Subject: RE: Camp New Harmony Workshop Signups- 2016-2017
From:
Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 16 - 06:22 PM
Here's the text of the housing assignment letter, which gives lots of useful information about camp:
Please check your housing arrangements and make sure this is what you requested. All housing is pre-assigned. The camp requires that we tell them where each individual camper will be staying 10 days before camp begins. Changing housing assignments after Dec. 16th or at Camp will not be possible. If you need to change your housing arrangement please contact Margaret and Amelia (campnewharmony@gmail.com or [get number from Joe Offer]) before Dec. 16. All housing units are equipped with bathrooms (including showers) heating and electrical outlets. Your exact room number will be provided to you along with a map of camp when you check-in at registration.
WHAT'S DIFFERENT THIS YEAR:
Registration will be in the new Welcome Center. Please park near the front gates and make the short walk if you can. There are 3 parking places in front of the Welcome Center; we'd like to save those for our campers with mobility issues.
All cabins have new mattresses, and many have new bunks. This eliminates the need for bed boards, and we no longer have them.
Lower Village has been rebuilt. You will see all new cabins replacing lower village.
Make sure you bring a flashlight and use it when walking around camp at night!
If you have questions about the site and its facilities please contact Margaret or Amelia, do not contact the staff at Camp Newman directly as they are busy hosting other camps at this time.
NO DROP-INS. We're very sorry, but due to Camp Newman rules, we cannot accept anyone who isn't registered by the December 9th deadline. If you have friends who want to come to camp but are not registered, have them join the SFFMC so they get the Folknik registration materials and can attend next year.
Getting to Camp
New Harmony is located at Camp Newman 4088 Porter Creek Rd., Santa Rosa, 95404. Click here for map and directions.
If you drive a car to camp, you will need your vehicle license number at the registration desk! We encourage you to carpool. If you are interested in carpooling or able to offer a ride, send a message to campnewharmony@gmail.com.
Please plan to arrive between 2pm and midnight on Wednesday December 28, and 8am and Midnight during the rest of Camp, as our location is a gated site. Press the buzzer at the gate and identify yourself, and Newman staff will unlock the gate for you. Once through the metal gate, park nearby and walk to the large new Welcome Center to register.
Bus Service
We will again be providing a mini-bus to help our members get up and down the hills, and the bus will start running on Wednesday afternoon. We hope this will make workshop and jamming areas more accessible to those with limited mobility and instruments to carry. The bus will make a continuous circuit of camp, including all workshop areas, the dining hall and the red cabins, several times per hour. Volunteer bus-sherpas will be available to assist you with loading and unloading instruments.
To ensure that the bus can safely negotiate the camp's narrow roads and tight curves, we cannot allow anyone to drive personal cars around camp during the hours of bus operation (except for arrival at & departure from camp). Please help make this a success by parking only in the designated areas and do not block the bus route.
PLEASE DONATE! As was expected, given the state of the economy, campership requests were way up this year, and campership donations were way down - if you can afford to make a campership donation, please do so - no amount is too small. Please make your check payable to SFFMC and write "campership donation" in the memo section. You can send donations to:
Ellen Eagan
Camp Harmony Treasurer
(ask Joe for address)
San Bruno, CA 94066
We will also be giving you the opportunity to donate at Camp, so please bring your checkbook! All (labeled) donations are tax deductible. (If you donate cash, please attach a note with your name and address so that a receipt can be mailed to you.)
What to Bring to Camp
BRING: Bedding, towels, bathrobe (bathrooms are co-ed unless you are in a single-sex cabin) clothes for different kinds of weather (hat and rain gear, warm coat, umbrella), earplugs, songs, musical instruments and books, soft sole dance shoes for indoor use only, a coffee/drink mug for each attendee, a flashlight and extra batteries. If you like to sip beverages during workshops, please bring your own traveler's mug. Open-mouthed containers will not be allowed in one of the workshop areas. Optional: dress up clothes and/or table decorations for New Years Eve, decorations for your cabin - no nails, tacks, staples or tape.
A note on bedding: the site provides NO bedding, towels or toiletries. Most beds at Camp are twin-sized camp bunk or single twin beds (no one will need to sleep on a top bunk unless they want to). The camp has put new mattresses throughout camp, so our stay should be much more comfortable!
DO NOT BRING: radios, TV's, CD players, or beeping things. NO smoking, candles or open flames of any kind are permitted in cabins or bathrooms - these are the Camp Newman rules, and they own the site! Electrical appliances can be used in all units. ABSOLUTELY NO PETS.
Camp Newman is a huge facility with a responsive maintenance crew - occasionally a cabin heater is broken and cannot be repaired until after camp. If you are concerned about cabin heating at camp, we encourage you to bring extra blankets and/or a labeled space heater with you to camp.
If you haven't already, consider getting a flu shot to help insure a healthy Camp.
Dietary Needs and Food Allergies
Camp Newman staff will be preparing all of our meals at New Harmony. They are not able to cater to any special diets. However, there is a tiny separate kitchen located in the Welcome Center (immediately across from the dining hall) that a few campers with legitimate special needs may use. Out of consideration for the occupants of the Welcome Center, we must limit the use of this kitchen to a very small number of people with special permission, and to specific hours of the day. If you wish to cook or store food in this facility, you must make advance arrangements with Margaret or Amelia.
Camp Life
We invite you to participate in a wide variety of activities and to try new experiences. You can sing along on the choruses or enjoy listening to the jam sessions even if you don't think you're a musician. If you've never danced before, we welcome you to give it a try. We encourage everyone to share in the spirit of Harmony by welcoming beginners.
There are approximately 7 workshop spaces in addition to arts and crafts spaces so there will be plenty of opportunity for workshops and jamming. Some workshops will be pre-scheduled which helps to insure lots to do. Workshops for beginners of all kinds are always appreciated. Please consider leading one! To pre-arrange a workshop before Camp, go to http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160097.
In case of emergency: If the party you are trying to reach at camp does not have cell phone coverage, then the next best way to reach someone during camp is to call Amelia's cell phone and leave a message (831-331-3705). She will check messages daily and relay any urgent messages ASAP. The Camp has wireless in some areas, and many cell phones work at Camp Newman - but in the spirit of Harmony we encourage you to leave them off while not in use.
This is a volunteer-run Camp and its smooth operation depends on your participation through chores. Those with strong backs and legs are encouraged to come to camp early (between 11am and 2pm on Wed. Dec. 28th) to help with camp set-up, or plan on staying for an extra hour or two at the end of camp to help with take down. Please email campnewharmony@gmail.com by Monday Dec. 26 if you plan to come early so we know to let you in.
If You Leave Camp Early
If you must leave Camp early, please "check out" at the Registration Table. At the end of New Harmony we must give an accurate accounting to the Newman staff for all used and unused camper-days, so it is important to let us know that you (and your family) are no longer at Camp.
If there is no one at the Reg. Table when you leave, please leave a note there. Be sure to state in the note who is leaving and when you left Camp.
Cancellations and Refunds
Cancellations can be made by emailing Margaret and Amelia at campnewharmony@gmail.com or calling 831-331-3705 (before 9pm please). If you phone, you must follow up with a written email for a refund All written requests for refunds must be sent by 1-17-17. IMPORTANT: PLEASE USE THE WORDS "HARMONY CANCELLATION" IN THE SUBJECT LINE.
Cancellations made on or before Dec. 9 will receive a full refund.
Cancellations made Dec. 10 thru Dec. 16 will receive a 75% refund.
Cancellations made Dec. 17 thru Dec. 27th will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel after Dec. 27th, no refund will be given.
No refund will be given to those who did not cancel and did not attend
Camp ("no-shows"). Exceptions may be made for hardship cases.
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