Burning Man LIVE

A whole generation of kids has grown up with Black Rock City as their second address. And they’re amazing. Andie and Stuart talk with Burner kids and Burner parents about the challenges and rewards of going to BRC instead of summer camp. Nine-year-old Charlie (C.Bear) and sixteen-year-old Ava (Dust Storm) share what it’s like for them, and we hear from Lulu and her mother Molly, who’ve been going together for most of 25 years.And we discuss our invisible friends from childhood…And we share a clip of Larry Harvey waxing poetic about kids, community, and commodification from a Profiles in Dust documentary. https://www.profilesindust.net/TEDx Talk from Julia WolfeLIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

We keep talking about the Multiverse. What does that even mean? Is it actually a thing? Why is sad Stuart sad? It is because of his dead cat? Which human should we put in a supercollider, and why? Are Stuart’s dreams actually interdimensional travel, or just crazy talk? What is reality? All these questions and more are answered with even more questions by a theoretical physicist who also happens to be a Burner, Adam Brown.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

In a time and space without a Black Rock City event in Nevada, volunteer crews are using computer code instead of power tools to create a host of digital Burn experiences. What exactly are the “8 Recognized Universes of the Burning Man Multiverse?” What can you do in these online worlds, and will Daft Punk play at the virtual trash fence? Logan and Stuart go looking for answers with the organizers. The through-line for these online offerings is that they will all be celebrating Burning Man culture - from virtual reality worlds to curated Zoom experiences, from web browser adventures to a global streaming burn night. Burning Man Project’s Kye Horton and Gloria Beck help us figure it all out, along with a few of the Universe creators themselves.Read more in the Burning Man journal: Pack Your Virtual Playa Gear and Get Ready to Burn in the MultiverseVisit the Universes via Kindling: https://kindling.burningman.org/multiverse/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

We like to say that Burning Man is made of a million stories. Catherine Burns is the artistic director of The Moth. It’s a wildly popular, Peabody-award winning storytelling series now celebrating its 20th year.Burning Man stories have been told many times on the Moth stage. As it turns out, Catherine has a few Burning Man stories of her own. Stuart and Andie talk with her about loving, grieving, and celebrating as a participant at Black Rock City, and just why storytelling inspired her to devote her life to helping other people tell stories of their own.Michael Vav shares about the Metric Time Trainer that works with Alexa and Siri, but not “Mike” the smart microwave that burned Vav’s toaster pastry. https://themoth.org/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Stuart talks about Burning Man art, making art, and making art about the art, with Jennifer Raiser, author of the book “Art on Fire,” Sophia Swire, producer of the new film of the same name, and Andrew Johnstone, one of the artists profiled in the film.Burning Man art has become a movement in the mainstream art world and in popular culture, and spawning museum shows, books, and films. In what ways does this radically participatory, highly interactive form of expression translate from its desert home to these more traditional channels? Jennifer Raiser is a member of the board of directors of Burning Man Project and the author of books including The Art of Being Bill: Bill Murray and the Many Faces of Awesome, In the Spirit of Napa Valley, and Burning Man: Art on Fire. She’s also a Black Rock Ranger and answers to the playa name “Coco Cabana.”  Joining us today from London is Sophia Swire, an entrepreneur, activist, author and film-maker. She’s produced documentaries for BBC Channel 4 and her latest film, Art on Fire, will be premiered online, on Burning Man’s Kindling channel, on August 15th.Andrew Johnstone is an Oakland based artist, painter, muralist, and longtime Burning Man contributor. For close to 20 years he worked with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey to design one of the most ambitious works of interactive art in Black Rock City, the Man base or pavilion, which changes every year according to the annual art theme and forms the centerpiece of the city.  https://www.kindling.burningman.org/art-on-firehttp://www.sophiaswire.com/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Tony “Coyote” Perez has been building and striking Black Rock City since 1996, back when it had a tenth of the population and a tenth of the stability and user-friendliness. Two long years later he co-founded BRC's Department of Public Works and has been the City Superintendent ever since. He’s the “Bard of the Desert,” the blogger “Coyote Nose,” and Burning Man’s first Storytelling Fellow. His book is “Built to Burn: Tales of the Desert Carnies of Burning Man” and it’s, uh, creative nonfiction...Stuart and Andie talk with him about the sketchy days of early Burning Man, the widows of Gerlach, a territorial cattle rancher, and a helicopter Sheriff who loses his cool. WARNING: Contains descriptions of a graphic nature that made people lose their cool. Once you hear it, you can’t unsee it in your mind. Harley K DuBois tells the tale of meeting Coyote on his first day at Burning Man, and the next day, meeting an entirely different version of him.Caveat encourages you to get what all builders and artisans need: the world's most versatile multi-tool: Immediacy. Get it now… RIGHT NOW!https://journal.burningman.org/author/tperez/https://www.tonycoyoteperez.com/https://www.facebook.com/tony.perez.9484Twitter: @tonycoyoteperezLIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

The Burning Man event started as a “temporary autonomous zone” with no law enforcement of any kind. Then the community came together to create its own, homegrown public safety organization, the Black Rock Rangers. Could the Rangers serve as a model for other cities looking to defund or demilitarize their police forces? Are social capital and good communication skills enough to inspire positive civic behavior when wielded by unarmed volunteers with “approximately the authority of a Cub Scout?” If so, do we really need all those heavily armed federal officers to keep the peace in a city that has one of the lowest crime rates in America?Stuart and Logan talk law enforcement and alternative public safety models with Rangers Tool and Thespian of the Black Rock Rangers, and with Roger Vind, who in his previous career as a Nevada Highway Patrolman was the first law enforcement officer to set foot in Black Rock City, and now works for Burning Man Project as its law enforcement liaison and associate director of public safety.The Black Rock Rangers podcast: The DIM Podcast Series - Radio Check.. from the BRR https://rangers.burningman.org/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

An otherworldly oasis in the desert. Water, wildlife, possibility, and responsibility. Zac manages Fly Ranch in Nevada. He shares about stewarding the majestic and extreme natural sanctuary.Elizabeth and Robert direct the Land Art Generator, and challenge artists and engineers - anyone - to design aesthetic and harmonious energy infrastructure for prototyping in the extreme environment of Fly Ranch. Zac Cirivello, Operations Manager of Fly Ranch, NevadaRobert Ferry & Elizabeth Monoian, founding Co-Directors of the Land Art Generator InitiativeWill Roger Peterson, one of the 6 founders, tells of how “Burning Man” became Black Rock City at Fly Ranch in 1997 - a crucial year in Burning Man's legacy - when its citizens took ownership to the streets.Caveat is convinced that Leaving No Trace lowers car insurance via the chakra-razing technology that NASA uses when astronauts need vision quests.https://flyranch.burningman.org/https://www.lagi2020flyranch.org/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Stuart talks with one of the Founders Harley K. Dubois about how Burning Man evolved since the 1990s... and what now… Power, money, and consumer substitutions for real experiences. Rain and rave camps at Black Rock City, and living under a lucky star. Maker Culture, social capital, and seeing ourselves through the coming changes.Coyote tells of the time a woman in white emerged from the mud to face off with a post-apocalyptic flame thrower on wheels. Caveat asserts that Radical Inclusion transforms cat memes, game night, and society.https://burningman.org/network/about-us/people/founders/#HarleyKDuboisLIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

How does the Burning Man community engage in the fight for racial justice? What skills do we have to share? Burning Man Project’s Senior Communications Manager Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley speaks with three guests who have devoted much of their lives and time to these questions.Élida Margarita Bautista, Erin Douglas, and Marlon Williams join Burning Man LIVE and discuss the current landscape of the Black Lives Matter movement, where we are as a country, and how the 10 Principles, especially Radical Inclusion, play into it all.Andie Grace distinguishes between being open to all and being welcoming to all.Caveat gets excited about the principle of Communal Effort, maybe too excited. LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG