Alright, lovely and mischievous people… After getting some responses on facebook and on my blog about my lights out rendez-vous, I’ve decided it’s time for all of us to get our hands dirty…

The Challenge: Host your own dark party.
What to do: Turn out the lights and put your energy into more creative exploits! Your dark party can be as simple as inviting some friends over for a midnight, candle-lit tea party or as extravagant as putting on a dark ball for one hundred of your closest friends.

Document your party in whichever media you choose. Love taking photos? Capture your friends in their barely-lit glory and send them my way! Aspiring poet? Be inspired by your party and regale me with poetry. Filmmaker? Send a mini-documentary! Painter? Collage-artist? Dancer? Singer? Stripper? The ways to document your party are as unique and diverse as all of you!

Just send it all to me at cherrygirlfan@gmail.com
The prize: I will feature the most gorgeous dark parties on the site as well as send you some very personal little tid-bits from me…a kind of dark party tool-kit you might say.

PS check out what I’ve gotten so far!

The photos below, sent to me all the way from Istanbul!

This lovely little poem, was written and sent to me by the lovely Harriet Jerusha Korim:

“Two of us walked our way with candles, illuminating favorite walls, trees…un-noticed mysterious details got a chance to shine… when the town turns out the lights…”