2019 Archive
M*A*S*H 4207th
20 years of this, and we’re still not Doctors.
Looking for a rich full day? Come to the least disciplined military unit on the playa.
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.
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.
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.
machinedom - the experience
Come see the swirl and have a drink with machine…
Mad Tea(se) Party
MAD TEA(se) PARTY will be serving up a selection of fine teas and flirty teasing all week long. Come “sip and spank” with the full Lewis Carroll cast of characters from Noon to 4PM daily. Our teas and “tea-tails” will be topped off with Cream, Sugar and Sexy Circus Performances!
Majestic
The most majestic place on the Playa! We are a cozy and classy place to come relax, refresh, repair, and reset. Camp Majestic offers many different services including bike and outfit repair, refreshments and signature drinks, and a pamper station to help feel your best on the Playa!
Major Tom's Flying Circus
We are a camp of fun and friendly Burners whose passion is gifting flights over the Playa. Come see us at the BRC airport to experience Black Rock City from the air in one of our microlight aircraft or our new gyro. We operate flights daily, early mornings and afternoons, weather permitting. Also come by our camp on Monday 4-7pm for a happy hour meet and greet and Thursday 4-7pm for our camp party featuring a DJ and libations.
Malice in Underpants
Come join our Mad Hatter and friends for and impromptu Tea (hot and cold, & lemonade) We have a chill domed butterfly garden to relax and space out.
Get out of the sun, find a quiet space, relax and reflect on your own metamorphisis
Manifest Dustiny
Burner clothing boutique and bar
Mansonian Institute 4 Urban Study
Mansonian Institute 4 Urban Study celebrates & teaches Burningman history through large graphic banners & take-offs of each year’s theme w info & stories of Burningman going back to first event. Stop & ask questions about Burningman history, get swag.
T-shirt making on tuesday at 1:00 PM. Bring your t-shirt and get a BM transfer.
There will be two Talks with Veteran Burners Wednesday & Thursday 4:00 -5:00. Evil Pippi Grouchy the Clown Badger Sweetthang RonJon & Stuart Mangrum member of Cacophony Society
Mansonian Institute of WWIT
Mansonian Institute & Camp WWIT Village celebrates & teaches Burningman history through large graphic banners & take-offs of each year’s theme w info & stories of Burningman going back to first event. Stop & ask questions about Burningman history, get swag & chill out in Camp WWIT bar w fun games, drinks, music, Kundalini teachings, & offerings of curious combinations of adaptogenic, euphoric, and nootropic yerba mate concoctions. Alcohol for the brave! Each morning from Tues-Thurs, we will host Meditation/Yoga session w 20 min discussion on impact of meditation on the brain & on happiness based on neuroscience. There will be two Talks with Veteran Burners Wednesday & Thursday 4:00 -5:00. Evil Pippi Grouchy the Clown Badger Sweetthang RonJon & Stuart Mangrum member of Cacophony Society
Marley's Place
Marley’s Camp invites you to our Martini Bar that brings the simple elegance of a classic cocktail to the desert for Burners weary of sweet alcoholic punch. We offer delicious dry and dirty gin martinis for the community in the early evening, to take the edge off the heat and welcome the evening.
Our small cocktail lounge will operate on two evenings, from 6pm to 9pm. We encourage the community to view our eclectic mutant vehicle, Marley The Playa Copter, and hang out in our desert camo shade structure, and have an ice-cold martini.
Martini Camp
Martini Village offering up cold refreshments, entertainment and laughs! Look us up or stop by for our daily scheduled events or come see what we have going on at the side bar. Participate in the fun and be prepared to be immersed in the 10 principles of the playa.
Martini Village
Martini Village offering up cold refreshments, entertainment and laughs! Look us up or stop by for our daily scheduled events or come see what we have going on at the side bar. Participate in the fun and be prepared to be immersed in the 10 principles of the playa.
Mary E's Lavender Hand Wash
We are a friendly and inclusive group who wants to contribute to the joy of attending Burning Man. During lavender hand wash we will pamper you and give you the attention you deserve. We love to have the community join us at our Friday night party or any time in our community area so we can get to know you. All are welcome and we strive for your comfort and enjoyment. The layout of our camp is welcoming to all. We provide shade structures, misters and relaxing seating for our Burner guests.
Mary's Little Lambs
Mary’s Little Lambs is a camp within the BAAAHS Station Village. MLL is a safe manger, offering maternal love, advice and energy to all the lambs and rams. MLL campers travel from around the world including China, England, Belgium, Netherlands and US to be a part of the camp and the village.
Mas Komodo Dragon
Tribal Spirit is a diverse theme camp with daily open bar, Yoga sessions and UV themed parties till late. Straya Day on Tuesday and Russian themed party on Thursday. Enjoy refreshing drinks with our friendly crew.
Math Camp @ Group W
A Safe place to Drink and DErive! We are a small social camp offering a place for 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 Xaman
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.
Mayan Warrior
Mayan Warrior is the result of a collaborative project that has united artists, craftsmen, photographers, designers, technologists, architects and musicians from Mexico City and other parts of the world.
The project’s original intent was to present to the world the incredible ascent of contemporary Mexican electronic music while paying respect to the deep and ancient sources from which that visual and auditory culture had grown, all of this to help raise awareness and founds for Mayan Communities in need of basic infrastructure to thrive.
Both light and sound are curated by some of the world’s most prominent artists to transport participants to the very origins of the culture – and to a new understanding of contemporary electronic expression.
Meadful Things
The oldest alcohol created by every civilization is mead. And you’re in a civilization! Come on over and bee a part together.
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.
Meh de la Mer
Meh de la Mer, art support camp for Happy Birthday! MEGA Cake.
Mellow Mountain
Come play and climb on our MM look-out and swings, be served frosty beverages, cuddle with stuffy fluffy toys, hammock dome flop, and get smooches from the Kissy Fish mutant vehicle.
Melons Present
A fantastically fruit-loving, ridiculously organized, global patch of melons with a flair for the melondramatic, who can can-can their way into the heart of even the crustiest Burner!
Mementomorium Project
“Do you want to be immortal and why not?” – join us at 4:20pm for a daily talk inside our Camp Lounge, all while you can recharge your gadgets!
After the talk follow us to the Mementomorium Art installation on the playa.
Lose your senses in a sensory deprivation casket when you star in a
symbolic burial! This psychologically piercing experience offers the
ultimate perspective on one’s life.
Burn your fears to fuel your happiness.
Got lucid? 🙂
Menagerie
Cap’n Mac ‘n Cheese serves awesome mac and cheese, mixed drinks, and awesome hugs in the late afternoon/early evening hours to hungry burners.
Meow Now
FREE WIFI, Interactive photo opportunities day and night at Meow Now. Come by and allow us to help you make authentic facial expressions to match the scene on the photo cut out board you’re taking a photo with.
New this year… .Black Rock City Scavenger Hunt!! Come learn about BRC and collect some sick custom badges!
MESA
Get ready to share your ideas and sculpt the future. Arx is an ancient Latin word for the Citadel in Rome. At the new and improved Arx, we believe everyone’s voice matters, and we’d like to hear what you have to say about things that are important to you. Whether that’s global warming or what you had for breakfast, Arx is your forum to share big ideas. Join us for a drink or two at our Spirited Discussions!
Metal-Morphosis
Come one, come all! Enter through the Metal Morphosis threshold into the magical world of transforming metal. Behold Thor’s Hammer at center stage. Bam! In one single blow a copper disc is transformed into an embossed medallion with the Burning Man symbol. After you receive a medallion, you will be invited to take it to the workshop stations to further embellish and refine it and make it wearable. Professional metalsmiths will guide you. This is an activity that can be done by people of all ages and abilities. Visit for only ten minutes and have a gift to takeaway, or stay the entire afternoon and create a masterpiece.
Metric Duck Ton
Brewing coffee and ducking responsibility.
Midnight Bukkafe
Hand pressed Kava from Molokai served at a makeshift bar under a flame effect? Come find us, roaming the open playa.
Midnight Moon Market
Dear Mom is a camp centered on celebrating the strong women & role models in your life. We provide a relaxing and inclusive space on playa to have a cup of tea, reflect on those who helped make you who you are, and write a letter to send to your loved ones on custom Goddess stationary.
Midnight Poutine
Bonsoir nos amis! Come and sample Québec’s favourite late night snack at Midnight Poutine. Learn the awesome power of french fries, cheese curds and hot gravy. Embrace the joie de vivre of our bilingual Canadian camp. Lâche pas la patate!
Mighty Misfits
A mighty misfit is a person whose behavior or attitude sets them apart from others in an uncomfortably conspicuous way. A fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole. If you feel like you don’t fit into the default world, come and join the Mighty Misfits’ activities. We are a welcoming dusty respite where you can sing along with our live music, enjoy some refreshments, and feed your body and soul.
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 twelfth 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
Mimosa Sunrise – Come enjoy the rise of the sun over the playa every morning 5am-10am with mimosa’s, great tunes and awesome vibes with a cast of characters and costumes that will make your smiles bigs and your laughs loud. Come with good vibes and win a prize, take home a decorated champagne bottle or dare to take a champagne shower, either way you’ll be coming back all week
MIMOSA'LYMPICS
Art support camp for The Center of Attention art project. Participants are the center of attention and then not the center of attention at the center of The Center of Attention where, with mutual consent, they get attention, give attention and pay attention.
MindBenders
Join us for morning meditation, chanting, and mindfulness training. We are a small group of old(er) Burners, all long-time practitioners and teachers of meditation and mindfulness. Although we collectively practice an array of meditation and mindfulness techniques and lineages, we’ll emphasize Vipassana (Insight) meditation, including attention to breath and thoughts arising and passing. These 2500 year old techniques are most helpful in quieting the mind and creating space between thoughts and actions, enabling us to be wiser and more considered in our reactions.
BYOP (Bring your own pillow)!
MindShark
MindShark is a group of dedicated, skillied dunces. Let us guide your journey to eternal drunken bliss with gifts of booze, music, fire, and light. Enjoy the coldest beer on the playa at our bar, watch hippies dissociate 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.
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, Celtic Jam, Drumming Circle, a Musical (kazoos provided) “Manamorphosis ” Parade!
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 welcome!
PS: We also have a large selection of legitimate “menstrual cramp” supplies if you have a urgent need
Mirage Garage
Mirage Garage welcomes you to our theme camp! We have a large inviting main tent with comfortable hang-out refuge space open 24 hours @ day to anyone; 24 hours water bar; alcohol bar with set cocktail and post-dinner hours; a great speaker series (last year’s speaker series topics: Women Goddesses, Women in Business, Art in the Age of Cyborgs, and Poverty in a Time of Plenty); Metamorphosis in the Woods in the art tent; and viewing platform with seting atop our containers. Get your body Washed and Lubed by our comely and scantily clad crew of guys. Learn Tango and Body Painting! Come see, participate in a q&a about, and get photographed with mr. fusion, valyrian steel, and flux capacitor, our three stainless steel works of art car and come to our greasy get down thursday night party!
Miscellaneous Heathens
Home of The Beethen and The Miscellaneous Heathens
Miso!
Miso! serves miso soup and sake while cultivating chill, fun and safe spaces for discussions around consent and play.
Missing Piece
Come relax under the rabbit-dome, get your morning coffee/kava/yerba mate or your afternoon exotic liquors from around the world, and have your portrait taken by our professional photographers. All bunnies welcome!
Mission Control
The Art Support Camp for O.A.S.I.S.C.A.F.E. Lunar Module, a full size, roughly to scale, artistic representation of the Apollo Lunar Module that first landed on the moon in 1969. We want to convey and remember the biggest and most daring adventure humanity has ever taken, celebrating something that was accomplished 50 years ago, that humanity will still be remembering and celebrating 1000 years ago. Come visit Mission Control!
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. 2019 will be our 16th 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 2019 shenanigans…
Mo's Mini Martini + Erotica Camp
Come by for the coldest martinis(served by us) and the hottest erotica (written by YOU) on the playa. Our bedouin tent is an oasis of pillows, shade and carpets with the best view in the city. We invite you to put your camel to bed and wander over after lunch and grab one of the best, if not THE best martini in BRC served in a genuine martini glass. Open nights as well.
MOAR
In previous years, we were Bloody Maryland. This year we are an art support camp for Cone Down and we want MOAR.
Mobility Camp
Wheelchair accessible Camping and information on Accessibility.
https://www.mobilitycamp.org/ website has extensive information on how to prepare for the Burn. On Playa loan of wheelchairs, walkers and crutches for the walking wounded.
Molotov Cocktail
Our fully shaded bar/chill space offers welcome respite and comfort for the dusty and thirsty.
Chilled, home brewed beer, mead and cocktails on tap.
Games available including box hockey and cribbage.
Monkey Pirate Pirate Monkeys
If you need bacon or walking tacos in your belly or a hammock in the shade, the Monkey Pirate Pirate Monkeys have you covered. Plop ye tired bones down with a piratey cocktail from our bar and enjoy the cool ocean breeze from our misters as you plot your next plundering playa 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
Back in 5 is coming to the playa this year with a special interactive, sensorial experience. We’re curating an immersive tasting installation that inspires several senses and offers a momentary respite from the hustle and bustle of the Black Rock streets. We’re inclusive, elusive, and feature an air of mystery. Take a few minutes to join us on the journey and catch us if you can. Things aren’t always what they seem and we’re here to encourage your metamorphosis transformation.
Moonshot
Every one drops by our camp will be lucky every day for the rest of their lives. We have great Chinese food party, culture workshop such as DIY Chinese paper fan with traditional calligraphy teaching and myths telling, a bar for amazing drinks and fortune cookies served every day. You will never miss it!
MOOP MAP HQ
Moop Map HQ is the Playa Restoration Staff Camp featuring Leave No Trace Interactivity and Education
• SEE The Leave No Trace Show where our fearless Resto Crew break things on the playa in front of a live audience just so they can clean it up!
• VISIT our MOOP Map Museum where you can see all of the past years MOOP Maps and how we’ve evolved!
• Experience our Moop Gardens and learn about the most common types of MOOP on the playa!
• View photos from past event site Restoration operations!
• Get familiar with the tools used to Leave No Trace on the Playa!
• Get warm by our Fireside Circle!
• Join the Team and Leave no Trace!
Morphoscopia
Camp in support of Morphoscope, a series of 12 kinetoscopes displaying 35mm film on the playa.
Mos Eisley Village
“Mos Eisley. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.” ―Obi-Wan Kenobi
MOSAIC
At Camp Mosaic. in addition to providing a space for everyone to come enjoy, love, dance, and kick their feet up, we offer many different experiences for our fellow burners to be a part of. From dance parties, self help workshops. multiple yoga classes, sound baths, & a future self letter writing workshop, we offer a wide range of experiences to enhance your burn. MOSAIC creates interactivity with our community every day to stimulate mind, body, and spirit. Our lounges will provide a place for refuge and our frontage will provide a beacon of color. We are here to support your burn as you enhance ours! Come relax, lounge, heal, converse with a bunch of radically self-expressed individuals who love and live burning man at Mosaic!
Mountain Mayhem
Mountain Mayhem takes the small Colorado mountain town experience to playa with silly antics, terrific people, and many drinks! Be hot and stay cool friends.
Mudskippers
Famous playa-wide for our Fruit Smoothie Cafe, our epic “Crack is Whack” Whitney Houston tribute party, and being an official stop for the BRC Naked Bar Crawl, we are a radically-inclusive tight-knit of gays, straights, bisexual, and unlabeled lovers from Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Seattle, Kansas, Montreal, France, Brazil, Israel, Australia, and everywhere in between. We look forward to welcoming you to our dusty home on the playa!
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.
Mule Town
MULE TOWN is the home of the Tri-Mules, helpful three-wheeled mutant vehilcles which have been scratch-built to exacting playa standards….please drop by to relax and jaw about how amazing these little creatures are.
MUSE (Maenad University)
Maenad University for the Studies of the Esoteric offers classes and interactivity that is inclusive, fun, and educational. We are a camp themed off of Dionysus. You don’t have to be mad to join us, but it couldn’t hurt.
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. Nigh time chill, personal meditative area for personal reflection and recharging from the surrounding madness.
Mutant Wranglers
Your home base for Visual Art and Performance Collaboration in the dusty recesses of your psyche. And on the playa.
My Dad's House
My Dad’s House is actually your dad’s house. He’s out back talking about how interstellar plasma opened the door to new dimensions while leading a pu’er tea ceremony. Some Malort shots may have been involved as well. It was his idea, really, but we’re running with it.
We’re an antiquated reprieve from the dusty digitization, complete with some cozy lounge spaces, a cheeky bar, and a stage full of stooges. If you’re in the neighborhood, swing by for some live tunes, uncouth art, cheap booze, or to just take a nap in the shade.
Looking for a place to perform some radical self-expression? Drop us a line. We’re stoked to facilitate individual offerings to the playa with our infrastructure.
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 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, the secrets to alchemical transformation revealed, and you may even become the soothsayer!
Mycodelic Forest
At the Mycodelic Forest the magic of renewal 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 and features over 155 hours of daytime programming in its theater, healing dome, and cosmic heart temple and a large visionary art and sculpture collection you can visit 24/7.
By day come check out our mind-body movement classes and check out our evolutionary speaker series or get a healing session in our dome or a temple initiation and ritual in our temple.
By night come to our famous Wednesday night party featuring some of burning man’s best musicians, DJs, dancers, performers, fire spinners, aerialists, and live painters.
Come on other nights to experience sound healing concerts, gospel choir, cacao ceremonies, and beautiful music in our theater’s art gallery.
Mystic Metaverse - MM22
The Mystikal Misfits are a caring, inclusive, generous, and dusty framily of fun-generators, party-throwers, and good-bad decision influencers.
Every afternoon and most nights we throw the best party you’ve ever stumbled across. Our camp features a large, interactive playground that (foolishly) changes design every year.
We’re the people your parents warned you about. Come prove that you think for yourself.
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
MythMaker
Fire, Dragons, Vikings, Music, Magick and Healing!!
Mythmaker has Performed in the Fire conclave for the last 8 years at our camp we love to share all we have.
Workshops, rituals, mead and stories
Come Live your Legend & make a myth with us!