Global Art, Participate in BRC, Regionals, The Ten Principles So Much Gratitude — For You (Yes, YOU) December 21, 2022 By Kirsten Weisenburger Burners around the world kept the flame burning brightly this past year. Some of us built an ephemeral city in ...Read More
Shenanigans Meet Santa Zero, the Cacophonist (and Burner) Who Started SantaCon December 20, 2022 By Kirsten Weisenburger Burning Man culture is filled with secret instigators who show up time and time again to help make astonishing things ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Radical Self-expression: Rocking a Saree at Burning Man December 14, 2022 By Brinkley I recently sat down with first-time Burners Kartik Vasan and Smriti Bhadauria, a husband and wife from India. They were ...Read More
Global Art, Rhymes with Burning Man, Serious Stuff Everyone’s an Artist; Artists Need to Make a Living Like Everyone November 30, 2022 By Caveat Magister This is part III in Caveat's series about "decommodifying permission" and figuring out how to square the needs of a ...Read More
Regionals Midburn 2022: Trip Report From Israel’s Negev Desert November 15, 2022 By Roxane Jessi Originally published on October 29, 2022 | Reposted with permission from the author Midburn. A return to dust. But instead ...Read More
Spirituality An Invisible Thread Connects Us: Paiute Shoshone Blessing and Tule Harvest November 8, 2022 By Melissa Waters Black Rock City rises each year on the ancestral land of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone ...Read More
Regionals Regionals Reawaken November 3, 2022 By Roxane Jessi Originally published on August 14, 2022 | Reposted with permission from the author Last year — for the second year ...Read More
Global Art, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles Anything Commercial Art Can Do, Decommodified Art Can Do Better! November 1, 2022 By Caveat Magister In my first post in this series, I said that decommodified art can do things that commercial art can't. But ...Read More
The Theme Burning Man 2023: ANIMALIA October 21, 2022 By Stuart Mangrum “Sometimes, I am the beast in the darkness.” ―Heather Durham The Black Rock Desert can appear at first glance to be ...Read More
Building BRC The Ritual and Risk of Dancing with Fire: A Conversation with Crimson Rose October 19, 2022 By Kirsten Weisenburger To witness Crimson Rose in action wrangling performers and staff is to experience a force of nature at work in ...Read More