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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

The Ten Principles

Celebrate the Solstice With a Weekend of Community and Civic Engagement

June 16, 2020 By Burning Man Project

We’ve come around to the solstice once again! For the last two years, you have joined us around the world ...Read More

Community During COVID, The Ten Principles

The Law of “Conservation of Effort” and Creating Online Burning Man Events

May 1, 2020 By Caveat Magister

Another week spent exploring the ways in which we reach out from our own isolated corners of the multiverse to ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Creating Art Experiences in a Plague World — We Can Do This

April 17, 2020 By Caveat Magister

This past week I have attended a virtual quiz show, a virtual tarot reading, a virtual Big Art Event, and ...Read More

Community During COVID, Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Trapped in The Multiverse — What Should a Digital Burning Man Be?

April 14, 2020 By Caveat Magister

The theme of “Multiverse” has, I think, been changed by the pandemic. Before, the Multiverse was something we aspired to ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Burning Man Culture in a Time of Plague

March 17, 2020 By Caveat Magister

I haven’t seen them in over two weeks, but I now have a close friend who has been tested for ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

What is Burning Man Leadership? A Model

November 22, 2019 By Caveat Magister

It’s a cliché at this point to suggest that there is a crisis of faith in leadership and expertise across ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

What Is “Burning Man Education” and Why? A Manifesto

November 21, 2019 By Caveat Magister

When Burning Man started offering “educational programming” or “educational content” depends on what you think that is. The first survival ...Read More