Bring paper, bring white craft glue, bring glitter and ribbon. Bring anything decorative you feel like. Cloth, candles, sticks especially. They’re the struts you bind everything too and hang your string and tassels from. If you’re not the sort of person who can build things or visualize shapes, I have you covered, I can make anything. Just try to bring materials.
It’s really one of the only events Vancouver has that’s worth going to, no matter what else you’ve planned.
I’m sorry for the short notice, but I haven’t exactly been on the ball lately, as most of you have likely noticed.
I haven’t been thrilled with the festival the last few years, since Public Dreams changed hands and it became a little too about business and less about performance and fire and delight, but this year I’m actually looking forward to Saturday, though it’s going to hurt. Jay Harmer called me last night, during the party, (that I was exhausted throughout for, which bothered me, because I wanted to talk with Amanda more), and it’s confirmed now that I’m working the fireworks. I’m to be at Trout Lake by nine a.m. with my pyrotechnics license to start setting up the mortars. I agreed to a BBQ in the afternoon/evening, and now I don’t know when I’m going to make it, not knowing any more of my schedule than that.
This is going to be the first Illuminares that I’m going to be paid for. Before, when I played with fire, I was doing it for free, for the joy and grinning beauty of it.
edit: we’re heading out for supplies, will be back around 7.