Snowflake 2007 Welcome

`WELCOME to Snowflake Village!`

This is the discussion group where you sign up to be a part of Snowflake Village 2007. If you want the background on Snowflake and our esteemed history and dark rituals, please visit our home page HERE.

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This will be Snowflake's eighth year, making it one of the oldest & most stable Villages on the Playa. Maybe because we keep it simple... A confederation of Midwest, Canadian, and other far-traveling Theme Camps with no village fees; a simple setup; a good location; the advantages of better security and social interactions.

Whatever the size of your camp, from megalopolis down to a teeny kissing-booth, we can do our best to accommodate you. We give you frontage according to the size of your display or Theme Camp, and camping space behind according to your population.

There are three main places we can locate your camp: on the Esplanade, on the next street out, or fully inside the Village (no frontage). If you are brand-new to Snowflake, contact the off-site Coordinator, Eric G, at eric@clevian.com and tell us your idea first...

Esplanade camps

Being on the Esplanade is definitely the Big Time. Burning Man requires certain things from a camp on the Esplanade... so we will want some serious interactivity from you:

Be fully lit and open each night during peak hours 8-12... Ideally, more than that.
Have some kind of 24/7 interactivity
Have representatives on-Playa by Monday, setting up.
Be set up quite early in the week.
We need to have a common visual theme that unifies the Village. Usually that is X-mas lights strung across the whole interactive front of the Village. We need your help to build and maintain that system. At night our Village should be lit with an arc of lights like a big glowing smile-- not like a smile with one tooth knocked out-- with a camp strangely dark and empty.

"A" Street camps

The next street-- the "A" street-- is less demanding of interaction but it is still mapped and reserved space! ...., not for "just camping" It is a great place for a tea house, yoga camp, sculpture garden, or other thing that is only open sometimes. We still need some interactivity from you:

Have some activities open to the public and interactive.
Help maintain our back perimeter-- with some kind of rope-fence, caution tape, or structures along your frontage. We do not like people riding their bikes through the Village at 3am and crashing into our tents!
Like everybody else, have a cleanup plan to Leave No Trace.

Internal Camps.

Some camps have their main art located somewhere else, like out on the Playa. Some people come from far away, like Europe or Japan. And there are always newbies, and small groups of 1-2 people. We have an Overflow Area where you can be inside our glorious Village with no frontage. But we still need your help!

Help the other camps! While we are all working like dogs setting up giant domes and stuff, bring us water! Fetch our duct tape! Bring us a cookie!
Clean up.

OK. Are you ready to do it? To make the crazy journey, to participate, to be part of the most amazing place on earth? To change your life forever?

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Post your themecamp description HERE!

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A Sample Themecamp entry

Feel free to copy and paste the sample entry below, and modify it to your needs. Give us a basic description now-- You can always come back later, and reply to your own post, with updates.

NAME OF YOUR CAMP: Clevian Circularity:
EXISTED SINCE: 1998.
HOMETOWNS: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, outer space.
HOW MANY PEOPLE: About 18.
FIRST PEOPLE ARRIVE: Saturday Aug 25
SOME INTERACTIVITY IS OUT THERE BY: Monday, Aug 27 (opening day)
FULL SETUP BY: Tuesday Night, Aug 28. Wednesday morning at the latest.

TAKE A FEW LINES AND TELL US WHAT YOU ARE BRINGING:

Clevian Camp is bringing the Green Dome. Lit green by moving projections from inside. It will be hung with vines and fronds and when you go in you will be faced with HUGE paintings of the faces of gorillas, tigers, etc. staring at you from all sides. Like they are asking you something, reaching out to you. Trick lighting will make their eyes seem to move. The Green Dome will be accessible both day and night.

During peak hours at night we will run several interactive games, like Green Nymph Speed Dating.

We are also bringing an art piece for the Garden around the Man. "Corn Woman" is a human sized, genetically modified ear of corn that will talk to you. We have to take it out of the garden Friday night so we will bring it back to Snowflake Village for the rest of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

HOW MUCH FRONTAGE DO YOU NEED FOR THIS: About 30 feet.
WILL YOU HAVE GAS OR PROPANE MORE THAN 5 GALLONS: Yes.
(if yes the excess must be stored near the Fire lane)
WILL YOU BE OPEN AND LIT DURING PEAK HOURS 8-12 EACH NIGHT: Yes.
(if no we can still put you in the back).
WILL YOU HAVE SOME ELEMENT OF 24/7 INTERACTIVITY: Yes.

DO YOU HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO LEAVE NO TRACE: Yes.
FINAL CLEANUP CREW LEAVES: Tuesday, September 4.
WHAT IS THE MASS-RATIO BETWEEN THE ELECTRON AND PROTON: 1836.

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