2015 Camps
T-Car
Have you ever wondered what happened to your childhood fairytale heroes after you left their lands? WICKEDLAND brings you face-to-face with them: all grown up, distorted and oh-so-very twisted. How have you changed? What fairytale archetypes do you still carry inside of you? We’ll help you find out – come play, there are no spectators here!
WICKEDLAND brings your favorite childhood fairytale heroes and their archetypal stories back to life. But something has changed – this world isn’t nearly as innocent as it was when you were younger, because you are it.
Climb up the castle towers that adorn the entrance to our camp. If you want to dig deeper through the world of twisted fairytales, you are welcome to sit with a book in our cozy lounge. But be warned – a transformation lingers behind every page you turn. If you’re not careful, you may leave WICKEDLAND as Gay Donald Duck or Nymphomaniac Snow White.
Taiwanderlust
Come on join us and get heart with us!
Come to night market and you will fun with sexy betel nut girls and hot Taiwan sausage!
Can you imagine a goddess, Empress of Sea, Mazu, show up in Burning Man?! Come to see and welcome to join us!
We love to share Taiwan temple culture with you at workshop.
TAKOE
We are a mobile kindergarten for Your inner children.
Tar Pits
At the Tar Pits, take a load off in our dinosaur themed camp. Come by to say hi to Tracy Crea Tops! We will be playing old stop animation dinosaur movies in our hammock chill area nightly.
Tarwater
Tarwater, home of the Rat Taxi, returns with The Tarry Night Bowl, the Ladder Toss game and the inaptly named Corn Hole game. Have your fortune told in the Hit or Miss Fortune Booth. You can pick out clothes at Lady S’ Boutique where you don’t have to do anything in exchange. The Labyrinth will be lit for your nocturnal wanderings.
Tasty
Tasty. Serving up beats and eats since 2005.
Tasty Noodles
Stop by Tasty Noodles in the afternoon for beer, dancing, and shade. Bounce on our trampoline, swing on our swing set, and paint a picture in the Noodle Doodle Dome!
Tazii Lounge
Come chill in Tazii’s lush Moroccan festival tent! While you’re at it, get a drink our three from our top shelf octo-bar.
TBD
Camp TBD hopes to serve as both a welcome wagon for new participants as well as a portal to inner visions for long-time participants. Our camp has been around for a couple of incarnations and each year our desire to enmesh with the 10 Principles grows deeper and rapturous. We have the slobbery enthusiasm of a young puppy paired with the obsessive compulsivity of a head nun.
Tectonic
Come bask in the shade of our fire spewing volcano, or dance to our ground-shaking beats while we serve you a tec n’ tonic. Don’t forget to bring us your playa virgins to sacrifice to the volcano gods!
Teddies
Take a slide down into the teddy bear pit!
Temple Guardians HQ
The mission of the Temple Guardians is: To hold the space of the Temple, maintaining an environment that allows equal access for everyone to have the experience and expression that they need, and keep the Temple itself, as well as the participants who visit it, safe.
The mission of the Temple Guardians Camp is to hold space for and to serve the Temple Guardians. We do this by creating a warm and welcoming place for Guardians and potential Guardians to gather. We host the training sessions and social events. And as the experience of being a Guardian can be powerful and overwhelming, our camp is a place for them to find a compassionate ear and a knowing Heart.
Temple O'Flying Spaghetti Monster
We are a comfortable neighborhood pub with a rockin’ attitude. In honor of his noodley goodness the Friendly Fire Bar will administer ice cold libations and groovin’ tunes for your mind, body and spirit. Take a ride 3 stories up in the Sky Lounge and view the Playa with a much higher perspective. Call almost anywhere in the world on our free public phone or use our free wi-fi hotspot. The Flying Spaghetti Monster welcomes all, so stop by and be touched by his noodly appendage.
Temple of Anointment
If your hide is suffering from the ravages of the dry dusty and high solar radiation climate of the playa, come to the Temple so we may anoint you with our healing skin care formulas that you may rise again to fully enjoy all the experiences the playa offers, and without playa foot! Don’t forget to take back to your camp and friends a tube or two of our Don’t Burn, Man! Organic SPF 35 Zinc Oxide Sunscreen, so you can remain protected while out exploring the Carnival. (And if you really wish to, you can use Don’t Burn, Man! Sunscreen to mime it up!)
Temple of Fluff
Temple of Fluff is a place designed to be as comfortable as feasibly possible. Come explore the possibilities of comfort in a dome completely full of soft things to lay on. When in doubt, stretch out; all places are your places.
Tender Heckles Tea Lounge
‘Oops you dropped your smile…’ come find it at Tender Heckles Porch.
Termination Dust Hole
We are a collective of artists, musicians, freaks, hecklers, and performers, hailing down from Alaska to meet, greet and eat all of you.
Tesla Camp
Camp Tesla is the name. Our camp has a couple of Tesla coils and some stuff about the famous inventor. It is also the home of the Big Friendly Fish.
Tetrix
A fractal world of excitement. Bringing together the resources of several camps to deliver a fusion of insightful and playful experiences to further the mind of the burner. This year we bring you the Armone Galaxy 100ft Maze, Camp Meow Illuminated Environments, a host of bands, improv activities, sno-cone hours, silk acrobatics, healing yurt and much more fun.
That Camp Over There
Providing Caffeine in the morning, Drinking in the afternoon and Glowing in the dark. Moon the Man from our scaffold.
The Big Red Toolbox
The name says it all. Black Rock City Hardware Shoppe will be on-site with a variety of tools and supplies to help build or repair just about anything on the playa. We are proud to have spent over 15 years serving Black Rock City in this capacity.
We have hand tools, power tools, nails, nuts, bolts, tape, string, wire, paint, bike tools, automotive tools, glue, rivets, and whatever else we can manage to fit on the truck. We enjoy helping people work on art projects and helping camps who have suffered structural difficulties, but we also help with minor automotive problems, generator issues, and fix an inordinate amount of bikes. Whatever people bring us, we’ll try and fix if we can. We do not have lots of raw building materials such as 2x4s, PVP pipes, or plywood, but do have a need/want bulletin board for people who have excess or are looking for such to communicate their needs. The Playa often provides!
the black hole
The Black Hole. Staff camp for the Black Rock City Department of Gate, Perimeter and Exodus
The Blight
The Blight—bringing you fine refreshments and high nerdy discourse since 2008. Join us each evening for a salon, and Thursday night for our high formal Blight Cocktail Party.
The Boot Camp
The Boot Camp (by Farrah and Chris)
The Breakfast Club Village
The Breakfast Club provides Coffee and Pancakes for the community from 9am to 1pm. Scarbutts Coffee serves fresh brewed coffee. Pancake Playhouse serves up hot pancakes. With our steampunk Airship Airpusher, we deliver sweet music to the masses.
The Carrot Club
We’re More Carrot, the Black Rock City farmer’s market. Tuesday through Friday from 8AM to 10AM, we will be in French Quarter serving much needed nutrients to playa in the form a fresh locally sourced produce.
The Dreamaginatorium
The Dreamaginatorium aims to foster a sense of wonder, joy and excitement. We create a space and energy of play, exploration and creativity that helps people get in touch with their deepest dreams, hopes and desires, and inspires them to follow their heart and pursue these dreams. We do this primarily through sublime art and participatory, improvisational performance that induces heart and mind opening experiences to remind people of the magic all around them, and inside themselves.
The Dump
Where the worlds most fabulous musicians and dancers from MarchFourth Marching Band, The Saloon Ensemble, Love-Bomb Go-Go Marching Band, Trashcan Joe, and The Ukeladies are dumped and recycled to endlessly create music from a by-gone era. Come sing, dance, play our piano, and join-in as we all share in electronic-free acoustic joy! Lyrics included!
The Dusty Nuts Tavern
Join us daily 5pm – 7pm for the Dusty Nuts Tavern happy hour. Come leave your mark on The Scroll and get your night started with Remix, The Master, Undecided Douchebag, 101, and Dusty Nuts himself.
The Embassy
The Embassy is the center for relations between Black Rock City and the Default World. Come by to ease into life as a burner, learn about the strange customs of the Default World, and prepare for inter-world travel.
The Empress Theme Camp
Come to The Empress, the last bastion of a failed empire! By the grace of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, our hosts and hostesses wish to serve you selections from our tea menu (along with cookies) in our tastefully decorated Victorian tea room.
Visit us outside the peak heat hours for tea from 12PM-3PM and 11PM-2AM. Or come for self service tea at any time!
The Enclave
The Enclave brings those with deep BurningMan roots while providing room for a cast of new tendrils. We are united by a passion for art, design, performance and self-depricating behavior. The Enclave brings a spicy hot mess of Playastani charm to the 9’s of Black Rock by celebrating the civically-minded gifts, we have to offer, in a format that intends to suspend and expand our visitor’s expectations
The Espresso Martini Organization
The Organization: Espresso Martini Parties 1-3pm Tuesday-Saturday
The Fun Fur Traders of Black Rock
Where does fun fur come from? Come and visit the Fun Fur Traders of Black Rock and learn the story behind the fur! Help us celebrate, as we spread cheer through song, dance, and drink – guests of the Fun Fur Traders will be immersed in the culture of the fun fur trade, and a re-imagined era of exploration and discovery.
The GASS Co.
Billowing white fabric surrounds our waterless pillow pools where the tired burner can take an afternoon nap. Learn new skills at one of our daytime workshops or groove to some tunes. My hand is holding your hand, but we’re such Super Friends, you feel my hand on your heart…or in your brain.
The Hand Lovers Lounge
We are a family of artists, dreamers, poets and gnomes. Join us in discovering and exploring the story of human connection and potential and bring your heart onto the stage.
The Heart Collective
Heart Tribe offers a Healing Sanctuary in which you can come receive healing from any of a variety of modalities. While you wait for your session, squish out with us in our spacious Squish Lounge, which features buffers, comfy mats to stretch and play, and lots of incredible people to drop in with.
The Hive
A buzzing mass of madness from the East descends upon the desert, full of burning light and energy. Is the Hive full of honey, or stings? Bathe in our glow, and discover!
The Hookah Lounge
Come to the Hookah Lounge and enjoy our flavored tobaccos, coffee, and wide selection of teas. Our Moroccan style lounge serves up shisha filtered through juice and water every night. The plush seating, soft carpeting, and great people make this the ultimate Burning Man chill-out zone. If you have a favorite molasses based tobacco, you are welcome to bring it and share with others.
The Institute
The Institute Village — Explore the True Frontier through innovations in science, technology, negotiations, and propoganda. When you are on the edge of a system, find your way to our network saloon and reformat your hard drive while having a randy good time. With daily installments and upgrades, be ready to expand your world.
The Lavender Lounge
The Lavender Lounge has been on the Playa for over 10 years providing a mid day chill space. This is a family friendly treatment with lavender oil-water mist and head message.
The Living Room
Come join us for live music and beans served daily.
The Lost Penguin Cafe
What could be more lost than a Penguin in the desert? Drop in to our hospitality oasis where we offer comforts such as shade, couches, wine, lemonade, chocolate, snow cones, friendly people, and live entertainment. Day or night, get up on stage for asshole theatre, watch some bands, dance to DJs or take a workshop. Join us as we navigate surpirses all week! Or just sit and we will engage you in conversation as you watch the playa float by.
The Love Beets
Your Chief Love Vibrators on the Playa
The Mask Factory
The Mask Factory Camp is the supply base and residential base for a portion of the artists from all over the world, that will operate The Mask Factory.
The Mine
We are art support camp for Anton Viditz-Wards art installations, this years project is called “Reflections of a Fire Sprite”.
The Neighbourhood
We are a Québec/US Burning Man theme camp! Together we create a communal space that celebrates the childlike mastery of the art of play.
So come to The Neighborhood, where it’s Recess all day! Dance, drink and play your cares away.
You can swing on our swings and slide down our slide, from our super dank bar, you simply can’t hide.
Come dance to some beats, no need to be discreet, we got your back covered from this whimsical heat.
Whether noontime or nighttime, leisure or labor, do us a favor…Won’t you be our neighbor?
The New Barbarians
The New Barbarians and their band of human-sized dinosaurs are led by their massive, Tyrannosaurus-like steel ruler, Jurassic Pork, on its quest to spread its bountiful stock of barbecued flesh taken from pastured hogs. The only hope for the few remaining survivors living amongst the playa is to join a never-ending feast suitable for King Horik himself as we share amongst the generosity of our humble leader, JP, and amalgamate ever closer to becoming one.
The Notorious Scoundrels' Club
The Secret Gentlemen’s Club will bring culture and refinement to this savage land. The Secret Gentlemen’s Club is a space in which a person, be they commoner or king, can be the best version of themselves. The Secret Gentlemen’s Club could use a stiff drink, and knows how to mix it…well. The Secret Gentlemen’s Club practices expert gamesmanship. The Secret Gentlemen’s Club counts among its members both men and women (because, of course, women can be the most secret gentlemen of all). The Secret Gentlemen’s Club reminds you that proper attire is required (or will be provided).
The Secret Gentlemen’s Club: Just Fucking Dandy
The Petting Zoo
15th Edition of Petting Zoo. Best Bar on the Playa several years running. We welcome newcomers and hope to share the experiences of the playa all while offering an array of creative cocktails, ice-cold draft beer, imbibing beverages, and our classic and exclusive ‘pussy juice’. Daytime Bar Only. We open same time as Artica (coincidence, I think not, hint hint). Close at sunset.
The Phage
The Phage is an homage to the vast dark ecology whose foment gave birth to Earth’s living diversity. These ubiquitous viral life forms evolve faster than any other life on earth. In their furious co-optive radiations they have acted as the vital genetic pollinators that wove long-separated lines of cellular life into resplendent new threads — the phage are the needles of life’s tapestry. Beware if you encounter us: memetic biohazards lie ahead.
The Reincarnation Location
Leave the default world behind and be reborn into the world of the Playa.
First confess your sins, then spin the Wheel of Penance. Whatever it lands on you must do, but you’ll get to choose a G, R or NC-17 rated version. Once your penance is completed, you’ll rid yourself of all your worldly belongings (temporarily), and from within the giant pregnant belly (our Dome) you’ll crawl out through a 6′ vagina to be reborn – where someone in hospital scrubs will spank you and give you a rebirth certificate (laminated) with your Playa Name and thumbprint.
The Rising Arms Pub
Your friendly, local, international watering hole and second home on the playa returns for a sixth year. Stop by to wet your whistle, just take care not to trip over the folks passed out on the floor, and if you want a quiet pint, be sure to pop in before sunset, after which it gets slightly raucous. If you’ve had enough of bars then give a pub a go. Stop by for much libations and games.
The Sunset Trip
The Sunset Trip is a mashup of 3 Los Angeles based camps with a concurrent theme of getting together and throwing epic parties. We are all vastly different in what we provide to the world, yet share the same values and deep rooted awesomeness that bring us together year after year. We bring the Dirty, Sparkle and BOOM.
The Tea Camp
Tea camp is the sister camp to Camp Bao Chicka Wow Wow and is honored to provide the Playa with thousands of cups of Tea of all varieties both hot and cold! Come share pork buns from our sister camp while you enjoy a relaxing ambiance. We look forward to sharing a cup of tea with you!
The Universe
Scientists are shocked to discover that The Universe is largely composed, not of “empty space” as previously thought, but rather downtempo music, cuddly pillows and pretty lights.
Come cross “explored the totality of existence” off your list, you can go pretty damn far without ever leaving your comfy beanbag chair.
The Yard
Our big ass board games bring all the burners to the yard, and they’re like, “hey, this is pretty fun.” Come for the games, stay to get schooled in DJing, juggling, and the fine art of hula hoop. Don’t worry, we’ll make time for recess.
The Yogi Bears
DJ guided yoga with the Yogi Bears! Daily DJ guided yoga, tea offerings and an occasional dance party at night.
Theme Camp Theme Camp
A bar with ever changing themes and tasty libations and games to match!
Things That Swing
Bring your things! Put them on a porch bench, in a hammock, at the end of a rope. Join us for scheduled events including Social Grooming and Impact Play. You’re always welcome to stop in cuz that’s how we swing.
This Is It
Da Dirty Hands, the place to educate the world about Deaf Culture and Sign Language
This is You
Experience your own personalized scavenger hunt; Let our ‘Reflection Passport” guide you on your way to fascinating points of interest on the playa by seeking out adventure, and recording your reflections. Return to share stories with our Reflection Specialists, ponder your reflection in our 3D photo booth and lounge under our flame art installation “Brood”.
Thumper
A sound camp for things that go THUMP in the night. A stimulating sunset communal dance party where intimacy isn’t sacrificed for sound.
Thunder Gumbo Camp
A Cavallo + Thunder Gumbo
Tiki Bar & Hammocks
Tiki Hammock Camp – Have a drink and relax in our climbable hammock art, meet and visit with other awesome burners!
Time Ninja Syndicate
I know you’re confused, it’s OK, we can help you remember. We don’t have much time. The temporal rift is unstable and won’t remain open much longer.
Time To Burn
Taking over your devices, we help mirror your hopes and dreams on the Playa.
Titicaca
Ah… delightful Lake Titicaca, high in the Andes Mountains, and with such an interesting name with so many meanings. Come frolic!
TITTIES & PANCAKES MADNESS MUSEUM
We have pancakes in the shape of animals, titties in the shape of titties, robotic creeptures, gaffs like the Fiji mermaid, reports of a live freakshow, mutated taxidermy/dried parts CHECK, body paint in the shape of mud CHECK two headed baby CHECK and now introducing… pancakes in the shape of titties!! Oh and did we mention DUTTCH? Come by and check in with RATS and DIANE!! New to DITCH? Everyone has to start somewhere. Nothing is what it seems, everyone is mad and the tea parties get you smashed.
Tortoise Town
TortoiseTown is an International Village comprised of people of all races, ages, and lifestyles.
Totem of Confessions
Totem of Confessions. We support art!
Totenkitten
Totenkitten is a fascist demagoguery devoted to crushing all opposition and imposing our will on the masses; initially conceived as a reaction to the decadent weakness of other organizations, Totenkitten quickly took on a life of its own.
Toxic Disco Clam
The real toxic disco clam is an aquatic creature that attracts prey with its lighted exterior and then immobilizes them with acidic snot. We’re… pretty much the same: dazzling lights, draw you in, ply you with our intoxicating beverages (significantly less snot).
Trashistan
The Rant O Matic returns in its mobile glory, available to all city members who need to let off steam by ranting after those rough moments on and off the playa. We will also be host to the Anti Zen Movement, providing Anti Zen meditation daily, tomorrow at sunset. BE THERE THEN!
Trifucta
Trifucta was born after three people in separate RV’s decided to create community space by parking them in the shape of a triangle. From that small act, a community comprised of artists, builders, fashion designers and welders joined together to create connectivity through a common space that engages the playful creativity and expression inside each participant.
Triptych
Triptych welcomes all aficionados of art, music, food, and drink to dance the night and day away, enjoy some tasty treats, and bask in the glow of the Treasures and Grace (a collaboration with Disorderly Vandals). Stop by throughout the week to enjoy some entertainment, learn something new, or simply relax in one of our cozy lounge spaces.
Trotsea
Come meet the Live Birds and undergo a fun head exam by a panel of birdbrain doctors who administer a series of Psychedelicures – art and illusions designed to invoke realizations of your innermost self.
Turkey Camp
What key has two legs, two wings and can’t open doors? A Turkey, that’s right, welcome to Turkey Camp (it’s not a typo).
Tutu Camp
Tutu Camp is your one stop tutu shop. We offer a variety of tutu related activities, along with raw tutu materials and an interactive Tulle Forest.
Twisted
Loosely knit group of burners offer for your pleasure the Twisted G Spot Bar serving up PVD’s (Playa Vodka Drinks) w/ mostly organic fruit juices. (Bring mixers if you can) Dudeist Priest available in his playa confessional “Penance is Hell”, two ordained burners available to marry you and then marry you again if you so desire. DJ N8Tron spinning dance party music. Otter Pops upon request – both cold and hard and early morning powdered donuts, that’s not just playa dust, delivered by Kristi Kreams on a silver platter at 8:30 am Thursday through Monday. Glasses cleaned, both eye and drinking and massages given or taken when the table is up! Look for schedule in the Twisted G Mailbox on playa.
Twisted Swan Celtic pub
Stop in for a cold draught beer, fine Irish whiskey, hot Irish coffee, and wonderful Celtic music. Recite a limerick and get a Guinness, get your
Who on at our Doctor Who night or show your best knees on Kilted Thursday, and thrill to our music seisiun featuring the playa’s finest celtic musicians!
Twisted Tentacles
Tahoe Twisted and Octopus Garden present Twisted Tentacles Village. Welcome to Twisted Tentacles, a village of aquatic tomfoolery. Under the sea, you will dive into the Octopus Garden where you’ll fall in love with each of the great mollusc’s three hearts and be enveloped by its eight inky arms; on land you’ll join the DJ-mixed-up crew of the Twisted Yacht Club where loose lips never sink ships; and with the Christina you will sail out into the deep, deep playa to catch a glimpse of our dazzling art anemone.
We believe that the audio and visual arts have the ability to reach the minds, souls, and hearts of any observer, turning all merry mariners into participants.
Above and below sea level, on dry land and in choppy water, this village will be swimming in a pool of creativity and inspiration.
Two Lanterns
Best weddings on playa, Unofficial Playa Civil Unions (incl. rings/certificate), Black Rock Temporary Divorce, Annulments, an: interactive elwire sculpture and Joslyn’s Little House of Oral Delights
Two-Stroke Transit
Tired of that loud buzz from your two-stroke engine? Then stop by Two-Stroke Transit and learn how to quickly muffle this as well as improve the general function and environmental friendliness of your motor. While here, find out how you can help prevent playa damage from dripping oil, muffle the buzz, or just learn about two-stroke engines.
TYGER TYGER!
Tyger Tyger! We wish to assemble a society of adventurers and create a creative and artistic outpost, to act as an oasis of trade, entertainment, and cultural expression.