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Volume 21, Issue #8 | January 12, 2017 
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ROUND-UP OF BURNING MAN WRITINGS:
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GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY RIDE!
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Well, happy new year and all that. The calendar year is now the same as the Burning Man year, which is probably good. Are you as discombobulated as your Jackrabbits right now after all the darkness and holidays? Perhaps a JRS full of Burning Man jobs and tons o’ photographs will help.
Crimson Rose and Brody Scotland are speaking about the art of Burning Man in Norfolk, VA, which is pretty cool. We’ve also got a bunch of events this issue, ranging from a Regional Event in Argentina to a gardening day in Esprit Park in SF, and a good deal in between. Plus, the the theme for this year’s Burnal Equinox is humor, and there’s a call for participation for all funny people.
Keep on keepin’ on, y’all. The sun’s up for longer every day!
The Man burns in 233 days.
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Burning Man Art Headed to Norfolk, VA
Large-scale, interactive, collaboratively created artworks are gaining more and more attention, which brings great joy to those of us who have been building, funding, experiencing, and burning 'Burning Man style' art for many years.
This evening Burning Man co-founder Crimson Rose and art logistics coordinator Brody Scotland will be presenting “The Art of Burning Man” to a packed house at the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in Norfolk, Virginia, which will be hosting a 5-month exhibit of Burning Man art later this year.
The Hermitage Museum exhibit will open June 4, 2017, and features the work of Five Ton Crane, Michael Garlington and Natalia Bertotti, Gregg Fleishman, Charles Gadeken, Jim Peterson, and Kirsten Berg.
Read more in the Burning Man Journal
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Position Available: Event Operations Department Coordinator (Executive Support)
Location: San Francisco, CA and Black Rock City, NV
Job Summary
The Event Operations Department Coordinator will provide a broad array of administrative and project-related executive support for the Black Rock City Event Operations Director and Associate Event Operations Director, and be a key resource for the Operations Team. Administrative and project support includes but is not limited to facilitating communication, managing calendars, creating presentations, coordinating meetings and take meeting minutes.
The deadline to apply for this role is 6:00 pm PT on Friday, January 27, 2017.
This is a regular, full-time position eligible for benefits, working out of our San Francisco office and Black Rock City, NV.
Please see our job board here for duties and essential functions, and to apply
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In Defense of “Bucket Listers”
Caveat writes:
“Based on the amount of complaining I’ve heard about it recently, we really don’t like it when random people put Burning Man on their bucket list and then try to show up.
I just can’t figure out why we’re unhappy about this.
I mean, if it’s the kind of thing a person thinks they’ll like, shouldn’t it be a thing they do before they die?”
Read more in the Burning Man Journal
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World of Wonders - Burning Man 2016
Lars Wijers writes:
“This was my second Burn. It was even more incredible than the first. You posted my video I made from my first year (Dreams of Dust), and it was so amazing to see how many people commented and posted on it, being thankful for the memories and for sharing the love. It made me think that was my gift in a way, so I made another video of this Burn.”
Watch the video on YouTube
(Photo: Black Rock Lighthouse Service)
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SF Burnal Equinox: Call for Participation! — Event on Mar 4
Where: Public Works, 161 Erie St, SF, CA 94103 (between Division & 14th St in the Mission)
When: Saturday, March 4, 6:00 pm – 4:00 am
Justin Katz writes:
“Burning Man is thrilled to put out the call to you to participate in creating the Burnal Equinox 2017 Salon to encourage arts collaboration in the Bay Area and celebrate the mid-point in our Burning Year!
“When the world becomes too serious, humor is the best way to pull the rug from beneath our senses and restore our footing in the world.”
— The Ancient Puppet Oracle of Lost Socks
This year’s Burnal theme will focus on humor and rituals related to it! Humor comes in many forms and is an essential part of human survival, play, and even innovation. Laughter can change perspectives, open minds, and pave the way for understanding and deeper human experience. At a time when there has been grief, trauma and fear, we will seek to respond by creating a safe and sacred creative playground for humor and perseverance to unfold.
Calling artists and humorists of every conceivable kind, whether Theme Camp-based, artistic, musical, workshop, or mash-up thereof — especially puppets! Help create absurd, comical, ironic, sarcastic, slapstickian, surprising, incongruous, and pun-ny experiences, and encourage other participants to do the same!
New this year! We are adding an early evening component you will not want to miss: The Intra-Psychic Puppet Dinner Theatre*, featuring wise (cracking) puppet oracles, a Sock Puppet Creation Station, The Altar of Missing Socks (bring your offerings), and much more! If you are a puppeteer (or know one), we would love for you to join us.
*Brought to you by The People’s Papal DIY Hand Puppet Emporium of Prophecy and Absurditum
Interested in sharing your theme camp, art, creating a guild or finding creative collaborators? Email flambelounge@burningman.org
Performers should complete this form to be considered. No fire at this venue, but all else, please fill out this Google form.
To volunteer: SEvolunteers@burningman.org”
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Passfire San Francisco Premiere with Exhibits and Panel — Jan 13
What: Passfire movie screening, hands-on exhibits and panel discussion with pyrotechnic artisans and those in the trade
Where: Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94133
When: Friday, Jan 13, doors at 6 pm
DaveX writes:
“Fireworks…
They are about science.
They are about tradition.
They are about family and friends.
They are about amazement even before you have the words to express it.
Come and peer behind the curtain at the wizards and see how they make the magic in the sky. Look inside a firework, push some buttons on a firework control panel, smell the smoke.”
Multiple Burning Man pyros on the panel!
Passfire movie trailer
$12 at the door
More info on Facebook
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Burning Man San Francisco Community Gardening Day at Esprit Park — Jan 14
What: Park beautification working with Rec & Park lead gardener
Where: Esprit Park (between Indiana & Minnesota and 19th & 20th Streets in San Francisco). Meeting point: 20th Street end of Esprit Park at picnic table.
When: Saturday, January 14, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (group instructions at 10 am sharp)
”Join Burning Man San Francisco for some park beautification working with the Rec & Park lead gardener. Wear a fun hat of some kind for our group photo and rain gear if it rains.
Contact us at flambelounge@burningman.org if you can attend and we can send further information. If you can’t join us, consider doing something in your own local park to leave it better than it was and send us a photo or short description of what you did. The only thing better than Leaving No Trace is leaving things in better shape than we found them!
— The Burning Man Garden Gnomes”
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Telluride Fire Festival — Telluride, CO — Jan 20–22
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Sizzle writes:
“January 20-22 in Telluride, Colorado will be incendiary … especially in our little hamlet where the notion of things (like our world) going up in flames takes on a whole other meaning.
The weekend marks the third annual Telluride Fire Festival, a community celebration of excellence in interactive fire arts.
The nonprofit Telluride Fire Festival features a free interactive fire art experience in Telluride for three nights. Multi-storied, interactive, fire-emitting installations, plus fire dancers on stage giving fiery hot performances. It’s family friendly and did we mention free?!
Add to the mix larger-than-life, animated blazing art installations such as ‘Dorothy’, a 24-foot tall fire tornado, fire spinning workshops, and a Fire Ball, a one-of-a-kind fiery fête that takes place Saturday night at North America’s highest nightclub for one night only.”
Learn more on the Telluride Fire Festival website
(Photo: El Pulpo Mecanico, photo by Ryan Bonneau)
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We were listening to ...
Henry Flynt — Back Porch Hillbilly Blues, Volume 1 (2002)
Ben Prunty — FTL: Original Soundtrack (2012)
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Exciting soundtrack for computer-driven space missions, whether in the best indie game ever or while compiling Burning Man’s newsletter.
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