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

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

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. 

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@fireflyartscollective.org.

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-Committee-Year-in-Review.pdf! Take a read through and send feedback to conduct-committee@fireflyartscollective.org.

If you're curious about joining the year-round committee (after Firefly 2016) please see the Call for New Members.

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/.

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.

6. Deadline for ticket artwork is May 22!

Please submit your artwork to FFTicketArt@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!

The Burning Man Radical Inclusion Principle: we welcome and respect the stranger. 

After we get to know you, all bets are off.