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Tragedy at Utah’s Element 11 Regional Burn
This past Saturday, a person lost his life at the Element 11 Arts Festival in Grantsville, Utah. Element 11 is part of the Burning Man Regional Network, a group of organizations officially affiliated...
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Black Rock Arts Foundation Joins Burning Man Organization
“Burning Man Arts” brings together Black Rock Arts Foundation and Black Rock City’s art department to streamline grant processes & better support the placement and enjoyment of art worldwide San...
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Burning Man Website Undergoing Magical Transformation
Burningman.com — time for an overhaul! A hard working crew of writers and geeks at BMHQ have teamed up to build a brand spankin’ new website for Burning Man. This has been a long time coming and we’re...
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Welcome to Burningman.org
Burningman.com circa 1997 The first Burning Man website — a page, really — appeared in 1994 on the WeLL, a Sausalito-based Internet provider. That held down the fort until a 100% volunteer team...
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Burning Man Now Accepts Bitcoin Donations
Starting today, you can donate to Burning Man with Bitcoin. This makes it easy for anyone in the world to support Burning Man’s year-round programs using cryptocurrency, which is private, secure and...
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Thanks For Your Support!
Burning Man gratefully acknowledges our many valued participants, volunteers and supporters who joined us in 2014 in celebrating and exploring the limitless creative possibilities of our community....
View ArticleBurning Man’s Nonprofit Financial Information Released
Earlier today we published some important financial information on the Public Documents section of our website. As part of Burning Man’s transition to a nonprofit, we are sharing our 501(c)(3)...
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Burning Man Global Leadership Conference is Comin’ Up!
The Burning Man Global Leadership Conference (GLC) is an annual conference of Burning Man community leadership that happens each spring in San Francisco, and it starts April 9. The conference is for...
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Dennis Kucinich Keynotes 2015 Burning Man Global Leadership Conference
Dennis Kucinich at the Burning Man Global Leadership Conference (Photo by Sidney Erthal) [Nicole Brydson is an artist and journalist from New York City. She can be found at nb.interchang.es.] The...
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Female Leadership: “There’s chicks in charge everywhere.”
[This post reprinted with permission from Burn After Reading Magazine.] Harley K. Dubois and Rebecca Anders (Photo by Sidney Erthal) By Jessi ‘Sprocket’ Janusee No one takes a tool out of anyone’s...
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Burners Without Borders to Become Program of Burning Man Project
San Francisco, Calif., April 13, 2015 — Burning Man announced today that Burners Without Borders — a grassroots group that supports community organizing and disaster relief worldwide — will transition...
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Burning Man Project Seeks BWB Program Manager
In case you missed the news, Burners Without Borders (BWB) became an official program of Burning Man Project (BMP) on June 1, 2015. BWB, born in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, has a...
View ArticleVote for Burning Man’s SXSW 2016 Panels!
During our 25+ years of producing Burning Man, we’ve learned a thing or two about collaborative creation, participation-driven cities, inspiring creativity, creating crucibles for innovation,...
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RIP Jay Houston Marx
Jay speaking at the anti-nuclear vigil’s 25th anniversary in 2006 I’m hardly the only person to whom Jay Marx offered a memorable introduction to Washington, DC. Jay passed through this world entirely...
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BREAKING: Shameless Marketers are Shameless
Image by GonZoville.com (Creative Commons) While we were on playa this year, a certain restaurant chain decided to launch an advertisement clearly designed to go viral specifically by leveraging the...
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A New Team for Preserving Burning Man’s Volunteer-Driven Culture
The Community Services team (photo by John Curley) Burning Man is launching a new all-volunteer team designed to preserve and support Burning Man’s essence as a volunteer-driven organization and to...
View ArticleBurning Man Resolves Trademark Issue in Canada
A few years ago, the Vancouver-based group called Burn BC started using the names “Burning Man” and “Decompression” in connection with their organization and activities. Burn BC’s organizers also...
View ArticleVote for Burning Man’s SXSW 2017 Panels
During our 25+ years of producing Burning Man, we’ve learned a thing or two about collaborative creation, participation-driven cities, inspiring creativity, creating crucibles for innovation,...
View ArticleOver 300 Organizations Join Forces in a Nation of Makers
Now’s a good time for movement-building, and Adam Savage has an exciting announcement about an exciting initiative of which Burning Man is proud to be a part: Nation of Makers is a new U.S. nonprofit...
View ArticleTo the Burning Man Community Regarding the Oakland Fire
As we’re all too painfully aware by now, a devastating fire broke out at a gathering in Oakland, California on Friday night. As of this morning (December 5), the death toll was 36, with a portion of...
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