👤🔥 Burning Man
Burning Man is a festival that is held annually in the 🏜 Black Rock Desert of Nevada for 8 days, from the last Monday of 🍎 August to the first Monday of 🌦 September, which is 🛠 Labor Day.
On the page 👤🔥 Burning Man the following information is presented:
1. History of the 👤🔥 Burning Man festival
The Burning Man festival dates back to 1986. Then in San Francisco, a small group of people, about twenty, 🔥 Burned a 👤 Figure of a 9 feet tall 🌳 Wooden man. The number of participants increased to 80 people the following year. In 2019, the number of festival participants reached 80 thousand people. The event has been canceled due to the 👑🦠 COVID-19 pandemic since 2020.
Interesting fact: The festival is described in many cultural works: 📚 Books, games, 🎬 Films, TV series and cartoons. For example, in the short story 🕺 “Torcher” by Chuck Palahniuk, the entire plot unfolds on Burning Man.
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Tap / click to copy & paste2. Traditions and symbols of the 👤🔥 Burning Man festival
Since 1995, the celebration of the Burning Man festival has traditionally been held under a specific theme. For example, in 1995 the theme of the event was “😇 Good and 👿 Evil”, in 2009 — “📈 Evolution”, 2015 — “Carnival of 🪞 Mirrors”, and in 2018 — “I, 🤖 Robot”.
Interestingly, the festival’s founders Larry Harvey and John Law describe it as an experiment where people can express themselves as much as possible. Therefore, during Burning Man, participants present arts of various and incredible forms, wear amazing 🦹 Costumes, 💃 Dance, 🗣 Sing 🎶 Songs, 🎼 Create music, etc.
Despite the freedom of action, the event is guided by 10 principles, the main of which are radical inclusion and gifting.
The first principle is that you cannot be a passive observer, everyone should actively take part in the festival.
And the second is that at Burning Man it is possible to buy only ☕ Coffee and 🧊 Ice, so all festival participants must stock up on the necessary things in advance: food, household utensils, clothes, etc., and be ready to both give and receive gifts from other members. Also, after the event is over, it is important to 🚮 Clean up all trash after you.
The main symbol of the festival is a wooden statue in the shape of a 👤 Man, the 🔥 Burning of which is the culmination of the festival. This action takes place on Saturday, and on Monday the festival town disappears until next year.