Last summer my dear friend Mafalda and her boyfriend went with a bunch of friends to the Burning Man in Nevada. After seeing the pictures you can imagine that this is something once in a lifetime and I am thinking seriously about going this year.
All the images are cortesy of Bradley Cahill Facebook
Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening. The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.
Our mission is to produce the annual event known as "Burning Man" and to
guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by its
culture. Our intention is to generate society that connects each
individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community,
to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of
nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of
Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. To this
end, it is equally important that we communicate with one another, with
the citizens of Black Rock City and with the community of Burning Man
wherever it may arise. Burning Man is radically inclusive, and its
meaning is potentially accessible to anyone. The touchstone of value in
our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral
relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before
jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest,
participant support before sponsorship. Finally, in order to accomplish
these ends, Burning Man must endure as a self-supporting enterprise that
is capable of sustaining the lives of those who dedicate themselves to
its work. From this devotion spring those duties that we owe to one
another. We will always burn the Man.
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