Burning Man Festival - September 8, 2025
JRS: ✨ Tell Us About Your Burn
The Jackrabbit Speaks by Burning Man Project | V30:#1 ...
| No images? Click here  Volume 30, Issue #1 | September 8, 2025   Wherever you are — whether or not you were in Black Rock City this year, YOU are Burning Man. Thank you for all the ways you illuminate the world with your innovative spirit, purposeful work, and imagination. Imagine a time lapse that begins with a vast lakebed, as empty and sparse as a distant planet. One by one, builders and creators arrive and curious structures emerge. Lights glimmer and vehicles begin to creep across the expanse. With every sunrise and sunset, activity grows orchestrally until the city reaches its crescendo, a wild cacophony of sound and light, frenetic human activity and joy. Gradually then begins a long, slow unwinding as the city disassembles and fades, piece by piece until once again, silence. Eight days. Some claim to live a year in just those eight days. If you're back from the dust, be sure to rest and hydrate. Share your stories with loved ones. Decompress gently. Take a pause from de-dusting your precious things to fill out two important surveys. First up, tell us how it was for you in the BRC 2025 Post-event Survey. Then tell us about yourself in the Black Rock City Census. Did you lose something in BRC? The good folks at Lost & Found are gathering and cataloguing your stuff. No, they don’t have your bike. Or your mind. Or that sparkle pony you flirted with after Carl Cox. Get all the useful links below. Why decompress alone when you can do it with friends? Decompressions are kicking off everywhere, all at once — in Arizona, Denver, Toronto, Zurich… and in homes and backyards everywhere! If you’re in the Bay Area, get thee to San Francisco Decompression 2025 in Oakland on October 18. Bring your theme camp, workshop, fire performance, mutant vehicle and your capable self. Tickets, volunteer and participation forms are in this very newsletter! What’s your go-to decompression snack?   If You Were in BRC Tell Us How It Went… and Who You Are!  If you're fresh back from the dust, curious minds want to know: how was it? Here are TWO important surveys that require your thoughtful attention. First up, please take 10 to 15 fun-filled minutes to share your experience in the BRC 2025 Post-event Survey. We read every response and share what we learn with the teams that help make Black Rock City and Burning Man happen. Fill out the BRC 2025 Post-event Survey Next, tell us about yourself — who you are, where you’re from, how you travel to BRC, and other important details — by filling out the Black Rock City Census. For more than 20 years, volunteer demographers and data scientists have gathered these data annually to craft an understanding of the humans who create Black Rock City. Fill out the 2025 Black Rock City Census (Photo by Hans Haefele)  Lost Something in Black Rock City? Search Lost & Found.  Something missing? Black Rock City's intrepid Lost & Found team is currently dealing with a veritable truckload of phones, backpacks, and other lost items. The process of transporting and organizing items and updating the database will take the better part of a week. If you do not see your item today, do not submit a claim. Instead, come back to search the database regularly, and check ePlaya. For those who do find their item and submit a claim, be patient; you can expect a response the week of September 15. Please wait for Lost & Found staff to contact you to say that your item is ready for pickup or shipment. Lost & Found does not have your bike or ebike. (Photo by Kate Beale)  Pershing County Sheriff’s Office Investigation of Deceased Participant  Please read Burning Man Project's updated statement on the death of a participant during Saturday night of the event. Burning Man Project is doing everything we can to assist the Sheriff’s investigation so the perpetrator can be caught and brought to justice. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office continues to request any and all information that may assist in their investigation. If you know something, or you were in the vicinity of 8:30 & I on Burn Night, please call 775-273-2641 and reference case # 25-318. We extend our deepest condolences to Vadim Kruglov’s loved ones. Family and friends have launched a fundraiser to support Vadim’s family with costs associated with returning him to Russia.   I was wrong about Burning Man  Timothy Karoff writes in SFGATE: I’ve spent the last week at Burning Man, surrounded by aging hippies, rich Europeans, fire twirlers and engineers gone wild. My skin is buried under a seven-layer dip of dust, sweat, sunscreen and spilled beer. My ears are still ringing slightly from the nightly barrage of electronic music. On a given day here, I’ve seen a lifetime’s worth of bare cheeks. I am desperate to go home. But somehow, I’m happy. Read "I Was Wrong about Burning Man" Art: “Polychroma” by In Theory Art Collective, 2024 (Photo by Jane Hu)  What the Art World Can Learn from Burning Man  Elisa Carollo writes in Observer: Burning Man liberates creativity precisely because it is untethered from sales, built instead on radical decommodification and a gift economy. Monumental sculptures, interactive environments, spiritual and artistic workshops, rolling art cars and world-class DJs thrive outside the logic of demand. What emerges is grassroots creativity—born in communities, crowdfunded, co-built and freely given. Read "What the Art World Can Learn From Burning Man" Art: "The World Fair of Unity" Man Pavilion by Mark Rivera (Photo by Elisa Carollo)   @burningman on Instagram  Turn on the sound and immerse yourself in this dreamy video of the Man atop its pavilion during Build Week. "The World's Fair of Unity" Man Pavilion by Mark Rivera (Drone video by Reza Tabesh)   Be the Spark for More Burning Man!  Burning Man and Black Rock City are a communal effort, made possible thanks to the dedicated support of people like YOU. When you donate to Burning Man Project, the nonprofit in service to the global Burning Man cultural movement, you support our year-round work producing Black Rock City and nurturing participatory creativity and innovation around the world. Thank you for being the spark that inspires millions to lead more connected, creative lives in Black Rock City and beyond. Art: "Un Nuevo Camino" by Mark Rivera (Photo by Mattias Löw)   San Francisco Decompression 2025 — October 18 — Oakland, California  Where: The Loom, Oakland, California Burning Man Project’s San Francisco Decompression 2025 is coming to the East Bay! Join us Saturday, October 18 at The Loom in Oakland for a day-to-night celebration of radical creativity, community, big art, Oakland culture, and post-playa magic. Decompression is one of the most beloved regional gatherings of the year. This isn’t just a party — it’s an open invitation to bring the spirit of Black Rock City to the default world. This is YOUR call — builders, performers, fire wranglers, workshop leaders, theme camps, mutant vehicle maestros, and culture makers — to co-create this event.
  We were listening to... Muloka's playlist of Black Rock City 2025 DJ sets | Listen on Soundcloud   Burning Man Project on Facebook   Post Request: Credits: More Information: Previous Editions of the Jackrabbit Speaks: Subscribe & Unsubscribe:    You are receiving this because of your interest in and support of Burning Man Project. Burning Man Project • 660 Alabama St. San Francisco, CA 94110 • 415-865-3800 |
