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Frostburn tickets are on sale now!!!!

2009-12-03T23:51:53Z

When a group of Pittsburgh Burners thought to themselves: "What makes
Burning Man special?" the answer was resounding: harsh conditions,
amazing art, good people. And what harsh conditions were available?
Winter, of course...cold, snowy, Pittsburgh winter. And thus
"Frostburn" was born.

Imagine the climatic opposite of Burning Man: not a Playa but a
Tundra, where ice and snow join fire and steam as mediums... Where
sharing warmth is not just a figure of speech, but a necessity. Where
radical self-reliance and communal effort are critical for human
survival...

Frostburn is now entering its third year and has thus far been a
resounding success in bringing people together, showing off new art,
and reminding us why we liked to play in the snow in the first place.
We've had sweat lodges, viking ships, giant burning snowmen, naked Mr.
Rogers sing-alongs, and even full service sports bars serving
pierogies. Not to mention the normal snow-ball battles, polar bear
plunges, sledding and other winter activities. One of the most
rewarding things, however, has been seeing people realize what they
can do....huge contingents bringin' it from climates where the
temperature never sees 50 (go Alchemy crew!), while others have come
back just because they realized what they can do. Plus it's made hot
chocolate all the sweeter...

Frostburn has some amenities...limited electrical sites, RV access, a
heated bathroom...but more and more, people have been creating warm
spaces for people to gather and be together and share stories
(umm...and party). Won't you join us?

We are now also seeking theme camps, art projects and performances!!!

Frostburn takes place 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, PA over
Presidents' day weekend: February 12-15th. Tickets start at $35 and
are on sale now at www.frostburnpgh.com

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Soulfire - Southbay (CA) Decompression, November 7th-8th

2009-10-21T03:37:48Z

Registrations are live at www.southbayburners.org/events for SoulFire 2009. Yes, there’s one last chance to camp for 32 whole hours in true burner style! Bring your tent, your costumes, your memories, your EL wire, your exuberance, your community spirit, that little bit of playa your shook out of your shoes, and come for a weekend that will warm your cockles until Burning Man 2010 tickets go on sale in January.

Come rebuild a taste of Burning Man in the redwoods! It won’t be the same without you. Literally! We have room for fire, music, theme camps, workshops, art and (stationary) art cars, and plenty of room for placement throughout Lupin’s 110 acres, just outside of Los Gatos. So bring it!

Art grants will be available for art installations and (stationary) art cars, and other comps are available for volunteer staff for greeters/gate, rangers, LNT mavens, and parking crew. If you want to participate, or to get your sound or theme camps placed, or host an activity, send an email to southbay@burningman.com.

And don’t wait to register now at www.southbayburners.org/events!!

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Utah Decompression Nov 7

2009-10-07T22:37:31Z

Greetings lovely burners, you are all invited to our Decompression which will be held November 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah at In the Venue. This venue has multiple stages and can supports all kinds of music, art and live bands, please come, bring your art, bring your freaky self, we would love to have you here. We can arrange airport pick up and sleeping spots. Please come, it will be huge!

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San Diego's Decompression 2009!

2009-09-16T20:41:14Z

Oct 16-18 in the lovely Jacumba, CA - 1 hour east of SD.

www.sddecom.com - tickets now on sale!

)'(
D~

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Recycled Rainbow in Ohio, Ridesharing?

2009-09-14T06:38:39Z

Hey guys, just got my ticket & found out finding a ridesahre is harder than any other regional I've been to! If anyone's interested & able, I can get myself to most any city to ridesahre in! Like with Burning Man once you get your ticket, you 'll make it somehow :) Hope that doesnt fail!!!! Thanks for any help in my search!!!

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LAST MINUTE ! RVs FOR RENT FOR BURNING MAN

2009-08-23T04:36:30Z

LAST MINUTE BURNING MAN
RVs FOR RENT FOR BURNING MAN
VERY GOOD PRICE
BASED IN RENO.

PLEASE CONTACT SANDRINE
Sandrine@tinderrecords.com
415 492 1623

Weekend Warrior – all amenities- sleeps 4 people* 4000.00 Reserved
5th Wheel- all amenities- sleeps 3 people* 4000.00
Dodge motor home- all amenities- sleeps 3 people* 2000.00
Motor home- all amenities- sleeps 2 people* 2000.00
22 Ft. Trailer- all amenities- sleeps 3 people* 2000.00 Reserved
26 Ft. Motor home- all amenities- sleeps 3 people* 2000.00 Reserved
Dodge Sportsman motor home-all amenities- sleeps 3 people* 2000.00
18 Ft. Winnebago- all amenities- sleeps 2 people* 2000.00
Dodge Pace Arrow- no fridge- sleeps 2 people* 1500.00
24th Travel Trailer 1500.00
30 Ft. Trailer- no kitchen- sleeps 2 people*

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Ride to BRC

2009-07-23T01:41:35Z

Hello family.....am five year LA Burner,

I am seeking riders to BRC, I have room for 2 very cool peeps...no drama, just plain old freindly lets ride along & have a gud phukn time!!

The....catch, must share gas costs & be willing to arrive 12:01am Mon morning (Aug 31, 09) & to exit BRC no earlier than Sep 9th) Wed morning.

My ride: 30' Class A RV see: http://people.tribe.net/tron-ee/photos/5e9e43bc-fdfe-4b99-9b6e-4ccdeffce77a

PM tron at troneee@gmail.com

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Where's my regional?

2009-07-19T10:35:23Z

I live in the magical island Kingdom of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf. Who be my peeps?

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Alaska Burning Man is on for this weekend!

2009-07-02T21:57:24Z

Our regional Burning Man prep, Melanie, is swamped with making all the last minute arrangements so asked me to put together this update post for everyone.

Yes, the first-ever official Burning Man Organization-sanctioned regional event in Alaska is on for this weekend, 27-28JUN!

The general overview and philosophy of the event is posted at http://holosfestival.com/

Directions to Holos:
Trip takes about 2.5 hours from Anchorage Airport. Go North out of Anchorage, through Wasilla, and to mile 114.5 on the Parks Highway. Turn Right onto Suisitna River Road (to the left is Petersville Road-there are clear signs for that) at 1.7 miles in you will turn right onto Bradley Road and follow the road to the end - it will dead end at Boots Bison Ranch and the Holos event. Some landmarks are: at 4.2 miles in from Parks Highway there is a curve to the right and a big clearing, At mile 5 in from Parks Hwy the is a one lane bridge - after that you go up the hill and curve a little to the right and then to the left we will be straight ahead to the left after the barn and the big field, you can't miss it.

Yes, the event is definitely kid-friendly. (Several families I know of are pondering going and are basically just waiting for someone else with kids to say "Yes, we are going" before they jump in as well). There will be at least three teens there I know of, and if the families with rugrats come then a bunch 'o lil ones too.

Tickets purchased before the event are $20 each for adults and teens, kids 12 and under are half price, and lil teensy squirts 'n babes in arms are free. Tickets purchased out at the event itself are $30 each each for adults and teens, kids 12 and under are half price, and lil teensy squirts 'n babes in arms are still free. So far there are folks from Fairbanks and Anchorage as well as out of state (all the way from the east coast!) who have purchased tickets and are coming. The cost of the tickets is mainly covering the required event insurance, some printing costs & materials, and (if we come out in the black rather than the red) rental of a storage unit into which to place gear for next year's event. All the labor is entirely unpaid volunteer; nobody is making a dime for themself from this nonprofit regional community event. Please see the Holos website for the two remaining places and times to make advance ticket purchases from Melanie; I also have five as-yet unsold tickets remaining in my envelope if you want to contact me for those.

Volunteers took up a donated load of firewood in a pickup truck this weekend, if you can bring some extra firewood along with you as well when you come on the 27th then that would be great; there will definitely be a central campfire in a firepit. Depending on rain and forest conditions there may or may not be fires allowed for individual firepits in the camping areas. Please, no fireworks. A band (Snack Pharm) says they are coming to play on the rustic stage nearby the central firepit; a DJ will be playing some goa and house music as well. The Anchorage Shamanic Drumming Circle tribe is gathering at the event, so please bring a 5 gal plastic bucket, cowbell, or something else to beat on if you want to join in the drumming. Greate Arte is planned. Several theme camps with zany fun galore are planned and folks are bringing nifty gifts and services for giving to others as well. Please remember to bring your food, water, bug repellent, and shelter for the event and a couple plastic trash bags in which to take out _all_ your trash at the conclusion; remember, one of the Ten Principles of Burning Man is "Leave no trace" -all ten are listed at the Holos website. The climax of the event is planned for 2pm on Sunday afternoon with camp clean-ups and general exodus to follow at leisure after that time.

Those who attend this first Burning Man event in Alaska shall not only enjoy a great time in the moment but also will have glorious bragging rights forevermore. As (with apologies to Shakespeare) King Henry V said:

This day is call'd the feast of Holos.
S/he that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him/herself at the name of Holos.
S/he that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his/her neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Holos.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his/her tattoos,
And say 'These I had on that first Holos day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But s/he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats s/he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his/her mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Raul and Funky Duck,
Stevendalf and Dorandalf, Daisy and TomTom-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good parent teach his/her child;
And Holos shall ne'er go by in Alaska,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers 'n sisters 'n freaks in general;
For s/he to-day that parties with me Burning Man style
Shall be my bro, be s/he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his/her condition;
And nobles in England, Anchorage, and Fairbanks now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not there at Holos,
And hold their manhoods, tatas, and other parts cheap whiles any speaks
That reveled with us upon that first Holos day!

Burn on!

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Lakes of Fire, thanks!

2009-06-30T01:52:04Z

Much thanks to:

- The organizers and volunteers who made it all happen.
- The effigy builders for an awesome Burn!
- Troy and the Clevians for making it down from Wisconsin.
- Boston Bill for helping with the long drive from Philadelphia
and being a great traveling companion.
- Ed for hosting us in Woodhaven (I'm a convert to pretzel bread now).
- The land owner for being a good, helpful host and stopping by
many of the camps to chat.
- Rachel for contributing her artistic talents to Vidoegasm's body
art project.
- All the propane fanatics for some great fire art.
- The playa dust gods for a nice lake breeze worthy of Assateague
on a hot summer afternoon.
- Anyone else I've forgotten.

Looking forward to next year!

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Utah BM Regional

2009-06-12T02:24:23Z

Utah's BM sanctioned regional is coming up soon. I should have cross posted on other lists sooner, I am still surprised of how many have not heard about it yet. We have about the 3rd or 4th largest regional event on the planet, believe it or not, Utah is full of burners!

Anyway, it is June 18-21 and it is an 18 yo and over event. We have many theme camps, tons of art, three big burns Saturday night and lots of great things happening with amazing people. You can buy tickets at element-11-the-utah-regional-burn.ticketleap.com .

For more information see www.element11.org or sign up to one of our lists, utah-announce-subscribe@burningman.com or element11@yahoogroups.com. Or contact me at rangerhoney@gmail.com or ogden@burningman.com.

Thank you, hope to meet you soon,
Ranger Honey

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RIDE SHARE TO SOULSTANCE - FIRST CALL

2009-05-11T17:32:03Z

RIDES OFFERED FROM THE EAST BAY TO SOULSTANCE

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE RIDE PLEASE MESSAGE ME. DO NOT POST ON THIS THREAD. I MAY NOT SEE IT AND YOU MAY NOT HAVE A RIDE!!!

LEAVING FOR EAST BAY: June 19

EXODUS: June 21

MUST SHARE COST OF GAS!!!

SUPPLY RUNS IS OK (see details)

CAMP TOGEATHER OR JUST NEED A LIFT IS COOL.

I have two seats open in my Ranger named Thor. The fourth seat will be for baggage. Unless if someone really really really need a ride and willing to travel ultra-super light. I can take one passenger with little stuff. I DO HAVE A BIKE RACK THAT CAN HOLD UP TO 4 BIKES!!! Please let me know the size and kind of bike.

I will be offering a ride from the East BAy and the stated above areas to Soulstance. I have a Ford Ranger with a passenger and a jump seats open. The passenger seat will be reserved for a large person. The jump seats are facing each other and cramped. If a large person does not take up my offer then we can rotate seats on the way up to Soulstance.

My Ranger, Thor, is in excellent shape but THERE IS NO AC, open rear window, cup holder in front and back, XM radio and CD Player that can read MP3s. I have a bike rack (with lock) that can hold up to 4 bikes. The bed of my Ranger has a tonnou so your stuff will be locked for all road stops.

Routes, Stops and Pick Up Locations

TBA

I will be making rest stops at all rest stops. Potty breaks and need for a smoke (NO TOKE) or stretch are very much welcome! So are taking pictures.

RULES:

1. No smoking in my truck.
2. NO DRUGS!!!
3. Be well bathed.
4. Baggage Yes!!! Emotional baggage No!!!
5. No children.
6. Be Fun!!!

SUPPLY RUN!!!

Have no wheels or the Man (not Burning Man) took your license way??? Doing a supply a day to a week before heading to the Soulstance is cool. Contact me for details.

CAMP:

Camping with me or with our own cam is cool. If you are part of a camp and would like to invite me… I am down for it.

Why???

Why I am doing this??? I have missed so many Burns because I had no car or rides.

Please let me know

Cross Sidhe

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Lakes of Fire - the Michigan Regional Burn

2009-05-05T20:23:24Z

Friends, Freaks, Oddballs and Odd-birds:

Great Lakes Experimental Arts, Inc., is totally stoked to announce
that tickets for the inaugural Lakes of Fire, Great Lakes Regional
Burn event will go on sale on Thursday May 7 at 11:00 AM CST / Noon
EST. Please recall that you must purchase your tickets on-line,
through the link on our website. "http://www.lakesoffire.org/tickets/"
There will be absolutely no ticket sales, whatsoever, at the
gate . . . as in zero.

The first 200 tickets will be sold for $35, and the remaining 800 will
go for $40. We expect this event to sell-out, so don't delay!
Everyone 13 and older must purchase a ticket, 12 and under are free.
Lakes of Fire has a hard limit on how many participants we're
accepting for this event. If you happen to be the 1,001st person to
try and get tickets, you will simply be out of luck. And that's no fun
at all. Tickets will remain on sale until 1,000 are sold OR 5:00 PM
Saturday June 13, whichever comes first.

The Great Lakes area's official Burning Man Regional event, Lakes of
Fire is a private event on private land, seeking to bring the artistry
and energy of Black Rock City to the upper Midwest, and Ontario. Our
site is in beautiful southwest Michigan, USA just about 10 miles
outside South Haven. We are approximately 2 hours by car from
Chicago, 3.5 hours from Detroit, 4 hours from Indianapolis or
Milwaukee, and about 7 hours from Toronto. Specific location details
will be sent to those who purchase tickets. Here are our gate hours:

Thursday – June 25th, 2009
12:00 Noon Gate Opens – 12:00 Midnight – Gate closes.

Friday – June 26th, 2009
8:00 AM – 12:00 Midnight – Gate does not close!

Saturday – June 27th, 2009
12:00 Midnight – 6:00 PM – Gate closes.

Participants only! No spectators please. You must be on site by 6:00 PM
to participate in Lakes of Fire. No admittance will be allowed after
this time.

Sunday – June 28th, 2009
All participants except for volunteer organizers, DPW, and Earth
Guardians must be exiting the property at 2:00 P.M. No exceptions.

You can find more details and important information about this event
here: "http://www.lakesoffire.org"

It's critical that you read our Survival Guide as well. You can find
it on-line by clicking on this link: "http://www.lakesoffire.org/
survival-guide/" This important information really is there to help
you. Please read through it thoroughly.

VOLUNTEERING:
Lakes of Fire is a 100% volunteer-run event. That means we need help
with Set-up & Placement, DPW, Rangering, Medical/EMT, Parking,
Greeters & Gate, Earth Guardians, Effigy, Fire performance and more!
So if you want to be a superstar, a rock star and a superhero all at
one time-- you can help us pull off this wonderful zygote of a
festival, and make the first Lakes of Fire an event we can all be
proud of.

Signing up is easy! Just fill out this handy-dandy digital form of
wonder: http://small-url.com/?eE (you can find this link on our
website too http://www.lakesoffire.org/volunteer-ipate/
Questions? e-mail Breedlove our wonderful Volunteer Coordinator:
Breedlove@lakesoffire.org

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Soulstance 2009 Registration is now OPEN!

2009-05-01T17:47:14Z

Are you one of those people who’s been chomping at the bit to get a place at Soulstance 2009 (being held June 19-21)? Well, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get the web site ready for you (many thanks to our webmaster, Sparkinzi!)

Soulstance is a 2-day, 3-night official Burning Man Regional Event, and this will be the third year in a row that we’ve celebrated a burning solstice at Lupin Lodge in Los Gatos. If you didn’t make it last year, ask around … it was spectacular (300+ attendees, music and workshops all day and night, art cars and costumes and camping, oh my!) This year, we’re hoping to make it bigger and better than ever, but it can’t happen without YOU!

Gear up for the playa, do some practice CAMPING (shake the dust out of your tent, test your air mattress, see how warm your playa coat really is!), PARTICIPATE in the creation of a playa-rific experience for everyone who attends. Want to DJ? Practice your poi? Have a new ART project or EL WIRE creation you’d like to show off? Come to give to your community and BE DELIGHTED by your fellow participants!

You can now register on the website, www.soulstanceinfo.com, and chat with fellow burners about the event at http://tribes.tribe.net/soulstance. Pre-registration is $15, and helps the regions cover our costs for insurance, paypal, websites and such. Camping fees due to Lupin will be the same as last year, but the first 100 people to pre-pay their camping fees will get a reduced rate. See www.soulstanceinfo.com for more details!

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Theme camp? Snowflake Village

2009-04-27T03:38:20Z

Snowflake Village is taking applications for a few good Theme camps. We are now the second-oldest Village on the Playa. Founded by Midwesterners and Canadians, it is a stable, low-drama place.
No Village fees. If your Theme camp has great interactivity, large or small, that is what we want. Join with us to get an excellent location.

www.clevian.com/snowflake2009

For more info.

--Eric G, Coordinator.

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Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale this Saturday, March 21

2009-04-21T16:47:22Z

Playa del Fuego
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Burn
Odessa, Delaware
Memorial Day Weekend
May 21 – 25

http://playadelfuego.org/

The first tier of tickets will go on sale on March 21st at 12:00 noon. Please go to http://playadelfuego.org/ to verify your login before they go on sale! The second tier will go on sale on April 21st at 9:00 PM. Tier 2 will only stay open for 1 week to allow time for mailing and lost ticket procedure. There will be 1000 tickets available at $35 each. If any tickets are not sold before the second tier closes, the remaining tickets will be sold at the gate for $40, CASH ONLY. A reminder: minors must be accompanied by their legal guardians.

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burning man inspired community seeking more people...

2009-04-02T13:49:06Z

It seems odd that there isn't a baby burn in Mexico. There is such youth energy and vibrance here; all looking for something to create.

Wouldn't it be nice to try to create a space with some burning man values and vibe which can last longer than just a week?

We are a budding ecovillage in the highlands of Mexico partly based on burning man and similar temporary autonimous zones.

We are looking for some longer term volunteers to live here in exchange for the work they do.
We need: Kitchen manager, yoga instructor, massage therapist, domestic help, and teachers of Spanish and English.
Our regular volunteers pay a fee to work here, but for these positions we can make other arrangements. We are also open to new residents with compatible values.

After years of work, this forest serves as a retreat space for artists, performers, writers, and other creative and friendly people. It is called the "Bosque Village". Bosque means forest in Spanish.

This place is becoming an ongoing small festival as well as a growing community.

We have a constant stream of volunteers and amazing visitors! Some people come through when they are between jobs, traveling, or to live here for a time and telecommute. Some of our visitors are visiting many communities looking for one to live in.

WEB PAGE: http://bosquevillage.com
NEXT LITTLE FESTIVAL: http://jobutsu.com/cumbreyah

You can also add the Bosque as friends on social networking sites:

* http://www.facebook.com/people/Bosque-Forrest/1326703744
* MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bosquevillage
* Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebosque/

See you in Mexico!

~La gente en el bosque

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BM Regional Burns 2009

2009-03-24T12:57:50Z

Below is a list of official Burning Man Regional Burns for 2009. (Does not include decompressions, precompressions or "Burning Man inspired" events.

Time to start planning your vacations....

February

Kiwi Burn
New Zealand
02/05 – 02/08
http://www.kiwiburn.com/

April

Interfuse
Boonville, MO
04/30 – 05/03
http://www.midwestburners.com/interfuse/

May

Toast!
Witch Well, AZ
05/07 – 05/09
http://www.toast-town.org

Flipside
Austin, TX
05/21 – 05/25
http://www.burningflipside.com/

Playa del Fuego (Spring)
Odessa, DE
05/21 – 05/25
http://www.playadelfuego.org/

June

Apogaea
Colorado
06/04 – 06/07
http://www.apogaea.com/index.php

Scorched Nuts
College Corner, OH
06/18 – 06/22
http://www.scorchednuts.org/

July

Firefly
Vermont
07/02 -07/06
http://www.fireflyartscollective.org/

Nowhere
Zaragoza, Spain
07/08 – 07/12
http://en.goingnowhere.org/HomePage

October

Alchemy
LaFayette, GA
10/01 – 10/05
http://www.alchemyfestival.com/

Playa del Fuego (Fall)
Odessa, DE
10/08 – 10/12
http://www.playadelfuego.org/

(More to come....)

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The Regional Summit RAWKED!

2009-03-03T18:24:48Z

Thank you thank you thank you!

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Afterlife 2009

2009-02-07T07:42:09Z

Rebirth 2009 has been canceled due to permitting issues, but don't worry Rebirth will be back in May 2010.

You are not going to have to wait 15 months for your next Ka Pilina Interactive Arts Festival however, just another 9. Announcing:

Afterlife 2009

The Hawaii Interactive Arts Festival

November 5th to the 8th on the island of Hawaii

Join us the weekend after Halloween for a celebration of the Interactive Arts, it is also the official statewide Burning Man Decompression event. Instead of being depressed by returning to the "default world" how about celebrating how your life has changed after returning from Burning Man.

More details will be available soon and tickets will go on sale in March. Stay tuned....

The Ka Pilina Interactive Arts Society, Inc. (501c3)
hawaii@burningman.com
www.kapilina.org
http://kapilina.tribe.net/

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Burning Man Tickets onSale Wednesday, January 14th

2009-01-07T13:52:04Z

Tickets for Burning Man 2009 go on sale Wednesday, January 14th, 2009, 10am (Pacific Standard Time).

http://tickets.burningman.com/

First Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $210 each, while supplies last.

* Limit 2 tickets per person
* Available through the Internet sales ONLY

Second Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $240 each, while supplies last.

* Limit 2 tickets per person
* Available through the Internet sales and Mail Order

Third Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $260each, while supplies last.

Fourth Level:
9,000 tickets will be available for $280 each, while supplies last.

AVAILABLE THROUGH MAIL ORDER (cashier's check or money order ONLY - NO CHECKS)
Also available through Internet Sales
Depending on supplies, MAY be available through Walk-in Ticket Outlets

Fifth Level:
tickets are $300, while supplies last

Available through the Internet Sales, Mail Order, and Walk-in Outlets
Absolutely No Mail Order sales postmarked after 6/30/09.

http://tickets.burningman.com/

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Read This: Community Involvment Wanted! Habitats Environmental Show wants your help!

2008-12-04T22:44:39Z

Read This: Community Involvment Wanted! Habitats Environmental Show wants your help!

We realized that there are so many ecologically minded people who spend time in nature, that perhaps we could recruit you all into helping out on this upcoming awesome project!

Here's the premise for the Habitats Project:

Kricket, shireen, Jack, and Smitty are collaborating to create the “Habitats Project.” This is a multipart project for third to fifth grade students in Oregon. The project includes a classroom program and an interactive Habitats Show.

The students will learn about the effects of pollution on our environment, specifically addressing Pacific Northwest wildlife and their habitats.

Through education about recycling, reusing, and reclaiming the students are offered methods in which to reduce their footprint on the environment.

The classroom program includes presentations, discussions, and craft project time using items collected by students, community volunteers, and project organizers from Pacific Northwest habitats, homes, schools, and neighborhoods.

The project culminates in an interactive Habitats Show where the craft projects created in the classrooms are used as props in the show and may also be used by the student audience while viewing the show.

Here's how you can help, right now:

Next time you go out on a walk or bike ride in any Pacific Northwest natural habitat area like the woods, beach, mountains, desert, etc take a small sack with you and collect trash for us to use in our show!

We're looking for any metal, glass, or plastic items that are found in a Pacific Northwest natural environment and don't belong there. Yes, trash!

When we do the Habitats Project in Fall 2009 we'll be able to say that XYZ props were made from trash picked up at XYZ locations and it was "number" of pounds of trash, by "number" of volunteers

Want to know more about the Habitats Project, please visit our web page for more Trash Collection details, how to get the trash to us, and other ways to get involved!

Please visit our web page: http://www.kricketskritters.com/habitats-project.html

**We are seeking third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms, located in Oregon, to participate in the Habitats Program. Please contact us for more details!**

Please freely forward this request for participation to any groups, schools, organizations, or individuals located in the Pacific Northwest that might be interested in participating, sponsoring, or hosting this project. Thank you for your support! Word of mouth and community involvement is the key to success of this project.

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Frostburn Tickets on Sale Now!

2008-11-05T02:46:45Z

Frostburn, the Pittsburgh Regional Burn: Jan 16 - 19

Imagine the climatic opposite of Burning Man: a frozen forest where
ice and snow join fire and steam as viable art forms; where radical
self-reliance and communal effort are critical for human
survival.

Envision an event where huddled masses and daring individuals venture
from warm quarters into the chilled air, discovering participatory
art and radical self-expression no matter which way they
turn.

Dream of a retreat just when you need it most: in the middle of
winter, six months from your annual pilgrimage to the Black
Rock Desert.

Escape for a weekend to an environment that is harsh, yet comfortable.
Familiar, with a radical new twist. A place to warm your
heart and soul and express your creativity in ways the
Playa could never allow.

Help us invent a great weekend of community, immediacy and art.

Tickets are on sale now!

http://www.frostburnpgh.com/

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Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia: screening at the grand Lake theatre in Oakland thursday October 23

2008-10-18T07:36:42Z

East Bay Burners !

Come on down to the Grand Lake Theatre on Thursday October 23 to enjoy the Burning Man Film, “Voyage in Utopia”.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
“Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia”
Thursday October 23, 2008

8:00pm - Screening

General admission: $15.00
VIP reception: 30 $ starts at 6 30 PM.
Benefit Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/
Including complementary food, drinks and DVD.
Meet Film Maker Laurent Le Gall

OAKLAND, CA –

In celebration of the creative expression and highly evolved concept of Burning Man, Free Run Pictures, is screening their documentary, “Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia” an immersion into a journey towards a new world, at the the Grand Lake Theatre located at 3200 Grand Ave Oakland, California on Thursday October 23 at 8 Pm.

Synopsis:
Every year, tens of thousands of participants migrate to the vacant heart of the Wild West, The Black Rock desert in Nevada to celebrate Burning Man. Without a doubt the experience is extreme in this lost world of huge heat, desert storms, no shade, and no shops. Everybody must survive by themselves by bringing their own food and hopefully their good spirit. These “burners” mix their urban culture with a certain type of improvised tribalism. According to Larry Harvey, the principals are simple. Radical self expression and creation are absolute. No money here. All is based on a gift economy!

Two Trailers of the film
http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/ba.htm

Three Clips of the film
http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/trailers.htm
Documentary 85 minutes.

Voyage in Utopia by the Black Rock Foundation.

http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2008/07/voyage-in-utopia-this-friday-at-castro.html

The purpose of this documentary, through an extraordinary voyage, is to analyze the conventions, commitments and syndromes of this event and how it became a movement. Carnaval, tribe or mystic retreat ? This big uproar for some will stay as a spiritual experience for the others. The film depicts the journey of artist David Best through the building of the “temple.” David Best dedicates this interactive artwork to the departed love ones and to the miracle of life. He’s offering his own creativity to the community. A clever anachronism, a miraculous idea and an exemplary symbol. The citizens of Black Rock City take ownership of it and write messages to their families, their friends, their departed love ones. The temple is full of tributes and becomes a sanctuary.
The frenzy turns into meditation in that lost desert where the world is reborn each year from its own ashes ...

“Voyage in Utopia” is a remarkable piece of storytelling. It does what our event is said to do. It evokes the inexpressible, it invites imagination to inhabit the unknown,” says Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man.
Filmmakers/producers, Laurent Le Gall, Sandrine Di Rienzo and Gregory Martoglio, team-up to capture the true essence of Burning Man, a schizophrenic testimony of an American society where liberty, tolerance and individualism often live side by side with competition, totalitarianism and consumerism. Just as impressive, the original musical score composed by French recording artist, Nelly Mella, blends a marvelous melody of vocal chants and captivating rhythms.

Billed as one of the best films about Burning Man ever seen, “Voyage in Utopia,” is sure to inspire a society of cultural rebels and grab the hearts and souls of viewers worldwide.

###
General admission: $15.00
VIP reception: 30 $ starts at 6 30 PM.
Including complementary food, drinks and DVD.

Purchase tickets online at www.frantix.net
Www.renaissancerialto.com

More infos about the film
Www.freerunpictures.com
Www.burningman.com

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Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia: screenings in Sunnyvale October 16 and October 17

2008-10-15T18:09:26Z

Southbay Burners !

Come on down to the Sunnyvale Performing Arts Center on Thursday October 16 and Friday October 17 to enjoy the Burning Man Film, “Voyage in Utopia”.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
“Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia”
Thursday October 16, 2008
And Friday October 17, 2008
8:00pm - Screening

General admission: $15.00
VIP reception: 30 $ starts at 6 30 PM.
Including complementary food, drinks and DVD
Benefit Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/

SUNNYVALE, CA –

In celebration of the creative expression and highly evolved concept of Burning Man, Free Run Pictures, is screening their documentary, “Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia” an immersion into a journey towards a new world, at the Sunnyvale Performing Arts Center located at 550 E Remington Ave Sunnyvale, California on Thursday October 16 and Friday October 17 at 8 Pm.

Synopsis:
Every year, tens of thousands of participants migrate to the vacant heart of the Wild West, The Black Rock desert in Nevada to celebrate Burning Man. Without a doubt the experience is extreme in this lost world of huge heat, desert storms, no shade, and no shops. Everybody must survive by themselves by bringing their own food and hopefully their good spirit. These “burners” mix their urban culture with a certain type of improvised tribalism. According to Larry Harvey, the principals are simple. Radical self expression and creation are absolute. No money here. All is based on a gift economy!

Two Trailers of the film
http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/ba.htm

Three Clips of the film
http://www.freerunpictures.com/en/burningman/trailers.htm
Documentary 85 minutes.

Voyage in Utopia by the Black Rock Foundation.

http://blackrockarts.blogspot.com/2008/07/voyage-in-utopia-this-friday-at-castro.html

The purpose of this documentary, through an extraordinary voyage, is to analyze the conventions, commitments and syndromes of this event and how it became a movement. Carnaval, tribe or mystic retreat ? This big uproar for some will stay as a spiritual experience for the others. The film depicts the journey of artist David Best through the building of the “temple.” David Best dedicates this interactive artwork to the departed love ones and to the miracle of life. He’s offering his own creativity to the community. A clever anachronism, a miraculous idea and an exemplary symbol. The citizens of Black Rock City take ownership of it and write messages to their families, their friends, their departed love ones. The temple is full of tributes and becomes a sanctuary.
The frenzy turns into meditation in that lost desert where the world is reborn each year from its own ashes ...

“Voyage in Utopia” is a remarkable piece of storytelling. It does what our event is said to do. It evokes the inexpressible, it invites imagination to inhabit the unknown,” says Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man.
Filmmakers/producers, Laurent Le Gall, Sandrine Di Rienzo and Gregory Martoglio, team-up to capture the true essence of Burning Man, a schizophrenic testimony of an American society where liberty, tolerance and individualism often live side by side with competition, totalitarianism and consumerism. Just as impressive, the original musical score composed by French recording artist, Nelly Mella, blends a marvelous melody of vocal chants and captivating rhythms.

Billed as one of the best films about Burning Man ever seen, “Voyage in Utopia,” is sure to inspire a society of cultural rebels and grab the hearts and souls of viewers worldwide.

###

Purchase tickets online at www.frantix.net

More infos about the film
Www.freerunpictures.com
Www.burningman.com

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if tribe tanks

2008-09-14T01:21:16Z

http://triberefugees.ning.com/

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Mail now for delivery on the playa

2008-08-19T06:58:33Z

Reminders from the Black Rock City Post Office (BRCPO) at Center Camp

Depending on where you are mailing from it is probably about time to send off your cards, letters, and care packages to loved ones in Black Rock City!

When mailing to Black Rock City please address your playa-bound mail as completely as possible in this format to increase the odds of it being received:

CAMPER'S PLAYA NAME or REAL NAME ...or better, both.
CAMP NAME ...and any helpful descriptions of street facade, tents, or large features that might be at this location to help the postie find the addressee
CAMP ADDRESS ...as close as you can get (example: 9:35 and Hummer) &/or nearest cross-street, and even Man-side or mountain-side (if you know)
C/O BRCPO
Burning Man
Gerlach, NV 89412

...and include a return address, just in case.

Please remember no postage stamps are sold at the BRCPO at Center Camp, so bring postage stamps for mailing postcards (postcards from Burning Man are available as gifts at the BRCPO at Center Camp) and letters. If you bring extras for others then your gift of stamps is always appreciated.

For instructions on sending registered and certified mail to BRC or for information on the 2008 Burning Man postmark, gift postcards, and other topics please visit the Black Rock City Post Office at Center Camp website, www.blackrockcitypostoffice.org

Please share this note with others.

Burn On!

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First Round Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale this Friday, 8/15/08, at 9:00pm EST

2008-08-14T12:06:54Z

Play del Fuego
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Burn
October 9-13, 2008
Odessa, Delaware

First round tickets go on sale this Friday, August 15, at 9:00pm EST

http://www.playadelfuego.org/content/blogsection/7/47/

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Promote your camps events on Burning Man Information Radio 94.5 FM

2008-08-10T15:37:23Z

Is your camp having a fabulous event that Black Rock City should know about? Are you running a great bar, looking for folks to be part of a project on the playa? Promote it on Burningman Information Radio. We broadcast 24/7 on the playa at 94.5 FM. We feature music, news, interviews, madness and more.

You can record a promo mp3 format and email it to Bobzilla at : Bobzilla@Burnmingman.com

We need to receive it before August 18th

OR

You can bring it by the station on a CD when you arrive in BRC

OR

You can come by the station starting Monday between 12N and 4PM and we'll help you record an announcement.

BMIR is located in Center Camp right next to Playa Info on Center Camp Portal East..

See you in the desert.

=====
Sunburn Sarah
BMIR 94.5 -Volunteer Coordinator
Sunburn@Burningman.com
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@}}}2 need a ride to burning man from SF-on 24 and back on 31-help with gas money@}}}

2008-08-10T11:17:22Z

Hi,
My name is Solenna, im Cambodian living in San Francisco, my boyfriend and i need a ride to burning man and back, if anyone still have a space for two and two bikes, please let me know and i would be very happy to help pay for gas and share thai food too!
chhoneath@yahoo.com

Thank you!

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Burning Man Ticket Raffle

2008-08-09T07:44:33Z

Burning Man Ticket Raffle

Just three days left in the Burning Man ticket raffle! For just $5 you get one chance at winning a ticket to Burning Man 2008! So far we've got just over a dozen people participating so your chances are good! The drawing will be held next Monday August 11 when we will announce the winner who will be randomly chosen by Peaches the Jack Russel Terrier, so get involved and get your raffle on! Tickets to Burning Man are currently $295 and there will be no gate sales this year, so here's you chance to get onto the playa for cheap!

To enter, go to www.paypal.com and send $5 for EACH entry to darkskies@vegasartists.com
Good luck, have a great burn, and thank you for supporting your
regionals!

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Miss Black Rock City 2008

2008-08-07T23:39:45Z

THE MISS BLACK ROCK CITY PROJECT: Taking beauty out of the hands of corporate America

.... is proud to announce the 2008 Pageant of Self Proclaimed Beauties!

MISS BLACK ROCK CITY 2008
Thursday, 4pm-530pm
AutoSub/Hive Village: Esplanade & 8:30

Represent your village, your camp, your art, your tent, or just yourself! Participants (open to all men + women) will reveal their unique inner beauty in these three categories: 1) Your Playa Style 2) Two Minute Talent Competition: No rules, everyone has a talent be it a stupid party trick or a fine art! and 3) Interview: Do they do it for world peace, the children, or for the puppies? All finalists are beautiful and everyone wins by participating. Fabulous gifts include custom handmade tiaras and the Miss Black Rock City sash. Hosted by SuzQ.

NOTE: No Beauty pageant is fair, bribes are encouraged. Participate for fun, rather than play to win!

The MBRC Project has been producing events on-playa, around the USA, and Spain since 2004. Check out the Miss Black Rock City website for photos, our theme song, and info on past events. http://missblackrockcity.com

Check out the MBRC Tribe http://MBRC.tribe.net for MBRC Project events, weird pageant links, and unsolicited pageant commentary.

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Ten years people!

2008-08-05T19:45:38Z

August 1st, 1998 a small group of about 20 Burners gathered
on Assateague Island for the very first Beach Burn that evolved
into Playa del Fuego.

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bm tickets for sale

2008-07-31T18:27:24Z

i have 3 burningman tickets for sale
they are $295 tickets but im selling them for $250 because unfortunately i cannot go anymore. if you know anyone who needs them let me know.....

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update-2008 National Fire Performance League Championship-Texas Regional

2008-07-31T14:51:41Z

Hello fellow fire fanatics!
This is an automated reply. Please join our tribe and stay tuned for updates on the upcoming NFPL Championship and tubing campout to be held Sept 26-28th on the beautiful Guadalupe River in New Braunfels ,Texas.

We are currently seeking DJs who may wish to promote themselves by providing music for the competition in exchange for the spotlight. We will need a link to review their music and their contact info. If you intend to use an independent DJ or band for your music, weather live or recorded, that may wish to be promoted and entered as an independent , there will be professional scouts attending the event who will be seeking musicians for future gigs. Pass the wordand help your musician friends get promoted!

We are also seeking judges for the duration of the event. If you or someone you know would be a good , unbiased, and fair judge,and may have expertise in performance art, martial arts, staging events, and especially the fire arts, let us know. We would like to receive a bio about them and why they would be a good judge. Entrants will be scored on technicality, form, costuming, stage presence, originality, musical accompaniment, and professionalism. Judges will not be allowed to perform in categories they will be judging.

Prices are $40 per person/per night and includes Membership to the NFPL for one year, entry into the championship, camping ,and tubing and shuttle service on the river. For Spectators, $30 per person/per night includes Membership to the NFPL for one year,camping ,and tubing and shuttle service on the river.Its gonna be a great time, so come out and enjoy what is sure to be a great time and great show.

For Championship entrants, there will be many male , female , pair, and troupe, categories to choose from, dependent on what fire tools you exhibit and number of performers in each routine. If you have a fire tool that is original or not listed , let us know and we will include it/them. If you use props such as structures or pyrotechnics, let us know the nature of these features and any space requirements.Please read our profile and be practicing your routines. You may enter as many categories as you wish.If you have your own music you wish to use in performance, please have it on CD or Ipod and ready to go. We will post entrant forms to bring with you to the show, so stay tuned!

Thank-you all for the amazing number of responses we have gotten. Space is limited to 2500 people at the event , so RSVP ASAP! We will try to answer all your questions in our updates. Tickets will be sold at the gate and it is recommended to let us know how many in your group , both performers and spectators, will be attending.

Firey Cheers!
National Fire Performance League

fireperformers@hotmail.com
http://austin.tribe.net/fireperformers - search for National Fire Performance League
http://www.myspace.com/fireperformers

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update-2008 National Fire Performance League Championship-Texas Regional

2008-07-31T14:51:18Z

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Burning Man ticket Raffle is on!

2008-07-23T04:53:31Z

Burning Man ticket Raffle is on!

That's right for just $5 YOU can get a chance at one ticket to Burning Man! Tickets to Burning Man 2008 are currently $295 on the web and there will be NO GATE SALES this year either. Yikes! So, here's your chance to get ONE TICKET for the ridiculously low price of just $5. How can we do this? We must be CRAZY to make this kind of offer! Dark Skies was gifted an extra ticket and we want to help a deserving burner and we're doing a fund raiser as well, so to tie it all in we're raffling this ticket off for $5 per entry. The drawing will be held on August 11th when we will announce the winner who will be selected by Peaches the Jack Russell Terrier rummaging in the ticket bowl.
Purely non-scientific but a lot of fun nonetheless!

TO ENTER: send $5 PER ENTRY via PayPal to darkskies@vegasartists.com
You may purchase as many entries as you wish, they are $5 each.
Each $5 entry buys you ONE CHANCE at winning this free ticket!
Good luck and have a great burn in 2008!

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Orgasmateria Raffle for Hitachi Magic Wand!

2008-07-01T04:01:24Z

Want to support the Orgasmateria Pleasure lab, but not quite ready to show up at a clothing-optional fundraising orgy? Well this year, we have a way you can help the Orgasmateria get to Burning Man without having to get all naked and sticky.

We're holding a raffle and you can enter online! For a $5 donation, your name is entered in our drawing for a brand new Hitachi Magic Wand -- The Cadillac of Vibrators!

You can enter the raffle online using the paypal button at:
http://www.orgasmateria.com

Multiple purchases will be represented in the drawing, so each ticket you buy increases your chances to win! The winner will be contacted for a mailing address.

And it's all for a good cause! Your contribution will help pay for workshop supplies, giftable safe-sex packs and power for our Vibrating Mechanical Bull ride, not to mention help us ship all our orgasmaterials from NYC out to the Nevada desert for Burning Man.

Viva la Orgasmateria!
TkB
http://orgasmateria.tribe.net/

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Safety 1st

2008-06-06T20:44:46Z

Well summer is in full swing, and with it comes travel, events, meeting new friends and having just a ton of fun!

However, it's no fun should something bad happen, but by taking the time to just add a few precautions one can often make a bad situation from becoming a horrible one, or avoid it all together.

Here are a few tips one might want to consider:

1. If you are using a stove or generator, have a fire extinguisher. It's a good idea to have one in your trunk anyway, and they are not that expensive.

2. 1st aid kit. It's doesn't have to be huge, but if your organizing a big camp you may want to have one that's stocked accordingly.

3. Fill out an emergency contact card and keep it with you. There are people whom I love and adore, but I don't even know their real name let alone who to contact if something terrible were to happen. Even just a piece of paper saying "I'm so-in-so, please contact what's-his-face if I'm in trouble".

4. Don't get WAY intoxicated without having a friend to take care of you who has at least 1 leg in reality. Ask ahead of time if they will keep an eye on you.....

6. 911 is not enough, take a moment to find the nearest hospital and have a map to it. Also it's not a bad idea to find out who to contact in the event of an emergency in your given area. Even a few seconds could mean the difference between life or death.

5 Whether throwing a party, or putting up a small weekend camp...just take a moment to walk around and look for things that might not be so safe. Put tennis ball over stake ends, tie some ribbons to a line so people can see it, tape down electrical chords or tuck them out of the way. Just taking a moment to idiot check your environment with safety in mind can help prevent a lot, and it's really not that difficult.

Safety is really a group effort, so lets all just look out for each other. If you see something that has you concerned, bring it to someones attention. There is no need to be a Nazi about it, but many accidents happen due to complacency.

So feel free to add a few of your own tips, and lets all have a fantastic summer!

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SoulStance 2008, June 20-22, Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz mountains!

2008-05-31T18:49:44Z

The Southbay, Santa Cruz and Monterey burner communities unite for the biggest precom the area has ever seen -- SoulStance 2008!

June 20-22, 2008

A campout at Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains!

FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!!!

Go to www.soulstanceinfo.com for ALL the info you need to be a part of this wonderful event and to register!

Tickets are selling fast and probably will sell out -- the max amount of people that can come is 200!

Plus all pre-registers get some really sick schwag!

To chat with your fellow burners about the event, join the tribe at http://tribes.tribe.net/soulstance

Invite to the event:
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/SoulStance-2008-June-20-22-Lupin-Lodge-Los-Gatos-Santa-Cruz-mountains/los-gatos-ca-95031-1274/b97453eb-0a99-4b90-8b23-8a9c7db61cdf

SEE YOU THERE!!!

w00t!

--

On Friday night we will be celebrating Gemini's everywhere with a Jammin'I party at the Frying Pan camp!

Then on Sat. the Frying Pan will be hosting be a super fun pool party starting around noon!

Weekend DJ line up for the Frying Pan:
http://www.sparkdoo.bz/dj_sched_tracys_bday_2008.htm

Workshops and other fun activities throughout the weekend!

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The Art of Freedom @ Burning Man

2008-05-21T10:46:27Z

Call for Papers and Presentations:

THE ART OF FREEDOM
An Interdisciplinary Arts Conference

August 28, 2008
Black Rock City, Nevada

How can we recognize, articulate, and navigate the politics of art and freedom? What are the roles of our communities, cultures, and societies in enabling or restricting arts and freedoms? What freedoms are needed to enable artistic expression? What limitations do we struggle against to achieve artistic freedom? How can freedom be experienced as a form of art? Can art create freedom?

THE ART OF FREEDOM is an Interdisciplinary Arts Conference that will take place on August 28, 2008 in Black Rock City, Nevada at Burning Man (www.burningman.com). Scholars and creative thinkers from all levels of education and experience are invited to submit proposals for panel presentations. Conference sessions will typically consist of panels of three 20-minute paper presentations, but we are also open to proposals with creative and unusual presentation formats (feel free to think outside the box!)

Possible presentation topics might include (but are not limited to):

* Inquiries related to Art, Freedom, and the “American Dream.”
* Considerations of Burning Man and its relation to culture, society, law, or politics.
* Discussions of specific Burning Man Art installations or projects.
* Presentations on censorship in relation to artistic freedom.
* Proposals for new directions in activism related to art and freedom.
* Explorations of the relationships between subcultural expression and “mainstream” cultures.

These are just a few sample topics – we are open to considering any presentation that offers an engaged and/or creative approach to the conference theme.

The conference will be hosted by Freedomcommunity at Burning Man, and all participants should be familiar with the unique conditions of the Black Rock City environment. Note that the minimum cost for attending Burning Man is over $200, so participants should already have plans to attend the festival or should be prepared to embrace the festival in its fullness.

For more information, please contact David Higgins, Glaukopis Conference Coordinator: (glaukopisproject@gmail.com).

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to (glaukopisproject@gmail.com) no later than June 30, 2008.

Notification will be sent regarding accepted proposals in early July.

PLEASE POST THIS CALL FOR PAPERS WIDELY! Thank you! =)

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Dark Skies Art Festival - Fire Workshop Leaders Wanted

2008-05-16T04:24:07Z

The Dark Skies Arts Festival is looking for a few talented fire performers who are willing to hold a couple of workshops during the festival, performing in the evening, and who are willing to have a fabulous time hanging out at the Southern Nevada regional burn. We have a very limited number of free/artist tickets available to select fire professionals by participating at Dark Skies. It's all happening June 19 to 22 in Meadview AZ. Just 107 miles east of Las Vegas. Dark Skies is being held on 80 acres of private land in a beautiful joshua tree forest
Currently we need the following workshops covered: Fire safety, intermediate and advanced poi, and all levels of contact staff. Other fire toys are welcome too. For consideration please send your name, contact info, what your talent is and how long you have been doing performing. Please include a video url (youtube etc) if you have one.
Please submit your inquires by June 6th for consideration to Indigo at itsallbrite_AT_hotmail_DOT_com or call 702 218 2041.
For more information on the Dark Skies please visit darkskies.vegasartists.com/

Peace n Luv,
Indigo

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Scorched Nuts Ticket Info Request

2008-05-16T01:23:40Z

Hello folks! The organizers of Scorched Nuts are asking everyone who's purchased a ticket for SN if you would be so kind as to contact us and forward your paypal (or other payment method) confirmation and your ticket number (if you've already recieved it). If you didn't purchase your ticket through our on-line sales, please contact us with who you purchased the ticket from, what ticket number it is, and how much you paid for it. We've had some problems with our system and need this information to make sure that we're getting it sorted out correctly and quickly.

Please send the info to:
sn.ticket@gmail.com

The tickets@scorchednuts.com no longer works.

We're sorry for the late notice and any inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you for your time and patience,
April / Poosie Kat

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SoulStance 2008, June 20-22, Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos, Santa Cruz mountains!

2008-05-15T23:52:35Z

The Southbay, Santa Cruz and Monterey burner communities unite for the biggest precom the area has ever seen -- SoulStance 2008!

June 20-22

A campout at Lupin Lodge, Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains!

FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!!!

Go to www.soulstanceinfo.com for ALL the info you need to be a part of this wonderful event.

To chat with your fellow burners about the event, join the tribe at http://tribes.tribe.net/soulstance

SEE YOU THERE!!!

w00t!

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What are some things that you’re going to miss if you don’t go to Dark Skies?

2008-05-15T04:37:14Z

The friendly security forces at Hoover Dam that want to be nosey and pick through your stuff before you cross!
Driving through the most beautiful Joshua Tree forest you’ve ever seen (no really)!
Wondering if you’re lost while driving through said forest!
Suspiciously studying your rear view mirror on a dirt road looking for the damn BLM (they won’t be there)!
Beautiful sunrises with your friends
Hugging furry people
Fantastic theme camps with such amazing content as:
Porn-a-oke yep that’s right it’s karaoke with porn (and pirates of course)!
The always cool Dark Skies locale….Party Naked whipping up drinks while you take it off…..or not!
Come party with the living and the un-living in Dr DNA’s -The Underworld!
Adopt some art, leave some art with caretaker Anti-M!
Meditation and spiritual readings if you dare!
A unique bar that will distill your beverage in a body part replica…gotcha thinking’ don’t it! You’ll be sucking on more than a lime with these shots!
What regional would be complete without a complementary spanking amongst other treats!
The ska/reggae retreat of the Skaruba Café serving up delicious delightful beverages
A house made of turquoise that used to be a hub for the Pony Express
Burners
Hippies
Freaks
Costumes
Naked guy hula hooping
Workshops so you can be the naked guy hula hooping
Friendly greeters
The poof poof of propane poofers
Workshops so you can learn really cool stuff
Drum circles
Twilight yoga and fire spinnin
Hot Rangers
Very hot BBQ’s, Pancakes and Bacon
The purrrrrrr of generators in the dusk
Bands
DJ’s
Petting furry people
Fire spinners
Chocolate chip cookies
Howling at the moonrise
Art Cars
Dirt between your crevices (you pick the crevice I ain’t touching it)!
Our oh so fun Men’s Hot Legs Contest
The new addition to our contests the Drag Olympics (read drag queen Olympic events)
Sitting around a burn barrel wondering why you are because it’s 75 degrees out!
Beautiful sunsets with your friends
Dancing until dawn
A very “Dark Sky” full of stars for gazing
Geodesic dome love
Getting to know your fellow freaks in a intimate setting
A lovely trial setting to test out your dome, mutant vehicle, art, sound system, costume, attitude or shade structure before Burning Man
Driving from the desert having just spent an unbelievable we

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Scorched Nuts updates

2008-05-12T21:09:58Z

Howdy folks! I'm bringing you news of ways to help out Scorched Nuts by camping with friends and tickets changes and updates.

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SN Volunteer Work Weekend
May 31-June 1
Hannon's Camp America

As we quickly approach the second year for Scorched Nuts (http://scorchednuts.org) we wanted to let you know of a way to benefit the community, the event, and the camping venue. Burners from IN, KY, and OH will be gathering at Hannon's Camp America (the venue for Scorched Nuts) from May 31st to June 1. We'll be camping out (free tent camping, $10 bunk rental if that's your thing), painting signs, digging post holes, building bridges, and ladders into tree houses. This work is mutually beneficial to the community and Hannon's. Come help us foster more community growth and give back. And as always is the case when Burners gather to work, we'll have an amazingly good time.

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SN Ticket Changes and Updates

Hey folks, we've been looking over our ticket sales deadlines and have decided to make a couple of quick, and beneficial to the procrastinator, revisions. First, the deadline for mail-in orders has been pushed back to May 31st for the postmarked date. If it's postmarked after that you're check or money order will be sent back in the mail and you'll have to purchase your ticket on-line or with a vendor. Secondly, tickets will be on sale on-line and will vendors until June 12th. After that time you can purchase your tickets at the gate. Also, you have until midnight tonight to purchase a ticket for the $30 price, after that until June 12th tickets will be $40. We've also lowered the gate price to $50. All deadlines, unless otherwise noted, are until 11:59pm of the date listed. Also please note that there has been a gate policy change, there will be NO in-and-out passes this year. Be prepared to come and stay. You will not be permitted to leave and come back once you exit the gates. Thank you.

To summerize:

Mail-in postmark Deadline: May 31st for $40 tickets
On-line/Vendor Deadline: June 12th for $40 tickets
$30 Ticket Deadline (on-line only): May 12th
$40 Ticket Deadline: June 12th
$50 Gate Ticket Sales: June 19th during gate hours - June 21st at 5pm
No leaving once you've arrived.

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Thank you all for your help and your patience. We hope to see you out at Scorched Nuts, or any of the upcoming events, gatherings, work weekend, etc that we have going on through out the year.

As always, be safe, be happy, and have fun.
April / Poosie kat

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Firefly - the Vermont Regional Burn - Ticket Preregistration Now Open!

2008-05-08T19:15:40Z

Firefly 2008 takes place July 3rd - 6th in Northern
Vermont and is our sixth New England burn! Go to
http://fireflyartscollective.org/ for more information
about participating in Firefly!

Firefly ticket _preregistration_ is now open! Go to:

http://fireflyartscollective.org/ticketing/

to sign up. Please take a moment to read the text on
the ticketing site. Firefly tickets sales begin on May
12th and will be sold on a first come, first serve
basis. Please preregister to ease your path. You will
need a valid email address and to have entered in your
mailing information before you will be allowed to get
tickets on May 12th. Preregistering does not
guarantee you will get tickets.

Please take a moment to read the text on the ticketing
site.

Thanks!

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Flipside Fashion Show 24 May 8 p.m. Effigy Stage hosted by BurningGlam!

2008-04-30T17:51:42Z

Wow! You Look Amazing!

So amazing, in fact, that BurninGlam thinks YOU should be in the Dr. Tiki’s Pyropolis Fashion Show!

Time: Saturday 24 May at 8:01 p.m.

Place: Effigy Stage

Contestants: You know it when you got it! Yes, everyone and anyone sporting groovalicious playawear is welcome to shake, rock, stomp and glam the runway as we search for the utmost in Pyropolis costume creativity!

Please arrive at the EFFIGY STAGE by 7:45 to fill out your costume and personal information, to be announced as you vogue the Effigy Stage.

The fabulously stupendous BurningGlam Mistresses and Masters of Ceremonies will use your notes to describe your most breathtakingly wonderful outfit as you sashay across the stage to the appreciative audiences’ ooohs and aaaahs!!!!
(ex: "Misty Dawn is wearing an outfit entitled ' What I did last summer', entirely constructed of turnip leaves! The head piece is detachable as well as edible!")

Judges: Will be hand selected from the most distinguished Flipzien fashion mavens and ravens.

Prizes! (Oh, yes, there will be Prizes!) A Specialty TuTu by Miss Fondue and More More More!!

Contact: JadeRumor with any questions: amelias@swbell.net

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2008 Regional Events

2008-04-25T03:11:31Z

Here's the list of 2008 Regional Events, all follow the 10 principles, and Burning Man smiles upon them.

Spread the dates, share the fun.

2008 Events:

Kiwiburn5 - Feb. 1-4, 2008 -
Whakamaru Domain, Mangakino, New Zealand -
http://www.kiwiburn.com
newzealand@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/nz.html

FrostBurn - Feb.15-18, 2008 -
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania -
http://www.frostburnpgh.com
pittsburgh@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_pa_pts.html

Wisconsin Pre-Compression - March 22, 2008 -
Milwaukee, WI -
http://clevian.com
wisconsin@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wi.html

BC Recompression - April 4-6, 2008 -
Vancouver, BC -
http://www.recompression.com
vancouver@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/ca_bc_van.html

PreHeat - Florida - April 18 - 20, 2008 -
Florida -
http://www.flburners.com/
http://www.floridapreheat.com/
info@floridapreheat.com
florida@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_fl_sw.html

InterFuse - May 1-4, 2008 -
Boonville, Missouri -
http://midwestburners.com
stlouis@burningman.com
kansas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mo.html
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ks.html

Toast! - May 8-11, 2008 -
Witch Well, Arizona -
http://www.toast-town.org
arizona@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_az.html

Rebirth - May 15-18, 2008 -
Big Island, Hawaii-
http://www.kapilina.org
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

Playa del Fuego - May 22-26, 2008 -
Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Burning Flipside - May 22-26, 2008 -
Austin, Texas -
http://www.burningflipside.com/
http://www.burnaustin.org
denton@burningman.com
austin@burningman.com
houston@burningman.com
dallas@burningman.com
elpaso@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_tx.html

Element 11 - May 30 - June 1, 2008 -
Grantsville, Utah -
http://element11.org
utah@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ut.html

Critical Massive - June 2-8, 2008 -
Methow Valley, Washington -
http://www.ignitionnw.org/criticalmassive
seattle@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wa_sea.html

Apogaea - June 5-8, 2008 -
Front Range, Colorado -
http://www.apogaea.com
denver@burningman.com
boulder@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

Scorched Nuts - June 19-22, 2008 -
College Corner, Ohio -
http://www.scorchednuts.com/
columbus@burningman.com
southernohio@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_oh.html

Dark Skies - June 19-22, 2008 -
Location TBA -
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/
lasvegas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nv_lv.html

Wisconsin Compression - June 21, 2008 -
Milwaukee, WI -
http://clevian.com
wisconsin@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wi.html

SOAK - June 27-29, 2008 -
Portland, Oregon -
http://www.burningmanportland.com
portland@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_or.html

FireFly - TBA -
Vermont -
http://fireflyartscollective.org
http://bostonburners.com
info@fireflyartscollectve.org
boston@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ma_bos.html

Nowhere - July 9-13, 2008 -
Zaragoza, Spain -
http://en.goingnowhere.org/HomePage
http://euroburners.com
europe@burningman.com
uk@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu.html
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu_uk.html

Transformus - July 16-21, 2008 -
Deerfields, in Horse Shoe, North Carolina -
http://www.transformus.com
http://www.dirtysouthernburners.com
northcarolina@burningman.com
wilmington@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nc.html

Wisconsin Decompression - Sept. 20, 2008 -
Milwaukee, WI -
http://clevian.com
wisconsin@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wi.html

St. Louis Decomp - Sept. 26-29, 2008 -
St. Louis, Missouri -
http://www.gatewayburners.com
stlouis@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mo_stl.html

Chicago Decomp - Sept 27, 2008 -
Chicago, Illinois -
http://www.burningmanchicago.org
chicago@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_il.html

AZ's 7th Annual Decompression - Oct. 3-5, 2008 -
Gateway Ranch, Flagstaff, Arizona -
arizona@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_az.html

LA Decomp - Oct. 4, 2008 -
Los Angeles, California -
la@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca_la.html

Playa del Fuego - Oct. 9-13, 2008 -
Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org/
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Myschevia (TBA) - Oct. 9-13, 2008 -
North Texas -
http://ntxb.org
denton@burningman.com
austin@burningman.com
houston@burningman.com
dallas@burningman.com
elpaso@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_tx.html

SF Decompression Heat The Street Faire - Oct. 12, 2008 -
San Francisco, California -
http://www.burningman.com

Afrika Burns 2008 - Oct. 16-19 -
South Africa -
http://afrikaburns.com
southafrica@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/za.html

Fuego De Los Muertos - Oct. 17 - 19 -
San Diego, California -
http://www.fuegodiego.com
sandiego@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca_sd.html

Denver Decompression - October 18, 2008 -
Denver, Colorado -
http://denverburningman.com/
denver@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

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InterFuse Effigy / Stage Performances

2008-04-24T21:32:20Z

Hey there excited InterFuse-lovin' people! As you know, this years effigy is a large TV-stage for performances. We have everything from an opening ceremony (Thurs at 6pm) to movies & documentaries to educational talks to poetry readings....and SO much more! The schedule is up on the website ( http://www.midwestburners.com/interfuse/eventsandperformers.html ) so check it out!

Even with all the scheduled programs there are still a few open slots just waiting for YOU, wonderful, beautiful participant, to....you guessed it....pARTicipate! Be it being a part of the poetry jam, talk show, fashion show, or creating your own programming.

For all you theme camps out there, perhaps a 'commercial' on the stage is JUST the thing for you. Just come to the stage, find the stage manager (Poosie Kat, JeffZ, Trish, and Laura) and there you go! Also, PSA's sound like a fun way to participate and share with the community at large. If you're a performer without a place to perform, this is your venue darlin', come out and share yourself with us! Fun for the performers and the viewers.

Be sure to come out to watch and/or add your talents to the list. There are still calls out for folks to participate in the Opening Ceremonies, Poetry Jam, Talk Show, Fashion Show, Bribe-per-View, and open time slots....so be sure to make your way over and join in the fun and excitement!

Stop by any of these times:

Thursday 6PM-Friday 5AM
Friday Noon-Saturday 6AM
Saturday Noon-4PM

The rest of the time the TV will be an open stage but without lights, sound, and video.

The schedule will also come in the form of a TV Guide with the Gate Handout at InterFuse.

ALSO, we desperately need night owl Stage Managers from 2AM-5AM Friday morning and 12:45AM-5AM Saturday morning! That's a 3 hour and a 4 hour 15 minute period! I KNOW there are two of you out there who can help out for 3-4 hours! These shifts are during Bribe-Per-View, so you'll be getting bribed to play movies. No live performance coordinating is needed! It will be very EASY and FUN!! Plus, Trish will give you bacon!

If you're interested, please contact Zay@midwestburners.com

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WATER WOMAN GATHERING

2008-04-18T23:45:24Z

please check out WATER WOMAN GATHERING TRIBE for sharing visions and co-creation of the potential gathering called WATER WOMAN~ or click www.waterwomangathering.blogspot.com

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DARK SKIES TICKETS TO GO ON SALE SATURDAY APRIL 12 @ NOON PST

2008-04-10T05:29:24Z

DARK SKIES TICKETS TO GO ON SALE SATURDAY APRIL 12 @ NOON PST

TICKETS:
Tickets to The Dark Skies Arts Festival, June 19-22 at Mojave Drums near Meadview, Arizona are going on sale this Saturday 4/12/08 at twelve noon PST under the following price structure:
FIRST TIER: 75 tickets @ $75
SECOND TIER: 150 tickets @ $95
THIRD TIER: The remaining 75 tickets will be $125
Gift Tickets: we have a very limited number of gift tickets available where we trade you admission for your work on site. See below.

ATTENDANCE CAPS AND NO GATE SALES THIS YEAR
We are capping attendance at 300 and there will be NO GATE SALES this year! Advance ticket sales will cut off about a week out from the event. Under 18 with parents only, kids under 12 are free. No in-out, no pets.

Dark Skies is the southern Nevada regional burn, now to be held across the dam in Arizona! All of Burning Man’s 10 principals apply including leave no trace, no vending and the gift economy.

THEME CAMPS
We are requesting that all theme camps register and determine the minimum required amount of space that you can fit into. We are also asking most participants to drop their camping gear and park out by the front gate in order to keep the event site open and allow art cars, pedestrian traffic, and bicycles to traverse the site safely. There’s plenty of room on this site for our event, we just have to use it judiciously and creatively. Please please please register your theme camp and art so we know who’s coming!

FIRE
Dark Skies 2008 is operating in a high fire season, and in an area of pristine high desert in a beautiful Joshua Tree Forest. Dark Skies Fire Safety will be operating under the jurisdiction of Meadview Arizona Fire Dept. All final decisions regarding fire will be up to them.

• Fire performers will be allowed i/e: poi staffs breathers and all other hand held fire performance toys.
• Small propane flame effects; ie hand held puffers and small lpg flame effects with neither having a vertical flame length exceeding 10ft unless pre approved will be allowed.
• Fire barrels; fire barrels will be provided and maintained by event staff and will be in community areas.
• No personal burn barrels and fireplaces unless pre-approved in advance of the event.
• All generators used will be required to have an abc fire extinguisher and a pointed shovel within 20 ft at all times.
• Tentative fire times will be between 7pm and sunrise. Fire times will be subject to blackout in case of winds sustained in excess of 12 mph.
• All fire artists and participants must check in with DSFS. DSFS has the final say when it comes to fire of any kind.
• Smoking is to be conducted on developed and groomed areas only, no smoking is allowed in the vegetated areas of the event site. Leave no trace; never let it hit the ground.
• Fireworks of any kind are illegal and banned 100% at this event.
• All fire activities will be restricted to fire performance areas and then only at pre approved times. We will clearly mark these areas on site.

Important fire information; All fire activities may be banned in the case of a regional “red flag alert”. A red flag alert occurs when high winds regionally create a situation whereby all fire activities are banned. This is not the same as the high fire season ban which runs April 15 – Nov 15 and for which we are applying for variances too for this event. This is also NOT the same situation we had last time where CCFD “stuck it to us” at the last minute and bummed a lot of people out. Our hosts want to see fire at this event. But we have to play by their rules. Lets hope for low winds on the weekend of the event!

VOLUNTEER!
The heart of any regional event is the volunteers, and we love our volunteers! We have limited Volunteer opportunities available for Dark Skies.

Please check the website and the event’s news group which is located here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DARKSKIES_LASVEGAS/

Pictures of the new site are here
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/pictures/3-08sitesurveyweb/index.htm

The event’s website is understandably undergoing some changes since the move and is here
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/

Thank you to the community, to our wonderful volunteers, and to all of the artists and theme camps that make this and every regional event so darn special! We cannot do any of this without YOU.

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Scotland or Ireland

2008-04-09T14:27:44Z

Any burners from Scotland or Ireland out there?

I've been thinking about next years vacation already, and I've always wanted to go to both places. I'm hoping to run into a few new friends and get some ideas of where to go when I get there. Actually both time and place, thats why I'm starting to look now.

Stonehenge and the Guinness brewery are already on the list.

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2nd Round Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale Tonight, 4/2/08!

2008-04-02T20:54:49Z

Playa del Fuego
The Mid Atlantic Regional Burn
Odessa, Delaware
May 22 -26

The second half of PDF tickets go on sale tonight, Wednesday 4/2, at
9PM est!

Be sure to log in to the site tonight, to make sure your account is up
to date, and you still remember your password!
http://www.playadelfuego.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,80/

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Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale this Saturday, March 22

2008-03-17T16:12:48Z

Playa del Fuego
The Mid Atlantic Regional Burn
Odessa, Delaware
May 22 -26

Tickets on sale this Saturday, March 22, at noon (EST)

http://www.playadelfuego.org/content/view/147/47/

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Container Storage on the Playa

2008-03-08T13:24:39Z

I need your help to settle a bet.

I think there's a real need and desire for container storage out on the playa. My wife isn't so sure.

Seems to me that there are a lot of folks who go to Burning Man like we do... have a few boxes full of BM gear, clothes, playa bikes and camp infrastructure that make the trek out to the playa, get dusty, get boxed back up (and sometimes cleaned up), and come all the way home, not to be touched again until it's time to go back out. Seems like a waste of resources, time and space to me. Isn't there a way to simplify this process?

Here's the basic idea: we drop a container at your camp, which you fill up with all your dusty Burning Man gear, then we come pick it up for you and store it until next year's burn, when it's waiting for you when you get back on playa. Variations on this theme include container size (one size for camps of 3-4 people, the other those 20' shipping containers for big theme camps), use of containers during the festival as kitchens or shelter, transport of containers from or to your home, perhaps stored for a year or two in between. We could store your bike for you for the year, so all you have to do is pack 4 to a car (plus food) and just show up. Storing art cars is another possibility, although most likely a bit further down the road. You get the idea.

If you already think this is a great idea, you can stop reading and jump to this quick survey (takes four minutes, eight tops if you're ADD like me):

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=14sPO_2f3lEHo1H7TpcTT7_2fQ_3d_3d

To set this up as a business (not profit-centric, keeping to BM principles, but still a business) will require a serious investment of time and money on our part, with no guarantee of participants. If I send out a bunch of emails/posts like this one, and get practically no response, it will seem like a pretty obvious sign. Similarly, if all the interest comes when everyone's packing up on Sunday after the burn, we won't have been able to plan for it. So we need to know: would something like this be of interest to you, and if so, can you take 4-8 minutes to tell me so, and how, and why? Or if there is someone you think might be interested in using a service like this, can you forward this to them and encourage them to respond in the next day or two? The link again:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=14sPO_2f3lEHo1H7TpcTT7_2fQ_3d_3d

We are not soliciting for sales leads or trying to get anybody to commit to anything right now. Obviously, if you want to sign up for more information down the road, we'd be happy to get your email address. All we're trying to do is see if this is an idea worth pursuing, and perhaps more than that, that the people actually interested can get it together to notify us that they would make use of such a service. Think of it more like a psychology experiment than market research.

Feel free to email me directly, too, at massive (at) gamblersruin (dot) com

Help me make my wife a believer

Massive

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Container Storage on the Playa

2008-03-08T13:23:39Z

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Transformus Invites

2008-02-29T13:56:40Z

Transformus: The Southeast Regional Burn
July 18 - 21, 2008
Horse Shoe, NC

Invites!
We are using a new system for invites to address the likelihood that
more people will want to attend the event than we are able to
accommodate.

We are able to invite 1,500 people to the event this year. Each
invite will cost $55. Children age 5 and under enter free with legal
guardian.
One person may request one or two invites using a form that will be
available on the web site (www.transformus.com) starting at
12:00 noon (Eastern time) on Friday, February 29. You will have until
the end of the day on Sunday, March 9, to complete the form, so there
is no need to all rush at noon on Friday. (There is no advantage in
completing your form before others, as long as you meet the March 9
deadline.)
At that time, the first 1,350 invites will be determined from all the
requests that have been submitted.
We will inform you as soon as we have completed that process, no
later than March 16, and if we were able to invite you, you will have
until noon on April 9 to pay via PayPal.
We are going to repeat the process to distribute the remaining
invites.
Just like the first two years, we are going to issue electronic
instead of paper tickets. You will receive a souvenir paper ticket
when you arrive, but in order to gain entry each person must present
his or her own personal secret code that we will issue.
On or before February 28, more detailed instructions will be sent via
e-mail to the announcements list and posted on the web site at
www.transformus.com.
What you should do now:

Please go to www.transformus.com, create an account (if you
don't already have one) and make sure you can log in.
Contact web@transformus.com if you have any technical issues.
Stay tuned for detailed instructions via e-mail announcements and on
the web site.

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Dark Skies Poll

2008-02-29T09:11:37Z

Greetings and much dusty love from Dark Skies!
Please help us plot the course of Dark Skies, the southern Nevada regional Burn for 2008.

Take a few moments and complete this anonymous survey so that we may get a better idea of what YOU the community wants to do. You don’t need to log into any Yahoo groups this time. We’re making this as easy as we can so that as many of you as possible will respond. Ready? Here you go:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=IuYUSoOLJPqcL6jBREqJyA_3d_3d
or
http://tinyurl.com/2hoe59

We will post the results once we close the poll.

Thanks!
The Dark Skies Team

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The Thing on April 12 in Hollywood

2008-02-24T16:04:25Z

I’m renting out a theater space in Hollywood, CA, on April 12 and making it available for free to artists, performers and anybody else who just wants to come out and participate. It’s The Thing.

There’s a number of artists, musicians, DJs and more that have expressed an interest. How about you?

Contact me for details!

richard_becker1@yahoo.com

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Dark Skies Budget is posted

2008-02-20T05:13:34Z

Greetings and dusty road weary hugs from Dark Skies!

We are pleased to announce that the pre event budget for DS ‘08 is posted for your perusal, dissection, and discussion.
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/about/accounting.php

There’s still a couple items missing and we actually got the Lincoln County numbers this afternoon so those are wrong. And yes ‘vehicles’ does indeed have an “H” in it. But you’ll get the idea of what it costs to produce this event. Based on this, and a senior staff meeting happening this weekend, we anticipate TICKETS GOING ON SALE, ON SATURDAY MARCH 1ST AT 12 NOON PST .

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter, but we can’t reply on every list that this message has been posted to, there are simply too many lists out here to monitor them all. So please direct all correspondence to/at us on the event’s Yahoo group, which is located here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DARKSKIES_LASVEGAS/

A full email blast with volunteer information, art, and theme camp registration is forthcoming. Just keeping you the community in the loop, so watch this space and we hope to see you all out on Delamar Lake this June!

Love and (yummy) cookies,
The Dark Skies team

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Bike Modderz Unite for SRJC Burning Man Art Show

2008-02-20T00:37:11Z

Calling all Sonoma County burners with funky playa bikes/trikes/kinetic contraptions to ride their rigs (or tow if needed) to the Burning Man Art show at Santa Rosa Junior College on Friday night, 6pm, Feb 22nd.

For more info, see my event posting: http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/Bringing-Back-the-Fire-Art-Community-at-Burning-Man-Beyond/santa-rosa-ca/204bc456-966d-4ef6-8a00-3d006a53b2bb

Or see the gallery's blog site: http://www.srjcburningmanshow.blogspot.com/

My crew and I will be pulling out and (and definitely NOT dusting off) our various bikes and odd peddle vehicles to show outside the gallery. There's a nice outdoor cement area beside the gallery with plenty of room for funky creations and milling about.

Come on out and showboat your dusty rides in what is shaping up to be quite an event!

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Scorched Nuts tix go onsale feb 1

2008-01-26T19:41:20Z

Scorched Nuts TIckets go on sale Midnight Febraury 1st, 2008.

www.scorchednuts.com

Scorched Nuts, Ohio's Regional Burn will be held June 19-22, 2008

Tickets priced as follows
Tier 1: $30 (150 available)
Tier 2: $40 (150 available)
Tier 3 $50 (150 available)
Gate: $60 (limited availability)
Scholarship: $20 (limited availability)

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Call for Art, Art Outside 2008, Austin TX

2008-01-22T06:29:12Z

Calling ALL Artists For The 4th Annual Art Outside Brouhaha! March 6th – 16th 2008.
To take part in AO|08 Go Here- http://www.artoutside.org/

Ladies and gentlemen of the art world, we are seeking any and all creative humans who use their skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others. That is, we are looking for those whose life is art, and everything they do is DIY. We are searching for those who are creating the Hand-Made Nation. We are calling !ALL! make-believers, dreamers and reality re-arrangers. We are searching hi and low for lowbrow-urban-contemporary-pop-surrealism, pop art, op art, hard-edge, lyrical abstraction, post minimalism, which might be interpreted by some to mean that we are looking only for painters, but that is most definitely not the case. For you see, of course, we need masters of typography, sketchers, illustrators, satirical stencilers, screen printing is way cool, and yes, you too, graffiti fools. Least we forget every culture jammer in the hood. Do you manipulate earth/land/sand/plants/junk into art? Then we have a home for you.

Now, we know some of you may be thinking “What about Dadas’ Dadaists, though?” To this we say, but of course we are calling all inspired by DADA- for where would art be without fluxists, productivism, neoplasticism, pittura, metafisica, arbeitsrat and bauhaus. Well, we are looking for all of “you” from then and now, if any of you still are around. And one may wonder… What about the cubists? We say, “But of course.” Conceptualists? Indeed. Installationists? Please! One might ask if we are seeking anything that might fall under postmodernist modernist who are not distracted by abstractionists and other IST’S. Of course there is always impressionism, post-minimalism, pre-contemporaryism, and expressionism. Are you working in symbolism or surrealism or any of the other -isms that we have not yet mentioned? Well come on out. But wait that’s not all, that could not possibly be all this call for ARTE is all about? Well, Dali you’re right,

This call goes out to all kinetic sculptors, fire sculptors, sound artists bending invisible waves, and video projectionists playing with light. We must invite the minds of the poets and their spoken slam voices, along with improv comedians who mimic the true history of time. Or was that the klown? How can we forget about the klowns! Mimes? Performers “performing” art, puppeteers with their puppets, musicians making sounds. Oh, and least we forget outsider artists wanting to be outside.

In short, we invite all the conceivable movements, modes, and theories of art known to wo/man kind. We say to you, the Artisans of the world who wish to unite because the world needs ART, because the world’s not right. It is time, Your window of opportunity is now. Our space is your blank canvas. Your dreams are our inspiration. You and your art are invited to take part in this epic artistic endeavor.

The world may be going to hell… So let’s make some art.

To take part in AO|08 Go Here- http://www.artoutside.org/ao08faq.htm

P.S. If we happened to have forgotten any form of ART in this call for art then we do deeply apologize. Please note that you too are invited.

To take part in AO08 Go Here www.artoutside.org
& befriend us on myspace....
http://www.myspace.com/austinenchantedforest
http://www.myspace.com/artoutside

and on tribe...
http://tribes.tribe.net/austinenchantedforest

and check out...
http://www.austinenchantedforest.com

Support our Benefit For VALENTINES, Feb 14th and 15th
@ the United States Art Authority

http://www.austinenchantedforest.com/valentines.html
http://www.austinenchantedforest.com/antivalentines.html

and to truly stay “in tha know” sign up for our lo-fi no spam mailing list
http://www.austinenchantedforest.com/email_list.html

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Rebirth 2008 tickets on sale starting 1/25!

2008-01-18T01:36:35Z

Tickets to Rebirth 2008 are going on sale on January 25th!

Online ticket sales will begin at 8 AM on Friday January 25th on the Ka Pilina website (www.kapilina.org). There will be a total of 50 tickets available online in the first tier ($40), and 100 available in each succeeding tier ($50, $60, and $70).

We will have tickets available at outlets on each island starting in early February, check the Ka Pilina website for full details when they are available. Big Island outlets will have a total of 50 of the first tier of tickets ($40) while neighbor island outlets will start by selling second tier tickets ($50).

When our online registration system is up and running we will also have available a limited number of discount tickets for Volunteers ($30), low-income ($30), and performers ($40). Check back with the Ka Pilina website (www.kapilina.org) for the full details when they are available.

Andi
KPXD

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Flipside Tickets On Sale Jan 7

2008-01-03T17:21:46Z

Ok Kids, are you ready?

Here is your next Official Ticket Announcement, with your host Starr.
Happy New Year from your Ticket Team!!

As the cold wind whips you around, don’t forget that nice little hometown of yours, waiting around the bend of Spring. Yes Flipside, the magical place we all know and love is being born in the minds and hands of so many right now. Want to know how to be one of the lucky ones to experience this place?
Read on, follow directions (this is key) and you will be rewarded:

Tickets for Flipside 2008: Dr. Tiki’s Combustible Medicine Show go on sale starting Jan 7 thru Jan 11, 2008 .

All tickets for Flipside 2008 will be sold via Mail Order (snake oil not included).

The Official Flipside Ticket Order Form is available to fill out and print starting on January 2. (Hey that's TODAY!!) There are two steps to make it to the glorious land of Flipside . Just two little steps.

First, you must access the form itself, fill out your information, and submit electronically so we have all of your details. The form can be found here: www.burningflipside.com/common...est.php
but don't forget to follow through onto the next step!

Second you must print the form and send it in the mail with a post mark between Monday Jan 7 and Friday Jan 11 (7-11, get it? That’s easy to remember!). Simple, easy and fun! (well, it’s your ticket to fun anyway).

***If you do not follow through on step two and send us the form with your payment, you will not be guaranteed a ticket to the most glorious medicine show to ever be born (snake oil not included)***

Two adult tickets per order. One order per person.

Tickets will cost $70 each for adult tickets age 13 and up and $35 for kids 7-12 (Kids 0-6 are free). Payment is accepted by Money Order only! If you send any other form of payment, your request will be sent back unfilled. Make sure you save your money order receipts, if your order is not filled you may need that to turn your money order back into real dollars.

Note: there is a new section on the ticket form this year to give an optional donation to Art Garden, a local non-profit art org born out of the Flipside community. Look for an announcement from AG with details.

Make your Money orders payable to:
Austin Artistic Reconstruction

Send your money order and completed ticket order form to:
Austin Artistic Reconstruction
PO Box 9987
Austin , TX 78766

Please make sure you print your name and return address legibly on your envelope!

The fine print:

The number of tickets that will be sold for 2008's event will be 2345.

Once all ticket orders have arrived, the LLC and the Ticket Staff will count up the completed orders received during the postmark period (the significant date is the date of your post mark, NOT the date we receive it).

If the number of completed orders received is less than 2345, then ALL completed orders will be filled. If the number is grreater than 2345, we will fill the orders for Critical Volunteers first. Critical Volunteers are those necessary to ensure the safety and intrastructure needs of all participants are met.

All completed orders with post mark dates within the Jan 7 - 11 window are considered equal.

Children with legal guardians:
6 and under are FREE
7-12 are $35
13 and older are $70 (and still require a legal guardian)

NO PETS allowed at the event.

Will Call: NO NAME CHANGES will be allowed for Will Call tickets. Don't do Will Call unless you are sure you personally will be able to pick up the tickets when you arrive at the gate. ID will be required.

New for this year for locals, Starr and the ticket staff will be hosting two nights TBA where you can pick up your tickets if you elected to have them sent regular mail and you are able to make it to the ticket nights. Announcement will be forthcoming with more information about this.

Stay tuned to the Announce list for further information and Official Flipside Announcements:
flames.burningflipside.com/list...e.com

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Starr at: tickets@burningflipside.com

Thank you, we are looking forward to seeing you in the most magical city on earth!

Your Ticket Team.

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Dark Skies Fire Arts Festival!

2008-01-02T06:49:08Z

Greetings and much dusty love from the Dark Skies Fire Arts Festival!

Currently we are waiting on the cost recovery numbers from the BLM and costs from Lincoln County on top of those. Once we have all of that we will be able to produce a working budget and price the tickets logically (who knew?).

We will then announce the start of ticket sales. The tickets are printed and boy are they purty! It’s been somewhat quiet around here at DS HQ the past few months but rest assured that the hamsters are working overtime on this year’s event. We have much to announce, we have much to discuss, we have many needs from you the community as well. This is just a short note to let you know that the dates and location have been set.
June 19-22, 2008 and yes it will be on Delamar Lake in Lincoln County.
Much more coming soon, BOOM!

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Disorient presents: 8: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY* OF NEW YEAR'S EVE

2007-12-20T12:28:04Z

(*) and french toast breakfast

Come start 2008 right with Disorient. On New Year's Day, January 1, 2008, our doors open at 4am, breakfast is served at 8am, and the New York underground tribes gather for an all-day extravaganza.

L I N E U P___
ARROW (Disorient)
FRIARTUCK (Disorient)
MANNY

French Toast breakfast by Disorient's Love Ministry

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 4am - late in the day

Venue: LIBATION - 137 Ludlow (stanton/rivington)

Limited pre-sale tickets: $14 (includes 8am french toast breakfast!) Door tickets: $40

http://wiki.disorient.info/index.php?title=Parties#Disorient_presents:_8:_THE_OFFICIAL_AFTERPARTY.2A_OF_NEW_YEAR.27S_EVE

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Sea of Dreams NYE - Win Free Tickets

2007-12-13T00:20:49Z

Got old Sea of Dreams Photos? What about Video? Want to win FREE TICKETS to this year's Sea of Dreams?

Sea of Dreams began on the eve of 2001... Somewhere out there in boxes, on old hard drives.. are scads, piles.. mountains of photos of you and your friends in various stages of delirium.

And what about that video you shot? No more putting it off! It's time to cut and paste!

We're announcing the SEA OF DREAMS MEDIA CONTEST! The best photo submitted and the best video submitted will each win a pair of tickets to Sea of Dreams "Metamorphoseas!"

Beginning Sunday, December 9, we'll be taking photo submissions on TRIBE @ http://tribes.tribe.net/seaofdreamers and on FACEBOOK @ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5882009078 - with the winner announced on Monday, December 17th.

And beginning Sunday, December 16, we'll be taking video submissions on FACEBOOK @ http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5882009078 - with the winner announced on Monday, December 24th.

Come on! Mine the media gold, win the dreamy prize!

Thanks,

~ ANON & Wayne Hoy aka Mr. Contesto!

MrContesto@seaofdreamsnyecontest.com

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let's do it on the beach

2007-11-27T19:56:36Z

The Monterey Bay Area Regional Burners (M-PYRE, don't ask what it stands for (we haven't decided)) will be hosting a bonfire on the beach in Monterey on December 1st.

The party will go from afternoon until late (playa time)

We need DJ's and Fire Dancers - contact griffinchilders@gmail.com if you would like to perform.

Please bring some wood to burn, some food to share, your own cocktails, art, some friends, and a smile. Playa wear is highly encouraged.

As of last night, there are two porta-johns within 100 feet or so, and the fire rings are still on the beach (those were two concerns).
The plan is to take over two fire rings so that more people can enjoy the fire, so we need lots of wood. Rather than make somebody responsible for hauling around a ton of wood, I'd like everybody to bring s small bundle with them.

Directions:
From Hwy 1, take the Del Monte Ave exit
Stay on Del Monte Ave until you get to Case Verde
Turn Right on Case Verde
Go up the hill until you see the beach.
You can park on Tide to unload, but you will get a parking ticket if you stay there past dark. Instead, park on one of the residential streets further back.

After party will be at my house. My neighborhood (about 15 minutes away, so don't drink too much) has lot's of parking for small RV's and vans if you want to camp out there. Contact me for the address, or wait until the party night, and we can caravan as a group.

We can use a few volunteers for set up, greeting, and designated driving. Contact me if you'd like to help out.

As always, this is a Leave No Trace event

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Frostburn - Western PA Regional Burn, Feb 15 - 18

2007-11-26T17:24:10Z

The Pittsburgh-area burner community is pleased to announce:

FROSTBURN
Western Pennsylvania' s Premiere Regional Burn
www.frostburnpgh. com

Imagine the climatic opposite of Burning Man: a frozen forest where
ice and snow join fire and steam as viable art forms; where radical
self-reliance and communal effort are critical for human survival.

Envision an event where huddled masses and daring individuals
venture from warm quarters into the chilled air, discovering
participatory art and radical self-expression no matter which way
they turn.

Dream of a retreat just when you need it most: in the middle of
winter, six months from your annual pilgrimage to the Black Rock
Desert.

Escape for a weekend to an environment that is harsh, yet
comfortable. Familiar, with a radical new twist. A place to warm
your heart and soul and express your creativity in ways the playa
could never allow.

Help us invent a great weekend of community, immediacy and art.

FROSTBURN: Share The Warmth!
Presidents Day Weekend
February 15-18, 2008

Cooper's Lake Campground
Slippery Rock, PA
www.cooperslake. com

Tickets available soon!
www.frostburnpgh. com

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InterFuse 2008 Info

2007-11-01T00:31:47Z

Full Info at http://www.midwestburners.com/interfuse .

The theme this year is Technophilia/Technophobia ! Below is a message from the Kansas Regional Contact Zay regarding the theme. I have big plans and would love to colloborate on some art too or at least help with making art. Regionals are a great place to test out playa ideas and Interfuse is my start to the summer fun season. Both of these equal a big WIN! If you have not been to Interfuse, it is amazing and not far from Iowa. I expect it to sell out this year so buy tickets when they go up early next year. I will send a message out.

Here is a bit about the theme:

Forwarded from post by: "Zay Thompson"
Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:10 am (PST)

Thanks for the great brainstorming and discussion of InterFuse theme ideas! The InterFuse 2008 Art Theme is now set and is described below.
--Zay, Midwest Burners

Technophilia/Technophobia
Technology: Do we love it or hate it? Does it isolate us or bring us together? Does it make our lives easier or does it add layers of complications? Do we own our tools or do they own us? Can we live without our technology? Can it live without us? We shape the world through our technology but to what extent does our technology shape our world views?

This theme is a study of modern life that is very relevant to us as burners. Modern technology is both a consumer product and a means to promote consumption. Yet it can also be used to create art and to connect us. Technology extremely enhances our creative abilities yet also enhances our destructive abilities. As we know from our experience with the fire arts, destructive technology can also result in positive beautiful things.

Burners are especially suited for examining our relationships with technology. We are some of the most technologically savvy people out there. We've used the tools of the internet to connect with each other and build a community like no other. We are intimately familiar with creating new uses for technology and subverting it to our own fun purposes.

At InterFuse 2008, we will mock, celebrate, exaggerate, demonstrate, and use technology to create. Bring your fearful or hopeful vision of our technological present and future. All robots, cyborgs, couch potatoes, slaves to the machines, Luddites, interactive tutorials, genetically enhanced humans, virtual selves, icons, nuts & bolts, flotsam & jetsam etc. are welcome! You can take this theme in any direction! Unveil a new and enhanced IF08 Theme version 2.0. Come set up your office cubicle camp, post-apocalyptic scenario, personal billboard, or cyber-utopia. Form a techno cult or create a reality TV game that has gone horribly awry. Show off your inventions, bio-fueled art car, or invite people to add to your open source installations. Create recycled trash art, build a DNA sculpture, or assemble something else so engaging that people find themselves sitting around it for 36 hours straight sipping energy drinks.

At the center of this technological cacophony will sit that most loved and most hated icon of modern technology, that mighty conduit of modern culture, that unmatched propaganda and marketing tool—THE TELEVISION! The TV will be large enough to serve as an open performance stage and projection screen. We will be filling our giant television with our own content. All participants are invited to create Premier Entertainment Programming and clever personal advertising to display on our TV. There must be NO dead air time!!

Our modern society churns out tons of STUFF! So, around the giant television will be piles of personal technology sculptures created by YOU. Bring an effigy of whatever technology you fantasize about burning. Does your cell phone drive you crazy? Build a larger than life cell phone with non-toxic materials like wood, cardboard, paper, cloth. NO BURNING ACTUAL PLASTIC TECH DEVICES! You could give your effigy evil teeth or put something in the screen to express it's annoying qualities. Put your art on the pile around the TV and watch it all BURN on Saturday night when we use our favorite medium, fire, to transform technology and reclaim it as an authentic tool of our imaginations.

Welcome to the Machine!

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Want to choose the Burning Man art theme?

2007-10-13T16:49:20Z

If Burning Man is truly a participant sponsored, participant created event then why not allow its participants to vote for and choose the event art theme each year? The Burning Man Project can suggest a few theme choices and then burners can vote for their favorite. Give people who attend Burning Man the freedom to create the theme so they are participating and creating the event experience in the most absolute sense.

Please sign a petition. Go to: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/let-us-choose-burning-man-theme

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Help support a playa project

2007-10-01T18:51:46Z

many of you have enjoyed Harlen Gruber's "Diamond Portal" over the past few years. to help jog your memory the Diamond Portal always sat at 11:11 in deep space and combines sacred geometry, immersive environments, and user modulated sound installation to create an incredible sensory experience and, Harlan believes, a portal for the transformation of humanity.

the "Diamond Portal" has consistantly been a project i look forward to each year with mischeivous glee and has been the scene of several vaguely remembered crimes against mundanity. the site of the Diamond Portal burning amongst the ruins of the temple in 2005 is an image permanently branded on what's left of the good side of my brain.

this year Harlan has plans to make a much MUCH larger version of his portal, the Sapphire Portal. it will again include sacred geometry, immersive environments, and user modulated sound installation, but will be taking these elements to much greater plains.

unfortunately - unforgiveably, some might say - Harlan was over looked during the granting process (in their defense he was up against some brilliant competition - http://www.burningman.com/installations/07_art_fund.html - awesome right??) and is trying to fund the Sapphire Portal on his own dime and the dime of those willing to support him.

he is now accepting PayPal donations which will get you in return a pendant representing either the Diamond Portal or this years Sapphire Portal. to donate go here:

http://harlanemil.com/sapphireportal.html

if you're curious, here is a piece Erik Davis wrote about this last month:

http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=journal&cat=noting&file=chunkfrom-2007-05-02-2242-0.txt

here's hoping we can help Harlan blow several thousands unsuspecting minds once again.

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Dark Skies 08, help us decide when to have it.

2007-09-28T11:54:18Z

DARK SKIES 2008 DATES, WE NEED YOUR INPUT!

Greetings, salutations, warm fuzzy cuddle hugs and sonic booms from Dark Skies!
We need your input on matters of scheduling next years event.

Suppose that we only had two weekends to choose from for next years Dark Skies. The third weekend in May, or the third weekend in June. Suppose also that for production costs, read: ticket prices, fire art and public safety that we were going to move the event up to Delamar Dry Lake in Lincoln County, NV which sits at 4700 feet above sea level. Nothing is written in stone yet, we are exploring all options, and asking your opinion on things before the permit apps go into either BLM field office.

Here are our thoughts on the matter of the weather and things Burning Man related...
In May, the Delamar site could be chilly and maybe even wet (from BLM), and in June it could be hot but most likely dry. To put the event in mid May puts us square in the middle of the regional event season. Going in May *could* mean that we experience some rather chilly temps, but it gets us away from Burning Man. It also however puts us where a lot of Burners, artists, and rangers may have to pick and choose what events they want to attend. We’re trying to look at all sides of this.

The biggest decider in this question may be Mother Nature herself.
Or….
What will the weather be like on Saturday at Dark Skies ’08? (the Delamar option)

Here’s some casual number crunching based on ten years of weather data for the Delamar site:

Third Saturday in May, 10 year temperatures for Alamo Nevada, subtract >< 4 degrees for Delamar lake due to 1000 foot higher altitude.
AVG LOW: 43 (sunrise)
AVG HIGH: 77 (3pm)
10 YEAR LOW LOW: 33
10 YEAR HIGH HIGH: 91
10 YEAR LOW HIGH: 66
10 YEAR HIGH LOW: 59

BOTTOM LINE for May: Cooler, one week after Toast! Almost one month before Element 11, two weeks before LIB, middle regional in the season,. If we go in May, it could be as low as 29f and our high could be as low as 62f. That particular f stands for ‘f**k me its cold’.

********************************************

Third Saturday in June data
AVG LOW: 52
AVG: HIGH: 85
1O YEAR LOW LOW: 45 (sunrise)
10 YEAR HIGH HIGH: 100 (3pm)
10 YEAR LOW HIGH: 82
10 YEAR HIGH LOW: 66

BOTTOM LINE for June: Warmer, two weeks after Element 11, two months before Burning Man, last regional of the season. If we go in June, it could be as high as 96f and as low as 49f. We’re getting closer to Burning Man, a mistake we made in Oct ’06 that we don’t intend to repeat. However, in this case we’re before the main event so it could be a great shakedown cruise for art cars, theme camps, and playa art.
Had enough yet? Then please go vote in the poll which is going up right now.

IF we had the choice of either weekend, which one would YOU choose that made the most sense for you the community and for the event itself?
3rd weekend in May, or 3rd weekend in June?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DARKSKIES_LASVEGAS/
left side of that page “polls”

Thanks and much much dusty love!!

P.S.BOOM

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octOHburn

2007-09-19T04:15:37Z

Hey folks, I wanted to let you know the latest and greatest about octOHburn,
the Southern Ohio regional fall burn/decomp. Angie, the fan-tab-u-lous
Cinci regional contact has sent out the following message. So don't forget
to mark your calendars, buy those tickets, and come out for some fall burn
love!
**************************************************
FromAngie:

just wanted to give you all the latest on ocOHburns happenings. tickets are
now on sale through local contacts. look for charlie (gate man from scorched
nuts) mac (fire man), will (fire man), ol'bill (athens), kristal light (kentucky)
or myself to buy in person, or you can soon visit our website to make a will
call order!!! its still in the works but will has been amazing enough to work on
it for us! advance tickets are $15, gate sales $20. will calls are $15 but paid
at the gate. we will have an octOHburn meet and greet when we get back from burning man, so more details will be coming soon. we are planning on having jack o lantern carving avaiable for everyone, and then use the jack o lanterns to light our paths! suffice to say that its looking like there will be some massive fires going on, a lot of drumming and tribal dancing, fire spinning and hopefully some more sculpture and 2d art. id love to set up a 2d art gallery in the barn for all you painters and photographers out there. what are your thoughts?

check out the website: http://octohburn.sonichawk.com/surv.htm

angie

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Dancing the Wild Divine, a Playa Tale

2007-09-18T18:22:51Z

A ninety-foot tall oil derrick bore spiritless witness to nine gigantic steel humans in various poses of prostration and supplication. Crude Awakening, the installation on the edge of the open playa was called, and throughout the week I found myself vaguely annoyed by this piece. Impressed by the scale and ambition, most certainly, but isn’t that theme overwrought? Yes, we worship petroleum. Surely everybody gets that by now. Even the people running generators all day in their RVs understand that.

So there are those who say that Burning Man is hypocritical, wasteful, hedonistic, and false. They are correct, in their own way, but not as correct as those who, when asked what Burning Man is like, simply shake their heads and fall into gazes faraway, as if remembering a lost love, for Burning Man is nothing if it’s not heartbreaking. To witness how beautiful everyone is when they allow themselves to be free, to see how we all want to dance, to love, to be authentic, and then to return to the antithesis of all of this, the workaday world of anxiety, insecurity, guardedness, where people are who they think they should be rather than who they actually are, this is heartbreak.

But of course, the heart can only break open.

There seems sometimes to be an anticipatory sense that something is going to *happen* at Burning Man. Aside from the hundreds of people you meet, aside from the uncanny synchronicities, aside from the hookups, aside from the startlingly original art, aside from the burning of the man, there is an undefined mysterium tremendum that reverberates through the event, as if the event itself is the center of a vortex that has been pulling you toward it for months, a wormhole that threatens to leave you in a whole new world on the very same planet.

At least, this is what happened to me. I first attended Flipside, a regional burn outside of Austin, Texas, over Memorial Day weekend. As it happened, I walked into Whole Foods on the Thursday prior and promptly ran into a friend who was stocking up on provisions on her way out. She asked me if I was going, and in the supreme confidence of unabashed ignorance, I shrugged and said, “naw, that’s not my scene.” You know, hypocritical, wasteful, hedonistic, false, all that. But she told me I should go if I could find some tickets, and this challenge was at least diverting, and I remembered a friend who’d told me months ago that he had a Flipside ticket but didn’t think he was going so I called him and it turned out he was going after all, so sorry man. No worries, didn’t think I really wanted to go in the first place, but then he calls back a few hours later—his girlfriend had just broken up with him—to see if I still wanted a ticket. Sure, I said, not at all sure, but it’s only forty-five minutes outside of town, and I figured I’d just drive over, walk around and check it out for the night. I grabbed two bananas, two apples, two avocadoes, and two gallons of water and headed out. I arrived back home three days later, having been perfectly provided for, and shining like I’d just witnessed a solar eclipse at sunrise.

But this is all just prologue. The summer following Flipside and preceding Burning Man, I found myself taunted by periodic dreams, difficult to describe but having something to do with a pulse at the center of Burning Man, some ominous storm of consciousness that first swiped me off my feet with Flipside and was now drawing me into a rebirth canal before hurling me into points unknown. One dream in particular I remember clearly: Upon arriving at Burning Man, someone pointed at me friendly and demanded, “why are you here?” I awoke to the echoes of my unhesitant reply: “To completely let go of my former relationship.” As I was still recovering from the splinters of a broken relationship, there was now no obstacle too great to prevent me from making the 3500 mile round trip to Black Rock City. And as fate would have it, I ran into my former partner two days before I left for Burning Man. A poignant sadness passed between us, but she looked good. She looked fantastic.

But on to Burning Man. The portentous soundtrack upon my arrival happened to be Seal’s “Crazy.” "We’re never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy." An auspicious opening to a crazy week spectacular, though it did not really begin until I made my early pilgrimage to the Temple to write my prayer, citing Rumi, "All I ask is that you forever remember me as loving you." After that, my week began in earnest, and I could regale you with tales all night long and my eyes would sparkle and enthusiasm would strain my voice, but let me just tell you about the night of the burn itself. Atop Abraxas the Dragamuffin, a brilliantly-realized work of rolling art in action owing itself to the effort of the Solarians, I had an excellent view of the burning of the man. I wish I could say that it blew my mind, but really it was just a big fireworks and laser show surrounded by the Zippos of the 21st century, thousands of glowing LCD screens as the assembled watched it via the viewfinders of their digital cameras, saving instead of savoring the moment. Fun, yes, but missing was the mystery. Of course, what I did not yet realize was that the burning of the man is not the climax of Burning Man. It is only the blast-off.

It was in the disorderly dispersion after the burning of the man that I began to feel the pulse I had known in my dreams, an emergent rhythm simmering beneath our feet, and we reconvened a couple of hours later at Crude Awakening out on the edge of the open playa to witness the burning of the oil derrick. Again atop Abraxas, I am huddled and cuddled with shipmates reincarnated from a glorious pirate ship, fireworks and lasers, oh my, and then… and then… I don’t know if I gasped or if all the air was sucked out of my lungs by the detonation of the largest controlled propane explosion in the world, a Guinness I guess, 900 gallons of NASA jet fuel and 2000 gallons of liquid propane and oh my god a thousand foot high mushroom cloud churning hellish red and demon black, 2.4 gigawatts of energy, just enough to power the entire Bay Area for one minute (or, come to think of it, two trips back to the future in Doc’s De Lorean…), and the only thing more wow fantastic than this is the firelit faces around me, fireshadows flickering across their wide-open eyes, transfixed in apocalyptic wonder.

And you know, the word apocalypse derives from the Greek word, apokalyptein, which means, “to unveil.” And there was indeed a renting of the veil that night, an opening into a realm where every encounter is authentic, and consequently, deeply meaningful. I had painted the word IMPULSE across my chest in fluorescent white, and as the night wore on I discovered that this was as much invitation as invocation. I was hugged, kissed, licked, squeezed, nibbled, massaged, hit on, and slashed with chocolate, and before long I became the impulse, daring the impulse from whomever chose my presence. During one extended moment, I shared an hour long shoving loving shouting kissing encounter with a woman bursting out of her chrysalis. She showed me how tightly our spirits are crammed into this life, how our bodies are but leotards for our soul, and how our soul just wants to dance, and dance we damn did and nighttime disappeared into blackness all around and there was she and there was me orbiting around one another like Shiva and Shakti growling and grinning across the galaxy, and this is not even the climax.

Finding my way to Opulent Temple, I’m aware of an uncanny sensation of familiarity, of recognizing everything that is happening, a sort of “oh yeah, this is the part where I share an extended shamanic dance on the open playa,” or, “oh yeah, this is when I kiss a pregnant woman’s belly,” or, “oh yeah, this is when I throw it down with a dozen other dancers at Opulent Temple,” as if it all happened in one bright shining moment, a big bang, and life is a vastly reduced awareness of that moment that is right now, and gods and goddesses are dancing the dance their bodies have been dying for, impulses pulsing timeless and tireless and oh yeah this is the part when the dance floor opens around me and surrounds me and eyes are so bright like stars of the night and I am between now and nowever and we are so fucking lucky to be alive.

A dragon breathes fire in the distance and I heed the call of my shipmates and make my way toward the mothership, noting the sky rosy on the horizon and thinking holy cow what a night but it has yet hardly begun. Abuzz with activity, setting the generator a-rumble, bolting into place a platform for spinning, samurai warriors are striding about, preparing for the final assault upon the ego panting upon the periphery, for we have sailed out upon the dead calm of this dry lakebed to do battle only with ourselves, and we won, and we are a float in our own victory parade, and Bassnectar is spinning and people come together to dance the dawn awake and my are we alive today as the sunrise pales next to the light shining out of the eyes of everyone and how are we so beautiful and Seth good brother that he is grabs my shoulder and points to Crude Awakening and do you see how now that the derrick is burned they’re actually worshipping the sunrise?

And I would have wept but my grin would permit me only to dance for I was not yet done and oh yeah this is the part where I’m dancing on the catwalk and a sparkling woman joins me and writhes in close but then something in me closes imperceptibly and I humor her for a couple of minutes before dancing my way away and down the ladder I go and I take three steps and happen to glance back and she’s leaning over the railing and glaring at me in aggressive compassion and where do you think you’re going get back up here and I comply yes I do and regard the dance proper ‘cause you’re not really dancing till you imagine that you are making love and I clearly see how I have been breaking the circuit of sexuality in my life ever since my split and she doesn’t know how she healed me and I don’t know how I healed anyone around me but it happened all the same and the deejay lays down Frou Frou’s “Let Go,” and an exhilaration of epic healing gasps into atmosphere and we dance, and dance, and dance the wild divine.

Epilogue: The next night, during the Temple burn, I watched in somber fascination as it collapsed, sighing satisfied as a wave of cheers swept round and round. Later, I was having a snack with a friend and she asked me if I had let go of what I wanted to let go of and it occurred to me that my former relationship had not crossed my mind all week, not even during the Temple burn. I forgot to let go, I said, realizing that letting go requires no effort, no remembrance, and certainly no action. It requires only release, and acceptance, and that I forgot to let go only demonstrates my success in doing so.

Thank you to all who shared this experience with me. It is surely the morning we will return to upon our death.

Be your biggest,

Impulse, a.k.a. Tony Vigorito
www.tonyvigorito.com

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Myschevia Theme Camps

2007-09-18T17:53:52Z

Can someone tell me how to register a Theme Camp? We've been to Flipside for 5 or 6 years, and want to come to Myschevia, but I don't see where to register. I know I'm probably missing the obvious, but can ya' help me out?

Thanks,

Clay

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Fall WI Decompression

2007-09-17T22:21:57Z

Hi everybody!

Back from the desert. Once again, WI had a good presence there:

A commissioned art piece in the Man Grove. One of about only 50 pieces, out of thousands, that got an art grant from the BM Org.

A Theme camp, now in it's tenth year, that ran Playa Speed Dating on four consecutive nights, including the Critically Single mass bicycle Speed Dating. Hundreds had their chance to hook up.

An Esplanade Theme Village, one of the oldest ones out there, that we coordinate in cooperation with our colleagues from Detroit and Toronto.

A Wisconsin Fire Troupe, performing as part of Temple of Poi, SF, span fire in the Fire Conclave before the Man Burned.

A Wisconsin independent television show was granted Press Status for the ninth year in a row....scenes and interviews from Burning Man will appear on Milwaukee cable TV starting in October.

We are not a very big Regional in the grand scheme of things, but we still make a difference. You should all be proud.

Our Fall WI Decompression will be Saturday, September 22, at the BurningSNOW Center, 2578 N. Weil Street, Milwaukee. This is typically the biggest event of our Burner year. Art pieces from this and previous years will fill the place. Bring your craziest Playa outfits for our fashion Show. Mini Theme-camps, live music and performance, an effigy Burn, a tiny desert created within a city. Far-travelers can write us for crashout space (bring pad and blanket). We are setting up the ticketing now. Stay tuned.

Eric B. Griswold
Wisconsin Regional Contact,
Burning Man Project
Wisconsin@burningman.com

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Regional Center Photos

2007-09-17T17:46:55Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/affinity23/sets/72157602046713171/

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Volunteer for Chicago Decomp '07

2007-09-16T20:27:13Z

Hi Everyone!

As you may have heard by now, the Official Burning Man Chicago
Decompression 2007 will take place at Hubbard and Wolcott, on the near
west side of the city, on Saturday, 9/29, starting at 2:00 in the
afternoon, and going well into the night. This is the same location as our
first, wildly ass-kickin urban decompression last year. WE NEED YOUR HELP
in putting together an event that will be at least as awesomely radical as
last
year's. If you would like to help volunteer to make this event happen,
here's what's needed, and who to contact.

SETUP: Setup for this event will take place starting at 5:00 P.M. on the
evening of Friday, 9/28, and on the morning of Saturday, 9/29, right up
until our 2:00 start time. We will need lots of help generally. CONTACT:
Yours truly, Downtown Dave, at this e-mail address.

CLEANUP: Cleanup for Decomp07 will take place late/early on Sunday morning
if you have the energy, and during the daytime on Sunday, 9/30. WE CANNOT
POSSIBLY HAVE TOO MUCH HELP WITH THIS PART OF THE EVENT! WE WILL LEAVE NO
TRACE. CONTACT: Willy - devotionliner@gmail.com.

DPW: We will need people to help setup and tear down several structures and
larger scale installations including a stage, sheets for privacy and art
work & cetera. CONTACT: Devin - dev@nuclearblender.com

GREETERS: We will need people to act as greeters, and to help collect
donations at the door, and welcome folks into our Decomp throughout the
event. CONTACT: Barkley - barkley@barkley.org.

RANGERS: Rangers are expected to be sober people during the event, who
will help keep an eye out for law enforcement, and help mediate and
problems that arise amongst the participants, in the very unlikely event
that there are any. CONTACT: Shoebocks - drshoebocks@comcast.net.

This e-mail is mostly geared towards people who want to help with critical
infrastructure for this event. If you are interested in any type of
performance, installation, or bringing art for either outside, or inside,
please get back to me and I can direct you to whomever you need to talk to
with regards to your particular area of interest.

Looking forward to seeing. Defaultia doesn't have to suck!

Downtown Dave

_______________________________________________
chicago-announce mailing list
chicago-announce@burningman.com
https://lists.burningman.com/mailman/listinfo/chicago-announce

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New tribe! Burning Bondage

2007-09-10T02:56:47Z

I started a new tribe when I got back this year to help burners who like BDSM and D/s play connect and coordinate for the burn next year. With TOA MIA this year, and confusion about "Camp Arachnid" vs "Arachnia's Web", I thought a tribe would help all of these camps promote events, recruit campers, even coordinate afterparties and mixers, as well as provide a way for any burners to connect, volunteer and share information.

It's open membership and the merely curious are always welcome. If bondage isn't your interest, tip it to a friend who might be interested -- we all have one.

http://tribes.tribe.net/burningbondage

TkB

PS: My camp, The Orgasmateria, is on the lighter side of the bondage spectrum, and more about pleasure than pain. We are recruiting to expand next year, and want to start planning early so we can pitch for esplanade next year (in collaboration with one or two other camps) now that TOA is gone.
http://Orgasmateria.tribe.net

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PAUL ADDIS FOR MAYOR of BRC

2007-09-04T13:08:55Z

A Fiery Q&A With Paul Addis, the Prankster Accused of Burning the Man
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3544780&page=1

pauladdisformayor
http://tribes.tribe.net/pauladdisformayor

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Space Available in RV - Burning Man

2007-08-26T23:34:07Z

Space available on an RV from Sacramento to Burning Man tonight
(Sunday) between 8:30p and 9:45p or so tonight, please call Amber at
808-255-9839 or Jerry at 808-381-0221. Or you can just meet at Burning
Man and stay in the RV there with a bunch of kewl Burners at around
5:00, between Arctic and Borea, starting wheneverl. Nonsmoking woman
preferred. $450, includes gas, water, etc. I also might be able to transfer a low cost Burning Man ticket into your name ($150). Heidi 808-227-7659.

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Miss Black Rock City 2007 Playa Events

2007-08-21T22:44:33Z

We have heard that Miss APOGAEA (Colorado), Miss Firefly (New England) and Miss Nowhere (Spain) will be participating - and Miss BRC 2006 has started rumors that she will be back to uphold her title. It is going to be an awesome year!

THE MISS BLACK ROCK CITY PROJECT: Taking beauty out of the hands of corporate America

.... is proud to announce two playa events for 2007

MISS BLACK ROCK CITY TIARA MAKING WORKSHOP
Wednesday, 3:30pm-5:30pm
Disorient (830 + esplanade)
If you are thinking of participating in the Miss Black Rock City Pageant on Thursday afternoon, or if you just want a funky tiara/headpiece/crown to match that special costume, stop by and make something super fancy from fuzzy chenille stems. Like all our events, all men and women (and any combination thereof!) are welcome – even the little misses and misters can do it! You'll be amazed at what you can create. StacycatS of the MBRC Project will also be on hand to answer any questions about the pageant, so come say hello! Look for us at the Hut of the Glam Tech Warrior within Disorient.

MISS BLACK ROCK CITY 2007: PAGEANT OF SELF-PROCLAIMED BEAUTIES
Thursday, 5pm-6pm
Boogie Universal ARTS Collective (9 + esplanade)
Represent your village, your camp, your art, your tent, or just yourself! Participants (open to all men + women) will reveal their unique inner beauty in these three categories: 1) Style 2) Two Minute Talent Competition: No rules, everyone has a talent be it a stupid party trick or a fine art! and 3) Interview: Do they do it for world peace, the children, or for the puppies? All finalists are beautiful and everyone wins by participating. Fabulous gifts include custom handmade tiaras and the Miss Black Rock City sash. Hosted by StacycatS.

NOTE: No Beauty pageant is fair, bribes are encouraged. Participate for fun rather than play to win!

Photos of prize tiaras for this pageant can be seen at the Miss Black Rock City tribe: http://MBRC.tribe.net

Check out the Miss Black Rock City website for photos, our theme song, and info on past events. http://missblackrockcity.com

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Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale this Friday

2007-08-16T18:21:09Z

Playa del Fuego - the Mid-Atlantic Regional Burn
October 4 -8
Odessa, Delaware

Tickets for Playa del Fuego fall 2007 will go on sale this Friday 9:00pm (Eastern Time).

Release Date Time Quantity Price
Release 2 Begins Friday, August 17th 09:00 PM Eastern TBA* $35
Gates Open Thursday, October 4th 05:00 PM Eastern ** $35

* Minus any essential participant reserved tickets sold
** Any remaining unsold tickets will be sold at the gate (but don't count on there being any)

Please also note that this event will have no will-call, meaning all tickets will be physically mailed out. Please take the time to log in and verify your address is correct before tickets go on sale.

www.playadel fuego.org/

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Black Rock East?

2007-08-06T17:24:07Z

So much to my disdain I've come to grip with the reality that I can not make it to BM this year. Is Block Rock East going to go down this year?

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Get into B.E.D. with Gigi de L'Amour

2007-08-01T00:18:03Z

The Bureau of Erotic Discourse is on the job again this year, using fun sex positive messages to promote healthy sexual interaction and prevent sexual assault on the Playa.

In this episode Quin (that's me) talks to one of the founding members Gigi de L'Amour.
Gigi was a lot of fun to interview and the episode is very informative and hopefully just as entertaining.

This is only my second podcast for BURNcast ,Mama Crunchy was my first. So please let me know what you think.

A direct link to the MP3 version is here: http://blog.myspace.com/burncast
The enhanced iTunes / iPod version will be up late tonight here: http://burncast.net/

Big Love,
Quin

PS. There is a call for volunteers and for help with a logo. Go to http://bureauoferoticdiscourse.org/ for the email link and make sure to check out their hotpants!

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Playa del Fuego Tickets on Sale this Saturday

2007-07-31T15:59:16Z

Playa del Fuego - the Mid-Atlantic Regional Burn
October 4 -8
Odessa, Delaware

Tickets for Playa del Fuego fall 2007 will go on sale Saturday, August 4th at 12:00 noon (Eastern Time). The second ticket release will be 13 days later. Because of this, payment deadlines will be much more strictly enforced, and there will not be a "bonus round" at least until after the second ticket release.

Release Date Time Quantity Price
Release 1 Begins Saturday, August 4th 12:00 Noon Eastern TBA $35
Release 2 Begins Friday, August 17th 09:00 PM Eastern TBA* $35
Gates Open Thursday, October 4th 05:00 PM Eastern ** $35

* Minus any essential participant reserved tickets sold
** Any remaining unsold tickets will be sold at the gate (but don't count on there being any)

Please also note that this event will have no will-call, meaning all tickets will be physically mailed out. Please take the time to log in and verify your address is correct before tickets go on sale.

http://www.playadel fuego.org/

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Looking for On-Playa Hosts for Two Events

2007-07-25T23:19:45Z

Hi all.

Does your camp have a shaded area during the day that the Miss Black Rock City Project could use for a tiara making workshop wednesday afternoon? Last year's event was hosted by Atelier Rusette, check out the photos at: http://www.missblackrockcity.com/galleries/MBRC06_tiara/index.html

Does your camp have a stage that could host the Miss Black Rock City 2007 Pageant on Thursday afternoon? Past years have been hosted by Disorient. Check out pageant photos from events at Disorient from 2004-2006 at: http://www.missblackrockcity.com/photos.htm

Please contact me ASAP if interested! We bring all materials and volunteer staff, and we moop when we are done. Thanks!

::stacycats
www.missblackrockcity.com

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2007 & 2008 Regional Events list

2007-07-17T15:08:40Z

All dates/events are subject to change. Check included websites or e-mail the contacts included for more information.

Summer Events/Recompressions:

Kiwiburn4 - Feb. 9-11, 2007 - North Island, New Zealand -
http://www.kiwiburn.com
newzealand@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/nz.html

eleMent - April 20-22, 2007 - Monetta, South Carolina -
http://www.dirtysouthernburners.com/
southcarolina@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_sc.html

Rebirth - April 26-29, 2007 - The Shire, Near Pahao, Hawaii -
http://www.kapilina.org/
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

InterFuse - May 3-6, 2007 - Boonville, Missouri -
http://www.midwestburners.com/
stlouis@burningman.com
kansas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mo.html

Toast! - May 3-6, 2007 - Witch Well, Arizona -
http://www.toast-town.org
arizona@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_az.html

The Singularity Event - May 17-20, 2007 - Roach Lake, Nevada -
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/
lasvegas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nv.html

Burning Flipside - May 24-28, 2007 - Austin, Texas -
http://www.burningflipside.com/
http://www.burnaustin.org/
denton@burningman.com
austin@burningman.com
houston@burningman.com
dallas@burningman.com
elpaso@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_tx.html

Playa del Fuego - May 24-28, 2007 - Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org/
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
philadelphia@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Element 11 - June 1-3, 2007 - Grantsville, Utah -
http://element11.org/
utah@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ut.html

Apogaea - June 7-10, 2007 - Front Range, Colorado -
http://www.apogaea.com/
denver@burningman.com
boulder@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

South Bay Precompression - June 8-10, 2007 - outside of Los Gatos, California -
http://www.southbayburners.org/precom.html
southbay@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca.html

Scorched Nuts - June 14-17, 2007 - College Corner, Ohio -
http://www.scorchednuts.com/
columbus@burningman.com
southernohio@burningman.com
toledo@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_oh.html

Critical Massive - June 25-July 1, 2007 - Sultan, Washington -
http://www.massiveburn.org/
seattle@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wa_sea.html

Nowhere - July 4-8, 2007 - Zaragoza, Spain -
http://en.goingnowhere.org/HomePage
europe@burningman.com
uk@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu.html
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu_uk.html

Firefly - July 5-8, 2007 - Vermont -
http://fireflyartscollective.org/
boston@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ma.html

Transformus - July 20-22, 2007 - Horse Shoe, North Carolina -
http://www.transformus.com
northcarolina@burningman.com
wilmington@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nc.html

SOAK 2007 - July 20-22, 2007 - Salem, Oregon -
http://www.burningmanportland.com
portland@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_or.html

Fall Events/Decompressions:

"Exhaust" WI De-Compression - Sept. 22 2007 - BurningSNOW Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -
http://www.clevian.com/decomp.htm
wisconsin@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wi.html

HullabalU - Oct., 2007 - - Boonville, Missouri -
http://www.midwestburners.com/
stlouis@burningman.com
kansas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mo.html

Chicago Decompression - Oct., 2007 - Chicago, Illinois -
http://www.burningmanchicago.org
chicago@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_il_chi.html

Arizona Decompression - Oct. 5-7, 2007 - Gateway Ranch, near Flagstaff, Arizona -
http://www.azburners.org
arizona@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_az.html

(The following event is still in the planning/tentative stage)
octOHburn - Oct. 5-7th, 2007 - Middletown/ Oxford, Ohio -
cincinnati@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_oh.html

Playa del Fuego - Oct. 5-8, 2007 - Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org/
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
philadelphia@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Decompression/Afterlife Compression (DC/AC) - Oct. 6, 2007 - Honolulu - Hawaii -
http://www.kapilina.org/
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

SF Decom - Oct. 7th, 2007 - Indiana St, San Fransisco, California -
http://www.burningman.com/blackrockcity_yearround/special_events/decompression/index.html
flambelounge@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca.html

Thesmophoria - Oct. 12-14,2007 - South Carolina -
http://www.dirtysouthernburners.com/
southcarolina@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_sc.html

Myschievia - Oct. 10 - 13, 2007 - Winn Ranch, Dallas, Texas -
http://www.ntxb.org/
denton@burningman.com
austin@burningman.com
houston@burningman.com
dallas@burningman.com
elpaso@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_tx.html

LA Decompression - Oct. 13, 2007 - Los Angeles, California -
la@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca_la.html

Denver Decompression - Oct. 15, 2007 - The GOG - Denver, Colorado -
http://denverburningman.com/
denver@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

Fuego de los Muertos - Oct. 26-28, 2007 - San Diego, California -
http://fuegodiego.com/
sandiego@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ca_sd.html

Afterlife - November 1-4, 2007 - North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii -
http://www.kapilina.org/
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

Africa Burns - November 23-25, 2007 - South Africa, Africa -
http://www.afrikaburns.com/
paul@onepeople.com

2008 Summer Events/Recompressions:

Kiwiburn5 - Feb. 1-4, 2008 - Whakamaru Domain, Mangakino - New Zealand -
http://www.kiwiburn.com
newzealand@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/nz.html

Burnal Equinox/Rebirth Compression - March 2008 - Big Island, Hawaii -
http://www.kapilina.org/
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

Dark Skies - April 9-13, 2008 - Roach Lake, Nevada -
http://darkskies.vegasartists.com/
lasvegas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nv.html

InterFuse - May 2008 - Boonville, Missouri -
http://www.midwestburners.com/
stlouis@burningman.com
kansas@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mo.html

Toast! - May 8-11, 2008 - Witch Well, Arizona -
http://www.toast-town.org
arizona@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_az.html

Rebirth - May 15-18, 2008 - Big Island, Hawaii -
http://www.kapilina.org/
hawaii@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_hi.html

Playa del Fuego - May 22-26, 2008 - Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org/
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
philadelphia@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Burning Flipside - May 22-26, 2008 - Austin, Texas -
http://www.burningflipside.com/
http://www.burnaustin.org/
denton@burningman.com
austin@burningman.com
houston@burningman.com
dallas@burningman.com
elpaso@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_tx.html

Element 11 - End of May, Beginning of June 2008 - Grantsville, Utah -
http://element11.org/
utah@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_ut.html

Scorched Nuts - June 2008 - College Corner, Ohio -
http://www.scorchednuts.com/
columbus@burningman.com
southernohio@burningman.com
toledo@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_oh.html

Apogaea - June 2008 - Front Range, Colorado -
http://www.apogaea.com/
denver@burningman.com
boulder@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

Critical Massive - June 23-29, 2008 - Sultan, Washington -
http://www.massiveburn.org/
seattle@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_wa_sea.html

SOAK - July 2008 - Salem, Oregon -
http://www.burningmanportland.com
portland@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_or.html

Nowhere - July 9-15, 2008 - Zaragoza, Spain -
http://en.goingnowhere.org/HomePage
europe@burningman.com
uk@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu.html
http://regionals.burningman.com/eu_uk.html

Transformus - July 16-21, 2008 - Deerfields, in Horse Shoe, North Carolina -
http://www.transformus.com
northcarolina@burningman.com
wilmington@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_nc.html

2008 Fall Events/Decompressions:

(The following event is still in the planning/tentative stage)
octOHburn - Oct. 2008 - Middletown/ Oxford, Ohio -
cincinnati@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_oh.html

Playa del Fuego - Oct. 9-13, 2008 - Odessa, Delaware -
http://playadelfuego.org/
washingtondc@burningman.com
baltimore@burningman.com
philadelphia@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_mddc.html

Denver Decompression - October 18, 2008 - The GOG - Denver, Colorado -
http://denverburningman.com/
denver@burningman.com
http://regionals.burningman.com/us_co.html

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Miss Transformus 2007 Announcement

2007-07-14T21:52:38Z

Miss Transformus 2007: Pageant of Self-Proclaimed Beauties
www.missblackrockcity.com

Represent your village, your camp, your art, your tent, or just yourself! Miss Transformus 2007 is a wild pageant spoof and a celebration of the many faces of Transformus, all wrapped up in one crazy hour of fun. This is not your mother's beauty pageant. Anyone can enter! Plastic surgery, an eating disorder, Vaselined teeth and double-sided tape are not required. We want to see your inner beauty, show us who you are!

What better way to rev up a massive sonic !!!!!BOOM!!!!! of energy for the burn than by being all together, getting to know the unique beauties that Transformus has to offer!?!?!

This is how it works:
Saturday, Pre-Burn Time (9-10pm)
Mainstage

9pm sharp: All participants (women, men, and every combination thereof - everyone is welcome!) line up to Spank the Wine, hosted by New York's Camp Whisky Whores. Boxed wine is very bad, you see... the the bladder that lies within must be spanked. Show us how you do it, people!

After the Spank the Wine, participants are invited to:
1) show us their style
2) share their talent - everyone has a talent be it a fine art or stupid party trick (two minutes or less, please!)
3) answer an interview question, written by other participants and / or the audience.

No eliminations are made during the event. The beautiful chain-stitched sash is tossed out at the end like a bouquet at a wedding. It is up to you to get it! Handmade tiaras will be given away to as many participants as possible. Everyone is a winner!

WARNING: No beauty pageant is fair. Bribery of anyone claiming to be a Judge is encouraged. Participate for fun rather than play to win!

Get to know StacycatS Saturday afternoon at the tiara making workshop. It is easy, and fun. All Mysterians are invited to make a headpiece / crown / tiara. Kids welcome! Photos of our onplaya tiara workshop can be found at: http://www.missblackrockcity.com/galleries/MBRC06_tiara/index.html Exact time / location to be announced soon.

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Black Rock Beacon 2007

2007-06-28T16:15:56Z

Announcing, the Black Rock Beacon, Volume III.

Yes, Burners, we’re coming back for our third year, bringing news, views and pork-related trivia to Black Rock City. The Black Rock Beacon is an independent daily newspaper and an associated website ( www. blackrockbeacon.org ) written by and for the Burning Man community.

Our 2006 (and 2005) archives are on-line, check them out at

bitethe.com/brb/archive.htm

We’re planning five or six issues for this year, with several thousand copies of each. What will determine how many days and how many copies is YOU, fellow Burners.

If you like the Beacon and want to help keep us going, we could use your small but heartfelt donations. To make it interesting -- and Playa-y -- we’re raffling off a one-year membership in the Bacon of the Month club. Each month, starting in October, the winner will get a pound of bacon from a different artisanal producer. There’s also a t-shirt, a pen (it’s a pig-pen), and an adorable little pig eraser. We’ll hold a drawing on the Playa, if the response is overwhelming before the start of August, we’ll add a second prize so that your odds of winning will never be less than 1.5%. Bacon of the Month Club will only ship to the United States, but it makes a great gift to your American friends if you live overseas (or are a vegan).

Donations must be in multiples of $10. The raffle runs through August 22. See our web page at

bitethe.com/brb/donate.htm

for details. All money raised will go to increasing the number of copies we print each day and possibly publishing on additional days.

Thanks for your support! We look forward to serving Black Rock City in 2007 and for many years to come.

Lux. Veritas. Lardum.

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Playa del Fuego history page updated

2007-06-20T23:25:02Z

http://home.comcast.net/~spam.dot/pdfhistory.html

New pics from last fall and the recent Memorial Day event.

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Myschevia October 4-8

2007-06-20T01:25:46Z

Word.
www.ntxb.org

soon moving to myschevia.com

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SOAK*2007 Oregon Regional

2007-06-01T15:45:12Z

http://www.burningmanportland.com/

When: July 20 - 22

Where: Miller Ranch. Outside Salem, OR. About one hour from either Eugene or Portland.

SOAK is a multi-day camping on 110 acres of meadows, a swimming hole and wooded trails.

Neighbors - none
Sound - no problem
Covered Stage - already there
Power - some
Flat camping/parking – check
Streams & Ponds - of course
Black Bears - maybe
Stripper Pole - hell, yeah
Rain - no way
Rubber Ducky Race - check
Man, fire, and fire performers - absolutely

***

Some exceptional people have volunteered to take the lead in various areas at SOAK this year. Please get in touch with
them if you have something that you plan to bring/perform/share/create.

FIRE
This year we are planning two fire performances. Want to light up at SOAK?
Spark a conversation with Comet at celestialww@yahoo.com

DPW
Good at building bridges and then breaking them? Want to help with set up & take down? Early arrival opportunities.
Contact DangerGirl at ImageNWpdx@gmail.com

ART
Bringing some installation pieces? We have some small grants to help you get them there!
Set it up with BM Co-Regional Contact BenD at bend@burningmanportland.com

THEME CAMPS
Theme camps make the world go around! SOAK is a perfect place to try your theme camp out! We have some small grants to help you get them there and early arrival opportunities.
Speak with Krumpet at krumpet@burningmanportland.com

PAGODA
This is a space for workshops, music, live performance, art, and morning beverages. A great place to gather - To perform
or decorate contact Carlos - djindigo_montoya@yahoo.com

WORKSHOPS
Do you have something to teach us under the sun or the stars? Poi? Yoga? Email Tzara at tzara@tabla.com

MUSIC/LOUD SOUND
If you are bringing a sound camp, let us place you in the perfect spot. Or if you would like to play at one, then
we'll try to make a match. We're all ears!
Contact Tzara at tzara@tabla.com

GREETERS
THE most important job on the planet! You set the mood for the event & it's a great way to meet people. The most FUN
is at the Greeters station! To sign up contact Susie Starr at susiethesuperstarr@yahoo.com

RANGERS
We LOVE Rangers! Ever dream of being a Ranger? We can make that dream come true!!
This year Dragon is offering an official Black Rock Ranger Training on Saturday.
You don't have to become an official Ranger to help us Ranger at the event. Questions and more info contact Dragon: dragon@rangers.org

STREET TEAM / PROMOTIONS
Got a posse that can help get information out there? Contact Krumpet at krumpet@burningmanportland.com
You will know as soon as the ink is dry on the fliers.

***

Tickets are now on sale! $30 presale & $40 at the gate. Children under 12 are free.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/16542

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Greening the Man Volunteer Opportunities

2007-06-01T14:30:38Z

Yes, I've volunteered more of my behind the computer time to even MORE burner activities...hell, I've even volunteered more of my NOT behind the computer time to more burner activities. So here is a way for all you hella busy folks to either become even more busy.

First off, do you know anyone in the SF area that would want to participate in greening an event out here? There is one on June 10th, Prepare for the Playa (not an official BMORG sponsored party) however they would like to have a green team presence there! So if you or someone you know is interested, have them send Kachina Katrina an e-mail at: kachinakatrina@burningman.com

Here is the 4-1-1 to share with your lists:

Contact: KachinaKatrina@burningman.com for more information and contacts on these greening opportunities:

1.Environmental Section on the BM Website
Help spice up the Environmental Section on the Burning Man website in a 'resource center' with pages dedicated to: Materials, energy, lighting, gray water, recycling, re-using/salvage, composting, waste, the 6 R's, burning’ and more...
* We need writers, wed savvy people, and editors. Each of these pages will have: TIPS, FAQ, & RESOURCES

2.Cooling Man: Help wanted with offsetting
Cooling Man's mission is to unite art with science in the fight against climate change by sponsoring climatic artwork and helping participants understand and eliminate their climate impacts. To help support Burning Man 2007: The Green Man, and make Black Rock City the first 'carbon-neutral' city in the world, Cooling Man needs more hearts and hands. Please let us know if you'd like to help with this. Work on a project to indicate global warming- equivalent to one Christmas light per square meter across the planet 1 s mile of Christmas lights-in a ball that show heat. 1500 lights- (number I got) –check with Jeff Cole and see- Right now he needs help to-make a globe- it is a square meter heat project-

3.Resource Directories, wiki – ways to green the burn
Adding resources and insight on ways to Green the Burn. Which include but not limited to: Materials, energy, lighting, gray water, recycling, re-using/salvage, composting, waste, the 6 R's, burning’ and more...moving this information to the wiki (tech savvy people needed here!) and then getting this to the outreach team and the website team for the environmental section.

4.Communications, distribute information/ OUTREACH
Get the word out and updates on what is happening with greening Burning Man. Let people know where they can get involved, and share educational tidbits, and our resource directories with Burners around the world. You can also update the info for our wiki that will then lead into the Environmental section on the website. Help with our super sweet looking e-mail coming out, get this out to theme camps, participants, and your friends.

5.We will also have a 3,500 watt solar system ran lighting behind coffee bar, and some on the man base, we will need some help installing this. Efficient Energy solar was the company that supplied this and a month and 1/2 after the event these panels were powering people’s homes in Southern California. If we can get more than one company doing this, we can have multiple stations and more homes being solar powered! Power light is the company that is powering the man base. This is a great time to learn and contribute– however we can all gain a great deal by working together like this.
CONTACT: Blue@burningman.com

6.Composting
This is composting opportunity is for the ranch from the commissary (there place that feeds the staff). No for individuals or camps. One step at a time. We’re all here to learn new things and make things happen. Andy Man is a Resource and is down to help wit composting- their company can’t do anything- however he will help with signs and more. Our board members are into it, one even is researching more including mushroom composting and more- all loosing at this being a stream of revenue and decrease coast of hauling food waste away as trash. Goal: this can be an addition income stream, or can be a giant labyrinth. The neighboring ranch sometimes uses human waste.

7.Workshops and Coordination
Host workshops and/or coordinate the workshops before the burn and on-playa. You can do this anywhere... if you are in San Francisco you can use the Burning Man headquarters. If you live somewhere else we can help connect you to your regional rep. The workshops coordination involves scheduling and getting people involved in places to learn more about greening principals and the 6 R’s (Respect, rethink, reduce, re-use, recycle, restore). Coordinating logistics and people with ideas to make the workshops happen.

8.Transportation & Clean Fuels
Organize clean fuels transportation on and off the playa, and share this information with our education and resources information. Help organize transportation for the Burn... to and from the Play to Reno, the Airport, etc.
Work with the BurnCleanProject.org
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVOLVEMENT:
* Contacting truck rental places, and see about bio-fuels opportunities
* Research
* Organize rideshares and supporting the existing BM rideshare

9.Top 10 ways to Green Your Burn
Get the TOP 10 list out to everyone you know!! in a week we will have a polished list of the top 10 simple ways to be a green burners.

10.Chlorophyll Collective – help ‘em out!
The Chlorophyll Collective is creating a "greenhouse gas capture and sequestration from a generator's exhaust by photosynthetic organisms." They will show how algae can be used to "green" exhaust emissions from combustion-based power generators on or off the playa. Bio-diesel fueled is best for many reasons… however any kind will work with this project.
They have come up with a list of materials and costs, some of the key items are blower, high-pressure water pump, etc. to be donated-
something that the BM network might be able to help us accomplish this??
This list needs to get into the hands of industrial scrap folk who can help us get these materials for free or cheap.
Contact: Dr. Friendly himself, AKA Aaron Wolf Baum: drfriendly@drfriendly.tv

11.Biodiesel Ideas
Biodiesel Ideas-
1. Get the word out about BM being all bio-diesel this year and let people know about the BurnCleanProject.org resources. Provide incentives... ideas?
2. How to do the conversion of a diesel engine to veggie oil in a cool way?
3. Bring in something to make bio-disel reactor-kiosk to show how it works. –everyday from 3-5 bring cooking oil and out comes fuel.
4. Who has an amazing display that talks about how biodiesel works?
5. Talk about Bio-diesel! A woman named Margot is making biodiesel, we'd appreciate a volunteer who is smart who can talk to her about her display. Envision aesthetic framework- Make it fun, do a song and dance!!

12.Informational Kiosk
Informational Kiosk...
1. Who has groovy ideas for: themes-water -energy, agriculture transportation, solid waste, etc.
2. Eco-groovy designs for building these info stations?
3. People to help build these!

13.Grey Water education
Grey Water education, get the word out about best practices and more. Check out the Earth Guardian's Water Works project and share the information with the rest of Black Rock City!! This includes evaporation practices as well. please, work with Sarah directly on this. I'm sure she'd love to hear your ideas. Let's make sure that we are giving consistent information to participants about grey water options.

14.Baseline Environmental Report on Burning Man
One volunteer sought for supporting the production of a baseline environmental report on the Burning Man project. Must be a seasoned expert in gathering and compiling baseline information.
Contact Dr.E. directly at elizd@elizd.com; 510-776-1780.

15.Build Green Map of the city, and organize a "renewable energy tour"
Build Green Map of the city, and organize a "renewable energy tour" Much like the Media Mecca organizes the "art tour" for folks

16.How nature solves problems using Mushrooms and more
How nature solves problems using Mushrooms and more... What could Mushroom Man do at Bman? How about other things like this that could show nature solving problems? BMORG especially likes the angle of saving old growth trees in the name of national defense since certain mushrooms are the only known anti-nerve agent for nerve gases.

17.Green Team For Events
Green Team For Events... staff the green team booth at Burner events, get out the word on the top 10 ways to green the burn and more, sign people up on our mailing list, play games, have fun, make green sexxxy, help organize the eco-fashion/trashion shows, green the event, connect to Blue, Loki, and the Special events team, wear a special green t-shirt. help schedule the green team booth.

18. Administrational support
help get the details managed so things keep on target and we all stay sane. Help take notes and distribute them after the meetings, work with burners with out boarders staff and green team volunteer coordinator, a bit of data base entry.

HAVE AN IDEA and it’s not here, simply e-mail: KACHINAKATRINA@BURNINGMAN.COM and we’ll add it to the list.
*Please be specific, how much time it needs, what opportunities there are for involvement, contact people, and a brief description, and time commitment of the project.

Thanks you and have a great green burn 2007!! Let’s hear it for the Green Man.

Kachina Katrina
Volunteer Coordinator for Greening the Burn
www.BurningMan.com

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Get your scorched Nuts tickets Today!

2007-05-31T16:43:25Z

Hey dont miss the New Ohio regional Burn!!!!!! Get your tickets today!!! Presale tix end at midnight!!!!

www.scorchednuts.com

Oh and register your art, theme camp, etc by midnight tooooo!

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N O W H E R E

2007-05-24T09:33:08Z

Hey Kids, Summer's here and it's time to take a trip...

To Nowhere! - in Spain - on the 3rd to 6th July 2007.

There's one week left to get yer 70 euro tickets. That's ONE WEEK until you have to pay 90 euros!

We have a beautiful new site, a fire permit, our first Art cars and some great projects on the go.

Check details at: www.goingnowhere.org and www.nowheredays.com

Git yer gladrags on!

*x*p*x*

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Vox Ignis Announcement

2007-05-18T15:26:51Z

The Vox Ignis website (www.voxignis.com) began as an idea and set of projects inspired by BROF (Burning Ring Of Fire, at Yahoo). It's been in operation for about 14 months and we've had quite a bit of success, recognition, and participation. The initial problems we expected from various entities did not occur and we've had thousands of page views. So there's definately room in Burner virtual space for something like Vox.

The experiment will continue but Vox Ignis will be going OFFLINE (website closed) in a few days and will stay offline for about 10 months. It wouldn't be right to leave it online while all our efforts go into redesign... daily maintenance takes too much time and people need fresh info.

We're re-purposing the entire concept and Vox is being re-coded from the ground up. Our focus will become more precise with specific projects coming to the foreground, like the Big Burning Map and the Regional Burn Showcase. We're also going to reach into new areas with greater effort, like blogging and other Web 2.0 technologies that will benefit Burner web surfers. The international format will stay and we'll reach out even more into the global Burner scene.

So if your website has a link or two to Vox Ignis, please notify your webmaster that those links will be broken in a few days and need to be removed.

Vox Ignis isn't dead (not at all!), it's just going away for a little while. When it returns we think it will knock your socks off.

Thank you to EVERYONE who participated in so many ways, from content contributors and writers to section editors and coders. It is all greatly appreciated.

Aldric
Vox Ignis

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