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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 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.
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 six-day event in the Black Rock Desert ends with the torching of a 40-foot effigy of “the man” before Labor Day. This year the festival was delayed due to flooding caused by Hurricane Hilary.
Burning Man organizers have three weeks to clean up any remnants of the makeshift city plopped across over 4 square miles (10 square kilometers) of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada ...
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)
Burning Man revellers began leaving Black Rock City in Nevada on Monday following muddy conditions and heavy rainfall Burning Man 2023 news: Attendees make mass exodus after heavy rain and ...