All posts by Alessandra Wollner

Allie Wollner (Lotus Position on playa) is a Communications Specialist at Burning Man Project specializing on internal communications. She has been a theme camp lead with Milk + Honey and proud camper since 2011. She lives in Oakland, CA. Low-budget, high-concept parties are her preferred creative medium.

Tales from the Playa

So You Fell in Love on Playa. Now What?

September 6, 2018 By Alessandra Wollner

What can you do; it happens to the best of us. Love strikes like lightning out there. But now that ...Read More

Spirituality, Tales from the Playa

Burning Love Podcast Episode 2: Twin Flames, When Love Lives Only on Playa

May 25, 2018 By Alessandra Wollner

So, what if you had a soulmate, but your love only lived for one week a year in a mostly ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

Burning Love: A New Podcast About Falling in Love in the Dust and Trying to Bring It Home

August 21, 2017 By Alessandra Wollner

Burn long enough and it will happen: you’ll fall in love out there. But once we return to the land ...Read More

Spirituality, The Theme

Ritual Principles of Milk + Honey, Purveyors of Radical Shabbat Since 2008

May 24, 2017 By Alessandra Wollner

By Alessandra Wollner and H. Connor Moss When Burning Man’s 2017 theme became public, a collective YAAAAAAAAAY! rang through the ...Read More

Spirituality

Jewish Burners Light the Funky Fires for Burning Mensch

June 14, 2016 By Alessandra Wollner

Nineteen centuries ago, a Jewish mystic named Shimon bar Yochai passed from this world to some other, purportedly in a ...Read More

Rhymes with Burning Man

The Crucible Brings the Temple Experience to Columbus, OH, of All Places

May 26, 2016 By Alessandra Wollner

Editor’s note: There are actually tons of Burners from Columbus, Ohio. This is just a cheeky headline. Black Rock City. ...Read More

Tales from the Playa

Seife: a Story of Redemption and Soap

February 1, 2016 By Alessandra Wollner

“When are you gonna write about Burning Man?” In the five years since I made my first pilgrimage to the ...Read More