Cody Wille (right), aka The Wicked Won, will be performing on the main stage with EZKL, as EZKL & Thge Wicked Won during the Automatic benefit for the Basics Fund Saturday night.

In the dictionary, "autonomic" refers to the involuntary reflexes in the nervous system. Sauce Promotion and Productions is hosting a live art, poetry and music event this Saturday at The Spot Gym in Boulder. It will feature various artists spontaneously creating and being inspired by their surroundings, thus the name for the event -- "Autonomic."

"Autonomic" will benefit The Basics Fund, a Boulder-based non-profit organization that raises money to provide healthcare for artists. The company was started last April by CU grad, Dustin Huth, after getting to know playwright and short fiction writer, Jonson Kuhn. Huth first met Kuhn a few years ago while working at the Boulder Dushanbe Tea House -- long before he had any ideas of embarking on an upstart organization.

IF YOU GO The Basics Fund, whose mission is raising funds to pay for artists' health insurance while simultaneously promoting their work through publications and events, is having a benefit party this weekend. This Saturday, April 26, Sauce Promotion & Productions hosts Autonomic: a night of live music, live art, live poetry, and creative at The Spot Bouldering Gym. General admission tickets to Autonomic are $10 and get you in from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. There will be four musical performances, a cash bar (21+ only) and live poetry all hosted by poet MCs Olatundji and Rob Geisen, with floor support by T-Bar lingerie models. Visit www.everybodylovessauce.com , www.thebasicsfund.org , or get presale tickets at Cafe Babu on the Hill.

"Jonson is the poster child for the organization," Huth says. "He's the type of artist I'm looking for, one who is so talented, devoted and focused to his work that he doesn't have the basic comforts a normal job would provide."

Huth chooses the artists based on their activity in the community -but, they also must be in a position of struggling need.

"The whole reason behind the charity is to provide incentive for artists to follow their calling and still have a sense of security and stability," says Huth.

The Basics Fund also supports Eliza Boote, a neo-folk musician originally from Colorado. Also known as Cowboy Boote, she resides in Boulder and was influenced by the likes of The Pixies to Patti Smith.

This weekend's festivities will celebrate the incorporation of a third artist under the charity's wing -- Yuri Zupancic. Zupancic is a painter who thinks outside the box, says Huth. He draws intricate, miniature drawings on small microchips. Based out of Lawrence, Kan., he also started an organization called "Fresh Produce" that brings local artists together once a month to display their latest creation.

All three artists will be at this weekend's event, displaying their variant forms of work. Eliza Boote and Jonson Kuhn have an onstage collaboration that blends his fiction pieces with her music. They call themselves, "Cowgirl Boote and Her Bitter Buffalo." Zupancic will also be there painting a live, nude model.

Autonomic is the first main fundraising event for The Basics Fund. The Fund collects money through their own fundraising efforts that involve taking party buses to different art and music events and festivals throughout the state.

Huth jokes, "My position in the company is CEO, president, and bus driver."

Sauce Productions approached Huth about hosting a grand fundraising event for his company. After going to a very similar party last year for the release of "Illiterate" magazine, Huth had only dreamed of one day hosting a comparable event for his company.

"I walked into that party -- it was huge and entirely centered around art! I had just started The Basics Fund and I thought, 'Someday I want to have a cool event like this' I'm so excited its happening," says Huth.

The event expects upwards of 900 guests. Besides Kuhn, Boote and Zupancic, there will be seven other artists displaying their work, three of which will be body paintings. There will also be four different bands, jamming hour-long sets of house music on the main stage. In between acts, there will be poetry performances. The venue is large enough to stage a VIP section that will be honored with free drinks and a massive mirror guests can adorn with their personal drawings.

Festivities will start at 10 p.m. and continue on 'til the wee hours of early morning. You can purchase tickets at Café Babu on the Hill, or go to www.everybodylovessauce.com. And for all you lushes, you won't have to worry about drinking and driving -- Huth has organized a shuttle from the Balch field house on campus and from Trilogy wine bar on 13th to The Spot.

The sky is the limits for patron of the arts, bus-driver extraordinaire Dustin Huth. He hopes to fund as many artists as possible within the next few years, start a lecture series, open a venue, expand to different states and mainly, "build a community that cares about what is going on, an environment that inspires artists to carry on."

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