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Burning Man Project
Meet those who make Burning Man happen, beyond the desert and out in the world. Artists, activists, and innovators. Builders and Burners, freaks and fools. Burning Man floats on a sea of stories, and the Burning Man LIVE podcast is a plucky little boat with a microphone.
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Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 10min
Pro Tips for Black Rock City
Listen in as longtime Burners talk about the aspects of thriving in Black Rock City: mental, physical, material, and relational.Andie, kbot, Molly, Stuart and Vav explore:· socks secrets· FOMO variants· saying yes and saying no· giving and accepting help· No Friends Monday· and all else!Featuring cameos from other longtime Burners: Anjelika, Chef Juke, Crimson Rose, DA, Dave X, Halcyon, KJ, and Lulu Lurine.They discuss doing it all, doing it right, and doing it wrong as access to being real. Don't just pack. Prepare. Here’s how to have BRC be overwhelming in a good way.Black Rock City 2022(Remember) How to Burning ManJohn Craigie
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Jul 20, 2022 • 49min
Kay Morrison and the Overall Wonderment Quotient
Who can share about the beginnings of Burning Man Project’s Board of Directors, the Meta-Regional Committee, and a blacksmithing collective? Kay Morrison can.Who can tell of getting banned from a country, cooking at Fly Ranch, and hosting a croquet match between Army burners and Navy burners? Kay Morrison can.She laughs with Stuart Mangrum about how everything in Black Rock City (in VR and in IRL) is seven times greater, be it a win, a loss, or a sandwich. Warning: This eloquent and expressive conversation contains many casual curse words.Iron Monkey ArtsBurning Man Project Board of DirectorsBurning Man Regional NetworkBurning Man Meta-Regional CommitteeBRCvrStories Around the Burn Barrel (Burning Man Live)Fly RanchLand Art Generator Initiative Burning Man Global Leadership Conference
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Jul 6, 2022 • 48min
Desert Arts Preview: Artists of Waking Dreams
It’s really real. Makers are making. Planners are planning. Crews all over the world are creating installations for Black Rock City. Katie Hazard, Head of Burning Man Arts, speaks with ten of the 400 artists whose work will rise on the playa. Hold onto your headlamp: We’ve got an alien drive-thru, a library for solar power, and architecture that defiles the laws of physics. We’ve got stories from France, South Africa, the Netherlands, and oh so much more.Ezra Livingston: Shrine of the MacabreJared Ficklin: The Solar LibraryMadeline Fried & Matthew Gerring: Alien Drive-ThruMatt McConnell: Evolution FieldBibi Bliekendaal: People-Powered Music aka The Tinkle DrumMo Osunbor: Build A SeatWes Modes: Black Rock StationKate Greenberg: INCENTERArthur Mamou-Mani, Marta Cavallé & Nick Moser: CatharsisUsha Seejarim: The Resurrection of the Clothes PegEmpyrean TempleBurning Man ArtsR.I.D.E. Radical Inclusion, Diversity and EquityBurning Man Project Sustainability Initiatives
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Jun 22, 2022 • 52min
Remember How to Burning Man: Steven Raspa
For 25 years now $teven Ra$pa has directed discussions for Black Rock City and Regional communities. Hear him and kbot explore why this Burning Man thing is so important for humanity and the world.BRC is a city of imagination, a social experiment, organically cultivated and running on pure encouragement.They discuss the inspired interactions that allow for reinvention big and small for one and all.Burning Man Journal: Raspa
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Jun 8, 2022 • 59min
Sweaty Dynamite: The Dave X Story
When dynamite is aged the wrong way it gets sweaty with little crystals that can cause spontaneous explosions.Dave X. Man of fire, bacon, and “the ponytail of approachability.” An enigmatic shaman of fireworks, flame effects, and deep thoughts, his stripper name is Sweaty Dynamite. His spiritual calling is to bring joyful, fiery experiences to the masses. His secret weapon: a thick binder. Huh? More on that later. Could one man be a hippie and a redneck, and in charge of Fire Art Safety in Black Rock City, and also fill the role of Cake Marshal for Burning Man Project? Yes, yes he could. A pyrotechnician, a peaceful perturber, and a Burner from days of yore, he bestows his teachings upon Stuart Mangrum. Pro tip: Each of our episodes ends with a bang, especially this one. Burning Man Staff: Dave XBurning Man Journal: Dave XShitDaveXSays.com
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May 25, 2022 • 1h 1min
Return to Black Rock City
In May, staff and core collaborators gathered to disclose what’s new and true in the big community experiment that is Black Rock City. How Center Camp changedTurning down turnkey campingThe bumper crop of inclusive artThe hive platform for teaching, learning, and up-leveling leadershipListen as they share about jobs, classifieds, and the Survival Guide, about behind-the-scenes machines for emergency response, decommodification deals, sustainability solutions, and diversity discussions.This is a glimpse into how it all works.BURNING MAN LIVE: RETURN TO BLACK ROCK CITY (stream, transcript, pics)Black Rock City 2022Black Rock City Art Theme: Waking DreamsBurning Man ArtsDesert Arts Preview: June 12thBurning Man Project JobsSpark ClassifiedsPlaya Events Registration (WhatWhereWhen)Survival GuideThis is How We Hive (HIVE)Touching Down: a BRC orientation (HIVE)Return to Black Rock City (HIVE)Burning Man’s 10 Principles
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May 11, 2022 • 32min
Tom Price and The Benefactor’s Dilemma
Stuart talks with 'Burners Without Borders' co-founder Tom Price, then shares an interview from the deep well of 'Culturally Attuned,' a podcast by the US Institute of Peace in collaboration with Burning Man Project.Tom talks about community resilience and his attempts to bridge cultural gaps around race, color, privilege, and the legacy of colonialism.He extols the need for humility and personal agency, and developing relationships of mutual trust and respect - from Kenya to Liberia, to the Native American lands of Nevada.He also presents Burning Man as a place to practice operating with each other organically, without imposed signifiers of who gets to be in charge. USIP (United States Institute of Peace): Culturally Attuned PodcastUSIP: Culturally Attuned: Benefactor’s Dilemma: Am I helping or Am I Wielding Power? (podcast episode)Burners Without Borders: What Does Burning Man Have to Do With Peace? (audio clip)Burning Man LIVE: Culturally Attuned with the US Institute of Peace (2021 podcast episode)Burning Man LIVE: Creative Solutions to Mass Destruction (with Tom Price) (2020 podcast episode)Burning Man Journal: Tom Price ECOSAFI
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Apr 27, 2022 • 1h 6min
The Magic When Art Happens
Tyson Yunkaporta is an artist and scholar of the Apalech Clan in Australia. Caveat Magister is a Burning Man philosopher. They explore ceremony, circumstance, and how art is not about the object. They talk through the power of play, mining the margins, and what indigenous peoples have known that modern people are rediscovering. They discuss Black Rock City, Regional events, and the impact of Gifting, Radical Inclusion, and the ‘wrong’ white people. They explore ideas that are uncommon and uncomfortable: · the ethics of creating spaces where magic is more likely to happen· taking art back from the priestly class to restore balance to the world· how Burning Man has maintained integrity, if it even has... Deakin.edu.au: Dr Tyson YunkaportaSand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Harper Collins Publishing)Beer with Bella: Tyson Yunkaporta (New York Times)Turn Your Life Into Art by Caveat Magister (Burning Man Journal)Excerpts from “Turn Your Life Into Art” by Caveat Magister (medium)The Scene That Became Cities (Penguin Random House Publishing)Burning Man Journal: Caveat MagisterFascinating Stranger
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Apr 13, 2022 • 59min
Thinking Big in a Small Town
Laugh and learn in a collage of conversation with 'Chef' - Matthew 'Chef' Kwatinetz, Senior Director of Nevada Operations and Board Member of Burning Man Project. He shares with Stuart about the ongoing work to convert our Nevada properties into year-round hubs for bringing Burning Man culture into the world. So much more than an infrastructure project, our teams are busy upgrading Gerlach’s services, helping locals and staff develop skills, opening up new employment opportunities, and visioning a maker space for Black Rock City creators.They explore urban planning, tradition and what’s possible beyond our ephemeral city. They imagine what it could look like when Black Rock City spills out of its physical and temporal borders into places beyond the dry lakebed, engaging year-round with art, convenings, and teachings, and living life more secure and expressed. Much has been researched and discussed with burners and locals, from social enterprise to economics, to solar power arrays named after mythical creatures.Burning Man Project Board of Directors: Matthew ‘Chef’ KwatinetzNYU New York University Leadership Team: Matthew KwatinetzWelcome to Burner School: Gerlach Workforce Development Center (Burning Man Journal)The Chef and the Power of Community Prototyping (Burning Man Live #18)360VR: GerlachBlack Rock City Placement ProcessLAGI: Land Art Generator Initiative, Fly RanchHaunted West Gerlach (youtube)Göbekli Tepe (wikipedia)
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Mar 16, 2022 • 57min
Stuart Mangrum’s Serious Philosophy of Shenanigans
Stuart Mangrum, Director of the Burning Man Project’s Philosophical Center and a veteran of the Cacophony Society, dives deep into his eclectic journey through Burner culture. He shares wild stories from early Black Rock City, including publishing the Black Rock Gazette and crafting absurd themes like the Church of the Ham. Stuart also humorously tackles conspiracies, reflecting on his military background and survival training. Through it all, he emphasizes the principles of decommodification and the transformative spirit of the playa.


