SnowFlake

Huh, tell me what you think of this?

"Hi, all!
Actually, Snowflake is looking to recruit a couple more interesting midwest
camps for 2008. We can actually go up another 120 or so in population before
it starts to affect our placement.
No Village fees, it's more a confederation. Though we might ask you to bring
a few strands of LED lights for our common frontage.
Mellow place, low drama, good Midwestern peeps. This will be our ninth year.
We can put you next to whoever you want to be next to.

We can give you the amount of frontage space you need for your
interactivity, and the amount of camping space you need behind it for your
population. We can jiggle and tweak the camping spaces almost up to the last
minute, so everyone in the Village gets a fair shake--about 250-300 square
feet camping space per person historically. We can absorb a last-minute
population change or a new exhibit and sort of "even it out" across the
whole Village, whereas if you had your own assigned spot those twenty extra
people and cars and display might not fit.

Tentative lineup for Snowflake 2008--
Videogasm
Spray Dogs
Bedlam
Clevian Circularity
Burning MENsa
Bear Liberation Front
Plus the several more we still want to recruit.

We have had camps stay with us a few years then move on to bigger things,
like Ubercarney (Detroit) or Entheon Village (Chicago). Others have been
with us from the first. Fine either way. We are an incubator. The main point
is, we typically get far better placement on the Esplanade by banding
together than any of us could get on our own, and BM already knows our name
from days of yore as a trouble-free Village. Possibly the second-oldest
Village now. Not that we have huge, iconic displays 100 feet tall, but our
many smaller, interactive environments together make up a cool place where
you could spend all night in Snowflake village. Get a drink--go to Playa
speed dating--take your date to a movie at Videogasm--Have your t-shirt
artified--have a massage at Bedlam--wander through the sensory maze.... etc.
Plus the amazing things the new camps will doubtless bring to the
experience.

We'd be very happy to have new Midwest camps join our confederation this
year. Just now setting up our formal signup page, but the first step is
always to contact the coordinator with the basic idea : eric@clevian.com or
wisconsin@burningman.com to make sure we can fit you in. We generally do not
do large-scale sound or get placement near large-scale sound, since most of
our camps are more interactive, one-on-one kind of places where you actually
talk and interact with people. (Imagine that!) Plus, we like to sleep at
night. :)

If this suits you, give us a holler.

& thanks for the good word Zay!

Eric Griswold
Coordinator, Snowflake Village"