photo by Karin Cole Photography (Shakori Hills Recess 2014)
Northeast Firestone Recess
Camp Firestone, Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania
90 min west of NYC and 90 min north of Philly
September 24th - 27th, 2015
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Map of NE Firestone Recess Location
After such an inspiring start on the East Coast last year with Shakori Hills Recess, Recess has decided to bring its 2015 fall event to the Northeast. The setting is 4200+ acres of hardwood forest, waterfalls, and mountainsides a 90 minute drive west of New York City and 90 minutes north of Philadelphia. Dancing and skill-share workshops during the day and dances raging into the dawn. Countless hours of some of the most inspiring live and DJed Blues, Alt-Blues, and Fusion music you'll hear anywhere. You will be fed all local, organic food as we all work together to co-produce an experience beyond the every day. This is primarily a camping event, but we do have 28 beds available for people want to pay a bit extra for some creature comforts or who don't want to fly with a tent.
Event Pricing: Sliding Scale
Please pay at the upper end of what you can afford to help make this event
affordable and accessible for everyone in the community.
Can't Afford A Low-Income Ticket? Fill out a scholarship form*
$125 Low-Income Ticket
$155 Mid-Low Income
$195 Mid Income Ticket
$250 Upper Income
$295 Benevolent Gentry Ticket
Optional: $80 for 4 nights of your own bed! Dormitory style rooms located in the main dance space. 30 spaces available. You will bring your own bedding.
Recess Food Co-op Prices (read bellow for details)
$35 veggie meals for your entire time at the event
$25 (in addition to above veggie ticket) for 4 days of meat with your meals
*Please note that Scholarship covers only entrance to the event and does not cover food. While we really believe in financial accessibility, the amount we charge for food is literally the cost it takes us to feed you, so we ask that you try to cover your food costs if at all possible. We are charging less than $3 dollars a meal for local, organic food with big portions. We generally ask that people either cover their own food costs to buy meal tickets or that they try to feed themselves at the event.
affordable and accessible for everyone in the community.
Can't Afford A Low-Income Ticket? Fill out a scholarship form*
$125 Low-Income Ticket
$155 Mid-Low Income
$195 Mid Income Ticket
$250 Upper Income
$295 Benevolent Gentry Ticket
Optional: $80 for 4 nights of your own bed! Dormitory style rooms located in the main dance space. 30 spaces available. You will bring your own bedding.
Recess Food Co-op Prices (read bellow for details)
$35 veggie meals for your entire time at the event
$25 (in addition to above veggie ticket) for 4 days of meat with your meals
*Please note that Scholarship covers only entrance to the event and does not cover food. While we really believe in financial accessibility, the amount we charge for food is literally the cost it takes us to feed you, so we ask that you try to cover your food costs if at all possible. We are charging less than $3 dollars a meal for local, organic food with big portions. We generally ask that people either cover their own food costs to buy meal tickets or that they try to feed themselves at the event.
Instructor and Class Lineup — With Skill Shares
The full instructor lineup is still to be announced, but we will have multiple class periods a day with a large assortment of classes and instructors to choose from. There will be classes held on partner dancing, solo dance, non-dance movement arts, social and community building topics, and more! There will also be opportunities for anyone to teach workshops through a Skill-Share. Meaning, if you have something (anything!) you want to teach, you bring the class and we'll create the space where you get to teach it to your community. Because to be real, aren't we all both students and teachers?
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Plugging Into The Recess
Recess events are not run by some huge production company; they are run and produced by you! Every single person who registers will work one volunteer shift during the event. You will get to choose where you plug in: working in the kitchen, building one of our structures, helping folks register and find their way around, creating a enchanted ambiance for the dances, supporting all our hard-working volunteers… whatever you decide, you’ll be helping to make the Recess magic happen.
The Recesses have had required volunteering for years, and many participants tell us that their volunteer shift was a highlight of their experience. You’ll get to hang out with people you may never have otherwise met, and most importantly you'll have an opportunity to spend time in genuine service to your community. This event and this community belong to you!
When you arrive at the event you will have a chance to pick how you want to plug-in and who you want to work with.
The Recesses have had required volunteering for years, and many participants tell us that their volunteer shift was a highlight of their experience. You’ll get to hang out with people you may never have otherwise met, and most importantly you'll have an opportunity to spend time in genuine service to your community. This event and this community belong to you!
When you arrive at the event you will have a chance to pick how you want to plug-in and who you want to work with.
Recess Survival Guide: What You Should Know
This is a mostly off-the-grid event: please don't expect to be able to charge your cell phone or your air mattress pump. We will have shower with hot water, flush toilets, as well as porta-johns. However, to make sure you are fully prepared, make sure you bring all of the following:
- Build will begin Thursday morning, official arrival is at 4pm on Thursday, feel free to arrive before the 4pm start time, but plan to help us set up!
- Everything you need for camping (or have purchased one of the 40 bunk bed spaces). We are talking ground pad, sleeping bag, tent, the works.
- Sun screen, bug spray, and clothes to be in the sun for much of the day. Temperatures at night will probably be in the 50s with daytime highs in the 80s.
- Snacks. If you buy meal shares we will feed you three meals a day plus snacks, (with vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and meat options). If, however, you have other crazy allergies or dietary restrictions, it's probably a good idea to bring some of your own food regardless of whether you buy meal shares.
- Your own mug/drinking vessel. Plus any spoons you'd like to donate to the Recess Kitchen! We've got forks & dishware covered! Please note that the dishware we use IS PLASTIC. If you prefer not to eat off of plastic, you are still welcome to bring your own. However, for sanitary reasons, we will no longer be serving into mugs. Bring a reasonably sized thing, or use ours. We recommend putting your name and city on whatever you bring and don´t bring your grandmother´s china or anything else you'd be devastated to lose.
- Clothes to be screen printed! We will be offering custom-prints on any clothes you choose to bring. Clothing must be dropped off for screen printing on Friday and/or Saturday morning and will be available for pick-up Sunday afternoon. The inks will be black and white, so bring clothes that will show those colors well. Also keep in mind that textured fabric and seams are hard to print on and often produce less-than-ideal outcomes. We love to pay artists for their work! We suggest a$5-10 donation per screen print.
Tentative Event Schedule: All Heavy On the "Ish"
Thursday Event Arrival Information: Dinner and opening circle at 6pm. Feel free to arrive anytime earlier, but know that we'll joyfully ask (and expect) you to help us set up! Music starts at 9pm.
Daily Meal Times: (All heavy on the "ish") 11am Brunch, 6:30pm Dinner, 1am Late Night Meal.
Morning Movement Session: Post Brunch
Daily Workshop Times: 2pm -4:30pm
Dancing Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun nights: 9pm - When we stop. With venue changes and transitions..
Monday Noon: We miss you already, thanks for the beauty! Now let's clean up!
Daily Meal Times: (All heavy on the "ish") 11am Brunch, 6:30pm Dinner, 1am Late Night Meal.
Morning Movement Session: Post Brunch
Daily Workshop Times: 2pm -4:30pm
Dancing Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun nights: 9pm - When we stop. With venue changes and transitions..
Monday Noon: We miss you already, thanks for the beauty! Now let's clean up!
What is the Recess food Co-op?
As always, collective meals and snacks will be available all day every day. Everyone who wants to eat with us can buy a food share and our kitchen team will pool all the cooperative food funds and volunteer labor to provide totally awesome meals made with the most fresh, local and organic food possible.
Vegan and gluten-free options will be available at every meal.
One food share ($25/event) entitles you to 4 days of vegetarian food, which includes 3 meals a day.
The first official meal of the event will be Thursday dinner, and the last Monday Brunch.
In addition to your veggie share, you can buy a meat share at Firestone. Because meat is extremely resource intensive not just to produce, but to buy, refrigerate off grid, and prepare safely, there will be an additional cost for meat shares. One meat share ($25/event) will entitle you to meat meals, including one 3 - 4 oz. servings of meat each day. If you think you want twice that amount, feel free to purchase multiple meat shares.
Below is our 4in x 6in promo flyer. feel free to print and distribute, or email us if you would like us to snail mail you some to help flyer your local dance scene.
Vegan and gluten-free options will be available at every meal.
One food share ($25/event) entitles you to 4 days of vegetarian food, which includes 3 meals a day.
The first official meal of the event will be Thursday dinner, and the last Monday Brunch.
In addition to your veggie share, you can buy a meat share at Firestone. Because meat is extremely resource intensive not just to produce, but to buy, refrigerate off grid, and prepare safely, there will be an additional cost for meat shares. One meat share ($25/event) will entitle you to meat meals, including one 3 - 4 oz. servings of meat each day. If you think you want twice that amount, feel free to purchase multiple meat shares.
Below is our 4in x 6in promo flyer. feel free to print and distribute, or email us if you would like us to snail mail you some to help flyer your local dance scene.
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