Festival Report

Dear Borders,

Mr. & Mrs. Festival & Friends (and guests) are well on their way to a great weekend.

1. Pre-registration:

- We are currently full and have started a wait list.

- We have lowered our maximum attendance out of caution.

- We have over 40 first-timers!!!

- We only marketed internally: to the Festival list and Project Members.

- We will NOT advertise thru the Minstrel-gram, Jay & Molly, Shockenaw or open stages.

2. Registration:

- Registration will begin on March 1st with a series of emails to pre-registrants.

- Elizabeth Lachowitz is our Registrar. Thanks, Elizabeth.

3. Children's Program

- We hired Big Jeff DeSmedt to enhance our kids workshop track.

- We have about 20 teens through college.

- We have 10 children, ages 12 and under (plus their parents, of course.)

- Although we are wait-listing adults, we have immediate room for four more families (8 people)

4. The site:

- We had a dozen members visit Camp Bernie on 1/28/12. Thanks, Site Evaluators.

- The group was pleased with the site, despite some limitations.

- We will lower our maximum from 200 to 180 (guests and staff) per group advice.

- We will contact both Bernie and Star Lake about our October festival.

**** We will continue to look for a new and more perfect festival site.

**** Please volunteer to help the search.

5. Workshops:

- We had a 1/24/12 workshop meeting. Thanks to our ten brainstormers.

- We have a preliminary schedule and it looks excellent.

- We've hired Diane Perry (Minstrel main act this spring)to enhance our workshop technique track.