Name: Gauging Interest Only - Burning Man 2025
Start: 2025-08-24T07:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-24T21:00:00-04:00

**What Is Burning Man?**

Guided by the values expressed by the 10 Principles, Burning Man is a global ecosystem of artists, makers, and community organizers who co-create art, events, and local initiatives around the world. Most recognizably, tens of thousands of Burners gather annually to build Black Rock City, a participative temporary metropolis in the Nevada desert.

The nonprofit Burning Man Project produces the annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, and provides year-round support, connection, education, and grants to an ever-growing network of Regional Burning Man communities in more than 40 US states and 35 countries.

**What Are the 10 Principles of Burning Man?**

**1) Radical Inclusion**
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

**2) Gifting**
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

**3) Decommodification**
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

**4) Radical Self-reliance**
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on their inner resources.

**5) Radical Self-expression**
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

**6) Communal Effort**
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

**7) Civic Responsibility**
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

**8) Leaving No Trace**
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

**9) Participation**
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

**10) Immediacy**
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

**Quick Facts About Participation In Burning Man:**

1. You’ll get dirty.
2. You must be a Hippie at heart.
3. Participation requires a lot of time and other resources.
4. It’s not cheap.
5. It might possibly be the coolest experience of your life.

In the comments below, voice your questions, concerns, past personal Burning Man experiences, etc. Please also be sure to express your interest level: 1 = No way, Jose. 10 = Where do I send my check?

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