Streets of BRC 2023: Cavalcade of Cryptids
Black Rock City has named its streets since 1997, when “Esplanade” first appeared on a dusty map. Our modern practice ...Read More
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The Act of Being Together: The Connective Magic of Interactive Art at Chatsworth
By Megan Miller
While some were still de-dusting and decompressing from what, by many accounts, was a particularly challenging and all-consuming Black Rock ...Read More
Many Legs Dancing to Different Drums: Once Upon a Time at AfrikaBurn
By Roxane Jessi
AfrikaBurn — South Africa's annual Regional Burning Man Regional Event — kicks off today. As we write, 9,500 Burners from ...Read More
Diversity & Radical Inclusion: Alba Roland Mejia on Race, Film, and Dust
Alba Roland Mejia is an Oakland-based filmmaker. She visited Black Rock City for the first time in 2022 and shot ...Read More
Washoe County Halts Ormat’s Geothermal Project in Gerlach, Nevada
This press release was sent to the media on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, and we wanted to share this important ...Read More
Watch “Going Solar” – Experiential Learning for a Sustainable Future
Burners are tinkerers. More than that, many of us are makers and technologists who venture out into the Black Rock ...Read More
2022 AfterBurn: How We Built Waking Dreams
The AfterBurn is our annual look back at the past year in Burning Man history — our ups, downs, and ...Read More
This Whole Place Is a Gift: A Conversation with the 2022 Man Pavilion Muralists
Burning Man stories very often begin with a crew of friends embarking on a journey into the unknown. This particular ...Read More
Decommodifying Permission: Participation vs. Commodification
Since I started this series, I’ve gotten a few messages from people saying (more or less): “YES, I want to ...Read More
How Grants Breathe Cities of Art into Life
By Roxane Jessi
Every year the Black Rock City Honoraria program supports artists in creating art for the annual Burning Man event in ...Read More