2016 Theme Camps

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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

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?

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.

If you want to dig deeper through the world of twisted fairytales, you are welcome to sit with a book in our cozy lounge. Or climb up the castle towers that adorn the entrance to our camp. You can be transformed to the damsel in distress of your choice. Will you be Snow White today, or maybe Rapuntzel?
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.

There are no observers here, come party like the Princess or Dragon that you are!

Tantra Mantra at Anahasana

Tantra Mantra is a camp dedicated to the transformation and transcendence of the human condition. We integrate ancient esoteric teachings of tantra with modern self-development techniques to create a unique environment for experiences that prepare the ground for evolution. To envision and prepare the world of tomorrow we need to rewire our nervous systems and free ourselves from the old paradigm. Tantra is an accelerator of evolution. The context of Burning Man serves as an amplifier to these ancient Tantric techniques. The collective ambition towards freedom present during Burning Man is unique. It erases differences between individuals and supports the Tantric effort of transcending all false dualities. From regular morning energetic practices to one-of-a-kind ceremonies and ritual, Tantra Mantra embraces and promotes the change towards a new human agreement. We leave a great place for spontaneity… Expect the unexpected.

Tarwater

Tarwater welcomes you with Lady S’s Boutique, Recycled Bowling, the Corn Hole, Ladder Toss and the Throwing Specific Things game. Come by for a game and to write a poem, draw a sketch or an pen an essay about The Need to Believe. Science Fiction books will be given away during the middle of the week. You can ask the author to sign one, if you want.

Tazii

Lustre Village returns! Tazii will provide Moroccan chill space and top-shelf bar. Glittercamp will make the masses shiny and glittery, as nature intended, with our special glitter-slather concoction. New this year will be live music, including our house David Bowie cover band!

Tazii Lounge

Tazii will provide Moroccan chill space and top-shelf bar. New this year will be live music, including our house David Bowie cover band!

TBD Camp

Tea Time!

Come by Tea Time to share a cup of Ice Cold Tea on these hot days! Grab a cup on the go, or stay a while and share your story with the community.

Tectonic

Come bask in the shade of our fire-poofing volcano, and dance to our ground-shaking beats while we serve you a drink—or not! Don’t forget to bring us your playa virgins to sacrifice to the volcano god!

Teddies

Teddies on Teddys? Oh my!

Temple Guardians HQ

If the Temple has a special place in your heart, join us and help hold the space so that others might experience the wonder that brings us back.

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. Call almost anywhere in the world on our free public phone or use our free wi-fi hotspot. Test your pole dancing skills at The Stripper Factory. The Flying Spaghetti Monster welcomes all, so stop by and be touched by his noodly appendage.

Temple of Anointment

Temple of Anointment – please join us for blowjobs, lotion, tattoos and drinks. We have blowers to blow the sand off you and misters to clean and cool your bodies. We have suntan lotions and tattoos to protect and adorn your body. Frozen drinks such as mudslides, margaritas, and daiquiris will cool you on even the hottest days..

Temple of Unitea

Our tea mission is to promote participation in, and appreciation of, world tea traditions as well as otherworldly tea traditions. To throw tea parteas by offering a relaxed, convivial and harmonious space to make and take tea.

Termination Dust Hole

A rowdy rabble of Alaskans hailing down from the north, here to meet, greet and eat all of you.

Tetrix

Tetrix Village – Explore the mystical 140ft wooden labyrinth of Armone Galaxy, Experience the Stargazer Artcar, Kitty Litter Bar cocktails and jump wild on the trampoline park of Camp Meow. Pimp my pushie; A bike decoration workshop housed inside our giant robot head resident spaceman “RubberArmstrong”.

That Camp Over There

Swing by and draw with UV light, enjoy Spanking & Pringles, climb our scaffold and Moon The Man, chill in the shade in Las Hamacas, 7-11am enjoy coffee, pancakes and unidentifiable fried pig parts. Snowconeokie will be roaming deep playa, catch us, do a forfeit, get a cone. Entirely Amateur since 2001

The Annex

Not all idols are false. Come craft your own idol or bow down to ours.

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, like 2x4s, PVP pipes, or plywood, but do have a need/want bulletin board to connect gifts with needs. The Playa often provides!

the black hole

Home of the BRC Gate, Perimeter & Exodus Dept. If you are looking for one of us, this is where we are. If you wanna be one of us – this is where you stay.

The Black Rock Notary

Black Rock Notary, aka Notarious Notaries are always at your service ! On the playa we can be found in the Guild Pavilion where you will be amazed at what , or where we will notarize for you! Home office at (insert address).

The Black Rock Plyceum

We are a group of professionally trained philosophers employed at universities around the world. Our goal is to create a space for the discussion of philosophical concepts and ideas aimed at increasing understanding and awareness of the fundamental nature of knowledge and reality.

The Blackbird Bus

Blackbird Camp, A Mobile Art Based Camp which is the Home of the Blackbird Bus(PHL/LA), The Quetzal Bus (NYC), Thump The Intergalactic Gnarwhal Experiment(PDX) and much more

The Bleachers

The Bleachers – Mutant Vehicle Parking – A mobile interactive work of art/improv stage that made its debut at Burning Man 2013. Take a break from participating and spectate with us.
www.burningmanads.com

The Breakfast Club Village

The Breakfast Club village is home to Pancake Playhouse and Scarbutts Coffee. Pancake playhouse serves up hot delicious pancakes Monday through Friday 9:00am-12:00 noon
Scarbutts Coffee Serves you Hot and iced, cold brewed coffee. Monday through friday 9:00am -12:00 noon
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The Burbs

The Capsule

Come by The Capsule to record a video message to your future self! You record the message on the playa, and we email it to you 6 months later.

The Carrot Club

More Carrot: Sure, you could live off protein bars and MREs all week if you really want to, but how about giving your dusty soul a treat? Come by the More Carrot Camp and get yourself something crunchy, cold and crisp! We gift fresh vegetables and fruit at the More Carrot Camp. Tues. – Fri., 8 – 10 a.m.

The Copper Egg

How do you like your eggs? Your answer to this age-old question grants you a front seat for the performance that is as delicious as it is unforgettable.

The Cove

The Cove is a 14′ tall tower designed for climbing and interaction among Burners, inside the tower is lined with cushions, blankets and pillows for lounging, sleeping and spending time with each other.

The Donner Party

The Donner Party would love to meat you.

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 Daycare

The Dusty Daycare is a place to play or take a time-out from the Playa. Interact in a larger-than-life-size Daycare setting for adults.

The Dusty Nuts Tavern

Come meet Remix, The Master, Top Noodle, Douchebag Undecided, Pulled Pork, Tigerlily, and Dusty Nuts himself everyday 5-7pm for Happy Hour. Sit on our Throne of Lies, chill out in the chill dome, or get/give massages.

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

Victorian themed, the Empress provides an elegant escape from the everyday. Every afternoon and evening, our gracious hosts and hostesses wear Victorian or Steampunk costumes and hand-serve selections from our tea menu along with light snacks – drop by for our daily hours!

https://sites.google.com/site/empressburn/

The Espresso Martini Organization

The Organization: Espresso Martini Parties 1-3pm Tuesday-Saturday!

The firehouse

Each year camp Do-More-Now brings to Burning Man the Firehouse, a five story building providing a relaxing hangout, one of the best views on the playa, a bar, and a space and materials for people to create awesome art. In addition we host bands, fire dancers and hold themed parties most evenings and morning mimosa bar.

The Fountain (of youth)

The Sacred Song Teahouse is a temple for devotional singing on the playa.

There are many traditions of devotional singing, sometimes known as bhajans or kirtan, which help to quiet the mind so that the heart can open to the divine, allowing us to taste the blissful reality that is our true nature. Rather than being a performance in which the audience listens to musicians, it is a participatory spiritual practice in which everyone is encouraged to sing and express their inner joy.

The Sacred Song Teahouse is a Burning Man camp dedicated to creating and maintaining a serene temple oasis for joining our voices and diving into the Divine… together. We welcome the keepers of tea wisdom to join us in our temple space to sooth our throats with their mystical infusions. We welcome musicians to join us on stage and have a safe and secure place for them to store their instruments during the Burn. Together we create Magic!

The Fur Village

TheBootCamp by Cindy and Chris

The Future

A collection of whimsical thinkers and engineers who are building interactive art for the future, one journey at a time. Come visit us, and you too can climb into the skies and watch the world from above, or stay on the ground and share a party or two with us!

The G-Spot & Sloth Sinema

The G-Spot, stop by and enjoy our pleasures. Remember if you can’t find us you are not coming!

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 creating and discovering the story of connective collective human potential.

The Harmoniscope Project

The camp in support of the Harmoniscope Project
www.harmoniscope.com

The Heart Collective

Heart Tribe offers a chance to engage in platonic touch in our Healing Sanctuary and Movement Revolution Spaces. Come get a massage, reiki session, chiropractic adjustment or squish session in our Healing Sanctuary between the hours of 2-6pm Tuesday through Saturday.
We are excited to expand our public offering to include yoga, dance and other movement workshops in our Movement Revolution.
Come play with us and connect to your true essence.

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 Last Mercantile

Come in to play word games, have your fortune told, play Vetruvian nerf ball, or swap some lingerie for something new to you.

The Lavender Lounge

The Living Room

We host daily open jam sessions and serve beans at lunchtime. Don’t forget your bowl!

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 surprises all week! Or just sit and we will engage you in conversation as you watch the playa float by.

The Love Beets

The LoveBeets are a worldwide group of self proclaimed Fluffers whose greatest pleasure is to spread love & to really help others wherever they happen to go. We are a very special mobile fluffing camp that arrives fresh and ready to relieve workers in various camps all over the playa by providing their builders with delicious food, water, caffeine, electrolytes, massages, sunblock, building assistance, unloading assistance, hugs, smiles, shade & any other relief we can to lighten everyone’s loads and lift everyone’s spirits while our love literally BEETS across the playa.

The Magic Theater

THE MAGIC THEATER…Not for everyone…for madmen (and madwomen) only!

The Moon Cheese Grill

Crossroads pumps out the best live music on the playa, verified by gods and science. Moon Cheese is the best grilled cheese camp on the playa according to YOUR MOUTH. Get down with our nightly live music shows featuring a 20+ piece band, dancers, performers, and people wearing nothing but aprons covered in grill marks. Get a grilled cheese sandwich, a drink at the bar, dance your dusty self to sheer exhaustion and then snag some downtime in our sparkly star chill dome before it all disappears.
You’ll never know whether it was real or just a greasy, funktastic dream so intense it made Mona Lisa (the original sparkle pony) blush.

The MURAL Camp

The MURAL camp is made out of visionary creators and artists from Montreal, Canada. They’re the ones behind the MURAL Festival, a north-american destination for all things urban art. They are the festive and innovative soul of a city burning with artistry.

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 and play your cares away. You can swing on our swings and/or play on our court, from our bridge catch the views, while your friends all play fort. Dance to some beats, no need to be discreet. We got your back covered from this whimsical heat. Do us a favor…Won’t you be our neighbor?

The New Barbarians

Moving beyond the confines of a traditional food camp, The New Barbarians quest to provide subsistence and endless comfort in a desert land full of desire, self-discovery, and radical transformation. Come join our barbarian tribe from 1-2pm daily to participate in our dusty savage nourishment project!

The Notorious Scoundrels' Club

Find your path through the mind maze, an electrically lit labyrinth in the desert. If you make it to the center, you will find the answers you have been looking for. You might also find a rowdy minotaur. Hard to say for sure.

The Petting Zoo

16th 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 Pineapple Motel

The Pineapple Motel invites you to take a load-off and come lounge with us. Our dusty oasis offers all-day-cereal, coconut water, relaxed jams, games, loungers and more.

The Pink Spot

Pink Spot

The home of The Big Bunny mutant vehicle–come join us for great music, dancing and oodles of Bunny Love. Slinging tasty drinks and tasty tunes from our hearts to yours since 1995.

The Prize Cock

The Moon Under Water

Your perfect Pub.

The Real Dilla

RealDilla. A fun loving group of burners from Sacramento geared up to serve you Quesadillas and libations and dance, party and play with you!

The Space Whale Camp

The Pier Group is best know for their art at Burning Man including the eponymous Pier in 2011, Pier 2 in 2012 and their monumental dedication to relationships, family and love, Embrace in 2014. The Space Whale is an environmental statement, a dedication to nature and science. A testament to the urgent need to preserve our environment.
Come visit us where we rest, recharge and play after what we hope to be a pretty incredible build.

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 Bad.

The Thrill Chill Cult

Need some energy for your nighttime adventures? Those who dare to join the Thrill Chill Cult will be rewarded with tasty coffee and visual treats.

The Tinkers

The Tinkers are on the road to your village to repair pots pans & utensils.
We can fix your cup & fill it up, with water, wine, whiskey and love!

The Weta Cave & Insect Repository

Home of The Giant Weta, we will bring you all things New Zealand so you can immerse yourself in iconic kiwi culture and heritage and we’ll collect all your insects while we’re at it. Bring any insect you find while exploring the Playa and we will attempt to identify, classify, preserve and display it in our repository.

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 always make time for recess.

Theme Camp Theme Camp

A quirky bar with refreshingly tasty drinks and different themes everyday!

Things That Swing

You know you’re curious. Don’t be scared. We swing, but we won’t bite. Unless you ask us to. Nicely.

This Is It

Da Dirty Hands is the home of Black Rock City’s largest signing contigent of Burners. We welcome all to come visit, play, and learn with us.

This Old Camp

This Old Camp Annex

Thumper

Thumper aims to create the kind of music and dance experience we ourselves were seeking out: a lounge vibe that’s friendly, welcoming, fun, inclusive, with the best possible sound.

Thunder Gumbo Camp

16 Inches of Joy provides vital hospitality services: Fresh baked pizza cafe and delivery via art car, and a classy love hotel.
Thunder Gumbo camp supports the Thunderius Gumbonium Lahontanii art car, a mulit-level dance party updated as a replica of a mysterious skeletal whale.

Tickled Mink

At Tickled Mink (where everyone is a star!) we are here to help you pretty yourself at our our movie star mirror before you start channeling your inner diva. If you don’t know how, we’ll teach you to smeyes so once you step into our plush, fake fur lined photo booth you’ll be ready to strike a glamorous cover page pose when the flashes pop.

TickleTrunkTastic

Our Mobile Quesadilla Stand Hits the Playa Once Again,
Take a Dig Through Our Lovely Costumes in Our Tickle Truck – Trade, Eat, Talk, Smile. Don’t Forget to Strike that Pose!

Tiki Bar & Hammocks

Tiki Bar Hammock Camp – come visit neighbors and fellow burners, enjoy a fresh cool island drink and swing in our hammocks with us.

Time Camp

Tick… Tock.. Tick.. Tock…
I’m late. I’m late! for an very important date.

Time Ninja Syndicate

The nexus of time has opened and various heroes from various dimensions have poured through.

Tin Foil Hat

EVERYONE MUST BE SAVED! COME make your own way to TIN FOIL HAT! You think its a fashion statement but it is soooo much more. Share your Talents in bending Aluminum Foils to your fantasy, and share them with the world!

Titicaca

Mysterious, exotic, remote…like the great Andean lake, this is Titicaca!

TOC Does Le Chalet

The Other Camp

Tortoise Town

TortoiseTown is an International Village composed of people of all races, ages, and lifestyles.

Tower of Slackjaw

Visit the spaceship for a view from SPACE!

Toxic Disco Clam

In the default world, the Toxic Disco Clam is a real aquatic creature – it uses a sparkling lighted exterior to attract other fish… and then it immobilizes them with acidic snot. We’re pretty much the same: we draw you in with dazzling lights and entertaining activities, we ply you with our intoxicating beverages, and we hope you never leave (we promise less snot).

TrampStampCamp

Trampolines to show off your skills and a special one enclosed with tent cover, sheer curtains, led lights, disco light and fog machine for cuddling fun.

Trash Talk

Trash talk is a small but tenacious group of tinkerers and backyard inventors dedicated to bringing waste management services to the Burning Man community. Our Trash Trolley will roam BRC compacting trash and collecting burnables for our burn pit.

Trashistan

There will be heckling. And movies.

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.

Trilogy Space

As a collection of innovative culture crafters we intend on empowering the inner genius and inspiring others to do the same.

True Reflections Palace

True Reflections Palace. Mirrors don’t lie? No, actually they do. Come see what happens when you can see your true nature without being reversed in a true reflection mirror. Don’t Miss This – It’s Magic!

Twinkii

Once upon a time, there was Twinkii, the magical twini-corn with two horns instead of one. Twinkii loved tasty sugar cubes, hot water foot soaks, pineapple tequila and granting wishes with his magical wish-hole. But because of his second horn, he was laughed at by other unicorns, his wish-hole largely overlooked by creatures seeking tru magic.
Finally, on his 4th birthday he met the Horny Camp. Horny campers knew that two horns are better than one, and an unlimited number of horns is better than two. They loved Twinkii the twini-corn and both of his magical horns and his wish-hole. Together, Twinkii and his new friends, embarked on a great journey to enlighten the public on the subject of safe horn making, horn maintenance and… magic.

Twisted

Tightly 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 and a “Twist” of lime or lemon. Dudeist Priest and Priestess available for playa confessions “Penance is Hell” and ordained marriages, bigamy is good. DJ N8Tron spinning his music. Otter Pops upon request, or street side at various intervals, served cold and hard! Human Twister played all day with kinetic spinner wheel. Early morning powdered donuts, that’s not just playa powder, served Wednesday through Saturday delivered on a silver platter by Kristi Kreams . PandJ sandwiches offered by Miss Prepared and foamy things for your ears always available at the bar. If you need a horsey fix, come find Margie and check out Horse, our camp mascot and resident mutant vehicle. Horse will deliver mail on playa too! Check our mailbox for schedule of planned events. Stay Twisted

Twisted Swan Celtic pub

Twisted Swan Celtic Pub, a true celtic experience on playa!

Twisted Tentacles

A village swimming in aquatic tomfoolery.

Two Lanterns

Best weddings on playa, Unofficial Playa Civil Unions (incl. rings/certificate), Black Rock Temporary Divorce, Annulments, amazing interactive elwire sculpture

Two-Stroke Transit

Got questions about your two-stroke engine? Maybe you just like to rev up your engine and make a lot of noise? Come on down to Two-Stroke Transit to talk to us and show us your awesome mechanical creations based on this year’s theme. While here, you can find out how to prevent playa damage from dripping oil while improving your engine’s performance.