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Losing My Non-Religion: Chronicle of an Emerging Sacrament Among Native Burning Nerds

May 17, 2017 By Census Team

By S. Megan Heller, BRC Census Researcher / Manager 2004-2015 (with a shit load of help from Picky!) Like a lot of good stories about projects with academic origins, ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

It’s reached the point where the word “transformational” makes me want to vomit

June 17, 2016 By Caveat Magister

I’ve suspected for a while that overuse and casual abuse would turn “transformational” from a jargonny term-of-art into a meaningless ...Read More

Spirituality

How Burning Man Participants Spiritually Self-Identify

June 14, 2016 By Census Team

By Tammy Lesueur The Census Team looks at how Burners define their identities and selves. Who are we, and what ...Read More

Spirituality

Jewish Burners Light the Funky Fires for Burning Mensch

June 14, 2016 By Alessandra Wollner

Nineteen centuries ago, a Jewish mystic named Shimon bar Yochai passed from this world to some other, purportedly in a ...Read More

Global Art, The Ten Principles

Embed Artists Everywhere: They Are the Community Innovators the World Needs

June 6, 2016 By Caveat Magister

Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series So far our look at arts funding solutions in ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Art, Money, and the Renaissance: Q&A with Larry Harvey

May 31, 2016 By Burning Man

Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series At the 2016 Burning Man Global Leadership Conference, the Burning ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Art Gets More Valuable When “Data” Becomes “Relationships”

May 23, 2016 By Caveat Magister

Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series The last article in this series sought to illustrate a ...Read More

The Ten Principles

Making Patronage Work for Us: Recognizing That Our Community Creates Value

May 4, 2016 By Caveat Magister

Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series Read a summary of the series so far. Before we ...Read More

The Ten Principles

“GIFT HUGS”

April 23, 2016 By John "Halcyon" Styn

I went to our local Earth Day festival and gave out FREE HUGS. I didn't intend for it to be ...Read More

The Ten Principles

GLC 2016: Is Radical Transparency a Principle in the Making?

April 6, 2016 By Scott Kelley

As the GLC progressed last weekend, I noticed a theme running through the sessions I was attending and the keynotes: ...Read More