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GLC 2017: GLC First-Timers Jump Right In
Call them “GLC Virgins” — Burners who are attending the Global Leadership Conference for the first time. You can’t identify ...Read More
Ticket Scalpers Aren’t Ruining Burning Man, but They Are Trying to Exploit It
It’s incredibly disheartening to see listings for Burning Man tickets at exorbitant prices proliferate moments after the Main Sale has ...Read More
GLC 2017: City of Oakland’s Roberto Bedoya on Burning Man’s Role in Creative Place-Making
By Jane Lyons
On Friday, the City of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Manager, Roberto Bedoya, will help open the Global Leadership Conference (GLC) with ...Read More
The Connection Between Ritual, Art, and Play
UCLA Anthropologist Dr. Megan Heller studies play — how we do it, why we do it, what impact is has — ...Read More
GLC 2017: Politics, Picket Lines and the Ten Principles
By Jane Lyons
Burning Man’s 11th Global Leadership Conference begins in Oakland on Thursday, with over 630 Regional Contacts and community leaders converging ...Read More
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Main Sale Day
Main Sale day is always a bittersweet day for us. Even if everything goes perfectly, it still results in many ...Read More
How Rituals Help Us Navigate the World — and Our Psyches
Ritual, Dr. Tanya Luhrmann says, is the way we connect the world as it ought to be with the world ...Read More
“Burning Man Art” Is Now Everywhere – but What Is It?
The best way - maybe the only authentic way - to appreciate the art of Burning Man is to be ...Read More