Meet those who make Burning Man happen, beyond the desert and out in the world. Artists, activists, and innovators. Builders and Burners, freaks and fools. Burning Man floats on a sea of stories, and the Burning Man LIVE podcast is a plucky little boat with a microphone.
Sotheby’s is exhibiting and auctioning the work of 180 artists from around the world inspired by Burning Man culture. More than a third are women, and more than a third are people of color. Sculpture…
Larry Harvey wrote the 10 Principles 18 years ago, after the Man had been burning for just as many years.
The 10 Principles weigh in at only 412 words total, and yet the interpretations and translati…
Guest host Rosie von Lila takes us on a journey through the form and formation of the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we teach, the stories we collectively assume are true. She explores the na…
You and I, we have living laboratories for embracing new ways to do the Earthling thing. They are Black Rock City, Fly Ranch, and 90-something regional events around the world. The Burning Man commun…
The end of the world? we have been practicing for decades. As more people look down the barrel of climate change, we have something to say (and do) about it.
What must change for it to be better for …
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll believe in love.
Stuart and Andie take a wild ride with author and philosopher Caveat Magister.
They discuss how to transform daily life with psychomagical experiences…
Life happens. Art happens with life. The arts are a big impact area of Burning Man culture.
Burning Man Project funds artists each year through our Global Arts Grants and BRC Honoraria. The pandemic …
Black Rock City. We sometimes call it an unnatural disaster zone. We cooperate, survive and thrive in one of the harshest environments. Each year we iterate new ways, and we do it all because we want…
It’s true. Really. The United States has an Institute of Peace. It’s also true that they partnered with Burning Man Project to create a new podcast called Culturally Attuned, about how we can all wor…
Andie talks with artists Fab 5 Freddy and Rachel McCrafty about diversity in and around the Burning Man world. Rachel is the executive director of ACE Makerspace in Oakland and Freddy is a hip-hop pi…
Operating far outside the lines of what he calls the “humanitarian-industrial complex,” freelance culture hacker and FreeSpace founder Mike Zuckerman goes into refugee settlements around the world, a…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (And boy has it been a year!)
Following in the footsteps of show-biz luminaries like Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, and the cast of Star Wars, we hosted a HOLI…
Does Burning Man really trigger transformative experiences, and if so, what does that look like? Stuart and behavioral scientist Kristen Berman go deep on the psychology of change, and what that look…
Fly Ranch is in the middle of nowhere, and yet it's the center of the universe for many bugs, birds, animals, and, uh, thermophiles.
Down the road from the dry lake bed that hosts Black Rock City, Fl…
The Burning Man figure started it all and has stood at the center of Black Rock City for decades. Many myths and legends of its origins have been passed down through the years. It can be difficult to…
Culinary excellence in a temporary city in the dry desert? Oh yes, and some decadent offerings too. Andie and Vav rebroadcast a delicious episode about culinary camps at Black Rock City from the podc…
What is it like to walk around Black Rock City as a staff member and an academic in participant-observer mode? These tales are of BRC at the turn of the century, and the study of ineffable experience…
The U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout. The thought that your vote doesn’t matter, or that there’s no good choice - some say that thought is manufactured or perpetuated to prevent …
If you found a “hippie-proof” story-cube at a festival or in a war-zone, would you share your story with it?
Stuart and Andie talk with Finnish scholar Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, about the Burning Stories …
Yomi is an impassioned and jovial part of the small team doing big things in the nonprofit arts organization “We Are From Dust.” The all-Burner team is dedicated to proliferating interactive, partici…