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The Glowbe Issue 04
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

*Contents:* 1. Firefly. omg. 2. Scholarship Tickets 3. Burner Exchange Art Grants 4. Other Firefly Communication Channels 5. Just the Tip ---------- 1. Firefly! It's gonna happen. June 29-July 4. Register for tickets at http://tickets.fireflyartscollective.org. Reminder that this is the last Glowbe before lottery registration ends! If you haven't printed and mailed your release form, do it today to get into the April 9 ticket lottery! ---------- 2. Scholarship Tickets This year, Firefly will offer a limited number of scholarship tickets to participants who demonstrate a need for financial assistance acquiring a ticket. The primary goal of this program is to support community members during difficult times and help them join us at Firefly. A secondary goal is to foster artistic expression through submissions. For more information and how to apply for a Scholarship Ticket, see https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/scholarship-tickets/ ---------- 3. Burner Exchange Art Grant Submissions The *Burner Exchange (BEX) Grants* are for art that has *already appeared* either at a regional burn event or Burning Man and showcases the local flavor of its origin. Grant money is intended to be applied to maintenance / improvements and shipping costs to Vermont. BEX Grants are awarded for amounts up to $1000. We'd prefer to give smaller amounts to more projects, so use your judgement when deciding how much to ask for. Schedule: *March 28th: BEX grant applications open* *April 25th: BEX grant applications due* *May 2nd: BEX Grants awarded* Submissions this year will be handled through the Firefly Art Grants Web Portal <http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/>. If you signed up in 2015, your accounts are no longer active so please sign up again. For even more information, please visit the following web page: Firefly Art Grants Overview <http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/>. Feel free to reach out with any questions to: grants(a)fireflyartscollective.org. ---------- 4. Other Firefly Communication Channels Do you want to discuss the contents of these newsletters? Do you want to recruit help for an art project? New Fireflies, do you want to ask questions of those who've attended for years? Check out the discussion forum/mailing list FireflyBlink. Sign up for Blink (or read the archives) here: https://lists.fireflyartscollective.org/listinfo/fireflyblink Firefly also has an active Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/31209741538/ ---------- 5. Just the Tip by Wendy WTF Only bring rain gear to Firefly if you like being dry.

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Firefly newsletter - The Glowbe #03
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Welcome to all the new subscribers of the Announce list from Firefly registration! This is *The Glowbe*, Firefly’s weekly newsletter, issue #3. Contents: 1. Reminder of event dates and details 2. Ticket registration is open 3. Firefly Open House on May Day 4. Firefly Skill Grants 5. Open Leadership Positions 6. Seeking Parking co-Lead! 7. “Just the Tip” ---------- 1. Reminder of event dates and details Firefly will be Wednesday, June 29 through Monday, July 4 in Vermont. Event tickets are $80. Parking passes are $30 per car. Bus tickets from Boston are $45 round-trip or $30 one-way. ---------- 2. Ticket Registration is open! Go to http://tickets.fireflyartscollective.org to register. Everyone who registers and mails in their signed release form postmarked by March 31 will be entered in the initial ticket lottery. Those who register April 1 or later will be put on the waitlist. LOTS of information is available at https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/, or email tickets(a)fireflyartscollective.org with your questions. ---------- 3. Firefly Open House on May Day The Firefly Open House will be held on May 1 at the Dilboy VFW Post in Davis Square, Somerville, from 5-9pm. All people and all the different cores that make Firefly happen will together to schmooze about plans and volunteering. If you want to find out how you can be a bigger part of Firefly, learn what goes into making it happen, or recruit for your new endeavor, it’s the place! ---------- 4. Firefly Skill Grants Firefly is happy to announce Skill Grants! We will pay for you to take a fabrication class so that you finally have the skills to make that art project, or help out with someone else's large project. The form is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XbTnfC2EeSyMDDeqog_--6t1_SmsJ-g6YvqbVz-oEJ… A few anticipated FAQs: * The class can be anywhere, we encourage you to take them at local makerspaces and community arts schools. * Reasonably priced classes are more likely to be funded; average class cost should be $200 or less. * At least 6 grants will be awarded * You can apply for more than one * If in doubt, apply! ---------- 5. Open Leadership Positions Interested in helping out with the leadership of firefly? We’ve begun the planning process for this year’s event and there are some new lead openings for various cores. (Generally volunteer experience in a core is preferred before becoming a lead, but that varies by core and is not a firm requirement.) See https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/open-leadersh… for a list of open positions! ---------- 6. Seeking Parking co-lead Greetings Fireflies! Planning season is underway and Parking Core is looking for one more person to be a co-lead. Prior to the event the parking co-leads recruit volunteers for parking and work with the gate and greeter leads to determine event logistics. During the event the co-leads are responsible for checking in with the awesome parking volunteers and responding to parking questions and issues as they arise. If you’re interested in learning more, please email us at parking(a)fireflyartscollective.org. ---------- 7. Just the Tip by Wendy WTF Make *something*. Everything Adds. No prerequisites exist for pARTicipation.

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Ticket Registration for 2016 is open!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Please excuse the extra email this week, but this one's important: Ticket Registration is open! https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/tickets/

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The Glowbe issue 02
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Time for another info dump from the mysterious forces that organize Firefly: The Glowbe issue #2! Contents: 1. The new firefly website! 2. Ticket registration is nigh 3. Firefly Open House info 4. Art Grants Funded 5. Firefly Skill Grants 6. ARTifacts are now Intentions 7. Request for Ticket Art 8. “Just the Tip” ---------- 1. http://www.fireflyartscollective.org has been updated with a new look! Thank you to the web team for all the time and effort put into the resdesign. ---------- 2. Registration for Firefly tickets will open later today, Tuesday March 15, at http://tickets.fireflyartscollective.org (exact time TBD.) Register & mail in your release form by March 31 and you’ll be entered into the ticket lottery on April 9. ---------- 3. The Firefly Open House will be held on May 1 at the Dilboy VFW Post in Davis Square, Somerville, from 5-9pm. At the Open House, the different cores that make up the Firefly Festival Committee get together with the community to talk about plans and volunteering. If you want to find out how you can be a bigger part of Firefly, learn what goes into making it happen, or recruit for your new endeavor, it’s the place! ---------- 4. Art Grants Funded The Temple Grant, the Ivory Grants, and the Creativity and Legacy grants have all been awarded! In total, this represents $11,500 going to artists to make art for our festival this year (so far!). Stay tuned for our upcoming Burner Exchange (BEX) Grants, and the pilot program of a new grant type: skillshare scholarships, designed to help community members learn new skills to create art. For our regular grants, we received a huge number of amazing proposal this year. For Creativity/Legacy grants alone, we considered over $17,000 in proposals for $7,500 in budgeted funds. Wow! Big shoutouts to everyone who submitted a proposal, and to the volunteers on this year's judging committee for their heroic efforts. This is going to be an amazing year for art in the woods. Congratulations to the following funded projects: Temple The Temple of Arbitrary Ivory Emergence Genie Lamp Ornithopter Creativity Altaer Camp Blue Screen of Death's Lie-Fi Not-Spot Community Sand Mandala Disco Hall Of Fame Ethereal Windows Padmas Peepers Not Creepers Power & Influence Reflection Tree Rose Windows The Caterpillar Lounge There is no Default World Whirlwind Inferno Witch Lights Woven Forest Legacy Color Drops ---------- 5. Firefly is happy to announce Firefly Skill Grants. We will pay for you to take a fabrication class so that you finally have the skills to make that art project, or help out with someone else's large project. The form is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XbTnfC2EeSyMDDeqog_--6t1_SmsJ-g6YvqbVz-oEJ… A few anticipated FAQs: * The class can be anywhere, we encourage you to take them at local makerspaces and community arts schools. * Reasonably priced classes are more likely to be funded; average class cost should be $200 or less. * At least 6 grants will be awarded * You can apply for more than one * If in doubt, apply! ---------- 6. ARTifacts are switching up for this year’s ticket registration! It has been a pleasure to receive your imaginative and clever work in the past few years, however, Firefly is overwhelmed by the sheer number of items. With this in mind ARTifacts has changed – this year we want your INTENTION for Firefly. A few idea starters – What would you like to build, create or nurture in your life? How do you feel when you are your happiest self? What fears would you like to release? What are you grateful for? Along with your waiver, please send us an Intention (words, drawings, cut outs, a found scribble) on a burnable no larger than 12”x18” and less than an 1/16 thick. Every intention will be bound into a book which will be on view at Base Camp then burned in the bug. We ask that you use your common sense when it comes to materials and snark. If you want to remain anonymous please do not use your name. At the end of Firefly the only Trace left of these INTENTIONS will be what we manifest in our hearts and minds. We know some participants may have already planned an ARTifact for this year. You are welcome to send it in! We will show it in some form. For those who haven't started, you can send in an intention instead. Past ARTifacts will be available at the Open House on May 1st. Whatever is not claimed on this date will then be presented as “free” art for others to take and cherish at a future date. If you have any questions please email tickets(a)fireflyartscollective.org ---------- 7. Send in Ticket Art! For the past two years we were able to use ARTifacts submissions as an extra source of great ticket artwork. With the announced changes in the registration and ARTifacts format this year, we are going back to requiring that all ticket artwork submissions are sent in directly to FFTicketArt(a)fireflyartscollective.org. More information, such as the submission deadline, will be announced shortly. One particularly exciting aspect of making tickets out of ARTifacts was that we were able to use so many "physical", non-digitally created pieces. Ticketing Core volunteers have scanned some great drawings, paintings and all sorts of other hand-made objects that looked great printed - last year there was even one super sleek metal piece! We'd like to keep this trend going. So if you have a design that you'd rather submit in a physical form - please contact us at the address above. And we'll arrange obtaining it from you, and scanning and turning it into a printable ticket face. (For the record, this has been done early in the Firefly history, way before the ARTifacts - some rather gorgeous early tickets were created from watercolors mailed in on paper by the artists). Tickets are 4:3 in shape. All ticket designs should have the words "Firefly" and "June 29 - July 4, 2016". For digital submissions, 600+ dpi and CMYK color (if possible) are preferred. Any questions - please contact us at FFTicketArt(a)fireflyartscollective.org. ---------- Just the Tip by Wendy WTF If you can't bear to sit, when you pee or shit, At least lift the seat cover when you have got to hover.

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The Glowbe 01
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

Welcome to The Glowbe issue 01! This year we're going to try consolidating the assorted Announce mailing-list emails into one regular newsletter with information, announcements, and lame jokes from all the Cores at once! Our aim is a weekly Glowbe to keep you up-to-date with important Firefly stuff you need and want to know. Contents: 1. Firefly 2016 vital information 2. Ticket Registration & Lottery dates 3. Firefly Open House 4. Open Core Leadership Positions 5. Volunteers needed: First Aid 6. Volunteers needed: Rangers ---------- 1. Firefly 2016 vital information Firefly will be held Wednesday, June 29 through Monday, July 4 in Vermont. It'll be the largest Firefly ever! (Just a few more participants than 2015.) Unchanged from last year: Tickets cost $80. Parking passes are $30 per car, and bus tickets from Boston are $45 round-trip or $30 one-way. ---------- 2. Ticket Registration & Lottery dates Time to get excited (and find your stamps and wander around your neighborhood looking for a mailbox)--registration for the Firefly ticket lottery will open on 15 March! Get your registration in by 31 March and you’ll be entered in the ticket lottery on 9 April. Registrations arriving after 31 March will go on the waitlist. We'll be collecting ticket waivers (and ARTifacts) by mail again this year. Fireflies sending in mail resulted in fewer ticket returns in 2014 and 2015 than previously, speeding waitlist flow, and the waitlist was clear (barely!) when the event started both years. More detail coming soon, or you can email tickets(a)fireflyartscollective.org with questions. ---------- 3. Firefly Open House Planning for the Firefly Open House has started. It will be held in late April or early May in Cambridge or Somerville. At the Open House, the different cores that make up the Firefly Festival Committee get together with the community to talk about plans and volunteering. If you want to find out how you can be a bigger part of Firefly, learn what goes into making it happen, or recruit for your new endeavor, it's the place! Confirmed time and place details coming in a future issue of The Glowbe. ---------- 4. Open Core Leadership Positions Interested in helping out with the leadership of firefly? Firefly's organizational tasks are divided into what we call "cores". You've probably even heard of a few of them (Parking, Gate, Greeters, DPW). Each core is run by a few volunteers. Ideally for each core, we'd like to have 2 to 3 co-leads with the hope that one co-lead has experience leading that core and the other co-lead is new and excited to help with fresh new ideas. This is where YOU all come in! You do have ideas for how you'd like to shape Firefly, right? (Generally volunteer experience in a core is expected before becoming a lead, but that varies by core and is not a requirement.) We've begun the planning process for this year’s event and there are some new openings in various cores. So far we have: - Art and Theme Camp Placement - 1 co-lead requested, email placement(a)fireflyartscollective.org - Fire and Safety Core - 1 co-lead requested, email fire(a)fireflyartscollective.org - Ticket Core - 1 co-lead requested, email tickets(a)fireflyartscollective.org If you’re interested in any other core lead position, email either the current core leads or festival(a)fireflyartscollective.org. A slightly-outdated list of cores (but the descriptions of duties are still accurate) can be found at http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/join-a-core/ ---------- 5. Volunteers needed: First Aid Do you or someone you know have medical skills? Like to help people? Love the sight of spilled blood? If you answered yes (or possibly maybe) to any of these questions, please consider helping keep Firefly safe from itself by lending your enthusiasm to Firefly's team of people who are in no way legally responsible for your well-being but are eager to assist you with first aid complaints and health-related concerns at your request and complete indemnification! Contact: Medical(a)FireflyArtsCollective.org to get involved! Volunteering: it's what Jesus would do! ---------- 6. Volunteers needed: Rangers Do you like to be helpful? Are you comfortable being available as a resource without jumping in to solve other people’s problems or telling them what to do? Have you been to Firefly before, or Rangered at other Burns? If yes, please consider volunteering for the Firefly Rangers! To volunteer, please fill out our annual survey at http://www.tinyurl.com/ffrangers2016 For more info, see our page on the Firefly website: http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/join-a-core/rangers/ For questions, email rangers(a)fireflyartscollective.org See you in the woods! 2015 Ranger Council ----------

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