All posts by Jane Lyons

Jane Lyons (a.k.a Lioness) is a Melbourne, Australia-based Burner who first hit Black Rock City in 2009. She has since spent an inordinate amount of time building theme camps, artwork, communications teams, Regional burns, Decompressions, and Burner communities in Australia and overseas.

BRC Art, Building BRC

Galaxia Reunites Old Friends and Original Man Builders

August 7, 2018 By Jane Lyons

This year, as the flames consume the Temple and the dust devils begin to swirl, you might catch the glimpse ...Read More

Regionals

ANZ Leadership Summit: Bubbles and Bots on the Burnerverse Frontier

August 1, 2018 By Jane Lyons

In a nod to this year’s Burning Man theme, the recent Australia and New Zealand Burners Leadership Summit (ANZLS) declared: ...Read More

BRC Art, BRC News, Building BRC

Temple Galaxia Is Headed to Playa One Triangle at a Time

July 11, 2018 By Jane Lyons

Galaxia, the 2018 Temple, measures its progress — and success — in people and triangles. A whole lotta triangles. The ...Read More

Participate in BRC

Comfort & Joy Turn Playa Waste Into Paiute Well-Being

August 17, 2017 By Jane Lyons

For Comfort & Joy, the decision to start a Paiute food drive was not just about spreading the love beyond ...Read More

Survive and Thrive

[Video] Emergency Services in Black Rock City

August 11, 2017 By Jane Lyons

In this video, Kate Gonnella, Burning Man’s Chief of Emergency Operations, explains how to be a self-reliant badass and not ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Community Views on #NotAFestival

August 1, 2017 By Jane Lyons

As part of Project Citizenship, Burning Man has launched a campaign using #NotAFestival to differentiate Burning Man from festivals, and ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Radical Living Experiment: Bringing the Principles Home

August 1, 2017 By Jane Lyons

A Brooklyn-based Burner is proving Burning Man works beyond the bounds of one week in the Black Rock Desert. Maria ...Read More

Rhymes with Burning Man

#WeekofMaking: Mad About Making At Artisan’s Asylum

June 22, 2017 By Jane Lyons

They don’t call it Artisan’s Asylum for nuffin. The 40,000 square foot makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a mixture of ...Read More

Rhymes with Burning Man

#WeekofMaking: All the Disaster Aid That’s Fit to Print

June 20, 2017 By Jane Lyons

The tipping point was the fingertips of some gloves, and they launched Dara Dotz on an unexpected journey to co-found ...Read More

Rhymes with Burning Man

#WeekofMaking: Making the Most of Citizen Brigades, Smart Cities and Communities

June 18, 2017 By Jane Lyons

Civic Ninjas are putting the power back into people’s hands when disasters strike. The Tulsa-based group of makers, developers, designers, ...Read More