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Burning Man is a week-long large-scale desert event focused on "community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance" held annually in the western United States. [1] [2] The event's name comes from its culminating ceremony: the symbolic burning of a large wooden effigy, referred to as the Man, that occurs on the penultimate night, the Saturday evening before Labor Day. [3]
Burning Man is a week-long gathering of art, community, self-expression, and self-reliance held in the Black Rock Desert in Pershing County, Nevada.The festival lies on Lake Lahontan, a large lake that desiccated due to Pleistocene climate change, leaving a dry lake, or playa, in the northwestern Nevada region. [1]
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic ...
By 1990, authorities shut down the beach burn, prompting Harvey to move the event to Nevada’s remote Black Rock Desert. It was there that it evolved into a massive gathering guided by 10 ...
When Black Rock City — the temporary Nevada metropolis where Burning Man has been held every year since 1991 — got hit with an unprecedented storm during the weeklong event last year, many of ...
A person walks in the mud after heavy rain, during the Burning Man event, at the temporary desert settlement of Black Rock City, Nevada, U.S., September 1, 2023 (EVI AIRY VIA REUTERS) Weather ...
The Burning Man Project is the organization that annually plans, manages, and builds Burning Man on the dry lake of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. The company coordinates the year-round, behind-the-scenes work needed to build and remove a temporary city of 80,000 people. [1]
Burning Man was started in 1986 by Larry Harvey and ... Every year during the last week of August more than 60,000 people from across the globe flock to Nevada's hot, dusty, Black Rock Desert, ...