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Firefly Buses From Boston!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

How are YOU getting to the woods? Parking is very limited at Firefly, so if you can, please take one of the two shuttle buses from Boston instead! Buses heading up are leaving at 10am on Tuesday and 3:30pm on Thursday. Buses will run no matter how many seats we sell, so buy with confidence. For more details and schedules, please visit http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/transportation-and-event-parking-3/ To buy tickets, log on to tickets.fireflyartscollective.org with the same login information you used to register for the lottery, navigate to the "ticket sales" tab, and scroll down to the bus tickets link. Tickets are $45 round trip or $30 one-way. Note that a parking pass costs $30 this year, plus your gas, so the bus is a real bargain. In addition to luggage space on the bus, your ticket also gets you 5 cubic feet of space in a dedicated freight truck, at no extra charge. Please buy your ticket today! One of the biggest blocks preventing Firefly from growing is lack of parking. If we sell enough bus tickets early, it might allow us to release a few more event tickets to the wait list. Buying a bus ticket could help your friends on the waitlist all get to the woods- so do your part for the community if you can. Hugs and Love, MamaJean and Brian, TransCore

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Join the Firefly DPW! Build things! Come to the Work Weekends!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 27 May '15

27 May '15

Hello, Fireflies! Would you like to help create the foundation for our fantastic experience in the woods? The Department of Public Works would love to have you involved. The DPW operates before and after the event, but not during the event (if we've done our jobs right), so joining us is a great way to get more time in the woods with other hardcore Fireflies who like working hard, getting dirty, and being badass. How and when you can help: Work Weekends: For the first three weekends of June, we'll be fixing bridges, clearing and building new trails, digging drainage ditches and spreading gravel, assembling the structures for the Kitchen/Bass Camp and Rangers, and sawing up the many, many dead trees. The more hands and the more saws and shovels we can get, the better! We would especially love to find a few extra people who are _experienced_ with a chainsaw. Bring your tools! Early Arrival: Last-minute tasks include putting up fences, assembling the information kiosks, and carting (authorized) gear up the hill in our mighty Polaris UTV. We start a day before the event officially begins. Late Crew: We undo everything from the Work Weekends and Early Arrival as fast as possible! Take down structures, kiosks, fences, theme camps, shove them all in a truck, and send them away! We stay after the event is finished, until the work is done. Starting Sunday at noon, if you can spare an hour, or three hours, or even a mighty six hours, we can use your help getting everyone else back out into the default world. Let us know how and when you'd like to help! Send an email to dpw(a)fireflyartscollective.org and we'll keep you informed. If you want to come to a Work Weekend, also please sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/ctKvk7m34O so the Work Weekend core can keep track of everyone. Or if you're around, no need to be so formal, just offer us a hand. We won't bite it. We want to put it to work. -Ozx, DPW core leader

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Firefly 2015 Art and Theme Camp Registration Begins!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 13 May '15

13 May '15

Firefly 2015 Art and Theme Camp Registration Begins! THE BASICS : In order to reserve a specific location in the woods and have a place on the official map, art projects and theme camps *must* go through the Placement process. If you are interested, please read the info below and then fill out the Placement application by June 2nd . After that, you can send a representative to the to second work weekend (June 13th / 14th) and mark off your spot for the event. For Firefly 2015, Placement is going to try some new approaches to help revitalize the center of the site, create community through neighborhoods and camp placement, and support some important needs of our growing event like sound management. None of the changes are too major, but we do encourage everyone to read through these new policies. You will also notice that the Placement application is about twice as long as last year's. We don’t intend to use this new information to deny people their preferred placement, but rather to identify good solutions for new projects and projects that want to move. Placement’s first priority is always to help camps and artists find the right space for their awesome projects! Here is what you need to know about this year's Placement process and policies: Returning Projects: In a departure from previous years Placement policies, returning camps are not necessarily entitled to the space they had in previous years. This is to help accommodate critical event infrastructure as well as make room for the event to grow and experiment new ways to use and organize the space. The vast majority of projects will be able to use the same site. Projects unable to return to their previous spaces will be notified as soon as possible and we will try to identify and reserve new spots with an equal amount of space, access and level terrain. Conflict Mediation: Placement is largely a participant-run process. It tends to be very friendly and non-adversarial and some really great solutions have arisen between neighbors by collaborating during Placement. If a conflict does arise, please try to resolve in a respectful way between yourselves, or even enlist a neighbor to help give some perspective. We are happy to help mediate if you come to us, but if a resolution cannot be reached, Placement will make a decision according to the best interests of Firefly -- or in absence of an apparent community interest, by using our best judgment or even on the flip of a coin. Placement Work Weekend: In order to be placed you must have a representative at the Placement Work Weekend (the second pre-Firefly work weekend - June 13th and 14th) Your rep will choose your spot in the forest and help us stake it out. If you don’t have a rep available for the work weekend, please ask a friend or fellow community member to go for you as a proxy. Upon request, we may be able to supply a list of willing proxies. Please be aware that it is your job to educate your proxy on your needs and desired location as they will be making the final decision for you. Due to space and parking constraints, we encourage you to consolidate related projects to use as few reps as possible. Those placing art are asked to also be a rep for their theme camp and theme camps should not send a separate rep for art hosted in their camps. Work Weekend Requirements: As in previous years, reps at the placement work weekend are required to work a 4-hour shift in order to participate in placement. Low exertion tasks are available for those who need it, so everyone can contribute. We will be keeping track so please remember to check in at the Work Weekend Kiosk. We also encourage everyone to carpool. The lot can only handle so many cars, so we may need to implement carpooling requirements if not enough people do it voluntarily, which would stink and may also cut a lot of people of the Placement process. Detailed info for the work weekend (including how to register) will be sent to the listed work weekend contact. New Questions on the Survey : For the first time, we are asking about sex and kink themed projects on the placement application. We are very supportive of all the awesome sexy and kinky events at Firefly! One issue is that the number of kids, especially older kids, at Firefly is growing. Some parents have preferences about the best way to expose their kids to the sex stuff in an age-appropriate way. So, we’d like to know a few things that will help us facilitate Placement in a way that helps out these parents. Just to be clear, we don’t expect this to mean any major changes to the way that projects are placed or the way that Firefly operates. This is just one variable that Placement is looking at. *** Please note that these questions apply ONLY to publicly visible and accessible projects. We’re not at all concerned about private art, events and projects with sexual content.*** Marking Tape: Please remove the Placement marking tape by the 2nd day of the event. We encourage projects to plan to reuse the neon, streamer-like tape as decoration or works of art. We know that it is MOOPy, but it is the best option we can think of. If you have suggestions for less MOOPy markers that would be safe to use at the site, please let us know! Contact Info : Placement works very closely with the Sound, Fire, LNT, Art and Work Weekend Cores, as well as other projects like Camp Leader Training. Contact information provided on these forms will be shared with these entities. Additionally, contact information may be shared with leads from other registered art and theme camps for purpose of facilitating placement activities (i.e., putting neighbors in touch with each other or helping to organize carpools to the work weekend.) And, while planning your project, you can reach out to these cores if you have any questions: * Fire Core Info: Note that any fiery objects, other than camp stoves, must be approved by the Fire Safety Core. The risk of forest fires is non-trivial in this area, please pursue fire and fuel related projects with caution. Digging new fire pits is not permitted. Remember that fuel is MOOP and take precautions against even small spills and splashes. * FAST Core deals with fire art safety, including open fires (pits and burn barrels) and flame effects: fast (@) fireflyartscollective (dot) org * Fire Core deals with most other fire issues - including fire spinning, fuel storage and generators: fire (@) fireflyartscollective (dot) org * Sound Core: soundcore (@) fireflyartscollective (dot) org * LNT: lnt (@) fireflyartscollective (dot) org * Work Weekend: workweekend (@) fireflyartscollective (dot) org Now that you have the read the policy, please apply to have your art or theme camp placed here: http://bit.ly/firefly2015placementapp Placement applications are due by June 2nd. Love, Danielle, Finn, Frank - Placement Core Still have questions? Email us at placement (@) firefly (dot) com.

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Final Call for SFTY3rd Registration
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 04 May '15

04 May '15

Good morning Firefly's! If you are volunteering for Rangers, Sanctuary, Medical and/or FAST- this is a not to miss event. First year volunteers are welcome. This is a final call for anyone wanting to participate in Safety Third Getaway Weekend. Firefly's 2nd annual Safety Core ICS Training (aka SFTY3rd) will be on May 15-17 in Scarborough, Maine. It is open to any Firefly that is interested in volunteering for a Firefly Safety Core. What is Safety Third Weekend Getaway you ask? It is a training/social weekend for Firefly Medical, Rangers, Sanctuary and FAST (Fire Art Safety Team) volunteers. TJ Kozma, Deanna Duffey and Rhonda Forester will be hosting for the second year in a row for Firefly volunteers. The weekend is jam packed with goodness! A formal training for your Core, cross-trainings with the other Safety Cores and new training sessions for all Cores. We are introducing Incident Command System (ICS) this year to be better prepared for incidents and emergencies. Arrive anytime after 5pm on Friday or before training starts on Saturday at 9am. Training on Saturday goes til 6pm. Then social time and bonfire Saturday night- get to know members of all Safety Departments. Sunday will be more training after breakfast with a Q&A session before putting our learning's to use in a mock scenario. Its going to be an awesome opportunity to get involved, get trained and meet Safety Core Leads and volunteers. There will be a small fee to attend of $25 this will go towards food for the weekend. Bring your own drinks. The location will be at our house in Scarborough, Maine. 15 minutes south of Portland easily accessible by bus and train from Boston. We have plenty of inside meeting/sleeping space in the barn, carriage house and house if needed. We are hoping for some warmer weather, nice enough to be outside for those that want to camp out. Plenty of yard and forest space for camping and meeting. Bring yer tent! Full Disclosure- This is not a party weekend. It is a weekend to learn, relax and socialize with fellow Safety Core volunteers. RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iyseOJc7IHb3rSwUALcc3kwW4ad7c0CterbKONGhYD…>. When we receive your request- we will review it and send you a link to purchase your ticket to confirm your reservation for attendance. You can also check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/1429814984000106/>. Remember to use the link above to register. Thank you- Your hosts- Deanna, TJ & Rhonda

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Apply for a Burner Exchange Grant: bring art from another burn to Firefly!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

*BURNER EXCHANGE ART GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE MAY 10!* ლ(╹◡╹ლ) ლ(╹◡╹ლ) ლ(╹◡╹ლ) Over the years, Firefly Arts Collective (FAC) has been proud to provide grant support to Firefly artists to enable them to express and fulfill their varied creative visions. These grants are intended to support and promote radically-expressive, community-based, interactive and/or collaborative projects that help define and shape the creative core of the event. For Burner Exchange Grant proposals, we are seeking art that has already appeared either at a regional burn event or Burning Man, and showcases the local flavor of its origin. Proposals will be evaluated based on the following factors: - *Thoughtfulness: *how well thought out is the project’s relationship with participants? - *Creativity: *how original and awe-inspiring is your project? - *Feasibility: *how feasible is this project? Grant money is expected to be applied to minor maintenance / improvements and shipping costs to Vermont. Up to three (3) discretionary tickets can be requested; the artist(s) are expected to self-fund personal transportation and ticket costs. *** *Grant timeline:* - *May 10:* Burner Exchange Grant applications due - *May 15: *Burner Exchange Grants awarded *** For more information and applications instructions, please visit the Firefly website: *http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/burner-exchange-grants/ <http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/burner-exchange-grants/>* Feel free to reach out to us at grants(a)fireflyartscollective.org if you have any questions! xoxo, Art Grant Core -- Alyce Currier / alyce.io / @notalyce <http://twitter.com/notalyce>

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Firefly ticket lottery happening today!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 25 Apr '15

25 Apr '15

Hi Fireflies, Members of ticket core just finished opening the envelopes that arrived today. We're about to process all the release forms. When that is finished, we'll run the lottery. If we've got your form, expect a "pay for your ticket!" or "here's your waitlist position!" email sometime before evening. Mail volume has drastically tapered off, but some forms are still arriving. The system is built to allow for possible delays in mail delivery. Lottery placement is determined independent of mail status. If your mail is delayed and you have a high lottery placement, you'll get a ticket offer as soon as your envelope arrives; if you have a low number, you'll be on the waitlist. - Ticket Core tickets(a)fireflyartscollective.org

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Help make Firefly happen all year round!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Fireflies, Do you wish Firefly happened more than one week a year? Not just camping in the woods and our participation in Somerville Open Studios and FIGMENT, but having more Firefly community, art, and activities year round? So do we, but we can’t do it without all of you! Firefly Arts Collective has been working hard to build the groundwork for more events and programs beyond our yearly interactive, multi-day, outdoor arts and culture festival held over the 4th of July weekend. For example, we now have access to the Firefly Gallery space at Velir Studios in Davis Square, and need the volunteer leadership to make more awesome things happen! COMMITTEES We have created a set of organizational committees to allow Fireflies to step up to blink and shine. These committees have extensive responsibility for major parts of Firefly Arts Collective, so if you’re looking for an opportunity to be more involved year round, now is your chance to volunteer! This is an open call for participation in several new committees. If you’re interested, please mail info(a)fireflyartscollective.org with a note introducing your Firefly background so far, and how you see yourself helping make Firefly stronger. Details on Firefly’s Committees can be found at http://fireflyartscollective.org/committees/ ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE AND THE FIREFLY GALLERY Firefly Arts Collective already participates in several events beyond our yearly festival. We wish to expand our participation in these and other events, curate the Firefly Gallery at Velir, and produce additional day and evening events to foster year-round participation in our culture. We have created an Activities Committee to encourage and develop future events and organization leaders. Initial activities will focus on the work necessary to launch and maintain the Firefly Gallery. The Activities Committee fosters collaborative environments and community for participatory arts through public activities other than our annual Festival. These activities include, but are not limited to, the Firefly Gallery at Velir and participation Somerville Open Studios and FIGMENT Boston. The responsibilities of the Activities Committee include: • Organizing Firefly Arts Collective’s activities and events outside of the yearly Festival • Coordinating the volunteer leadership necessary for production of such events • Encouraging community members to start new activities with the organizational support of Firefly Arts Collective • Establishing a yearly budget for Board approval • Taking direction from the Board as to desired future for the organization’s public activities outside of the Festival • Preparing a yearly summary report of activities One of the major projects of the Activities Committee is the Firefly Gallery, which will require many Firefly volunteers to help run smoothly. If you’re interested in helping out, we have an initial survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZELVvnY7N16DjPwBxNtudXe4CKqIJGgHeHgdeIKmHx… COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE Firefly Arts Collective uses a diverse set of communication channels today, updated by many participants. We have created a Communications Committee to coordinate the organization’s publications. This Committee will plan and publish community announcements and facilitate discussion consistently across multiple channels. The Communications Committee organizes, designs and publishes all forms of Firefly Arts Collective’s outbound communication to our community. These forms may include, but are not limited to, email newsletters, websites, Facebook pages, and other social media. The responsibilities of the Communications Committee include: • Identifying appropriate forms of communication to the community • Working with the Technology Committee to deploy new communication channels • Providing a mechanism for the organization to present information to our community across available channels • Responding to informational inquiries and summarizing feedback to the Board • Ensuring communications channels have current information published at all times • Creating a consistent look across all forms of communication • Preparing a yearly summary report of activities TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Firefly Arts Collective uses a variety of technology platforms to support its artistic and cultural activities, each of which has been developed or deployed over the past decade. In order to provide a consistent oversight of technology decisions and software development, we have created a Technology Committee. This Committee supports the rest of the organization in its technology requirements. The Technology Committee selects, develops, maintains and supports the technology infrastructure necessary for Firefly Arts Collective to operate. This infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, email aliases, mailing lists, mailing archives, web server infrastructure, software development and software support furthering the organization’s goals. The responsibilities of the Technology Committee include: • Identifying technology infrastructure choices appropriate for the organization • Maintaining or purchasing, as appropriate, external solutions • Developing software in support of the organization’s goals • Establishing standards for software development and project management • Ensuring technology solutions are available and reliable when needed by the organization • Supporting external users (such as other burns) of Firefly technology solutions • Preparing a yearly summary report of activities STILL READING? Thanks for making it to the end of this note, and we hope that you’re as excited as we are about the future of Firefly! These committees will all work throughout the year, so they're a great way to stay involved with Firefly outside of our festival. If you’re energized to volunteer on any of these committees, or have any questions at all, please contact us at info(a)fireflyartscollective.org . See you in the woods…. and around town too! <3, The Firefly BoD

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Volunteering for a Safety Cone? Come to SFTY3rd!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Good morning Firefly's! We have opened registration for Safety Third Getaway Weekend on May 15-17 in Scarborough, Maine to any Firefly that is interested in volunteering for a Firefly Safety Core. What is Safety Third Weekend Getaway you ask? It is a training/social weekend for Firefly Medical, Rangers, Sanctuary and FAST (Fire Art Safety Team) volunteers. TJ Kozma, Deanna Duffey and Rhonda Forester will be hosting for the second year in a row for Firefly volunteers. The weekend is jam packed with goodness! A formal training for your Core, cross-trainings with the other Safety Cores and new training sessions for all Cores. We are introducing Incident Command System this year to be better prepared for incidents and emergencies. Arrive anytime after 5pm on Friday or before training starts on Saturday at 9am. Training on Saturday goes til 6pm. Then social time and bonfire Saturday night- get to know members of all Safety Departments. Sunday will be more training after breakfast with a Q&A session before putting our learning's to use in a mock scenario or two. Its going to be an awesome opportunity to get involved, get trained and meet Safety Core Leads and volunteers. There will be a small fee to attend of $25 this will go towards food for the weekend. Bring your own drinks. The location will be at our house in Scarborough, Maine. 15 minutes south of Portland easily accessible by bus and train from Boston. We have plenty of inside meeting/sleeping space in the barn, carriage house and house if needed. We are hoping for some warmer weather, nice enough to be outside for those that want to camp out. Plenty of yard and forest space for camping and meeting. Bring yer tent! Full Disclosure- This is not a party weekend. It is a weekend to learn, relax and socialize with fellow Safety Core volunteers. RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iyseOJc7IHb3rSwUALcc3kwW4ad7c0CterbKONGhYD…>. When we receive your request- we will review it and send you a link to purchase your ticket to confirm your reservation for attendance. You can also check us out on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/1429814984000106/>. Remember to use the link above to register. Thank you- Your hosts- Deanna, TJ & Rhonda

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Lottery registration closes on Wednesday!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 19 Apr '15

19 Apr '15

Hi Fireflies! Just a friendly ticket reminder--this Wednesday the 22nd is the deadline to sign up to get into the Ticket Lottery for Firefly 2015! (And your confirmation letter needs to be postmarked by the 22nd too.) The Lottery will happen on the 25th. Registrations after Wednesday will go on the waitlist. More at https://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/ Firefly Ticket Core.

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Firefly 2015 Open House: Sat, May 2nd, 7-10pm
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hello Fireflies! Please join us for the 2015 Firefly Open House - Saturday, May 2nd from 7pm - 10pm. We're changing the format a little from previous years' Town Hall, with the hope of engaging more of our wonderful community with all things Firefly! This year, instead of a presentation/meeting style event, the Open House will be a chance for Fireflies to come meet each other and mingle, learn about the cores, meet core leads, have a forum to give feedback, and volunteer! As an Open House style event, we'll have tables setup with all the cores represented including an introduction and information table. While we will not be presenting the 2014 Afterburn report, once completed, it will be available on the transparency page of the Firefly website: <http://fireflyartscollective.org/about-fac/transparency/> http://fireflyartscollective.org/about-fac/transparency/ Everyone interested in Firefly is welcome to join us and learn more! The event will be held at the Firefly Gallery during Somerville Open Studios weekend, come check out our art during the day and return for the Open House in the evening What: Firefly Open House 2015 When: Saturday, May 2nd from 7pm-10pm Where: Velir Studios 212 Elm Street Davis Square Somerville, MA

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