 Welcome to the Black Rock City Community Collective, a grassrooots movement comprised of burners and community organizers
acting in concerted effort to assist the BMorg in collaborating together with the Community to make wise choices for the greater
good of the Burning Man Arts Festival. Our aim is to make the experience of Burning Man one in alignment with our highest
values of radical self-expression, self-reliance, community-in-action, and the gift economy.
Since first launching this website, it was brought to our attention that we shouldn't speak on behalf of the entire community,
and we agree wholeheartedly. We encourage everyone to express their individual opinions and concerns as it relates to the
issues brought forth in this website to the Burning Man Organization directly. To that end, you can find out how to contact
BMorg as well as ourselves on the "Contact Us" page.
According to Maid Marian, the Mistress of Communication for BMorg: "Burning Man is more than just an event in the desert.
We are all members of a greater community. It takes a great deal of work and collective coordination to bring Burning Man
to fruition each year. Your role as artist, theme camp creator, pre-event or onsite volunteer, ranger or musician is critical
to creating a safe, expressive and commerce-free community."
In the spirit of Maid Marian's statement, the Black Rock City Community Collective was born. The BRC-CC's mission is to focus
the Community's energy to impact positively on the Burning Man Arts Festsival by deflecting energies that are sapping the
event's vitality into more positive directions. We strive to give voice and empowerment to every person that participates,
and in so doing, assisting the Community to reflect and expand its own highest standards for art, self-reliance, self-expression,
communal effort and civic responsibility. Since BMorg tends to speak downwards to the masses, we serve to give the Community
a voice to speak back with authority resulting in a positive dialogue and accountability.
Together we hope we can work to preserve integrity of our home -- our special place, our sacred space -- to commune, to celebrate,
to create and to radically express. Therefore, we believe when the founding principles of Burning Man are compromised, weakened
or threatened, it is within the Community's right to speak out and for the BMorg to hear us and respond accordingly
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