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Firefly Open Studios Deadline Extension
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

What a great M&G we had last night! Based on all the interest from Fireflies that would like to participate in this year's Firefly Open Studios we've... *decided to extend the submission deadline to Monday, April 22!* - Submit your Firefly art project by filling out our form ( http://goo.gl/yMLcf) - Volunteer to help with the set up, break down, cook out, transport art or info booth by emailing pensivepixi (at) gmail (dot) com. - The full details for project submissions are on the Firefly Website: http://**fireflyartscollective.org/**call-for-art-firefly-open-** studios-2013/<http://fireflyartscollective.org/call-for-art-firefly-open-studios-2013/> The new deadline for submissions is Monday, April 22! Excited to read about the fun things you want to share with Fireflies and Somervillains :) -Firefly Open Studios Team

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Firefly Town Hall Meeting - Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 2pm to 7pm
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Greetings Fireflies: It's that time of year again. Time to have our Town Hall Meeting. The meeting will be Sunday, April 28th from 2pm-7pm at 369 Congress St, 7th Floor. Stop by anytime for an hour or two! Since the meeting is on a Sunday, metered parking in the area is free and we are a short walk from South Station on the Red Line. Some of you may be saying "wow, that's a really long Town Hall Meeting!" Yes, it is. However, we are doing things a bit different this year. We want this year's meeting to be more of a Meet & Greet than a structured, everyone-be-quiet presentation format. This is a great opportunity for Fireflies both old and new. Come out and meet people, catch up with old friends, find out more about Firefly, reminisce about past Firefly events, learn how you can help make Firefly happen, and find out what's new for Firefly this year. See you in Boston before we see you in the Woods! ~Firefly~ *** Please note that the passenger elevator at 369 Congress St. is broken. If you have a physical limitation that makes it difficult for you to use the stairs, please call Jen Hill at 978.809.1168 and she will coordinate getting you to the 7th floor via the freight elevator.

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Firefly Open Studios - Meet & Greet Next Tuesday (4/16)
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello Fireflies, This is a friendly reminder to get your art project into this year's Firefly Open Studios (part of Somerville Open Studios) before the deadline, April 17th. This is year is going to be amazing! We have a new exciting location at Blake shop in Somerville. It's 3 times the size of last year's space AND -- get this! -- the SOS Trolley has added a new stop across the street from the shop to their route! EXPECT LOTS of VISITORS! They want to see your Art and we want to curate it! Once visitors get to the studio and start playing with our glowy toys they'll be enticed to stay by the delicious aromas of the bbq/cookout that will be taking place at 6pm on Saturday May 4th. There's lots of opportunities to get involved! Submit your Firefly art project by filling out our form (http://goo.gl/yMLcf) or volunteer to help with the set up, break down, cook out, art transport or info booth by emailing pensivepixi (at) gmail (dot) com. Full details on project submissions live here on the Firefly Website: http://fireflyartscollective.org/call-for-art-firefly-open-studios-2013/ **MEET & GREET** Want to meet the team that's bringing Firefly Open Studios to SOS this year? You're in luck, we're having a special Meet & Greet at the CBC at 7:00pm next Tuesday, 4/16. Meet the crew leads, sign up to volunteer and submit your project in person on Tuesday, 4/16 at CBC! Level up on that Firefly Karma and participate :D ~Firefly Open Studios 2013 Dream Team

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Would YOU Like to Help Make a Temple at Firefly this Year?
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Temple Call for Interest Greetings Fireflies, do you remember last year's temple? Were you moved by its calming presence and approachability? Did you get a chance to go down and leave an offering? Remember how much you liked it and admired the tenacity, creativity and pluck of those who toiled ceaselessly so that it could be erected to give to our humble event a spiritual center? Well, how would you like to be that can-do build crew of a wondrously unprofane folly? Perhaps you have your own ideas of a sacred geometry, or of what might embody a place of stillness and reflection. Please let us know if you are interested as we are looking to help support the building of a Temple structure again this year. The Firefly Arts Collective, (FAC), is looking for a design/build team to provide a Temple for this year's event. We would be able to provide some assistance and would go over your design from a structural considerations point of view. You must be willing to have the Temple burned. Right now this is a just a call for interest. Please send us a message at ff2013temple (at) fireflyartscollective {dot} org indicating your interest and what a Temple at Firefly means to you. More information will be forthcoming shortly. Thanks, The Firefly Temple Folks

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We want your Firefly Ticket Art!!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Greetings Fireflies! With the announcement of ticket winners, the fact that Firefly is only a few months away is evident. While our ticketing system has evolved into a will-call system over the past couple of years, we still print Firefly souvenir art tickets. Last year we had an awesome number of submissions and this year, we would love to have even more. What better way to share your art, than to have it printed on a Firefly ticket that a happy Firefly will cherish forever! Your ticket design must say "Firefly" and this year's dates, which are July 3-7, 2013. The rest is up to your imagination! A more detailed email will go out in a few weeks. We can't wait to see what you come up with this year! Thanks, Jen Hill & Leonid Andreev Firefly Ticket Art

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Take a Snow Day and Dream about Firefly!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hello Fireflies, It's getting close to the time when Art Grant Applications will be released (Feb 17th). Have you started thinking about an idea yet? What a better thing to do when trapped inside your house with 3 feet of snow blocking your front door! Here's a link to last year's application to give you an idea if you're a new firefly. DO NOT fill this out as this year's form may be different. But the same concepts will still apply. (actual app is at the bottom as a google doc): http://www.fireflyartscollective.org/tiki-index.php?page=2012+Creativity+Gr… Ticket info has been released! There was a detailed email about registration period and process sent out on February 1st. And we even already have a date for the Town Hall meeting - Sunday April 28th. It will be a day time event this year - still with the town hall question and brainstorm aspect but there'll also be more emphasis on informally meeting and greeting. Always a great way to connect with old friends and plan projects with new ones. The new website will be out at the end of February, but in the mean time, here's a link for some quick date reminders: http://www.fireflyartscollective.org/tiki-index.php stay warm and safe, Firefly PS - do you like charts? Check out this graph from the FAC Afterburn report:

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If you sent in an ART GRANT - READ THIS!!!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Hello Everyone, As most of you are aware, the Firefly server had a problem with the website and email aliases on Sunday night - just when all the Art Grant applications were due. I have many applications with timestamps all the way up till midnight so I'm hoping almost everyone is all set. BUT If you did not get a confirmation email from me stating that I have received your application, please get in touch with me immediately. Reply to FF2013artgrants (at) fireflyartscollective (dot) org please and thanks and sorry, Steve Kosinski

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Firefly Art Grants – 5 days left to apply
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

5 days to go! Applications are due Sunday, March 17th. 5 days are left to put your sparkle-packed plans to paper and apply for a Firefly art grant. We can't wait to dive into your submissions head first, with sparkle goggles on. 1) Read these *guidelines*<http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/creativity-grants/> *before submitting your project* 2) Then* fill out and submit this Application<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1naI3eGvf9-eY5VtCEJjUBw0CKbLir6C4X26x0Kv…> * *Questions?* Email* *FF2013artgrants (at) fireflyartscollective.org. Firefly Art Grant Committee

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Firefly Art Grants - 2 weeks left to apply
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

This is your 2 week reminder! Applications are due Sunday, March 17th. You've got 2 weeks left to submit an application to get your fab-tab-ulistic art project funded for Firefly. Set your brain's Bunsen burner to hop-to-it, and send us your fully-cooked crunchy plans to glorify the woods. 1) Read these guidelines before submitting your project 2) Then fill out and submit this Application Questions? Email FF2013artgrants (at) fireflyartscollective.org. Firefly Art Grant Committee

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Random Drawing (or How This Lottery Will Work)
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Dear Fireflies, This is being re-sent from last year as a reminder of how this works. Here is how we plan to randomly distribute ticket-buying privileges so that everyone has the same chance of being able to buy a ticket, whether they're signing up by themselves or in a group: *Random Drawing/Lottery Method* All of the unique people who are registered by March 22nd will be divided into equal-sized "buckets" (or call them blocks, chunks, or bins). Last year they were all buckets of 10 and that will probably be true this year too. Then ticket-buying opportunities will be randomly distributed to as many of those buckets as we have room for this year. The group option is for people who know that they want to all put themselves in the same bucket, and thereby tie their chances together, but it doesn't increase or decrease the chance that that group or an individual person in that group will get to buy a ticket. Similarly, people who just register by themselves have the same chance of being in one of the buckets that gets to buy tickets as someone in a group. Our intention is for there really to be no advantage or disadvantage to group registration, except in the ability of groups of people who are close or depend on each other to plan what they're doing this year. We've thought about this pretty hard, and we don't think there's really any way to game this system one way or another, but if you think of one, we'd like to hear about it sooner rather than later. *Odds of being able to buy a ticket* As for the actual chances, we unfortunately won't know what those are any more than you will until we see how many people register. Last year, everybody who registered in the initial registration period eventually got the chance to buy a ticket even if they had to wait on the wait list a little while. The Firefly event this year will have slightly more people than last year. If we don't have a lot more than 600 people registering this year, then odds of getting to buy a ticket will be quite good. If we do have a lot more than 600 people, odds will be worse, unfortunately, but there's no perfect solution to our limited capacity. We're all waiting to see how many people register this year. *Thanks for your patience!* If we have any excuses for not explaining this in the previous message, the best ones are that we didn't want to bulk up that long and detailed message any more than it was already, and it took us long enough to draft that message anyway to get all the details right. We hope this clears things up a bit and means that you can all keep talking about it, just with less speculation about what we're up to! *Reminder* Ticket details and registration are at http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/ . ~ Firefly ~

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