For the artists (and gnomes and robots, etc.) out there who want to get some love...

[turil.livejournal.com]

June 2-3: FIGMENT Boston!
Can you believe only 10 days from now our second FIGMENT event of 2012 will transform Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway into a large-scale collaborative artwork? Official submissions are closed... but we still invite you to bring your projects to FIGMENT! Please note that any project that is not registered must be hand-carried, and will not be mapped, scheduled, or have access to power. But we invite everyone to bring their art projects, social experiments, games, toys, dancing feet, picnic lunches, friends, robots, creative energy, gnomes, unicorns, and anything else you might love and want to share with the world! So, what are you bringing? For more information on bringing your project to FIGMENT Boston, please see the Artist FAQ and What to Bring pages.

What: FIGMENT Boston 2012
When: Saturday, June 2, 11AM – 11PM / Sunday, June 3, 11AM – 6PM
Where: the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston
Tickets: FREE!

For those who don't know, FIGMENT is kind of like a more family friendly, less sex, drugs, and fire version of Burning Man. It's a lot of fun!

Unfortunately I can't be there, but you can go and enjoy it!

(Oh, and I should let you know that I can't reply in the comments, as LJ kind of broke their submission button for some of us in the recent changes to the site. So if I don't answer you, don't take it personally. :-)

Comments

[whowehavetofear.livejournal.com]

Could anyone tell me what destination to enter into Google Maps in order to get directions? I'm afraid my geography is rather poor, and when I enter Rose Kennedy Greenway into Google Maps an office building comes up. The directions page on the Figment website itself comes up with an error message.

[whowehavetofear.livejournal.com]

Nevermind- I see I just go to South Station.

[ron_newman]

If you ever visited or participated in Occupy Boston, Figment occupies the same space (and the parks north from Dewey Square towards Quincy Market). It probably involves some of the same people, too.

Last year, the SCULimpics were held at Figment. I don't know if they plan a repeat this year.

[whowehavetofear.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ron_newman]

In response to my query, Figment Boston Communications told me: "SCUL did not submit a project this year, although we hope many of them will stop by."

ETA: And Skunk e-mailed me that "we plan on attending, but we're not hosting any games."

[magid.livejournal.com]

I talked with one of the SCUL organizers, and he said that while they won't have an official presence, they do plan to stop by at some point.

[ron_newman]

They forgot to update their page to point to the 2012 link. Figment 2012: Getting There

[ron_newman]

Figment's What to Bring page says dogs are prohibited, for the exact reasons you suggest.

[ron_newman]

They have a whole bunch of broken links, including one that should lead to that page but doesn't. I've e-mailed their communications director.

[ron_newman]

FIGMENT postponed to July 28-29

The entire FIGMENT Boston festival has been postponed to July 28-29 because of expected bad weather this weekend. I'll also make a new post about this.