A Global Cultural Movement
AN ENGINE FOR CHANGING THE WORLD
DIP YOUR TOE IN THE RIVERS OF STORIES THAT EMERGE FROM BURNING MAN AND YOU WILL HEAR TALES OF LEARNING AND TRANSFORMATION, WONDER AND TRIBULATION. BURNERS CREATE RIPPLES THAT EXPAND INTO RELATIONSHIPS, CREATIONS AND PROJECTS PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINED.
Things become possible that you didn’t realize were possible. And if you have a boundary or you’re in a box, then you don’t even know that you’re in a box until somebody shows you that there’s another place to stand. It blows your mind… Then you start looking for other ways that you can be outside of a box that maybe you didn’t realize that you were in. So in this way, I think that it is transformative. It changes what people think is possible.
~ Denzil Meyers, burning since 1992 “A People’s History of Burning Man” Burning Man Live podcast, Episode 79
Things become possible that you didn’t realize were possible. And if you have a boundary or you’re in a box, then you don’t even know that you’re in a box until somebody shows you that there’s another place to stand. It blows your mind… Then you start looking for other ways that you can be outside of a box that maybe you didn’t realize that you were in. So in this way, I think that it is transformative. It changes what people think is possible.
~ Denzil Meyers, burning since 1992 “A People’s History of Burning Man” Burning Man Live podcast, Episode 79
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- BURNING MAN EVENTS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO ADVANCE A MORE CREATIVE, CONNECTED AND THRIVING SOCIETY.
- EMPOWERED BY LEARNINGS IN BLACK ROCK CITY OR AT REGIONAL EVENTS, PARTICIPANTS RETURN TO THEIR COMMUNITIES WITH RENEWED CONFIDENCE IN THEIR CAPACITY TO TACKLE CHALLENGES.
- EXPERIENCES IN BLACK ROCK CITY AND OTHER BURNING MAN SPACES HAVE SPARKED MANY REMARKABLE COLLABORATIONS — FROM MUSICAL TO TECHNOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL TO INTERCULTURAL.
- TO PROTOTYPE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OPERATIONS, DISASTER RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS STUDY HOW PARTICIPANTS IN BURNING MAN EVENTS DEPLOY MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE.
- BLACK ROCK CITY SERVES AS AN EXEMPLARY METROPOLIS STUDIED BY URBAN PLANNERS AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS FOR ITS INNOVATIONS IN URBAN PLANNING AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT. BURNING MAN HAS INSPIRED CITIES AND TOWNS TO BUILD WILDLY CREATIVE INTERACTIVE PUBLIC SPACES THAT ENCOURAGE CITIZENS TO PLAY AND ENGAGE.
