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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Aug 30, 2007 16:32:52 GMT -5
WildFire is the premier fire performance art training camp in the country. Several of the circus members have have been to this semi-annual event, and at least Sarah and myself will be returning this fall.
I currently have 1 extra ticket. It's $85 and inclueds the 4 days classes, workshops, jolly good fun, etc., three meals a day, your camp site and warm showers on the premises.
The festival runs Thursday 20th Sept - Sunday 23rd.
Also, this year WF is trying something new: on friday and saturday nights from 8:30 - 10:30pm there will be performances from fire artists. Each performance will be followed by a critic session so that both the performers and the audience can learn from it.
I am dead set to perform with this. However, I am definately open to collaborating with others (cough sarah). This is something that would be serious and we'd have to work hard on as soon as we get to campus, as WF is only 3 weeks away (holy crap)
Anyone interested in going?
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Post by James on Sept 1, 2007 15:42:28 GMT -5
I have a certain amount of interest. I'll have to figure some stuff out first, though.
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Post by tarapeze on Sept 2, 2007 7:24:28 GMT -5
sar, i'll take that ticket! do you have room in your car to take me there, too? i'll split gas!
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 2, 2007 11:08:26 GMT -5
Yes, I have room for you, Tara. I plan on leaving on thursday, at around 4 - does that work for you two?
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Post by tarapeze on Sept 2, 2007 19:43:39 GMT -5
yup! yay!
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 2, 2007 21:15:21 GMT -5
Ticket is $85. You'll need to log on to the WF page and create an account so that I can transfer the ticket to you, which I will do when I get a check from you. Website is www.copperheadfire.com/wildfire |
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Post by sarahonfire on Sept 3, 2007 9:22:47 GMT -5
Sar, my one class (teehee! ONE!) is from 5-6:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Would it be okay to leave after my class?
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Post by tarapeze on Sept 3, 2007 20:46:27 GMT -5
i made an account! i'll write you cheque when i find them  |
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 5, 2007 15:36:40 GMT -5
James - I found another ticket. The price is $85 and that includes food. Let me know as soon as you can if you're still interested
Sarah, I was hoping to get to WF in time to set up my tent in the light, so I'd really rather not wait that late to leave. However, if James does come, we'll have 4 people, plus laura's in the valley, too (don't know if she's going yet though) and I've agreed to take becca to the airport on the way home, so maybe you and me both taking cars would be a good idea.
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Post by James on Sept 6, 2007 18:57:15 GMT -5
So now that I have some idea of what my schedule is looking like, I don't see any reason why I can't go. I have a very lovely check from my grandfather for my birthday that should serve me nicely in that regard. I haven't gotten my check book from the bank yet, but it should come in the next few days here. I do have a class that ends at noon, so I don't know if that disqualifies me from the earlier car (I like being on time for things for some reason, I know that makes me a bit of an oddity).
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 6, 2007 19:38:20 GMT -5
Noon on thursday? I plan to leave between 3:30 and 4pm on thursday
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Post by tarapeze on Sept 9, 2007 10:35:12 GMT -5
hey sarah, ticket includes food & showers & campsite - but not tent, right? i need to find my own tent?
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 9, 2007 16:01:35 GMT -5
I think you can rent tents at hampshire. They also do a cot reservation thing, which has a cot and big canvas tent on a platform. Let me know if you want to sign up for that.
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Sept 10, 2007 11:32:55 GMT -5
James, I need to know your last name, and you'll need to sign up for an account on the WF site, so that the ticket can be transfered to you. Either cash, or a check to Joe, the guy selling you the ticket can either be mailed, or handed to him at WF
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Post by James on Sept 25, 2007 15:05:57 GMT -5
So hey guys. I just wanted to say thanks again for encouraging me to go and then finding me a ticket. Going really had an impact on me and was exactly what I needed. The volume of burns I got in really helped me to get more comfortable with fire spinning, which has always been a problem for me. Previously I'd freeze up doing difficult tricks that I can do with literally one hand tied behind my back, which would get me into trouble, but now I'm a lot more comfortable. I'm also really psyched about learning fire eating and I'm all filled with enthusiasm for making shiny new toys to light on fire.
But more importantly, it's helped me to regain my enthusiasm for life (you probably hadn't noticed it had dwindled, but then neither had I). I was having a bit of a tough time when I first started poi (well no rubbish, I was a sophomore in high school) and it felt like the first time I was able to really accomplish something just out of determination. I had acquired skills I enjoyed before, of course, but mostly things like learning French horn and becoming a good competitive swimmer, but those came more from borrowed enthusiasm. I practiced because that was what I had to do. But with poi there was nothing to encourage me but my own love for the medium and that was enough to carry me a long way.
This discovery sort of led to a revelation that I've tried to adopt as my personal philosophy: never to say "I wish I could." I figured that if there was something I truly wanted to do, I'd just go out and do it. If I'm not willing to do what it takes to make it happen, then I don't really want to do it. So it'd be nice to know Navajo, but since I don't want to take the trouble to learn it, I don't really wish I could do it. This philosophy helped me to take up the didgeridoo, juggling, the unicycle, photography, and took me to Australia and Scotland, and helped me to found my high school's Object Manipulation Guild. My exception to this rule is things that I've tried my honest-to-goodness best to do but failed (I've not yet found one of these) and things that aren't actually possible for me to accomplish. So I can say with impunity that I wish I could fly (sometimes I get depressed about the fact that I can't for weeks at a time).
I suppose it must have been about half a year ago that I lost my enthusiasm for this philosophy. I'd decidedly hit a wall with how much I could learn on my own with poi and there wasn't really much that took its place. Despite my best efforts and its apparently large membership, it was apparent that my juggling club would not continue after I graduated. I'd caught a hefty case of senior apathy and not even my photography class was sparking my creativity anymore. Now, to the casual observer I was still a real happy guy, but my philosophy was mostly forgotten and I just wasn't able to function with proper enthusiasm.
But this weekend really helped me to remember what life is about. So I want to thank you guys for getting me to go, and everybody in the circus just for being awesome, particularly Blue Hair Sar just for giving me somebody to look up to with my spinning. Also Tara for starting the circus so that I don't have to. Because I would have already gotten started on that if it wasn't already here, and that'd waste time that I'd otherwise be using to practice poi. I love you guys.
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