Burning Man Festival - July 27, 2025
JRS: Tickets + Art + Survival Guide
The Jackrabbit Speaks by Burning Man Project | V29:#22 ...
| No images? Click here  Volume 29, Issue #22 | July 27, 2025   A cacophonous dust storm is on the horizon, composed of boots on the ground, bright lights, big sounds and wild imaginings. Do you feel it? Call your friends! Gather your dusty gear! Try on your looks and get freaky! It's nearly time to go to Burning Man. Got your ticket? Registration for the OMG Sale is open now. You have until 12pm PT on July 29 to register for the sale, which opens on July 30 at 12pm PT. A limited number of $550 and $650 tickets will be available. This is your last chance to buy Black Rock City 2025 tickets directly online. If you happen to be in the Bay Area, drop by the Beyond the Fence Sale on August 3 to buy tickets in person. Details below. Here comes the art! Interactive, thoughtful, playful, experimental and weird... so many works of art are nearing completion in studios, garages and backyards everywhere. Read on to meet some artists who could use a hand during this final stretch, and learn how you can help. If you are preparing for dusty adventures, be sure to read the 2025 Survival Guide. Also in this edition, tune into conversations about AI art and Burning Man on the podcast. It's your last call to mail a letter for Temple of the Deep. And the Black Rock City Census team wants YOU. Be sure to join the Burners Without Border Worldwide Call on August 6 to hear from the humans behind CHIditarod and other inspiring projects. It's all below. Get in. We're going on a juggernaut of fun.   The Playa is Calling: Registration for the OMG Ticket Sale Closes July 29  If going to Black Rock City is on your dance card, do your future self a favor and register for the OMG Sale before it closes in just two days. This will be your last opportunity to buy Black Rock City 2025 tickets online from Burning Man Project. Your next opportunity will be in person at the Box Office in Black Rock City, while supplies last. ✏️ Registration for the OMG Sale is open now; it will close July 29 🎟️ The ticket sale begins on July 30 at 12pm PT Thanks to generous humans who bought higher-priced tickets in earlier sales, a limited number of $550 and $650 tickets will be available in the OMG Sale. Remember: when you buy a ticket above $750, your gift ripples out into more art, more inclusion, more magic. How to participate in the OMG Sale:
Art: "Radial Sonic Runway" by The Runway Crew, 2024 (Photo by Ales Prikryl)  Help Artists Bring their Mind-blowing Projects to Black Rock City  At Burning Man, everyone helps create the art that illuminates the vast playa. Artists, art crews and their extended communities devote days, weeks and months planning and constructing their work. Alongside comes the Communal Effort of this endlessly resourceful community. Some art projects need financial support; others are looking for help with their build, logistics, administration, and more. Whether or not you're headed to Black Rock City in a few weeks, there are hundreds of opportunities to help make mind-blowing art happen. Here are a few pieces in need of your financial support:
See all projects seeking funding Art: "Dream Slide" by William Nemitoff, 2024 (Photo by Duncan Rawlinson)  Headed to the Dust? Be Sure to Read the Entire 2025 Survival Guide!  Pause during your busy packing, wrangling and spreadsheeting to sit down and read the 2025 Black Rock City Survival Guide in its entirety. Yes, you too, crusty wizened Burner. The Survival Guide is chock-a-block with important and useful information — everything from what to bring and how to get there, to essential tips for having a smooth and calamity-free Burn.   Listen to "AI in Art in Black Rock City" on Burning Man LIVE  AI can be a context changer, a shaker upper, and a force multiplier to what our human minds can do. Plug your ears into this new Burning Man LIVE podcast episode to meet artists and academics who are infusing AI into the art they're bringing to Black Rock City. They converse about their dreams, nightmares, and thoughts on going beyond. Listen to "AI in Art in Black Rock City" Art: "Out the Other" by Kate Greenberg, 2025  Help Build the Future of Burning Man  Black Rock City isn’t just built in the desert — it’s built by all of us, everywhere. Your gift to Burning Man Project fuels the art, community, and culture that inspire radical creativity and connection, on playa and around the world. From solar-powered infrastructure to inclusive ticketing programs to year-round cultural initiatives, your support makes it all possible. Art: "The Other" Man Pavilion by Jen Lewin, 2024 (Photo by Rand Larson)  Love Data? Join the Black Rock City Census Team  BRC Census is a collaborative research project with the goal of learning more about the participants who make up Black Rock City. They're looking for awesome humans like YOU to gather data from participants at Gate and the Airport, to interact with visitors to the Census lab, enter data, and more. To get involved with one of the friendliest and nerdiest teams on playa, fill out the Volunteer Questionnaire in your Burner Profile and select Census. Data Beast mutant vehicle (Photo by Jane Hu)  Burners Without Borders Worldwide Call — Online — August 6  Where: Online, RSVP Join the Burners Without Borders Worldwide Call to learn from inspiring projects and explore what happens when communities respond — not just with solutions, but with creativity. You'll hear from:
Whether you’re working on your own community project, dreaming one up, or just feeling curious about how creative responses shape the world — they'd love to have you there.  Mail Your Offering in a Letter to the 2025 Temple — Deadline Approaching  Temple Guardians are inviting one and all — whether or not you plan to be on playa this year — to mail letter offerings for Temple of the Deep. They will lovingly receive and safely carry these letters, placing them in the Temple with care and intention. Mail your letter to: Project Temple Guardians Letters must be received by August 1, 2025, and be standard envelope size. Art: "Temple of the Deep" by Miguel Arraiz, 2025 (Render by Arqueha)   Beyond the Fence Trunk Show — August 3 — San Francisco  Where: The Midway, San Francisco Costumes are art and a quintessential way to Radically Self-express, on playa and everywhere. If you're in the Bay Area, drop by the 17th annual Beyond the Fence Trunk Sale to support independent Burner designers sparking next-level looks. It's not just a sale, it's a party... drop by to prep for the dust, or just to mingle. Once again this year, you'll be able to walk up and buy Black Rock City 2025 tickets in person at this pop-up sale. Each person will be able to buy 2 tickets and 1 vehicle pass. Look for the Burning Man table!  We were listening to... Black Velveteen Sunrise Set on the Axolotl @ BRC 2024 | 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 |
