*Hi! The Glowbe is a bulletin of time-sensitive or essential info about Firefly. This briefing helps reduce traffic on the announce list - so please read on for important event updates, we try to keep it short and sweet. Ticket registration ends April 15. 86 days until the bug burns.Contents: 1) Ticket Lottery is Happening (Repent! Register!) 2) New: Financial Assistance Ticket Program - with Gifting 3) Help Wanted: Core Leads 4) SAVE THE DATE: Firefly Annual Town Hall, May 5th 5) Sign Up for SFTY3rd Weekend, May 11-13 6) Be Helpful, Wear a Radio… Profit? 7) Sanctuary Seeks Caring Souls ----- 1) Ticket Lottery Happening NOW ** The window to register for Firefly ticket offers is still open, get in by April 15th ** Remind your flakiest spouse or campmate to register for their ticket like, RIGHT MEOW. Simpler this year - now there’s NO postal mail required. All else is the same as previous years: - 2 week registration window (tick tock) - must be registered by April 15th to be in the lottery - lottery on the 17th - more info: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets> How Do?? - go to https://volunteer.fireflyartscollective.org <https://volunteer.fireflyartscollective.org> - set up an account for yourself (or use the same one from last year) - sign up for volunteer opportunities if you can - click on the blue "click here to register" link - panic 2) New: Financial Assistance Ticket Program - with Gifting Firefly is happy to offer a new Financial Assistance Ticket Program (FATP) starting this year. Apply now - it’s just like any other ticket registration, but with an added email step.* Requesting assistance is simple and requires no personal documents. * Fireflies can request a ticket for zero dollars, or, you can name a reduced ticket amount you are able to pay. Chances of getting an offer are the same either way. * Tickets are paid for by a limited program budget. This year it's $1160. * Tickets are awarded in a randomized and need-blind way, until the budget is exhausted. After that: further applicants may receive offers on a rolling basis if more funds have been gifted by the community. - Want to gift more money towards the fund? Any Firefly can gift to increase this year’s program budget - look for this option when you buy your tickets. Gifted funds allow more Fireflies to receive assistance. Full info is here:https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/financial-assistance-t... <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly/tickets/financial-assistance-tickets/> 3) Help Wanted: Core LeadsHere are key event and prep roles which still need human volunteers. Are you human enough to volunteer? Consider these lead and co-lead positions: * Kitchen — Buy coffee, drink coffee, make sure everyone gets the coffee they need. COFFEE. * Transport — Help get people to Firefly on the bus! * Signage — Make signs! Make sure signs are set up/removed in the woods! Build map kiosks! * Facilities for Sanctuary — Budget, event materials and logistics, set up/tear downWant more info? email abbie@fireflyartscollective.org <abbie@fireflyartscollective.org>4) SAVE THE DATE: Firefly Town Hall, May 5th ** Firefly’s Annual Town Hall ** What-ho; a Fryerfly gathering before ye woods? After a long day at Somerville Open Studios, come meet Firefly core leads and hear about all the volunteer possibilities. Learn what the heck a Gnome is. Ask real humans weird questions over beer. Newbs and veterans alike always learn a thing, or at least, we shmooze and conspire. There will be a buffet of appetizers and a cash bar!Saturday, May 5, 5pm-8pm@ Mount Vernon Restaurant, 14 Broadway, Somerville MA Invite all your Zuckerborg’ians to the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/208361863257357 <https://www.facebook.com/events/208361863257357> 5) Sign up for SFTY 3rd Training Weekend, May 11-13 Ever wondered how to help in an emergency? Got a weekend free in May? Come to SFTY3rd May 11-13 in beautiful Scarborough, Maine. If you volunteer for a Firefly Core you are eligible to attend our 5th annual training event. SFTY3rd is also a great chance to take trainings required for Sanctuary and Rangers, along with more general skills in a fun retreat setting. To register and for more info: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sfty3rd <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sfty3rd> FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/171265060165931/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/171265060165931/> 6) Friendly + Helpful + Radio = ?Do you want to be a friendly, helpful face of Firefly? Do you give a shit AND want a radio? You'd be a perfect Ranger! Rangers are not the fun police. We are information spreaders, time tellers, and helpers. On the rare occasion, we are mediators. Do you like walking around the event and seeing all that's happening? You'd make a great Dirt Ranger, the main component of the Ranger Core. Not happy with hills? Our Echelon stays at HQ and provides support to Dirt. All that we require is that you've been to Firefly before! (Exceptions made on a case by case basis.) Love what you've read so far? Great! The first thing to do is to head over and fill out the Ranger Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/O564MY4XHrkmySuq2 <https://goo.gl/forms/O564MY4XHrkmySuq2> Questions? Radio check us at rangers@fireflyartscollective.org <rangers@fireflyartscollective.org> You do not need to have a ticket to sign up for a training. You should also consider attending the always awesome SFTY3rd weekend, where you get more in depth training on a number of safety and event cores and how we all work together: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sfty3rd/ <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sfty3rd/> 7) Sanctuary Seeks Caring Souls Are you the friend people come to when they need someone to talk to? Are you filled with empathy and compassion for your fellow humans? Wondering how you can use those awesome skills to contribute to Firefly? Sanctuary is a safe calm space where Fireflies who need a shoulder to lean on can get the support they need to get glowing again. We’re looking for volunteers for support or on-call shifts in Sanctuary. We provide training - there are 3 upcoming opportunities to choose from. Register to share your skills using this quick form; and we will notify you when sign-ups open for shifts and trainings: https://goo.gl/forms/fQ4jPZHDxAOwMABx1 <https://goo.gl/forms/fQ4jPZHDxAOwMABx1> About Sanctuary: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sanctuary/ <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/participate/join-a-core/sanctuary/> Questions? sanctuary@fireflyartscollective.org <sanctuary@fireflyartscollective.org> -----Got a critical announcement for the community? communications@fireflyartscollective.org <communications@fireflyartscollective.org> can help you add it here, or in other Official Voice Of Firefly Channels(tm). Stay tuned year round: Announce list <https://lists.fireflyartscollective.org/listinfo/announce> — (This email list) Must-read info for event ticketholders or those hoping to be. Tix registration auto-subscribes you here (hi!), though you can drop out any time (bye) Blink list <https://lists.fireflyartscollective.org/listinfo/fireflyblink> — Community discussion email list. FB announcements page <https://www.facebook.com/firefly.arts.collective/> — ‘Like’ & Follow this page to get notifications from FAC via Facebook. FB discussion group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/firefly.arts.collective/> — Join this group to participate in FB community discussions. All ^these^ links and moar: https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly-arts-collective/contact/ <https://www.fireflyartscollective.org/firefly-arts-collective/contact/> Hope to see you in the woods! ##*