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Firefly Announcements & Ticket Reg Postponement
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hello Fireflies! Some practical announcements about Firefly this year: - The dates for Firefly will be Tuesday, 1 July 2014 to Sunday, 6 July 2014. Yes, we're extending! Firefly is now a six-day event. - The cost of a Firefly ticket will be $85 + transaction fees. The event size will remain the same. - Parking passes will be required this year, costing $20 per car. We've been short on parking at previous events, and we want to incentivize carpooling (last year 850 Fireflies arrived in 609 cars). The funds will help pay for repair of the lots and roads, which are damaged by all the traffic--especially when it's muddy. - Due to technical difficulties occurring on Ticketing's end, we'll be pushing back ticket registration a few days. Ticket Registration will now open on Friday, 7 March. We're sorry for the inconvenience. - Ticket Core

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Firefly 2014 Ticket Registration coming soon
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hello Fireflies! The much-anticipated time of ticketing is approaching! Getting your tickets to Firefly will work similarly to the past two years: 1. There will be a registration period during which you sign up (with your name, email, groups, etc.) 2. After registration, a lottery will be held to put everyone in random order. 3. Ticket offers will be sent to the top entries on the list and a waitlist will be created for ticket turnover after that. 4. Tickets will once again be non-transferable and tied to your name and birth date. If you can't attend, you can--and should!--return your ticket for a refund so it can be offered to the next person on the waitlist. New this year: we'll be asking everyone to send in physical mail as part of registration. We also plan on having better tools this year for keeping those on the waitlist informed as to how quickly it's moving. Ticket registration will open Monday, March 3 and close Monday, March 24. If you register after that, you'll go on the bottom of the waitlist. The lottery and ticket offers will occur in early April. More details--including the event dates and ticket price--will be sent out soon and posted on our website athttp://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/. As always, send your questions, comments, concerns, and thematically-appropriate cat pictures (but please, no bribes) to tickets(at)fireflyartscollective{dot}org. Now might be a good time to make sure that address is set as safe/priority/whatever to keep it out of your spam filter, too. - Firefly Ticketing

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Firefly Temple 2014 Call for Interest
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

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. If you are interested in this, please send a message to FireflyTemple (at) fireflyartscollective {dot} org indicating your interest and kindly provide answers to the following questions. If you cannot answer all of the questions at this time, drop us a line to let us know that you are interested and provide us with some outline of what you are thinking about. Describe the reason/philosophy for your design choice(s). Illustrate, in words, your idea in terms of how a firefly would see it/experience it. What is your budget? Please give a physical/structural description of the edifice. Attach detailed drawings/models of the structure. Who is on your team? What is your build timetable? How long do you think that it will take to set up? How do you intend to ensure its burnability? Thanks, The Firefly Temple Folks

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Firefly 2014 - Carpool Survey
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

Hello Fireflies! The land available for parking at Firefly is limited and Firefly's Parking core would like to encourage more Fireflies to carpool. We’ve created a short survey to learn more about the decisions Fireflies make regarding carpooling. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kBpZteuJyhRWRzQjQ-hJ1IPeGaU1315z_HPxp_cCrG… Any feedback you'd like to share will help us make parking even better for Firefly 2014. Thanks! Firefly Parking Core

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Firefly Art Grant Call for Reviewers
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Call for 2014 Firefly Art Grant Reviewers This here be a call out to any of you who might be interested in helping to review the proposals for Firefly Art Grants for the upcoming year of Firefly Creative Goodness. We are looking for 7-8 folks who are interested in helping to make this aspect of Firefly successful. Requirements: 1. You must have attended at least 1 (one) previous Firefly in order to join and participate in this most august of selection committees. 2. You must not be applying for a 2014 Art Grant. 3. You must be available for both meeting discussion dates, Tuesday March 11th and Sunday March 16th from 7 - 9:30pm. These will be beer and pasta fueled and may be lively at times. 4. Commit to reading over 35 awesomesauce applications which may take 4 - 6 hours of brain time (and filling out a worksheet on your thoughts). The Intense Details: The job entails a lot of reading and talking as we typically receive over 35 applications. We will have 2-weeks to make our decisions and 2-meetings to get this all discussed and done. This is an 8-10-hour commitment; 4-6 hours of reading and cogitating and a couple of 2-hour meetings where we hash it all out. Once the application deadline has passed, the blinder needs a few days to remove any identifying info that was left in, then we get them and have about 4-days to read them over and fill out a review sheet to decide how well each application met the criteria. This is followed by an evening pasta and beer/wine-fueled meeting where we discuss/compare notes and see if we have any follow-up questions for the applicants. We always seem to have further questions. Basically, we review the applications for such tangibles as creativity/originality, interactivity/participation, feasibility, service to the community and, not hardly least, General Kick-Ass AWESOMENESS. We wait a week to give time to the Blinder to get the questions to the Artists and them to get replies back to us, then we meet again and make our final decisions. Lots of fun discussioning that can veer wildly off target, but interesting nonetheless, PLUS you get to be the first kid on your block to have a glimpse of what the artistic/creative face of Firefly is going to look like for 2014. Different every year. If you would like to participate, please email grants(a)fireflyartscollective.org before the March 4th submission deadline. The evening meetings will happen March 11 & 16. All meetings will be from 7-9:30PM. Cheers, The Most August & Grandiloquently-Named Firefly Kick-Ass Art Grant Selection Committee

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Firefly 2014 Call for Art!
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

art art aRt ARt ART ART!! Fireflies, Can you hear the cry?? The time has come! The 2014 Creativity Grants are ready for action. These are the Art Grants given out each year for our annual 4th of July event in Vermont. There have been many wonderful pieces created through this program and most of the pieces come back year after year. This is a great way to really add a piece of yourself to the event. So, if the creative juices are ready to start flowing up like sap in a sugarbush, then head on over to the fantabulous 2014 Firefly Art Grant Guidelines page located at: http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/creativity-grants/ Wherein you will find such mysteries unraveled, such conundrums cut through, such enigmas unmigmad as where the heck is the application, what kind of art gets funded, how much money can I get, what are the time-lines and responsibilities of me, le artiste, and just how long do I have to get my creative mind-storm to release a coherent vision that can be articulated for the art grant reviewers to review? You have until 11:53PM EST on March 4th to get your completed apps in. So, with no further ado, on your marks, get set, CREATE!

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FAC organizational development meeting Thursday October 24th.
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 19 Oct '13

19 Oct '13

Fireflies, Minus 6 days till there's a meeting about "The future of Firefly". Not so much about Firefly the July 4th event, but Firefly Arts Collective, the year round organization. Over the years, the July 4th event has earned a "profit" with the idea that when we have enough money we can do something "really big". Like buy land or buy/ rent a studio/ gallery in the greater Boston area. Do these things interest you? Do you have a different vision? Hopefully you all had a chance to fill out the post Firefly survey/ poll sent out at the beginning of September. It talks about some of the current ideas for year round presence but all ideas are still welcome. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JDbgkzvM6uuWyHGUV9q4Cv4sjdZ1ELcwlC_bsdE1wk… Come make your voice heard and participate! Come to an open meeting Thursday October 24th. 369 Congress St. in Boston (7th Floor). 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM. Forest is the chair of this committee. To contact Forest about the committee send an email to foresthandford (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Firefly September News
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 21 Sep '13

21 Sep '13

Contents: 1) Annual Ticket Committee Open Forum 2) ByLaws 3) Organizational Development Committee 4) Consent 5) New Board Members ----- 1: Annual Ticket Committee Open Forum ----- The ticket committee will be hosting an open meeting at Redtail (369 Congress Street Boston 7th Floor) Thursday October 10th from 7PM - 9PM. We will be discussing what went well and what could improve. We will also review feedback from the recent surveys. If you would like to be part of the discussion please join us at Redtail (369 Congress Street Boston 7th Floor) Thursday October 10th from 7PM - 9PM. ----- 2: ByLaws ----- Not only did the board just update the bylaws, we found a spot for it on our website. You can now read our bylaws at http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly-bylaws/ . ----- 3: Organizational Development Committee ----- With the recent change to the bylaws, some new positions were created, including, Director of Organizational Development. The board has voted Forest Handford to hold this position. Forest is looking for people interested in shaping the future of the organization to join the new Organizational Development Committee. He is also hosting a kick off meeting, which is open to everybody, at Redtail (369 Congress Street Boston 7th Floor) Thursday October 24th from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM. To contact Forest about the committee send an email to foresthandford at) gmail (dot com . ----- 4: Consent ----- In order to keep the event safe and fun for all, we take very seriously issues of consent. Abusing this is one of the very few things that you can do to get yourself banned from the event. I may love hugs, but when I meet somebody new I cannot assume they also like hugs. If I want to hug somebody I need to get a confirmation from them that they want a hug. Consent is needed for physical contact with other people. Consent is also important when it comes to sharing food, drinks, and intoxicants. If I've made an awesome almond pie, I should warn people it has nuts before sharing it, to prevent allergic reactions. It's also vital to let people know about intoxicants. Consent is sexy! If somebody isn't interested that means you can be challenged to find somebody else who is. In Vermont and Massachusetts the law defines three classes of people who cannot give consent. Even if these people give an enthusiastic yes, it is illegal to have sex with: 1) People under the age of consent (14 in MA and 16 in VT). 2) People who are intoxicated. 3) People who have mental or emotional handicaps. Violating consent means violating the principle of Civic Responsibility. ----- 5: New Board Members ----- We are nearing the end of reviewing a group of candidates for the Board of Directors. Thus far we have added three candidates: Rachel Boyce, Chuck Ingersoll, and Jered Floyd. Please join us in congratulating them in making this achievement and support them as they work to fulfill their new roles. We have a few more candidates that may be added over the next few weeks. ~Firefly~

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Firefly's Future (Survey)
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

Hi Fireflies, The Board of Directors are looking for some ideas on how the community (YOU) would like to see the event, and the organization evolve! We will use this survey to help set the direction of our work. ~Firefly~ We are looking for feedback about Firefly to help determine which directions we should focus on. I've invited you to fill out the form Firefly's Future. To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JDbgkzvM6uuWyHGUV9q4Cv4sjdZ1ELcwlC_bsdE1wk…

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Firefly 2013 Feedback Survey - check your inboxes and maybe spam folders
by The Firefly Official Announcement List 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi Fireflies, Now that the trucks are all loaded, maybe you'll have a few minutes to share some feedback about Firefly 2013. The Board and the Planning list put our heads together to come up with a survey about this year's event. This survey is intended for 2013 attendees only. If you had a ticket to Firefly 2013 you should have received an email on 8/14 with the survey (unless someone else paid for your ticket - then they have the email). If you did not attend Firefly this year, fear not! We will have a survey about Firefly's future coming out in the next month or two, and all Fireflies are invited to reply to that survey. This announcement is being cross-posted to: announce, blink, planning, and our Facebook page. Thanks! Firefly

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