Posts about Burners Without Borders

BWB, a program of Burning Man Project, supports volunteers from around the world in innovative disaster relief and community resiliency projects.

Burners Without Borders: Puerto Rico Update

November 7, 2018 By Jane Lyons

And by Graham Berry It’s just over a year since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and Burners Without Borders (BWB) ...Read More

July 18, 2018 By Carmen Mauk

When the NorCal fires swept through in the middle of the night on October 8, 2017, thousands of people fled ...Read More

September 4, 2017 By Jon Mitchell

On Friday, August 25, Hurricane Harvey made landfall northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas. As a Category 4 storm with winds ...Read More

August 14, 2017 By Shawn Saleme

This is a story about some playa bikes from Black Rock City, a country redefining its identity and a group ...Read More

June 21, 2017 By Christopher Breedlove

What does the Venn Diagram of the humanitarian community, the maker community and the Burning Man community look like, and ...Read More

June 19, 2017 By Jon Mitchell

So, clearly there’s some relationship between Black Rock City and the American maker movement. How exactly does that work? Maker ...Read More

April 4, 2017 By Shawn Saleme

On April 1, Burners Without Borders (BWB) and Burning Man’s Civic Arts Program helped facilitate and award grants for the ...Read More

December 6, 2016 By Christopher Breedlove

This is not a party. This is not a festival. This is about more than a pipeline. In one sense, ...Read More

September 22, 2016 By Jon Mitchell

Right after the 2005 Burn, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast of the United States sparked the relief ...Read More