Imagine a place where creation and impermanence, innocence and experience, the ridiculous and the sublime, are honored as facets of the same jewel. Imagine diversity coexisting with common ritual - ritual based on radical free expression and purification by fire. Imagine walking into any jazz joint or grilled cheese stand, or getting your hair washed or your feet massaged, and your money is no good because this town operates on a gift economy. Imagine folk costumed in everything and nothing imaginable. Imagine strangers who would read to you from William Carlos Williams, offer you a snow cone or a Margarita. Imagine the only vehicles in the streets are art cars, like behemoth metal dragons spouting fire and spaghetti western covered wagons.
Multimedia immersion into the Burning Man culture. Read on for Rerekuka's review of Holly Kreuter's book about the festival.ĭrama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man Imagine art born from 25,000 of your closest friends, from you, lining the streets and filling the dustbowl playa: a radiant cathedral built from recycled plastic "stained glass," a filigreed temple-mausoleum filled with messages to friends who have passed on, a coffin made of gun metal, a Tesla coil taunted by a wacky scientist, an art and philosophy-lined labyrinth, oases sprouting lawns and ferns." There's been a lot written about Burning Man I especially like Bruce Sterling's report about it for Wired in 1996. Join us for a revealing discussion of what has been called, among other things, one of the greatest art events in the world.Rerekuka writes "Imagine your home town is built on a moonscape, epic in cracked earth, hard sun, dust storms, thunderstorms, rainbow sherbet sunrises and tie-dyed sunsets that move you and your neighbors to applause. Kreuter and Traub will share their unique perspectives on this dynamically evolving event and also discuss the very different roads they took to publish their books. The Mill Valley Public Library is thrilled to welcome Holly Kreuter and Barbara Traub, authors of critically acclaimed books on this mysterious subject. Their books are titled Drama in the Desert and Desert to Dream, respectively, and include contributions from author Dave Eggers, filmmaker Les Blank, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to name a few.
The result is a remarkable and magical week of art, music, performance and play. Each year tens of thousands of people from all walks of life travel to the extreme environment of the Black Rock Desert outside Reno, Nevada to create Burning Man - a vibrant community based on radical self-expression, participatory art and generosity.
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