Theme Camp Archive

Painting Your Patootie

We will be painting bodies every day from morning till late afternoon. Come by with your ideas and wishes. Artists are welcome to join us; contact us in advance, or drop by and talk.

Palace of Balunsia

The Palace of Balunsia is envoy to a shapeshifting, nomadic, Inter-Galatic Beduin nation. We hold strong the notion of perfect balance in unbalance: there is no stable footing to be found in an impermanent world and the very act of creating life and love is to embrace this ever-shifting dynamic. The Palace is a place for kings and sultans, gnomes and fairies, lovers and philosophers, historical figures and sparkle ponies, fireflies, butterflies & all the creatures of the sea!

Pancake Playhouse

Pancakes and soft rock: two great tastes that taste great together

Pandora's Lounge & Fix-It Shoppe

Let’s face it: stuff breaks at Burning Man. A lot. When it does, don’t cry or curse the dust, swing by Pandora’s Fix-It Shoppe! We have tools and gear available for you to make repairs to bikes, costumes, fire performance gear, your dreadfully normal, non-mohawked hair along with a bar and lounge to relax and commiserate with your fellow burners over all the things you can’t fix.

Papa Legba

Papa Legba operates a free-use, experimental cellular service supporting texting and short calls on-playa and to the outside world. We also provide a gathering point for people interested in VoIP, telephony, software radio and cellular technology.

Paradise Camp

We want you to join us in Paradise where we will be eating, drinking and being merry! We have games like Cornhole and Horseshoes, music and laughter and even offer a little bit of healing to all who come play in Paradise.

Paradise Motel

Paradise Motel is the most garish of roadside motels; yet the best of the “no-tel” genre, where weary travelers are invited to stop in for a snow cone and enjoy some progressive beats while lounging by the “pool”. This year, our activities director has plenty of new ideas that are guaranteed to make a Vegas weekend seem tame! So, come check-in, so you can check out. Look for the palm trees and flamingoes!

Party Naked Tiki Bar

Serving morning Bloody Mary’s and cold alcohol Tiki Punch for ages 21 and over. Enjoy the sounds of classic rock in a cool, relaxing clothing optional environment. Pull up a stool and enjoy a conversation. You never have to get naked to enjoy but if you do, you may get “leid”. Come party with us & please bring your own cup to be LNT friendly. Also check out our party schedule. Be prepared to show proof of legal age.

People's Art Congress

People’s Art Congress, where the people and the art are one. Home of three interactive art experiences: the EL-UV Collider with Mega Pod Scope, Riding the Wind (a meditation experience), and Portrait Colorization of 4′ x 6′ canvases of historical figures.

PEX Village

Our mission is to inspire and connect a growing, willing and participatory community of passionate, tolerant and motivated individuals by actively creating, supporting and providing engaging experiences. To this end we continually strive to foster an environment that nurtures and grows the family evolved by this culture.

Pickle Joint

Serving fresh, cold, crisp PICKLES to the good folk of Black Rock City for ten years. Chase it with our signature drink, the spicy pickle-tini, invented in our playa bar in 2002. Our formula is simple: get in, get happy… get out.

Pigmalions

The Pigmalions’ Camp serves hot bacon and bloody marys Mon-Thurs from 11am-ish to 1pm-ish. Relaxed atmosphere and good natured griddle masters and bar tenders. Come on by and enjoy some pork with us.

Pillow Punch

Come try the Ambrosia known as PlayaPunch and step in the ring with your fluffy weapon of doom. Pillow Punch is a Pillow Fighting ring where all participants are invited to drink heavily of our specially brewed punch then do battle with pillows in an all out melee. Settle that grudge with pillows! Like Thunderdome only softer!

This year we have added Ye Ol’Factory to our camp a wondrous journey taken through your sense of smell.

PINATA'S REVENGE

The Pinata Strikes Back–and Revenge has never been sweeter! We bring to the Playa the world’s only ‘Living Pinata’; and if you dare to face it — BEWARE — because this Pinata fights back!

Pink Carpet

Pink Carpet celebrates all things pink and pork and sparkly and we invite you to walk through the Pig Gate, join us to spin the Wheel O’ Pork for tasty pork treats, to behold the mobile marvel of the pigcycles, manage your interpersonal space at the Black Rock Olfactory Outlet Stink Station, and to strut your stuff with a wink and saucy toss of the hair on the Pink Carpet during our come-one-come-all fashion show.

Pink Heart

Pink Heart brings to you shade, shelter, fur couches and a water bar in the Pink Lounge & Esplanade Viewing Station. Take a load off & look through our super hi-def portal looking towards the active Playa. Enjoy delicious vegan ice cream if you time your visit right!

Pink Mammoth

Pink Mammoth is a not for profit house music and creative arts collective based in San Francisco. Pink Mammoth is above all a community, one that nurtures, encourages, and supports its participants in being and in learning to express themselves.

Pixelstad

International hub of Art, Music, Performance, Yoga, Absinthe

Plan B Laboratories (a subsidiary of Moonrock Collective)

Welcome to Plan B Laboratories (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Moonrock Arts Collective). Things not working out exactly how you’d planned? We know we weren’t your first choice, but we’ve got your Plan B at our daytime-staffed help desk and resource center.

Planet Stardust

Planet Stardust is an oasis of galactic energies channelled through ambient sound and activating visuals. Group meditations are held from 9pm to midnight each evening to facilitate heart-centred, intentional partying for the Burning Man community.

Platypus & The Band

Black Rock & Roll! Rock out at black rock with Platypus & The Band.
Open mic and jam sessions served up daily at 6pm. Guitars, Drums,
Piano, Banjo, Accordion… We bring the toys, you bring the soul.

Play Practice Poi Camp

We gift sets of practice poi & teach basic moves of spinning poi (no fire.)

Play)A(Skool

Play)A(Skool: Naughty boys and girls, degenerate faculty, kids in the playground of life; adherents to the ethos of Burning Man with a mission to sprinkle the globe with Playa dust. Calling all Lovers, Rock-stars, Scholars, the Opulent and the Mystics: pull up your Big Wheel to Play)A(Skool – check out daily “classes” at the SkoolHouse, chill-out in our art lounge, play games in the yard, get immortalized in Play)A(Skool’s “unique” yearbook, and explore.

PLAYA 54

PLAYA 54 – a happy little groove in the afternoon!! L.A. DJs spin the best of the 80’s, disco, house, and more – Come By and DANCE!!

Playa Bike Transport

“Playa Bike Transport” is both a service and a theme camp. ON-Playa: We run a “Bike Lounge,” with a bar, mist, music, shade, and tools. Mechanics drop in. Friendly, nurturing, and supportive, they will gladly help you fix your bike! Last year, our first, we helped over 1000 people fix their bikes! PRE-Playa, we collectively buy, then transport bicycles to BRC for burners worldwide. POST-Burn we warehouse bikes. Volunteers, mechanics, and new camp members wanted.

Playa Info

At Playa Info you’ll find:
° Oracles who will help answer any questions with their profound wisdom, and help you locate just about anything you need within the vast resources of Black Rock City
° Directory computers to register yourself and your camp location or to look up your friend’s Black Rock City address, leave messages for friends to let them know where you’re camped and even find and post event schedules, ride shares, and other services.
° Found items.

Playa Jazz Cafe

The PJC is returning to the Playa for our 9th year, with nighty interactive explorations into the universe of jazz music and our signature Irish coffee. Bring your instrument and join us in a celebration of live jazz improvisation.

Playa Pail Kids

Where Larry RV and Port-O-Patty hang for the week.

Playa Pete's Plaza

Playa Pete’s Plaza is the home port of the Monaco frigate ship and home to the wonderful and worldly denizens of Playa Pete’s Plaza and crew of the Monaco.

Playa Surfers

Come and join the Playa Surfers for sunrise and sunset surf sessions with our motorized boards. If you have never surfed, thats ok, cause we do give surf lessons! Look for our beachfront lifeguard tower #33 and join us for a tiki party. Our muse this year is a flame breathing tiki, Lono, the Hawaiian god of fertility and music.

PLAYA-DENITY

Wonder lost? Come by Playa-Denity and get your custom ID badge with your playa address and photo; a great personalized proof of Black Rock Citizenship & a reminder year round of your playa Home.

Playacorp

Playacorp offers a community centered haven for artists, musicians, and dancers to gather, chill, create, and share in the company of each other’s awesome. Looking for a spot to perform, play music for a group of movement hungry bodies, teach partner dance, or install some art? Let us know.

Playagon

The PlayaGon is an infinite-dimensional hyper-inclusive object containing futurists, scientists, artists, ‘free-range synergists’, and more. In this object you’ll find minds looking forward, listening inward, and reaching out. Join us for mind expanding memes, rigorous debate, and good margaritas.

Playasophy Camp

Welcome to Playasophy Camp, where we seek to nourish the mind as well as the soul. We have talks on a broad variety of topics, led by experts in the field but made unique by the contributions of the burning man community.

Playatel

Playatel provides free internet and international Calls, We are also home to the Black Rock Kazoo Band, Playa Choir, and the RADIANT VIEW Bar. Come by our 50 ft Dome at noon for playa practice, or go upstairs to radiantview to get a drink and watch the sunset over the playa. Join the Kazoo band and get a free kazoo! Playatel also sponsors the Xray department at the Black Rock Clinic.

PlayaWaste Raiders

An oasis of refuge from the happiness and organization of the surrounding tranquility of the playa. An island of chaos and mayhem festooned with the grisly remains of those that have bored us.

Playfully Yours

Playfully Yours is a play station for beginners, intermediate, and those curious who want to experience and experiment in the lighter side of dungeon (BDSM) play. We provide the equipment, toys, instruction, and supervision for a safe environment to learn and practice with or without a partner.

Plays Well With Others

Come let us wash your dusty paws in lavender water or sip a Big Boy martini whilst you pick out a slinky slip to decorate at Surburban Slippage.

Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island is a haven for wayward girls and boys, encouraging them to drink, gamble, smoke cigars and exhibit lusty behavior while gradually turning into donkeys. Visit the Donkey Bar nightly and enjoy a specialty cocktail and excellent beats.

PleasureFist

Come play with us! We collect interactive games from around the globe, from giant jenga and volleyball for all, to beer-pong to D20 in our Blacklight jungle dome Bar for 21+.
Play some games, teach us new ones, we’ll scrall em on the Wall. We have our Party Schedule posted out front…check it…oh and don’t forget to get pleasurefisted.

PO9 Village

Not just an average BRC Post Office, an International Post Office Village!
Featuring Ritual Delivery Services: rituals delivered & performed anywhere
on the playa, Eurotache: serving their usual glitterati hullabaloo of
creative bartending and spectacular eye decor, face painting and body art,
and, of course, your beloved nine o’clock Post Office with lots of good ol’
bureaucracy, Web>BRC Playagrams, on- and off-playa mail & Playa-O-Grams.
Come play, hang out, volunteer or just wait in line. “Next!”

Polegasm

Poly Asylum

The clanking of chains, and the screams of the tormented! It’s the Asylum! Poly Asylum, that is. We are both a refuge from the wilds of monogamy, and a place to be locked up for your own safety while you work out your nonmonogamy drama. We welcome all burners – virgin, veterans, monogamous, open, swingers, and polyamorous alike. Come be seen by experienced Poly Doctors, attend our workshops and parties, or try on a straitjacket!

PolyParadise

PolyParadise has been influencing the Hearts & Minds and Washing the Bodies of Playa Citizens from ‘2:00 – 10:00’ for the past 13 years.

We are a group of Polyamorists seeking to live our dreams, and this camp is one manifestation of that. Polyamory involves openness to multiple loving relationships, with honesty among all partners.

Join us in a variety of events – Come in from the sun….take a load off your feet…

Pony Express

Send you inter playa post in style with our lovely teams of pony girls and boys to your friends.

Poppycock!

Show up and help us fight gravity.

Porn and Donuts

Porn and Donuts – Get your daily dose of porn, while enjoying fresh donuts on the Playa!

Porn Karaoke Camp

Porn Karaoke Camp needs your voice! We’ll hand you and your friend/partner a mic, you provide the conversation/fucking sounds/play-by-play for our endless collection of porn clips.

Porta-Potty Pigs

The Porta-Potty Pigs are back again to offer their Comfort Station and so much more! Come visit 4:00 and D for unlimited clean TP, wipes, lotions, morning coffee, shade and lots of fun!

Post Nuclear Family

This is the reunion site for the post nuclear family. Mutants are welcome.

Pre-Emptive Nostalgia

Looking forward to remembering what hasn’t happened yet? Come to us to be partake in a to-be-missed connection…and find out what it is to look forward to something that you will intentionally not follow up on.

Primate Playground

Come and get some Monkey Lovin’ at the Primate Playground. Join in our Gorilla Samba dance event, Hula Hoop swinging, Self-Love educational workshops and more entertaining events. Chill on our shady luscious astro-grass.

Prismaticamp

A community of LED light artists. Join us each night at dusk for prismatic reception, followed by mobile community light show on the night Playa.

Pro Leisure Tour

Come to Pro Leisure Tour for comfort, respite, and burner fun. Let us professionals give you an oasis in the playa, a place to recharge for esplanade escapades, and some good ‘ol southern hospitality.

Project Green House

Prometheatrics

Bringing the Gift of Fire to Humankind since the Dawn of Time! Come experience the fully immersive Tesseract Mirror Box (Lasers, Blinkies and Pool Toys, oh my!), delight in the transformative power of the Rebirthing Tube, enjoy edifying Flow Temple workshops during the day and join us for nightly fire shows as we liberate the Spirit of Flame!

Proverbial Palace

Don’t judge a burner by his clothes: so come one come all to share your wisdom with the nation where proverbs of all shapes and sizes are merely the backdrop to daily tea offerings and random performances. And remember, the early burner gets the wish from the Flaming Wishing Well once the darkness creeps in.

Psycho Blubble Camp

Psychedelic Bubbles (bubble making mixed with psychedelic lighting). The perfect thing for late night wanderings!

Purple Palace Camp

You’ve found the theme camp of the Purple Palace art car and the Purple Parasites! We leave here at apprx. 8:30pm every evening (xcept thurs), if you want to guarantee your spot on the Palace this is the place to be! If you want to take a art tour on the Palace sign up at the Artery 1 day in advance.

Putt-Putt Playa

Black Rock City’s favorite mini-glof. Hit the links and play-a round!