Element 11

List of Theme Ideas

QuickDraw Annie — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:02:23 +0000

We’ve gathered an overwhelming collection of theme ideas so far and want to share them with you as inspiration to come up with an idea of your own. Here is the list of ideas and here is the form to submit your own.

Volunteer Vitalization Event, Saturday, April 21

Aspen — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:48:30 +0000

VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION, TRAINING, WORKING, AND PAMPERING EVENT

Mark your calendars, Noon – 10 PM on Saturday, April 21, 2012

This event will be the FIRST OF IT’S KIND for our burn community… we’ll all be working on projects, learning new needed skills, joining work teams for all aspects of the event, celebrating and dancing, networking, contributing a gift to one of Element 11′s long-time supporters, and partying all afternoon and evening. Please participate! You’ll be rewarded!

Just show up with disposition and energy to help…we’ll do the rest. Got special skills? We’ll get you on the right team! We EASILY need 150-200 people…seriously! Volunteers will be the coolest club at e11 this year! Promise!

I’ll send out plenty of information about this event in a couple weeks, but in the meantime, please join the Element 11 Volunteers Facebook group (link below) ASAP to get all the information on the event, and all our volunteer needs leading up to and including the Element 11 event later this summer. Post your questions on the Volunteer Facebook page.

Volunteers make the world go around….at least our little freakish part of it!

JOIN THIS FACEBOOK GROUP TODAY: http://www.facebook.com/groups/299049153482896/

Element 11 Theme Submissions

QuickDraw Annie — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:41:29 +0000

Here’s the first step towards creating something awesome! We’re asking for your ideas for a theme for this year’s Element 11. Use this form to submit your idea no later than March 5th 5:00 p.m.

What constitutes a good theme:

1) It should be simple – get the idea across in 3 words or fewer.

2) It should be big – you should be able to interpret it in a million different ways.

3) It should be immediate – it should be something that everyone has had a chance to encounter in their lives in some form or another.

4) It should be complex enough to be worthy of further scrutiny.

5) It should be emotionally broad – there should not be a single emotion more associated with it than any other.

A good theme will inspire someone who is in any part of their life journey, whether they are experiencing joy or pain. It should neither deny chaos nor put it on a pedestal.

Previous Element 11 themes can give a general idea of what we’re looking for:

2011: Year 10 – All or Nothing
2010: BizarrE BAzzar
2009: Transformation
2008: Eclectic
2007: The Emerald City
2006: The Wasteland
2005: NeverLand
2004: CandyLand
2003: Alice’s Adventures in Scuba Land

We will choose the submissions that best meet the above criteria and ask everyone to vote for their favorite theme from March 12th through March 19th.

DO NOT USE THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW TO SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS. USE THIS FORM.