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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

Rhymes with Burning Man, The Ten Principles

Four Insights About Gifting After Watching “Gift”

November 4, 2019 By Caveat Magister

Burning Man didn't invent "Gifting," and the ideas presented in Lewis Hyde's seminal book "The Gift" have been extremely influential ...Read More

BRC News, The Theme

Burning Man 2020: The Multiverse

October 15, 2019 By Stuart Mangrum

The 2020 Black Rock City event theme explores the quantum kaleidoscope of possibility, the infinite realities of the multiverse, and ...Read More

Regionals, The Ten Principles

Do-ocracy Rant

October 7, 2019 By John "Halcyon" Styn

The Participation and Civic Responsibility Principles mean that we operate in a Do-ocracy. If you don’t like how something is ...Read More

The Theme

Metamorphoses, Part 8 — Why Burning Man Facilitates Transformation

August 14, 2019 By Caveat Magister

This is the final installment of a series on the theme of Metamorphoses, looking at what causes change and transformation ...Read More

The Theme

Metamorphoses, Part 7 — Why “Transformation” is “Authentic”

August 2, 2019 By Caveat Magister

This is part 7 of a series on the theme of Metamorphoses, looking at what causes change and transformation through ...Read More

The Theme

Metamorphoses, Part 6 — What “Transformation” Are We Talking About?

July 23, 2019 By Caveat Magister

This is part 6 of a series on the theme of Metamorphoses, looking at what causes change and transformation through ...Read More

The Theme

Metamorphoses, Part 5 — What it Takes to Create a “Transformative Experience”

July 15, 2019 By Caveat Magister

This is part 5 of a series on the theme of Metamorphoses, looking at what causes change and transformation through ...Read More

Serious Stuff, The Ten Principles

Getting To Know Larry Through His Recently Published Writings

July 3, 2019 By Caveat Magister

One of the questions I’m most frequently asked about Larry Harvey is not “what he was like” but “what he ...Read More

BRC Art, The Ten Principles

Pablo González Vargas (Papeyote) on Gifting as Transformation

June 25, 2019 By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley

Many have seen the Mayan Warrior mutant vehicle light up the playa night sky. Where did this contemporary symbol of ...Read More