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Dating back to 1986, this year’s Burning Man starts on Sunday, August 27, and continues through Monday, September 4. Its theme is “Animalia.” The art and fire of Burning Man, in pictures
I went to Burning Man for the first time in 2023 — and many people are wrong about the event. Many people think Burning Man is a big music festival only attended by celebrities and CEOs.
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]
Sept. 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit. (Julie Jammot/AFP via Getty Images) (JULIE JAMMOT via Getty Images)
Between 1982 and 1983, a group of eight police officers, firefighters and regular civilians set between 163 and 260 fires in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and nine surrounding towns and cities to protest Proposition 2½, hoping to revert the budget cuts that led to hundreds of police officers and firefighters being laid off.
Following the first all-night Wicked party, we were asked to move our camp far away so people could sleep—a notion that seem ridiculous today. In 1995, less than 4000 people attended Burning Man, and the event was situated in the very center of center of Black Rock Desert, unlike today where it sits in the corner of the playa (desert).
The name Burning Man comes from the giant wooden structure, among many other large sculptures that pepper the barren landscape, and disappears into a roaring fire that marks the end of the festival.
From a three-day, 80-person "zone trip," Burning Man became an eight-day counter culture event with 70,000 participants from all over the world. In 1997, six of the main organizers formed Black Rock City LLC to manage the event, with Harvey as the executive director, a position he held until his death.