Have you ever wished you could go to Burning Man 365 days a year?
You’ve made it this far, so we’re going to reveal the big secret — YOU CAN!
Consider this a cheat sheet for finding a gazillion Burner-y things to do. Behind all of the words and links below are real Burners doing spectacular things out in the world. And all of them are available for you to plug into, participate in, and stir up some Burner magic — even right NOW.
Choose Your Own Adventure — What Do YOU Want to Do?
Commune with Burner Art
- Find out if 2021 Honoraria art is coming to a town or city near you.
- Explore the Burner Art Safari Map (and add your own discoveries and creations).
- Watch Season 1 of ArtSpeaks, our Burning Man artist storytelling series.
Co-create Virtual Burning Man
Virtual Burning Man will be alive and kicking for two entire weeks this year — August 21 to September 5, 2021. The earlier you offer your skills, idea, or project, the more you will get out of this global virtual adventure. Get involved with Virtual Burning Man.
Get Your Groove On Year-Round at Virtual Burning Man Events
You don’t have to wait until August to start co-creating and participating in virtual Burning Man adventures that span the globe. Here are some ways to Burn virtually, year round.
- Burn2 is a year-round Burning Man community in SecondLife.
- CoReality Collective regularly produces interdimensional virtual gatherings.
- BRCvr recreates the playa and hosts regular gatherings in Virtual Reality.
- Dusty Multiverse offers a playa (and parties) in Interactive Immersive Reality.
- Browse Kindling to discover and participate in a smorgasbord of live virtual events.
Participate in Your Regional Community
While most Regional Events went virtual or were cancelled in 2020, we expect a few small in-person events to resume in 2021. Many Burners find their true “home” close to home, getting involved with their Regional group. Participating in community service projects, collaborative art, Pre-compressions, Decompressions, and other Regional Events is only the beginning of what’s possible. Check the Regionals map to find your nearest Regional community.
Bring About Positive Change in Your Community as a Burner Without Borders!
Behind that glowy facade, there’s meaningful work being done in the Burner-verse. Through Burners Without Borders, people are coming together worldwide to support their communities.
- Email bwb@burningman.org with your city, state and country to find your nearest BWB chapter.
- Sign up for the BWB Newsletter to tap into community projects and conversations.
- Watch a playlist of Global Activation calls — an emerging series highlighting community projects from across the network.
Tell Us About Your Projects, Ideas, and Initiatives
Log into your Burner Profile to tell us about the impact-driven projects and initiatives you’re creating out in the world. What we learn will help us map the ways Burning Man culture is being applied to address conventional challenges.
Collaborate and Share Ideas in Burning Man Hive Labs
Dive into Burning Man Hive Labs to collaborate on shared goals for evolving Black Rock City and Burning Man culture around sustainability; Radical Inclusion, diversity and equity (R.I.D.E.); health and safety; and participation. Sign up here to join and add your voice.
Contribute to Making Burning Man More Radically Inclusive, Diverse and Equitable
In collaboration with you, we are doubling down on the work of changing the landscape of Burning Man Project, Black Rock City, and Burner communities and gatherings with regard to Radical Inclusion, diversity, and equity.
- Read about what we’re doing to make Burning Man culture more Radically Inclusive.
- Learn about the second Radical Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Town Hall.
- Watch the first Radical Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Town Hall.
- If you’d like to get involved, email diversity@burningman.org and say hi.
Contribute to a Regenerative Black Rock City
Burning Man Project’s 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap sets a 10-year timeline and targets for making Black Rock City regenerative. And it’s open source — you can contribute to its evolution!
- Contribute your ideas for making our desert city regenerative.
- Participate in the Green Theme Camp Community.
- Watch a recording of the Green Theme Camp Summit.
- See finalists for the Land Art Generator Initiative 2020 Fly Ranch Competition.
- Learn about sustainability projects underway at Fly Ranch.
Tell the World About Your Live Virtual Event
If you’re creating a live virtual community event — maybe it’s a workshop, dance party, performance, puppet show… or anything, really — submit it to Kindling, Burning Man Project’s virtual events portal.
Build a Theme Camp
Many Theme Camps do interesting stuff year round. Maybe it’s your turn to start one?
- Register for the 2021 Camp Symposium to connect and learn with the Black Rock City camp community on Saturday, May 22.
- Start a new theme camp! It’s not too early to virtually gather your friends and start planning your contribution to a radically different Black Rock City 2022.
Expand Your Mind
- Read writings by Larry Harvey, the late founder of Burning Man.
- Read or listen to BUILT TO BURN, Tony “Coyote” Perez’s wild tale of how he stumbled into it all more than 25 years ago.
- Listen to Burning Man LIVE, Burning Man Project’s in-house podcast.
- Listen to BMIR’s 2020 Justice and Equality podcast series.
- Tune into Accelerant, a virtual salon series about the 10 Principles.
- Listen to the Culturally Attuned podcast, and follow the Cultural Synergy course.
Stay up to Date
- Subscribe to the Jackrabbit Speaks, Burning Man Project’s community newsletter.
- Join the Kindling newsletter to learn about upcoming live virtual events.
Cover image of Billion Bunny March, 2019 (Photo by Keith Aeschliman)
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Come on! be HONEST! you just don’t post views that call you out.
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I’m trying to follow the Burning Man Project model of doing business so I can have Burning Man all year. I’m trying to get people to volunteer to work on various projects that I can sell on to consumers. It’s not easy but I’ve learned a lot from the Burning Man Project. It reduces overhead to the point that my competitors are blown out of the water.
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If Burning Man Project was a business, you might have a point there. However, BMP is not a business; it’s a nonprofit that exists to serve the community.
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a nonprofit is a business lol
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Lee is confused. Slavery has its roots in the model of people volunteering to give you a product which you then sell. In Burningland, attendees pay out in work or goods or filthy lucre in order to provide a “free” benefit to others. And in fact, Burningman.org IS a business, just not to attendees. Simply stated, it takes in money and pays for stuff and then provides a service, retains some earnings, invests in the future, buys Fly Ranch, and whatnot. Like a church. There isn’t a convincing case for anything that uses money as not being a business. Retained earnings or higher payments to “workers” even account for what would have been profits in “non-profits”.
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@Rrandy
I agree. Burning Man is magic. Getting people to work for free and then charging them money for the privilege is magic. That’s what I’m doing in my not-a-business. It’s not exploitation or a version of slavery, it’s magic. No one can argue with magic. I’m a non-profit too. The money I make from all of this goes to my mission to change the world from my perspective. It’s relativity. It’s physics. It’s natural.
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Pretty sure we heard this same song and dance last year. You had your chance to produce the Burn and you blew it, s don’t tell us how to live Burning Man year round.
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Hola amigos saludos desde Los Andes Chile le quiero comentar una Actividad que realizamos El 2017 creamos un encuentro de música electrónico y arte en el valle aconcagua al Interior de las montañas a mediados de mayo en el cual transformamos un camping pequeños dónde pasaba un río y teníamos diferentes
Árboles y zonas de para armar el evento, armamos.nuestronpropio burning en las montañas llamado Aconcagua secreto spot en cuál armamos diferentes capas marroquí conseguimos varios generadores y sólidos de alta calidad este fue un trabajo de de meses coordinando con varios amigos que se motivaron y creyeron en la idea la cual fue conectando y tuvimos en la visita del dj Illich Mujica y dj locales de muy buena calidad en dónde emigramos armar una rave increíble llena de psicodelia y ambiente de medidas voladoras lunes psicodelicas carpas marroquíes fogones gigante en la precordillera Andina un evento épico que sin duda marco un presedente en nuestra localidad del valle Aconcagua Los Andes Chile.
Illich Mujica quien tocó en el evento quedó fascinado con lo que logramos armar en este lugar y tocó una música increíble directamente de burning man el nos decía que se sentía en un burning de montaña en Los Andes.
Creo que la idea de armar.un burning de 365 Días es espectacular y desde esta zona del valle Aconcagua estaremos presentes con nuestra puesta en escena en vivo en la montaña.
Saludos Amigos un honor poder dejar mi testimonio y aportar a la cominidad burning del arte música y librearbredio en todo ámbito saludos amigos
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