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Burning Man LIVE

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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00:44:52

Art is the How - From BRC to Public Policy

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/11/13

He brought theme camps and art installations to Black Rock City, and yes, he DJed!Now he brings the spirit of kindness and collaboration (and Do-ocracy) into creating public policy.He co-founded a Burning Man Regional nonprofit.He directed a cultural arts center.He collaborated on cultural policy for racial equity, social justice, and creative sustainability.He ran the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture.He now creates affordable housing through community development projects.He says that nonprofit

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00:46:06

Architecture as Poetry

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/10/30

“I think therefore I am.” ~DescartesJohn Jennifer adds: I care therefore we are… and you cannot think your way to ‘we’He is a poet, an architect, and a cultural instigator. He helped create The Museum of No Spectators which includes Burning Man art of snark and social justice, but no velvet ropes.He’s a paradox embracer. In a world of binaries, he asserts that between black and white is not a gradient of gray; between black and white is all the conceivable colors.Hear him philosophize about

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00:59:26

Ranger Keeper - Frontier Principal

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/10/16

She’s a longtime senior leader of the Black Rock Rangers and the principal of the Gerlach K-12 School. Keeper lives year-round in Gerlach, one of the smallest and most remote towns in the US, and the closest community to Black Rock City.In this storytelling episode, she shares her unique perspective on blending the worlds of Burning Man and rural life.She tells the tales of keeping the town’s school open after the local mine closed, transforming it into an all-ages institution of families. She

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00:37:13

Black Rock Observatory - From the Playa to the Planets

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/10/04

Black Rock City has an airport, a hospital, a post office... and yes, an observatory! For a decade, the Black Rock Observatory has served as a portal to the cosmos, bringing deep space to the desert.Father-and-son Zoom and Robin Newhouse are at the helm of the observatory that houses several telescopes for viewing planets, galaxies, and even our sun. It also offers a museum of meteorites that are billions of years old. The Observatory theme camp serves as an expert nexus: It is home to Space Talks

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00:44:07

20 Years of Mutant Vehicles - Jon Sarriugarte & Zolie

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/09/17

Recorded in Black Rock City, you can hear the grainy gravitas of their voices...For decades now, Jon Sarriugarte, Kyrsten Mate, their daughter and their team build mobile art. From a meter maid cart turned space shuttle, to a custom copper retro fire snail on wheels, their creations make up part of BRC's moving landscape. They built a trilobite to ride, a gilded golden zeppelin car, and a noir submarine buggy.Then there are the Serpent Twins. Back in 2011, when the playa glowed with now outdated EL

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00:59:57

Desert Arts Preview - Hear the Stories

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/08/22

Hear the stories of the art and artists. Black Rock City hosts 400 artworks from around the world. This episode features 12 of them, and this year’s Temple. This is a sonic journey of artist's recordings and chats with Burning Man Project's Director of Art, Katie Hazard. Desert Arts Preview is your chance to step behind the scenes and listen to the process of creating interactive, collaborative, community-built artworks.This episode explores: The Sphinx Gate - Mareesa Stertz & Tania AbdulSinksphere

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01:08:39

Pro Tips for Black Rock City 2025

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/08/13

REMASTERED FOR 2025: Our most popular episode of all time. Listen in as longtime Burners talk about the dynamic aspects of thriving in Black Rock City: mental, physical, material, and relational.Andie, kbot, Molly, Stuart, and Vav explore:socks secretsFOMO variantssaying yes and saying nogiving and accepting helpNo Friends Mondayand much more and other and new!Featuring cameos from longtime Burners: Anjelika, Chef Juke, Crimson Rose, DA, Dave X, Halcyon, KJ, and Lulu Lurine.They discuss doing it

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00:44:26

Alexander Rose - Thoughts Experiments in Time

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/08/07

Zander was the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, dedicated to long term thinking. He also helped build their library, a book club for the end of the world, with all the titles we would want to rebuild civilization, if needed. He is one of the brains behind the 10,000-Year Clock, designed to tick off the years, and chime the centuries. He’s now co-creating the future of the web at Automattic. He and his team are bringing a library to Black Rock City, to the World’s Fair pavilion under

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01:01:32

AI in Art in Black Rock City

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/07/23

AI is a context changer, a shaker upper, and a force multiplier to what our human minds can do.Andie says that AI is a major philosophical shift in humanity, and when this kind of thing happens, the first people she goes to are artists and academics.Andie and Stuart talked with a few artists and academics about their AI infused art coming to Black Rock City. They share their dreams and nightmares, and how to 'go beyond.' · Chad Elish — Verse-O-Matic · Kate Greenberg, Deva Temple, Eric Vicenti — "Out

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00:48:05

Kevin Kelly - Optimists Create the Future

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/06/26

Kevin Kelly is a leading thinker of the digital age. The founding editor of Wired Magazine, he helped produce the Whole Earth Catalog, and an early internet pillar called the WELL. He is a journalist, an artist, and a longtime member of the Burning Man community.He is a radical optimist.The future is a construct of the collective imagination. We see utopian stories as too pie-in-the-sky. We have a morbid curiosity for dystopian stories. What’s in between? Iterative improvement. Protopia.Delve into

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00:59:13

Playa Music - From Bebop to Dubstep

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/06/11

Black Rock City's soundscape is a wild ride from Afro-punk to Zydeco. This episode explores the why and how of two styles: the thumping electronic dance music that makes BRC a DJ's Meccathe anything-goes improv of jazz, a dusty mirror to the Burner spiritStuart, a self-proclaimed EDM newbie, gets a crash course from a DJ in the know. He chats with a legendary DJ about how Burning Man transmogrifies DJ culture into something utterly unique. It’s a refreshing deep dive for aficionados!Then, Allie

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00:34:23

Leo Villareal - Light Up the Dark

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/05/23

Leo Villareal is a pioneering light artist, bringing teams and tech together to activate buildings, bridges, and bastions. He started Burning in 1994, founded Disorient camp, and has been to every Burn since. Join Leo sharing his journey from crafting a single beacon for his tent to leading monumental art projects that reshaped skylines. He illuminated the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, the historic bridges over the River Thames in London, and projects everywhere from Washington DC to Iowa, from NYC

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00:39:58

Thunderdome's Leadership Lessons

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/04/23

Thunderdome has been part of Black Rock City for 25 years. Marisa Winter has led it for most of that time. One need not experience it to benefit from the wisdom of a high-profile, high-intensity theme camp’s insights.Hear Marisa and Stuart talk through the leadership structure and community practices that result in the Thunderdome's chaotic harmony of performance, showmanship, and cathartic “consensual violence.” Marisa shares insights gleaned from decades of theme camp operation. Such insights

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00:52:21

Theme Campers Unite

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/04/09

Most people in Black Rock City live together in placed camps, aka theme camps, the most unique aspect of this unique event. BRC has 1200 camps.At the intersection of Communal Effort, Self-Expression, and Immediacy, theme camps gift a uniquely decommodified ‘third place’ of offerings and ambiance.At this annual symposium, staff and volunteers to share how they gift their interactive camps to participants. There’s an art and a science to it. Here are the highlights about the art of it.Bryant Tan (aka

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00:55:24

The Gift of Food and Solar Power

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/03/26

Solar power is simple now, thanks in part to Burners who gift the power of the sun. The Burners in this episode also gift steamed rolls with savory fillings called bao — so much delicious bao.The theme camp “Bao Chicka Wow Wow” has been a part of Black Rock City for a decade. They share the prosperity of bao to artist groups, volunteer teams, and participants lucky enough to find their camp or their pop-up “restaurant row” — all powered by their custom solar kits.David Hua (Chairman Bao), Marcus De

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00:47:22

BRC Art Preview with Katie Hazard

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/03/14

Explore the magic monuments of Black Rock City 2025.Katie Hazard, Director of Art, leads the selection, placement, and installation of artwork, and she leads Burning Man's art grant selection committees. The ARTery is in the center of Black Rock City, slightly offset like the human heart. It’s the epicenter of art support for nearly 400 art pieces, from towering sculptures to immersive environments.Before these art projects are sourced, crafted, and assembled with everything from hot glue to heavy

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00:57:13

De-bureaucratizing Your Burn

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/02/26

Legend whispers of a time when Burning Man was a lawless Eden, a fiery playground of unbridled do-ocracy; no rules, just pure creative chaos. But as Black Rock City has grown into a thriving metropolis, so has the need for structure. We've gone from jokey forms for an ‘artistic license’ to complex permit obligations. We’ve gone from giving ourselves permission to taking on a system that can feel overwhelming.How can we better balance radical self-expression with the necessities of a city? How can we

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00:42:29

Rising Sparks - Bridging Burner Generations

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/02/12

Mutant vehicles! Theme camps! Art experiences! It all emanates from the community… overlapping circles of people who are everywhere between being newcomers and seasoned, local and global, young and old.Andie Grace talks with next-gen Burners Taylor Andrews, Kat Ebert, Mani Senthil, and Whitney Wilhelmy about how to find your crew like you never thought possible.They break down barriers and clear pathways through an initiative called “Rising Sparks” which demystifies BRC and Regional events, and

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00:43:00

Temple of the Deep - Miguel Arraiz García

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/01/29

Hundreds of people create the temple in Black Rock City. It’s a community intent on creating a work of art that is a space for people to grieve and revive.For the first few years of Black Rock City we didn't have a temple. Now, people can't imagine living without it. Each year, participants create messages, tributes, and altars for who and what they want to release. The event culminates with the burning of the temple in what organically evolved to be a silent Burn.Listen to Stuart talk with Miguel

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00:49:29

Will Heegaard and Footprint Project - From BRC to NGO

Burning Man LIVE ·

2025/01/15

Disasters happen. Communities come together to recover and rebuild. Governments and NGOs help however they know how. Will Heegaard sees every disaster as a chance to build back greener. His non-profit provides power and water from nature. · power from the sun - instead of gas generators· water from the air - instead of plastic water bottlesHe helped with disaster relief from hurricanes in Florida, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico.He helped in West Africa, in the Philippines, and with the Maui

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