Theme Camp Archive

C.R.T.T.

CRTT in your face again! We provide 24-hour entertainment with themes changing daily and/or hourly. Get Spanked, do a jig for a sno-cone, dance your best buffalo bill, make a mutant stuffed animal, or just dance in the dust…CRTT is always on!

Cabana Club

The Cabana Club is an oasis of hospitality and friendship. We serve up a refreshing array of nosh and cocktails for your Afternoon Delight and a variety of late-night themed events for the travelers of Black Rock City.

Cafe de la Fin du Monde

Coffee was meant to be roasted fresh right before you enjoy it! Join us on our shaded patio to start those lazy mornings, and cap off those crazy nights, with a cup of the darkest expression of God’s love. Whether you’re looking for a camp to be a part of, or just bringing raw beans for us to roast, find us in the Black Rock French Quarter!

Cafe Nëgrø

Cafe Nëgrø provides aural and oral transformative rituals for your morning, featuring the finest in black coffee and black metal. Come for our 1 PM hour of darkness and ready yourself for the new day.

Cafe Village

Staff camp for the hard working managers and volunteers who create and run the Center Camp Cafe.

Camp 11:11

Camp al Azar

Camp al Azar has creative artisans prepared to turn your body into a masterpiece. Relax to our live music, and have a cocktail, as we use a combination of airbrushed dyes and stencils, pattern rollers, stamps and fine brushed handwork in a myriad of non-toxic colors and combinations to transform you into anything you wish. Ask for our special fluorescent treatment and dance all night in our blacklight disco circus tent. Bring your instrument if you play one!

Camp Althing

Althing for one, Althing for all! We welcome you with big smiles and small joys…also, Viking raids!

CAMP ANITA

CAMP ANITA – Get what you need! Anita Yoga Class. Anita Cocktail. Anita Massage. & Anita Performances. ALL DAY LONG.

Camp Archerville

Vintage and new photographs of Burningman art

Camp Armageddon

BM website listing: Armageddon – it’s not the end of the world, it’s the Safe Word! Armageddon is the cool place to chill, so drop by and set a spell in our living room. Bring your bike to The Bike Wrench, if it needs some love.

Camp Bacchanalia

Think you’re awesome? We know you are! Enjoy our Awesome Stations with body painting while we offer you tasty treats, shower you with compliments, and laugh at your jokes. And we’re throwing a surprise party for unsuspecting guests of honor…could it be you?

Camp Bang Bang!

Camp Beaverton for Wayward Girls

Camp Beaverton for Wayward Girls is a community for Gay & Queer Women, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Dykes, Sluts, Butches, Bois, Transfolk, Bi-curious and beyond. We provide a kick-ass, inclusive queer oasis in BRC for women and a continuing conversation exploring female and feminine queer sexuality.

Camp Caribbean

Camp Cat Lounge/Outpost

Come on by the camp cat lounge/outpost, we offer cat themed garments and things to 1st time burners or anyone, to help you feel more right at home.all bartering welcomed… Meow

Camp Cats!Cats!Cats!

Hosting the 2012 Critical Cats Bike Ride.

Camp Chant

Camp Chant’s purpose is to bring a place of rejuvenation, peace, love, and safety to a sometimes very harsh environment. To allow burners to stay committed to the reason they are there. To help create an environment that will sustain the 10 principles of BM.

Camp Charlie

Camp Charlie: a wondrous land of candies and rainbows and Charlie the Unicorn art car.

Camp Combobulated

Camp Combobulated is a highly interactive theme camp whose main purpose is to embrace the new generation of virgin Burners and help them transform and survive so that they can radically express themselves, put their stamp on Burning Man, and perpetuate Burning Man culture.

Camp Conduit

Camp Conduit – gifting sun hats, hemp bondage rope, and knot instruction to the masses. In 2010, Camp Conduit rose from the ashes of the disaster-stricken Pepper Conduit of 2008; returning in 2012 with more hats, more rope, and more fabulous accessories!

Camp Contact & AuthentiCamp

Finding deeper connection through experiential explorations, Camp Contact is a community dedicated to Contact Improvisation Dance, Acroyoga, Ecstatic Dance, Energy Work, Eye-Contact Jams, Authentic Relating, and Sexual Polarity. Come join us for workshops & conversation around these somatic delights, as we expand our horizons of consciousness and light.

Camp Crazy Horse

camp cucumber

Body painting, with additional opportunities to express ourselves. This would include canvas painting, 3-D art creations, sand dollar painting, among other things.

Camp Cut! Cut!

Unleash your urban guerrilla!! Open a can of spray paint, cut a stencil, and let loose! All levels of experience welcome…

Camp D.O.A.

Camp DOA is an exciting and fun-loving group of rock climbers, mountaineers, skiers, kayakers and, of course, Burners! We offer libations, music, conversation, dancing, hooping, and a spot to relax. We serve the best wine and champagne in Black Rock City!! So come in, have a seat, and share with us the decadent outdoor adventures you like to do while you enjoy a nice glass of champagne or wine!

Camp Darkslide

Last year we brought a slide and it was good.
This year we are bringing a slide and it will be better.

Camp Dawdle

Taking life at light speed and reducing it to a dawdle, we are a party of fun lovin relaxers. Come visit us and wind up with a ride in the Wheel of Passage then move into the Shade Zone to shake off the spins. Shoot some Playa Pool with us or join us for a live music jam, bring your instrument.

Camp Delicioso & Creperie

Serving up our scrumptiously delicious Playa-Famous crepes – sweet & savory treats to nourish the soul!
9ish to noonish, Wed – Fri

Camp DIY

Come on by to show off or talk about favorite DIY projects on and off the playa. We applaud the simple, inexpensive and easy to do. Our motto: Why buy when you can DIY? The secret is out, we don’t need mega-corporations to make us everything, let’s screw them and let everyone in. We honor the creative, awesome power of sharing information, experimenting, and just winging it. Let’s Self Empower! At-home Brain surgery anyone?

Camp Do Nothing

The Foam Dome returns to the playa 2012! Voted by people who visited as the “funnest camp for yards in any direction” – new surprises to come (be prepared)!

Camp Dodgeball Addiction

We’ve got a full sized dodgeball court for your throwing pleasure! Too hot to play? Nonsense! We play at night w/ lights! Afraid of getting hurt with a ball when you get hit? Nonsense! We use no-sting balls! Bring it for some good friendly fun!

Camp Envy

CAMP FAFA

It all started with “F***ing Awesome French Americans”, but now FAFA has become much more to all of us. In 2012 we bring to BRC “Message To the Future”: a machine to communicate videos to your friends outside of BRC now or into the future… or to your future self!

Camp Gallavant

Ahoy from the Pirates of the Playa (infamous creators of the Mutant Vehicle, USS Nevada). We have the “gall” to “Gallavant” around the playa spreading fun and adventure throughout the City, so, visit us, enjoy the Arrgh Bar and hop a ride on a Mutant Vehicle at the #1 loading station for the Un-Official Public Transit System of Black Rock City!

Camp Here

Your home away from home, all grown up and better than you remember.
Come relax, have a drink and play with our toys!

Camp Hot Mayo

We are a fun interactive camp who is open and excited to welcome all!

We have daily morning yoga, fun games, food competitions, costume swaps, The Best Irish Car Bomb Party ever, and visual ambiance for all to enjoy!

Camp Illumelodie

When all the senses are explored, emotion becomes realized! Illumelodie is a gathering place where participation takes the form of light, sound, taste, touch and smell!

CAMP JUICY

FRUIT! ICE! MIX!
Reggae beats and relaxing until sunset.
Electro and Hip-hop after dark.

Camp LaLa

Getting tired of all the free love and compassion flowing around you here on the playa? Come by Sloanie’s House of Heckling to put a little yang with the yin. We’ll heckle you to bring your ego back into check and then invite you to join us as we heckle al you come by.

Camp Little Bitty

Camp Little Bitty will be creating life sized versions of a very exciting children’s toy. Watch as Giant Narwhals, Unicorns, and Hedgehogs compete at the BRC Mythical Creature Derby. Come feel little bitty around our giant toys! Mint Juleps on hand… bring your own fancy hat!

Camp Make Good Choices

Make Good Choices! Stop at our camp we are great listeners! We guarantee a good time with cocktails , laughs, spanks, fun events and sensual readings! Participate at our fertility station-let us help u enjoy your burn.

Camp Mordecai!

Come insult our dumb fucking bastard, Mordecai and have a drink in his 70s porno den lounge and check out Mordecai’s creepy Sideshow Freaks.

Mordecai has been our camp mascot for several years but more he is our devil’s advocate, a cathartic effigy, insult receptacle, slut, instigator and scapegoat, eg: “Mordecai!! You dumb fucking bastard!” (in a British accent)

Camp Mystic

Camp Mystic is a medley of creative talent & energy, inspired by a sense of mystery & wonder, we believe We Are All One. We encourage the enigmatic spirit to explore a deeper connection to this planet and all that exists within the entire universe.

Camp New Jersey

What was born among friends in New Jersey has evolved into a surly collection of burners hosting good times to all those that stay in the good graces of the Don. Just don’t ask us what fuckin exit we’re from!

Camp of Misfit Toys

Are you a Misfit? Have you always wanted to be a Dentist, not an Elf? Come join your fellow Misfits, where you will always be welcome. Share in some christmas cheer, and dance among the christmas tree Forest as we wait for Santa.

Camp Peace of Ass

Camp Peace of Ass supports the vulnerable, sumptuous, cheeks of biking Burners as they travel the vast, course playa environment. The repetitive motion propelling your steed, up and down, fast or slow, hard or soft over and over again demands the protection and shield available only from Camp Peace of Ass; colorful, hand-crafted fleece bicycle seat covers that are guaranteed to soothe and caress your precious assets all day and all night long.

Camp Pendant

Camp Pendant is back, and we await you! Come on by to enjoy our annual Gifting Tree with new Fertility 2.0 pendants, Grateful Dead listening parties, and the best conversation on the Playa!

Camp Pucker Up

A mold of your pucker will be cast twice – once for you and once for the Mother of all Puckers -the Mother Pucker sculpture to be created during burn week. You know you’ve wanted to kiss yourself ~ stop by and Pucker Up!

Camp Questionmark

Questionable times call for questionable minds. Gather with us to open yourself to different ways of thinking, to question, & not accept what is readily provided. We aren’t here to force our beliefs on you, but to facilitate you enjoying yours…

Camp Rain Blo Fishy

Camp Rainbow Mush

Camp Rainbow Mush providing snacks, drinks (including homemade juices), and swedish massages to the citizens of BRC since 2010. Featuring perfomances by Dr. Piffle’s 10 piece jug band.

Camp Rapture

Camp Sew Sew

Party too hard last night, ruin your fancy new playa gear? Come fix it at Camp Sew Sew, we have several sewing machines and lots of fabric ready to fix/alter/build from scratch that garment which completes your dusty look.

Camp Shrunken Heads

Camp Shrunken Heads is back and will be making more shrunken head earrings and necklaces! You can also come by if ya wanna help with two art projects: Bones in La Playa and School of Fish above La Playa! And we have our World Water Project – bring some from you corners of the World and get some from… all over!

Camp Stella

Camp Stella is a Burning Man theme camp of diverse queer and queer friendly folks who have agreed to experience Burning Man clean and sober for the duration of the event. Some of us are active in AA and other 12 step programs. Others are not. Camp Stella hosts 6 open AA meetings during the week. All are welcome to attend.

Camp Toga! Toga! Toga!

Come to Camp Toga and lounge with us Roman style. We will honor the wine god by serving wine and making custom togas.

Camp Tough Love

Life is tough. The playa is tough. Deal with it…with our help. No matter what life throws at you, we’ll set you on the right path–or at least share a drink with you. Come by for coffee and aspirin, 3 minute therapy, the pity party, and more!

Camp Upsie Dasium

Rising Up out of the Chaos of the Default World comes your Beacon of Hope: Camp Upsie Dasium! Featuring a 47 foot high climbable Tower, Nightly Movies, over 900 sq ft of Shade, Art Car, Live Music and Tastings. If you don’t want to ride the Pink Elephant; at least come Climb the Tower and Enjoy the View of BRC on Platform Level 3. We are open to Burners who want to use our camp for small events.

Camp Walk of Fame

A camp for all the Fabulous Dust Bunny Burners out there who look great wearing Playa. Our team provides a luxurious red carpet walk, step and repeat, judging and icy refreshments to quench your thirst for fame.

Camp Walter

Walter the World’s largest Volkswagen bus can be seen cruising the playa, but always loves to welcome guests home with a space to chill with his tribe. We hope to inspire everyone to let loose and look beyond what is to what might be…

Camp Yes Please

Yes: adv – Used to express affirmation, agreement, positive affirmation, or consent. Please: adv – Give pleasure to or to be pleasing to; give satisfaction. Yes Please is the answer to every question. Come meet sexy, open-minded, international, friendly, dancing, writhing people. And be sure to visit our infamous Non-Monogamy Advice Booth, occasionally staffed by real doctors!

Camp ZaZen

Camp Zazen serves as the oasis in the desert when you need to escape the harsh conditions & the wompy dubstep. With a public “Om Dome”, daily poi & staff spinning classes, and a Soothing Sake Sunset Special on Wednesday afternoon, we will satisfy all your peaceful needs. We know the playa can be overwhelming, so let Camp ZaZen be a sanctuary for when your adventurous self needs just a little down-time.

Campasaurus

Campasaurus!!! come for costumes, music, art, candy, spankings, games, drinks and fun. You can cuddle with our resident gorilla, have a drink at the bar, or just relax in the pillow dome.

Campo Alegre

Campo Alegre presents the Motel during the HumpDay @ G-Spot celebration. The Motel: where Burners meet in the shadows.

Camposanto

We keep the sound waves filled with salsa, reggae, cumbias, and other styles of music during the day when the sun is high and our neighboring super sound camps are trying get some zzzz. Come and play a Beer-in-hand soccer match or join us at one of our sunrise drum circles. Catch us making mojitos or giving salsa lessons. Come and take a siesta on the edge of the playa or come and dance to one of our eclectic DJ’s.

Carbon Dioxide Camp

We are a bunch of punk technical artists from around the SouthWest, organized around the theme of our precious waste gas, carbon dioxide, only slightly ironically. We are collaborating individuals who individually and collectively produce works of art, do community organizing, cultural events, all with a DIY and punk socially-responsible aesthetic.

Career Ending Footage

Hate your crummy job but too pussy to quit? Come to Career Ending Footage – we’ll have you jobless in less than 10 minutes!

Cartoon Commune

Here you’ll find a green, fertile, and fecund field, replete with reality, fantasy, and fun for you: as a singer, comic, artist, on-stage model, ‘60s partier, or goth rocker. And daily, up sprouts the Laughter Yoga and Longevity Stick Art to get your Xi flowing like the Playa wind blows — and so much more, on our sixth anniversary year.

Castle Anomalous

Castle Anomalous is a castle-themed mutant vehicle and theme camp that combine to create a fun, interactive and popular experience for the entire playa community. Our Castle Anomalous mutant vehicle includes a large, public roof deck that holds a DJ sound system with up to forty people listening to music and dancing while also enjoying sweeping, unobstructed views as they drive all across the playa.

Cat-Ass-Trophy

Camp Cat-Ass-Trophy the home of the kitty ship art car PURRR At camp Cat-Ass-Trophy our camp kittys will Purr you n fluff your Fur! MEWOW

Celestial Bodies

Celestial Bodies – a diverse and fun-loving straight-friendly camp with an incredibly comfy lounge and serving our fabulous Playa Cosmos. We host several events during the week and invite artists and performers to utilize our lounge and share their talents and gifts.

Census Camp

The Black Rock Census has been collecting information about the population of Black Rock City since 2002. Information is gathered by asking participants to fill out an anonymous paper survey. The results of the Census are displayed the following year in Census Camp, and in each Afterburn report.

Cereal Thrillers

Breakfast cereal bar

chainsawmargaritaguys

Chainsawmargaritaguys. Come by for our daily happy hour where we will whip up a batch of frosty ice cold margaritas with a chainsaw. At 9,000 RPM, it’s the frothiest margarita on the Playa. Over 5,500 served. 2:00-3:00 pm daily. 21 and over please.

Chakralicious Camp

Chakralicious Camp is a camp dedicated to all levels of colorful diversity, with yoga, workshops, music, art, spirituality, community, and more. This will be a 24 hour interactive camp with beautiful altars, chill spaces, visionary art, and colorful decor representing the rainbow colors of the chakras. Come take a class in Kundalini Yoga, or Tantra for Two, or Thai Massage, or Non-Violent Communication, and at night, dance at our chakra themed parties with resident djs and fun interactive ceremonies.

Champagne Lounge

Every day’s a celebration! Come by the Champagne Lounge for your daily dose of bubbly fun! The Champagne Lounge will be quenching your champagne thirst a daily high-noon happy hour. Bring your own cup, and be ready for bubbly, live music, and fun!

Chez Andre

chez andre glorifies cheap champagne cocktails as the premier hydration beverage on the playa both at our campsite and when taken on the go. surrounding areas are flooded with french lounge music while french accented bartenders enforce a strict “no stache no service” policy.

Children of Chaos

Chaos, joy, good conversation, parades, and motherly advice. Gold parade Wednesday, assemble at 5:30, parade at 6:00 pm. Illuninated Specters Thursday, assemble at 8:30, parade at 9:00 pm. Also, meet the Jewish mother you never had – mothering in your choice of English, Yiddish, or Hebrew. For good conversation, try our bar.

Chillage, The

The Chillage is a community of chillers who love to make art, food and music for YOU! Swing by and enjoy our gourmet grilled cheese restaurant, art installations, groovy daytime dance parties, nighttime karaoke lounge, silent meditation space, and more!

Chop Shop

Chop Shop is the best small playa neighborhood Repair Garage in BRC! Here in Chop Shop we have over 60 years of BRC experience in bicycles, tallbikes, mutant vehicles, welding and small engine repair. We are ready to repair a wide variety of playa transportation with parts, repairs, and advice. While you visit our shop, please rest up or lend a hand! You will find our daily Chop Shop Specials such as scissors and tweezer gifts and, of course, service with a smile.

Circus Boot Camp

Come earn your clown nose by participating in Circus Boot Camp! We’ll teach you to juggle, unicycle, hoop, slack line, trapeze, crack a whip and other circus-inspired arts.

Cirque Du Cliche

Club Neu.

Club Verboten returns. Retro dance paries and cocktail hours for The People.

Clusterf*ck United

Welcome to the Clusterf*ck zone!
Care for a hooka or a refreshing drink?
Participate in our games or just relax.. and if you stay till dusk you’ll be right on time for our daily video projection.

Comfort & Joy Village

Restore your body and lift your spirits at Comfort & Joy, a gay
community oasis offering a fully functioning Gym, colorful art
installations and daily events including yoga classes, inspiring performances, & quite queer nightlife.

Conception

Camp Conception dilates its focus on the moment when thought and idea become matter, inhabiting the interstitial wilds between sperm and egg, male and female, wave and particle, potential and actual. We provide fertile ground for birthing art, ideas, and self-expression as a bi-product of exploring sensuality, spirituality, sexuality, and the deep insides of the creative act.

Conjoined Twin Boutique

Realize your fantasy of becoming a conjoined twin by dressing in our fantastic conjoined creations. If you were not born a conjoined twin, you’ll need to bring a partner… “Dressing the playa 2 at a time since 2012”

Conscious Monkey Clan

Where Chimps and Apes come together in the highest degree of expression, self-awareness and Conscious, direct thought.

Contradance Community Camp

Contradancing all levels every night (and most days) to live music – looped/traditional/celtic/fusion/techno; fast-paced yet easy to learn with a caller who instructs (but with room for dancers to improvise). Half the moves are with your partner, half with everyone else, resulting in a tribal vibe, where the Zen is flow, synchrony, and bonding (not footwork, not competition).

Contraptionists

The Contraptionists invite you for afternoon Snowcones from 1-3 Mon-Sun, Hot kids anytime we have ice. Enjoy shade, art, talk and fresh Snow and Leave your mark for the temple and the census. Stop by for some shade anytime and check the camp for scheduled talks.

Cosmic Giggle

Do you need to pump up, light up, shape up or just have a laugh? Come see the Gigglers at Cosmic Giggle!

Cosmic Recess

Cosmic Recess is a Playground with an Outer Space theme. We believe that interactivity, creativity and play are all neccesary components of joy and happiness! All of our playground elements are original and homemade, most with recycled/reused materials.

Cosmical Proot Temple

We are a Chillout musical camp with psyche soul and funk tunes and the famous pastis and pétanque game combo. And we used to say love is in the air , we have very hairy costumes !

Cosmicopia

Camp Cosmicopia is inspired by the deep connections between psyche and cosmos. Visit us for astrological reading, transpersonal healing, and psycho-spiritual inquiry.

Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet

Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet is Black Rock City’s leading supplier of high-quality, low-cost soulmates since 1998. We offer quality name brand and private-label soulmates at substantially lower prices than can be found through conventional wholesale sources.

Couple of Crazy Cats

Are you a crazy cat person? or just simply a lover of pussies? Come by our camp and enjoy all things feline. From catnip cocktails, to kitten films and photos, we provide an atmosphere surrounded by all things CAT!

Covered-in-Bees

Covered in Bees

Crackwhore Camp

Lil’ Crackwhores are back at it again showing you how to work the streets for your appropriate needs. Stop by for a Crackwhore stamp and cup, while supplies last. Hugs and kisses are available too!

Cranky and Sons Bicycle Repair

Come to Cranky and Sons for assistance, education and advice for those “Oh shit!” cycling needs. Come on by with anything from a flat tire to exploded derailer and we’ll help get you back out onto the playa. Have some free time and want to help out? Grab a beer and a wrench and help us help those in need!
Cranky and Sons – Promoting Radial Self Reliance since 2011

Cricket's CoCo Shack

Cricket’s CoCo Shack – the playa’s #1 Zagat rated destination for island adventures and fresh coconuts is open this year. We’ve had to raise our prices to $0.00 so please remember exact change.

Crowsnest

The Crowsnest is a perch in the desert where lost wanderers can get their bearings, gather their strength and find inspiration.

Cwality

Come spend some cwality time at Camp Cwality.