Does Your Art Party Need a Philosophy?
Whenever a discussion of Burning Man’s philosophy gets big enough, someone who isn’t enjoying themselves always tries to ruin it for everyone by playing the “do we even need a ...Read More
A Letter to the Burning Man Community from a Black Man
By Guest Post
Rob Smith, aka Black Rock Smitty, is a filmmaker from New York. He shared this perspective on social media and ...Read More
Gatekeeping at Black Rock City and Beyond
From Nexus: This piece was written before COVID-19 became a pandemic and the subsequent announcement about Black Rock City going ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Black Lives Matter
My earliest memory of the police killing an unarmed black man is from February 1999. Amadou Diallo, a young, highly ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Yodassa Williams on Being a Black Femme Burner
Yodassa Williams is an accomplished storyteller and writer in the Bay Area. She is an alumna of The Ohio State ...Read More
Creating Burning Man Experiences Online — a Grand Unified Theory
Some of the best experiences I've had in quarantine have been art experiences, held over conference call software, which felt ...Read More
Creating Art Experiences in a Plague World — We Can Do This
This past week I have attended a virtual quiz show, a virtual tarot reading, a virtual Big Art Event, and ...Read More
Trapped in The Multiverse — What Should a Digital Burning Man Be?
The theme of “Multiverse” has, I think, been changed by the pandemic. Before, the Multiverse was something we aspired to ...Read More
Have We Been Training for This?
There are so many survival skills from taking part in the "Burning Man Immersion Learning Program" (a.k.a going to Black ...Read More
Theme Camp Isolation Experiments: Week One
Last week I wrote about the way in which we can carry Burning Man culture forward in a time of ...Read More