Extensive Definition
The following is a list of regional Burning Man
events ordered alphabetically by geography. Please note that not
all of these events are affiliated with the Burning Man
organization:
The
participating EmoMen endeavour to create a Temporary
Autonomous Zone (TAZ) to stimulate friendship between men as an
extended
family. The event was based on the idea that, while western
women have been redefining their role since the suffragettes, and the role
of men changed dramatically after the industrial
revolution, there has been little movement in redefining the
role of men, or relationship between them. The founder also
believed that, while the sexual
revolution recognized diversity of sexual preference, men had
become divided along lines of orientation; fear of intimacy between
all men had emerged. Based on the hypothesis that men build
relationship through shared activity, the event includes outdoor
activities and workshops to encourage intimate, experiential
communication. Workshops have included: wrestling, contact
improvisation, djembe
drumming, relaxation and tantric massage, several forms of
yoga, meditation, a
variation of the Glass Bead
Game, teamwork
including low and high ropes
courses, martial arts exercises including jujutsu holds, Nonviolent
communication, Intimacy Boundary
Discovery and Kecak. A key ritual
performed on the last evening each year involves the invention of
full tribal markings with black light
body
paint to a background of electronica, drums and
chanting.
- MapleMan - has been combined with mOOseMan (Toronto) to become:
- NüTopia (official site)
NüTopia is a regional Burning Man
event held between Toronto
and Ottawa in
Ontario,
Canada. The
event is held in May and is attended by participants from both
cities, as well as from other places around the world. NüTopia is a
Leave No
Trace, participatory event.
Toronto:
- Regional page
- mOOseMan (see above)
- Ignition (Official Website)
St.
Johns:
- Toast! (official site) - May 8-11, 2008
San
Diego:
- Crispmass
- Fuego de los Muertos, a.k.a. FDLM (official site)
Lake George:
- Apogaea (official site) - June 7-10, 2007
Townsend:
- Playa del Fuego (official site) - May and October
- AfterBurn (official site) - November 9-11, 2007
- SunBurn
- Alchemy (official site) - October 2-6, 2008
Sun
Valley:
- WillowBurn ([http://sunvalleyburn.com/Solstice04.htm official site)
Boonville:
- InterFuse (official site), sponsored by the Midwest Burners, is an annual, multi-day, camping-oriented event that upholds the ideals of the Burning Man Festival. The goal of InterFuse is to unite the scattered Burners and pre-Burners of the Midwest in a celebration of art, fire, and life, further spreading the Burning Man Experience through the region. The most recent InterFuse was held May 3 to May 6, 2007 at Camp Ozark Avalon, located in Boonville, Missouri.
New York
City:
- Concrete Jungle Decompression (official site)-November 3 2007
Asheville:
- Transformus (official site) - July 20-22, 2007
- Recycled Rainbow (official site) - September 25, 26, 27 & 28 2008
- Scorched Nuts (official site)
Portland:
- Diversion (http://www.pdxdiversion.org/ official site)
Pittsburgh:
Frostburn is a winter celebration of art and community in Western Pennsylvania,
near Pittsburgh. The
regional burn promotes the Ten Principles of Burning Man
in a harsh environment, highlighting the need for community members
to collaborate against severe weather to create and install
interactive
art and theme camps. A
gift
economy is encouraged, while commercial activity is generally
prohibited. Frostburn participants are expected to actively
contribute to the spirit of the event in radically-expressive (but
socially- responsible) ways, leaving no
trace of their presence after the event has ended.
Frostburn takes place at Cooper's Lake Campground, which
also serves as the site of the annual Pennsic War
(the largest annual event of the
Society for Creative Anachronism). The venue is near the
intersection of Interstate
79 and US
422.
In 2008, Frostburn occurred during Presidents
Day weekend in February. In later years, the event is scheduled
for the weekend of the birthday of Martin
Luther King, Jr. each January.
Bedford:
Wicker Man is a new burn located between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh,
PA at Four Quarters Farm (location of the Gaian Mind festival),
established in 2008 and holding it's first event on Memorial Day
weekend. Although it follows the Ten Principles and attempts to
emulate Black Rock City, Wicker Man has designated "villages" for
different activities, including Sound Town (for loud music) and Sin
City (for adult sexual theme camps). Set in the mountainous forests
of Western Pennsylvania, it is comparable in size and setting to
Playa del
Fuego in Delaware.
Austin:
- Burning Flipside (official site) - Memorial Day Weekend
North
Texas Burn:
- Myschievia (official site) - Columbus Day Weekend
Critical Massive (or CM) is an annual alternative
arts and performance festival staged in the greater Puget Sound
region of Washington.
Critical Massive was started in 2002 by Burning Man participants
from the Seattle area. The Massive organization became the Massive
LLC in 2004 with a board of six members. In 2006, Ignition
Northwest assumed producer responsibilities for the event, and is
the current producer of the event. Currently lasting seven days
during the last week of June, it is smaller than the largest
regional burns, with attendance in 2006 limited to 500 participants
and attendance in 2007 limited to 475. Critical Massive’s original
board of six produced the event at a local clothing-optional
resort, Lake Bronson, in Monroe, Washington before moving the event
to Lake Recreation Associates Campground (or LARC) in Mount Vernon,
Washington in 2006, and the privately held campground of River
outside of Maple Valley, Washington in 2007. The event is attended
primarily by participants of the Seattle Burning community, and
relies heavily on large theme camps and individual participants to
build the temporary village. Art grants are distributed through the
local Burner-based nonprofit organization, IgnitionNW.org, which
also is the current producer of the event. In 2007, approximately
$7,500 was distributed to multiple art projects. Many of the core
values of Critical Massive are borrowed from Burning Man, and the
same short, memorable terms are used for them. Due to the fact that
the event is held in the highest population density center of the
Pacific Northwest region, including Idaho, Oregon, and portions of
British Columbia, the event’s environment is significantly
different than the Black Rock Desert. The event has been held on
the west side of the Cascade mountain range in the pacific
Northwest rain forest. Consequently, the size of the event with the
number of participants has been limited significantly simply for
the fact that there are few venues capable of holding up to seven
hundred individuals for a week-long event in the Northwest.
Additionally, unlike Burning Man where the central effigy of a
glowing neon man stays essentially unaltered from year to year
(with alteration to its base and other design elements), the
Critical Massive event may not have a central effigy, or indeed a
last-night event. Usually, fire performances and other exhibitions
occur on the last night of the event, but are limited in scope and
size due to fire restrictions, especially in the forest-fire prone
mountains.
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