http://bm.tribe.net/thread/23dce461-1c4d-4e85-8fb4-b277eabe8e94?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://bm.tribe.net/thread/23dce461-1c4d-4e85-8fb4-b277eabe8e94#f593ac22-f174-4aa4-a4fc-1c7ab556e47c DARK SKIES TICKETS TO GO ON SALE SATURDAY APRIL 12 @ NOON PST TICKETS: Tickets to The Dark Skies Arts Festival, June 19-22 at Mojave Drums near Meadview, Arizona are going on sale this Saturday 4/12/08 at twelve noon PST under the following price structure: FIRST TIER: 75 tickets @ $75 SECOND TIER: 150 tickets @ $95 THIRD TIER: The remaining 75 tickets will be $125 Gift Tickets: we have a very limited number of gift tickets available where we trade you admission for your work on site. See below. ATTENDANCE CAPS AND NO GATE SALES THIS YEAR We are capping attendance at 300 and there will be NO GATE SALES this year! Advance ticket sales will cut off about a week out from the event. Under 18 with parents only, kids under 12 are free. No in-out, no pets. Dark Skies is the southern Nevada regional burn, now to be held across the dam in Arizona! All of Burning Man’s 10 principals apply including leave no trace, no vending and the gift economy. THEME CAMPS We are requesting that all theme camps register and determine the minimum required amount of space that you can fit into. We are also asking most participants to drop their camping gear and park out by the front gate in order to keep the event site open and allow art cars, pedestrian traffic, and bicycles to traverse the site safely. There’s plenty of room on this site for our event, we just have to use it judiciously and creatively. Please please please register your theme camp and art so we know who’s coming! FIRE Dark Skies 2008 is operating in a high fire season, and in an area of pristine high desert in a beautiful Joshua Tree Forest. Dark Skies Fire Safety will be operating under the jurisdiction of Meadview Arizona Fire Dept. All final decisions regarding fire will be up to them. • Fire performers will be allowed i/e: poi staffs breathers and all other hand held fire performance toys. • Small propane flame effects; ie hand held puffers and small lpg flame effects with neither having a vertical flame length exceeding 10ft unless pre approved will be allowed. • Fire barrels; fire barrels will be provided and maintained by event staff and will be in community areas. • No personal burn barrels and fireplaces unless pre-approved in advance of the event. • All generators used will be required to have an abc fire extinguisher and a pointed shovel within 20 ft at all times. • Tentative fire times will be between 7pm and sunrise. Fire times will be subject to blackout in case of winds sustained in excess of 12 mph. • All fire artists and participants must check in with DSFS. DSFS has the final say when it comes to fire of any kind. • Smoking is to be conducted on developed and groomed areas only, no smoking is allowed in the vegetated areas of the event site. Leave no trace; never let it hit the ground. • Fireworks of any kind are illegal and banned 100% at this event. • All fire activities will be restricted to fire performance areas and then only at pre approved times. We will clearly mark these areas on site. Important fire information; All fire activities may be banned in the case of a regional “red flag alert”. A red flag alert occurs when high winds regionally create a situation whereby all fire activities are banned. This is not the same as the high fire season ban which runs April 15 – Nov 15 and for which we are applying for variances too for this event. This is also NOT the same situation we had last time where CCFD “stuck it to us” at the last minute and bummed a lot of people out. Our hosts want to see fire at this event. But we have to play by their rules. Lets hope for low winds on the weekend of the event! VOLUNTEER! The heart of any regional event is the volunteers, and we love our volunteers! We have limited Volunteer opportunities available for Dark Skies. Please check the website and the event’s news group which is located here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DARKSKIES_LASVEGAS/ Pictures of the new site are here http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/pictures/3-08sitesurveyweb/index.htm The event’s website is understandably undergoing some changes since the move and is here http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/ Thank you to the community, to our wonderful volunteers, and to all of the artists and theme camps that make this and every regional event so darn special! We cannot do any of this without YOU. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:27:15 GMT http://bm.tribe.net/thread/23dce461-1c4d-4e85-8fb4-b277eabe8e94#f593ac22-f174-4aa4-a4fc-1c7ab556e47c Pirate Ron 2008-04-10T05:27:15Z