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Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk to leaders of the Burning Man Regional Network about creative ways organizers around the world are out-weirding the pandemic. Iris Yee, Head of the Burning Man Regional Network Steven Raspa, Associate Director of Community EventsThe Burning Man Regional Network plays a key role in the year-round extension of the Burning Man experience, supporting it as a global cultural movement. regionals.burningman.orgClovis Buford shares about being the keeper of the hat - Burning Man founder Larry Harvey’s iconic Stetson hat. Caveat Magister sprinkles Radical Self Expression on his salad, and suddenly he’s putting all of his childhood doodles on the wall to make a museum of his unconscious.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Stuart Mangrum and Dicky Davies talk with three temple builders of Black Rock City. What does “temple” mean in the context of Burning Man, a secular culture based on humanist principles, where ritual is a vector for culture, not really a religious thing..?Lawrence “Renzo” Verbeck is an architect, contractor, and sculptor. Sylvia Adrienne Lisse collaborates on large-scale, interactive art teams at Black Rock City, Regional events, and festivals. For Black Rock City, they worked together on the Temple of Direction (2019) and are co-creating the Empyrean, the 2020 temple, now being developed in virtual space, to be unveiled in real life in 2021. Arthur Mamou-Mani is an architect and director specializing in digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He was the Temple builder for Galaxia in 2018 and designed the Catharsis project for the next Black Rock City.Empyrean: Meet Your 2020 Temple ArtistsGalaxia: The 2018 TempleVR tour of Arthur Mamou-Mani's Catharsis amphitheatreSimon of the Playa shares his story of how a little girl grieving her mother, and burning embers raining down, taught him how to be human again.Caveat Magister shares about the principle of Gifting, and teddy bear profanities.LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

Stuart Mangrum and Andie Grace talk with Tom Price, a Founder of Burners Without Borders, and its current leader Christopher Breedlove. They discuss BWB's creative solutions to crises, from Hurricane Katrina to COVID, and how Burning Man is a permission engine for people to develop new attributes and expressions, have fun, and surf the chaos. Pyrotechnics Expert DaveX makes the impossible possible - and fires up a jet engine under a bridge…Caveat Magister signs up for a subscription box of Radical Self Reliance, then immediately cancels it because he’s radically self-reliant. Burners Without Borders is a grassroots, socially innovative, community leadership program whose goal is to unlock the creativity of local communities to solve problems. https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG