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Burn Night Volunteer Opportunities
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VOLUNTEER
A few things to note. Sign up genius does not play great with phones. For the longer sign ups, you must view in browser to see the “more” button for access to the later shifts.
In order to get a volunteer direct ticket offer for 2025 you must:
- Sign up (make sure your email is included)
- Show up (be on time and work at least 4 hours total)
- Sign in (make sure the lead signs you in)
City Watch
While the effigy burns and the community is gathered in the field the city watch volunteers to patrol the rest of the burn and make sure nothing is stolen or vandalized at our camps
Lead: CC
Perimeter
Fire is cool and all, but when we light up that big structure we’re going to establish what is a safe distance to keep the crowd at.
Lead: Hummingbird
Sand team
These folks stand the inner perimeter of the burn as a last line of safety. Very hot work.
Pre-burn
Fire spinners come one and all! Join the conclave in a fire spinning set before the effigy burns. Just attend the safety meeting in advance and have a safety equipped with a towel to join the perimeter
Lead: Kelle
Putting the burn into Burner? Let FAST know!
Our Fire Art Safety Team is tasked with making sure that flame effects and burnable art are safe for our participants to be around. Please take the time to fill out this short form to let our FAST team know about your engineering or art you plan to burn.
Fire Conclave
On Friday and Saturday we shall have a safety meeting and tool check for both performers and safeties at 3pm.
Please see this link with more information on tool and equipment safety to ensure your tools are ready.
Attendance at one of the meetings AND approval of fire equipment is required for participation in the fire ceremony. Each performer must have a safety. Safeties please bring a towel you don’t mind getting sooty. Fire dancers can perform 2-3 times based on the number of performers and timeframe.
Because we burn safely AF, let’s encourage each other to flow with the skills we know. Also, be in touch, and know when your body and brain are able to burn safely.
1 Adult Ticket Per Account- NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
We are using a new ticketing platform that requires every ticket holder to create a unique account on https://midwestburners.volunteeripate.com/.
Everyone will need to make their own unique account to attend the event. You can only use 1 ticket per account- this means if you have 2 tickets in your account, one will grant you entry and the other will be a donation. Please TRANSFER any extra tickets in your account to the intended ticket owners by Saturday, May 11. Minors may be listed under their guardians account but should have their ticket in their own name.
Unlike previous years, you cannot just show your ID at the gate to let in an individual whose ticket is under your name. Making a volunteeripate account is a part of our gate process this year, so everyone needs to make a unique account.
Have Questions or want to get involved?
Just a reminder of when this goes down
May 16th – May 19th, 2024
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2nd Round of Ticket Sales Live!
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SECOND ROUND OF GENERAL TICKET SALES ARE LIVE NOW!!
We are using a new ticketing platform that requires every ticket holder to create a unique account on https://midwestburners.volunteeripate.com/.
Everyone will need to make their own unique account to attend the event. Unlike previous years, you cannot just show your ID at the gate to let in an individual whose ticket is under your name. Making a volunteeripate account is a part of our gate process this year, so everyone needs to make a unique account.
We highly suggest using the same email that you use for volunteer shifts as the direct presale links will be sent to those email addresses.
Ticket Prices will be 75$ each for general admission. Children under 12 are $1.
General sale pools people will have the opportunity to buy up to 3 tickets and transfers will be open until Saturday, May 11. Please remember that EACH attendee must have a unique volunteeripate account associated with a single, unique ticket to the event. The ONLY exception is minors who may be registered under their parent/guardian account who houses the ticket.
The second round of ticket sales will be on Saturday, April 6th at Noon central time.
Do you want to build an effigy, Elsa?
Come help build the 2024 Interfuse effigy! If you have construction or carpentry skills, this is where to sign up. If you’ve got tools, please bring them.
Shifts before May 14th will be in Fayetteville Arkansas and do not require volunteers to have a ticket to Interfuse. On-site Effigy build will take place Wednesday (great opportunity for those seeking early entry!) and Thursday.
DMV: Art Cars
Art Cars! Art Cars! We love our art cars! Are you bringing an art car to Interfuse? Applications are open!
Applications are due by May 8th!
Art cars have to be approved by the DMV before the burn so make sure you get that application in!
Once you get to the burn, come see us at the volunteer kitchen across from the showers to check in and get your DMV Permit! All cars moving on site need to have their permit displayed!
Looking forward to all the crazy and fun creations for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil!
Cars and RVs
The vehicle camping pass request form is now live. All vehicles that will be parked within a Theme Camp or in Open Camping will require a Vehicle Camping Pass.
Our goal is to limit the number of vehicles within the burn. This improves our ability to respond to emergencies but also decreases default world intrusion, and generally makes a prettier landscape. In addition, please make an effort to decommodify your vehicle to the best of your ability.
This form will remain open until ticket transfers close. Approvals will start to go out 30 days prior to the burn.
Bringing an event? Let us know!
Are you planning an event for Interfuse?
We will publish events in the PDF Event Guide. This guide will also include names and locations of theme camps, a handy dandy map, and SO MUCH MORE!
No. Not really. That’s about all it will have.
Theme Camp Application
Application Dates: March 16 (Direct ticket launch) through April 14th 11:59 pm
This is a shorter time frame, don’t be slacking.
For questions after reviewing the form, email placementinterfuse@midwestburners.org
Registering a theme camp is the best way to ensure your theme camp has a reserved space to camp and interact with the community. If you’re performing amplified music (Sound camps) are required to register. Theme camp placement will be evaluated on the camps interactivity and contribution to the community.
So bring out your good side or your evil side and lets build a community the the Garden of Good and Evil – Interfuse 2024.
VOLUNTEER
A few things to note. Sign up genius does not play great with phones. For the longer sign ups, you must view in browser to see the “more” button for access to the later shifts.
In order to get a volunteer direct ticket offer for 2025 you must:
- Sign up (make sure your email is included)
- Show up (be on time and work at least 4 hours total)
- Sign in (make sure the lead signs you in)
Volunteer HQ
A new department this year. Share your love of volunteerism with the community by providing volunteer education and telling people where they should report for their shifts.
Lead: Muddy
Sanctuary
A vital component of the InterRangers, sanctuary provides a safe place to remove ones self from the over stimulating environment of a burn if needed, while also providing emotional support and attention when necessary
Lead: Brian Rosenthal
Contact sanctuaryinterfuse@midwestburners.org to sign up.
Gate
Check IDs, sign folks in, give wristbands.
Lead: Felix Blackwell
Kitchen
Providing a hot meal for our volunteer staff. No event comes together without hundreds of hands, and half as many mouths.
Lead: Mother Unit
Sound Marshal
Monitors sound camps for their noise levels.
Lead: Trint Johnson
Earth Guardians
LEAVE NO TRACE. It’s what we do, and the E.G. makes sure we do it. One of the very last departments on site, tasked with making sure the place is exactly as it was when we got here, if not better.
Lead: Charlie Barley
City Watch
While the effigy burns and the community is gathered in the field the city watch volunteers to patrol the rest of the burn and make sure nothing is stolen or vandalized at our camps
Lead: CC
Parking
Fitting over a thousand burners on our land takes some organizing with all those cars. Parking will help you park in way so that we make the most out of our space
Lead: Uno
Medic
Seriously, don’t die. We’ll make sure of it.
Rangers
The backbone of our InterRangers, we are your knowledgeable burner community members here to be seen, and be helpful. Rangers operate based off the F.L.A.M.E. acronym; Find out, Listen, Analyze, Mediate, Explain. If you have any emergency the Rangers will be your first line of responder helping to marshal any specific needs to you.
Lead: Darby
DPW
There’s a lot of work that goes into putting on a burn. Lucky for us it can be a labor of love for the Department of Public Works. Anything from digging ditches, hauling lumber, or telling bad jokes and drinking beer.
Leads: Lance Scott & Emily Webb
Perimeter
Fire is cool and all, but when we light up that big structure we’re going to establish what is a safe distance to keep the crowd at.
Lead: Hummingbird
Sand team
These folks stand the inner perimeter of the burn as a last line of safety. Very hot work.
Spark Patrol
Roam outside the effigy crowd to watch for any run away embers.
Pre-burn
Fire spinners come one and all! Join the conclave in a fire spinning set before the effigy burns. Just attend the safety meeting in advance and have a safety equipped with a towel to join the perimeter
Lead: Kelle
Greeters
Get yourself a burner hug, orient yourself with our unique event culture, and review the 10 (+1) principals
Lead: Jon Asher
Effigy
That big thing we burn Saturday night. Someone’s going to build it. Could be you if you provide FAST with a plan and have the desire to put it together on site a week before the event with the help of your friends and anyone in DPW that may be around.
Lead: Panic
Fire Conclave
On Friday and Saturday we shall have a safety meeting and tool check for both performers and safeties at 3pm.
Please see this link with more information on tool and equipment safety to ensure your tools are ready.
Attendance at one of the meetings AND approval of fire equipment is required for participation in the fire ceremony. Each performer must have a safety. Safeties please bring a towel you don’t mind getting sooty. Fire dancers can perform 2-3 times based on the number of performers and timeframe.
Because we burn safely AF, let’s encourage each other to flow with the skills we know. Also, be in touch, and know when your body and brain are able to burn safely.
Art Grant Awards Expire April 8th
Art Grant awards have been emailed and will expire April 8th.
Please check your email (artinterfuse@midwestburners.org) and respond if you want your art grant. You must save your receipts to submit for reimbursement. As a non-profit, We cannot reimburse gifts or wages to individuals. To receive reimbursement your receipts must be limited to materials consumed to provide community art.
Thank you for your creativity and participation!
Have Questions or want to get involved?
Just a reminder of when this goes down
May 16th – May 19th, 2024
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Interfuse General Ticket Sales Live!
✴︎
GENERAL TICKET SALES ARE LIVE NOW
We are using a new ticketing platform that requires every ticket holder to create a unique account on https://midwestburners.volunteeripate.com/.
Everyone will need to make their own unique account to attend the event. Unlike previous years, you cannot just show your ID at the gate to let in an individual whose ticket is under your name. Making a volunteeripate account is a part of our gate process this year, so everyone needs to make a unique account.
We highly suggest using the same email that you use for volunteer shifts as the direct presale links will be sent to those email addresses.
Ticket Prices will be 75$ each for general admission. Children under 12 are $1.
General sale pools people will have the opportunity to buy up to 3 tickets and transfers will be open until Saturday, May 11. Please remember that EACH attendee must have a unique volunteeripate account associated with a single, unique ticket to the event. The ONLY exception is minors who may be registered under their parent/guardian account who houses the ticket.
The second round of ticket sales will be on Saturday, April 6th at Noon central time.
VOLUNTEER
A few things to note. Sign up genius does not play great with phones. For the longer sign ups, you must view in browser to see the “more” button for access to the later shifts.
In order to get a volunteer direct ticket offer for 2025 you must:
- Sign up (make sure your email is included)
- Show up (be on time and work at least 4 hours total)
- Sign in (make sure the lead signs you in)
Volunteer HQ
A new department this year. Share your love of volunteerism with the community by providing volunteer education and telling people where they should report for their shifts.
Lead: Muddy
Sanctuary
A vital component of the InterRangers, sanctuary provides a safe place to remove ones self from the over stimulating environment of a burn if needed, while also providing emotional support and attention when necessary
Lead: Brian Rosenthal
Contact sanctuaryinterfuse@midwestburners.org to sign up.
Kitchen
Providing a hot meal for our volunteer staff. No event comes together without hundreds of hands, and half as many mouths.
Lead: Mother Unit
Sound Marshal
Monitors sound camps for their noise levels.
Lead: Trint Johnson
Earth Guardians
LEAVE NO TRACE. It’s what we do, and the E.G. makes sure we do it. One of the very last departments on site, tasked with making sure the place is exactly as it was when we got here, if not better.
Lead: Charlie Barley
City Watch
While the effigy burns and the community is gathered in the field the city watch volunteers to patrol the rest of the burn and make sure nothing is stolen or vandalized at our camps
Lead: CC
Parking
Fitting over a thousand burners on our land takes some organizing with all those cars. Parking will help you park in way so that we make the most out of our space
Lead: Uno
Rangers
The backbone of our InterRangers, we are your knowledgeable burner community members here to be seen, and be helpful. Rangers operate based off the F.L.A.M.E. acronym; Find out, Listen, Analyze, Mediate, Explain. If you have any emergency the Rangers will be your first line of responder helping to marshal any specific needs to you.
Lead: Darby
DPW
There’s a lot of work that goes into putting on a burn. Lucky for us it can be a labor of love for the Department of Public Works. Anything from digging ditches, hauling lumber, or telling bad jokes and drinking beer.
Leads: Lance Scott & Emily Webb
Perimeter
Fire is cool and all, but when we light up that big structure we’re going to establish what is a safe distance to keep the crowd at.
Lead: Hummingbird
Sand team
These folks stand the inner perimeter of the burn as a last line of safety. Very hot work.
Pre-burn
Fire spinners come one and all! Join the conclave in a fire spinning set before the effigy burns. Just attend the safety meeting in advance and have a safety equipped with a towel to join the perimeter
Lead: Kelle
Greeters
Get yourself a burner hug, orient yourself with our unique event culture, and review the 10 (+1) principals
Lead: Jon Asher
Effigy
That big thing we burn Saturday night. Someone’s going to build it. Could be you if you provide FAST with a plan and have the desire to put it together on site a week before the event with the help of your friends and anyone in DPW that may be around.
Lead: Panic
Cars and RVs
The vehicle camping pass request form is now live. All vehicles that will be parked within a Theme Camp or in Open Camping will require a Vehicle Camping Pass.
Our goal is to limit the number of vehicles within the burn. This improves our ability to respond to emergencies but also decreases default world intrusion, and generally makes a prettier landscape. In addition, please make an effort to decommodify your vehicle to the best of your ability.
This form will remain open until ticket transfers close. Approvals will start to go out 30 days prior to the burn.
Bringing an event? Let us know!
Are you planning an event for Interfuse?
We will publish events in the PDF Event Guide. This guide will also include names and locations of theme camps, a handy dandy map, and SO MUCH MORE!
No. Not really. That’s about all it will have.
Theme Camp Application
Application Dates: March 16 (Direct ticket launch) through April 14th 11:59 pm
This is a shorter time frame, don’t be slacking.
For questions after reviewing the form, email placementinterfuse@midwestburners.org
Registering a theme camp is the best way to ensure your theme camp has a reserved space to camp and interact with the community. If you’re performing amplified music (Sound camps) are required to register. Theme camp placement will be evaluated on the camps interactivity and contribution to the community.
So bring out your good side or your evil side and lets build a community the the Garden of Good and Evil – Interfuse 2024.
Open Positions With Midwest Burners Board
MWB BOD has 2 open positions for Treasurer and EC Support! We will be accepting nominations until the end of March.
Have Questions or want to get involved?
Just a reminder of when this goes down
May 16th – May 19th, 2024
