May 2016 - Announce - lists.fireflyartscollective.org

The Glowbe, Firefly's brightest newsletter, #8!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 23 May '16

23 May '16

FIVE WEEKS 'TIL FIREFLY, EVERYBODY PANIC Or don't panic! Everything is (probably) fine. Nothing is on fire. ....yet. >:D CONTENTS: 1. Work Weekend sign-ups are live 2. Art and Theme Camp Placement 3. How are you getting to Firefly?! 4. Early Arrival application 5. Greeters is looking for a new co-lead! 6. New Placement Core Leads 7. "Just the Tip" ---------- 1. Work Weekend sign-ups are live The 2016 Work Weekends are scheduled for every weekend in June. This is when volunteers set up event infrastructure, terraform the land, build The Bug, and scope out sites for theme camps and art. See the Work Weekend web page <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/getting-ready/work-weekends/> for details, including how to sign up as a Work Weekend Volunteer. To sign up for the fourth work "weekend", which *ends* on Saturday, June 25, please email workweekend(a)fireflyartscollective.org directly. This short weekend is only for volunteers working on The Bug or other art pieces that require advance set-up. You may also come work on your theme camp if unable to attend Early Arrival on Tuesday, June 28, especially if you are setting up on new land that has never been cleared for camping. Advance sign-up is still required by emailing us! The Work Weekend Core needs one more co-leader! Email workweekend(a)fireflyartscollective.org for a full description of what the co-lead does. ---------- 2. Art and Theme Camp Placement Is your camp or art project getting ready for Firefly? Make sure it has the perfect spot in the woods by filling out the Placement application before the end of May! In a change from previous years, marking off your spot will occur at noon on Sunday June 12th as part of a Placement Potluck Brunch! Read all the details and fill out the placement application on the Placement page <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/getting-ready/placement/>. ---------- 3. How are you getting to Firefly?! Now that Firefly is JUST OVER A MONTH AWAY [hurray and/or oh-shit-I-need-to-work-on-art], we at Transport and Parking cores encourage you to start thinking about how you're getting to and from the event. Parking is limited and is a major problem for the event. If you must drive, please try to carpool. If you can, take the bus. EVERYONE MUST EITHER HAVE A BUS TICKET OR BE TRAVELING IN A VEHICLE WITH A PARKING PASS. Failure to do this will result in your having to pay $60 cash for a parking permit when you arrive, and no one wants to make you do that. Full details are available here: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/getting-ready/getting-there-t… Buy bus tickets or parking passes by logging into your ticket account and clicking on the "ticket sales" tab: tickets.fireflyartscollective.org. Register a seat in your car or request a ride in someone else's car here: http://www.rickyrides.com/firefly-arts-collective ---------- 4. Early Arrival application The Early Arrival application is now live! If you are bringing art or building a theme camp, or if you have a disability that requires accommodation, you may request permission for early arrival. Early Arrival begins Tuesday June 28 at noon, and ends Wednesday June 29 at noon, when Firefly officially begins. The application can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/ d/1XzGLPcQBc8rmyAR53ASeRuPPmNlmpIzSbiNy_hGti-Q/ Please note that requests are not handled or approved automatically: each request is reviewed by Early Arrival core. Applications will be accepted until *Wednesday, June 22 at 11:59pm*. Please make sure to read all of the information on the application before applying! Questions? Drop us a line at early(a)fireflyartscollective.org You will also want to create an account on the new Firefly Volunteer System, which can be found at https://volunteer.fireflyartscollective.org/ We will be processing EA applications on a rolling basis this year; if you apply for EA and are approved, we will update your account in the volunteer system to reflect this status. This will allow you to sign up for Firefly volunteer shifts during Early Arrival (and of course you want to! :) ). ---------- 5. Greeters is looking for a new co-lead! (end of message) (but you can do something about this, and other open Core lead positions, at https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/open-leadersh… ) ---------- 6. New Placement Core Leads We are pleased to welcome our two new co-leads for Placement Core: Emilie Heilig and Carl Gruesz. Frank and I (Finn) wish to extend our hardy congratulations to the both of them. Thank you Carl and Emilie for responding to our questions about the future of Placement Core. You are welcome to join in an impromptu coronation ceremony, perhaps at meet n greet this next Tuesday at the CBC. Or when we next get together. ---------- 7. Just the Tip by Wendy WTF Peeing in the woods...check. Peeing on the generator...wrong. Peeing in the portapotty...check. Peeing on the portapotty seat...bad. Carrying a baggy for used tampons, pads, or wipes...check. "Hiding" toilet paper under leaves behind a tree...fail. ----------

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Helping to Lead
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 05 May '16

05 May '16

https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/ Firefly is a participatory event. Not only do all of us create the “Stuff To Do" with events, art and performances, but we volunteer to run the event itself. Everything from managing shuttle buses, to building the website, to clearing the trails, to greeting you when you arrive is done by volunteers. Some positions, like the Board and Conduct Committee, are year-round. The Festival Committee meets and works about 6 months out of the year, and the individual core leads meet and work about 3.5 months a year. Early on in the season it’s 1-2 hours a month, and closer to the event it might be 2-3 hours a week. We are currently looking to expand our volunteer cores. We have about 20 cores and we’d like to see most cores have 3 co-leads. This way the hand-off from year to year is an easier transition. Mostly people wind up volunteering to run a core for a few years (though there’s no requirement to stick around). Most of us enjoy it! It can be an extremely rewarding experience to volunteer to run an event with a fun, like-minded, creative and accepting group of people. This week we’d like to get volunteers for our *Art **Cluster *and our *City **Cluster*. *Our Art Cluster could use:* 1) - Someone to interact with the art grant core and make an at-event tour happen: an *Art Tour Coordinator.* Daytime art tour? Nighttime art tour? You decide. Make it your own project. 2) -* Art Truck *- help with general logistics of, and driving, the art truck. *Our City Cluster needs a few as well:* 3) - Someone to join Mamajean with *Transportation* core. This is shuttle bus and gear truck logistics. Most of this work is before the event. 4) - A few people to help with *Base Camp*. Formerly just the Coffee Kitchen, *Base Camp* is looking to expand and create a larger communal hang-out area around the Coffee Kitchen. 5) - *Gnomes* need a Co-lead! *Gnomes* help make the event run smoothly by filling in wherever a volunteer is needed. They roam the woods and check in on all the other cores. 6) - *Parking *is looking for a third co-lead! *Parking* checks parking passes, gets cars in tight next to one another, and manages shuttle vans to off-site parking. No small task on our hilly terrain. 7) - *Greeters* is looking for a third co-lead as well. *Greeters* are some of the first people you’ll meet at the event. They answer any questions, make sure you know where you’re going if you’re new, and give you a welcome-home greeting if you’re returning. Come get involved! We’d love to meet you. https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/open-leadersh…

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The Glowbe, Firefly's Newsletter, Issue 07
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 03 May '16

03 May '16

Eight weeks until Firefly! It's time to start reading up on the "Getting Ready" section of the website: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/getting-ready/ Contents: 1. Other Firefly Communication Channels 2. Time is running out to register for SFTY3rd! 3. Conduct Committee Year in Review 4. Making Our World Brighter - Firefly Charitable Giving 5. Art Cars at Firefly 6. Deadline for ticket artwork is May 22! 7. "Just the Tip" ---------- 1. 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/ ---------- 2. Time is running out to register for SFTY3rd! Do you or do you want to volunteer for one of Firefly's Safety Cores? Rangers, Sanctuary, First Aid or Fire/FAST? SFTY3rd is a weekend training for your core and with other Safety Cores. More information and registration can be found here <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sfty3rd/>. NEW Training Announced! Interested in safely creating fire as well as controlling it? Just announced! Flame Effects Deep Dive- An introduction to safely and properly designing, building, operating, and inspecting flame effects to NFPA 160 standards. Anyone interested in Fire Core or FAST should come take this training at SFTY3rd. This training will not be offered in this area at any other time this year. UPDATES! We are close to capacity. Register now! Only a few seats left. We will be closing the payment gateway on Friday. Please confirm before then. If unable to confirm by Friday please contact deanna(a)fireflyartscollective.org. ---------- 3. Conduct Committee Year in Review If you went to the open house on Sunday you got to (literally) poke at the Conduct Committee's Year in review report, now published to the web at https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Conduct-Co…! Take a read through and send feedback to conduct-committee(a)fireflyartscollective.org. If you're curious about joining the year-round committee (after Firefly 2016) please see the Call for New Members <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly-arts-collective/committees/co…> . ---------- 4. Making Our World Brighter - Firefly Charitable Giving You should be familiar by now with our art grant program and how it helps to make Firefly the magical event that we all know and love, but did you know that Firefly supports several very worthy groups and organizations to support our mission in our greater community? In 2016, Firefly Arts Collective has made local donations to FIGMENT Boston and Framingham MakerSpace. We have also contributed to three groups in our adopted home of Bethel VT: White River Valley Ambulance Service, Bethel Area Food Shelf, and Bethel University! For more information, see https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/news/firefly-charitable-giving-2016/. ---------- 5. Art Cars at Firefly Small art cars--think "small enough that two people can free it when it inevitably becomes stuck in the mud"--are welcome at Firefly! To help vehicles fit in with the general pedestrian feel of the event, some specific Art Car Guidelines are available. https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/firefly-policies/art-car-guid… ---------- 6. Deadline for ticket artwork is May 22! Please submit your artwork to FFTicketArt(a)fireflyartscollective.org Tickets should be 4x3" and contain the words "Firefly" and "June 29 - July 4, 2016". High quality PDF or JPEG, 600+ dpi and CMYK color preferred, if possible. Once again - the deadline is May 22, by the end of the day. We are planning to get it all done early this year! ---------- 7. Just the Tip by Wendy WTF The Burning Man Radical Inclusion Principle: we welcome and respect the stranger. After we get to know you, all bets are off. ----------

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