product they produced. There were also many serendipitous cross-overs. This created a web of intradependent activities.

MudBall Ball HISTORY

The Succession of the MudBall Ball. The first Mudball Ball was a playful word mix up. From the wording came the purpose. I liked the idea of dressing up to just get dirty. I made the gathering to make 1000 mud balls for the first mud ball throw in the US called The Stockpile Beneficial Mud Balls held at Figment Project NYC on Governors Island 2012 (June 8 this year).

We added oyster restoration element after Paul Mankiewicz mentioned throwing the shells back in as a way to restore oyster habitat.  That added another element of decadence which is also a bioremediation tool by happy chance. Oysters filter water through their tiny bodies up to 60 gallons and hour! Imagine reestablishing the oyster population in the waterways around NYC. All we have to do is save the oyster shell waste — at least we’ll be moving forward slowly instead of backwards quickly.
Many more happy chances: Oysters connect to New Orleans’ Katrina problems. Serendipity we could have a celebratory second line procession to the water to toss in the shells.

To make it more Southern Bell ball like, I made mudball hoop gowns with three hula hoops I had at home made from irrigation tubing. I added a crystal candlestick with a mud ball instead of a candle. Wala The MudBall Ball was born.

TODAY THE BALL
Three years later the MudBall Ball has quickly turned into an entire village of activities because everything we do that makes our personal lives healthier is also, by happy chance, a good village center activity and has a positive effect on our relationship between people, things, places and nature.

Today, The Mudball Ball has become a village piazza with many activities interconnecting the nature based community lifestyles in the East Village. MoS participants are supporting more abundance and luxurious decadence while also saving money for other stuff.

Symbiosis and bioremediation are vital to our survival. MoS Collective participants created a village center that is symbiotic and also bioremediates as a result of intentional design.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014
The village piazza opening! All activities and villagers were at their leisure in the round. Eating, socializing, making learning. We had “Abundance Cards” for visitors that helped them immediately connect to the piazza abundance. Thus they could start share needs and resources for their health and prosperity.

A Welcome introduction explanation with a bit on the history of the mud ball:

The opening ceremonies: an introduction taking questions which were answered by DD, PHD biochemist, Paul explaining symbionts, cobiants and the El Jardin plan.

Gil talking about mycelial networks, and Shig with The Empathic World.

DD pointed out the pivotal connections being made between the people, activities and nature participating in the village center. These subtle connections are pieces of a larger picture of intraconnected relationships within a village center, neighborhood, towns boroughs universe.

Someone told me they had an amazing time and they were in awe. Good things come in quiet, small packages by happy chance, serendipity. With a little more help we can make this a lot better but this is mostly done by one person with no financial support. Click here for my wish list-tocome

. ( A dedicated associate fir two months per ball, stipends for participants and food costs. )

MôS participants had it all happening…bioremediation, symbiosis, the empathic world and more mycelium running.

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JUNE1 MuD BALL BALL PIAZZA PARADISO ACTIVITIES
The corresponding activity alphabet letters will indicate to the activity’s placement on a map — which is not drawn up yet.
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JC’s Mudball Transit arrived buoyantly with Ben on board who carried ice for the oysters and the Giant Mudball Ball which is the silent mud ball advocate fabricated by Kappo Kappino Studios.

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Wenting appeared at the 4th St gate, which we could not open. She found her way in at 5th St. entrance. She was scheduled to start off the event with a short documentary on plastic she brought. She framed the scene by showing how our waste stream is out of balance. People gathered under the tree to watch her plastic movie on her lap top. She explained the need for bioremediation (cleaning naturally) and design plans that care for the next 7 generations. This warmed up the afternoon for us while the oysters were being put on ice and we were setting up the beautiful dishes people brought to be shared.’

c. Wenting set the easy space with her mud village detox yoga as people trickled in. Rejuvenating yoga asanas — beneficial for self care of daily relief of sore backs, swollen feet, stiff necks. Just having that there influenced my breath, self empathy and self care. Doctors can’t help you feel good and feel-good stretching is healing, bioremediating and joyful — contagious.

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Kate offered information and form letters that ask local shops to switch to non-plastic bags. She had some of her ultimate daily carry-all bags with her. At the Fall Ball we may have them to purchase for a donation.

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At the mud village picnic:
People offered delicious dishes to add to abundance on the picnic table.
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MoS kombucha fizzy beverage: good to drink and good for health. I got the MoS “scoby” donation, the fungus, from Gil who picks up excess from a large kombucha maker Spiro’s “Beyond Kombucha.”
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Kate brought some water kefir grains that DD will start for the Fall Ball.
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Apples from Red Jacket for picnic. [photo of apples?]

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Bokashi
The bokashi food waste was fermented for better soil with MoS bokashi fermented starter.

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Oysters from Pura Vida. Oysters are eaten. Save the shells! 10,000 in a pile will attract oysters and restore water. Thanks to all the shuckers and the shucking utensil! The one we brought I couldn’t find.

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The oysters shells were saved to be thrown back into the water or crushed for the soil.

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As Todd and David of International Orange played music from the treehouse.
Jimmy the Greek with his sound production expertise supported the musicians.

Bill of Times-up and MoRUS appeared with 3 fabulous Times-up staff and the 1 table used for information at the social plexus of food and greetings.

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At the MudBall Ball Information Center

Jesse, intern from Times Up, environmental science enthusiast who by lucky chance again. She was answering questions and taking contributions. For $10 contribution contributors received bokashi starter for their food waste, for $5 got ‘em a Beneficial Mud Ball.

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We had Green Maps. Wendy brought her Manhattan maps with outlines of the Sandy flood line and the LESS IS MORE GREEN MAPS

n. MôS Abundance Cards to share needs and resources for healthy economy — which need to be mapped.

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We offered people “Romance” rose from Chana’s “Amy Watkins Social Work Scholarship Fund” fundraiser — leftover wine from their event.

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Jesse is wearing milliner/artist Miki Katagiri’s Angel Mud Ball hat made especially for the Mudball Ball.

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Anne and Teddy’s activity medicinal seeds to replant our future pharmacy. Read about PharmaSeed Ball Challenge at Seedball.us. They were not there but they did show up at Figment.

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Caspar had an empty tomato can, waste from local pizza place. He made a sub irrigated tomato planter with special tomato soil and a reservoir for water that needs to be watered very little. It will grow more tomatoes for more pizza in the future cob oven. We continue to plant more tomatoes and basil for more pizza.

Caspar fell asleep at home accidentally for hours just before leaving for the Ball. gadzooks batman. Good thing I called. He valiantly arose and arrived at 5pm with the clay for Greg’s cob activity and he set up his activity beautifully to make the tomato sauce tin can planters.

Pizza food waste and picnic waste goes into bokashi and that turns into soil fertilizer to plant more seeds in better and better soil.

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Greg was there to make the cob with sand, straw at the garden and clay Caspar bought from an art store. This garden and the community gardens are built on rubble so no clay under foot. El Jardin did not create an oven base so instead of starting the oven we had enough cob to make a prototype/birdhouse. Next year we will have a cob oven for pizza done and make pizza and tomatoes from Caspar’s tomato planters and hopefully home made sauce –ridding us the need for those tin cans.

Adam arrived who was MIA for months (the cob was his idea). He and Greg set up and they made some cob. The cob oven activity goes next to the picnic area and bokashi food waste system.

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Shig came to make mud balls and help people with EM-1 information and bokashi food waste solution (link). He also represented the awakening of the “Empathic World” on which he is writing a book. He was placed near the pond at El Jardin.
[em-mudballs making]
Shig and others made mud balls for the figment throw to clean the water with microorganisms.
[Photo by Gil Lopez.]

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Beneficial Mud Ball recipe to clean the water
here, mud balls not ready yet, just starting to dry.

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JK Canepe and Marie Argeris crush oysters shells: Jk arrived with oysters shells from local restaurants to crush which is great for garden beds and cleaning the toxins and add calcium in the soil. The medicinal garden managed by Jk and Marie has been growing healing herbs for teas and tinctures.

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Kate Temple West uses medicinal herbs (she had an emergency was not there). She was to offer detox healing teas from the medicinal garden.

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Wendy Henry offered ear acupuncture. Through knowledge of meridian points she calms and provides villagers emotional ease and helps the village be more peaceful. Wendy arrived with a giant plastic ear to diagram points on the ear for healing and restoration of ease and tranquility. Her village spot was on the hygienic green and white spread as part of in the healing series.

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Nelson arrived with his two assistants and scissors and we introduced ourselves. He was invited by Wenting. Nelson did our hair so we were all gussied up for the music procession. Villagers got their hair cut and nails done before the procession to throw shells in the river.

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The hair and nails were saved to start mycelial networks which pull toxins from the soil. Mycelium is the organism in the soil that grows mushrooms. Gil, offering the mushrooms at home project, (His trike broke down and arrived by taxi), arms were full of packages of mycelium, for one, with which to inoculate the hair and organic waste to growing mushrooms at home.

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To create myco-meteorites that can be planted. Mycelium helps the ecology in depleted toxic spaces.

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All that mycelium starter is put inside the Super EggBalls made of used egg cartons.
Ann makes balls with empty egg cartons. She also made a beautiful tapestry out of umbrella fabric with Rolando which held the space for the biosalon and their clients.

The event was lively yet chill with people relaxing on the blankets in the grass, talking and making things. The plaza was filling in!

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Stephanie’s Garbage of Eden jewelry.
Now the hair was fabulous, Stephanie with her Garbage of Eden jewelry crafts. She made jewelry with plastic bags. When she stretched the bags tightly they become like plastic string.
Stephanie helped set up her space and all the others too.

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DD’s CLOSET: to get dolled up for the ball we hooped it up in the the mud ball gowns made w our hula hoops. Citizen ecologists also poke holes in hula hoops for red clover seeds to fall to the ground (a medicinal bioaccumulator). Resources fabric from MTFA and Jo Waller

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Lisa Shaub Milliner, her paper hats are plantable with kale seeds or just compostable.
Resources: recycled paper and cardboard and seeds.

Denise, CJ an Chana. The MudBall Ball poster image shot by Gil Lopez.

The mud village was in full swing in either teaching, eating, leisure or socializing mode. Villagers and guests were lounging n the grass having a wonderful Sunday. This is what a piazza is like.. people in the round, eating, socializing, curious, passing by saying hi, making and learning. It is not about going shopping and or sore museum feet.

RIVER PROCESSION to OYSTER THROW and OYSTER GARDEN INSTALL

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We gathered the empty oyster shells. The ladies dressed were lookin fine in their celebratory regalia for the procession to the water front. We didn’t go as a whole group since people were enjoying themselves, deep in a social jabber. The village got started so late I didn’t press everyone to leave for the water. I think people didn’t realize the village center was in production only between 3:30-5:30– not until 7. So people came later or fell asleep (tomatoes). Come earlier so you can experience the full array with the food, village music, the group procession to the waterfront ritual toss. That said, 2 groups at least went to throw shells into the spot at 6th and East River.

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Also Billion Oyster Project by Harbor School was delayed and missed our window of opportunity.

 

 

Video Segment by Leave It Better Production Company
&  Photo Post of Mud Village’s Ephemeral Piazza and
The 3rd Annual Stockpile of Mud Balls 

 

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