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Not Announce-list material, perhaps, but still kinda important.

Flipside Flame March 2017

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March marches inexorably towards the Reckoning!
Several deadlines are coming up, so be sure you’re on top of them!

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be near the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Jenmarie

City Signage Wants You!  

City Signage is looking for faithful citizens to band together and create street signs!  That’s right, you named ’em, now help us label them!  City Signage helps you find your way in the dark.  You know, when you’re tired and lost and desperately trying to find home, street signs will be there for you!  Be there for them, now!

Where?  Lloyd, the Warehouse!  3106 Industrial Terrace, Austin, TX 78758

When?  Church Nights in March and April!  (Wednesdays starting around 7:00ish, unless traffic)

How?  Wear clothes that can get paint on them, show up, ask for Emily, help, and clean up after yourself!

It’s really that simple.

If we get done before the end of April, I’m sure there’s plenty of other stuff for you to do, or just visit and hang out.

Questions?
Ask Emily your City Signage Lead:
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact   (Area: City Planning –> City Signage)

Theme Camp Registration  **BEWARE THE ENDS OF MARCH**

Theme camp Registration closes at the end of March!  

That means you have to register your theme camp before then!  

Registering early helps City Planning help you find your best spot, and you are running out of time to register early.  

I’m not saying you’ll get stabbed 23 times if you don’t get your registration in, because I don’t know how many people are in your camp.  I’m guessing they’ll each want one good shot at either your abdomen or your face if they don’t get placement because you didn’t register ON TIME.   So, the number of stabbings will be the number of campers minus one (unless you believe in Seppuku, then count yourself, too).

CLICK HERE to read about Theme Camp registration and get more information and login to register!!

Questions?  Ask Bonnie your Theme-camp Liaison:
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact (Area: City Planning –> Theme-camp Liaison)

Do you love Dallas people?

If you love Dallas people like I love Dallas people (or more, for that matter), you might be interested in going to hang out with them!

Burning Flipside is hitting the road on Sunday, March 26th, to hold a Road Show/Town Hall in Dallas!

That’s right.  Pyropolis’ people aren’t afraid of answering the tough questions, unlike some people.
If you want to help spread the love to Dallas, contact Meredith your 360 Area Facilitator:

https://www.burningflipside.com/contact (Area: 24x7x360 –> 360 Area Facilitator)

Hello!  Ticket Lead here with a few helpful hints.

You should know by now whether or not you have a ticket.  If you KNOW you sent everything in, but your status is still PENDING and you have not received notice of a ticket, your ticket registration did not get processed.  

If this is the case, you are going to have to do a little work…

  1. Did you send it in a USPS trackable envelope?  If so, track it down.
  2. You kept your receipt, right?  Use that money order receipt and see if your money order has been cashed.  If not, cancel it and get a refund on your money order.
  3. If it was cashed/remitted, find out who, what, where, etc.
So, you have an extra ticket and you want to transfer it to someone else.   Read the instructions on your ticket emails, but know a few vital things.
  • When you log onto the Ticket Page, the little blue paper airplane icon to the right is the transfer feature
  • You have the option of changing the NAME or OWNERSHIP on the transfer page.
    Since ownership of tickets is through the email address, MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE THE EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN CHANGING OWNERSHIP OF TICKETS.

—–> If you change the name only, you still own the ticket, but it’s under someone else’s name and that causes problems.

—–> If you change the ownership, but not the name, at least the recipient can claim the ticket and change the name later.

  • The recipient will receive an email to claim the ticket.
    Follow instructions.
    Hint: copy the ID code from the .pdf to claim the ticket – it seems to work the best.
Love,
Loribug
Your 2017 Ticket Lead.  (Area: Communications –> Tickets)

Work Weekends Continue

Hello amazing volunteers of Pyropolis,

Work Weekend No. Two (WW II) is almost here. I know with all the madness around our fair city, it’s easy to overlook.

But what better way to decompress than to run away from it all for a weekend of getting your hands dirty and connecting with the earth!

Please join us next weekend 3/24 – 3/26!

SIGN UP HERE!

Cheers,

Saraphina

For more information or just have a question, you can contact Saraphina directly at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
–> Work Weekend Communications

Greeter Training — Now at Work Weekend!

Greeter Training Session added to Work Weekend 2 !!!

March 25th, onsite, at about 2pm.

Sign up for Work Weekend:
Be sure and indicate whether you’re just coming out for the training, or if you intend to stay and work.

SIGN UP HERE!

For more information or just have a question, you can contact Nobodobodon directly at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
 –> Greeters

Guardian Training!

Looking to get trained up to be a Guardian?

We have multiple options available.

You can attend in person or call in/attend remotely.

Listed below are the training dates and the cities they will be held in. Times/Addresses will be determined closer to the dates.

  • April 7th, 2017: North Austin
  • April 8th, 2017: San Antonio
  • April 14-16th: 2017 Safetyside (register here by April 7th midnight)
  • April 21st, 2017 Houston
  • April 28th, 2017 South Austin
To keep up with the times and addresses of the training contact us via email or through our Facebook page
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
 –> Greeters
Froggy

Sanctuary Training – Wednesdays!

Sanctuary training(s) are from 8PM – 9PM, Wednesday evenings at Lloyd the Wherehouse!

Each week we focus on a different topic related to Sanctuary.
Meet your fellow Sanctuary volunteers and learn new things.

For more information or just have a question, you can contact Mimi directly at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
–> Sanctuary

Register ALL THE THINGS!

Register ALL the Things!

There are some deadlines you need to know about if you’ve got a theme camp, Art to place, and Mutant Vehicles to bring to Pyropolis.

Theme Camp Registration closes April 1, 2017. (actually at midnight, so aim for March 31st!)
Register your ART
Register Mutant Vehicles
Event Registration ends on May 15, 2017 (optional, but cool to do)

 

Announce March 2017

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March is here, and with it we’ll see warmer weather, longer days, and Burning Flipside 2017: Rainbows vs Unicorns: The Reckoning is rapidly approaching.

Are you ready? What will you do to participate? How will you bring this year’s theme to life?

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be near the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Jenmarie

Ticket Update

Ticket opening happened near the end of February!

The good news:  we accepted all registrations that were done correctly:  No Reverse Lottery this year!

The LLC even decided to accept late postmarks that were only a day or so late – we usually return ALL late postmarks.

The bad news:  I still have to send back some ticket requests, which could have been avoided if these folks had followed instructions.
  1. Personal checks – a record 26 personal checks this year!
    We only accept money orders or Cashier’s Checks.
  2.  No money order/Cashier’s Check enclosed:  Several requests did not include any form of payment!  One person attached their money order receipt, not the actual money order.
  3. One person from San Antonio sent in a $222 money order without a name on it, without an account number on it, AND it did not even have a return address on the envelope!  The Money Order was drawn from San Antonio Federal Credit Union.  I contacted the bank, and they are trying to get in contact with the person associated with the account the money order was drawn from.  If you think it could be yours, please contact me.  (Area: Communications –> Tickets)
  4. Some people sent in too many requests per registration.  When I could, I accepted the limit of two adult tickets per account (and child/kid/teen tickets when applicable) and returned the rest.
  5. New this year: Extra Money Problem:  We do not have a way to deal with extra money people included in their money orders.  In the past we gave any funds above the ticket amount to The Org Formerly Known as Tinderbox.  We no longer have a Tinderbox, so we no longer have a way to accept or process amounts over your ticket money!
  • The original decision was to return all ticket requests over the amount – which would have sucked for people trying to do a nice thing.  The LLC treasurer decided for THIS YEAR ONLY, she will send a refund to those people.  It’s a pain in the ass for me and the treasurer.  In the future, money orders with overages will be returned.   We love the thought, but please only send the amount required on your form!!
Ticket emails will be going out very soon – please hold off on questions until AFTER they go out.

IF after the emails go out and you did not get a ticket but you know you sent in a registration and money order, please contact the ticket team.  (Area: Communications –> Tickets)

This is why it is VITAL that you retain your money order/Cashier’s Check receipt!  I will try to help you out if your request was not processed and you sent in the appropriate payment and registration, but we are not responsible for payments and registrations lost in the mail.

Love,
Loribug
2017 Flipside Ticket Lead

What?  MORE Tickets??

Austin Artistic Reconstruction did not sell out of tickets to Burning Flipside during our normal ticketing process!

On March 2, AAR received its mass-gathering permit for the fifth straight year since we started applying for them in 2013, so we are able to honor all valid ticket requests.

So…. there will be a special bonus round of tickets made available soon. We are putting together the functionality to support this right now, so we can’t open it up yet  (NOT YET NOT YET!).

We can, however, give some information:

  • The bonus-round ticket process will be very similar to the normal one, with a web form you print and mail in with a money order, but may involve a quiz.
  • Tickets will be the same price. $111 for adults and teens over 13, $33 for kids aged 7-13, and free for children 0-6.
  • Unlike the normal ticket process, where we use a lottery, ticket requests in the bonus-round will honored on a first-come, first-served basis (limited to correctly formed requests with correct payment).

Work Weekends Continue

The first Work Weekend is done, but there is still plenty more to do!

Please put these remaining dates in your calendars and join us for prepping the land for our wonderful event!

  • Work Weekend 2: Mar 24-26
  • Work Weekend 3: Apr 21-23
  • Work Weekend 4: May 5-7
    (*****ONLY those who attended WWs 1, 2 and/or 3 may attend WW4****)

Signup is below. Let us know if you are coming!
You may not be allowed on the property unless you have signed up on the spreadsheet below or with Saraphina or Shortcake before the work weekend.

SIGN UP HERE!

For more information or just have a question, you can contact Saraphina directly at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
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Your City Needs YOU!

There are plenty of ways to actively participate in building and running the fair city of Pyropolis.

Here are just a couple of opportunities for you to be a part of the gears that make this town GO!

Ever wondered about who helps keep the city safe?

Are you introverted and need a little bit of time to recharge away from the big crowds?

Do you want to know how night vision works?

Come check out the Guardians Department!
Badass shirts and patches to be had if you work a couple shifts with us.

Contact Froggy at https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

(Area: Safety –> Guardians (perimeter))
Or our Facebook page: Guardians of Flipside 

 -Froggy, your Guardians Lead

Greeters Wiki is OPEN.

Hey beautiful!

We love when a Theme Camp takes over a whole shift.

Shift Leads bear some responsibility for tracking down their shiftmates.
Greeter Captain of the day can also help with that.
Only the craziest people sign up for Shift Lead or Captain.
You know you’re ready to walk on the wild side!
We have some early entry spots still available.
Some restrictions apply.
Speak to your pharmacist or contact your Greeter Lead (Area: Genesis –> Greeters) for details.
Offer not valid in Alaska or Hawaii.
xoxo
nobo

Flipside Envelope Art

Once again, you – our participants and citizens, went above and beyond with some truly awesome art!
This year, we asked on the ticket registration if we could showcase your arty envelope in some way.
Most people said yes, but some really awesome envelopes did not have the YES box checked, therefore we had to discard them.    We will be featuring some of the spectacular YES envelopes here and in the Flipside Flame every month!
One envelope was awesome enough that Loribug tracked down the sender to get permission.  Alvin Cheung decorated both his and a friend’s envelope on both sides with laser cut veneer wood in the shape of a unicorn.  On one side, the unicorn was silver with a golden sun, and on the other the unicorn was golden with a silver moon, reflecting a type of yin/yang duality.  These were mounted on envelopes painted and glittered like the sky. STUNNING!

Envelope Art 2017

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The creativity and sheer joy evidenced in the envelope art this year was just amazing. Here’s just a small sampling of it.

Flipside Flame January 2017

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We interrupt your usual awareness to bring you the following Flame!

There are a couple of time-sensitive things you should know about, so read on…

Stay tuned to the Flipside Flame, the Announce email list, and the official Burning Flipside Facebook Page. Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

Ticket Window Closing FRIDAY

The official ticket window closes January 20, 2017. If you haven’t created a profile for yourself yet, go and get one at profiles.burningflipside.com. After you have your profile completed (or if you have one already), got to secure.burningflipside.com to find the Ticket Request/Transfer link.

FINAL Call for Sticket Designs

Would you like free tickets to Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning?

And did you know that designing the ticket or the sticker is actually the only way to get free tickets to Flipside?!? Leads, volunteers, even LLC members, pay for their tickets.

Design the Flipside ticket or sticker and submit your design today!  The person who submits the winning STICKER design will get TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017. The person who submits the winning TICKET design will also receive TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017.

Keep in mind all designs must be original. No clip art, and no copy written material may be used. The designs can be created digitally or by hand.

So break out your pen, marker, crayon or stylus and get the ideas flowing.  Hand-drawn submissions are perfectly fine, but must be delivered before the deadline: 10 pm Monday January 30, 2017.

Submit your designs or any questions at https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

We will positively confirm every submission we receive, so if you do not receive a confirmation within a few days, please email us back, and we will confirm receipt.

Please do not post or display your Ticket or Sticker design anywhere else until after the contest ends.  (The artist for the winning ticket design will be asked to refrain from posting it anywhere until after the event.)

Burning Flipside will do its best to include all submitted designs, in some form of hype, the survival guide, or the website, so your art should get seen.  When you submit you are implicitly giving permission for us to use your design – on the ticket or sticker, on the Burning Flipside website, or in the Survival Guide. If for some reason you do not want to give this permission, please specify that when you submit. Also please indicate how you would like your art to be credited.

TICKET Design Details

Please include the following information within your Ticket design:

 

Sticket

Keep these things in mind:

  • Artwork should be 2.375 x 4.375 inches.
  • 1/8 inch all around WILL BE CUT OFF creating a final size of 2.125 x 4.125 – this extra space is called bleed.
  • Artwork should be CMYK.
  • Artwork should be supplied at 100% as either vector based art (illustrator or freehand) or at 300dpi if it is a Photoshop file.
  • If Photoshop – .tif, .eps, .psd and .jpeg files are preferred.  Please save jpeg files with “maximum quality”.

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  •  You must pay attention to specs, or you could be disqualified.
  • Do not place text too close to the edge of your design. It should be 1/8″ in on either side once the artwork is trimmed. Pick fonts that will be easy to read and try to not use a font that is really thin on a dark background. It will “plug-up” and be hard to read.
  • Do not get too complex, it is often easier to create artwork at a larger size and reduce it down. Keep in mind what it will look like at the smaller size.
  • If you create your art in layers, be sure and save that layered file just in case the printer needs anything altered – this will make it easier on them and you.

STICKER Design Details

Please include at least the following information within your Sticker design:

  • Flipside 2017

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  • Submit in black and white (or another color and white). But not multiple colors for the sticker.
  • Sticker Art should cover a 2.5″ circle at 300dpi.
  • Make your design simple! Intricate and super-fine lines (less than 1-pt) tend to dry up in the screen and will not show up on the sticker. For your reference, 1pt lines are roughly the same size as what a medium ball point pen will draw.  It is a good idea to keep important elements of your artwork at least 1/8″ from the edge of the sticker to allow for cutting. Serifed fonts can be a nightmare – especially at small point sizes. Set all type to at LEAST 10 points.
  • In the past we’ve only printed black and white stickers.  Grayscale or gradients are a real pain and don’t print very well, so try to stick to solid colors.  If you want to submit a two or three color image, that’s fine and it will be reviewed, but (depending on cost) it may end up being converted into black and white.  All halftones are screened at 55 lpi.

Have fun! good luck! We look forward to seeing the designs as they come in.  It is an incredible outpouring from this intensively creative community! It’s a pleasure to serve as your STicket team.

If you have any questions, just let us know at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Love,

Your Flipside 2017 Sticker/Ticket Selection Team

Combustion Chamber Updates

The Combustion Chamber recently put out a call for new members, and we have one nominee. We’d love community feedback on our candidate! 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.

https://www.burningflipside.com/contact/cc-nomination-feedback

The candidate is:

Kim Hopson

We’ll be accepting feedback until 11:59pm on Monday, January 23rd.
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.Our thanks for your insight,
The Combustion Chamber AND

The final January CC meeting of 2017 is coming up.

The Combustion Chamber is an advisory committee to the Austin Artistic Reconstruction LLC to facilitate community input & transparency for the policy-making process and organization of burn community events. CC meetings each start at 7:42 pm at the Warehouse. Special topics are as follows:

Jan 23:

 

  • Town Hall Walkthrough 
    • Review the Spring Town Hall agenda and the committed speakers
    • Identify any last-minute action items that need to be resolved

Do you have a topic you believe the community needs to discuss?
Please send suggestions at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Please keep in mind that we discuss community and policy issues, not operational ones.

Leave No Trace – Keeping Flipside MOOP-free

Hello from the 2016 Burning Flipside Clean Up Lead! As part of our Leave No Trace beliefs and desires to maintain a sustainable event, we create a MOOP (Matter Out Of Place) map to provide to the community an account of how we did.

I am happy to say that as usual, we did a good job overall at leaving the land a better place than we found it.

Because 2016 Clean Up operations were delayed due to weather, a complete accounting could not be accomplished in full at that time.  Thus, the Flipside 2016 MOOP Map was produced.  On Tuesday, May 31st, 2016, the day after Memorial Day 2016, the Cleanup Lead took a long walk in sweeping patterns across the land with a laminated city planning map, markers, pen, and paper.   Every time he saw MOOP, he marked its approximate location on the map, and then logged the approximate location’s grid coordinate/camp number, and brief description of the item.  The results of this are presented here.

Each yellow dot on the MOOP map represents one item found and one row in the spreadsheet describing that item.  There is one red dot in area P6, next to the Oxbow Lake, that represents what appeared to be a Black Water dump by a rental RV.

Again, due to the incomplete accounting, a yellow dot does not mean that a camp performed LNT poorly, simply that a MOOP item was located there. As we could not determine at that time if any one piece of MOOP was an outlier or an indication of overall lack of cleanup, and in order to make the process equitable to all, it was decided to simply mark each individual item that was found.

Even though we did a good job with LNT this year, it is apparent that we can do more. This is an early call for volunteers for Cleanup in 2017.

There are some cleanup tasks to do before Flipside 2017.

  1. Re-evaluate locations on 2016 MOOP Map for long term effect.
  2. Perform line sweeps at work weekend to determine if items were missed.

If you have any interest in helping during Burning Flipside 2017, please contact Xander at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Spring Town Hall: Unicorns Vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning

Greetings Flipizens!

The Combustion Chamber would like to invite you to the Burning Flipside Spring-ish Town Hall! We’re shaking things up a bit again, and we hope you’ll like what we’ve done with the place.

Saturday, February 4th, at Lloyd the Burning Flipside Warehouse, 3106 Industrial Terrace. Tailgating starts at noon; Town Hall will start at 2:34 p.m.

Want to help make Town Hall go? Show up at eleven to help get things prepped and ready.

This year’s Town Hall will continue to use our New-ish and Improveder model. Time focused on the main stage will be short, roughly 30-45 minutes, including a presentation from our new DaFT lead.

We will continue to have booths set up for AAR LLC, The CC, our Area Facilitators, and Leads, and encourage each of you to interact with them to find out the information relevant to your Burning Flipside experience. Have a question about the budget? Go to the AAR, LLC booth and ask it! Want more information on volunteering for Parking? Go find the Genesis table and learn what you
need to know!

Theme camps are invited to come bring out their special brand of awesome tomfoolery beginning at noon.

Dress up, be fabulous, shake the winter off you, and learn about (and join!) the various departments that help make your event so marvelous.

Our Best,
The Combustion Chamber

Come see your friends, make some new ones, and learn all the ways you can participate.

Spread the Word! Tell Your Friends! Notify Your Camp mates!

Spring Town Hall
Saturday, February, 4, 2017
At Lloyd the Warehouse
3106 Industrial Terrace
Austin, TX 78758

Combustion Chamber Seeks Feedback on Nominee

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Hey-o! The Combustion Chamber recently put out a call for new members, and we have one nominee. We’d love community feedback on our candidate! 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.

https://www.burningflipside.com/contact/cc-nomination-feedback

The candidate is:

Kim Hopson

The Combustion Chamber advocates for the Burning Flipside community and its principles in creating policy recommendations & fosters 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 Monday, January 23rd.

Our thanks for your insight,
The Combustion Chamber

Flipside Flame December 2016

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And now, the Final Flame of 2016. So, this year happened…it’s almost over. We’re going to be ok. We’re going to set things on fire (burn bans permitting). It will be what it will be. Unicorns and Rainbows will come together and experience the wonder of the community we create together. There will be a reckoning. Punctuation will leave its mark.

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

 Ticket Window Dates Posted

Every year, there is a window of opportunity in which participants can mail in their ticket requests. Those dates have been finalized! After creating your ticket request, it’s time to decorate your envelope (utterly optional, but totally fun), get your payment together (less fun, but completely mandatory), and get your requests in the mail from January 6 through January 20. It’s pretty straightforward, so start saving your pennies and planning your envelopes! We’ll post more about the ticket opening as the details become available.

Advice From Your 2017 Ticket Lead

Ticket mail in Tips from Loribug, the 2017 Ticket Lead.

DOs

  • DO read ALL THE DETAILS on how to send in a ticket request – do it right!
  • DO fill in all the fields
  • DO put enough postage
  • DO make sure the address is easily read
  • DO double check to make sure you send both the ticket request and the money order.
  • DO keep your money order receipt – when a ticket request goes south (missing, stolen, etc), this can save your butt. KEEP IT!
  • DO consider dropping the envelope off at the post office and requesting hand canceling – especially if you are at the last day of ticket window.
  • DO contact tickets with problems – we are very responsive and have dealt with a lot of problems over the years. LOTS of problems. Contact me at: tickets@BurningFlipside.com

DON’Ts

  • DON’T send the request in before the ticket window.
  • DON’T send it in after the ticket window.
  • DON’T send a personal check or cash.
  • DON’T vaguely post to Facebook or interwebs if you have problems with your ticket request and expect resolution – contacting the ticket team is the only way you can get help.
  • DON’T break every rule of ticket request and think you will get much sympathy.

My personal suggestions:
Please decorate your envelope – not required, but it makes the Ticket Team’s life MUCH MORE FUN during opening.
Highly decorated envelopes can challenge the USPS. You may want to put your fab envelope inside a Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope available from the Post Office. I know it hides the beauty from the postal employees, but it can help your ticket request make it safely.
In general, a Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope costs about $6.45 and includes tracking. Tracking is VERY VERY GOOD to have. (the Priority Mail EXPRESS Flat Rate Envelope costs $22 – so expensive!)

Even if you think you have made an error (forgot to include money order, forgot to include ticket request, returned for inadequate postage) or the post office has made an error (envelope returned in shreds, envelope returned because they could not read the address), I can probably help.

Contact me at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Ticket Cap for 2017

As in previous years, there will be a limited number of tickets for Burning Flipside.

Burning Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs Rainbows: The Reckoning, will have 2,800 tickets available through the lottery system.

Each year we make an application to the host county officials for a Mass Gathering Permit. This allows us to exceed the Mass Gathering Act’s limit of 2499 participants for the duration of the event. While not currently approved for 2017, we anticipate that this permit will be granted.

This consideration from the county, however, is not a way to expand in an unlimited fashion. We must still plan the event according to the volunteer support available, the land area to which we have access, and the quantity of ticket requests that come in. So, in the interest of continuing to have a safe, successful and fulfilling event for participants and volunteers, we limit the number of tickets provided to the community.

What should you do?
Make your plans now to get your ticket request in when the ticket window opens on January 6! Ticket prices remain unchanged from last year ($111.00 for adults, USD).

Don’t delay because the window closes on January  20th. In the event that we either a) do not receive the permit, or b) exceed 2800 ticket requests, then there will be the lottery for tickets!

Volunteer to support sustainable growth of future Flipsides.

Be the ticket-holding volunteer participant that you want to see in the world!

 

 Sticker/Ticket (Sticket!)

Hey Flipizens!

Would you like free tickets to Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning?

And did you know that designing the ticket or the sticker is actually the only way to get free tickets to Flipside?!? Leads, volunteers, even LLC members, pay for their tickets.

Design the Flipside ticket or sticker and submit your design today!  The person who submits the winning STICKER design will get TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017. The person who submits the winning TICKET design will also receive TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017.

Keep in mind all designs must be original. No clip art, and no copy written material may be used. The designs can be created digitally or by hand.

So break out your pen, marker, crayon or stylus and get the ideas flowing.  Hand-drawn submissions are perfectly fine, but must be delivered before the deadline: 10 pm Monday January 30, 2017.

Submit your designs or any questions at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

We will positively confirm every submission we receive, so if you do not receive a confirmation within a few days, please email us back, and we will confirm receipt.

Please do not post or display your Ticket or Sticker design anywhere else until after the contest ends.  (The artist for the winning ticket design will be asked to refrain from posting it anywhere until after the event.)

Burning Flipside will do its best to include all submitted designs, in some form of hype, the survival guide, or the website, so your art should get seen.  When you submit you are implicitly giving permission for us to use your design – on the ticket or sticker, on the Burning Flipside website, or in the Survival Guide. If for some reason you do not want to give this permission, please specify that when you submit. Also please indicate how you would like your art to be credited.

TICKET Design Details

Please include the following information within your Ticket design:

  • Burning Flipside
  • Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning
  • May 25-29, 2017
  • www.burningflipside.com

Keep these things in mind:

  • Artwork should be 2.375 x 4.375 inches.
  • 1/8 inch all around WILL BE CUT OFF creating a final size of 2.125 x 4.125 – this extra space is called bleed.
  • Artwork should be CMYK.
  • Artwork should be supplied at 100% as either vector based art (illustrator or freehand) or at 300dpi if it is a Photoshop file.
  • If Photoshop – .tif, .eps, .psd and .jpeg files are preferred.  Please save jpeg files with “maximum quality”.

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  •  You must pay attention to specs, or you could be disqualified.
  • Do not place text too close to the edge of your design. It should be 1/8″ in on either side once the artwork is trimmed. Pick fonts that will be easy to read and try to not use a font that is really thin on a dark background. It will “plug-up” and be hard to read.
  • Do not get too complex, it is often easier to create artwork at a larger size and reduce it down. Keep in mind what it will look like at the smaller size.
  • If you create your art in layers, be sure and save that layered file just in case the printer needs anything altered – this will make it easier on them and you.

STICKER Design Details

Please include at least the following information within your Sticker design:

  • Flipside 2017

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  • Submit in black and white (or another color and white). But not multiple colors for the sticker.
  • Sticker Art should cover a 2.5″ circle at 300dpi.
  • Make your design simple! Intricate and super-fine lines (less than 1-pt) tend to dry up in the screen and will not show up on the sticker. For your reference, 1pt lines are roughly the same size as what a medium ball point pen will draw.  It is a good idea to keep important elements of your artwork at least 1/8″ from the edge of the sticker to allow for cutting. Serifed fonts can be a nightmare – especially at small point sizes. Set all type to at LEAST 10 points.
  • In the past we’ve only printed black and white stickers.  Grayscale or gradients are a real pain and don’t print very well, so try to stick to solid colors.  If you want to submit a two or three color image, that’s fine and it will be reviewed, but (depending on cost) it may end up being converted into black and white.  All halftones are screened at 55 lpi.

Have fun! good luck! We look forward to seeing the designs as they come in.  It is an incredible outpouring from this intensively creative community! It’s a pleasure to serve as your STicket team.

If you have any questions, just let us know at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Your Flipside 2017 Sticker/Ticket Selection Team

Announce, December 2016

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We’re only a month away from the end of 2016, but planning is well underway for Burning Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning. Important dates are being settled, and the gears of the burning machine are starting to turn. If you have a hankering to get involved, there a lots of ways to participate. This event doesn’t work without everyone’s PARTICIPATION. Read on for more ways to contribute!

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

Ticket Window Dates Posted

Every year, there is a window of opportunity in which participants can mail in their ticket requests. Those dates have been finalized! After creating your ticket request, it’s time to decorate your envelope (utterly optional, but totally fun), get your payment together (less fun, but completely mandatory), and get your requests in the mail from January 6 through January 20. It’s pretty straightforward, so start saving your pennies and planning your envelopes! We’ll post more about the ticket opening as the details become available.

Combustion Chamber Meeting

Monday, December 5th is the last CC meeting of the year, and the only one scheduled around the holidays. Start time is 7:42 PM. Safe Travels. Celebrate this season in the manner most joyous to you.

What we will be discussing:

  • LLC Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Operational Update
  • Paid/comp staff:Should Flipside have any paid staff? Should Flipside comp volunteers with tickets, etc, as some other events do?
  • CC business

Who Can/Should Attend: You! If you care about the event and especially if you care about any of these topics you should come to discuss them.
Why this matters: The CC provides advice to the LLC. The LLC provides the overall direction and policy guidance that end up making the event happen. The topics discussed at this meeting may have a direct impact on you during the actual Flipside event and/or at the AAR, LLC warehouse.
CC meetings are a great way to stay informed about what’s happening in our community. Meeting minutes will be posted as they are received. Thanks for your patience.
Want to read the Minutes of the CC meetings?
What is the Combustion Chamber or CC?
Do you have some questions about CC meetings?

If you don’t find your answer in the FAQ above, please email us. We like answering questions. Contact us at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Combustion Chamber Mixer

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Rainbow Unicorn Holiday Summit.

This event is a gathering of thoughtful, iconoclastic doers from around the world who share a common interest in practical and farcical solutions for the Rainbow v. Unicorn controversy. Our vision is ambitious, which is nothing less than to listen to our community members discuss the importance of unicorns, rainbows and all other compelling community topics, while enjoying the chill and consuming tasty treats. The event will take place at the heart of Burning Flipside community, Lloyd the Warehouse, on December 12th, at 7:42pm. We encourage you to celebrate our diversity in costume. As always, this event is BYOB & LNT.

Your Combustion Chamber

Combustion Chamber Needs New Members

Do enjoy listening to/discussing/debating the finer points of Community with your friends/campmates/fellow burners? Would you enjoy communicating about crucial matters in this community all year long? Do you know someone
else who fits this description?

The Burning Flipside Combustion Chamber (CC) is the communication conduit between the Community and the event organizers (aka AAR, LLC), and acts as the Burning Flipside organization’s advisory body. The CC meets typically
every other Monday evening for approximately two hours, at the Austin warehouse.

The Combustion Chamber currently seeks new members to renew and diversify its ranks. Submit your application or nomination!

The deadline for submissions is Friday, December 16th, 2016, 11:59 P.M.

Interested in seeing the CC in action? Regular CC meetings are open to participation of all Community members. Our next meeting is Monday, December 5th, 7:42pm, at Lloyd the Warehouse, 3106 Industrial Terrace, Austin, Texas. At this meeting we’ll be discussing Paid/Comp Staff.

With Regards,
Your Combustion Chamber

 Sticker/Ticket (Sticket!)

Hey Flipizens!

Would you like free tickets to Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning?

And did you know that designing the ticket or the sticker is actually the only way to get free tickets to Flipside?!? Leads, volunteers, even LLC members, pay for their tickets.

Design the Flipside ticket or sticker and submit your design today!  The person who submits the winning STICKER design will get TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017. The person who submits the winning TICKET design will also receive TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017.

Keep in mind all designs must be original. No clip art, and no copy written material may be used. The designs can be created digitally or by hand.

So break out your pen, marker, crayon or stylus and get the ideas flowing.  Hand-drawn submissions are perfectly fine, but must be delivered before the deadline: 10 pm Monday January 30, 2017.

Submit your designs or any questions at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

We will positively confirm every submission we receive, so if you do not receive a confirmation within a few days, please email us back, and we will confirm receipt.

Please do not post or display your Ticket or Sticker design anywhere else until after the contest ends.  (The artist for the winning ticket design will be asked to refrain from posting it anywhere until after the event.)

Burning Flipside will do its best to include all submitted designs, in some form of hype, the survival guide, or the website, so your art should get seen.  When you submit you are implicitly giving permission for us to use your design – on the ticket or sticker, on the Burning Flipside website, or in the Survival Guide. If for some reason you do not want to give this permission, please specify that when you submit. Also please indicate how you would like your art to be credited.

TICKET Design Details

Please include the following information within your Ticket design:

  • Burning Flipside
  • Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning
  • May 25-29, 2017
  • www.burningflipside.com

Keep these things in mind:

  • Artwork should be 2.375 x 4.375 inches.
  • 1/8 inch all around WILL BE CUT OFF creating a final size of 2.125 x 4.125 – this extra space is called bleed.
  • Artwork should be CMYK.
  • Artwork should be supplied at 100% as either vector based art (illustrator or freehand) or at 300dpi if it is a Photoshop file.
  • If Photoshop – .tif, .eps, .psd and .jpeg files are preferred.  Please save jpeg files with “maximum quality”.

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  •  You must pay attention to specs, or you could be disqualified.
  • Do not place text too close to the edge of your design. It should be 1/8″ in on either side once the artwork is trimmed. Pick fonts that will be easy to read and try to not use a font that is really thin on a dark background. It will “plug-up” and be hard to read.
  • Do not get too complex, it is often easier to create artwork at a larger size and reduce it down. Keep in mind what it will look like at the smaller size.
  • If you create your art in layers, be sure and save that layered file just in case the printer needs anything altered – this will make it easier on them and you.

STICKER Design Details

Please include at least the following information within your Sticker design:

  • Flipside 2017

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  • Submit in black and white (or another color and white). But not multiple colors for the sticker.
  • Sticker Art should cover a 2.5″ circle at 300dpi.
  • Make your design simple! Intricate and super-fine lines (less than 1-pt) tend to dry up in the screen and will not show up on the sticker. For your reference, 1pt lines are roughly the same size as what a medium ball point pen will draw.  It is a good idea to keep important elements of your artwork at least 1/8″ from the edge of the sticker to allow for cutting. Serifed fonts can be a nightmare – especially at small point sizes. Set all type to at LEAST 10 points.
  • In the past we’ve only printed black and white stickers.  Grayscale or gradients are a real pain and don’t print very well, so try to stick to solid colors.  If you want to submit a two or three color image, that’s fine and it will be reviewed, but (depending on cost) it may end up being converted into black and white.  All halftones are screened at 55 lpi.

Have fun! good luck! We look forward to seeing the designs as they come in.  It is an incredible outpouring from this intensively creative community! It’s a pleasure to serve as your STicket team.

If you have any questions, just let us know at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Your Flipside 2017 Sticker/Ticket Selection Team

Announce October 2016

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Burning Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs Rainbows: The Reckoning. At the Fall Town Hall, votes on the theme for 2017 were cast, and we’re in for a fantasy faceoff. Are you Team Rainbow? Team Unicorn? Team Versus? Team Colon? Themes can be everything and nothing to our participants. Get into it as much or as little as you want, but leave the glitter and feathers at home, mmm-kay?

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

Volunteer: Leads Needed

Hi, Flipizens!  Now that we know that we are due a Reckoning between Unicorns and Rainbows, it’s time to put together the team that is going to make the whole thing go!  All of our leads are open, and we would like to know if you, or someone you hold in high esteem is willing to be one of our leads!

What is a lead, you ask?  They’re the people that organize our teams that go and do work.  Every group that you interact with at the event, be it Ice, PETs, Parking, or even Church Night, has a lead that puts together the people and resources necessary to make the thing go.

We’d love to have you!  And if it seems like too much, we promise to have lots of help.

Are you just drawn in yet?  Well, mosey down to this form and let us know!

Nominations close on October 28th, so act now!

Thank you,
Dahling Schmooley-Sweetiepoo (Volunteer Coordinator)

Call for Proposals – Flipside 2017 Design and Fabrication Team (DaFT)

Calling all Unicorns and/or Rainbows, Burning Flipside needs an EFFIGY!

If you have a strong opinion or a grand vision about what Pyropolis should build and burn in ‘017, and you’ve got the time, crew, and plan for how to do it, now’s the time to tell us! Effigy proposals are due by 11:59 pm on Nov 20th!

Being a DaFT lead means you’re responsible for designing the effigy and leading the build team to create the Flipside Effigy, both during pre-event and on-site. You don’t necessarily need to be a professional engineer, architect, or carpenter, though these skills certainly help. We suggest you seek advice from experienced builders and project leaders, should you need assistance or advice. It’s a challenge, but don’t be scared! Be a rockstar! Lead DaFT!

Don’t wait till it’s too late! The DaFT (Design and Fabrication Team) Selection Committee is here to help! Prior to the deadline, show (one or all of) us what you’ve got! Pick our brains! We’re all ex-DaFT leads, so we’ll be able to give you real insight into how to (or not to) build, delegate, lift, bolt, screw, nail, cut, ShopBot, beat-to-fit, transport, budget, burn, and otherwise DO the effigy things.

Read the Proposal guidelines.
Contact us at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

From all of us at the DSC, happy designing!

Jic
Beth
Dave
Chainsaw
Dotti
Krahnik
Lance
Kaleb

Sticker/Ticket (Sticket!)

Hey Flipizens!

Would you like free tickets to Flipside 2017: Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning?

And did you know that designing the ticket or the sticker is actually the only way to get free tickets to Flipside?!? Leads, volunteers, even LLC members, pay for their tickets.

Design the Flipside ticket or sticker and submit your design today!  The person who submits the winning STICKER design will get TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017. The person who submits the winning TICKET design will also receive TWO free tickets to Flipside 2017.

Keep in mind all designs must be original. No clip art, and no copy written material may be used. The designs can be created digitally or by hand.

So break out your pen, marker, crayon or stylus and get the ideas flowing.  Hand-drawn submissions are perfectly fine, but must be delivered before the deadline: 10 pm Monday January 30, 2017.

Submit your designs or any questions at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

We will positively confirm every submission we receive, so if you do not receive a confirmation within a few days, please email us back, and we will confirm receipt.

Please do not post or display your Ticket or Sticker design anywhere else until after the contest ends.  (The artist for the winning ticket design will be asked to refrain from posting it anywhere until after the event.)

Burning Flipside will do its best to include all submitted designs, in some form of hype, the survival guide, or the website, so your art should get seen.  When you submit you are implicitly giving permission for us to use your design – on the ticket or sticker, on the Burning Flipside website, or in the Survival Guide. If for some reason you do not want to give this permission, please specify that when you submit. Also please indicate how you would like your art to be credited.

TICKET Design Details

Please include the following information within your Ticket design:

  • Burning Flipside
  • Unicorns vs. Rainbows: The Reckoning
  • May 25-29, 2017
  • www.burningflipside.com

Keep these things in mind:

  • Artwork should be 2.375 x 4.375 inches.
  • 1/8 inch all around WILL BE CUT OFF creating a final size of 2.125 x 4.125 – this extra space is called bleed.
  • Artwork should be CMYK.
  • Artwork should be supplied at 100% as either vector based art (illustrator or freehand) or at 300dpi if it is a Photoshop file.
  • If Photoshop – .tif, .eps, .psd and .jpeg files are preferred.  Please save jpeg files with “maximum quality”.

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  •  You must pay attention to specs, or you could be disqualified.
  • Do not place text too close to the edge of your design. It should be 1/8″ in on either side once the artwork is trimmed. Pick fonts that will be easy to read and try to not use a font that is really thin on a dark background. It will “plug-up” and be hard to read.
  • Do not get too complex, it is often easier to create artwork at a larger size and reduce it down. Keep in mind what it will look like at the smaller size.
  • If you create your art in layers, be sure and save that layered file just in case the printer needs anything altered – this will make it easier on them and you.

STICKER Design Details

Please include at least the following information within your Sticker design:

  • Flipside 2017

Tips for successful reproduction of your design:

  • Submit in black and white (or another color and white). But not multiple colors for the sticker.
  • Sticker Art should cover a 2.5″ circle at 300dpi.
  • Make your design simple! Intricate and super-fine lines (less than 1-pt) tend to dry up in the screen and will not show up on the sticker. For your reference, 1pt lines are roughly the same size as what a medium ball point pen will draw.  It is a good idea to keep important elements of your artwork at least 1/8″ from the edge of the sticker to allow for cutting. Serifed fonts can be a nightmare – especially at small point sizes. Set all type to at LEAST 10 points.
  • In the past we’ve only printed black and white stickers.  Grayscale or gradients are a real pain and don’t print very well, so try to stick to solid colors.  If you want to submit a two or three color image, that’s fine and it will be reviewed, but (depending on cost) it may end up being converted into black and white.  All halftones are screened at 55 lpi.

Have fun! good luck! We look forward to seeing the designs as they come in.  It is an incredible outpouring from this intensively creative community! It’s a pleasure to serve as your STicket team.

If you have any questions, just let us know at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact

Love,

Your Flipside 2017 Sticker/Ticket Selection Team

Combustion Chamber Meetings

The Combustion Chamber is an advisory committee to the Austin Artistic Reconstruction LLC to facilitate community input & transparency for the policy-making process and organization of burn community events. CC meetings each start at 7:42 pm at the Warehouse.

Special topics are as follows:

October 17:

  • AAR Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Operational Update
  • Revisiting the Three Principles: Do Flipside’s Three Principles fully cover the Burner ethos?  Do they fully cover our community’s ethos?  Does the document adequately convey the expectations that our community has of participants?
  • CC Business

October 24:

  • AAR Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Operational Update
  • Accountability: How do we encourage and support the accountability of participants? How does the community ensure the accountability of others? Does lax enforcement encourage flouting of our principles?
  • Recycling: Recycling as an department on Flipside’s org chart has been a topic of ongoing discussion, and after an especially tough year for volunteering in Recycling, maybe it’s time to revive that discussion.
  • CC Business

Have a topic you believe the community needs to discuss? Send suggestions to us at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact.  Keep in mind that we discuss community and policy issues, not operational ones.

Who Can/Should Attend: You! If you care about the event and especially if you care about any of these topics you should come to discuss them.

Why this matters: The CC provides advice to AAR, LLC. In turn, AAR provides the overall direction and policy guidance that end up making the event happen. The topics discussed at this meeting may have a direct impact on you during the actual Flipside event and/or at the AAR, LLC warehouse.

CC meetings are a great way to stay informed about what’s happening in our community. Meeting minutes will be posted as they are received.

Announce September 2016

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Yeah, it’s the time of year when folks are back from the desert, but we’ve got important things to get done here, like getting rained on, and bitten by mosquitoes, and planning for Fall Town Hall! Read on for details about what’s coming up, and what’s needed as folks make it back to Texas from the dusty playa.

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

Burning Flipside Fall Town Hall

On September 24, 2016, come help decide what the Burning Flipside 2017 Theme will be! Join us at Lloyd the Warehouse; tailgating begins at noon, with the Town Hall program starting at at 2:34 pm.  

Facebook Event

If you have a theme camp to showcase, or if you’re recruiting membership to your theme camp, bring a booth to inform the crowd. We’ll be looking for volunteers to set up, tear down and help monitor the parking situation (because we don’t want to make our neighbors grumpy by taking up their parking spaces). Theme camp adoption of some of these gigs is a great way to build community.

To submit a Theme for Burning Flipside 2017, hit up the Theme Page (you’ll need a secure login to access it).

Community Respect Discussion: Session 3

On Sunday, September 25th, beginning at 1 pm, the Combustion Chamber will host the next installment of our discussion on Race, Respect, and Diversity at Lloyd the Warehouse. In hopes of serving a broad group of people, we have divided this session into three parts. Please free to join us for one, two, or all three parts. If you were unable to attend the previous session in which these concepts were introduced, please join us for Part I.

Part I: 1 pm – 2:45 pm: A guided discussion reviewing some of the concepts and vocabulary that we began to discuss in previous sessions, including: Privilege, Intersectionality, Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination, & Rights.

Part II: 3 pm-4pm: We will break into small discussion groups, allowing community members to engage in unguided discussion regarding concepts and vocabulary.

Part III: 4 pm – 6 pm This section will build upon and explore more of the history, complexity, and nuance of Modern American Racism and its effects on our community. We will also build some tools that will allow each participant to lead this type of discussion in a safe environment.

Please come and help us ask the hard questions. We know there are no easy answers…but, hey, our community doesn’t often do things the easy way. We will look at these issues in an environment of collegiality and discussion, and welcome all to take part. All we ask is that you approach this seriously and with respect.

At Lloyd The Warehouse
3106 Industrial Terrace
Austin, Texas 78758

Facebook Event

Lloyd the Warehouse Cleanup

The Warehouse, Lloyd, is still full of post Flipside stuff. Lots of operational stuff out and not put away. People and art projects have loaded out for the desert, and then they came back, and now it’s Fall Town Hall just that quick. Wednesdays at church night, let’s make a dent in that shit. Many hands make for a better experience. It’s our house. If you haven’t been, come out and see the new warehouse. If you have been, come see the changes.

For those in the dessert this year who shipped their stuff out on the community truck, it will be a better experience loading back in from a functional warehouse. Come help make that possible.
If you are in an infrastructure team and worked for Site-ops and Safety in particular, come help out. A lot of that shit is yours/ours.

I ain’t your mother and if somehow I look like her, bless your mother, she has had a hard life. Call her and apologize.
Nothing but love,
cLovis

Reminder: Church Nights are BYOB and Leave No Trace. No MOOP!

Combustion Chamber Seeks Scribes

Flipizens!

Austin Artistic Reconstruction, (AAR) LLC and the Combustion Chamber (CC) need scribes—ideally, a pair of scribes—working together on rotation, to document the CC meetings. We currently are short on that number, and you can help! Here’s an FAQ:

Why be a Scribe?

This is a great position for a reliable person who wants to know what’s going on with Flipside. If you can type pretty fast, have a couple of free hours on Monday nights (twice a month), and can operate a word processing application of any kind, and love your community–this gig is for you.

The CC discusses all sorts of things–ranging from very philosophical to procedural–but all are topics relevant and necessary to the continued growth of the Flipside community. It’s always thought provoking and friendly, no matter what.

What’s even more necessary is that we have people we can trust to record the meetings so that others may live vicariously/stay tuned in.

Relatively new to the community and want to geek out on the details? Be a Scribe.

Been around a while and want to reconnect with the goings on? Be a Scribe.

What do Scribes do?

  1. First and foremost, the Scribe is responsible for taking notes at CC meetings (every other Monday at the Warehouse, in general).
    You’ll document the agenda, discussion on those topics, record motions, note decisions and action items. Therefore, good listening and note taking/typing skills are key.
  2. The Scribe will need the means and skill for recording the relevant information from a constant stream of conversation. Ideally, this means you have a laptop and rapid typing skills. You take notes during the meeting, go home and clean up the typos, send the doc out to the CC, who then broadwaves them to the community at large.
  3. Scribes also make sure we have CC members lined up for the next meeting’s ‘Stack’ and ‘Facilitator’ positions.

What kind of time commitment are we talking about?

Typically, the CC meets every other Monday night around 7:42PM at the Warehouse. Meetings usually last 2-3 hours. We need a scribe for every CC meeting, so ideally we need two people who can work together to make sure that each meeting is covered.

The Scribes are responsible for coordinating their schedules to make sure that at least one of them can attend each meeting.

The CC needs YOU! (But only once or twice a month!)

Interested? Want to know more?

  1. Contact us at https://www.burningflipside.com/contact if you’re sure!
  2. If you’re not sure, attend a CC meeting or two, get a feel for how it works. You won’t be sorry.

Combustion Chamber Meetings

The Combustion Chamber is an advisory committee to the Austin Artistic Reconstruction LLC to facilitate community input & transparency for the policy-making process and organization of burn community events. CC meetings each start at 7:42 pm at the Warehouse.

Special topics are as follows:

September 26:

  • AAR Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Operational Update
  • Respect Discussion Recap – Review Respect Discussion. Find strong and weak points. Discuss possible improvements.
  • Town Hall Recap – Review Town Hall. Find strong and weak points. Discuss possible improvements.
  • CC Business

Have a topic you believe the community needs to discuss? Send suggestions to us at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact.  Keep in mind that we discuss community and policy issues, not operational ones.

Who Can/Should Attend: You! If you care about the event and especially if you care about any of these topics you should come to discuss them.

Why this matters: The CC provides advice to AAR, LLC. In turn, AAR provides the overall direction and policy guidance that end up making the event happen. The topics discussed at this meeting may have a direct impact on you during the actual Flipside event and/or at the AAR, LLC warehouse.

CC meetings are a great way to stay informed about what’s happening in our community. 
Meeting minutes will be posted as they are received.

Announce, August 2016

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The dog days of Summer are wearing on. Many of us are gearing up for that thing in the desert, others are feeling myschievous, and some are even dreaming of the next deep freeze.  No matter what is next on your agenda, the organization for Burning Flipside continues year-round.

For more info, stay tuned to:

Remember, if you have something you’d like to contribute to the Flame or Announce, use Flipside Flame/Announce Submission page to send it in. Announce tends to be at the beginning of the month, and Flames usually get published around the middle of the month. Get me the info at least a week before then, and I’ll do my best to get your contribution included.

~Editor

Save The Date: Fall Town Hall

Fall Town Hall is still in the planning stages, but the date is definite.

Mark your calendars for

Saturday, September 24, 2016!

Burning Flipside Land Search Survey

If you weren’t aware, AAR is continually looking for that perfect location for Pyropolis. In an effort to direct our searches in the right places Brisket has created a short survey to see what actually matters to y’all.

Could y’all help us out and take a minute to fill out this form? http://burningflipside.com/landsearch-questionnaire
Also, if you have any interest in helping or joining the land search team, please contact Brisket at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact so that we can keep this ball moving along.

Combustion Chamber Seeks Scribes

Flipizens!

Austin Artistic Reconstruction, (AAR) LLC and the Combustion Chamber (CC) need scribes—ideally, a pair of scribes—working together on rotation, to document the CC meetings. We currently are short on that number, and you can help! Here’s an FAQ:

Why be a Scribe?

This is a great position for a reliable person who wants to know what’s going on with Flipside. If you can type pretty fast, have a couple of free hours on Monday nights (twice a month), and can operate a word processing application of any kind, and love your community–this gig is for you.

The CC discusses all sorts of things–ranging from very philosophical to procedural–but all are topics relevant and necessary to the continued growth of the Flipside community. It’s always thought provoking and friendly, no matter what.

What’s even more necessary is that we have people we can trust to record the meetings so that others may live vicariously/stay tuned in.

Relatively new to the community and want to geek out on the details? Be a Scribe.

Been around a while and want to reconnect with the goings on? Be a Scribe.

What do Scribes do?

  1. First and foremost, the Scribe is responsible for taking notes at CC meetings (every other Monday at the Warehouse, in general).
    You’ll document the agenda, discussion on those topics, record motions, note decisions and action items. Therefore, good listening and note taking/typing skills are key.
  2. The Scribe will need the means and skill for recording the relevant information from a constant stream of conversation. Ideally, this means you have a laptop and rapid typing skills. You take notes during the meeting, go home and clean up the typos, send the doc out to the CC, who then broadwaves them to the community at large.
  3. Scribes also make sure we have CC members lined up for the next meeting’s ‘Stack’ and ‘Facilitator’ positions.

What kind of time commitment are we talking about?

Typically, the CC meets every other Monday night around 7:42PM at the Warehouse. Meetings usually last 2-3 hours. We need a scribe for every CC meeting, so ideally we need two people who can work together to make sure that each meeting is covered.

The Scribes are responsible for coordinating their schedules to make sure that at least one of them can attend each meeting.

The CC needs YOU! (But only once or twice a month!)

Interested? Want to know more?

1) Contact the CC at at
https://www.burningflipside.com/contact
if you’re sure!

2) If you’re not sure, attend a CC meeting or two, get a feel for how it works. You won’t be sorry.

Combustion Chamber Meetings

The Combustion Chamber is an advisory committee to the Austin Artistic Reconstruction LLC to facilitate community input & transparency for the policy-making process and organization of burn community events. CC meetings each start at 7:42 pm at the Warehouse.

Special topics are as follows:

August 8:

  • AAR Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Operational Update
  • Capitalizing on Flipside Work Experience: discuss creating a committee for setting guidelines for listing experience on social media and resumes, work verification process etc.
  • Census and Surveys at Flipside: What’s been done in the past, should the org be involved?, what data is important, privacy concerns, etc.
  • CC Business

August 22:

  • AAR Update
  • Regionals Update
  • Communicating Open Lead and Area Facilitator Positions
  • Fall Town Hall Planning

Have a topic you believe the community needs to discuss? Send suggestions to us at https://www.burningflipside.com/contact.  Keep in mind that we discuss community and policy issues, not operational ones.

Who Can/Should Attend:
 You! If you care about the event and especially if you care about any of these topics you should come to discuss them.

Why this matters:
 The CC provides advice to AAR, LLC. In turn, AAR provides the overall direction and policy guidance that end up making the event happen. The topics discussed at this meeting may have a direct impact on you during the actual Flipside event and/or at the AAR, LLC warehouse.

CC meetings are a great way to stay informed about what’s happening in our community. 
Meeting minutes will be posted as they are received.

Church Nights Continue

Part of creating community is making it out to CC Meetings and Church Nights. Come hang out at Lloyd the Warehouse, work on projects, gab with fellow participants, and keep the warm fuzzy burning love alive. Folks arrive any time after 7:30 or so on Wednesday nights. Church Nights are BYOB and Leave No Trace. No MOOP!