Anyone may be a part of the Burner Community Potluck. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our potluck. All people, burner or not, old or young, gay or straight (and everything in between), all nationalities, all races, all religions: Your ass is welcome at the potluck. (Note: just because your ass is welcome doesn't mean you can be an asshole, but we don't really get too many assholes)

The Burner Community Potluck is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. Gifting often manifests itself in bringing something yummy to eat or drink but if you can't bring something to eat, that's cool, too. (However, let us all remember The Potluck Where Nobody Brought Any Food.) People also gift their music, their bodywork, their skills and their chihuahuas, so be creative.

In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, the Burner Community Potluck seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our potluck from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience. (Which isn't to say that the folks at GrrrAttitude House won't accept a financial donation to help offset the costs of having 75 people over to the house once a week. But honestly, they'd be just as happy if you help clean up!) 

The Burner Community Potluck encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources, and to bring everything that they need to serve the dish that they bring, and to not eat the house food. It also means introducing yourself to folks if you're new, helping to clean up during and after the potluck and taking initiative to make the potluck more fun. We don't ask that you bring your own toilet paper, but donations of paper plates, TP etc are helpful.

If you want to bring bacon, bring your best bacon. If you want to bring tofu, bring the best tofu you can. Above all, be yourself. Bring your friends. Don't be afraid to go out on a limb, and don't be afraid to bring a limb of lamb. Do something weird: show up in costume, bring something interesting. Cook something new and share it with us. Note: Radical self-expression doesn't mean you can get hammered and act like a jerk or force yourself on people who don't want to engage with you.

The Burner Community Potluck values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction. Use the space for meetings, connect with people, dream, plot, plan, scheme. And snuggle the chihuahuas! Or have your theme camp sponsor a potluck. That'd be keen.

The Burner Community Potluck values civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. Hence, this email. 

The Burner Community Potluck respects the environment, and most importantly, we respect GrrrAttitude House and the people who live there. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them. This means doing a bit more than your share, and taking care to NOT leave your PBR cans all over the porch, not being so loud that the neighbors freak out, not parking on the lawn, and flushing the toilet. 

The Burner Community Potluck is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Be At The Potluck Now. Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner potluck, the potluck of those around us, participation in the potluck, and contact with a natural potluck exceeding the standards of even the most demanding chihuahua. No fast food or fine dining can substitute for this experience.