Hi Fireflies! Just a final reminder that Creativity Grant and Legacy Grant applications are due *this Saturday, February 28, by midnight*. Grants are being handled this year through the Art Grants web portal - please submit your grants here: http://grants.fireflyartscollective.org/ You can read more details on Creativity Grants, intended to support and promote radically-expressive, community-based, interactive and/or collaborative projects and available in $150, $300, $500, and $700 tiers, here: http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/creativity-grants/ You can read more details on Legacy Grants, available to *returning* projects that need funding for minor repairs and modifications, here: http://fireflyartscollective.org/art-grants/legacy-grants/ *Art Grants Committee:* If you're not submitting your own grant application, but would still like to help make these grants happen, we still need a couple more people to join the Creativity Grants committee! *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 2015 Art Grant. *3. *You must be available for both of the meeting discussion dates, taking place at Velir in Davis Square. These will be beer and dinner-fueled and may be lively at times: * Thursday March 5, 7 to 10 pm * Thursday March 12, 7 to 10 pm *4. *Commit to reading and recording your thoughts on over 40 applications, which may take 4 - 6 hours of brain time. *The Intense Details:* The job requires a lot of reading and talking, as we typically receive over 35+ applications for Creativity Grants. We will have 2 meetings over the course of 2 weeks to make decisions about which grants to fund. This is a commitment of about 10 hours; 4-6 hours of reading and cogitating and two 2-hour meetings where we hash it all out. Once the application deadline has passed, the committee has about a week to read the applications over and fill out a review sheet to decide how well each application met the criteria. We review the applications for Thoughtfulness, Creativity, and Feasibility. This is followed by an evening dinner and beer/wine-fueled meeting where we compare notes and see if we have any follow-up questions for the applicants (we *always* have follow-up questions). We wait a week to give time for artists to get their replies back to us, then we meet again and make our final decisions. Thanks! <3 Alyce, Dennis, and Nathan grants@fireflyartscollective.org -- Alyce Currier / alyce.io / @notalyce <http://twitter.com/notalyce>