Join us for COMPRESSION!

That’s right, folks. In a mere ten days, we will be lighting up the RENO CITY PLAZA in downtown RENO!!

Poster Designed by Dave Cherry

Poster Designed by Dave Cherry

WHAT: COMPRESSION

WHERE: 10 North Virginia Street, Reno City Plaza, Corner of 1st and Virginia Streets

WHEN: JULY 25, 2009

TIME: 3:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

We are SO excited and awed by the way this event is coming together!

Just in….we will have PREMIUM SEATING available on the day of the festival! For a mere $5, you can have your very own chair to sit in! This is in direct response to comments received on last years evaluations that said seating left something to be desired.

Please bring cash if you hope to take advantage of premium seating, we have no way to run credit cards on the plaza. Thank you!

Also, we will be producing EVENT T-SHIRTS for COMPRESSION. Here’s a sneak peak at the design:

Shirt Front, Design by Debbie Kaul

Shirt Front, Design by Debbie Kaul

Shirt back, Design by Debbie Kaul

Shirt back, Design by Debbie Kaul

Come play with us!

~Gemini

Compression! Commercial…

It’s getting close! I am SO excited! I have a lot of updating to do, so will post another post once I have that done…but the support we are receiving has been absolutely amazing!

Airing until the event, Strictly Diversified has helped Controlled Burn Produce a kick ass video commercial for our event! Special thanks to Lauren Gifford for voice work and Mac Kaul, Controlled Burn’s Marketing Director, for bringing this project together!

Check it out:

We are super jazzed to work with such awesome people! This spot begins running on July 11 until the event.

We are super excited about this!

Quick Update…

With little more than a month to go before the event, things are switching in to high gear, here!

Things are becoming finalized, excitement is building, and life is good!

Stay tuned for more exciting information to come.

We were seriously bummed about the budget hit the Arts in Nevada took with the budget reduction handed down to the Nevada Arts Council that affected Artists throughout the state, but we are more determined than ever to put on a kick-ass show! We did get some funding, and it will all go back to you, the audience!

Check back here for more info and start looking for post cards and posters around town!

Peace!

Schedule is UP!!

Hey everyone! Check it out….yesterday we got the schedule updated and ready to go! We also updated the performers with as many bios as we had, so stay tuned for what else we might be planning!

This years event promises to be super bad-ass! We are SO EXCITED that things are coming together!

Check out the link to the side for the schedule and also check out the bios on the performers.

We are just two months away from the event now…stay tuned, soon, THE POSTER/POSTCARD!!

We are having a meeting on Monday June 8, 2009 at 6:30pm at Prism Magic in Sparks. If you’d like to help or volunteer, please attend this and we will get you hooked up with the proper people!

Peace!

*whew* time for an update….

hi everyone!

wow, time sure flies when you’re having fun! we are just over two months out until the event and life is moving along nicely for our fire celebration!

earlier this week, we had a very successful and positive grant review with the Nevada Arts Council. we scored high percentage-wise and depending on budget cuts, we can appreciate very generous support from the council. this is awesome news, it all goes towards producing the event, and as it gets bigger, it’s amazing how much stuff costs and also heartening how many awesome people come together to make something like this work.

i met with todd south yesterday, and it’s looking promising for getting some live music into the event! we already had black rock city all-stars set to throw down with us, and now todd’s got something up his sleeve…stay tuned to see, we will post here once more details become clear.

i got confirmation also very recently that Unmata’s own Verbatim will be joining us. Along with Asha, there will be some belly shaking awesomeness happening for sure!

in addition, our fire groups are firming up too, with confirmation this week from both the Vulcan Crew and Copper Lantern. We are SO EXCITED that both these folks have decided to join us!

dave cherry, local burner and talented artist extraordinaire, has been working on our poster, and we are thankful and humbled by his talent! we will post the poster and postcard as soon as we finalize!

in other news, our special event application went in, we got insurance for the event, and most of our funding is secured. we are in the process of developing a site plan, and working out more more more logistics. i should be able to post a preliminary schedule soon, so stay tuned!

that was a lot of information, yo!

i will make every attempt to update more often as the event gets closer. stay tuned, everyone!

NAC Grant Video

Top O’ the morning to ya!

Have a great St. Patty’s Day, everyone! Enjoy green beer if that’s your thang, but don’t drink so much that YOU turn green too =)

Have wanted to post for awhile the video we changed just the audio on for the Nevada Arts Council. We decided to refocus what needed to be done, so I redid the audio.

Hope you enjoy it!


Controlled Burn Grant Video from Gemini Twin on Vimeo.

Rolling Along…

I LOVE this stage in the process…the point at which things almost seem to take on a life of their own. Life is good for us, right now!

Since I last updated, I’ve had conversation with the folks at “Men Wielding Fire” and they have agreed to be our food vendor. As I mentioned in their vendor blurb, tell me this isn’t a match made in heaven?!?! The celebration of FIRE and performing arts and men wielding FIRE? It just doesn’t get any better than that!

Also, I got some exciting news from Lauren, the vendor coordinator of the event that she was able to get a potter to join us! John Manley will be vending the event and also have his gorgeous art on display in addition to demonstrating some unique “firing” techniques. Can’t wait to see this!

I have had some email conversations with eNVision Performing Arts in Reno. We are talking about a collaboration that involved drums, fire, and more fire! How cool is that?!?! These young people are super talented and I can’t wait to see what comes to fruition!

Finally, I added the “Asha World Dancers” to the performers page. These ladies are so awesome, and they’ve been so inspirational to me personally and have acted as awesome mentors for Controlled Burn! These ladies are friends, awesome artists, and are working on some new stuff that may premier at our Celebration!

I submitted the Nevada Arts Council grant on Monday. I reworked the video on that a bit and will post it when I get a chance.

I’ve fallen behind on some paperwork stuff, I need to catch up, there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day!

That’s the news for right now.

Keep coming back, you never know what exciting news we will have for you!

Peace!

News, News, and More News…

Hey Everyone!

Hope last week was awesome for you all…it was for me!

We had a meeting last Thursday, January 29, 2009. It was at 6:30pm at Dave King’s house.

Present were: Mac and Dave Kaul, Carlyn, Donna, Gemini, Dave King, Brenda, Roger, Dusty, Cindi (I did this from memory so if you were there and don’t see your name here, please let me know and I will edit)

The Event is July 25, 2009. Need to develop a timeline backwards from there.

Controlled Burn will likely go in to 2X week rehearsal mode in May.

Need to stay organized and on-task.

Cindi attended Artown meeting this week for Presenters and general feel was positive with regard to Controlled Burn and the festival.

Additional fees this year surrounding having adequate medical services on-site based on City of Reno Special Event application.

Deadline for Vendors and Sponsors: June 20

Deadline for program booklet and subsequent ads: June 22nd.

Booklet will go to print July 8.

Gemini will call person who arranged for Sierra Legal Duplicating to donate printing of posters and flyers last year to see if they would do that again.

Dave King will contact medical folks to see if we can get non-profit discount or partial sponsorship.

Dave Kaul will contact guy from Planet X pottery in Gerlach to see if he is interested in participating in the festival.

Dusty interested in finding other places downtown to show case fire art and will coordinate. Involves finding appropriate venues, then finding art to display. Could display pics from last year in new venue. Possible “fire walk” art tour?

General feel that we should still have at least one fundraiser. Before or after Yuri’s Night? Consensus to have after Yuri’s night, but advertise AT Yuri’s night with Jellyfishes approval. Possible date May 16.

Lauren is Vendor coordinator, please contact her with possible leads on Vendors. Fire tools…local vendor? Unsure yet.

Gemini will contact “Men Wielding Fire” to see if we can work out some sort of trade or have them vend the event.

Gemini will have sponsor packets available for next CB members meeting, will ask each person again to get one sponsorship.

Productive meeting, thank you all.

Meeting adjourned 8pm.

Submitted by Gemini

(for corrections or additions to these minutes, please click the link to our FAF Ning community on the right and submit changes there. I will edit them to here. Thanks!~ Gem)

Grant Review Process, City of Reno

Today was the grant review meeting with the City of Reno. Here is how we did PRELIMINARILY. These results won’t be final until after Wednesday and after that are dependent upon the City of Reno’s budget process and any budget cuts these programs may suffer.

Here are the areas on which we were evaluated:

1.  ARTISTIC QUALITY: Your determination of the applicant’s artistic qualifications, ability, appropriateness to the project, and merit of the project as appropriate to the proposal.  Also, the relation of the project to the artistic statement/mission of the organization. (see item #4 below)

Numeric Score (CB-126/6=avg score of 21 with 25 being the highest and 1 being lowest)

2.  COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND IMPACT: How well does the applicant address the Reno Arts & Culture Commission mission to strengthen the awareness and involvement of all citizens in the community’s cultural life, both in heritage, in contemporary expressions; and the Reno City Council’s 2003/04 priorities to provide services to youth (especially at risk youth) and seniors?  What is the long term community impact of this project to audiences, artists, other arts organizations and/or the ability of the arts and culture community to thrive in the Reno area?

Numeric Score(CB-105/6=avg score of 17.5 with 20 being the highest and 1 being lowest)

3.  ADMINISTRATIVE STRENGTH AND STABILITY: Does the applicant show the strength, stability and responsibility that demonstrate an ability to perform the project or activity described?  This includes a clear and appropriate budget, planning and administrative support, and a plan to publicize and evaluate the activity.

Numeric Score(CB-98/6=avg score of 16.33 with 20 being the highest and 1 being lowest)

4.  FISCAL IMPACT:  Will this project significantly improve the applicant’s ability to produce a project or will it further the organization’s mission?

Numeric Score(CB-98/6=avg score of 16.33 with 20 being the highest and 1 being lowest)

So far, we got a total of 427 from six grant panelists. This put us in the 84% funding category. We will go back again on Wednesday to see what the final recommendation is, but I think we did well, given that this was our first time with the City of Reno.

They liked the video, this made me very happy.

Black Rock Arts Foundation got a recommendation of 95% funding, they had only ten more points than we did! We had many friends and collaborators also trying for grants and wish the best of luck to our friends and compatriots =)

Thanks for looking here, and I will let you know what happens on Wednesdays.

Gemini

Exciting news…

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There’s lots of updating to happen regarding our Celebration of Fire and Performing Arts, at this point in time.

I talked to Josh King the other night, and he’s excited to return to the festival! For those of you who might not know, Josh did those amazing, propane fueled sculptures that were around the stage last year. One example is here:

 

Photo by Bill Kositzky

Photo by Bill Kositzky

He says he has a bunch of unused material so he’s starting the brainstorming!

Also up and coming this year, we are talking to some really cool folks in the Bay Area about bringing some interactive art to the festival. We are also looking at improved/premium seating for this year, the possible addition of live music, and reorienting the stage in order to make it easier for more people to see.

Stay tuned, I will update as more becomes known.

Peace!