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2024 Theme Camps
Vagabonds & Tagalongs
A camp for wanderers and wanderlust! Vags and Tags brings together an ever-expanding nationwide community of burners to co-create a space where everyone can feel at home. Come by and see for yourself why we’ve won the official BRC award for best friends on playa since 2012!
URL: https://www.vagabondsandtagalongs.com Contact: vagabondsandtagalongs@gmail.com Hometown: SacramentoValhalla on the Playa
Friendliest Viking Bar you’ll ever find! We offer a shady lounge, full bar, with silly and not-so-silly interactivity while you sip on a delicious cold drink. Come by for one of our specialty drink happy hours, featuring drinks such as fresh watermelon daiquiris, solar Margaritas, and Mead!
Our music always meets the vibe and raises it up a notch! Come celebrate Black Rock City with us!
Vamp Camp
Burning since 94, one of the oldest camps on playa. We are mostly battle born burners whom take pride in Nevada. Enjoy playa lore whilst embibbing our signature Vamp Juice or a cup of joe. We have DJ’s as well. Stop by, we do bite!
URL: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VampCamp Contact: valentinviegener@yahoo.com Hometown: Northern NevadaVault 21+
Vault 21+ welcomes you to come on down to your local 23 hour a day dive bar. Yes, 23 hours. If your in our bar at sunrise we kick you out to go watch the beauty of the playa. We will be hosting a myriad of events throughout the week to include Karaoke, Themed parties and food give aways. Stop by and have a drink and hangout. We’d love to see you all.
Contact: vault21plus@gmail.com Hometown: San FranciscoVenice Red Light
Inspired by the free-spirited heritage of our adopted home of Venice Beach, CA. We are a conglomerate of artists getting weird and supporting each other as we put our dreams into action.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/veniceredlight?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Contact: kristian@californiamusic.com Hometown: Venice BeachVertical Camp
A vertical celebration of intentional community and how a disparate collection of people from around the world, each bringing their skills and experience to create an exponentially more rewarding experience for each other, and a welcome home to those who happen upon us. We provide new perspective on our collective experience within Black Rock City and tools to bring that experience back into the default world.
Contact: hello@coven.art Hometown: San FranciscoVibe Check
Vibe Check is an oasis on the playa, here to welcome you in with a cold drink and a shady place to take a load off, or maybe a midnight rager, we’re flexible. Pull up for a drink at our swing bar or relax in a hammock while meeting new friends and enjoying some bass.
Happy hour is Wednesday @ 7 with Pain & Pleasure trivia; or If thinking isn’t your forte, pop by Monday for Beautify Your Bod – all you need is skin! Thursday will be fire with stargazing & miso soup.
Our group of misfits await you.
Videogasm
Black Rock City’s Playa Theater since 1998! Nightly video screenings on our 20′ screen. Get your morning coffee at our Slurping Sloth Cafe. Body painting every afternoon in our shade structure. Play with our curious oversized games. Check out our Sleepy Pickle Bar for one of our daily themed “Drink Me!” happy hour specials. You Pick it Double Feature chosen by the citizens of BRC (Come by and cast your vote.) Play with our giant hanging caterpillar or take your picture in front of our huge inflatable rodent, Rizzo! Compete in one of our live Game/Talent Shows or walk our red carpet and talk to fellow filmmakers and content creators. Home of The Black Rock City Film Festival. Live Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday night! Contact us to show your original film on our twenty foot screen.
URL: http://www.videogasm.com Contact: videogasm@gmail.com Hometown: DetroitVines Without Borders
A chill international wine bar and lounge open 3- Midnight daily, gifting great chilled wines and snacks from around the world, served by people from around the world. We celebrate a different wine producing region daily. Great music, fun people, curated tastings and something new every day.
URL: http://www.vineswithoutborders.com Contact: vineswithoutborders.bm@gmail.com Hometown: DallasVitruvian Lounge
Turn your world upside down at Vitruvian Lounge. Enjoy good gyrations by taking a spin on our Human Sized Gyroscope, and stay to enjoy good vibrations in our lounge with great music, ice cold craft cocktails, and hot tea service. Explore the edges of your mind and body with regularly scheduled sound baths, meditations, and workshops hosted by our campers. Discover rope bondage in our consent tent. Head into the K-Box for Korean-style private room karaoke to sing the night away together from 9pm to sunrise.
URL: https://www.instagram.com/camp_vitruvian/ Contact: brandonbarr@gmail.com Hometown: Los AngelesVolunteer Village
We are a department camp for the Volunteer Resource Team
We have a Bar that is open to the public a few days a week.
Vomiting Sparrows
We are the Vomiting Sparrows! We serve the best Bloody Mary on the playa. We entertain, we make friends, we make fun, we welcome all. Keep an eye and ear open for our special events. Chirp Chirp Blarf!
Hometown: PortlandVW Bus Camp
Driving out to Curiouser & Curiouser in an old VW Bus or other unique camper? Make sure to change out your leaky fuel lines, check your tires, carry a fire extinguisher and pack lots and lots of spare parts. So, you are welcome to camp with us, a fine Burning Man theme camp which has been placed on the Playa since 1998. Join us and learn about life in Black Rock City and participate in Camp’s many interactive projects. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to bring out your own project and teach us something new. Welcome home and see you soon, in the dust!
URL: http://vwbuscamp.com Contact: campinfo@vwbuscamp.com Hometown: Tucson