Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles When Is Gifting Not Gifting? April 5, 2024 By Caveat Magister Some of my least favorite experiences as a Burner are when we become victims of our own success. Often this happens when the “default world” culture takes something that we ...Read More
Serious Stuff Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Yodassa Williams on Being a Black Femme Burner May 19, 2020 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley Yodassa Williams is an accomplished storyteller and writer in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of The Ohio State ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff Creating Burning Man Experiences Online — a Grand Unified Theory May 4, 2020 By Caveat Magister Some of the best experiences I've had in quarantine have been art experiences, held over conference call software, which felt ...Read More
Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Creating Art Experiences in a Plague World — We Can Do This April 17, 2020 By Caveat Magister This past week I have attended a virtual quiz show, a virtual tarot reading, a virtual Big Art Event, and ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Trapped in The Multiverse — What Should a Digital Burning Man Be? April 14, 2020 By Caveat Magister The theme of “Multiverse” has, I think, been changed by the pandemic. Before, the Multiverse was something we aspired to ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff Have We Been Training for This? April 2, 2020 By John "Halcyon" Styn There are so many survival skills from taking part in the "Burning Man Immersion Learning Program" (a.k.a going to Black ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff Theme Camp Isolation Experiments: Week One March 27, 2020 By Caveat Magister Last week I wrote about the way in which we can carry Burning Man culture forward in a time of ...Read More
Community During COVID, Serious Stuff Resilience Is Our Middle Name March 25, 2020 By Mia Quagliarello and Kirsten Weisenburger The coronavirus outbreak is unlike anything any of us have experienced in our lifetimes, but in a way, Burners seem ...Read More
Serious Stuff Ties That Bind, Ties That Burn: Burning Man in the Age of Coronavirus March 18, 2020 By Marian Goodell Like you, we’ve been watching with alarm and growing dread as the coronavirus has spread around the globe. And this ...Read More
Serious Stuff Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Ed Fletcher and the Good Medicine of Burning Man February 13, 2020 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley Ed Fletcher is a filmmaker, journalist, and the president of Sacramento Valley Spark, a nonprofit organization started in 2012 that ...Read More