This is NOT a list of officially accepted or placed theme camps, it’s a preview of what you’ll find when you get to Black Rock City.
This is the list of Theme Camps who submitted a Placed Camp Questionnaire requesting placement in Black Rock City’s reserved sections for this year and want to be listed publicly.
Placement is announced in Early July. These are the camps Placement is reviewing. To find out what camps did receive placement look through the Playa Info Directory in Center Camp.
To find camps not included on the BRC Map or to find camps that chose not to be listed, you’ll just have to get lucky.
2016 Camps
Habitat for Insanity
Habitat for Insanity cultivates novel Burner technology, interactive art, and unique food. We’re a warm and welcoming group of veterans and new people from around the world.
Contact: teppy@egenesis.com Hometown: PittsburghHack-a-Cola
Hack-a-Cola will provide a meeting place for residents of BRC to congregate over cold hand crafted sodas during the hot sunny days and then warm themselves at night around our lounge area with a cup of hot cocoa.
Hometown: GerlachHair of the Dog (HOTD)
HOTD provides old school entertainment and cold drinks on the playa.
You bring the drinks and music, we’ll supply the music and drinks.
Half-Ass
Camp Half-Ass is a group of fun loving individuals that has been bringing Peace, Love, and Laughter to the Playa since 2006. Come enjoy our GIANT SWING, infamous Bike Bar, Art Installations, and afternoon Beer Garden Parties.
URL: http://www.camphalfass.com Hometown: San FranciscoHammered and Sickled
Hometown: Walnut CreekHammock Hangout
The Hammock Hangout is a very large passive solar shade structure with room for 90 hammocks. We have a full bar, a giant chill space and super friendly inhabitants called Space Cats. We karaoke most of the time, provide a cool relaxing retreat from the sun, give people cold drinks, snack people and get them to sing songs. It is a very happy and inviting place.
URL: http://thehammockhangout.com Contact: hh@thehammockhangout.com Hometown: SAN FRANCISCOHamstercamp
HamsterCamp! The eagles of the playa. Celebrating, birthdays, love letters, pranks, poop jokes, fart jokes, electric shocks, tea, coffee, games, the universe and so much more!!!
URL: http://www.hamstercamp.com Contact: sparklespazhamstercamp@gmail.com Hometown: We hail from many realmsHang-Out, the
After a long night of hunting vampires and dodging intergalactic marauders in the seedy spaceport known to some as BRC. The glowing crystals that illuminate the city begin to fade as the Day Star climbs above the mountains. It is time to rest. From high and low, everyone knows that there is no better way to chill on the playa than a cool, shaded hammock. Come ye unto the Hang Out.
The playa is a heavy load to carry, we know. There is much work to do. Inter-dimensional neverlands of sublime witchery don’t just dance themselves into existence. Someone has to stack the vibes. Someone has to wire skulls onto shit. And after a day/night/day of labors, you need to recharge. Come ye then unto the Hang Out.
The hammock is an ancient technology, simple and perfect. Tension, elevation, motion. Perfect harmony between ground and air. A dusty burrito drifting through the continuum. The crucible wherein soulmates are alloyed. A great place to take a nap. Come ye unto the Hang Out.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/150704538339546/ Contact: satyr.wells@facebook.com Hometown: chicoHangar 4
Challenge yourself to climb one of many routes up Intention 1 Rocket. When you are done bouldering stop by the bar and tell us your best adventure story!
Hometown: San DiegoHanging Gardens of BRC
The Hanging Gardens is an all-inclusive space – male, female, gay and straight – that celebrates the beauty of our interconnectedness, serendipity and of their intersection. Visiting The Hanging Gardens means opening yourself up to the possibilities of chance meetings and unexpected adventures.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/HangingGardensBRC Contact: hanginggardensbrc@gmail.com Hometown: Los AngelesHangry Bishop
The Hangry Bishop is a Medieval diner and roadside inn, founded around the time Cheddar Cheese was invented in 1300s England.
Since 2015, we have invited dusty pilgrims of BRC into our household to serve Grilled Cheeses and Virgin Mary’s. We only use top shelf Cheddar to prepare a holy trinity of gooey deliciousness, the Grilled Cheeses.
At our Holy Grill in BRC, we serve Dinner at nones, every day at 2 pm.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1461548064153619/ Hometown: Sf, Santa Rosa, NYC. Seeking Reno friends for local fun when we have storage unit weekends!Hanuman's House of Tea and Ramen
We are serving Boba Milk Tea scheduled through the week and for those looking for a tummy warming last night nibble we will have hot ramen! Join us and see when we are serving in the What Where When or see the schedule posted on the front of the Tea House.
Hometown: San FranciscoHapless Genies, The
We are the Hapless Genies – a camp of welcoming and passionate guys and gals, always excited to have an amazing time to share with each other and with our fellow burners. For Hapless Genies, creating amazing experiences and lasting relationships have always been at our core of how we participate in and what we plan to bring as a camp to the Playa community.
Happy Hour
Hard day on the playa? Unwind at Happy Hour, where you’ll be greeted by one of a kind refreshing spirits served with smiles! Enjoy our lounge, bar, and gigantic jungle gym! Climb, dance on our Kaleidoshade structure or groove on tallest rotating “exotic dancing” pole! Start your evening with Happy Hour!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Camp-Happy-Hour/350219491736402 Contact: camphappyhour@gmail.com Hometown: SacramentoHARDLY
for your convenience, whisky, salsa dancing, and welding..all in one spot.
URL: http://www.hardlybrc.com Contact: fuser@hardlybrc.com Hometown: Mountain ViewHarmonic Convergence Camp
Harmonic Convergence is an intimate, spiritually-focused camp, highlighted by the Harmonic Cafe (which serves the best cappuccinos on the Playa).
URL: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonicConvergenceCamp/ Contact: pumamarco@me.com Hometown: Santa MonicaHAVANA NIGHTS
Perpetual Cuban-themed sultry Havana Nights dance party with a laid-back Miami feel. Lighted, inflatable palm trees will surround the perimeter of a large shaded and lighted dance floor. Large, comfortable, elevated chill pads will be available for guest to relax. Rhythmic Cuban and energetic Latin bongo beats will play in the background. Cold Mojitos, Margaritas, and Cuba Libre drinks will be served by camp attendants wearing guayabera shirts. Dance lessons hosted once per day.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/HavanaNightsParty Hometown: DallasHead Space
Come on by for our 3rd annual Case-of Ideas Night! Serving quesadillas and hot tasty pizza from our wood-fired oven. Fill your belly, relax in our shade and check out all things related to the neck up!
Contact: campheadspace@gmail.com Hometown: VancouverHealing Foot Wash Life Truth Love
Come experience a new level of relaxation and conversation in Healing Foot Wash at one of our 16 comfortable foot wash stations. Come back every day and participate once you’ve had your feet washed!
URL: http://healingfootwash.org Contact: gserafini@gmail.com Hometown: Castro ValleyHeart-On!
Visit camp Heart-On! at Black Rock Power Co-op Village to have yourself decorated with beautifully stenciled heart body art in the form of airbrush body painting, ink stamps and hand drawn face painting. Come by and pick up a 2016 camp sticker and visit out giant gumball machine for a heart related prize! Everyone loves a Heart-On! Multiple Heart-On!s are good!!
Heavy Metal Recess
Heavy Metal Recess – not what you are expecting (hopefully)
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/963233730438770/ Hometown: RenoHeavy Petting Zoo
The Heavy Petting Zoo is back! Come ride our furry mustache, drink our delicious apple pie moonshine or ride our art car across the playa in musical HPZ style!
Hometown: Livermore, CAHeeBeeGeeBee Healers
BRC’s premier healing oasis for 17 years. Escape the chaos and take care of yourself with our staff of conventional and alternative healers – massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, energy and tantra.
URL: http://www.heebeegeebeehealers.org Contact: scooter80302@yahoo.com Hometown: BoulderHelios Camp (inactive)
Hometown: New York CityHelioz
Helioz. Have your mind blown in the Soundnasium, a participatory synaesthetic audiovisual experience. Come into our dome and experience this moment as you create it along with your friends.
Hometown: San FranciscoHello, We Love you!
At Camp HELLO, We Love you! We Want to create an experience that shows you that HELLOO>>….. WE LOVE YOU! Art, Light Painting, Sound baths, Healing, Gifts, food and Fun galore! We want to make you smile! because HELLO…We Love you!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/helloweloveyou Contact: thelostlighter@gmail.com Hometown: Los AngelesHen House
The Hen House is made up of solely girls who build their camp and host some fun events complete with omelets, booze, and booty shaking.
Hometown: RenoHeroes & Super Villains
We are a community of like minded people. Our activities are intentional performance art from craft cocktails at the bar to curated DJ music, art activities, soul power wash and of course our Friday Soul Brunch. It’s not a free for all, but rather an intentional community with lots of wisdom and planning along with lessons learned. Past campers have paid it forward to provide this year’s amazing camp. Our planning and structure provide a grounding and safe foundation amongst all the fun and chaos.
URL: http://www.heroesandsupervillains.com/ Contact: andrew@heroesandsupervillains.com Hometown: New York CityHEX
Buzz buzz and welcome to Pollen Nation, hailing from Denver Colorado. Come by and check out our Buzz Bar, sculpture garden, fire performance, and interactive games.
Hometown: DenverHEX Collective
Silent Disco, Daily Workshops, Community Chill Space, and Center for Aural Pleasure. < 3
URL: http://www.discobomb.org Contact: campdiscobomb@gmail.com Hometown: Los AngelesHippocampus
Hippocampus is the place to make your playa memories stick. Find our mobile cafe as the sun rises over Black Rock City for the best coffee on the playa.
Hometown: SeattleHoli High Camp
Holi High Camp brings the madness and color kaleidoscope of the Indian festival of Holi to the boisterous masses of the playa through body-paint blasting cannons.
Hometown: San Francisco, Mill Valley, Seattle, London, AustinHoloDreamers
Drop by HoloDreamers to make your very own practice spinning poi! We supply the craft supplies and you walk away with a pair of spinning poi you can enjoy all week and beyond. Add blinkies and dazzle your friends at night. Crafting assistance is provided in the mornings with impromptu spinning tips given upon completion. The Poi-making studio will have instructional materials present and be open 24hrs/day for your late nite crafting fun.
Contact: harinama@hotmail.com Hometown: SeattleHome Sweet Dome
Home Sweet Dome is a public chill space at the heart of Hushville, next to the Town Round.
We offer shade in the daytime, lighted area at night, solar powered battery charging for cell phones, computers and the like.
We host various activities by Hushville residents throughout the event. Stop by and check out the schedule of events for Hushville posted on the bulletin in the Town Round.
Homebrew 4A Homebrew
A Home Brewers community hub where brewers of the Playa come to meet and share. Enjoy a cold home brewed beer, mead or soda served daily from noon into the dark. We have a pool table, games and daily events including our world famous pickle party! Bring your keg and we will refrigerate and tap it.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/476024835926123/ Contact: homebrew4ahomebrew@yahoo.com Hometown: SparksHomeSlice
Drop in for a cheerful “Slice of Home”—Playa-style. Participate in our comfort-food cook-offs, climb the sky-high HomeSlice Tower’s inverted pyramids, or re-engineer your Playa duds and gear at our Radical Alteration clinics.
URL: http://www.camphomeslice.org/ Hometown: AltadenaHonkers Harbor
(Spank Bank) Have you been naughty or would you like to be? We are the playful, sensual playa spanking experience designed to warm your bottoms, tease your minds, and satisfy your…..um……thirst, with a cold cocktail in one of our commemorative cups!
Contact: guernsey65@msn.com Hometown: PortlandHooville Hummuside
Hop on over to Hooville for a chant, a drink, a dance, a nap. You bet your ass we are happy to have you!
Hometown: PortlandHOPE
Camp Hope offers coffee, cocktails, cookies, and chill space. Come inhabit our YOUTRUVIAN interactive sculpture and help us playfully implode the false notion of “a perfect man” by collectively declaring “we are ALL perfect…perfect by virtue of our imperfections, our nuances, our very differences.” Join our Self Love Ceremony on Thursday at dusk and commit to treating yourself with loving kindness. Or, stop by for some Bad Advice and Mediocre Booze with our international family!
URL: http://www.camphope.rocks Hometown: Denver, New York, Tel Aviv, San Diego, Melbourne, Hamburg, Brisbane, Berlin, Auckland, Bogata, Sofia, IstanbulHORIZON
Second Star to the right, and straight on ’til morning! Escape to Neverland and join us in our funk oasis for music, drinks, and good vibes. Lose your shadow at the Lost Boys Bangarang, or dance it out at our Second Annual Second Star FUNKtion.
Remember – “all you need is faith, trust, and a little bit of playa dust!”
Contact: secondstarcamp@gmail.com Hometown: Fort LauderdaleHorny Camp
Horny People, release your inner devil, daemon, or unicorn and come make horns with us! We supply the clay, instructions, and gas fired oven. You supply your inner creativity and vision. Lounge in our shade structure while your masterpiece bakes (15 min) and when it’s done, we’ll help you fit them to your head, chest, nipples, or whatever body part you choose to adorn.
REMEMBER: Classes only run from MON.-THU; Noon to 4pm. so come while supplies last!
Hot Mayo
Camp Hot Mayo is ready for another wonderful year at Burning Man. Please come by for a beer or Daily Drinks at our glorious bar. We will be serving canned Beer everyday and a Daily Drink (usually something tied to the theme of the day). Our annual Irish Car Bomb party will be mobile this year. We plan on taking it our on the playa for the first time ever. Also, our annual Sangria party on Friday will be as big as ever. Come by to play some Basketball or Dirty Jenga or join in our first ever Horse Race, by either betting on the race or being a part of the race.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/Camp-Hot-Mayo-283651174985176/ Contact: badassmotherucker@yahoo.com Hometown: SparksHot Stuff
D.O.R.I.S brings you the Disco Operative Radical Inclusion Shuttle! Look out for our daily shuttle service from 4am and 8am between the 2 and 10 o’clock sides of the playa or come visit our camp and chill with us over a drink and some tunes.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/doristhelovebug/ Contact: nick.david@gmail.com Hometown: London / NYC / IstanbulHouphoria
Makers & artists from Houston CORE bring you: Houphoria’s Illuminated Interactive Playground. Hydrate at Water Bar, relax and play and SEE in our interactive projection mapping lounge, and find your stimuli in one of the interactive pieces in our vision of comfort, wonder, connection, and escape.
URL: http://houstonburners.com/ Contact: houston@burningman.com Hometown: HoustonHouse of Lepus
PLAYA NAME HELP provides meaningful Playa Names for Black Rock City citizens. We provide a playafied version of psychoanalysis and are interactive in both directions; we don’t just name people, we provide space and support for others to be namers as well.
https://www.facebook.com/PlayaNameHelp/
House of Maslow
…because you have NEEDS!
Come to House of Maslow and work your way through your own hierarchy: Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, and Self-Actualization.
Contact: beccacamp@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoHOVerlandia
Hometown: Black Rock CityHowzit
Hometown: Reno, Baby!HUGGZILLA Art Car Support Camp
HUGGZILLA: Unlocking human intimacy among people regardless of age, gender, or sexuality by using Hug therapy as a powerful way of healing, expression, and connection.
URL: http://www.huggzilla.com/ Contact: info@huggzilla.com Hometown: BoiseHumano
Humano is an ideology, a place where you can free your mind, your soul can dance and your heart can flourish.
Humano is a place to connect with yourself and likeminded individuals, which use tools such as arts, culture and music to spark human progression
URL: http://www.humanothetribe.com/ Contact: members@humanothetribe.com Hometown: Mexico CityHushville
Hushville, an aural oasis in an undulating sea of chaos, is open to any camper who pre-registers and can abide our three simple rules: 1) No Generators; 2) No Amplified Sound; and 3) Leave No Trace. Because Hushville is a village in Black Rock City, we can’t promise that it will be quiet… just quieter.
URL: http://www.hushville.com Contact: info@hushville.com Hometown: HillsboroHYBYCOZO
Your local intergalactic construction zone neighborhood association invites you to stop by for a 4th dimensional geometry lesson.
URL: http://www.hybycozo.com Contact: hybycozo@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoHyperbole
Hyperbole is a camp for dreamers, artists, builders, makers, druids, reptaliens, time travelers, cynics and jokers…
Contact: hyperbolemusik@gmail.com Hometown: San Francisco