Category: Announcements

Looking for an unconventional opportunity? Flipside doesn’t end when the effigy burns Sunday night; there are teams of volunteers just like you that work hard after the event to make sure that we leave the land better than we found it. Exodus is looking for volunteers to help Flipizens leave the city safely and smoothly and we’d love your help. Work on Monday and stay overnight. Signups are open on the Pyropolis wiki, so head over and volunteer!

Heya Flipizens! Do you know that Flipside is 100% volunteer driven? As in, unlike even Burning Man, there are no comp tickets, paid workers are limited to a small number of people who do not enter the event, and there are no third-party donations?

Did you also know that it takes approximately 6,000 person-hours to make Flipside happen? If you’re not doing your two hours, that means that someone else is picking them up. And woudln’t it be nicer to be as close to 3,000 people doing two hours a piece rather than a few hundred doing thirty hours a piece?

Now, you may ask, how do we make the event go? Well, there are a wide variety of jobs out there. And if the below is too much, may I humbly suggest using our custom-built “choose your own adventure” style volunteer quiz, here: https://secure.burningflipside.com/fvs/index.php

Pre-Post is the team that shows up before the event starts and moves all of the infrastructure out after the event ends. You can sign up for pre-post here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/PrePost

Flagging is the team that shows up on land before the event and marks off theme-camp and infrastructure boundaries. To work flagging, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1vkCrdgzYVT8-F6cqLYJiREtzje…/edit…

City signage creates and installs all of the road and path signs that tell you how to get around the city. You can sign up here! https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/CitySignage

DaFT are the people responsible for building the effigy, and they still need help now, during pre-op, and during the event. If interested, contact Misty Nickle, or Seph Reed, our DaFT leads

Fuel makes sure that the generators and carts on site are properly fueled and ready to go. If you want to work Fuel, please contact the Fuel lead, Nyla Walker

Echelon manages radio assets on-site for the safety teams. To sign up for Echelon, please go here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Echelon_Volunteer

Cartelle manages radio assets on site for the not-safety teams. To sign up for Cartelle, consult the wiki here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/CartelleShifts

Guardians guarantee that the event is free from people who do not have tickets. They ensure event sustainability. You can sign up with Guardians here: https://docs.google.com/…/1B2Kd4ulaiNOy36KShBkzgF3sWq…/edit…

Volunteer Assistance Squad Serves two purposes — to disburse information onsite, and to provide on-site volunteer coordination and transport. You can sign up to work VAS here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/…/Volunteer_Assistance_Squ…

Greeters are around to help with enculturating people to Flipside, and to help remind people what they will need to survive five days in the city. You can sign up for Greeters here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Greeters

Parking makes sure that cars end up in the parking area so that we can freely move around and so that we aren’t all living in a parking lot. You can sign up for parking here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Parking

Zone Greeters are around to help theme camps find their place to set up their camps and maybe to meet some of their neighbors. You can sign up for Zone Greeting here: https://docs.google.com/…/1mEEBqQU8na8ky3TgcpqcqqWxwN…/edit…

Shaven Apes are the helpers that provide extra hands and aid to people who need some hands for their art or camps. If you need help, an Ape can probably do so. You can sign up to work Apes here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Shaven_Apes/Schedule

Ice is the one place at Flipside where money exchanges hands! If you want to help with ice sales, you can sign up here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Ice

Exodus is around to help Flipizens smoothly leave the land when the event is over. If you would like to work Exodus, please sign up here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Volunteer/Exodus

Recycling collects Flipside’s recyclables and makes sure that they are properly recycled. They are not here to sort your trash, or to handle your MOOP. If you would like to work recycling, please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/…/1F3wj87DyjE4PJIu92djWjTGq0j…/edit…

Sound Marshalls are a team of volunteers that ensure that amplified sound is kept within approved levels. Remember that we have already lost land due to sound violations, so this is critical. If interested, please contact Veaux Kelly at sexydaddyveaux@gmail.com

Earth Guardians are a team that roams the land and educates flipizens about the leave no trace policy at Burning Flipside. If you would like to help them, sign-ups are here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/w…/Volunteer/EarthGuardians

Clean-Up comes in after the event and makes sure that the land is in the same state or better than it was found. If you would like to work clean-up, sign up here: https://wiki.burningflipside.com/wiki/Clean_up

So whether you are interested in educating people, doing work with your hands, working on a large art project, or just simple helpfulness, there is something to do at Flipside that is both rewarding and fun. And it gives you a chance to take ownership over the event and to say “hey, I helped make this happen”

So, what’s stopping you? If you have any questions, please contact our Volunteer Coordinatrix, Dahling Sweetiepoo-Schmooley on facebook or via volunteerinfo@burningflipside.com

The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that the Survival Guide shows parking on the other side of County Road 428, the road by which you reach Flipside (the space freed up by what used to be parking will give City Planning more flexibility in laying out Pyropolis). The map above should give you a good idea of how we’re changing the traffic flow to accommodate this.

A couple of important points:

• Volunteers with carts will swing by parking to give lifts to people going to/from parking when they can, but there will be no regular shuttle service.
• No one should turn off CR 428 directly into parking. Everyone going into parking needs to be coming from the event side, either because they just unloaded their gear, or they checked in at Gate after returning from an In/Out.

Arrival

• When you arrive at the event, you will turn off CR 428 through a new opening in the fence along the road just south of the old one.
• Then go to Gate, then over the cattle guard, then to Greeters along the same path we’ve always used.
• Reach your camp, unload, and then head out. Parking is a long way away, so unpack everything you think you’ll need from your vehicle, because you will not want to make that trip more than necessary.
• Instead of crossing at the cattle guard, you’ll exit through a new opening in the fence perpendicular to the road, next to the cattle guard, then cross CR 428 and drive directly into the field across the street.
• There will be volunteers on the road directing traffic during peak hours.
• Parking volunteers will show you where to park it as usual.
• There will be a foot path under the Worley Bridge to return to the event, at the south of the picture shown above.

In/Outs

If you need to leave Flipside during the event with the intention of returning, do this:

• Stop at Gate and purchase a $10 In/Out pass
• Walk under the Worley Bridge, get in your vehicle and go
• When you return, stop by Gate first and return your In/Out pass. Then cross over to parking.

Departure

• Get your camp broken down as much as possible before bringing your vehicle onto the event side.
• Walk under the Worley Bridge, get in your vehicle and go
• Follow the one-way traffic pattern shown above.

Art Registration is now closed! Thanks to everyone who has participated. If you’d like to see a listing of art projects that have been registered, please log in to the website and visit https://www.burningflipside.com/event/art If your art project is Flipside bound and you are looking for people or money to help make it go, OR you are looking for projects to support, check out https://www.burningflipside.com/art/art-projects-seeking-support If you need to update your information on the form, email art17@burningflipside.com Thanks for playing!

Burning Flipside is wrapping up its second round of ticket requests.

As of now, no additional ticket requests can be created.

If you’ve already created a request, please send ​in your request form and money order right away. We must receive any outstanding requests no later than May 1 in order to have time to process them before the event: if we receive a request after that date, we will not issue a ticket for it, and we may not be able to return the money order until after the event due to constraints on volunteer time.

Are you thinking of bringing a theme camp? If so, tomorrow is the last day to register your camp!

A complete and accurate registration helps City Planning ensure there’s enough room for your theme camp and everyone else’s, too.

Did you miss out on Flipside’s normal ticket sale in January? Good news: we have some additional tickets, so now is your big chance.

The remaining tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis until we run out. Depending on the level of demand, we may need to temporarily suspend ticket sales while we catch up.

[Update] The second round is closed to new requests. Existing requests must be received by May 1.

Here’s what to do

• If you don’t already have an account at profiles.burningflipside.com, create one.
• Head over to our Secure site. (expired link removed)
• You will need to pass a quiz in order to proceed. The answers to all the questions can be found in the Survival Guide. If you get any answers wrong, the quiz will reload with different questions. There is no limit on the number of times you can take the quiz. Spelling counts, but if there’s more than one way to express your answer, both will probably work (e.g. “9” and “nine” would both be valid).
• Once you pass the quiz, you’ll be taken to a form for the tickets you are requesting. Please enter the name of each person you’re buying a ticket for here.
• After you fill out that form, the website will display a PDF. Print that out and follow the instructions on it. If you’re doing this from a device without a printer, either save that PDF or visit the above URL again when you get to a computer you can print from, which will give you access to that PDF.

Just as in the normal ticket process, you will need to purchase a money order or cashier’s check for the full amount of your ticket/s, and mail that together with your ticket request. We will not accept personal checks or cash.

If you have any other questions about the ticketing process, take a look at the ticket FAQ.

Here’s the Survival Guide.

Questions that will probably be asked frequently

Seriously? A quiz?

Yeah. Seriously.

OK, fine. How much are tickets?

Same price as the normal ticket process. $111 for adults and teens over 13, $33 for kids aged 7-13, and free for children 0-6.

When do I need to mail my second-round request by?

There’s no fixed deadline, but tickets will be first-come, first-served. You do the math.

I bought tickets during the normal ticket process. Can I buy more now?

There’s a limit of two adult tickets (and two teen/kid/child tickets) per person, not per ticket round. If you already bought two adult tickets, you cannot buy more adult tickets. If you bought one, you can buy one more.

What happens if you can’t fulfill my request?

Your money order will be returned to you.

I sent in my second-round ticket request and haven’t heard anything yet!

That’s not a question, but please allow at least 10 days for mail to arrive and for AAR to process your request.

See you at Flipside!