2024-26 FAI Board of Directors Application & Selection

We are excited to announce the opening of nominations for the Flashpoint Artists Initiative Board of Directors!

We have two(2) open seats this year as:

• Gracie Hansen has resigned.

• Anna Andersdotters one(1) year fill-in term is ending.

Alchemy has always been a community-driven event, and the BOD plays a crucial role in shaping our future by overseeing the organization's strategic direction, financial stewardship, and ensuring that our interests align with that of the community.

The BOD is where the sausage is made, a sausage full of passion, innovation & communal effort to name a few ingredients. Join us & learn the rest!

If you're passionate about contributing to the community's growth and sustainability or sausages, please nominate yourself for one(1) of our open seats.

Board positions will start in 2024 and are for two years.

Nomination are open NOW and continue through Friday October 27. Voting for our next board member will start Monday October 30. Voting ends November 12 at midnight and the new board members will be announced Saturday November 18.

Curious about applying?

2023 Survival Guide and New in 2023 updates

The 2023 Survival Guide is now available! CLICK HERE to check out the latest edition.

There’s a ton of valuable information including new teams, insight into things that are new or different this year and much, much more!

For instance, we will have a shuttle system to help our participants get around the burn. If you have accessibility needs and would like a little help getting a ride, then you can stop by Accessible Dang Awesome camping to request a checkered flag (not yellow flags, no stealing!). Wave the flag to hail a ride or ask a volunteer to radio for the Hand Job team when you arrive! Hand Job Assistants can help you move your gear and setup.

To request help in advance CLICK HERE.

We are aiming to make arrival, placement and exodus easier and safer for everyone. Please be sure to check out Gate, Traffic, and Parking and Gate Process sections to know what to expect.

Looking forward to burning with you soooooooon!

Event + Workshop Submission is now open

Hear Ye Hear Ye!! It's your Guide Guy...

Event + Workshop Submission is now open!!! Click the Link and tell me ~ALL~ to be included in The Very Useful Pocket Guide:

Got an event to host? A workshop? Meditation and Wellness to share? Food to fill bellies? Mixology skills and libations? Sick beats to shake one's booty to? Stuff for the wee ones? Arts and Crafts and Cats? Click the Link:

Event Submission ENDS in exactly 4 weeks on Tuesday September 25 so ACT NOW!

I know you have amazing talents you want to share. 🔥

You know you have amazing talents you want to share. 🔥

But unless you click the link and tell us about it NOBODY ELSE WILL EVER KNOW EVER. 😱😭

Help your dearest hippies Do All The Things. Submit your Events Today!

Placement Registration is Now Open

It's PLACEMENT REGISTRATION TIME, people! Theme camp organizers: fill out this form within the next few weeks so we can architect Alchemy.

This form will close September 16 at 11:59pm. Perfect Placement is not guaranteed.

New team coming the hand job assistants!

Everyone needs an extra hand sometimes! Our hand job assistants are available to help anyone who could use an extra hand setting up their personal tents. If you have recently been injured, have physical limitations, or just dumped your toxic partner and don't know how to set up your tent then we got you. You can sign up before hand or if something comes up last minute you can ask gate,greeters or anyone else with a radio to summon help. Even if you get overwhelmed half way through then just find someone with a radio and we are happy to assist! Open late on Thursday in case your arrival doesn't go the way you hoped it would.

Theme Camp Grant Information

Theme camps grants are now open!

Applications will be open Until August 31 2023 midnight.

We have 4 grants available for theme camps this year:

• New Camp

• Infrastructure Upgrades

• Transportation

• Fire Safe Material Replacement

Details on each grant process and requirements can be found on the application:

Send all questions on Fire Safe Materials & Grants to firesafematerials@alchemyburn.com

All other grant questions should be directed to grants@alchemyburn.com

NOTE: Theme Camp Placement Registration is COMING SOON!

2023 POLICY UPDATE: Fire Safe Structure Materials

The city of Chattahoochee Hills is asking Alchemy to make sure that the fabrics used for shade structures are properly treated with a fire retardant by the manufacturer. If you are a theme camp organizer or are bringing a structure larger than a 10x10 popup for personal use or multiple structures, make sure to read the policy update.

Theme camps can apply for funds to purchase fire safe material versions of your existing shade structures:

Send all questions on Fire Safe Materials & Grants to firesafematerials@alchemyburn.com

Alchemy 10 Principles Survey

This year's Education team has created a 10 Principles survey we would like YOU to fill out! Yeah, you, the one over there with the face.

We are wanting to learn about all the different ways you have interacted with the Principles at burns. It could be something you did, someone you know, or merely something you witnessed. It could even just be an idea or example you have. Regal us with your experiences and wisdom! Have fun with it!

Our aim is to use these responses for various activities, such as quests, our 10 Principles spinning wheel game, bingo. Some may also be used for signs. Who knows, we may even put one of these responses on a blimp!

Click here to access the survey: https://forms.gle/w12zV6F1bMnF3S7u8

Large Art Burn [LAB] Applications Now Open

Burners! WHAT ARE WE BURNING THIS YEAR? The Art Department is looking for builders, visionaries, and designers to create and build this years [LAB's]

What are LABs you ask? Large Art Burns are just what they sound like. They are very large sculptures, structures, and art pieces that we burn, such as the Effigy and Temple, or other big pieces of art we set on fire.

Do you enjoy creating large scale pieces of art and watching them ignite? Do you like to get rope burns, run chain saws, sweat, and get splinters? Do you want to watch thousands of hippies cheer while your hard work becomes the focal point of the entire event? If so, this may be your thing.

Building a LAB takes a tremendous amount of skills, labor and commitment. If you are submitting for a design our theme this year is Ghost Robot Resurrection - so please keep that in mind with your ideas. If you have the skills and want to be part of the LAB Tech teams, but don’t have a design in mind, you can apply here too.

How to apply

Step 1: Fill out the application for LAB Leadership.

Step 2: Then if you have a design, send us your designs, drawings, photos, research, and artist statements in an email to art@alchemyburn.com

If you have any questions e-mail us at art@alchemyburn.com

The deadline for submission is [7/18] and we will make our decisions by - 7/31.