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Art at the New Burning Man Office
The History Wall In November, Burning Man HQ made a major move from Sixth and Market to 660 Alabama Street in the Mission. The new office is a big, open, light-filled space consisting of two open-plan...
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Burners Discuss Community Building in San Mateo [Full Video]
On Wednesday, May 14, the city of San Mateo, CA hosted a panel of veteran Burners as part of its San Mateo Innovation Week. The topic was how to build and inspire the community you envision. Here’s...
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Scaling Infrastructure: Lessons Learned in a Pizza Oven
If you’ve created art or built a theme camp at Burning Man, you know that it’s all about trial, error, complex planning and a fair amount of flying by the seat of your pants. In 2006, my camp, Random...
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Harley K. DuBois to Speak at BOOM Festival
BOOM artwork by Android Jones. Burning Man Co-Founder Harley K. DuBois will be speaking on a panel tomorrow at BOOM Festival 2014 in Portugal, as part of their Futurological Symposium on Free Cultural...
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Larry Harvey Speaks at Long Now Foundation
Larry Harvey (photo by Jim Urquhart, c/o Reuters) Burning Man co-Founder and Chief Philosophical Officer (we love saying that, it just sounds so cool) Larry Harvey was invited to speak at the Long Now...
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Crimson Rose Addresses World Cities Culture Forum
Burning Man founder Crimson Rose attended the 2014 World Cities Culture Forum and Summit in Amsterdam and brought back insights from some of the world’s greatest cities. These insights can help us...
View ArticlePanel Discussion on Pop-up Urbanism
Burning Man recently hosted a panel discussion on innovative uses of urban space, from temporary parklets and community gardens to maker spaces and pop-up art. If you’re interested in activating your...
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Burning Man Represents at SXSW 2015
SXSW — maybe you’ve heard of it? Ever since SXSW was a small gathering of creative types back in the day, we’ve sent folks from BMHQ down to Austin to participate. Over the years, we’ve hosted (or were...
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San Mateo Innovation Week: “Maker Cities: Inspiring Engagement, Dialogue, and...
What: Maker Cities: Inspiring Engagement, Dialogue, and Participation When: Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (PDT) Where: Kingfish Restaurant, 201 South B Street, San Mateo, CA 94401 Social...
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A Nation of Makers: Burning Man at the White House
At the White House this week, President Obama is hosting makers of all stripes to present the ways they’re welding, programming, sculpting, building and teaching our way into the future. The program is...
View ArticleGlobal Leadership for a world of amateurs
I’ve crashed about half of the Burning Man Global Leadership Conferences (including back when it was the “Regional Network Conferences) and can not think of any higher praise than this: as a person who...
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Report from the European Leadership Summit: Who’s Leading, Who’s Following?
Meta-Regional Misa “BodyCzech” Rygrova, with a banana. Barcelona is known as the “City of Bananas.” I was privileged to get to attend Burning Man’s European Leadership Summit. This is the first in a...
View ArticleReport from the European Leadership Summit: Can we colonize the world now?
Have you ever thought: “Wouldn’t it be great if we had a place where we could do Burning Man 365 days a year?” Well, so have a lot of the European Regional Contacts. About a fourth, by my admittedly...
View ArticleReport from the European Leadership Summit: How Well Does Fuckery Translate...
There was no scheduled session on mischief and fuckery at Burning Man’s 2016 European Leadership Summit, but one happened anyway. Which strikes me as pretty much perfect. The small room allotted for it...
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Burning Man Project Heads to Austin
As we barrel headlong into March (how did that happen?), a handful of Burning Man Project staff are preparing to make their annual sojourn to Austin, Texas — home of delicious BBQ, endless live music,...
View ArticleWhat a Global Burning Man Nonprofit Has to Offer the World
– Photo by LadyBee I recently found myself wondering: How many millions do you think Google spent to figure out that it matters if you trust the people you work with? A recent New York Times article...
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Crimson Rose Addresses World Cities Culture Forum
Burning Man founder Crimson Rose attended the 2014 World Cities Culture Forum and Summit in Amsterdam and brought back insights from some of the world’s greatest cities. These insights can help us...
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What’s in a Gift? The Making of Fly Ranch
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. Burning Man is simply not...
View ArticleTax Breaks and Tools: Empowering our Community with Fiscal Sponsorship
You may have heard about the $1.2 million in honoraria grants, $1.5 million in services to playa projects, $500,000 in Global Art grants, and $10,000 in BWB grants that Burning Man gives, but there is...
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There’s Nothing More Burning Man Than a Great Story
My eyes blink open and I look northeast out over the playa. There is something about first light when sleeping out on the open playa; it nudges me awake before my 4:45 alarm has the chance to sound....
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