Category: Announcements

Archive of messages sent to the Austin-Announce mailing list. High-priority messages for the Burning Flipside community.

Echelon is Still Looking for Volunteers

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Hey! I’m Violet, Echelon lead.

Echelon is still looking for volunteers to support our Safety Teams as well as the Flipside community. It’s a pretty sweet shift. You’ll meet a ton of awesome volunteers as we check radios in and out to our Safety Teams. You’ll also meet and help fellow participants (and possibly make someone’s day) by keeping track of lost and found items at the event. All from the comfort and convenience of the air-conditioned trailer at Safety HQ!

We have regular 6-hour shifts running from:

  • 7am to 1pm
  • 1pm to 7pm
  • 7pm to 1am
  • 1am to 7am 

There are also overlap shifts to help cover peak times that coincide with the first hour of shift change for other Safety teams. These one hour shifts are from:

  • 7:45am to 8:45am
  • 1:45pm to 2:45pm
  • 7:45pm to 8:45pm
  • 1:45am to 2:45am

Sign up for at least one of each type to qualify for an Echelon T-shirt.

To sign up, comment on the shift you would like on the Google sheet below with contact info (Name for lam, email and camp). I will confirm and add you to the roster.

On site training provided.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1duEecAW2vl-ynaofEtuXpwKN2tGXvv3fsqjJs91axxg/edit?usp=sharing

If you have any questions, you can reach me echelon18@burningflipside.com or via our Contact Form.

DaFT is still looking for community art for the effigy!

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2D Art for the Underworld
We are looking for 6-7 pieces of 2D art that we can frame and display in the Underworld. The prompt is: “Favourite thing of someone or something you’ve lost”. Standard frame sizes: 4.5×6.5″, 5×7″, 8×10″, 11×14″.  Swing by the warehouse with your piece or shoot us an email.
 
Metal Art
DaFT is dedicating a courtyard behind the effigy for a metal garden, so we can highlight some of the metal art in the community.  If you have something you’d like to contribute, come talk to us about showcasing it behind the effigy!

Quest Givers & Theme Camps
Last, but certainly not least, DaFT is planning on using a combination of planned events and active quests for participants to discover and collaboratively contribute to. This will be a great opportunity to discover and engage with a wide variety of flipizens to help further facilitate the transformative experience of a burn through a sustained state of play throughout the event.  If you are interested in participating, please take a short moment to fill out this interest form:  https://goo.gl/forms/yD5vUiFIqQjVjt6G2

Odds & Ends
We’ve got a ton of non-buildy things to finish up, such as cutting out leaves, painting, and sanding.  Come find us on Church Night to help out!

Got something else you want to contribute or other questions?  Find us at daft18@burningflipside.com

Guardians is Looking for Volunteers

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Guardians is looking for volunteers, we have space that needs fillin’! If you would like to be part of Guardians of Flipside 2018 or know someone who would, email us at
You can also request to join our Facebook page: Guardians of Flipside

Not familiar with what Guardians do? That’s ok!

We keep eyes on the outskirts of Pyropolis, making sure hooligans aren’t pulling any shenanigans trying to ruin our good time. Introverted? Sweet! Our shifts are very low key and perfect for recharging and escaping the stimulus that exists within the city. We can definitely offer quietish shifts that typically involve minimal interactions with humans. Wanna mess around with night vision!? We got that covered on our night shifts and this year we have really sweet new gear! Get cool swag like T-shirts! (Ask us how!) More info at our wiki page below:

Hope you consider us!

Flagging! City Signage! Fun!! Fun!! Fun!!

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Have you always wanted to help the weekend before, but aren’t good at heavy lifting?

City Planning has some opportunities for you! Woo hoo!

Flagging needs people who can read a map and put small flags in the ground according to the map. Sign up here:

https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Flagging

City Signage needs people who can put a t-stake in the ground and use a power drill to attach a sign to a t-stake. Sign up here:

https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/CitySignage

InterZone Coordinator

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Zone Czars Needed! Czars are stationed at the beginning of each zone and they help place the first theme campers into their proper place. It is a low stress way to meet and bond with fellow Flipizens. It’s perfect for newer burners as well as seasoned ones. There are shifts starting Wednesday through Friday morning in a volunteer early, play afterwards mentality. If interested, go to:

https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Zone_Czars

Larry Harvey, Rest in Peace

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In 1986, a guy went down to a beach with some friends and burned a stick figure.

They had no way of knowing then how many lives they would change.

The following year, they did it again. And again. After a few years, they moved this thing–whatever this thing is–to a boundless, featureless desert.

He and his friends had ups and downs. They had problems and triumphs. One problem they did not have was a lack of popularity. This thing had struck a chord with people. A lot of people. People who knew that we should take ourselves less seriously. People who wanted to make the world weirder. People who understood that your worth as a person has nothing to do with what you can buy. And people who urgently wanted the community of other people who believed the same things.

In 1998, regional burns brought these ideas to people in other places—people who had never been to Burning Man and might never go. Today there are regional burns on every continent (even Antarctica), hundreds of them, that are not so much parties or festivals or family reunions or company picnics as they are the physical manifestation of a community’s ideals.

And today, the guy who started all this died. It is a testament to the power of these ideas and the strength of this community that we will only pause a moment to doff our Stetsons in respect before we push forward at a slightly unreasonable pace to keep doing this thing we do.

Thank you, Larry.

Seeking Feedback on Combustion Chamber Nominees

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The Combustion Chamber recently put out a call for new members, and we have four nominees.  We’d love community feedback on our candidates!  If you know them, or you’ve worked with them before, feel free to tell us what your experiences with them are, and whether or not you’d feel comfortable with them representing your community — Our Community.

CC nomination feedback

The candidates are:

Bill Blome
Gyesika Safety
Tommy Shultz

The Combustion Chamber advocates for the Burning Flipside community and its principles in creating policy recommendations & by fostering an open forum to exchange ideas and information between Austin Artistic Reconstruction, LLC and the community at large.

We’ll be accepting feedback until 11:59pm on Thursday, May 3rd.

Our thanks for your insight,
The Combustion Chamber

April Flame 2018

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Welcome to April’s Flame! This mid-month post round-up tends to be a bit more on the casual side of things, so if your theme camp or art installation has some announcements, make sure to contact me using the Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to get that information to me by May 13, 2018. We have one more Flame post before Flipside 2018: Return of the Shadows: 20 Years of Light and Dark.

For even more info, stay tuned to:

Your new Content Lead,

~Erica~

What is in this Flame:

  • Having an Event at Flipside? Disinformation is Looking for YOU!
  • Pre-Post is Looking for Volunteers!
  • DaFT: Ways to Participate Before, During, and After Flipside
  • K-FLiP boasts improved equipment
  • Event: WonderLounge: Shadow Magic Circus

Important Dates

Having an Event at Flipside? Disinformation is Looking for YOU!

 

Do you need Pyropolis to know about your event at Flipside this year? DisInformation is looking for your events for Flipside 2018. Need to get in touch? Click here to find out more.

 

Pre-Post is Looking for Volunteers!

Interested in seeing what goes into setting up and taking down Flipside infrastructure? Lurko is looking for volunteers to help us get to and from the land. If this sounds like a volunteer position right up your alley, click here for more information on how to sign up for shifts.

DaFT: Ways to Participate Before, During, and After Flipside

photo courtesy of stephy

 

The Effigy is the centerpiece of Burning Flipside. Beginning in February, countless volunteers meet up several times a week at the warehouse and work tirelessly to make the largest single art piece at the event a reality. There are opportunities well before the event, at the event, and after the event to be a part of something truly magical.

Want to learn more? Check out this post here.

K-FLiP boasts improved equipment

Pyropolis Public Radio K-FLiP reports that they have acquired all new studio and broadcasting equipment, that should improve the 100.5FM signal.

Pretty nifty, right? Click here for more information on how K-FLiP has grown.

Event: WonderLounge: Shadow Magic Circus

 

Come One, Come All, to the greatest show at Flipside! Prepare to be mesmerized.

 

Upcoming Announce and Flame Due Dates

  • May Announce (and last before Flipside): Monday, April 30, 2018
  • May Flame (and last before Flipside): Sunday, May 13, 2018

Need to get the word out? Head to the Flipside Flame / Announce Submission page.

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K-FLiP boasts improved equipment

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Pyropolis Public Radio K-FLiP reports that they have acquired all new studio and broadcasting equipment, that should improve the 100.5FM signal.

“For one thing, the new 50 watt transmitter is stereo and the signal is circularly polarized, making it easier to pick up, especially in cars,” reports Jim Radio.

The station reminds campers to bring a jam box or table top radio for their camp.

The equipment was purchased with funds raised as a part of an on-line and in-house benefit party at The Coop, a notorious Burner hang out.