Burning Man is Everywhere
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10/16/24 • 36 min
Everywhere?
Regional events actively align with Burning Man's 10 Principles. 85 official events happen in 30 countries, with collectively more participants and more art grants than the original Nevada event.
After 25 years, the combined regional presence is huge, diverse, and evolving, and it all started in one place: Black Rock City. Whether you're Burning in New York or New Zealand, all backroads lead back to BRC.
We called a bunch of the Regional leaders to see how things are going out in their other homes away from home. We heard from Argentina, China, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and even the far-flung realms of Texas and Kentucky.
Play this mixtape of people sharing stories from everywhere in the world.
And here's a related episode from 2022:
Everywhere?
Regional events actively align with Burning Man's 10 Principles. 85 official events happen in 30 countries, with collectively more participants and more art grants than the original Nevada event.
After 25 years, the combined regional presence is huge, diverse, and evolving, and it all started in one place: Black Rock City. Whether you're Burning in New York or New Zealand, all backroads lead back to BRC.
We called a bunch of the Regional leaders to see how things are going out in their other homes away from home. We heard from Argentina, China, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and even the far-flung realms of Texas and Kentucky.
Play this mixtape of people sharing stories from everywhere in the world.
And here's a related episode from 2022:
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Volunteer Voices
Thousands of people volunteer each year in Black Rock City, for days, weeks, or months. Add to that the volunteers at the many Regional events around the world and it’s more than can be counted on fingers and toes.
Why do we volunteer?
Is it because we feel we received a gift and we want to pay it back, or pay it forward?
Is it the meditation of hard work in a hard place adding a dimension to our experience?
Is it the chance to do something different, for a pixel pusher to build an object, an engineer to cook for artists, a project manager to manage a different kind of project?
The answer seems to be YES.
We interviewed a few longtime citizens of Black Rock City about why they volunteer with the Greeters, with DPW, and with the Man Base to hear the stories of Topless Deb, Tamsin, Ruin, Terra, and a guy named Fuckyeah.
Listen to the stories of Topless Deb, Tamsin, Ruin, Terra, and a guy named Fuckyeah.
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Burning Curiosity - The Study of Burning Man
Academics from everywhere experiment, collaborate, and even interpret our stories of "This one time at Burning Man."
In this episode, Stuart talks with people from Burning Nerds, an annual gathering of academics in Black Rock City. They keep it light, though; not too many unnecessarily fancy words.
Dr Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä describes the technique used by the Burning Man Project that gives more power to the people.
Bryan Yazell and Patricia Wolf of the University of Southern Denmark use Flash Fiction in BRC to develop a new subgenre of sci-fi called climate fiction (‘cli-fi’), stories that are less dystopian, even less utopian, more protopian (fancy word) — not good or bad, but progress.
Professor Matt Zook of the University of Kentucky extols Black Rock City's unique aspects, from temporality to being a place apart. He and Stuart explore the interplay between digital and physical spaces, and what about community actually makes it good.
Then Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä returns with how the Burning Stories project, now in its 6th year of tracking tales, is a cultural repository and is training a gifted AI on how Burners be Burning.
geography.as.uky.edu/users/zook
burningman.org/programs/philosophical-center/academics
regionals.burningman.org/european-leadership-summit
sdu.dk/en/publications/enacting-hopeful-climate-futures-at-burning-man-2024
Bjørn S. Cience - Founding Board Member at Institute of Performative Inquiry
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