Hello Fireflies! Less than 2 weeks till Firefly! Woods and rain! Cups and contests! Lamps and lava and lions! Poodles and puppets! Empires! Diodes and drones and drawing and dancing! Boats and bears and bacon and balloons! Video domes and virtual realities! Lite brites and sprites and labyrinths and shadows! Flowers and fish! Gnomes and galaxies! Music including metal and much much more! It's all going to be out there! But it can't all happen without YOU helping make it happen! We still need some people at the gate, and we need you to sign up if you have a reason to arrive early. GATE The Gate is still looking for some volunteers. We need a few watchful gate keepers on Saturday night to stand guard when the gate has closed. We also need a handful of people on Sunday to help with the exodus. Check out the grid and sign up: http://fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/join-a-core/gate/ EARLY ARRIVALS -=WHO is allowed Early Arrival=- People who have a ticket and have a placed piece of art or a theme camp that has gotten permission to come early. -=WHAT do you have to do to get on Early Arrivals= If you would like to arrive early (ie: between noon on Tuesday, July 2nd and before the event officially opens at noon on Weds, July 3rd), please email earlyarrivals@fireflyartscollective.org with the following information: - Full name of each ticketed Firefly (as it appears on your ticket registration) - Responsibilities for which each person (or the group as a whole) is requesting Early Arrival - Camp (if applicable) - Whether you have a 4WD vehicle that needs to go into the woods and if so what is the type of vehicle and what is the license plate? Be conservative; only request Early Arrivals for the minimum crew necessary for your project. APPLICATION FOR EARLY ARRIVALS DEADLINE: FRIDAY, JUNE 28TH. -=WHEN=- Early Arrivals may arrive after noon on Tuesday, July 2nd (or, 24 hours before the event gates open). Please note that this is a request for early admittance, not a guarantee. If permitted, you will receive an email confirmation. Early Arrivals may leave and return to the site. Note that NO re-entry is permitted during Firefly. If you need to go to town, make that happen before noon on Wednesday, July 3rd. If you leave during the event, you will not be allowed back in. All cars must be out of the woods by 10a on Wednesday, so the Gate can officially open at noon on Wednesday (July 3rd). Absolutely no cars will be permitted into the woods after 9.30a on Wednesday. Please think ahead and work your schedule around this. You can all do math to figure out how long it will take to drive up to Firefly, drive up the road, unload, and bring your car back to the parking lot. Make it happen. No excuses. -=VEHICLES allowed in the event site during Early Arrivals=- Only 4WD/AWD vehicles may go into the event site. This is subject to common sense: if your RAV4 is piled high with concrete and lead, sagging under the haul, we may well tell you no, you may not drive up into the event site. This is for everyone's best interest. If you get stuck, we all have to help get your sorry vehicle out, and that is time not spent hauling 600 pounds of propane and 700 miles of tulle up the hill. Not to mention you're probably blocking a lot of people in or out. Absolutely no Priuses, no dump trucks, no mail trucks, no UHauls, no Saabs, no Beetles will be allowed into the event site and this list is not nearly exhaustive. These vehicles barely survive the parking lot. Don't ask to drive it up to the event site. Speaking of ill-suited cars: If you own a low-slung muscle car, consider leave it at home. This goes for everyone, Early Arrivals and regular arrivals. Seriously. The “parking lot” is a graded, gravel horse run. Use common sense and if you routinely bottom out while driving through Harvard Square, carpool with someone else. (PS: Our parking lot is slightly different this year. It’s still not paved, but it’s a step closer. PPS: if it feels like you parked in the same place last year you are parked in the wrong spot. This year's parking lot is further down the road than last year; we'll be there to help y'all out.) -=TICKETS=- Tickets are will call, bring you state issued ID to gain entry at the gate. We'll look you up in the master ticket list and slap a bracelet on your arm or ankle and in you go! Jacob and CJB Gate Keepers and Early Arrivals