Alien Monkey Love Nest in Area 47, Esplanade and 8:00
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The Alien Monkey Love Nest is back on the playa, suited in orange, and ready to get you up and on the playa, earning your pendants! The infamous AMLN pendants are in our hands and all you have to do to earn one is to share your gift with the playa. Stupid human tricks, silly animals tricks, and JOKES WE HAVE NOT HEARD BEFORE (serious, not kidding, we have a gong and a mallet and will hit you with both if you tell a bad joke on our stage). Guitar players, poets, spoken word performers, Irish step dancers, singers, chanters, sax and violins, contortionists, lap dancers, and purveyors of cold beer are all likely candidates for the pendants! COME ON DOWN! Alien Monkey Love Nest is part of the Area 47 conclave at 8:00 And Esplanade, and will be hosting their talent show from 2 PM to 4 PM playa time every day until the Burn. Come on down to our stage and DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!
Web
http://alienmonkeylove.net/
Contact
leadmonkey (-at-) alienmonkeylove (-dot-) net
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Bloop Brave and 3:00
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Bloop is a social interactive camp. Our goal is to help the citizens of black rock city do the things you always wanted to do but are afraid to act. Feel free to come by and participate in our alter-ego project where you roam the playa aimlessly attached to our "home base" via radio waves. You'll get to live out the wants and needs of some other random person behind the computer watching your every move on video and microphone suggesting you take actions you may or may not push your personal boundaries. Don't worry that your birds eye view is being recorded and played on the video projector screen for all to see. Now ... "go ask that cute boy if you can trade shoes for awhile" , "ask that sexy blonde if she'll skip down the esplanade with you and sing I'm a little tea pot".. ohhh the possibilities are endless. If that is too much for you just come lounge under our 65ft parachute and take occasional trips to our booth for cool mists, warm smooches and of course our purple dot blessings.
Web
Bloopcamp.com
Contact
chris (-at-) purespace (-dot-) com
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Faux Forêt Cabaret and Fabularium 8:30 And Anxious
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. . . is a theater of the performed word or other forms of emotive expression that tell a story. There will be scheduled and unscheduled readings, a well-stocked library of folk-, fairy-, fantasy-, epic-, trippy-, silly-, luscious-, subversive-, erotic-, psychotic-, hypnotic fiction for the folks. We will have costumes and proppy things, amplification and audience participation, plenty of pillows and party favors, and occasional sippies and savories. We are a fictive forum for bubbly Bunburyists and bombastic burners, a place to speak up, flop down, or flop around. Bring us your stories and your voices, or your story and our voices, or our stories and your voices, or . . .
Web
http://www.fauxforet.com
Contact
fauxforet (-at-) fauxforet (-dot-) com
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Gròóville Chance And 4:30
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Gròóville will have many projects and vehicles on hand to delight and entertain our many guests. The centerpiece of the camp is our dance studio and aerial rig, collectively known as Groov Studio. We will also host visitors in our central chill space. Back for its second year, the Gròóv Studio is a learning, practice, and performing space for the kinetic arts. We will be offering yoga, dance, juggling, and other movement classes during the day and swing/salsa/waltz/tango dances in the evenings. A performance at the studio will feature the talents of Gròóv Studio teachers and other artists. Physically, the studio is a large shaded space with a vinyl floor, possibly the best dance surface on the playa. Classes to date: yoga, belly dancing, samba, African, ballet, Capoeira, three-ball juggling, contact juggling, meditation, swing, salsa, tango, and waltz. If dancing on the ground or around the pole (see Stripper Pole below) isn't exciting enough for you, we'll teach you how to dance in the air! Check out our aerial rig and take a lesson on the trapeze, rope, or tissu. Or come by in the evening and catch our aerialists in action! You can't miss it - it's the 18' metal archway with sexy people dangling from it!
Web
www.groovig.com
Contact
groovig06 (at) gmail (dot) com
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Hippocampus 5:00 And Eager
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Hippocampus returns for it's fifth year on the playa as Hippocampus with members ranging from virgins to 14 year veterans. We're not all from seattle, but the ones who do all the work are. The rest range from SF, LA, New York, Minneapolis and other places in between. Stop by our french cafe - Cafe Hippocamus - for a Gitane, a cafe au lait, and some sexy french maids. Or visit the Spiritual Accounting Office and check your spiritual account for the past year and see if you're due a refund. Keep an eye out for Hearsilla, Queen of the Desert, our transformed hearse that now sports a 10' brass stripper pole...you might even see Hearsilla on her morning Punk Rock Breakfast rides. No matter what, please stop by and introduce yourselves - our seattle contingent is now 20+ and we want to get to know more of you!
Contact
harleysitner (-at-) yahoo (-dot-) com
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Hushville Chance And 8:30
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Hushville is an aural oasis in a sea of chaos. We are an open village and everyone is welcome to camp with us, provided they abide by three rules: 1) No generators of any kind at any time; 2) No amplified sound; 3) Clean up after yourself. Burning Man 2001 was the first year for Hushville and it was a resounding success, with nearly 200 campers who were actually able to get a bit of sleep at night. By 2005 we were up to 400 people, so who knows what this year will be like.
Web
www.playachicken.com
Contact
david (-at-) peterman (-dot-) net
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Playa Security Agency 7:30 And Chance
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At the Playa Security Agency, a division of the Department of Welcome Homeland Security, we are continually working to realize our motto: spes per timorem, "hope through fear." We will monitor the Threat Level so that all citizens know what to be afraid of from moment to moment, conducting Mobile Security Checkpoints, and pre-registering citizens who are willing to give up a little bit of privacy in order to feel safe.
Web
http://joygantic.typepad.com/psa/
Contact
joygantic (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com
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Rainforest Refugee Camp Guess And 9:00
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RRC has grown over the years from a single solo camper in a portable car garage, to 22 members this year (maybe 25 members (space is still available). We have had members from all over the world camp with us and this year is no different. folks from Canada, England, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Washington. About half our members are Playa virgins the rest are seasoned burners with 2 to 5 burns attended. We run a misting tent during the heat of the day then visit other camps all night long. We are a clothing optional camp because "IT IS TO DAMN HOT OUT ON THE PLAYA!!!"
This is a very special year theme wise for RRC members because many of us are healers. All week long we will be giving lessons on Aura healing, energy balancing, remote viewing, remote healing, and generally just a good place to come and get a hug!
Our classes will be impromptu as to the need of the individual in attendance. As in previous years be ready to be blown away by what we have to offer in the simplest ways. We never know what the topics will be but the response to those seeking will be "Just what was needed"
Still accepting new members, Playa virgin friendly!
Web
http://snursery.com/rrc/rrc06.htm
Contact
mark (-at-) snursery (-dot-) com
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Space Virgins Within Area 47, Esplanade And 8:00
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The Space Virgin theme camp has participated in Burning Man since 1994, out of which we have developed an active, year-round arts collective, a non-profit arts organization with a mission to develop community through large scale collaborative art projects. As a theme camp, the Space Virgins have repeatedly provided Burning Man participants with the opportunity to ritualistically cleanse themselves of their mental baggage, or re-virginize. We structure our interactive art projects to produce transformative experiences that help people let go of the anxieties and inhibitions that develop over the course of a life time, so that they might experience joy to its fullest potential. In past years we have performed revirginization rituals, provided demon workshops, created a crashed space ship from which space virgins leapt to help earthlings burn their inner demons, and burnt a sacrificial virgin goddess. We constructed a Parthenon facade as a testament to the virgin goddess, Athena, to provide a place of joy. Last year, the Space Virgins built the Temple to the Ruined Mind to provide a place for people to act out the battle between their id and their super ego, to reflect upon the anxieties that inhibit them and reinvigorate their hedonistic, pleasure-seeking id. This year, the Space Virgins are providing a Docking Station for weary travelers to rest and refuel. The docking station will also house a communication link through the Tweakin' Beacon to The Oracle on our home planet of Luminous Flux. Come, relax, refuel, and seek the sage advice of The Oracle.
Web
www.spacevirgin.org
Contact
pmunkey (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com
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Sustainabilaville Within AEZ, 8:00 And Chance
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Sustainabilaville is a camp that will try to model a way of being in social and environmental systems that helps us all live sustainably on this planet. We will create a space to be in community and learn about sustainability. We begin every day with a check-in circle to bring everyone present with each other. We will manage the process of building a camp with consensual decision making. We will use alternative power and grey water systems to leave no trace, on the playa and in our air. We will most of all, be silly, playful and enjoy our time together!
Web
www.sustainabilaville.org
Contact
tmoo2u (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com
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Temple Whore within Area 2257
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The badass kids of TempleWhore provide Reiki, massage, herbal medicine, yoga, tantric education, weddings and adult themed events on the playa. TempleWhore is the calm in the storm of the rave and the lights and the noise of Burning Man; just another varied beauty to bliss you out and hang with your body and spirit, all served up to you with a Kali-smile and a Magdelen-kiss.
Contact
compassionate.bastard (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com
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Tribe of the Crescent Star Anxious and 6:30
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In the brutal wilderness between the teeming cities of the future, along the trade routes of the Neo-Caravaners and the battle migrations of Jihadists and Jihadistas, lies the dwellings of the Tribe of the Crescent Star, sheltered in an oasis of its own construction. Welcoming all who drop their weapons and their attitude outside its perimeters, the Tribe of the Crescent Star offer their guests the comforts of a Brave Old World -- for the body: cool mint tea, sweet dates and rahat loukoum, and mountains of soft pillows; for the soul: the play of light and water, and the music of paradise. By day, the order's white satin banners can be seen by weary travellers from afar; in the evening, the glow of the tent-dome serves as a beacon calling all to the night's revels.
Web
www.crescentstar.org
Contact
colleen (-at-) crescentstar (-dot-) org