Fire co-created The Vaults of Erowid. She has been the primary designer and chief editor of the Erowid site since its inception. Fire has innovated and developed drug information designs that have been emulated across the web. Her work is cited by newspapers, books, school education programs, college classes, and professional seminars around the world. As a self-described "photo geek," she is responsible for countless images posted online at the site and across the web.

Earth co-created The Vaults of Erowid in 1995 and has been working on the project full time since 2000. This non-commercial web site collects data and publishes original research on the topic of psychoactive plants and chemicals. The site now serves over 60,000 individual visitors each day (10 million in the last year). While Earth's core duties involve system administration and development, Earth has written and edited hundreds of documents published on-line; his writing has also appeared in print publications such as Trip magazine, The Entheogen Review, and Erowid Extracts. Along with his partner Fire, Earth has lectured at numerous conferences and events, including trips in 2006 to Basel for the gathering celebrating Dr. Albert Hofmann's 100th birthday, the Burning Man Arts Festival, and the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology.

Jon Hanna is a writer, editor, event producer, artist, and lecturer working in the field of non-ordinary consciousness studies. He is best known as the producer of the Mind States conference series. Through his book the Psychedelic Resource List and his articles in The Entheogen Review, Hanna highlights reputable vendors of material related to psychoactives as well as exposing companies and individuals who have less than scrupulous records. He also has written for Entheogene Blätter, Erowid Extracts, Heads, High Times, Morbid Curiosity, and The Resonance Project. He has acted as a sitter in crisis tents at the BOOM Festival and Burning Man, and his chapter 'Pragmatic Tips for Safer Use' will appear in the forthcoming (2009) book Harm Reduction: A Global Psychosocial Perspective, compiled by Brian MacLean and Kim Dawson. Hanna has spoken internationally on the topics of visionary art and entheogens, most recently showcasing a collection of hallucinatory animation at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, Switzerland. In 2008, he began full-time work as a senior editor for the Erowid web site.

Space Buddha mixes dub and downtempo with sacred and shamanic world music. His intention is to assist in opening the heart. He has performed at Burning Man (Lotus), Island Festival, and Oracle (Journey of the Shaman, Rainbow Bridge). He is currently helping to co-create the Dragonfly community dance events on Orcas Island.

Michael Manahan has been involved in the underground visionary arts culture in Seattle for over fourteen years as a DJ multi-media event and music producer. Hailing from the burgeoning San Francisco house scene of the early '90s, Michael co-produced the original northwest full-moon celebrations from 1992 to 1998. He is the owner of Starborne Productions/Soundsystems and co-producer of the Oracle Gatherings, Decibel Festival, and the electronic stage at Seattle's world famous Hempfest. Michael's event productions always bring together a wide spectrum of artistic influences: static, musical, visual, live, experimental, and theatrical. As a DJ, Michael has led multitudes across the West Coast through their dance journeys: from San Francisco out to Hawaii, through Ashland and Portland, and up to Vancouver, B.C. With an ear for eclectic composition, he crosses genre boundaries by weaving together a confluence of musical styles with funky, tribal, and dubby influences at the roots.

zeero_k is a purveyor of all kinds of unique sounds from around the globe. His tones have warmed multiple coordinates within the spacetime continuum, from cozy urban coffee shops to abandoned railroad tunnels deep in the mountains. zeero_k's mission is to transform your spatial reality, taking your ears on a trip to new people, places, and things. You might visit a monastery in Tibet, hear a sitar virtuoso in India, ride a freight train along the Tacoma Narrows, or explore a fractalized Minor quasi-equal Heptatonic scale. He blends these tones into a soundscape that is sometimes groovy, sometimes dark and amorphous, sometimes warm and sensual, but usually somewhere in between and guaranteed to be an interesting journey. zeero_k has been a principal engineer and DJ within the Molecular collective (http://www.molecular.cc), and a sousaphone player with the late Infernal Noise Brigade (http://www.infernalnoise.org/) and Hungry March Band (http://www.hungrymarchband.com/hungryhome.php). In his spare time he moves bus stops and plays with traffic signals.

Z is a multi-disciplinary artist specializing in architectural and art installation lighting design and music recording / performance. Z has produced a full-length CD of original compositions called "Water Sines--Songs in the Key of H₂O," featuring a series of tracks performed on twelve-string guitar using two over-dubbed tracks. No Beat, No Melody: Music for Yoga and 3rd Eye Activation.

Ra Young is delighted to welcome you to the first Pacific Northwest fundraiser for the newly launched Erowid Center non-profit. Based in Seattle, she has co-produced a small series of boutique events on the West Coast for nearly a decade, and is dedicated to supporting community-based wisdom and visionary gatherings.