The Dragonfest Board is taking comments on the idea of changing the dates of Dragonfest. Comments can be made directly to the Board at board@dragonfest.org. Emails posted by Friday, September 9th, 2011 on this topic will be carefully reviewed and considered. We will announce the decision in the annual letter we send out at the end of October.
We are entertaining the following suggestions:
- **Keep Dragonfest on the first full week in August
- **Move Dragonfest to the last full week in July
- **Move Dragonfest to the first weekend in August (Still would be a Wednesday -Sunday event, it would just be based on when the weekend started in August rather than the 1st full week)
There has been requests for quite a few number of years to accommodate the ever encroaching first day of school for local kids and educators. Someone pointed out the main issue with school start date wasn’t this year but was actually in subsequent years (2012). Another reason to change the date was related to weather. Though it is dryer later in August, that is not an option. Staff did research the history of weather in the area and yes, the end of July is slightly dryer than the middle of August. The third idea behind moving the date is because for the first time in a long time, we are not tied down by schedules of the land we are using or from specific vendors that we had to use in years past. We want to know what you, our membership, genuinely think about this possibility
(We had been trying to make the forum work, but there has been too many spam issues to make it worth our while to use. We are working on this issue, but wanted to make sure everyone had an equal opportunity to respond in a timely fashion.)
Thank you – the Board of Dragonfest