2020 Agenda 3:00 PM Welcome & Intros 3:05 - 3:50 SOAK* 3:50 - 4:05 BurnOut 4:05 - 4:20 STRETCH BREAK - Visit with your favorite Art Project 4:20 - 5:05 Precipitation NW 5:05 - 5:30 Regional Contacts for Burning Man 5:30 - 6:00 Break Outs
SOAK*2020 Some Assembly Required
New in 2020 Population Cap is 1900 - at capacity for this site ● New Producers ● New Leads ● Retiring Leads ● Power & Comms is all new, Production Manager ● New Burner Barn! ●
Introductions Welcome new peeps: Courtney, Pinky, Tight Pants, Eagle Eye, Paddywhack, Silver Dragon, Anholt, Honeybee, Koala, One Eye, GoldDust, Key Lime
Retire wheeees! Taj, Hatchet, Rally, Captain Linux, Something, Jinx, Tusk, 3Phase, Honeybee
MBS 2020 DIYMBS
Hello! MBS Leads - Cheshire and Sour Patch 2020 Artist - Shiny 9
The details ◎ 80 cubes form a 15 ft cube MBS ◎ Each cube - 3 ft 3 , about 50 lbs ◎ Plywood faces & 2”x4”s ◎ 30 cubes are scattered nearby ◎ Each MBS side forms a colored design ◎ Mini “samples” around MBS for sitting ◎ LED lights inside ◎ Completion - Yes? TBD? 😭 10
The Concept 11
SOAK History Presented by Koala
The regional program began in 1997 as way to build up more local burner communities, eventually those spawned regional burns and SOAK was one of the first. - Flipside (Austin) 1998 - Critical (Seattle) 2003 - SOAK (Portland) 2005 - Soooo many more
We’ve moved around a bit as we’ve grown Justesen Ranch 2015-now Miller Bros 2006-2010 Tidewater Falls 2011 2005 2014 Prindel Creek 2012-2013
And how we’ve grown! In 2005 roughly 300 people attended the first SOAK, in 2015 we had our first sell out year and today we have to cap the population at 1,900 people ! Turnip Man (2005) vs Battle Narwhal (2018)
Tickets & Sound Policy
Ticket Prices ● 2015: $85, $115, $125 ● 2016: $100 ● 2017: $110 ● 2018: $115 ● 2019: $115 ● 2020: $125, RVs $50
Approximate Timing 1. Vollie Redemption TODAY 2. Subsidized Notified March 7, sales later 3. Theme camp + Artist DGS Notified Early March, Sales Mar 15 4. Main Mar 22 5. Landowner + Vendor DGS Apr 1 6. OMG Apr 26
Gift Ticket Policy Pay it forward system - cannot be earned for current year, only for next year ● 16 Hours = Free ticket ● Leads, your Volunteers depend on accurate entries ;) ● Can Defer 1 year ● Retired leads with 2+ yrs will get a gifu ticket for the next year. ●
SOAK*2020 Directed Group Sale In order to support the core social infrastructure of SOAK, we ensure critical theme camps, artists, and infrastructure volunteers have access to targeted ticket sales. Providing these dedicated groups with access to tickets early on allows for their project planning to commence and also decreases demand (and therefore competition) for tickets in the Main Sale. The Directed Group Sale is intended to help pre-identified, established collaborative groups get access to tickets for their critical team members so that they can begin planning their projects.
“Subsidized” Tickets Awarded by the Board ● 60 planned for 2020 ● Half price of regular ticket ●
BRC Ticket Allocation 2019 had approximately 70,000 tickets for sale, divided as follows: Pre-sale/Fo’Mo : 4,000 tickets at $1,400 ● Directed Group Sale : 32,000 tickets at $425. 15,000 vehicle passes ● Main Sale : 23,000 tickets at $425. 10,000 vehicle passes available at $100 ● OMG Sale : 3,000 tickets at $550. 1,500 vehicle passes available at $80 ● Low Income : An additional 4,500 tickets are offered as part of the low income ● program at $210 70K does not count staff, LEO, Vendors ● Tickets are subject to around a 12% tax, plus a $15 to $25 per order shipping ● charge.
BRC Ticket Allocation
SOAK 2020 Ticket Allocation 2020 has approximately 1,900 tickets available, divided as follows: Volunteer, Staff, and Vendors : 400 tickets ● a. About 300 are gifu tickets for people that worked more than 16 hours in 2019 and SOAK Ops staff b. “Vendors” are Medical, Security, and Landowners Directed Group Sale : 600 tickets for Art/Theme camps ● Main Sale/OMG : 840+ ● a. OMG is usually ~100 Tickets, based on prior years Subsidized : 60 Tickets ● Patron Tix : 40 ●
SOAK*2020 Headcount (projected)
2020 Ticket Sales/Redemption No matter who you are - main sale, volunteer, lead, guest EVERYONE redeems or ● buys tickets through Brown Paper Tickets Emails are NOT tickets ● Volunteer redemptions - very soon ● Tickets are not sold at Box Office ● Directed Group Sale: March 15, 8pm ● Main Sale: March 22, noon ‘o clock ●
2020 RV Ticket Sales Limited to about 150 ● $50/ticket ● RVs are vehicles and campers that have been permanently modified to live in ● Emails are NOT tickets ● Must present ticket at box office ● Tickets are not sold at Box Office ● Available through DGS and Main sale ● infographic? ●
2020 RVs Camping in a car, truck, or van that has NOT been PERMANENTLY ● MODIFIED to be a camping vehicle is PROHIBITED by Wasco County. Permanently modified vehicles will be considered on an individual basis, and will require purchase of an RV/Trailer Pass during ticket sales. If you are not sure if yours is an authorized camping vehicle, email ● boxoffice@soakpdx.com
Sound Sound has been Banned from SOAK*2020. Please tune in next year. Also banned: Hugs Unicorns ● ● Sunshine Booze ● ● Fun Art ● ● Sex Vapes ● ● Food Influencers ● ● Camping Onesies ● ● Unicorns Snark ● ●
Sound “Quiet Hours”: 6am - 10am every day. Keep all Failure to respond appropriately to complaints sound at a conversational level so people can sleep. raised by SOAK officials may result in: volume check by SOAK Operations ● Zone 1: No sound above a conversational level mediation between camps and/or individuals ● allowed from midnight-10 am loss of amplified sound privileges ● ejection from the event ● Zone 2: No sound above a conversational level from 3am - 10am Zone 3: Sub-bass turned off or significantly reduced at 3 am, no sound above a conversational level allowed from 6am - 10am
Sound We received our very first official sound complaint Wasco County Commissioners are kindly giving us the opportunity to address it this year without any sanctions. “Midnight” was a hot topic...and an audience member had quite a bit to say about it NEW FOR 2020- Starting at midnight each evening, SOAK Operations will do a sound check at Gate. If your sound can be clearly heard at Gate, you will be instructed to lower your volume. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oT-ZhpT-ageMmyjPPMcKuCY2rNvOONUxDq-oD7RBcdE/edit#
Art & Camp Placement Camp placement decisions announce early March via email Symposium March 28th and 29th, contact placement@soakpdx.com
Increase in Camp Applications 75 camps in 2017 ● 81 camps in 2018 - 8% increase ● 105 camps in 2019 - 29.63% increase ● 111 camps in 2020 - 5.7% increase ● With ticket scarcity and DGS being a main avenue to ensure a ticket for a participant, we expect this to keep rising.
What Are We Doing About This? More detailed criteria in preparation for not placing camps due to space. ● A more thorough examination of camp applications and higher communication ● with camps to understand their interactivity and gifus to SOAK and to make educated and impartial decisions on who is placed or not. More feedback to camps based on the criteria so they can improve and receive ● placement. An adjusted timeline so that only camps that are placed are receiving DGS. ●
Timeline for 2020 2/3 - Art and Camp Registration opened 2/19 - Hard Close on Registration closed NOW: Reviewing Applications Early March - Event Mapping and Placed/Not Placed camps emailed with DGS allocation March 15 - DGS Sale opens March 20 - DGS Sales close March 28+29 - Placed Camps Symposium
SAFETY NORTHWEST APRIL 24-26, 2020 Photo credit Krissy Sorensen
It was better next year Any Questions?
Pants Matrix Above 60F Below 60F People Precipitation Pants Day Proximity Indoors Yes Yes Yes Yes No Outdoors Yes Yes Yes Yes No Day time Yes Yes Yes Yes No Night Time Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Precipitation Northwest Update
WHO ARE YOU ?
Our Mission Precipitation Northwest’s mission is to foster opportunities for participatory art, civic engagement, and leadership development. Our organization seeks to: ● Build bridges between the burner community & others in the Portland metro area ● Provide opportunities for skill building, arts education, & leadership development by offering participatory, decommodified, and interactive events
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