The Burning Man Festival: 2008

Tens of thousands of people gather every year on the playa of the Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City, a city that lives for only one week per year, then disappears, leaving no trace. The builders of the temporary metropolis of Black Rock City are about community participation, art, radical self-expression, radical self-reliance and radically all-inclusive.

The Burning Man Project began with the act of burning an 8' effigy of a man on a beach in San Francisco in 1986. It was a simple act of self-expression, and it immediately attracted a community around it. Since that first thrust of "radical" self-expression, the Burning Man Project has grown to an event that drew more than 48,000 people to the playa of Black Rock Desert in 2008.

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