Burning Man Project Sunday Reads đź“š April 12, 2020
Enter the Multiverse edition.
“Sunday Reads” is a new curated collection of articles, videos, and podcasts that speak to our global community, culture, and principles.
This week, we’re still absorbing the news that we will not be building Black Rock City in 2020. While it feels like a blow, it’s also an opportunity…to step into the Multiverse and imagine a virtual BRC and more.
As our founder Larry Harvey said: “Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle.”
Let’s do this.
Burning Man in the World
After much listening, discussion, and careful consideration, we will not be gathering in the Nevada desert this summer. Here’s the official announcement about why, what’s coming up instead, and ways to help.
Burners Without Borders are on the front lines of the emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a running list of resources as well as ways to get involved, including notes from their weekly calls, which contain many examples of people and projects mobilizing to help.
The LAGI 2020 Fly Ranch design challenge is a call for regenerative artwork that will help create the foundational infrastructure of Burning Man Project’s year-round property in northern Nevada. Because teams cannot come together during the coronavirus outbreak, the submission deadline has been extended from May 31 to October 31, 2020.
The Playlist
Hear from Burning Man Project CEO Marian Goodell on the difficult decision not to build Black Rock City this year and what’s ahead.
The Theme Camp Symposium in March was entirely virtual. Now you can watch all the plenaries and listen in on sessions about culture in BRC neighborhoods, managing uncertainty, taking your camp’s work out into the world, and more.
Here’s one take on some of the most timeless sets to ever emerge from the Black Rock desert. Which ones would you add to the list?
Also Noteworthy
A quick essay on what created the room for imagination in Estonia, home of the Hedgehog art car and our planned host nation for the European Leadership Summit.
What happens when ordinary people play God to strangers? Published in January, but we love re-reading this piece about one of Burning Man’s oldest art installations.
Steven Hickman, the executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, offers a timely perspective on managing our new virtual reality. Passed around quite a bit at HQ this week.
Burning Man artist Fnnch has been wheat-pasting “Mask Bears” on boarded up storefronts in San Francisco to beautify the spaces and convey that “wearing a mask is about caring for others.” There are 13 in all, so San Franciscans can think of this as a treasure hunt of sorts.
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