2018 Archive
M*A*S*H 4207th
We’re not Doctors.
Looking for a rich full day? Come to the least disciplined military unit on the playa.
Random security Checkpoints will occur. Terrorists & Loyal Citizens will be labeled. Propaganda & commentary provided for the prevention of communism. Nightly viewings of old episodes & movies from the show, this year featuring films from the series. Signpost project open to all.
Since 1999, your bastion of Democracy in a sea of fifth column communist/socialist/lawless infiltrators and barbarian mutants! Daytime martinis, PBR, and maybe even grape Nehi at Rosie’s Bar. Our new tea house offers a moment of calm in the wilds of Black Rock.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Hour.
MacGyvers' Union
Every camp has a MacGyver — now the MacGyvers have a union. We provide all MacGyvers with recognition, thanks, tools, training, entertainment, emotional and moral support, chill space away from their home camp, and an official ID card.
Machine Yearning
Machine Yearning: Why is humans?
Our goal to foster a dialogue about the interface between humans, machines, and the decisions that they make. Members of the camp embody our Deep Yearning algorithm, a parafictional state-of-the-art smart assistant that creates personalized experiences for our visitors.
Mad Tea(se) Party
Serving coffee, smiles, and good ol’ fashion kinky fun since 2014
Magic Lantern Society
Trading booth, hookah, curiosities, and cocktails. Mysterious delights in store. Chill space open 24/7. Come and find what you’re looking for…
Major Tom's Flying Circus
Join Major Tom’s Flying Circus to experience Black Rock City from the air in one of our microlight aircraft. Flying daily early mornings and late afternoons weather permitting. Meet us at the Ground Control Departure Lounge at BRC Airport.
Malice in Underpants
Ocean360 Bringing the Ocean to the Desert with a message of Conservation, Sustainability, Emerging Technologies and Educational Outreach
Mansonian Institute of WWIT
The Mansonian Institute 4 Urban Studies celebrates and teaches Burningman history through large graphic informational banners and take-offs of each year’s theme with data going back to the first event. Stop by and ask us questions about Burningman history, get some swag and daily events. See our Museum of Burningman Artifacts or artful facts?! It’s got to be seen to be believed, or not. Tubatron, the Flaming Tuba Guy, may be firing up also! Tuesday at 1:00 PM there will by Burningman T-shirt transfers – bring a blank t-shirt and leave with a Burningman t-shirt! There will be two Talks – Wednesday at 5:30 by Will Chase , former Communication Director for Burningman (Jack Rabbit Starts) and Thursday at 5:30 by Nora Adkinson, Curator Renwick Gallery Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man”. Come and learn about Burningman and ask questions/get answers.
Martini Camp
For good drinks, fun and games, come find Martini Camp located within Martini Village!
Martini Village
Martini Village offers cold martini’s, fun cocktails, entertainment and much more! Look us up for our daily scheduled events or just stop by and check out a random happy hour. Be prepared to be immersed in the 10 principles of the playa.
Mary E's Lavender Hand Wash
Plays Well With Others: Provides lavender hand washing and hand pampering Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00AM to 5:00PM.
We will be having a Dance Party USA on Friday night from 6:00 to ?
Mas Komodo Dragon
Tribal Spirit is focused on visual UV art installation and electronic music. We are hosting a Straya Day (Australia Day on Tuesday for all Aussies and their friends)
We will be hosting number of workshops and we will have Yoga sessions 3 times throughout the week. Our space is also available for other burners, who wish to run own workshops.
Tribal Spirit will be repairing bicycles for other burners.
Daily open bar with refreshing mixers.
Math Camp @ Group W
Math Camp @ Group W is A Safe Place for Mathematics: A small, social camp, offering a place to Drink and DErive! Daily lectures and long-winded impromptu chats on all things Math related. We are proud Purveyors of Crunchy Snacks, Servers of Pie at 3:14, plus we have The Best Friday Morning Sunrise Cocktail Party on the playa (not to mention home of the fabulous Electric Cupcakes).
MAXA
Maxa Camp is centered on the promotion of unity and recognition of past cultures and ancestral heritage. Our camp will be a representation of the deeply rooted, ancient beliefs of the Mexican and Huichol communities combined with the contemporary views of a community of our own.
Maximal Viable Pyramid
Maximal Viable Pyramid is a new camp dedicated to the appreciation of the most perfect shape in 3-dimensional space (pyramids).
Meadful Things
Serving mead on playa for 8 burns, our selection is inspirational and ponderous. Have you never tried mead, an alcoholic honey beverage? Come over! We’ve been waiting for you! Into bees and want to chat about the many facets of their abundance, come on in!
Media Mecca
Media Mecca is Black Rock City’s home to storytellers, journalists, and media. All media projects must register at Mecca prior to beginning in BRC.
Mellow Mountain
Come play with our swinging swings, daytime drinks, stuffy fluffy toys, spinny space-flight rocket nose cone, hammock dome flop, and smooches from the Kissy Fish mutant vehicle.
Melons Present
A ridiculously organized, fruit-loving, consent-driven, sex-positive, patch of melons from around the world, who can’t wait to get playful with you!
Meow Now
Meow Now provides mirror-based interactive art installations, interactive photo-cut-outs, and interactive sound experiences using immersive bass.
MESA
Fort U is an adventure! U never know what you might learn. Come conversate with philosophers and scholars from around the world while learning valuable lessons from our experienced staff and hell, maybe teach them a lesson or two because after all, without U, we’re just a stupid fort.
Metric Duck Ton
Cold brew / spanking exchange accompanies kinetic artworks.
Midnight Poutine
MIDNIGHT POUTINE = French fries + Cheese Curds + Gravy: all this served at Midnight! Poutine is THE ultimate food for late nights to create “a damn mess” that goes down hot and settles even the most vexed stomach.
Mighty Misfits
mis-fit: a person whose behavior or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably, conspicuous way. “a motley collection of social mistfits”;
synonyms: nonconformist, eccentric, maverick, individualist, square peg in a round hole. The Mighty Misfits is a camp that celebrates the misfit in everyone. Check our listings for events and join us to celebrate the misfit in you.
Miki Beach
Miki Beach is your place to find an oasis in the desert. With beach, breezy vibes that combine Miami and Cuban flavors with a dash of NYC eccentricity, our goal is to welcome you in from the playa, provide luscious amounts of amazing house music, sensual delights, and the warmest, most welcoming vibes possible.
Milk + Honey
Milk + Honey is excited to offer our tenth Playa Shabbat service and dinner which draw on secular and spiritual traditions for the creative expression and collective healing of individuals and communities. We nourish the hearts, spirits, and bodies of all who find themselves wandering in the desert!
MiM0SA SUNRiSE
Still up from last night? looking for some entertainment? Do you like champagne showers? Come stop by everyone’s favorite neighborhood morning bar to celebrate the birth of a new day and spin the wheel at the Mimosa Bar to win a prize and enjoy a mimosa. Come share your epic tales from the night with a group of fun people and positive vibes. The Mimosa Sunrise show never disappoints
MIMOSA'LYMPICS
Not The Center of Attention Camp is an art support camp for The Center of Attention, an interactive piece where people will get attention, give attention and pay attention, each of us being the center of attention and then not the center of attention in the center of The Center of Attention.
We are currently based out of Colorado, with people coming aboard from NY, Georgia, Oregon and California as of this moment. We are collecting volunteers to help us staff the project throughout the week. So, get over here! Contact David at vegetabledumplings@yahoo.com Cheers!!
Mindless Movement
Bust open your mind with physically semi-risky and thought provoking activities.
MindShark
MindShark is a community of neuroscientists, engineers, and artists who have pledged their crotches and cerebral cortices to stoke the eternal flame that blazes at the core of every individual, friend, and stranger. We all come to Burning Man to explore our inner selves; let MindShark guide your awakening with gifts of science, fire, and light. Enjoy the coldest beer on the playa at our bar, watch hippies burn on our interactive fire displays, and blow your mind(s) under our amazing responsive light shows.
MINSTREL CrAMP
Feeling the need to fiddle about? To blow, beat, or stroke on something?
Come to MINSTREL CrAMP and get your creative “musical juices” flowing. We’ve got the best daily tuned piano on the Playa.
Stop in, Listen in, Join in, to some great live acoustic jamming with our house band “THE BURNING SENSATIONS”.
This year we feature Belly Dancing, Acoustic Jam, Drumming Circle, Swing lessons, an iRobot dance and an iRobot themed art show.
Check the schedule board out front to see what’s happening or sign-up for a slot to perform with your own band (or ours).
It’s all good! Listeners/dancers welcome!
PS: We also have a large selection of legitimate “menstrual cramp” supplies if you have a urgent need.
Mirage Garage
At Mirage Garage we are excited to offer programming that entertains and stimulates, while simultaneously offering a refuge where the community can come together to rehydrate, reconnect and rejuvenate! Come play with our kinetic sculptures on wheels, get stimulated by our daily speaker series, get washed, lubed, and henna tatooed, get bathed in sound in our Gamelatron tent, dance to our dj’s nightly, our desert oasis overflows with iced water 24 hrs/day, and we live to serve you.
Miscellaneous Heathens
The Miscellaneous Heathens – lovers, players, and merry makers. Stop by for a good conversation, a game, and a guided-self-help.
Misfit Island
Come by Misfit Island and relax in our Chill dome or hang out around the fire. Always a good time with the Misfits!
Miso!
Hot miso soup and sake by night, fresh insight into sex positivity and expression by day.
Missing Piece
Come relax under the rabbit-dome, get your morning coffee while discovering unique art pieces and browsing through our vinyls collection. All bunnies welcome!
Mission Country Club
We bring a taste of San Francisco’s Mission District to Black Rock City! Mission Country Club is an organically-grown camp, consisting of folks from San Francisco, Reno, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, Ireland, Germany, Belgium and beyond. 2017 will be our 15th year on the playa as an organized camp. Over the years we’ve been home to Flannagan’s Pub, Flannagan’s Tacos + Whiskey, the Magic Kurry Cart, the Sangria Soundclash, the BRC Hip-Hop Playa Ball, the Brian Brunch and Bugaboo the art car. Don’t forget to check the book for our 2018 shenanigans… we’re going to be turning things up a notch for our 15th Anniversary!
Misters & Sisters
Overhead water misters and temporary tattoos offered all day and week long.
DIY Essential Oil Body Sprays offered Monday-Saturday from 11 am – 3 pm
Mo's Mini Martini + Erotica Camp
Come to Mo’s for the coldest martinis and the hottest erotica on the playa. Our Bedouin tent is a mecca for people watching and tasteful conversation and our book of erotica written by you,you sexy burner, will heat you up while that martini cools you down. Limit 13(martinis not stories).
Mobility Camp
Mobility Camp provides a wheelchair friendly Camp, and services and education to the Mobility Impaired and information and Education to those who want to be more accessible.
Molotov Cocktail
Our shaded bar/chill space offers welcome respite and comfort for the dusty and thirsty. Home made beer, mead and cocktails on tap. Cribbage, box hockey and more games available. Random events include: haiku for a brew, dark bar, (poon)tang mimosas, robe party, etc.
Mom & Dad's Living Room
A “classic” living room where you can take a load off and talk with BRC family members. A kind of stereotypical parent’s living room with eclectic furniture. Complete with a wall of family portraits, add yours to the gallery and maybe even find a cold Otter Pop.
Monkey Pirate Pirate Monkeys
If you need bacon in your belly or a hammock in the shade, the monkey pirate pirate monkeys have you covered. Plop ye tired bones down with a cocktail and enjoy the cool ocean breeze from our swamp coolers as you plot your next plundering play adventure.
Monkley Business
Monkey Business is an Anti-Social club established in 1999. This group is a place for monkeys to discuss Monkey Business stuff. People associated with Monkey Business generally refer to themselves as Monkeys. Being a Monkey means you are a free human being, capable of handling yourself and the consequences of your actions.
MOON LANDING
Join us to become a boss of that dough, by imagining and bringing cookie concoctions to life. Whether you’re a no bake, half-baked or a full-baked kind of person, we’ll supply the best cookies for everyone on the playa. Dough-n’t you think cookies are a sweet way to treat people? We’re a group of Mad Batters with civic responsibility, ready to bake the world into a better place. Mad Batter will be serving cookies MWF in the afternoon around sunset, targeting the sweet time spot, just around snack time.
Mooner Landing
A landing pad for Moonbuggy, the rising crescent moon that glows as bright as the celestial orb in the sky. Get lunar inside the moon, cosmonaut the day away in a space helmet, and defy gravity on the trampoline.
MOOP MAP HQ
Moop Map Headquarters is the Playa Restoration interactive education camp.
• Visit the Moop Gardens, learn about the most common types of Moop found during Playa Restoration.
• View GPS data and photos from past event site Restoration operations.
• Get familiar with the tools used to Leave No Trace on the Playa.
• See every Moop Map 2006 – 2017 on display.
Visit any evening after Sunset to enjoy the Fireside Circle, a place for the community to congregate around an open fire.
Morphoscopia
Hexayurts built carelessly. Shade structures destroyed in a dust storm. Over-eager shirtcockers. These are all examples of one thing: reckless erections.
Mos Eisley Village
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi
MOSAIC
Camp MOSAIC
Mothership
SPECTRA: The Prism of Perpetual Enlightenment…She can move cosmic matter separating the frequency of white light into a spectrum of colors. Experience the playa within a sacred universal symbol from the ancient future that radiates positivity, acceptance and love.
Mountain Mayhem
Colorado meets the desert. You meet fun.
Mr. Peepers
This is our 6th year as a theme camp.Home of Babba’s East hydration cart for the deep playa and other Burner interactions.Drop by and chat.All Welcome.
Mudskippers
The Mudskipper Urban Decay Cafe is a close-knit, gay-friendly diverse camp with a history at burning man that goes back to 1993, Come chill out in our jungle themed smoothie cafe or get a finger & toe nail make over in our amazing Beauty Bar, all are welcome!!!!
Muffin Bottoms
We see the bottom of the muffin as a missed opportunity for glory, a place where tenderness is revealed and true colors shine. Let the Wheel of Destiny, our signature dish, show you the light inside your subconscious, as we delight you with an experience you won’t soon forget.
Music Savages
A lounge style sound camp with time appropriate music, plenty of day beds, shade, smoothies, yoga, the finest of beats and lights that will knock your socks off.
Mutant Wranglers
Basically I’m an old ranch truck masquerading as a rusty crustacean wearing a giant bison skull on my back, the way a hermit crab inhabits the shell of another creature. The top of my skull has been cut off, however, and is suspended between the horns about 8′ off the ground – and you are my brain.
My Monkey, My Circus
Come one, come ALL! Awaken your inner flow artist! Self expression in the kinetic form! Renown Flow Masters! Sages with wisdom of health! Thinkers and Tinkers! YOU!
Take a class, teach a class. Watch a show, show n’ tell! Experience the core principals like never before!
My Reply is Yes!
My Reply Is Yes celebrates organic human intelligence and honors our millenia-long search for advice, guidance and wisdom. Rather than using artificial intelligence to dictate our interests and suggest our next move, My Reply Is Yes allows burners to reveal their own desires, and set their itinerary for the next 7 days or 7 minutes. We do this with an oversized Ouija Board, a giant Magic 8-Ball, a wise Zoltar booth ready to grant any wish, and a burner-centric Tarot Card reading station. All your questions will be answered, and it may be you providing the answers!
Mycodelic Forest
At the Mycodelic Forest the magic of mushrooms awaits you! We are inspired by the special ability of mycelium to breakdown organic compounds and decompose biomass into compost to create new life. In this way we strive to break down barriers and educate others on how to protect the playa and the Burner Culture to create an emotionally fertile environment for everyone.
Mystic
Camp Mystic has a 20 year history at burning man.
BY DAY… we host a Visionary Speaker Series themed ‘The New Story of Humanity’s Evolution’ and healers and lucia light in our Dome.
BY NIGHT… we host some of the most talented artists, musicians, performers, fire spinners, aerialists, and singers during our Wednesday, Friday, & Saturday Night events themed ‘A Transmission of Truth & Beauty’… truly magical.
Our award winning mutant vehicle The Mystic Flyer can be seen on the streets of the playa lit by 1200 LED lights encased on beautiful visionary playing incredible tunes on our roof deck.
Mystic Metaverse - MM22
Participants are invited (or dared) to enter through our apocalyptic transportation tunnel where they will be treated to video screens, audio loops, artifacts relaying the downfall of mankind, and the start of something new. Once through the tunnel, guests enter a swanky, otherworldly Piano Lounge and speakeasy.
The lounge features a Robotic Piano that will play any song requested. Come take a turn at the ivories themselves, or test your luck at the Burner Friendly casino tables: (s)Craps, Poker, and Roulette. The games mimic their real world counterparts with an emphasis on gifting and a few unusual additions.
Mystopia
We’re a desert experiment. A French Toast Mecca. A home for mysterious misters. A Burner family that tastes the rainbow: a truly informal family of adventurous friends, partners, parents, children, gays, straights and everything in between. Come play with us!
MythMaker
From Deep within the Valhalla mountains of BC Canada
MythMaker merges the ancient arts of storytelling & theatre with the dramatic skills of the circus arts creating a
multidisciplinary art experience, delving into the mystical, magical and profound. Performances include theatre, music, dance and ceremonies, including the dynamic circus arts of fire spinning, acrobatics, aerials and stilt walking.
Their multi-dimensional performances strive to
integrate a new cultural mythology through ritualistic performance art inspiring a new dream, which empowers the individual and community to co-create a sustainable future for all life.
Ménage à Plaja
Art Support since 2011. We are supporting The Crack this year.