We survived Party Safari.  To celebrate, we assembled a 70-strong Banana Army and ran amuck for several hours, then teamed up with another 500 food cohorts at the Vancouver Art Gallery and embarked on a Party Marathon that lasted 10 straight hours.  Not even the relentless Vancouver rain could stop us from Partying hard till the sun came up!

The photos are up on our site HERE.

And on FBook HERE.

Highlights include: going bananas on the skytrain, going bananas in waterfront station, going bananas in the Bananadome, the Forbidden Banana Dance at the VAG, Skate Rink Dance Party, Skate Rink Food Fight and Brodie’s Escalator.

Huge thanks to everybody that came out in Banana Gear, Food Costumery, and anyone else who had an awesome time!

Unfortunately

This will be the last DDP for some time. Tom and Gary have exhausted their bodies, brains, wallets, boombox fleet, batteries, health and sanity. We will be hibernating for awhile, rebuilding for our 2011 North American Party Safari / Round-The-World Global Party Pandemic.

In The Meantime

- You can keep abreast on our FACEBOOK PAGE, where we will post exciting and earthshaking updates and videos often.

-  Prepare your own boombox for the next DDP! See this link to learn how to prepare it.

-  Donate on the sidebar!!! —————————————————————–>

We will see you all in the Future.

Love,

Tom and Gary

The Saskatoon DDP was a roaring success! With over 2000 Party Professionals  in attendance, The Toon really set the bar high on our first stop of Party Safari.  Check out the photos HERE And on FACEBOOK HERE

We didn’t quite reach our projected donation goal to break even on the Party, so if you had the time of your life and want to help us out, you can still donate at our INDIEGOGO page. And you can only get this Rank DDP T-Shirt when you donate online! You can donate to us through paypal as well.  Just go to the link in the sidebar on the right.  They look like this and will have the tour dates on the back. Let the world know you were there, man.

We will ship them out when we get back to Vancouver after Party Safari.

Tom and Gary love you.

PARTY LOVERS:

We are packing the motorhome and Party Safari begins tomorrow!
Here are the details you need to know:

DONATIONS:

We’re still pretty far behind where we’d hoped to be with donations.
And so we are unveiling one of our t-shirt designs to encourage people to donate:

We really do need some help to cover the costs of throwing 5 Parties over 15,000km, so if you can donate online or in person we will really appreciate it and hopefully not go bankrupt!
Donate here to receive your t-shirt and/or other cool perks:
http://www.indiegogo.com/DDP

DEPOSITS:

We will loan out about 100 boomboxes from our collection at each Party.  To ensure that we get them back at the end of the night, we need to get a deposit of $20 each for them ($40 for the best ones).  So if you want to borrow one, show up early and don’t forget your cash.  And we REALLY DO NEED THEM ALL BACK in order to keep the Party Safari going across Canada, so please don’t keep them!  If lots of them don’t get returned at the end of the night we will never come back!

MEETING POINT:

We will arrive in each city the day before and scout out the Party Route.
Then we will post the meeting point on the facebook event page.
Meet us at the meeting point at 8:00PM
If you have your own boombox, come a little early and we will help you tune it in to our Party Broadcast.
Then we turn on all the boomboxes and lead you on a DDP Party Adventure.

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR BOOMBOX:

http://www.decentralizeddanceparty.com/2010/09/12/how-to-prepare-your-boombox-for-a-ddp/

ALCOHOL:

As we said in the invite, we will be out in public so alcohol is not allowed.  If people are drinking openly the chances of our Party getting shut down are increased so please don’t.  If you choose to drink, do so beforehand.  If you choose to disregard our advice, please do so very discreetly, in a pop bottle or whatever.  But seriously, you will be amazed at how much fun you can have at a DDP without drinking.  We were too.  PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO IS COMING!

CHARITY FUNDRAISING:

As we said on our fundraising page, if we can raise $4000 in your city and cover our costs, whatever money we raise beyond that amount will be split 50/50 with your city’s charity of choice.  If you have a charity to recommend, please post it on the event page for your city.

COSTUME CONTEST:

Our friends from Vancouver who run www.beachtravellers.com have offered to sponsor a costume contest.
They will be running around in gorilla suits looking for the best costume- so look sharp!
We are hoping as many people as possible will join us and participate in the Red+White Canadian / Sports theme.
Don’t be left out.

BRING:

Bring mini trampolines, helium balloons, beach balls, any Party Props that are fun and safe.

SEE YOU SOON!
Tom and Gary

If you live in Vancouver / Vancouver Island, come get Wet and Wild this very weekend!
All the details are available on the invite here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155950327752741&index=1

If you live ANYWHERE in Canada, Tom and Gary are going on a Coast-2-Coast Canadian Party Safari and want to Party with YOU!
All the details are available AT OUR NEW TOUR SECTION HERE!

And to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the DDP, we’ve created a very special video:

So get ready to Party Hearty and share this info with Party Lovers everywhere to maximize our Collective Party Potential!
Unseasonably warm regards,
Tom+Gary

Good times in sub-zero temperatures with Vancouver’s Finest!
Full video soon to come!!!