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Homeless Friend posted:

Car Hater posted:

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my camp’s schedule



can’t make it this year for the other city I help run

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theflyingexecutive posted:

nah, bwb does a ton of direct action aid for the most vulnerable groups, but at the burn they also have to attract some of the money flying around

Vox Nihili posted:

Day 1 - The Global Community
Day 2 - Creating Impact
Day 3 - Sustainability

Welcome to Davos

Lacrosse posted:

Wow, I'm notorious? I didn't know I was that popular.

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Everything you would find in Black Rock City is gifted, free of charge, by one or more attendees.

Marian Goodell, a founding board member and CEO of Burning Man Project, tells The Guardian that the “radical self-reliance” of everyone at Burning Man looking out for each other is the spirit that drives the event.2

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How Do Our Prices Compare?
While Black Rock City is indeed an experience unlike any other, we’ve compared our ticket prices to a few other events for the sake of perspective.

Event Prices:

Bonnaroo (4 days): Between $190 and $925 + $60 car camping pass + fees
Coachella (3 days): Between $429 and $999 + $102 camping pass + fees
SXSW (10 days): Between $540 and $1,600 + fees
Electric Daisy Carnival (3 days): Between $319 to $779 + $1,099 camping pass (for up to 4 people) + fees
Glastonbury (5 days): ~$345 + $58 car parking + fees
Envision (7 days): Between $419 and $799 + $350 ready-set-camp + fees
Burning Man (8 days): $575 + $140 vehicle pass + fees
It should also be noted that we offer ~5,000 low-income tickets (at $225 each) for those able to show proof of financial hardship, in order to provide access to the event to those without the financial resources to purchase a ticket at full price. For those who can afford to contribute financially, we sell a small pool of tickets for as much as $1,400 to help offset the cost of the low income program. We also gift thousands of tickets to volunteers who build the city and make the event possible.

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Where Does My Ticket Money Go?
You’re paying $575 for a ticket to Black Rock City and may be going in with a friend on a vehicle pass for $140. That’s more than $700 before you even get gas in your car or buy plane tickets, which we know can put folks in a financial pinch. Participants go to great lengths to participate in Burning Man, and we’d like to let you know where your ticket money goes. Our hope is to give a little insight as to why tickets cost what they do.

Where Does the Money Come From?
Importantly, nearly all of the revenue used to build and operate Black Rock City comes from tickets purchased by participants. This differs from almost any other large scale event that depend on various forms of revenue. Burning Man opts out of:

Vending: Vending is when merchants are allowed to set up booths selling t-shirts, swag, food, drinks and other products to participants during an event. Vendors pay event organizers for the privilege of being there. Gifting is essential to the Burning Man experience and we would never compromise on this, but it’s important to note that unlike other large-scale events, we do not offset event production costs by allowing vendors.
Corporate Sponsors: When you’re at an event and you see a corporate name or logo, that company has paid event organizers big bucks for that visibility. The sponsors of Nike Pavilion and Verizon Stage see them as marketing opportunities and those funds come out of their advertising budgets. Our principle of Decommodification ensures our landscape is not cluttered with corporate plugs (and we encourage you to cover logos on anything you bring with you!). But that also means we do not accept the significant revenue that many festivals earn through those corporate sponsorships.
RVs and Camping: Some festivals charge extra for placement in certain areas or to bring something other than a tent such as moving vans, trailers, or an RV. Burning Man doesn’t charge differently based on where people stay or what they choose to bring.
To be fair, we also don’t do any promotional marketing of the event and we don’t pay performers or entertainers, which are significant costs incurred by other events. Even with that cost savings, unlike other events, Black Rock City is a fully functioning temporary metropolis that exists for over a week and is built in the middle of a remote desert (the cost of which increases yearly).

Where Does the Money Go?
The Black Rock Desert is public land, but we don’t get to use it for free. We work with the Bureau of Land Management and other government agencies that permit the event, and we reimburse them for each and every expense they incur as a result of their work with us. It also takes a lot of equipment and hours of labor to put things together out there. Each year we see increases in the costs of our permits, logistics, and operations.

Our costs are also increasing because we’re making serious investments in expanding our impact around the globe. Burning Man is no longer confined to the Black Rock Desert; Black Rock City is a springboard for bringing radical and creative ideas to the world. In 2014 Burning Man became a nonprofit organization with a mission to make Burning Man experiences and values accessible to more people, in more places, more of the time.

We are bringing the inspiration, creativity, inclusion, and yes, some of the funds, from Black Rock City out into a world that, especially in these turbulent times, could really use it. If you want to know more about Burning Man Project’s finances, you can view our IRS Form 990. You can also learn about our nonprofit programs in Black Rock City and beyond in our most recent Annual Report.

Al! posted:

people used to just show up to burning man. do they shoot you if they find out you snuck in

Al! posted:

i guess a different terry gross but lol at this page

https://burningman.org/about/about-us/people/board-of-directors/

Homeless Friend posted:

Farhad is an entrepreneur, currently working on The Good Party, a nonprofit, open source mobile app and platform with a plan to disrupt the corruption of both major U.S. political parties with a good alternative that isn’t beholden to money and doesn’t waste a single vote.

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's not means tested and you don't have to prove hardship or income, you just apply early and indicate you'd like to receive discounted tix. tix also get allocated to trusted groups to distribute to people who miss the deadline or otherwise don't have access to apply. anecdotally, there's low level of fraud because most people here are trustworthy and they also inspect your car at the gate to see if you're using a low income ticket but bringing a $1600 tent and an ebike and poo poo like that

prices are high because of the large amount of infrastructure needed (toilets, etc) and because of the millions of dollars charged by the blm for the yearly permit

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It should also be noted that we offer ~5,000 low-income tickets (at $225 each) for those able to show proof of financial hardship, in order to provide access to the event to those without the financial resources to purchase a ticket at full price. For those who can afford to contribute financially, we sell a small pool of tickets for as much as $1,400 to help offset the cost of the low income program. We also gift thousands of tickets to volunteers who build the city and make the event possible.

Shageletic posted:

https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/1697999007182676336

Uh so how you doing out there

Lacrosse posted:

I'm having a good time hanging out with my camp. Everything is fine with us, but there was someone in a neighboring camp who got electrocuted and died trying to operate a generator sitting in a puddle.

Ringo Roadagain posted:

https://twitter.com/trueanonpod/status/1698080093657030972?s=46&t=YjAdrC5z2HpTKJK1s-6pYw

KirbyKhan posted:

Same, but almost not really. Dunno if I could keep listening to a liz-only trueanon

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1698087731904073799?t=CDlp4IShorse3zeUZG9CAA&s=19

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1698080995830808932?t=PpaU88cbu8ichFTAB82Ybg&s=19

https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1698094728539947290?t=Sy98v3GBKpuB6-xErPqSIQ&s=19

Vox Nihili posted:

Picking through the ruins and skeletons and enjoying cool environmental storytelling they left behind

speng31b posted:

epic permad guy ftw?

Ohtori Akio posted:

theyve definitely been making GBS threads in the water for like 24+ hours right

pandy fackler posted:

feel like everything would be going fine if a goon hadnt made a thread about their awesome trip to burning man

vyelkin posted:

imagine being responsible for disaster relief and you're trying to allocate resources to help the people whose houses burned down in Hawaii and got destroyed by hurricanes in Florida, and then you get told wait hold on the top priority is to stop some rich people who voluntarily stranded themselves in the desert from making GBS threads themselves to death

Vox Nihili posted:

Its a joke

Lacrosse posted:

The weather is drying out Monday, I don't really see any military intervention needed. The portos on my side of the city even got serviced today so the city isn't overflowing with sewage or anything. My camp planned to strike Sunday so we just had our plans pushed forward a day. We are all overly prepared and provisioned with food and water so it hasn't been much more than a mild annoyance for the people near me at least.

I did see a reddit post of some billionaire trying to get helicoptered out. Don't think he'll have any luck with that as the airport is closed.