2018 Archive
B.E.D Bureau of Erotic Discourse
Bureau of Erotic Discourse, where learning is fun and consent is sexy.
URL: http://www.bureauoferoticdiscourse.org Hometown: TucsonBAAAHS Station
The BAAAHS Station village is the framework for several queer burning man theme camps (and mutant vehicles!) to offer a nexus of activity to help facilitate queer art and participation on Playa. Our mission is to get queers out of the ‘gay ghetto’ and to drag any and all Black Rock City denizens into the our hood to mix things up.
URL: http://www.baaahs.org Hometown: San FranciscoBack To Camp
Back To Camp is a summer camp inspired theme camp bringing a forest lounge, arts+crafts, postcards, games, cold beers, and campfire circles to citizens of Black Rock City. Don’t you wanna go back to camp?
Hometown: OaklandBaconeers
Join the Baconeers once again for good music and parties! Join us for shade and friendly fun on any day, but definitely stop by Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday for afternoon parties. Resident DJ Exodus and special guests will play classic 90’s hip-hop, funk, break-beats and misc. other fun stuff! Come get a cup, a drink, and maybe some bacon! And if you’re passing by in the morning, stop by for a cup of coffee and relax on the couches in the shade!
URL: http://www.thebaconeers.com Hometown: RenoBad Asstronauts
Space and black light themed LGBT friendly camp based in Denver, Colorado.
URL: http://www.badasstronauts.org Contact: missioncontrol@badasstronauts.org Hometown: DenverBad Boy Camp
Introductions to BDSM through an electronic quiz and optional personalized instruction in the Playfully Yours Village dungeons.
Also hosts the very popular Cool Mist Experience automated cooling misting booth with pleasant surprises.
Hometown: San Francisco South Bay Area (Cupertino, CA)Bad Idea
Hometown: Silicon Valley/ PhoenixBait Shack
We are a group of salty sea dogs that want to help YOU catch what you NEED! Please stop by and tell us about the biggest whopper you ever caught. “IT WAS THIIIIIIIS BIG!”
Hometown: Arroyo Grande / OaklandBanya
Enter hot steam universe to purify your mind, depurate your body and reborn through cleansing Banya experience!
Hometown: VancouverBaoChickaWowWow
Come see the BaoChickaWowWow village, find rest in the shade and taste our buns: fresh steamed-to-order pork, red-bean and veggie bao (chinese dim-sum buns).
Join us for BrunchBao, NightBao or the food themed Far East Night Market!
Hometown: San FranciscoBAR MACTROPOLIS
BAR MACTROPOLIS where every body is aV.I.P. we will solve all your Hydration ,entertainment , and chill needs.
Contact: stuartmacintyre11@gmail.com Hometown: OaklandBarbie & Ken Cosplay Experience
Come play with us at the Barbie & Ken Cosplay Experience! Dancing and costuming for all!
Hometown: Huntington Beach,Barbie Day Spa
Barbie Day Spa…pampering on the playa since 2010. Fingernail painting, foot wash, foot massage, full body massage, body wash, and wine. Part of Barbie Death Village.
Contact: joe@treatyoakphotography.com Hometown: AUSTINBarbie Death Camp & Wine Bistro
Barbie Death Camp: The sickest bastards on the Playa, still serving fine wine in cheap paper cups. Come by and be offended 24/7.
URL: http://barbiedeathcamp.com Hometown: PlacervilleBarbie Death Village
Now in their 19th year, the sickest bastards on the playa are again making their presence felt. Yes, the demented denizens of Barbie Death Village–complete with piano bar and wine bistro–are back to amaze and offend even the most jaded of burners. Join us for a glass of Barbie burgundy, relax in the shade, or step up to the plate for Fizzball. At Barbie Death Village, we know how to make you party. And don’t miss our exciting sub-camps, including (but not limited to): Black Rock City Body & Paint, Barbie Day Spa, Barbie Death Camp & Wine Bistro, Hookers & Makers, 13th Barbie, Clan O’Crash, Pizza Cats, and Rocket Pad.
URL: http://barbiedeathcamp.com Contact: jimdrpyro@aol.com Hometown: NewcastleBat Haus
Bat Haus, formerly known as Bat Carnival, offering a daily refuge from the giant ball of fire in the sky, with spooky aesthetic. Check out our events: Littles Storytime & Snacks, Trick or Treat and Bats For Lashes kink hour.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/TheBatCarnival/ Hometown: VallejoBathrobe Camp (within Gigsville)
Bathrobe camp is a state of mind–amble in adorned in the robe, caftan, muumuu, peignoir, or kimono of your choice, or borrow one of ours. Join us for daily fashion shows, sunrise art tours, discussion salons, pool noodle dueling, or shibari style body harnesses.
Hometown: RichmondBattle Born Burners
Battle Born Burner Bar – Friendliest Bar on The Playa! Come by for a little Nevadatude! Beat the heat with one of our Frozen Frosty Fruity Beverages! Monday is Mimosa Monday @ 10:00 Mimosa’s till they run out.
Wednesday @ 2:00 is Top Shelf Shot Party. Get your choice of top of the line booze and Keep the Souvenir Battle Born Burner Shot Glass!
We also have Giant Beer Pong and Giant Jinga – Come Play with Us!
Battlestar Erotica
Battlestar Erotica is a camp designed to get you in touch with yourself and other through bondage classes, yoga classes, dance parties, and dare boards. Come make new friends and remind yourself why you are your favorite friend of all!
Hometown: SeattleBe There Now
Be There Now presents The Glitch Arcade. A series of Maker projects you can play with in the shade or enjoy with a cocktail at night. Featuring music making toys and table top robot fights.
We also have a projection dome you can just chill in.
URL: http://www.betherenow.us Contact: bob.dow@addis.com Hometown: OaklandBe You Do You
Built on the ethos of Self-Love, we strive to build comfort, confidence, and connection within ourselves and our participants so that we may transmute our inner findings into our daily realm. We promote deep diving into the matters of the heart, the dark areas we commonly repress. As a camp, we are called to guide burners in recognizing the trials and triumphs of the path of Self-Love. We can’t say it is an easy or pleasant path, but we can say…it is absolutely WORTH IT.
Hometown: San JoseBear Naked Tramps Camp
Bear Naked Tramps offers intimate and erotic professional photo portrait sessions, well as amazing, artistic face and body painting from Sunday through Saturday of Burn week.
URL: https://bentang.smugmug.com/Events/BM2017 Hometown: San CarlosBeats 'n Deets
Don’t lose your shit when you lose your shit.
Label it!!
Every year burners lose 10’s of 1000’s of precious treasures and playa essentials.
If it’s labelled, your chances of getting it back are way higher.
So come to beets ‘n deets, label your stuff and hang out with us.
Tunes, drinks and labels. What could be sexier?
And come back next year for our “label it after I’ve lost it” feature. (Still in development.)
Beats Boutique
Come where love is always in fashion, dancing is a way of life and every person you know is waiting. Grab some beautiful threads, have a drink and dance till there’s holes in your shoes. This camp is devoted to turning your energy UP!! We will have Beats Droppin, Booze Flowin and a Boutique to enhance your style on the playa! Our positive and loving vybes will make your stay at our camp epic!
Contact: epykentertainment@gmail.com Hometown: Las VegasBeaverton
Camp Beaverton is an intentional, experimental, and experiential Burning Man community theme camp. We are a group of queer women/trans/genderqueer/lesbian/bisexual/heterosexual/etc… or folks who are simply as wayward as the playa is dusty. We celebrate sexuality, self exploration, and respect for one’s journey on through this life. Our goal is to provide a safe space for queer women and trans folks on and off-Playa. We encourage education, participation, inquiry, conversation, and self-reflection. We extend our goals to the greater Black Rock community by hosting workshops and social events.
URL: http://www.campbeaverton.org Contact: campbeaverton@gmail.com Hometown: OaklandBeijing Burners Armor Camp
In the tradition of our Mongolian ancestors that ruled China for almost 100 years, we welcome Burners to visit us and engage in a fun game of Archery, rest in our traditional Mongolian yurt afterwards, enjoy Mongolian milk tea, cheese and the hard spirit that Genghis Khan’s troops once drank. For Burners that prefer to be active in the evening, come for a workshop of the traditional Chinese martial art Bajiquan with our artist Lu Ming.
Hometown: BeijingBELLIGERENT GAP
THE BELLIGERENT GAP is a Western-themed, homebrew camp dispensing cold beer daily (from high noon to whenever we want), served up by the most lovable assholes this side of the 6 o’clock suburbs.
Hometown: Santa CruzBest Butt
Come check out our selection of top-rated booty at Best Butt! Get private lessons in the invaluable life skill of upside-down booty shaking on our Twerk Wall, and come by on Tuesday afternoon for the Second Annual Best Butt Olympiad
URL: https://www.facebook.com/bestbuttcamp/ Hometown: SeattleBig Puffy Yellow
What began as a Burning Man Theme Camp in 1999 has grown into a collective of burners, artists, DJs, performers and general badasses who love all things Big, Puffy and Yellow! We are very happy to have Philadelphia-based Camp Phuck It joining us this year. They are brining their stoops and energy you’d expect from the East Coast events they contribute to.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/bigpuffyyellow/ Hometown: Charlotte, Philly, Asheville, Chicago, LA, SF, NYC, New Orleans and more...Bike Gods
Bike trouble got ya down? Come visit the Bike Gods, where we practice self reliant bike repair 24 hours a day. Our camp features 8 fully equipped workstations and spare parts. We have caring and compassionate bike mechanics to assist you M-F 10am-6pm. Out on the Playa, look for our Bike Gods Taxi Service running yellow tandems and our famous Lanterne Rouge art car.
URL: http://thebikegods.com Contact: info@thebikegods.com Hometown: Reno, Paris, NYCBioluminati / Bike Mutation
Bioluminati has been illuminating BRC for over two decades with art, quests and the BIKE MUTATION STATION (formerly Pimp Yr Bike), the mutation/decoration station where Black Rock Citizens can mutate/decorate their rides with that extra get-up-and-glow. Open daily. Donors of non-moopy craft materials get VIP access!
URL: http://www.bioluminati.org Hometown: BerkeleyBitchin' Braid Camp
Hair harshing your mellow? Come by the Bitchin’ Braid Camp and we will braid those nappy worries away and have you back in action in no time flat. (Actually 30 min on average)
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/braidcamp/ Hometown: RenoBlack Hole Literary Society
Come hang out with us! At Black Hole Literary Society, we provide good times day and night, activities for the young and the forever young including: “adult”-ish color and chill zone, life size Lite Brite, conversation and rest by day, and music, play, and black lights by night! Shabbat pot luck.
Hometown: n/aBlack Lotus Society
URL: http://blacklotussociety.net Contact: blacklotussociety@gmail.com Hometown: BerkeleyBLACK ROCK ADVENTURES!
BLACK ROCK ADVENTURES! Magical Mystery Adventure Tours 2X daily, for our Burning Man Community. That means you! We go where we want to go, sometimes, and where you do too, sometimes. We have room for about 16 people, priority given to the Mobility challenged, followed by the Walking Wounded and then the Able Bodied, first come are first served. Looking to score some of our tours with musical themes, and such – the ideas we have thus far:
-Grateful Dead Sing-a-Long Tour
-Black Metal Sing-a-Long Tour
– 5 minute Poetry Readings Tour (Read yours or someone else’s)
-Nerd Tour
-Silence Tour
-Discovery Tour
-You be the DJ Tour
-DIY Tour
– Bring a paper and Pencil-type thing Tour
Tour Ideas welcome!
Please visit us at www.blackrockadventures.org, send your tour ideas, and see where we will be taking off from – 2X daily!
URL: http://www.blackrockadventures.org Hometown: Las Vegasblack rock astronomical society
Come look at the moon, Jupiter, and Orion, our name sake, at night. Bring the kids.
URL: http://www.letsembroider.com Contact: info@letsembroider.com Hometown: Reno, Bay Area, EdmontonBlack Rock Bandits
The Black Rock Bandits are back for a second year with our art-car Azeban, aka The Bandit, aka Trash-Panda! Follow this glowing neon creature across the playa, and experience a musical lineup of funk, disco, dance beats you won’t hear anywhere else.
There is no better way to enhance the magic of the playa than unexpectedly appearing out of the night with lights blazing, or offering rides through the city to its’ citizens. This is a smaller car that will be more approachable and accessible to the public. We’ll have room for at least eight occupants, and at night the car will be an interactive spectacle with improved LED programming.
Hometown: San FranciscoBlack Rock Bardello
The Black Rock Bardello is the biggest little theme camp on the playa. We are an eclectic group of Master Builders, Artists, Burlesque, Fire, Improv, and Fetish performers with a community spirit and a rocking bar.
Hometown: Garden Valley, CABlack Rock Blind Tiger
Art Support camp for an immersive, puzzle and riddle locked Speakeasy full of art inventions in the deep open Playa.
URL: http://www.blackrockblindtiger.com Hometown: AustinBlack Rock Boutique
We provide funky, freaky and fabulous fashions to the citizens of Black Rock City. The boutique is open 12pm-4pm daily. Let our fashionistas slip you into something a little more questionable. Get involved in volunteer as an honorary boutiquer.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BlackRockBoutique/ Contact: esteindler@gmail.com Hometown: PortlandBlack Rock Brewey
The Black Rock Brewery offers daily afternoon tastings that include about 15 different home brews. Cold brewed coffee,hot coffee and tea will be served in the morning hours.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/blackrockbrewery/ Hometown: Salt lake CityBlack Rock Center for Unlearning
A neighborhood favorite, BRCU is 3,000 square foot, shaded, 24-hour bar, serving a different craft cocktail each day. Come relax in the shade with a refreshing drink, snuggle up for a nap in one of our cuddle puddles, enjoy music you actually know the words to, jump on our trampoline, or just hang out with us at the bar – we’re terribly charming conversationalists.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BlackRockCenterforUnlearning Contact: whatsunspoken@gmail.com Hometown: RenoBlack Rock City Airbrush
Black Rock City Airbrush with Scorch is here to provide your airbrushing needs!
This camp resides within the Sin City Village and offers the finest custom airbrushed body art made just for you! Bring in a clean, white, T-shirt if you want your art to last even after you leave home. “You-say-it-we-spray-it” at Black Rock City Airbrush.
We are creating MAXIMUM participation from gifted patrons!
Expect to participate, and/or take a guerilla course in airbrushing! You may even find yourself running our booth while we sneak away.
Enthusiasm, Curiosity, Compliments, Flirting, Patience, and Cold Beer go a long way at our camp!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/sincityvillage/ Contact: sincitybrc@gmail.com Hometown: Las VegasBlack Rock City Body & Paint
Come by Black Rock City Body & Paint, tucked away inside of Barbie Death Village, on Friday to have your chests painted by one of our “Playa Picassos” while being serenaded on the piano and drinking the finest of cheap box wine. This is the go-to camp to be decorated for Critical Tits.
Hometown: NewcastleBlack Rock City Community College
Inspiration in the dust! Come check out our course catalog and find a workshop or lecture that will amuse, stimulate, interest, or inspire you. Learn what the coldest substance on earth is, and experiment with flash-freezing stuff. Practice your inner comic at our improv workshop. Come discuss books over wine and cheese. Attend our “is this your first burn?” workshop and learn how to really connect on the playa. Then on Saturday receive your dubious degree at our end-of-term graduation party.
Hometown: DenverBlack Rock City Hardware Shoppe
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!
Black Rock City Repertory Theatre
Black Rock City Repertory Theatre will be bringing two plays to the playa this year: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1957226597651715/ Hometown: Los AngelesBlack Rock City Science Center
Hosting Tabletop games, dancing, food, and beverages served by a robot!
Hometown: SeattleBlack Rock City Welding & Repair
Come to Black Rock City Welding & Repair for welding, bicycle repair, adjustment and general tinkering help. Use our tools to fix your bike yourself at our self repair booth! Already well-adjusted? Join us at our daytime Bar and Dance Club IGNITE for mostly pre Y2K music! Stop by to enjoy a short climb and great view from one of our Tall Couches. Need a sign or something painted? Come see War Rabbit at the Sign Making and Paint Anything booth. Learn Fresco at one of the Fresco painting classes. Learn Wool Pin Felting. Come on over and warm yourself at the Night-Time Warming Station and enjoy a friendly hotdog on a cold night.
Hometown: PortlandBlack Rock Disc Golf Club
An open landscape, a frisbee, and stuff to throw that frisbee at! Come play disc golf courtesy of the Black Rock Disc Golf Club! We have 9 holes to throw at and some cool stuff to throw around. Can’t throw? We’ll teach you! It’s guaranteed to be a good time! Open all day, and all night – obstacles, baskets, and discs all light up! Check Playa Events for scheduled tournament times.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackrockcitydiscgolf/ Contact: blackrockdiscgolfclub@gmail.com Hometown: Santa CruzBlack Rock Explorers
Black Rock Explorers is an opportunity for for Burner kids and their families to explore new practical and artistic skills, learn about Burner acculturation and join us for playa-cational field trips, events and volunteer opportunities hosted by theme camps and services all over BRC. Fun is guaranteed!
URL: http://blackrockexplorers.org Hometown: RenoBlack Rock French Quarter
The heart of the Big Easy come to Black Rock City, including cocktails, bakery, fresh roasted coffee, live music and burlesque, wine cellar, vineyard, Mardi Gras, Jazz Funeral for the Man, and a few other surprises. Our French Quarter buildings are based on an open design that your camp can build to join us. And this year, look for Asiatown!
URL: http://www.blackrockfrenchquarter.org Contact: ignatius@blackrockfrenchquarter.org Hometown: Los AngelesBlack Rock Gladiators
Quench your bloodthirst with consensual combat at Black Rock Gladiators – a Rage Space for People with Safe Issues.™ Now with 300% more glam.
URL: http://facebook.com/blackrockgladiators Hometown: PortlandBlack Rock Observatory Theme Camp
Black Rock Observatory is a mobile astronomical observatory dedicated to showing people just how amazing the universe is. Started at the Burning Man festival in 2014, we have expanded beyond the borders of Black Rock City to educational institutions and events all along the West Coast.
URL: http://www.blackrockobservatory.com Hometown: Los AngelesBlack Rock Piano Lounge
The Black Rock Piano lounge is a place where people from all over the world come to meet, enjoy and play great live music. We bring two of the best piano’s to the playa (and tune them several times throughout the week) in one of the coolest and most comfortable lounges. Live music is played by any fellow Burner who stops by to share their talent. Music plays 24 hours a day and we host parties throughout the week.
Contact: bell.matt@gmail.com Hometown: SeattleBlack Rock Public Library
Come grab a book at the dustiest library in the world! Serving Black Rock City since 2013. Strict one-year checkout period will apply.
URL: https://blackrockpubliclibrary.org Contact: info@brplib.org Hometown: San FranciscoBlack Rock Roller Disco
A Roller Disco in the middle of the desert? Yes, it’s true!!! Every city has a roller rink. Black Rock City has one as well!!! If you’re looking for one of Burning Man’s most fun, exciting, interactive experiences, come on down to the Esplanade and go for a roll at the Black Rock Roller Disco!!! We have your skates, we have your size, all we need is you!!!
The Black Rock Roller Disco is open 24 7 like 7-11 !!! Any time you feel like getting your skate groove on, come on by!!! We will be celebrating Michael Jackson’s birthday on Wednesday night and the Black Rock Roller Girls will present a live roller derby game on Thursday evening!!!
Come by the Black Rock Roller Disco!!! In San Francisco we are the Church of 8 Wheels, but here we spread “Rolligion” on the playa!!!
Black Rock Travel Agency
The Black Rock Travel Agency’s Theme Camp ( established 1999) is the heart and soul of the Black Rock City Municipal Airport, providing a home for wayward pilots, airport volunteers and visitors.
BRTA hosts events throughout the week, such as the Thursday morning Pancake Breakfast and the Saturday Afternoon Airport Cocktail Party. Come by and get a birds eye view of the airport atop the Starport crows nest.
Located at 5:00 and the Trash Fence.
Black Rock Wine Cellar
The Black Rock Wine Cellar returns once again to provide delectable dabblings from our unique wines made from Deep Playa Vineyards. Join us for daily tastings and discussion, and look for us in our secret pop-up locations!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/blackrockwinecellar/ Contact: sommelier@blackrockwinecellar.org Hometown: Los AngelesBlack Rock Yearbook
Black Rock Yearbook – For 11 years the Black Rock Yearbook has been your place to get your exclusive playa yearbook photo taken. Dress up and come by our lounge for your photo, a drink and to chill. Check out our website to see our past yearbooks – www.blackrockyearbook.com
URL: http://www.blackrockyearbook.com Contact: info@blackrockyearbook.com Hometown: Los AngelesBlissfits Retirement Village
The Blissfits “Retirement” Village is a motley crew of seasoned playa vets that have been building & contributing to the playa ethos for 10 to 20+ years. Blissfits campmates offer a more mellow, “Snarkle Pony”, lighthearted fun, to the event. Our camp frontage hosts a, 24/7, Shuffle Board & Bocci Ball games and holds a daily tournament. There is plenty of comfy space to hang out and get cozy around a fire in the evening.
Blissfits is also home to a friendly Bloody Mary & Quesadilla Bar where our campmates aim to please and will take great care of replenishing you along your journey! Namaste..and f ur day.
BLM Interpretive Camp
Informational displays and activities concerning the playa, the NCA, the BLM, and public lands.
Hometown: WinnemuccaBlood, Rust & Whiskey
Welcome to Blood, Rust & Whiskey – home of Camp Tidy and The Church of Insubordination! Chill in the Yurthedral – and enjoy a proper cup of tea and peruse our extensive collection of randy reading material in the Tea and Porn lounge.
Hometown: los angeles/sf bay area/points eastBloodyMaryLand
For over a decade BloodyMaryLand has strived to create a relaxing living room environment to serve made-to-order Bloody Marys to the breakfast crowd. Nighttime bars are for partying, ours is a morning and afternoon neighborhood hangout, encouraging visitors to stay a while and chat. We have a shaded bar facing the street, crab flag flying proudly. Our crab emissaries spread the word and make sure our neighbors know the best place to find their liquid breakfasts. We have several couches, countless chairs, carpeted floors, coffee tables, and proudly make each Bloody Mary to order, even offering vegetarian options!
Breakfast is Served!
URL: http://www.bloodymaryland.org/ Hometown: Baltimore/San FranciscoBody Art & Penny Smashing Point
Body Art & Penny Smashing Point is a place where you can take a body art journey with professional artists and have pictures made in their photo booth. You can also make a long lasting gift from the playa by smashing a penny with the Burning Man logo and 2018 date.
Hometown: Los AngelesBoobietown
Welcome to Boobietown, population: you.
We couldn’t be more excited to welcome you to celebrate boobies in every shape and size in our safe space. We have the breast events and art, so be sure to pop by and find something fun to titalize you.
Boobietown or bust!
Boom Boom Womb
Boom Boom Womb is a chosen family of burners who elevate the feminine and funky and celebrate child-like wonder.
URL: http://boomboomwomb.com/ Hometown: San Francisco Bay AreaBoom Bots
Where the Build-A-Bot art support team hangs their helmets.
Contact: rizzovassalomusic@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoBoots & Cats
Catch a sunset and dance yourself clean on our lifesize cat play house, Catopia. Boots broken? Repair them under the shade in Bootopia.
Contact: bmbootsandcats@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoBooty Hunters
Hunters of the golden bubblebutt, unite! Whether your bum is flat, bouncy, perky or juicy, saunter over to Booty Hunters for some quality boozy booty appreciation. Share a drink, pick out a pair of fabulous new booty shorts, learn how to twerk, stretch it out with yoga and shake it out with samba and groovy beats!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BootyHunterCamp/ Hometown: Los AngelesBooty Kitchen
Booty Kitchen is a place to honor and worship the two most important things in life: food, and booty. We are a group of individuals filled with passion for celebrating the magic that food has to bring people together. We support body positivity and encourage others to celebrate the gifts they are given (both physical and non-physical), as well as the ASSets they recognize in others (in a manner that is safe and comfortable for both parties).
Hometown: PortlandBorn To Roam
A crowd sourced, communal photo experiment.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BorntoRoamBurningman/ Hometown: Los AngelesBrain Freeze / Got Stickers Camp
Brain Freeze / Got stickers camp will again be serving up frozen margaritas and stickers. Along with our various forms of entertainment, no one will get bored.
Hometown: OaklandBrainy Bar
Brainy Bar – a neighborhood dive bar that welcomes dreamers, schemers, and big thinkers. We’re also the home of Hobby Horse (of course) – Black Rock City’s longest running stick horse equestrian event. Time travelers welcome.
URL: http://www.thebrainybar.com Hometown: SunnyvaleBrand-ur-Ass N More
Brand-ur-Ass N More will stimulate your entire being, from your mind to your ass. Bare your butt at the hitchin’ post and get a temporary brand. Bathe in gong vibrations, do some cock ropin’, enjoy tunes, belly up to the saloon, enjoy the giving tree, play some carnival games and hitch a ride on our vehicles. Y’all come N play!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BrandURAss Hometown: RenoBRC Animal Control
We proactively go out and play practical jokes on attendees.
We’ve been capturing people dressed like animals on playa since 2001 and have been losing a battle against the increasing bunny population…our mortal enemies.
We also are the original “You Won Burning Man” porto-potty prank, starting in 2002. We’ve done “Tequila Pit Crew” (dressed as a pit crew timed how fast can you run in and lay down and have us feed you beer and tequila), “Demolition Enforcement Agency” (we had a wrecking ball art car and would service notices to camps then pretend demo them with fake dynamite by doing a countdown that ends in a dance number. We’ve dressed as matadors to mess with cyclists and we hung fake security cameras in your showers last year. Lots more new shenanigans planned for this year as well.
BRC Hash House Harriers (BRCH3)
We are the Hash House Harriers of Black Rock City, a drinking group with a running problem with a chapter found in almost every major city in the world. Our camp theme centers around our heritage as hashers. Our goal is to introduce burners to hashing as well as introduce Burning Man and the 10 principles to hashers new to the event.
URL: http://brch3.com Hometown: San FranciscoBRC Tour of Homes
BLACK ROCK CITY TOUR OF HOMES
Your source for fabulous realty on the Playa – Come find the Home of your Waking Dreams – We’ll show you around the dustiest and most accommodating awesome abodes!
BRC WEEKLY newspaper
Since 1995, the editors of the BRC Weekly have been publishing Black Rock City’s favorite independent newspaper, chock full of snarky articles, opinionated editorials, and of course, the infamous Out/In List and Playa Lingo.
URL: http://brcweekly.com Contact: brcweekly@brcweekly.com Hometown: San FranciscoBRC Wheels On Meals
BRC Wheels on Meals – Food coming at you at 5MPH, Circle of Necessities a.k.a., Camp go Nowhere and Stair Ramps to Heaven all live here.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BRCWheelsOnMeals/ Hometown: LivermoreBRC3PO (BRC 3:00 Post Office)
Set in a giant rural postbox, the Black Rock City 3:00 Post Office (BRC3PO) provides postal services up to 24 hours per day that include authentic one-on-one creative interactions that can range from the supremely silly to the sublime. You never know what will happen next at BRC3PO — YOU could be what will happen next at BRC3PO, if you pay us a visit!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/BRC3PO/ Hometown: Sonoma County, Joshua Tree, and CopenhagenBRCHOA
The BRC HOA prides itself on offering a wide range of options for any prospective Black Rock City homeowner. Hydration! Dehydration! Art! Craft! Heckling (the good kind AND the bad kind) and so much more!
URL: http://www.brchoa.com Hometown: Various cities around the USBreakaway Republic
Get a new, better Playa Name from our drunk Playa Name Robot. Get new, better nightmares and be horrified by our 100-strong Robot Gerbil Choir. Top it all off with a game of bocce ball and a drink at our cosy Bar De Nom.
Hometown: San FranciscoBring a Pheromone
Are pheromones the secret to lasting love and connection? Or, do you just want an excuse to smell a stranger’s armpit? Not Sure? Just Bring a Pheromone!
URL: http://bringapheromone.com/ Contact: jumper@bringapheromone.com Hometown: San FranciscoBRINY DEPTHS!
Hometown: AlamedaBrulee
Brulee is your kinky Esplanade camp with 24/7 interactivity, including Bacon Communion and nightly play parties
URL: http://brulee.co Contact: daniel@brulee.co Hometown: DenverBubble Camp
Bubbles, bubbles everywhere and drops to drink for all. Dispensing thai iced tea and cold pressed coffee for all you parched playa peeps. Facepainting, hammocks and LED installation to boot!
Contact: quenton.cook@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoBubble Lounge
Bubble Lounge: The 20th Anniversary of our camp bringing the joy of bubbles to the Playa with our bar and the nightly Bubble Trouble Cabaret…and remember, the softer softer you blow, the bigger the bubble!
Hometown: Venice BeachBubbles and Bass
Welcome to Bubbles and Bass where we rock you out from first light til midday with bubbly bass-tastic house music. Dance the AM hours away, enjoy an interesting conversation with a new friend, and drink some bubbly while you watch the sunrise over the Playa!
URL: http://www.bubblesandbass.com Hometown: New YorkBubbles and Boobs
Join us for bubble play and practicing consent opportunities – it’s what we’re all about. Fun for everyone!
Hometown: Salem and Portland and surrounding areasBubbly Ever After
Bubbly Ever After is a community of cheeky Happiness Agents that seek to empower people to feel better about themselves in a world that that they are helping to improve.
BEE is looking forward to creating nurturing community experiences that provide healing, abundance, love and authentic connection at Black Rock City and beyond.
+ A Heavenly Shanti Affirmation & Restore Lounge that will be open 24/7 for anyone looking for a place to connect learn and grow in a safe, healthy and friendly space with affirmation stations, pampering and more.
+ A Bubbly Celebration of Life on Tuesday calling all Burner Birthday Babes to come share a toast.
+A champagne lingerie picnic on Friday.
+A schedule of talks and workshops on the state of this planet, health, When Robots and Humans Meet, abundance, sustainable systems, trust, self love, mindful leadership, meaningful innovation and more.
+A sign up sheet for folks who want to host a support group meeting or play some music in our communal space.
BuddhaCamp @ the Lotus Dome
BuddhaCamp @ the Lotus Dome will help you find your inner Buddha…and caffeinate it for all of your playa adventures. Learn to chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, meditate with us, and receive expert advice from our Buddhist life coaches– all while sipping on the best espresso on the playa. Looking for Gongyo or Daimoku on the playa? New to Buddhism? Buddhist-curious? Just really a cup of coffee? We’re here for you.
URL: http://www.buddhacamp.org Contact: bccruisedirector@gmail.com Hometown: SeattleBumblepuss
Bumblepuss brings a spa theme to the plays with the addition of the aromatherapy focused Lavender Lounge. Visit and soak in the aromas while you relax in the shade.
URL: http://bumblepuss.com Hometown: San Francisco, Boston, DC, Boulder, Costa RicaBumpbed
Come get your funky fresh house groove on and experience mobile art car sound music magic.
Hometown: Oakley (SF/east bay area)Burbs
Burbs is ESD’s come as you are camp, it is open to ESD volunteers, friends and family who want to camp together in a less formal camp structure than at the stations. Minimal amenities. No portos, no water, just some shade and a place to camp and practice Radical Self Reliance
Bureau of Misinformation
The Bureau of Misinformation has been Black Rock City’s leading source of radical ridiculosity, ambiguity, and factual inconsistency since the man still lived in his parents basement. In other words, we will ALWAYS tell you the absolute truth, as it is ingrained in the very fiber of our beings.
URL: http://www.bureauofmisinformation.com/ Contact: bureauofmisinformation@gmail.com Hometown: Los AngelesBurner Buddies
Explore the outer city and turn the volume down! Escape to one of our parties and enjoy one of our many events including Genital Prints, Nacho Daddies, Whiskey Galore and Drive Thru! Ever have someone say you were gonna lose your Gay Card only to realize you don’t have one? Get one @ Burner Buddies.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/335223049922711/ Contact: burnerbuddies@gmail.com Hometown: Palm SpringsBurners Without Borders (BWB)
Burners Without Borders (BWB) camp is home to participants involved in disaster relief, social impact, civic activation and engagement projects around the world. We host talks, workshops, a maker space and a nightly fire to bring together our community and create new friendships.
URL: https://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/projects/brc2018 Contact: info@burnerswithoutborders.org Hometown: San FranciscoBurning Globe
We are bringing a reimagined Globe Theatre to the Playa and filling it with people witnessing one another speaking with joy, passion, abandon, specificity, imagination, irreverence, humor and pathos.
Hometown: BerkeleyBurning Man Bike Course
Come test your skills on the Burning Man Bike Course! A bicycle challenge obstacle course for all ages, abilities, genders, and sexual preferences.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/Bike-Course-220060528027398/ Contact: bman@ackmedia.com Hometown: Truckee, CABurning Man Earth
iBurn is a 10 year project to give burners access to events, art and camps in relation t their own GPS location. It is a free app for iPhone and android but does not connect to the outside world but is downloaded to your phones memory before you get to Burning Man.
All you need is a clear view of the sky. https://iburnapp.com/
Burning Man Information Radio
BMIR- Burning Man Information Radio 94.5 FM
Black Rock City’s official radio station. The Voice of The Man
Tune it to BMIR for theme camp event announcements, entertainment, traffic, weather, burn info and important official Black Rock City announcements. We also stream on the internet at www.bmir.org and will start broadcasting live from the playa on Monday 8/20
URL: http://www.bmir.org Contact: bmir@burningman.org Hometown: San FranciscoBurning Man Studios
Burning Man Studios is a diverse group of crazies from across the country and beyond that love movies, self expression, and poking fun at ourselves. Come by for a drink, some shade, or just to tell us a story.
Contact: burningmanstudios@gmail.com Hometown: Los Angeles/San Francisco/France/Florida/South AfricaBurning Man T-Shirt Factory
Burning Man T-Shirt Factory. We supply the paint and BM stencils. You supply the clothing, gear, or body to create your BM memory. Totally interactive, quick, easy, and fun. Open 24/7.
Contact: brcmiles@yahoo.com Hometown: San JoseBurning My Crêpe
Tu aimes les crêpes ? Visit us to taste a crêpe that has nothing to do with what they told you a crêpe is…
Hometown: QuimperBurning Questions
Come escape the heat and climb around the thin net separating the clouds below from the stars above.
Hometown: San FranciscoBurning Sky
Burning Sky: Skydivers over Burning Man. Come see Black Rock City from 9,000 feet in the air. Watch the skydivers exit the plane while you stay safely inside, and get an exciting ride back to the earth. Gifting rides Wednesday & Thursday 11a-5p.
URL: https://burningsky.org Hometown: San FranciscoBurning Tits!
Burning Tits! art support camp. Come chill with on out 3 story art support vehicle.
Hometown: RenoBurnstream Court
Burnstream Court is your quintessential trailer park in the burbs of Black Rock City with an Airstream trailer park philosophy.
URL: http://www.burnstreamcourt.com Contact: hopehooper8@gmail.com Hometown: Grass ValleyBurntown
Don’t call it a comeback, we been here for YEARS! Burntown offers a smorgasbord of FUN. We have the SNUFF Emporium dispensing fine nasal snuffs. All day, some late nights…come find out what tobacco and other non-tobacco snuff can do for your burn! Take a trip across our Rope Bridge of Death, only the strong will survive! We have a Corner Store that is not to be missed… stocked daily for those special needs only on the playa. We welcome any and ALL brave enough to enter our camp.
URL: http://burntown.ajpn.com/ Hometown: Auburn