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Call for Submissions: Black Rock City 2022 Sticker Designs

March 16, 2022 By Deets Shay

Close your eyes, open your mind, and explore your Waking Dreams, because the moment has arrived to create your designs for the 2022 Black Rock City stickers! It’s been waaaaay ...Read More

Serious Stuff, Tales from the Playa, The Ten Principles

Unraveling the Connective Tissue of Storytelling at Burning Man

January 8, 2021 By Gustavo Campos

The Significance of Connecting the Burning Man Experience Through Our Stories Is there a connective tissue among the stories that ...Read More

Art Support Services in Black Rock City, 2019

Survive and Thrive, The Ten Principles

Introducing Blueprints: A New Audio Series About Hard-won Burner Knowledge

December 16, 2020 By Kirsten Weisenburger

Hosted by the inimitable Sassy VonDish, Blueprints is a new Burning Man Project oral storytelling project that documents the lessons ...Read More

The Ten Principles

BRCvr and the 10th Principle

September 16, 2020 By Diva Marisa

They built us a Thunderdome in BRCvr. We built one for one of the other Universes — and it was ...Read More

The Theme

The Case of the Missing Man — Part 9 — The Quick and the Iconographic

September 10, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Somewhere in the Multiverse someone is building the Man. Not just A Man but THE Man. Or are they?! This ...Read More

Spirituality, The Ten Principles

We Will Always Burn the Man

September 6, 2020 By Burning Man Project

On Saturday night, as we’ve done every year since 1986, we Burned the Man. A small group of people from ...Read More

The Theme

The Case of the Missing Man — Part 8 — Pyro-technicians Tell No Tales

September 4, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Somewhere in the Multiverse someone is building the Man. Not just A Man but THE Man. Or are they?! This ...Read More

Community During COVID, Spirituality

Dave X Interview: The One Common Ritual That Defines Us

September 3, 2020 By Kirsten Weisenburger

Burning Man — the event in Black Rock City and a global culture — emerged from one ritual: the gathering ...Read More

The Theme

The Case of the Missing Man — Part 7 — Go Virtual or Go Rogue

September 1, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Somewhere in the Multiverse someone is building the Man. Not just A Man but THE Man. Or are they?! This ...Read More

The Theme

The Case of the Missing Man — Part 6 — Into the Art!

August 31, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Somewhere in the Multiverse someone is building the Man. Not just A Man but THE Man. Or are they?! This ...Read More