PLAYA DEL FUEGO SPRING 2019

WHAT WHERE WHEN THE BASICS ...... 2-4 PLAYA DEL FUEGO COMMUNITY STANDARDS . . . . 5-6 SPRING 2019 RULES...... 6-10 WHAT, WHERE, WHEN SOUND POLICY...... 8-9 PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY . . . . 10-12 THE BASICS PLANNING PARTICIPATION, & ORGANIZATION...... 12-14 EVENT/SITE GUIDE ...... 14-17 WHAT IS PLAYA DEL FUEGO? Playa del Fuego is a Mid-Atlantic Regional Burning GRAY WATER POLICY...... 16 Man Event. The event takes place on Memorial Day weekend, with its sister event Constellation taking ART ...... 18-19 place in West Virginia on Columbus Day weekend. ONGOING EVENTS ...... 20-21 PdF is an all ages event. THURSDAY EVENTS...... 21 Playa del Fuego is a community-driven, temporary experiment in collaborative community building FRIDAY EVENTS...... 21-25 - featuring interactive and experiential art and music, a gifting economy, and striving to Leaves No SATURDAY EVENTS...... 25-29 Trace. Inspired by the Burning Man festival, it is a SUNDAY EVENTS...... 30-32 place for radical self-expression and an experiment in temporary community building. Along with THEME CAMPS...... 32-35 this idea, participants are encouraged to plan for a single entry, single exodus experience. MAP OF EVERYTHING. . . . . 38-39 Attendees are known as participants. There are no VOLUNTEERING HAS REWARDS .40 spectators at Playa del Fuego; everyone collaborates in some way to create the event. It is a place of acceptance, inclusivity, and respect. It is organized All content is subject to change. Content submitted before entirely by volunteers. Art and entertainment are posted deadlines may be edited for length or clarity, or may created solely by participants. be left alone for the sake of Radical Self-Expression. Content submitted to the WWW or Theme Camp coordinator after There are no concession stands. No cash posted deadlines will not be included. We’re all volunteers. transactions are permitted at Playa del Fuego - Apologies for spelling or other errors. The WWW is not a even bartering is discouraged. This is a sincere newspaper; being printed here does not make it true and it experiment in creating a gift economy. If you need should not be used as the final authority on anything. something, ask for it. If you have it, gift it! There are no garbage cans; there are no dumpsters. Playa WWW STAFF del Fuego is a blank canvas; expect nothing...bring everything. Editor/Layout/Production...... Kailah Non WWW print stuff...... Whiplash WHEN IS PLAYA DEL FUEGO? Cover Art...... Mel Carr Memorial Day Weekend, Thursday May 23, 2019 at 5pm - Monday May 27, 2019 at Noon WHERE IS PLAYA DEL FUEGO? GPS 40.777480°, -76.022822° Coal Creek Ranch, Tamaqua, PA

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2 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. GATE HOURS SELF RELIANCE You are responsible for your THURSDAY: basic needs (food, water, • Opens to new arrivals and re-entry passes at 5pm. shelter), your safety, and your • Closes to all inbound traffic at midnight. well-being the entire time of your stay at PdF. We call this Radical Self Reliance. • Do not arrive before 5pm unless you are approved for early entry. Create a food plan. There are no food vendors. There is no drinkable/potable water available FRIDAY: onsite. There are no kitchens. There are no electrical • Opens to new arrivals and re-entry passes at 9am. outlets. Come with a plan on how you will feed • Closes to all inbound traffic at midnight. yourself, how you will stay hydrated, and how you will deal with food and water waste. SATURDAY: Pack for the weather. This local averages a high of • Opens to new arrivals and re-entry passes at 9am. 75°F and a low of 53°F. HOWEVER, there have been • Closes to all traffic at 8pm for the pony burn. extremes ranging from 94°F down to 38°F recorded. Pay attention to the weather and pack for it. • Traffic will be restricted to *emergency vehicles only* during the burn. Create a trash plan. You are responsible for your • Outbound traffic will resume once the fire team trash at all times. There are no dumpsters, there are has given the OK. no trash cans. Carry in less to carry out less. Create a gray water plan and a leave no trace SUNDAY: plan. See Gray Water Policy under Event/Site Guide. • Opens to re-entry passes at 9am. • New arrivals may be required to wait at the gate LEAVE NO TRACE for check-in. Practicing a Leave No Trace Ethic is simple: leave the • Closes to all traffic at 8pm for the art burn. place you visit the same or better than you found it; • Traffic will be restricted to *emergency vehicles leave no trace of your having been there. only* during the burn. Playa del Fuego practices Pack-it-In / Pack-it-Out. • Outbound traffic will resume once the fire team What you bring with you, you take home with you. has given the OK. There are no trash cans at PdF and there are no dumpsters. All trash must go home with you! MONDAY: No Public Trash Cans, No Dumpsters, • No inbound entry will be permitted. Pack It In - Pack It Out! • All attendees MUST be out by 12pm. There are no public trash cans at this event. There are no dumpsters. At all times, at all places on the YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES site, you are responsible for the trash you create. Don’t ask someone if they have a trash can - they PARTICIPATE don’t. NO dumpsters are provided at the end of the You are responsible for participating. There are event: please create a plan to take your garbage with no spectators at PdF. You can participate in many you when you leave. ways, including by volunteering and jumping in, interacting, and sharing your art. Playa del LEAVE NO TRACE TIPS: Fuego is ENTIRELY run by volunteers, not one • Bring cans instead of bottles! Beer and soda cans person involved is paid a salary. You are strongly can be squashed down for a smaller trash pack out! encouraged to pick up some volunteer shifts during the event. Anyone can volunteer, even first timers. • Pack an empty 5 gal bucket to bring in, make all By volunteering, you are helping the event run your trash fit in it by discarding as much packaging smoothly and you get to interact with many new and as possible beforehand, and compacting cans etc, so wonderful participants. on the way out, and you are covered! • If you are bringing an EZ Up type structure, have a CONSENT plan for it becoming a mangled mess (consider bolt cutters). Plan room in your car for trash to go home. You are responsible for being respectful of other • Reduce Packaging before you arrive. This is the people at all times regardless of sobriety level, and key, really. Don’t bring the trash in the first place. are responsible for getting express enthusiastic consent before entering a camp, going in for a hug, • Rethink Your Food Portions, you’ll probably need touching a person or their things, taking a person’s less than you think. picture, or having sexual relations. • MOOP Sweeps of your camp all weekend long, and a final MOOP sweep before you go. (See 11th Principle Consent)

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 3 • Do Not Use the Playa as Your Toilet! Porta Potties art piece that is meant to be a contemplative space. are provided. Porta Potties are NOT trash cans! The temple is typically burned on Sunday night. • Add a ziplock type bag to your pocket or bag to Note: not all burns will have a temple. collect trash you see as wander. The PC - The Planning Committee makes the nuts • Be Aware of Very Small Items. No Trace really and bolts choices that run the event. The Planning ​ does mean NO trace. Be conscious of smaller trash Committee is comprised of the coordinators and particles like cigarette butts and peanut shells. literally anyone who attends a Planning Meeting • Do Not pour leftover fuel or genny gas on the conference call. You may attend as many or as few ground (duh) meetings as you like, however, your vote only counts • Minimize Fire Impacts - Any fire pits or barrels for meetings you actually are a part of. used on site must be elevated above the ground by at FirePony Creative Society​ - A Maryland not-for- least six (6) inches. profit corporation recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 • Bring Contractor Bags - Collect your trash and which produces the Burning Man Regionals Playa del save your car from mud and wet tents! Fuego and Constellation. • If you have uncrushable bottles, you can stuff a BOD ​- Board of Directors. A group of unpaid volunteers crazy amount of other smaller trash inside them, in search of a hot tub in which to sit and think. They minimizing the volume of trash you will need to also handle all the boring legal parts of the event like haul out. taxes, insurance, liability, and future vision. • Pockets, Bags, and Carabiners are Great! When Comp Tickets ​- There are no comp tickets at PDF. you visit a camp, take your trash with you. Not even for volunteers, artists, DJs, the Planning Committee, or the Board of Directors. GLOSSARY Reserve Tickets ​ - These are used to ensure that PDF - ​Playa del Fuego people essential to the smooth operation of the MOOP ​- matter out of place, anything that is not event. Everyone approved for a reserve ticket must indigenous the natural environment you are in, for still pay for it. Art Grant recipients also receive example: litter, cigarette butts, glitter reserve tickets because art is central to our mission. Rangers ​- helpful people who rove about in khaki DPW - Department of Public Works. The nice folks with radios. They are neither cops, your mom, nor who set up and break down the event structures and required to wear utilikilts. handle logistics. Coordinator ​- A super-volunteer who doesn’t just WWW - the What Where When. A guide of events work a shift, they run an entire department like and happenings, as submitted by participants. You DPW, PARKING, THEME CAMPS, or GATE. should print a copy before you arrive. Burn ​- slang for a Burning Man-inspired event The Mayor - PdF is a temporary city, and our city like ours. Burns are not music festivals. A few has a Mayor! The Mayor is a Board member that has differences being: at burns there are no spectators, agreed to make themselves available for questions programming is all participant driver, burns follow and discussions all burn long. The mayor wears a The 10 Principles, and the pretty pretty people at Mayor hat. burns aren’t dancing ankle deep in a pile of beer bottles and cups. “Have a nice burn.” “Happy Burn!” 10 Principles ​- Burning Man’s version of the 10 A BRIEF HISTORY OF PDF Commandments, wherein you are permitted to covet The event began with about 20 east coast your neighbor’s wife but not to litter or participate in residents who had been to the original Burning cash activities like vending. And so very much more. Man in the Nevada desert, and wanted to get Participation Station - aka “Volunteer Central” together a little closer to home to celebrate It has volunteer schedules and sign-ups, lost and the spirit of the event . They joined together on found, an emergency radio, and copies of the WWW the beach of Assateague Island on Maryland's Guide. Good place to go with a question. coast in 1998 for a weekend . In 2003, Playa Del Gate ​- The Gate is the portal through which you Fuego had grown so much that a new site was enter the event. The gate turns valid IDs into official needed to accommodate all the participants wristbands during specific hours posted elsewhere. and moved to Odessa DE at Fire Base Lloyd . In 2018, Playa del Fugeo found a new home in The PONY -​ The Pony is the effigy that is burned on Tamaqua PA where it remains today . Now it has Saturday night. grown to over 750 participants, with volunteers The Playa - Spanish for “beach”, in burner slang it working on giving out art grants, arranging refers to the space on which a burn is held. “Don’t parking, various workshops, dealing with ticket leave your moop on the playa!” sales, medical emergencies and so much more . The Temple - The temple is a structure built as an

4 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. COMMUNITY STANDARDS

Playa del Fuego is Regional Burning Man event. being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly- through actions that open the heart. formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as • Immediacy ​- Immediate experience is, in many a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a ways, the most important touchstone of value in our reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand had organically developed since the event’s inception. between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human TEN PRINCIPLES powers. No idea can substitute for this experience. • Radical Inclusion ​- Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. Playa del Fuego’s Vision and Mission Statement: No prerequisites exist for participation in our VISION: Attract, inspire, and nurture a diverse community. community to celebrate and encourage experiments • Gifting ​- Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift in the creation of art, a culture of play, and the giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting collective sharing of ideas and skills. does not contemplate a return or an exchange for MISSION: We build an interactive, experiential, something of equal value. sustainable environment that encourages a culture of • Decommodification ​- In order to preserve the play, artistic creativity and freedom of expression. spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social Because PdF predates the creation of the 10 environments that are unmediated by commercial Principles, the community had created their own set sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand of Principles, which are: ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience. PLAYA DEL FUEGO PRINCIPLES: • Radical Self-reliance ​- Burning Man encourages Self-Expression the individual to discover, exercise, and rely on his or her inner resources. Our events foster an environment of creative self- • Radical Self-expression ​- Radical self-expression expression, where participants feel supported arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one to honestly express their inner selves through other than the individual or a collaborating group artistic creation, performance, and in their social can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to interactions. others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the Self-Organization rights and liberties of the recipient. Our events foster an environment of self- • Communal Effort ​- Our community values organization. The event is 100% volunteer run. No creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive one gets comp tickets. Everyone is invited to plan. to produce, promote, and protect social networks, Everyone is invited to play. Everyone is invited public spaces, works of art, and methods of to work. The Planning Meetings and Planning communication that support such interaction. Committee are open to everyone to attend. • Civic Responsibility ​- We value civil society. Accountability Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and Our events foster an environment of personal endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to accountability, where we hold ourselves responsible participants. They must also assume responsibility for our own actions, and take personal responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state, for meeting our own needs, for the event itself, and and federal laws. for the event’s impact on the world at large. • Leaving No Trace ​- Our community respects Cooperation the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. Our events foster an environment of cooperation, We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever where participants work together to resolve potential possible, to leave such places in a better state than conflicts respectfully, to help mediate conflicts when we found them. between others, and to create art, performance, and social space on a larger scale than one person • Participation ​- Our community is committed could alone. Additionally, participants seek to keep to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that events sustainable by volunteering, cleaning up after transformative change, whether in the individual themselves, and assuming personal responsibility or in society, can occur only through the medium for conducting themselves in accordance with local, of deeply personal participation. We achieve state, and federal laws.

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 5 THE 11TH PRINCIPLE: CONSENT Participants may report any incident in which What do we mean by consent? Consent is an another participant is behaving in an abusive, affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by intimidating, threatening, or unsafe manner. each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon Physical hazards, such as unsafe art installations or activity. The consent has to be ongoing throughout fires, should be referred to Rangers. any encounter, and enthusiastic consent is best! The following types of behavior are unacceptable While consent is generally spoken about in terms at FirePony Creative Society-sponsored events, of sexual activity, it extends beyond this at PDF - including, but not limited to, Playa del Fuego and we apply the same guidelines to taking pictures of Constellation: others, hugging, entering a camp’s private space, etc. • Consent violations, especially of an aggressive https://www.bureauoferoticdiscourse.org/ or sexual nature. This includes any kind of non- consensual physical contact with the body of EASY CONSENT GUIDE: another, regardless of claimed intent. This section also includes non-consensual intoxication (i.e. • NO means NO. putting a drug into someone’s drink without their • NO means NO the first time, every time, and knowledge). The severity of response will depend on completely. the type of conduct and the circumstances. FirePony • No cajoling, no “c’mon please”, no emotional Creative Society takes consent violations very blackmail. NO means NO! seriously. If you aren’t sure, ask, and make sure you • On the other hand: YES means YES. Enthusiastic have enthusiastic consent! YES is best! • Stalking/Harassment. If someone asks you to leave • SILENCE = NO. MAYBE = NO. NOT YET = NO. them alone, do not continue to engage with them • Only YES = YES. or follow them around. Verbal assaults, especially • Consent IS binary! Consent can be revoked at of a continued, aggressive, and/or sexual nature are any time, even if you have touched that person in harassment. that same way before. Consent can be revoked after • Hate Speech. Anything that consists of an saying YES. You do not have the right to touch incitement to hatred primarily against a group of anyone without an enthusiastic YES! This goes people defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national for hugs, handshakes, sexual activity, and shiny origin, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. costumes! • Endangering others. Do not do things that will • The cultural norm at a burn is to HUG hello, not put others in serious danger or bring prohibited shake hands. Please ask for consent before going in items (such as fireworks not authorized by the fire for the hug; if you don’t want a hug - speak up! team) to an event. While we all accept that attending events like Constellation presents risks, disregarding basic safety rules is not acceptable. An example RULES would be spinning fire without a safety after being reminded not to do so. • Entering the event without invitation. All participants, volunteers, Board Members, CODE OF CONDUCT landowners, etc. gain entry to our events by While we strive to keep the number of hard and purchasing tickets, or as a vendor under contract fast rules that we have to a minimum, certain types with FirePony Creative Society Any other entry will of behavior serve only to harm other participants be considered trespassing. or the event itself. Radical inclusion means that • Destruction, using, or taking of property. If it is strangers are welcome to participate in our not yours, leave it alone, unless you have the consent community; it does not mean tolerance of harmful of the owner of the property. Consent may be behaviors. implied where there is a clear intent to “gift” items, but if in doubt, verbal confirmation is encouraged. The Code of Conduct identifies behaviors and This section includes theft, deliberate destruction of actions that will not be tolerated at Playa del property, and vandalism. Fuego, Constellation or other events sponsored by FirePony Creative Society. A copy of the FPCS Code • Incidents Occurring Previously, or Outside of of Conduct will be on-site for FirePony Creative FirePony Creative Society-sponsored Events. The Society sponsored events in the Ranger and First Aid Board may consider the following in relation to notebooks or other relevant locations. In addition, the ability to participate in future events: patterns participants of any FirePony Creative Society- of behavior (including stalking or harassment), sponsored events are expected to comply with all history of prior misconduct, alleged criminal acts, federal, state, and local laws. (The terms herein are or violations of these policies (or similar policies at used in a commonsense manner and not necessarily other events), and criminal charges or protective as legal terms of art.) orders that have been filed against the participant when they come to our attention.

6 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. The most severe penalty our community can impose RE-ENTRY PASSES on a participant for such behavior is ejection from As an experiment in temporary community, the event or a suspension from participation in one leaving during the event with plans to return or more future FirePony Creative Society-sponsored is highly discouraged. Participants should plan events (such as Playa del Fuego and Constellation). to bring everything they need, and plan to stay Other actions, such as a warning or a removal from for the duration. In’s and outs not only disrupt the volunteering in a safety-sensitive volunteer position, continuity of experience for the participant, they also are also possible. (Obviously, the legal system may create significantly more work for the gate, greeting impose other sanctions for some actions.) and parking. Additionally, the landowners expressed Nothing herein is intended to or shall waive the right preferences for PdF to minimize in/out traffic, if of the Board of Directors of FirePony Creative Society possible. to restrict the access to FirePony Creative Society With all that in mind, re-entry passes will be events of an individual or entity as it may determine, available for purchase online at playadelfuego.org in its sole discretion, is warranted. prior to the burn, and they will be available for purchase onsite from Jim at Camp Recharge. Jim ILLEGAL ACTIVITY has been the PdF purchasing coordinator for several burns and is able to process your credit/debit card Please note: Playa del Fuego, Inc. does not condone payments using PdF’s Paypal account. Re-entry ANY illegal activity. We create a temporary city with passes and wristbands will be required to re-enter its own rules. This city coexists within an area of real the event once having left. Please be radically self laws. Try to make that coexistence a peaceful one. reliant and plan to not leave. Abide by all relevant local, state, and federal laws. If you see law enforcement officers, be nice to them. Re-entry passes are $20 (includes Paypal fee) per PDF will cooperate with all local, county, state, and car, per trip via credit/debit card. There will be federal officials. We all share an interest in having a NO CASH SALES ONSITE. Of course, in cases of smooth event. emergencies, the need for passes will be waived.

DRINKING AND DRIVING GATE CRASHING AND SNEAK-INS Don’t be stupid, motorized vehicles don’t mix with Gate crashing and sneaking in violates core intoxication. Any ticket holder found driving while principles of our event and are not tolerated. Gate intoxicated/under the influence may be banned from crashers and sneak-ins will be treated like anyone the event for no less than one year and possibly else without a wristband and be ejected. for life. There are no plans to bring breathalyzers to PDF, so the BOD reserves the right to ban participants suspected of altered driving based on SCALPED & COUNTERFEIT TICKETS concerns raised by members of the community. Scalped and counterfeit tickets violate core principles of our event and are not tolerated. Scalped and A motorized vehicle is defined as a non-human counterfeit tickets are void and will not be accepted powered vehicle and includes cars, RVs, buses, art for admittance or exchanged for a wristband. cars, tractors, go-karts, golf carts, scooters, and Wristbands obtained with scalped or counterfeit similar devices. tickets or in any other nefarious manner will be voided and the wearer ejected. OFF-LIMIT AREAS All permanent buildings (hunting lodge and garage) NUDITY and any existing structures are completely off Nudity is welcome at PDF! However, if you can be limits to all participants. Any area outside the event seen from a road, you should be properly attired for boundary, as marked by signs and patrolled by the a public setting. Meaning there should be nothing landowners, is strictly off limits. The surrounding about your attire that allows others to see parts of land has tall cliffs and deep ravines that could be your body the law does not normally allow to be very dangerous. If you are caught trespassing on the displayed in public. Generally, if you can see the land outside the event, you will be evicted. “outside world” make sure your “bits” are covered.

WRISTBANDS NO TRAMPOLINES Everyone is required to wear wristbands. Anyone Trampolines are banned from FPCS found without a wristband will be ejected. events. The legal liabilities and Replacements can be acquired at the Front gate compromise to participants safety during ticketing hours. If someone asks to see your overshadow any community desires wristband, it’s cool, just show them. to have such items on site.

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 7 SOUND POLICY Open camping areas are designated as Quiet Camping. The use of generators, loud musical - 10 AM - MIDNIGHT: 80 DB(A) @ 100 FT instruments (horns, drums, etc.), or any other disruptive sound generation is not permitted - MIDNIGHT - 10 AM: 70 DB(A) @ 50 FT & between the hours of 12 AM and 10 AM. SUBWOOFERS OFF IV. Roles Amplified, projected or otherwise man-made noise The FirePony Creative Society Board of Directors or music shall be permitted between the hours (BOD): The FPCS BOD has ultimate authority to of 10am and 12am . Beginning at 12:01am, all turn down or off any and all sound as deemed subwoofers (any device capable of emitting sound necessary for the security of the event. below 100HZ) shall be turned off and the sound Sound Marshal: The Sound Marshal is responsible shall be no louder than 70db(A) at a distance of 50’ for PDF wide compliance with the Sound Policy from the source of the sound, or at the Access Area and has the authority to turn down or off any and boundary, if the boundary is closer than 50’ to the all sound as deemed necessary, with deference to source. Sound shall be no louder than 80db(A) at members of the BOD, or to a quorum of the BOD if other times, when measured at 100’. with a national the Sound Marshal is a member of the BOD. commercially accepted Sound Level Meter or SLM. Sound Sponsors: Camp Leaders, individuals (Type S2A) designated by a Camp Leader, or an individual I. Purpose bringing amplified sound to a PDF event responsible Once upon a time, we were far enough away from for sound levels generated by their sound system the rest of the world that we were provided some who will remain readily available within earshot of insulation from worrying about how our event said system while it is in use. impacted the community around us. Over time Sound Patrol: The Sound Patrol are volunteers Playa del Fuego has found itself with a variety of tasked with enforcement of the above restrictions neighbors who have a variety of tolerance levels for during a PDF event with the authority to temporarily sound playing 24 hours a day. PDF has joined the list turn down any sound causing a perceived violation of regional events that are trying different measures of the sound policy, reporting as necessary to the and sound policies in order to find the right balance Sound Marshall for further intervention or policy between the needs of the Burners who come to PDF dispute resolution. and the community around the event. The Playa del PDF Attendees: Any attendee of a PDF event who Fuego (PDF) Sound Policy is intended to protect of perceives a violation of the Sound Policy from an the longevity of PDF events by establishing standards individual or camp may invoke “The Sound Rule,” as for the control of noise pollution extending beyond described in the Procedures section below. the boundaries of said events. V. Procedures II. Scope The Sound Rule:​ This policy applies to any individual, group, instrument, or device (instrument, installation, Anyone who suspects another individual or camp is speaker system, generator, etc.) producing audible or in violation of the Sound Policy and may pose as a sub-audible sound within and during a PDF event. disturbance to the event’s landlord’s neighbors may approach them IMMEDIATELY with their concern. If III. Restrictions satisfactory action is not taken to correct the issue, All sound at PDF events shall be limited to a please report the issue to the Sound Patrol, Sound predetermined decibel (dB) level, measured at either Marshal, FPCS BOD member, or Ranger (such that 50’ or 100’ from the source of the sound, dependent they may contact the responsible parties by radio) as on the time of day, as follows: quickly as possible. If you are approached by anyone 10 AM - Midnight: 80dB(A) @ 100 ft. about a perceived sound policy violation, you MUST IMMEDIATELY CORRECT or CEASE the activity, Midnight - 10 AM: 70dB(A) @ 50 ft. & only after which you may reach out to the Sound subwoofers off Patrol or Sound Marshal to resolve the issue. The use of electronically amplified sound between Any camp or individual who wishes to have the hours of 12 AM and 10 AM shall only be amplified sound between the hours of 12 AM and 10 permitted to those approved by the Sound Marshall AM must apply through the Sound Camp Application and/or Sound Committee prior to the event through form on the PDF Web Page before the Theme the Sound Camp Application on the PDF Website. Camp Placement deadline. The Sound Marshal and The use of subwoofers, woofers, or any device their designees may limit the number of approved capable of producing sound at or below 100Hz is not applications as they see fit. permitted between the hours of 12 AM and 10 AM.

8 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. VI. Enforcement “Personal use” of images, film or video means to Individuals and Camps are required to comply with share with friends and family, to display on personal any Turn-Down request made by anyone as per “The websites (as long as your website does not sell any Sound Rule” until the issue has been investigated by other product or service, and as long as your website a member of the Sound Patrol, the Sound Marshal, does not purport or appear to be an official website or a member of the FPCS BOD. of Playa del Fuego, Constellation, or FirePony Creative Society), to display on photo sharing Individuals and Camps are required to comply with websites, and to display at art exhibits or similar any Turn-Down or Turn-Off order as made by a exhibits. Social networking sites such as Flickr and member of the Sound Patrol, the Sound Marshal, Facebook are deemed “personal use” only if the or a member of the FPCS BOD. This order may be display of the images, film or video on these sites are made for any reason from Sound Policy violations not used for the promotion or distribution of images to formal complaints lodged against the event from with the intent to publicly display them beyond one’s local residents or county officials. immediate network of friends and family members. VII. Sanctions FirePony Creative Society is a joint ownership in the Sanctions for violations of the Sound Policy may copyright for images obtained at the event so that in include, but are not limited to: Turn-Down or Turn- the event any third party displays or disseminates Off orders lasting anywhere up to the remainder of any of my images in a manner not authorized by this the event, removal of the offending sound source agreement, FirePony Creative Society can enforce from the event, prohibition of the sound source from against the third party any restrictions concerning future events, or immediate eviction of one or more use of the images, and participants appoint FirePony individuals as deemed necessary by the FPCS BOD. Creative Society as their attorney-in-fact to execute any documents necessary to effectuate such assignment. FirePony Creative Society agrees that it PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, & MEDIA will not utilize this joint ownership to enter into any Playa del Fuego and FirePony Creative Society licensing agreements for the images. understand that photography and video art is integral to radical self expression; however we MINORS AND CHILDREN require that all participants obtain explicit consent of their subjects whenever capturing and/or publishing You are solely responsible for the care, photographs or videos taken at the event. In supervision, and well-being of the minor addition, the following details apply, as adapted from the waiver: AT ALL TIMES. Use of Images and Likeness: Children 12 and younger do not require a ticket. Minors 13-17 can be added to an adult ticket at the • As a participant of Playa del Fuego, or related time of purchase, or during open sales if tickets are activities, you may be photographed. available. If the participant is under 18 years of age, • Consent must be obtained for all photography, a parent or guardian must sign a waiver on behalf of film, or video taken at the event. their children when arriving at PDF. • Any persons identifiable in the image, film, or A separate waiver must be signed at the gate on video, must express consent to be photographed behalf of each minor. A participant must be younger or filmed, and photographers must destroy any than 18 at the time they enter the event in order to image or video at the subject’s request, even if prior use a Minor ticket. consent had been granted. IMPORTANT: If the minor’s parent or guardian • It is prohibited to take any photos or videos in a is not attending PDF with the minor (eg. you’re camp or of a person that has posted a “No Photos” bringing your nephews and nieces to PDF), you sign or at any event where a “No Photos” policy has must contact us for further information at board@ been announced. firepony.org. • No use of images, film, or video obtained at the event may be made without prior written permission from FirePony Creative Society AND RECYCLING THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF ANY PERSONS There is nearby Tamaqua Transfer & Recycling Inc. IDENTIFIABLE IN THE IMAGES, FILM, OR VIDEO, located at 20 Sewer Plant Road Tamaqua, PA 18252. other than personal use. They are open 6:30AM–5PM Mon-Fri, 6:30AM–12PM • Additionally, the event holders, producers, Sat. Closed on Sundays. Be aware, there is a charge sponsors, organizers and/or assigns may not use any for drop off, so communal effort is encouraged. images, film, or video obtained at the event without prior WRITTEN PERMISSION OF ANY PERSONS Participants are encouraged to collect their recycling IDENTIFIABLE IN THE IMAGES, FILM, OR VIDEO. and drop it off at TTS, or bring it home for your local pickup.

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 9 VENDING/GIFTING at all times and extinguished Vending of any kind is not allowed. This includes immediately at the request of promotion of other events. Gifting does not equal any member of the Fire Safety bartering, nor are you entitled to anything. It’s only Team, Rangers, or if the wind a gift when offered freely; taking something because picks up such that the fires you want it is still theft at PDF. Ask permission throws sparks. To that end, before taking or touching anything or anyone. all camps with open flame must maintain a safety perimeter of one and a half times the height of the flame effect is required and maintain both 5 gallons NO DOGS of water and a 5 lb. ABC Fire Extinguisher. All liquid Dogs are prohibited (with the exception of service fuels must be maintained at a minimum of 30 ft animals) at the event due to the presence of local from any fire, ignition, or radiant heat. dogs and a history of territorial issues. OPEN FIRE AND FLAME EFFECTS PUBLIC HEALTH AND FIRE IN YOUR CAMP SAFETY Playa del Fuego and Constellation embrace Open Fire and Flame Effects which means we must act in a safe and responsible manner. The reality of a tent fire or a more serious situation arising from RANGERS, FIRST AID, SANCTUARY its misuse is a threat to the future of our event and PdF is truly a community and we are here to help you participant safety. navigate your burn! Amazing volunteers step up and Note: Camps that have open fire and/or flame put in long hours to help you when you need it most! effects are asked to check in with the Fire team. RANGERS are not cops and they are not your mom, but they wear a lot of khaki! They are here to help FIREWOOD you and are trained to resolve conflict via the FLAME Firewood is included in your ticket price. It is method: Find Out, Listen, Analyze, Mediate, Explain. available while supplies last. Participants are Burns can be intense. Is your minor disagreement welcome to take as much firewood as they need escalating? Is there a creeper bothering you? from the designated pile; but please be considerate Neighbors having a domestic dispute? Got a friend and don’t hoard firewood. Don’t take wood once it is who’s super altered and out of control? RANGERS stacked under the Pony effigy. are your friend! Simply look for someone with a radio (they can call one) or if no one is around, just Note: Due to the Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine start calling loudly for a RANGER, and someone will - it is illegal to carry firewood across state lines. get one for you. Do not bring your own firewood to PDF! Interested in becoming a Ranger? If so, feel free to Sharing is much cooler than hoarding and that come by the Participation Station on Friday night at includes wood, too. Help keep volunteers warm 7 pm for Ranger Training. and safe at night by not taking wood from their departments, where burn barrels provide warmth, FIRST AID is here to help you with First Aid issues. safety, and a welcoming beacon. Like to burn a lot Not feeling well? Find a tick? Dehydrated? Hurt of wood? Theme camps can work with each other your foot on a corn stalk stub? First Aid will help and the PC to coordinate the purchase and delivery with good samaritan first aid issues. But hey, try to of wood. be self reliant and bring a first aid kit to take care of your own minor issues. Campfires and burn barrels must be: SANCTUARY is to help you with emotional issues. • Elevated a minimum of 6 inches off the ground to Not feeling well, but it’s not medical? Are you prevent burn scars triggered? Anxious? Simply overwhelmed at all the • Attended at all times stimuli and need a quiet space? SANCTUARY is here • Have 15ft clearance from all structures and canopies for you, gentle burner. You are safe here. • Have a 5lb ABC fire extinguisher nearby, plus 5 gallons of water FIRE & GENERATOR POLICY • Minimum 15 ft clearance from fuels and Playa del Fuego embraces Open Fire and Flame combustibles Effects, which means we must act in a safe and responsible manner. The reality of a tent fire or a more OPEN FIRE serious situation arising from its misuse is a threat to 1. Burning of large art installations that when fully the future of our event and participant safety. engulfed in flames, produces a tremendous amount All fires, regardless of the fuel, must be attended of heat and requires a burn shield platform is not

10 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. allowed in any camping area. shall be secured from the wind and safety perimeter 2. No fire barrels or open fire shall be left increased appropriately. unattended. This includes candles, tiki torches or 7. Flame Effects must be extinguished at the request any open flame. At least one camp member will be of any Ranger or FRT personnel. designated fire tender and be within visual distance 8. No Flame Effect shall be left unattended. At least one at all times. If found unattended while lit, open camp member will be designated fire effect operator flames or burn barrels may be extinguished and/or and be within visual distance at all times. If found confiscated if there is sufficient hazard. unattended while lit, flame effects may be extinguished 3. If winds pick up, all open fire must be put out and/or confiscated if there is sufficient hazard. immediately and burn barrels must be extinguished 9. A 15 foot zone around the Flame Effect must be if they begin to throw sparks. free of any flammable materials such as but not 4. Open fire or burn barrels must be extinguished limited to; cloth, paper, tents, plastic, etc at the request of any Ranger or Fire Safety Team 10. An appropriate safe perimeter will be maintained personnel. at all times to prevent injury to participants. 5. A safety perimeter of one and a half times the 11. All fuel storage is to be identified type and height of the flame effect is required. A 15’ zone amount on a site layout of the camp. around the fire should be free of any flammable materials such as, but not limited to; cloth, paper, NOTE ON FIREWORKS tents, plastic, etc. We all love a good fireworks show but the use within 6. All liquid fuels such as gasoline and diesel that are the camping area is a violation of common sense stored in camp must be kept at least 30’ away from and safety. Sparks and fire could ignite flammables any flame, ignition, or radiant heat. in the camps and be difficult to fight and dangerous 7. An ABC fire extinguisher (5lb minimum) is to campers. As part of our event stipulations with required. In addition, a supply of at least 5 gallons landowner the use of ANY pyrotechnics that are not of water must be kept on hand to extinguish the part of a pre-registered and approved art project is fire in case of high winds (wind can blow embers forbidden and may result in steep fines and or arrest and sparks a long distance down the ground!) or and possible ejection from the event. other hazards. These are both to be kept in a clearly marked location at least 15 feet from the flame effect. 8. Burn barrels shall be secure and constructed in a way GENERATOR POLICY that the bottom surface is at least 6” from the ground to If you bring your own generator remember that you prevent baking or scarring of the ground surface. have an obligation to ensure that it’s used in a safe 9. Fire Spinners must have an accompanying safety. manner and that anyone you allow to use it should No exceptions. be trained in it’s safe fueling and operation. Hot 10. No Fire Spinning near combustibles. generators and flammable vapors are an easy way to endanger lives, so if a Fire Safety Team member tells you the location of your generator or fuel depot FLAME EFFECTS AND PROPANE GAS is not acceptable, please don’t argue…just comply. FLAMES Failure to conform to any of these rules can lead to A Flame Effect is defined as any device that is your generator being shut down for the duration of automated, switched, pressurized or having any the event. other action other than simply being lit on fire. See • ALL generators must have an accompanying playadelfuego.org for Guidelines for Flame Effects. appropriate fire extinguisher. For most folks this 1. No large-scale Flame Effects using 40 or more will be an ABC fire extinguisher 5 lbs or larger. gallons of fuel. Burning of large art installations that • Generators must be placed in an area that is free when fully engulfed in flames produce a tremendous of brush, debris, and other flammable materials. amount of heat requires a Burn Shield Platform. • Fuel must be stored a minimum of 15ft from the 2. No pressurized liquid fuels are to be used within generator and any other heat sources, and out of the camping area. direct sunlight. Your fuel storage area must have a 3. Flame Effects shall be secured and constructed “No Smoking” sign posted. in a why that the burning surface is at least 6” from • Generators must be completely shut down prior to the ground to prevent baking or scarring of the beginning refueling. ground surface. • Absolutely no smoking while refueling. 4. All fuel lines are to be manufactured and rated • Generators must be properly baffled. for LP gas. Note: compressed air hoses are not an acceptable substitute for LP gas line and will not be BAFFLING YOUR GENERATOR approved. How loud is your generator? A lot of generators 5. If winds pick up, all Flame Effects must be put out. are loud and if yours is as a courtesy to yourself 6. Any towers or artwork that incorporates fire and your neighbors, please incorporate sound

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 11 baffling in your generator plans. If this is your first Signs of dehydration: time baffling a generator please remember to use • Feeling uncharacteristically cranky fire retardant materials in the lining and allow enough breathing room to prevent your baffle from • Rapid or sudden weight loss becoming tinder. A properly baffled generator can • Increasing thirst be placed wherever Fire Safety requires it without • Dry mouth the noise keeping you, your campmates, or the • Cessation of sweating neighbors from complaining. • Weakness or lightheadedness (particularly if worsening on standing) NO FIRE LANTERNS • Darkening of the urine or a decrease in urination Fire lanterns, aka Chinese lanterns, aka sky lanterns are prohibited. They are flying, flaming MOOP whose trajectory can’t be controlled or predicted. PLANNING, PARTICIPATION AND ORGANIZATION BURNABLE ART Burning art is part of our culture at PDF. It is a There is a vast hive of activity behind the super-slick, symbolic celebration of the cycle of life and death— seamless production that is Playa del Fuego. We we don’t dwell in what we’ve done so much as we would LOVE to have your help! Here’s the skinny on celebrate what we can do. the world behind the curtain. IF YOU PLAN ON BRINGING ART THAT YOU WANT TO BURN: you must contact the Burning VOLUNTEER Art Coordinator in advance for approval and coordination, [email protected]. This event is 100% run by volunteers. There are no comp tickets. The volunteer opportunities are There is no guarantee that your art will burn. Plan varied. To sign up online go to http://playadelfuego. other creative ways to destroy your art that are less org/content/volunteer-sign-ups or stop by the reliant on the weather. Don’t ever throw toxic or Participation Station during the event to see what dangerous things into any fire. shifts need to be filled. Volunteering for just 6 hours gets you a reserved GARBAGE ticket to next year’s PDF! Check out the new No Public Trash Cans Volunteer Reserve Ticket Program on the back of this guide for details. Burn barrels are not trash cans. There are no public trash cans at this event. At all times, at all places on the site, you are responsible for the trash you create. ART GRANTS Don’t ask someone if they have a trash can. Every burn needs great interactive art for the community, by the community. Playa del Fuego PORTA POTTIES is seeking some great art pieces to enhance the community’s experience of the event. Do you have a There are no flushing toilets, but plenty of porta great idea you are dying to see come to life? Are you potties. IF IT DOES NOT COME FROM THE BODY, somewhat organized and can help us help you make DO NOT PUT IT IN THE POTTY! Single ply TP is this happen? What are you waiting for? the only exception. No beer cans, no tampons, no baby wipes! These things clog the hose used to clean To Apply, please make sure you are signed into the them. Bring small zip-lock bags for your wipes, pads, website and then go to: http://www.playadelfuego. or tampons and take it with you! Did we mention org/node/add/art-grant. NO BEER CANS? Take your MOOPy mess back your own camp to dispose of. ART One of the greatest ways to participate in the PDF HYDRATION community is to create art. You don’t have to apply Dehydration is a very serious risk at PDF; DRINK for an Art Grant, you can just bring some, announce WATER, and lots of it. Alcohol and caffeine it in the WWW, and enjoy the adulation of your dehydrate you; it is not water. Water is not sold at community. If you would like special placement of the event (except in the form of ice), so bring all your art in a public space, or are in need of other the water you will need. We strongly recommend a resources, please contact the Burning or Non- minimum of 3 gallons/day. Burning Art Coordinator, as appropriate.

12 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. PDF PLANNING include developing a learning track of workshops Playa Del Fuego takes year-round effort from to be presented at a conference such as MALC or volunteers. To get involved, look for the Planning others, or providing tools to network and share Committee Meeting times in the BPE Email knowledge. Newsletter. Our Planning Committee is composed 3. COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING of anyone who would like to attend a meeting by Through targeted Programming, CACE will offer a calling in to the planning meeting conference call. range of programs that promote knowledge sharing, No invitation is necessary, join in! Visit http:// leadership, inclusion, equity, civic participation playadelfuego.org/org/planningcommittee to view and engaged learning. CACE promotes developing the Planning Committee FAQ. the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make a difference. Example BOARD programming may include sponsoring the MALC (the Mid-Atlantic Leadership Conference), and The board of directors, AKA BOD, is made up of driving Diversity and Inclusion Efforts such as Race members of the PDF community who have agreed Relations Town Halls and Know Your Pronoun to increase their level of liability on behalf of the dialogues. We anticipate that these efforts will be community. The Board of Directors handles the legal done in partnership and collaboration with other side of the organization. They maintain the website, organizations in the region. manage PDF funds, purchase event insurance and supplies, file tax documents, etc. We encourage artists and organizations that share a passion for the burner ethos and demonstrate a They do all of the routine paperwork and legal and commitment to bringing participatory, interactive financial stuff that’s needed to make the events art, or forward-thinking collaborative projects to happen and keep PDF Inc. (a 501c3 non-profit) their communities to get involved. humming the other 50 weeks out of the year. They are also responsible for shaping the long-term JOIN US! We’re actively recruiting motivated, reli- vision of what PDF will or can be in the future, as able, creative and professional folks to join our vol- well as how it fits in to the greater burn and arts unteer team. Whether you have two hours a month communities, both regional and national. or two hours a day to give, we have ways for you to get involved! We’re looking for program admins, communication COMMUNITY ART AND CIVIC volunteers, fundraising gurus, project review ENGAGEMENT (CACE) PROGRAM and grant allocation team members, programing The FirePony Creative Society Community Art and and training team members, and partnership Civic Engagement program builds on the vision and development leads. mission of the FPCS organization. Contact us at [email protected], and let’s This program seeks to help attract, inspire, and talk about how best to connect you interests with nurture a diverse community in order to celebrate things that need doing. and encourage year-round experiments in the creation of art, a culture of play, and the collective sharing of ideas and skills. COMMUNICATIONS The Burning Pony Express (BPE) is one of the best We’re doing this in three ways: absolutely genuine sources of news and information 1. GRANTS from Playa del Fuego. They are sent sporadically and The grant program supports and funds artists increase in frequency before the event. Sign up by and organizations around the mid-Atlantic region visiting http://playadelfuego.org/content/burning- in their efforts to develop and execute highly pony-express. interactive, innovative, community-focused and Fire Pony Creative Society and Constellation Burn community-driven projects. Applicants may apply as also have their own email newsletters. Sign up on an individual or as an organization. Organizations their sites below! must be registered as a non-profit in the US to qualify. The current maximum grant is $4k. Grants Official websites: playadelfuego.org, firepony.org, above $2k include a matching grant requirement. constellationburn.org 2. TRAINING MAYOR We’ll provide resources, training and networking to enable artists and art and civic engagement Each event there is a Mayor. What the heck is the focused organizations to learn, share knowledge, Mayor of PDF? Pretty simple besides getting to wear build relationships and audiences, and to share a really spiffy hat, the Mayor is just a member of and explore new approaches that enhance their the board whose job it is to listen to the community operational and creative practice. Examples may members for concerns, ideas, topics for everyone to consider, complaints, worries, and bribes. You can,

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 13 of course talk to any board member any time, but once you get on site. Early volunteers must agree to the Mayor is someone who has made themselves follow the direction of the early entry coordinator conspicuous for your convenience. If you have any and/or departmental coordinators before being questions or concerns (or bribes), please look for permitted to set up personal camps. General entry the Mayor. does not begin until 5 pm. Those who arrive This year’s mayor will be Ursula Sadiq. She’s the early without permission may wait in line recently elevated President of the FirePony BOD. starting at 4:30pm on Thursday but no earlier. She’s been a burner since 2006, attending PDF since Those who arrive before 4:30pm will be asked to 2012, and is in her second year as a FirePony BOD find something else to do offsite for an hour. Thank member. You can typically find her at Balls Camp, or you for your patience but we want your arrival home on a walkabout wearing one of her many ball gowns. to be as seamless as possible. She would love to hear your thoughts on event organization, community building and supporting art. TICKETING HOURS New arrivals and re-entry passes are welcome for ticketing during the following hours. EVENT/SITE GUIDE Thursday 5 pm - Midnight 12 am Friday 9 am - Midnight 12 am How to get to the event, what to do when you get there. It is always advisable to read this part in Saturday 9 am - Saturday 8 pm (Closed for Pony advance, because the effects of playa-brain can set Burn) in rapidly. *Sunday 9 am - 8 pm (Closed for the Art Burn) Monday CLOSED GETTING THERE *For re-entry passes. New arrivals may be required GPS 40.777480 -76.02282, Coal Creek Ranch to wait at the gate for check-in. If you search “Playa Del Fuego Tamaqua, Pa” in Google Maps the location pops right up. WHEN YOU FIRST ARRIVE From Tamaqua, PA get on South 209 WELCOME HOME! Please follow the signs and 2 miles - Right on Piersol St directions of the Gate Volunteers. Please drive Left onto Old 209 slowly as you approach the Ticketing area. We Entrance is 1/2 mile on the right know you are very excited but please stay in your car and have your IDs ready! If you need to stretch TICKETING 101 your legs, please pull off the road to the side and proceed to temporary parking as directed by the • You MUST show up with VALID LEGAL PHOTO parking volunteers. ID that matches the info on the waiver you signed for your ticket, and your ticket alone. You must present a legal photo identification at the gate. Gate Volunteers will check your id • If you have more than one adult ticket associated and retrieve your wristband. Please let them know with your ticket account, you’re doing it wrong. which wrist you prefer it on before they lock it into • No print outs or other forms of ticketing will be place. If you are a FIRESPINNER and need a special accepted at the gate. accommodation for the wristband, please let the • Your ID is the only acceptable means of entry. volunteer know where you would like your band Have it handy when you come to the gate. The gate placed. Your wristband will be put on by a member entry is a single-lane road. Don’t be “that guy” who has of the ticket team tight enough that it will not slide to tell the gate crew, “oh, my ID is my bag in the trunk.” off. Participants must wear this wristband while • Please don’t ruin others’ experiences by pleading on-site for the duration of the event. If a wristband ignorance and jamming up the entry line. breaks or is removed, it may be replaced from within the gates by exchanging the broken band for a new EARLY ENTRY POLICY one at the gate. Those helping with setup of the event must be All minors in the vehicle must be accompanied by a pre-registered on an early entry list in order to be legal parent or guardian. Minors will need to have admitted early. Carpoolers who are arriving with the waiver filled out by that legal guardian and those registered volunteers will no longer be allowed the guardian’s information documented onto the early entry unless they too have been added to the wristband. The Minor’s waiver must be presented early entry list. Please email tickets@playadelfuego. or filled out at gate before entering the event! org if you need someone to be added to the early After everyone in your car has been banded, please entry list. An early entry coordinator will be proceed SLOWLY to the greeting area. Please be managing the list of volunteers and help direct you very careful when driving onto the site. There are

14 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. potholes, animals, and people walking around. We did not pre-register for on site parking, do not arrive want you to be safe and enjoying the event, not at the event planning to park at your campsite or dealing with any car incidents! sleep in your vehicle.

GREETING ART CARS/MUTANT VEHICLES Once you’ve gotten wristbands, you will be greeted Art cars are permitted on site but must be pre- by our dedicated greeter team. The greeters’ mission registered. Mutant Vehicles must remain parked is to give you hugs, a What Where When event until passing our inspections for daytime and guide, explain the 10 principles, spank virgins, nighttime driving. If you have any questions about answer any simple questions your may have, and cars please email [email protected]. provide information (like where to volunteer, nudge- nudge). Spanking is optional, butt (butt!) it is always OTHER VEHICLES appropriate to approach a Greeter bearing gifts. Many participants have found or built other vehicles they bring to burns as forms of personal PARKING transportation. (PTVs). Personal transportation vehicles like eBikes, eWheels, and OneWheels, Self- Once through the Gate, after you are greeted by balancing bi-wheel (e.g., Segways) are admitted. Greeters, one of our flaggers will ask to see your wristbands and whether you are parking on-site or However, larger stand-up scooters, fat tire scooters, need to enter the event for dropping off your gear. gas-powered bicycles, powered quadricycles, ATVS, They will then direct you for drop off or parking. mopeds and motorcycles are not allowed for use at Playa del Fuego. We expect the operators of these It is important to follow the flaggers and park where vehicles to maintain awareness of ground conditions, they ask you to in order to maximize the number as many areas within the grounds of PdF are not of available parking spaces. If there is not a flagger, suitable for PTV usage. please follow signs and avoid parking on roads or paths. RE-ENTRY PASSES TEMPORARY UNLOADING As an experiment in temporary community, leaving during the event with plans to return is So that everyone gets a chance to come in and highly discouraged. Participants should plan to participants are unload in a timely manner, bring everything they need, and plan to stay for allowed no more than 30 minutes to unload the duration. In’s and outs not only disrupt the their vehicle . If you leave your vehicle inside longer continuity of experience for the participant, they also than 30 minutes, you may be towed. Unload your create significantly more work for the gate, greeting equipment and return your vehicle. Do not hunt and parking. Additionally, the landowners expressed down all your friends or set up your camp now. preferences for PdF to minimize in/out traffic, if Communicate with your campmates in advance so possible. that you may proceed directly to where you plan to camp. But please, only drive on marked roads, for With all that in mind, re-entry passes will be everyone’s safety! available for purchase online at playadelfuego.org prior to the burn, and they will be available for Once you unload your vehicle, return promptly to purchase onsite from Jim at Camp Recharge. Jim the parking lot. has been the PdF purchasing coordinator for several burns and is able to process your credit/debit card ON-SITE PARKING PASSES payments using PdF’s Paypal account. Re-entry passes and wristbands will be required to re-enter On-site vehicle parking passes are available on a the event once having left. Please be radically self first come, first-serve basis, determined via pre- reliant and plan to not leave. registration with the parking coordinator. Only vehicles such as RVs, vans, trucks (with caps), and Re-entry passes are $20 (includes Paypal fee) per campers are permitted to be parked on-site for car, per trip via credit/debit card. There will be sleeping. Otherwise, you need to sleep in a tent, yurt, NO CASH SALES ONSITE. Of course, in cases of cardboard box, or whatever. Sleeping in your car in emergencies, the need for passes will be waived. the parking lot is prohibited. Please park your vehicle where instructed to by the WATER parking volunteers. Once your vehicle is parked Please Note: The Tamaqua site has no water. You on-site, where you will be sleeping in it, your vehicle are responsible for bringing enough water for must stay there until you leave the event. You cannot the duration of the event and for packing out the drive it out and re-enter. On-site parking passes will water you can’t disperse when you leave. be issued and must be displayed at all times. If you Water leaves a trace and should be used thoughtfully.

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 15 Each participant should have a plan on how to them. Bring small zip-lock bags for your wipes, pads, disperse the water properly in place, and haul out or tampons and take it with you! Did we mention what you can’t disperse. NO BEER CANS? Take your MOOPy mess back your own camp to dispose of. GRAY WATER POLICY What is Gray Water? Gray water is water that has LOCAL SUPPLIES been used for cooking, washing, dishwashing, or There is one local hardware store located on West bathing and contains soap, detergent, food scraps, or Broad Street in Tamaqua, PA. Two 24 hour mini food residue. markets are also available in Tamaqua. There is a Why is it a problem? While gray water is a lot less big-box store about 3 miles from Tamaqua that is harmful the environment than wastewater from open 24 hours a day. Tamaqua has many dining toilet facilities, which is called black water, gray options and one grocery store in town. water is still technically sewage and can run-off or leach through the soil to enter waterways and BE PREPARED FOR WEATHER EXTREMES aquifers, resulting in algal blooms or other water quality issues. It is part of your responsibility to Our event is held rain or shine. It has been held properly dispose of your grey water. Be kind to the during Nor’Easters, severe thunderstorms, coastal environment – do not dump anything that would flooding, plagues of insects, and record heat and cause harm! Foodstuff and oil should never be cold. A shade or rain structure can be helpful and disposed of on the ground. shared with neighbors. Be sure to properly stake or rebar any structures you erect. Tents have blown A Gray Water Plan will make water management away and out of the event grounds, becoming MOOP. easy, and a good plan had two components: disperse Shade structures have become windborne and hit and pack out. people in the head. • Disperse: In general, small amounts of “light” gray water such as shower water that used TICKS, WILDLIFE, AND LOCUST TREES biodegradable soap can be sprinkled around on the ground so as not to make a puddle. For dishwater TICKS that used biodegradable soap, best practice is to use a fine strainer to remove fine food particulates and There are likely to be ticks in the area that carry add a drop of bleach to sanitize before sprinkling Lyme Disease as Lyme Disease is carried specifically about. By using biodegradable soaps for both on deer ticks, and the site is currently used by a yourself and your dishes means that the majority of hunting club and the site is designed to attract deer. your water waste will be dispersed. All participants are encouraged to practice Radical • Pack out: All other gray water and greasy messes Self Reliance and get educated on ticks and Lyme must be packed out. Packing in an empty 5 gallon Disease before arriving at the event. Frequent tick bucket with lid is an easy way to have space to carry checks and tick repellent are strongly suggested. out any gray water that can’t be properly dispersed. WILDLIFE ICE Local wildlife includes black bear, fox, bobcat, coyote, racoon, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and deer. Ice will also be available for sale prior to the burn on Interaction with wildlife isn’t expected as the noise the PDF website, and on site at Camp Recharge (via of the event will likely keep wildlife away, however, credit/debit card/PayPal) until Noon Saturday. if you encounter a black bear, identify yourself by Ice Pick up Times are Friday, Saturday & Sunday; speaking in a calm, appeasing tone and back away 12:00PM - 1:00PM and 5:00PM - 6:00PM. slowly, preferably in the direction you came. We Ice made available for Pick up on Friday will be recommend wearing boots because both rattlesnakes limited Pick-Up. The Main Ice order will be delivered and copperheads are venomous. Note: there has on Saturday at Noon. Ice is $3.00 per 7lb bag via been no known sighting of these snakes in recent credit/debit card. There will be NO CASH SALES years on the property. ONSITE. LOCUST TREES Have big thorns. In fact, they have really BIG thorns. SHOWERS / TOILETS And they are everywhere. We suggest wearing boots There are no showers or water on site. and making sure the area where you set up your tent There are no flushing toilets, but plenty of porta is free from locust tree debris and stumps (a shovel potties. IF IT DOES NOT COME FROM THE BODY, or a small hatchet will help). DO NOT PUT IT IN THE POTTY! Single ply TP is the only exception. No beer cans, no tampons, no baby wipes! These things clog the hose used to clean

16 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. WHAT TO BRING RECOMMENDED: • Shade structures, umbrellas, parasols, sheets; NECESSITIES: things to break the cruel mid-day sun and/or keep • Bedding and shelter of some type (a good camp you dry in the rain tent is recommended, along with sleeping bags) • Rebar to keep the above structures firmly rooted Note: The ground will be rocky in places, sleeping to mother earth bag on bottom of a tent may be uncomfortable • Small hatchet, lopper or shovel to uproot sapling without padding or a cot stumps (from Locust trees) • One gallon of water per person per day (for • Cooler(s) to store your perishable foods and drinking, dishwashing, food prep., etc.), more if beverages planning to bathe. Keep a bottle of water with you • A cooking stove at all times • A mountain bike (light it up at night!) • A plan to carry out grey water that can’t be • A fine strainer for dishwater gray water disbursed onsite • Earplugs / eye-mask not everyone will sleep when • Enough food and beverages for your entire party you do for the length of your stay • Insect bite and sunburn treatment/medication • All required prescriptions, contact lens supplies, toiletries, etc. • Watertight protective bags, like heavy Ziplocs, for cameras, electronic gear, etc. • First aid kit • Blinky lights, toys, magical fabulousness, • Single-ply toilet paper (the port-a-potties only get handmade, and heartfelt and swell stuff to share; serviced once a day) anything you think would make things more fun for • Garbage bags and zip-lock type bags. (more than • Pre-moistened towelettes, aka baby wipes, as there enough for all of your garbage—it’s good to bring are no showers on site - but remember they must extra for MOOP that accumulates during the event). be packed out! Do not put baby wipes in the porta- • A plan to carry out all your trash. potties as they clog the hose that cleans them! • Can or bottle opener if bringing cans or bottles • Spray bottle (for misting if it will be hot) that need opening • Rope, string, duct tape, zip ties, bungees • Portable ashtrays if you are a smoker (Decorated • Fuel for stoves and generators, etc. mint tins work great) • Rain hat, rain gear • Flashlights (headlamps are very useful, especially at night in the porta potty) • Sun hat • Extra batteries for everything • Seating, because you can’t dance forever • Sunscreen and sunglasses • Simple tool kit and a sewing kit. Including scissors of some sort. • Insect and tick repellent; there are deer in the area which carry deer ticks, which carry Lyme Disease, • Socks, socks, and more socks please consider your tick repellent carefully • Abundant amounts of whatever makes your life • Sturdy closed-toe footwear, the terrain is better: beer, bacon, chocolate, coffee, etc. rocky and full of sapling stumps. Also, there are • If your favorite beverage is available in a can, get copperheads and rattlesnakes in the area that version. They crunch down for easy pack out, • Glowy lights to be seen at night where they can be recycled. • A cup for beverages, many camps have drinks to • Bring more socks than you think you’ll need, share, but you must bring your own cup nothing better for tired feet than clean socks. • Ice for the entire duration of your stay or pre- purchase The point of preparing and understanding how • Common sense, an open mind, and a positive attitude PDF works is to help you relax into the experience • Anything else you can’t live without, but won’t be and enjoy the playground of ideas and community heartbroken if you lose it that make the whole thing worth the effort! The What, Where, When is here BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE SURVIVAL to provide clarity and a GUIDE IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY framework for PDF. Like the constitution, it is a living MORE TIPS CAN BE FOUND THERE ON document. If something is WHAT TO BRING FOR AN AWESOME PDF! unclear, missing, or you have other questions, feel PLAYADELFUEGO.ORG/EVENT/SURVIVALGUIDE let us know: comms@ playadelfuego.org

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 17 NATIVE SPIRIT ART Artist: Jordin Gilmour Replications of native art from tribes that occupied 23 KAZOO the Schuylkill Watershed where Playa del Fuego Artist: Scotchyscotchscotch is held...this installation will be as true to form as Have you dreamed of becoming a musician? Do possible using real animal taxidermy, feathers and you have no musical talent? Don’t worry, “bob” will artistic style (where applicable). The art is a personal “save” your musical soul! Come join the playa kazoo tribute by the artist to her best friend who recently band! Yes, “you” too can live the lifestyle of the stars! passed away and was half Cherokee Indian. He Sex, drugs, and rock & roll! Make friends! Snort coke studied nursing close to the event and was an avid off a stripper’s ass! Bite the head off a live bat! DJ and festival goer. Art Grant Recipient Don’t burn with the rest of the pinks! Our roving band of weirdos and rejects will grant you the power of “Eternal Salve-ation”!!! PARKING PALS All checks must be made payable to: Artist: Stilted Saint J.R. “Bob” Dobbs The Parking Pals have been attending PDF for 555 Pony Ave many years. Towering 10 feet tall, they stand as Wilmington, de 66669 silent sentinels proclaiming messages of hope and Location: Roaming inspiration. As you enter, watch for the Welcome Art Grant Recipient Home Clown and the “Don’t Panic” Sailor. Location: Greeter Station BEFORE I DIE... Artist: Sheck PRAYER PINECONE - POSITIVE PINEAPPLE Life is finite. Take a moment and think about how Artist: Chimera you would finish the sentence “Before I die, I want to These pinecones are gathered from Hallowed ______.” Grounds and are covered with color changing flame. Art Grant Recipient Grab a pinecone from Sanctuary and take a moment to send a message into the Universe. Meditate a DON QUIXOTE’S DUMBBELLS positive thought, feeling, prayer, etc of whatever you desire at this moment for yourself and/or others. Artist: Forest Fire & Balance Afterward, place the pinecone into the opening at the Don Quixote went to the gym, but all he found was top of this Giant Pineapple. Be sure to witness your two windmills... so he made them his dumbbells. prayers send off into the Universe on burn night! Recycle! Fight global warming! Protect our Your future self thanks you for existing! environment! Location: Prayer Pinecone - Positive Pineapple Art Grant Recipient Location: Burning Art Area Art Grant Recipient PUBER (PLAYA UBER) DRAGON AND DEMONESS PHOTOFRAME Artist: Balls AND LIVE ART BOOTH Have you ever been in deep playa and just lost the Artist: Meisha will to walk/stumble back to camp? Well, the PUBER (Playa Uber) is here to serve you! The Puber, by Lifesize 4’wide x 7’tall painted wood photoframe Balls (Camp) will be a public transportation art car of dragon and demoness with enclosed booth available to the whole PDF community. To ride the surrounding. Come, pose and stay inside to Puber, you merely need to hail it as it drives by, participate as live art for the viewing pleasure of our calling out BALLS! or PUBES! Puber. Helping you friends here at Playa! Or, with your consent and come and go all over the playa. taken with your camera only, capture a quality photo to take home with you, complete with dragon and Location: Balls Camp demoness as your photoframe. Art Grant Recipient

IT’S A TRAP!!! S3 Artist: Stilted Saint Artist: Harley Goode Wondering what this art is all about? You’ve been Syno Synaptic Synchronicities, or S3, is an art warned... It’s a trap!!! structure of ribbons of unique poetry. Walk into the room, only read one, hear a few and see many. Bells Location: Pony Express Station at each end ring as needed. Lanterns to shine light.

18 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. Walk through the structure and stare at your sky. and participate in grand adventures. Get on the Art Grant Recipient leader board and take one home at the end of PDF! Pony Express Station SHITPOSTS! FOR SCIENCE? Art Grant Recipient Artist: Jake Pockets TOILET CATS Come write some shit on our shitposts. We’re Artist: Clown Shoe burning it later! These posts will be in front of many different camps. A couple dozen playful cats’ faces will adorn the lids Location: Shitshow... For Science! of porta-potties scattered throughout the event in Art Grant Recipient the form of decals from life-sized to terrifying scale. Did you know that everybody poops? It’s true. They do. However, not everyone closes the lid. In a porta- SPOOL OF THE DAWN potty situation this lack of a wrist flip on the way out Artist: Laura Katz Rizzo can wreak havoc on the plastic closet for the next user (population: everybody, as discussed above). Spool of the Dawn is a kinetic altar to summer, Close a lid. Maybe find a cat face. Definitely help a reference to the magical Beltane ritual of the the subsequent pooper. You’re a winner either/both Maypole dance, and a connector of worlds. The ways! Look at you go. piece provides a mechanism with which burn participants can contemplate and actively reawaken Art Grant Recipient their bodies, minds and spirits to the vivid colors, vibrant scents, and tingling breezes of summer after VIP PORTA POT EXPERIENCE! the bleak and harsh chill of a long winter. Artist: Sean Carter, Jen Cram Location: Coffee and Contemplation When nature calls, pop a squat in our stylish pots. Art Grant Recipient Take a load off under a lushly decorated shade TABULA RASA canopy. Freshen up with complimentary MOOP- mindful toiletries. On the flip side, gussy up before Artist: Todd Croteau you step out in front of a PDF-themed red carpet This installation helps people contemplate who they photo wall. Commemorate the weekend without are and where they have come from. Is one’s slate including innocent bystanders! Tag your photos with complete, or can one continue to scribe their life in a #VIPportapot so we can see your pretty faces! Get more empathetic and healthful way? creative inside and out - share your PortaThoughts in our sketchbooks for posterity, leave your thoughts Tabula Rasa is a 3-sided wall structure painted on the photo wall for the burn. flat black. Chalk (or neon paint) will be provided to participants to create personal expressions on Art Grant Recipient the wall. The walls will be cleaned/repainted daily or a few times each day...becoming blank again. WORDS The installation will include lighting to excite the Artist: Scott Frias, Tristan Heles fluorescent chalk colors. Community participative artwork celebrating Art Grant Recipient language in all its glory. The piece will be by the makeshift stage at our theme camp, and feature THE AMAZEING PRINCIPLES around 80 spots where participants can, using the Artist: Sheck provided acrylic paint pens, write a message to the world, alongside all the others on this 3-dimensional Enter, grab a passport, and wander through a maze! wooden artwork, which is black, grey and white. No There are descriptions of each of the ten principles names or attributions will be permitted, or obvious (and a stamp) so read, stamp, and get a reward for messages and symbols of hate, but otherwise we acculturation! want the freest possible expression in language to Art Grant Recipient be added. Location: Stage

THE PONY EXPRESS BIKES Artist: Stilted Saint

Following a long tradition of Pony Express bikes at prior PDFs, this year will be the first with a full stable of them. You can find them at The Pony Express Station, where you can take them for rides

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 19 STAY GOLD, PONYBOY ONGOING Ongoing showings of S.E. Hintin’s classic, The Outsiders, by projection! COAL CHIGGER PREVENTION Location: Camp Stay Gold The PA Coal Chigger is a unique creature. Find Bring: Yourself Event type: Art out from Camp Tasty how to prevent them from RUINING your burn!! UNOFFICIAL CAMP MOOP Location: Camp Tasty Bring: SELF Ongoing, starting Thursday evening until Sunday Event type: Educational night. I will be giving out plastic bags for people to collect moop and bring it to our “camp”. There will be a bag to place it in and I encourage people to toss SHIVAMBU WITH BRANDON S in even the smallest thing on the ground that does Join Brandon and the adventurous crew as we naturally belong there. There will be a simple sign explore both fresh and aged shivambu, both internal saying “Camp Moop”. It will be in OPEN CAMPING and external. As a Shivambu Guru of the 3rd Order, but look for a popup, we will have the signs, bags Brandon has been using this for his daily heath for etc, there. Feel free to take a bag if no one is at the past 3 decades as an alternative to vaccinations, camp. Feel free to return it if no one is there either. pain killers, acne, detox, athletes foot, coal chiggers, At home, I plan on using gloves and pulling out as and many others. Come Learn from the MASTER. much recyclable materials as possible. Our event Location: 50 Shades of Grape type is one of the principles “Leave No Trace” Bring: a cup and an open mind Location: Roaming Event Type: Drink Bring: Return Moop Adults only THINGS ARE LOOKING UP THE ART OF INTIMATE DEFECATION The time and space traveling astronomers are How Close are you with your partner? Ever held back! Or maybe we’ve always been here. Look for hands with them while they are on the toilet? Ever our telescope in open camping and come share an held hands while you are BOTH on the toilet? WELL uplifting moment with us after dark. Early morning THEN, Come to Gabe and Brodie’s LOVE TOILET!! moonwalks and interplanetary gatherings. Mysterious Side By Side with your loved ones! Sharing True deep space piracy and exploration. Sun spotting by Intimacy!!! (this is an LNT event - you have to take day! Weather permitting. Moon permitting. Must be your shit with you after) licensed for space travel. Potential for elevated mood Location: Roaming and/or sense of awareness. Bring: you and a loved one Location: Roaming Event Type: Art Bring: Your eyes and your imagination Event type: Educational, Spiritual FREE CANDY Free candy is the best candy. It’s safe. We promise. PONY EXPRESS!!! Location: New York Dangerous The Pony Express is coming, and they’re riding Event Type: Food hard!! Throughout the event, come by the Pony Express Station to learn more about the inspiring TEENY TINY HI5S history of the Pony Express and to participate in the fun by riding a stage on a PDF-custom Pony Express Do you need to work on the precision of your Hi5s? Bike. There will be on-going rides, relays, contests, Are your Hi5s too big? Too small? Anti-climactic? and challenges, and participants can win the right Do you miss the thrill of Hi5ing your childhood to take a Pony Express Bike home at the end of the stuffed animals? A little freaked out by the Easter Burn! Bunny, but love bunnies anyway? Fuggles wants to help! Explore the mysteries of teeny tiny hand hellos Location: Pony Express Station from a true master of this art! Hi5 clinics will run Bring: Spurs that jingle jangle jingle (optional) all weekend, just look for the tiny pink bunny with a huge personality called “Tiny Victories” and prepare TIKI GIFTING SHOP your pinky for a moment of profound connection! We will be hosting a gifting shop for clothing NOTE: This year Hi5s come in Classic Teeny Tiny giveaways, so if you find you’re missing a costume and Ridiculous (available upon request). piece, or if you just want to peruse some fantastic Location: Roaming burner fashions, please come and browse among our Bring: your pinkies and child-like wonder! costume racks or donate as you wish. Event type: Educational, Spiritual, Sport Location: TIKI Over 21

20 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. CORNHOLIO’S CASUAL CHAMPIONSHIP SIDE QUEST: LEND ME A HAND! CHUCKING Make no bones about it, Steve-the-Drowned- Stop by CLASSHOLES to throw some corn sacks for Skeleton is the best at losing himself on the Playa - a surprise reward. Reward may or may not be the he really goes to pieces! Luckily, we tag all his limbs thrill of a perfectly thrown sack swishing through an with instructions on how to bring them back to their enhanced cornhole. Extra points awarded for each owner. To help us keep Steve in mostly centrally- spilt drink. Anyone who dares to challenge Fred to located pieces, be on the look out for any errant a toss off gets to take home the whole beautifully arms or lost legs and loosely follow the instructions decorated set, should they win. Unlikely as that is. attached. Location: CLASSHOLES (Reward) Bone jewelry with +1 Charm Bring: Your body (Experience) +1-5 Playa puns Event type: Sport Location: Roaming Bring: Curiosity BUG ZAPPER GLORY HOLE Event type: Spiritual Wake up your genitals! Accommodates any genitalia and even groups. Free tee shirts to those who try it. Location: Camp Scarred For Life THURSDAY Adults only THU 10:00 PM TO FRI 4:00 AM BIRTHDAY SPANKINGS We’ve got a virgin at our camp and it’s his birthday. MINI ARCADE (VIDEO GAMES, FOOSBALL, AIR HOCKEY...) Time to serve your best birthday spank. He lost Stop by and have some fun in our mini arcade! We count of his age so we’ll lose count on the spanks. have tons of free video games, foosball, air hockey, a Leave the best hand marks you can, and ensure that claw machine and coloring books! he will not be able to rest his tush for the rest of the Location: SON OF A BIT weekend. Lets make this a PDF his ass will never forget. Many hands make light work. Come to our camp anytime on Saturday and ask for Jim. THU 11:45 PM TO FRI 3:00 AM Location: Droppin Propper MIDNIGHT MOVIE - WHAT WE DO IN THE Bring: Flogger, crops, paddles or just your hand. SHADOWS Adults only Join us for an outdoor projected showing of “What CAMP RE-CHARGE We Do in the Shadows.” You bring the bowl, we’ve got the hot buttered popcorn! Hours of Operation for Camp Re-Charge will 24 hours a day. If the lights are on in the Camp Location: SON OF A BIT Re-Charge tent...we are up and running. We are Bring: Bowl for popcorn, chair or blanket across from Center City and Participation Station Adults only along the back boundary. We have six white pop up tents with a banner. Bring your own cords to charge whatever you need. No high energy use items like FRIDAY coffee pots, crock pots or really big sex toys you naughty folk have hiding in your tents. FRI 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM Camp Re-Charge is also where you can go to buy ice and reserve ice. We also sell PDF In and Out Passes YOGAFLOW for one time use for $20. We can only accept V/MC/ Let’s breathe together and show our bodies some Amex and Discover. And, all funds go directly into love before we put them through the ringer. Start the PDF master account. your day off right with a Vinyasa flow with Shira! Location: Camp Re-Charge Time subject to change. Bring: Your cords...etc. Location: New Haven Adults only Bring: Mat and water, but I do have a few spares Event type: Art, Educational, Spiritual, Sport IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS! Equip your inner hero!

Journey by the Golden Radish to earn your very own

Hero Badge and select a weapon to defend the Playa from monsters of the Default World!

Location: Radish

Event type: Spiritual

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 21 FRI 10:00 AM TO 12:30 PM a toss off gets to take home the whole beautifully decorated set, should they win. Unlikely as that is. AURA PAINTING Ever wanted to know what color your energy Location: CLASSHOLES Bring: Your body currently is pouring out? Then come have a chat Event type: Sport with Bear while he rips a part of you out and throws Ongoing it on a canvas! It’s fun! Come find Bear at his not creepy at all: Bear Cave, in open camping. FRI 1:00 PM TO SAT 4:00 AM Location: Grassy field in front of stage Bring: Your best MINI ARCADE (VIDEO GAMES, FOOSBALL, AIR HOCKEY...) Event type: Art, Spiritual Ongoing Stop by and have some fun in our mini arcade! We have tons of free video games, foosball, air hockey, a claw machine and coloring books! FRI 11:00 AM TO 12:00 PM Location: SON OF A BIT FRUITY BRUNCH Bring a cup and a bowl or plate to TIKI for some FRI 2:00 PM TO 3:00 PM fresh-cut tropical fruit and a cocktail. LET’S TACO ‘BOUT IT Location: TIKI Bring: Cup and plate or bowl Let’s give ‘em something to taco ‘bout. A balanced Event type: Drink, Food diet is a taco in both hands. There is no “we” in taco. Live every day like it’s Taco Tuesday. Back by popular demand...taco fiesta with Jellyfish. You bring your own FRI 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM plate, we supply tacos! We will offer meat and vegan options, shells and tortillas, and appropriate taco UNDERPANTS YOGA toppings. PS: Taco cat spelled backwards is taco cat. “When I first started inviting people to do yoga with me at burns, I kept hearing the same thing: “”I didn’t Location: Camp Jellyfish bring any yoga clothes!”” I started answering “”so Bring: plate Event type: Food come practice in your underpants,”” and underpants yoga was born. This is a creative vinyasa-style yoga class appropriate for all levels of yogi and tailored FRI 2:00 PM TO 3:30 PM to whoever is in attendance, with a sense of humor and relaxed atmosphere. Oh, and underpants. IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE PLAYSHOP (Participants only, no spectators please) Calling all movers, wigglers, can’t-sit-still-ers and Location: Camp Contact that’s-my-jam-ers! Do you watch people breaking it Bring: Yoga mat if you have one, water, sunblock down on the dance floor and hear a little voice say “I Event type: Educational, Spiritual, Sport can’t dance”? Maybe you’ve been grooving for a while and you feel like your flow needs a funky refresh? Experience a new way to get down with Shira as we FRI 12:00 PM TO SAT 8:00 PM explore different ways of inspiring movement! TIKI GIFTING SHOP Location: New Haven We will be hosting a gifting shop for clothing Bring: Your favorite song to dance to Event type: Art giveaways, so if you find you’re missing a costume piece, or if you just want to peruse some fantastic

burner fashions, please come and browse among our FRI 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM costume racks or donate as you wish. Location: TIKI BATTLE OF THE BARDS AKA BARDIC Ongoing KARAOKE Druids, Rogues, and Drunken Masters all get plenty FRI 12:00 PM TO SUN 6:00 PM of time to shine - this one is for the Bards. You might be a Bard If you have a mystical connection to the CORNHOLIO’S CASUAL CHAMPIONSHIP harmony of the universe through the magic of song... CHUCKING or if you thrive on attention and tend to flirt all your Stop by CLASSHOLES to throw some corn sacks for problems away. Regardless, the Golden Radish wants a surprise reward. Reward may or may not be the YOU! Come work your magic on our mic, beguile the thrill of a perfectly thrown sack swishing through an crowd and earn the acclaim you deserve. enhanced cornhole. Extra points awarded for each Location: Radish spilt drink. Anyone who dares to challenge Fred to Event type: Music

22 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. FRI 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM whenever else we can track down our bartender. PRETTY, PRETTY NAILS Location: Radish Bring: Cup Come join Camp Stay Gold (unofficial) in a nail Event type: Drink polish social at our camp site (field to the left of the Over 21 gate) - feel free to bring things to pretty up your fingernails (or make them look otherwise awesome), or come and share in the polish and decorations FRI 4:00 PM TO 6:30 PM we already have on hand. We may... or may not have golden nail polish on hand to make those nubs BALLS CAMP HAPPY HOUR!!! and daggers look simply fabuloooouuss! This is an The best happy hour on the playa is back! Join us for everyone invited event (all ages). Planning for two for an epic happy hour at Balls Camp. Come dressed hours... or until all the polish runs out! in your finest playa formal attire no matter what it may be, have a drink (or ten!), and play with our Location: Grassy field in front of stage Bring: Nail polish, pretties, or just your nails balls! There will be signature drinks and games, Event type: Art pumping music, and our finest ball gown clad crew to serve you some awesome libations. All you need to bring is your awesome self and a cup. See you there! FRI 4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM Location: Balls camp STUMP Bring: A cup Event type: Drink If you woke up this morning thinking, “I JUST Over 21 WANNA HAMMER SOME GODDAMN NAILS”, you’re not alone, friend! Come to Classholes to get your hammerin’ fix with a daily game of Stump. The goal FRI 4:00 PM TO 8:00 PM of Stump is to flip a hammer in the air and then, TALL SANTA VISITS THE PLAYA in one motion, drive your opponents nails into a tree stump, taking turns until you are the last nail Tall Santa will be making his [semi] annual visit standing. Stump is a game of finesse. A game of to the Playa, distributing joy, gifts, and bad jokes. strength. A game of panther-like reflexes. And if that When you hear the sound of the Christmas kazoo tickles your pickle, just wait till you hear the drinkin’ and see him pushing his sleigh, you’ll want to come rules! Beers, dreams, and fingers will probably be running so that you can pick your own gift. This is crushed. Sparks will literally fly. It is the greatest non-judgmental Santa, so any mistakes you’ve made drinking game you’ve never played until now! in the past won’t count against you, unless they involve mooping or picking on reindeer. If you’re an Location: CLASSHOLES elf or a Santa groupie, please join the fun. The sleigh Bring: Closed toe shoes Event type: Drink, Sport ride could take hours and the more the merrier! Location: Roaming Bring: Holiday cheer and a smile FRI 4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP FRI 5:00 PM TO 6:30 PM Discuss and learn about hypnosis. Find out about various uses for hypnosis: Pain Management, JUNGLE AND JUICE HAPPY HOUR Anxiety Management, Motivation, Performance Come to Camp Droppin Proper for that proper Enhancement, Study Skills, Sleep, Dreams, Jungle flavor with a cup full of jungle juice. This hour Memory, Recreation, Self Hypnosis, Meditation, etc. is for the jungle massive! Bringing the ready flow for Demonstrations subject to availability of volunteers. the friends you know to enjoy the steady bass line. Private sessions available by request. Jungle & Juice is for everyone so bring your base cup and enjoy the musical flavor at camp dropping Location: Camp Contact Event type: Educational proper. Location: Droppin Propper Bring: Cup, dancing shoes FRI 4:00 PM TO 5:30 PM Event type: Drink, Music POTIONS! GET YOUR POTIONS HERE! Over 21 Have you taken a beating on your adventures? Are your magic reserves depleted from casting all those FRI 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM fireballs? Did the Battle of the Bards blow your JUNGLE JUICE HAPPY HOUR mind and you need to recover with a delicious adult beverage? Come to the Golden Radish and enjoy our Come join us at TIKI for our famous happy hour, Health and Mana Potions. Open after karaoke, and featuring games and general debauchery, some delicious jungle juice fruit punch, and other tropical

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 23 drinks. Bring Your Own Cup (none supplied) and poke the pinata with a stick. You might even get a your participation spirit! monster hug with consent, because well, consent is Location: TIKI good and she’s a Monster, not a MONSTER. Bring: Bring Your Own Cup!!!! Location: Damnation Alley Event type: Drink Bring: Pockets for Candy Over 21 Event type: Spiritual

FRI 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM FRI 6:00 PM TO 6:30 PM SHADY OAKRIDGE BOOK CLUB MEET UP FIRST AID TRAINING Sharon suggested the most filthy book for our book First Aid Training club! Let’s meet up and discuss for this week’s meetup Location: Participation Station (I know for a fact that Becky owns this book and that Bring: Yourself and your Certificates it probably plays a factor in her impending divorce). I’ll be providing some light refreshments, and maybe we’ll be opening a bottle of white chardonnay! Feel FRI 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM free to stop by and get a little tipsy O:-) 2ND ANNUAL NEKKID HAPPY HOUR Location: 50 Shades of Grape Redux Bring: Your sweet selves Ladies and gentlemen, deviants and debauchers... Event type: Drink please join your friends at Camp Jellyfish for our Over 21 second annual Nekkid Happy Hour. Enjoy a custom cocktail menu wearing nothing but the skin you’re in! Imbibe in your birthday suit, drink beer while FRI 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM bare! Calling all naturists as well as any friendly flashers! All are welcome...as long as you’re nekkid! SANTA’S TROPHY CASE HAPPY HOUR Come get your drink on with Santa’s Trophies. Location: Camp Jellyfish Bring: drinking vessel Maybe Santa will make a surprise appearance!! Event type: Drink Location: CLASSHOLES Over 21 Bring: A cup Event type: Drink FRI 6:00 PM TO 9:00 PM Over 21 BURLINGTON GOAT FACTORY FRI 5:00 PM TO SUN 11:59 PM NETWORKING HAPPY HOUR SWEET DICKS RETURN From 6-9pm on Friday, join our visionary CEO Hotbone and the rest of the elite management team Do you have a sweet tooth? An affection for all at the Burlington Goat Factory! You can learn about things penile? Well, we’ve got you covered! Find us our revolutionary AI mission-driven technology roaming the playa with an assortment of cocks to solutions for all of your thirst, pliability, and audio consume, knobs to slob, and dongs to gobble. needs. The networking possibilities are limited only Location: Roaming by your imagination. Bring: Receiving Orifice Location: The Burlington GOAT Factory Event type: Food Bring: CV, Groundbreaking Ideas Ongoing Event type: Drink

FRI 6:00 PM TO 6:30 PM FRI 7:00 PM MONSTER’S BIRTHDAY BASH RANGER TRAINING Monster will be having a bash. Literally. Watch her Interested in becoming a Ranger? Come by Ranger beat the shit out of a Pinata and then indulge in HQ / Participation Station on Friday night at 7 pm candy and toys and other things that could be moop for Ranger Training. if your asses don’t come and grab them. And if she’s feeling slightly human like at the time, she might Location: Participation Station / Ranger HQ even let other Birthday people take a whack at the Pinata. But, she’s a Monster, so who knows. She FRI 7:00 PM TO 8:00 PM might just want to wail on the pinata while roaring loudly in beast mode. FIRE ON FLESH - MASSAGE AND MORE If anyone wants to donate candy or toys prior, Experience the feel of fire on your skin! It can Monster will not complain. She might even let you be sensual or sadistic, depending on your goals.

24 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. It’s always beautiful, and its power can be a little FRI 9:00 PM TO 10:00 PM bit scary. Join us at dusk for a hands-on fire play demonstration/workshop that will include fire EROTIC HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP massage, fire cupping, and fire plumes. We’ll show Discuss and learn about erotic hypnosis. Find both horizontal and vertical techniques. We’ll go out about consent, heightened pleasure, emotion over safety precautions, and of course, if you wish enhancement, role playing, orgasms on demand to volunteer, all interaction will be negotiated to the for women, and more. Demonstrations subject to comfort level of those involved. availability of volunteers. Private sessions available by request. Location: Camp RedBottom Event type: Educational Location: Camp Contact Adults only Event type: Educational Adults only FRI 8:00 PM TO 11:00 PM FRI 11:45 PM TO SAT 3:00 AM PARTY YOUR MOM WARNED YOU ABOUT Live music, drinks, talking to people. You know what MIDNIGHT MOVIE- THE BIG LEBOWSKI a party is. But this one... is dangerous. Join us for an outdoor projected showing of “The Big Lebowski.” You bring the bowl, we’ve got the hot Location: New York Dangerous buttered popcorn! Bring: Your sweet booty. Event type: Drink, Music Location: SON OF A BIT Adults only Bring: Bowl for popcorn, chair or blanket Adults only FRI 8:00 PM TO 9:00 PM SATURDAY PLAYA PENIS PAGEANT Is your penis amazing? Do you want to prove to SAT 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM the world just how amazing it is? If you’d like to show off your schlong, then the Playa Penis Pageant YOGAFLOW is just for you! Your dynamic dick will compete against other would-be top cocks in carefully chosen Let’s breathe together and show our bodies some pageant-themed categories. A panel of discriminating love before we put them through the ringer. Start judges will crown the most majestic member! your day off right with a Vinyasa flow with Shira! Time subject to change. Location: Camp Jellyfish Bring: your phallus New Haven Adults only Bring: Mat and water but I do have a few spares Event type: Art, Educational, Spiritual, Sport FRI 8:00 PM TO SAT 2:00 AM SAT 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM CAPES AND UNDERWEAR PARTY PANCAKE BREAKFAST...OF DANGER Join Camp La Familia for the one and only Capes and Underwear party!bPut on your best cape and your Come have a tasty breakfast with us! We’ll have sexiest underwear and come party with us. pancakes. coffee and vegan options. They will have no glass in them. Zero. Featuring: Location: New York Dangerous Luca G [I FEEL / The Magic Group / La Familia ] Bring: Your own plate and cutlery https://soundcloud.com/dj-luca-g Event type: Food Giacomo [The Magic Group / Nomadic Rabbit Holes] https://soundcloud.com/djgiacomo-ny SAT 10:00 AM TO 12:30 PM Taurus [Drop Science, Toolroom Records, Rising Music, Juicy Music] PANCAKES AT SPACEBAR! Carlo DiPlacido [Drop Science] Come eat pancakes at Spacebar! Make some friends while we try to make pancakes without burning Location: CAMP FAMILIA them. Bring your own cup and plate! Bring a chair Bring: Capes and Underwear and come talk with us! Event type: Music Adults only Location: Spacebar Bring: Cup and plate! Event type: Drink, Food

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 25 SAT 10:45 AM TO 12:45 PM SAT 1:00 PM TO 1:45 PM MINI BURN COCONUT OIL SLATHER Build your own down-sized burnable sculpture Slather Yourself, Slather Someone Else, Get (under 12”) using toothpicks, popsicle sticks, bamboo Slathered (All with consent, of course) Some really skewers, matches, etc. Learn about density of high quality, Organic Coconut Oil, and a semi- material, how fire moves and rate of collapse. Start private, enclosed area. Tarp on the ground to keep small and maybe get inspired to build big one day. the traces off the ground. Come dressed, come Or heck, just enjoy getting crafty with us. Stop by naked, or something in between. Let’s Slather!!!!! and check the sculptures and join us in dancing and Location: The Poly Haven frolicking around as we burn them. Bring: Maybe a towel to blot yourself, afterwards Location: CLASSHOLES Event type: Spiritual Bring: Gifts for the lovely hostess Over 21 Event type: Art, Crafts, Drink, Educational Adults only SAT 1:00 PM TO 2:00 PM SAT 11:00 AM TO 12:00 PM MAKE YOUR OWN (SOCK) MUPPET! FPCS BOD & BURNING MAN RC MEETUP Have you every wanted to create a fuzzy monster version of yourself? Or just a fuzzy monster friend? Come down to meet your local regional contacts We’ll have fuzzy socks (limited supply, BYO is also as well as the Fire Pony Board of Directors. Bring a OK), googly eyes, glue, felt, scissors, and yarn. Then cup for light refreshments. All RC’s and community bring your sock muppets back on Sun. @ 2pm for leaders welcome. a Muppet Mixer cocktail party! Come Muppet it up Location: Participation Station with Mahna Mahna! Bring: A cup Location: Mahna Mahna SAT 11:00 AM TO 12:00 PM Bring: A sacrificial fuzzy sock (if you have one) Event type: Crafts FRUITY BRUNCH Bring a cup and a bowl or plate to TIKI for some SAT 1:00 PM TO 2:30 PM fresh-cut tropical fruit and a cocktail. BALLS CAMP POTLUCK Location: TIKI Want lunch you can have a ball with? We’ll be Bring: Cup and plate or bowl Event type: Drink, Food sharing our balls with you and invite you to share yours! Meatballs, melon balls, Rocky Mountain Oysters, whatever round or ball shaped foods we can SAT 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM find! Don’t forget to wear your ball gowns and bring your own plates and utensils. This burn featuring UNDERPANTS YOGA even more Vegan options! #veganballs When I first started inviting people to do yoga with Location: Balls camp me at burns, I kept hearing the same thing: “I didn’t Bring: Plate, cup, utensils bring any yoga clothes!” I started answering “so Event type: Food come practice in your underpants,” and underpants yoga was born. This is a creative vinyasa-style yoga class appropriate for all levels of yogi and tailored SAT 1:00 PM TO 3:30 PM to whoever is in attendance, with a sense of humor PEWTER CASTING and relaxed atmosphere. Oh, and underpants. (Participants only, no spectators please) Make your own PDF swag. We do the dangerous part, you pick the design and finish it. All ages, but Location: Camp Contact younger folks will need an adult to assist. We supply Bring: Yoga matt if you have one, water, sunblock Event type: Educational, Spiritual, Sport all materials. Location: Camp Scarred For Life SAT 12:30 PM TO 1:30 PM Event type: Crafts

KOMBUCHA-MOSAS SAT 1:00 PM TO 4:00 PM It’s like a mimosa, but with kombucha. Come to camp Classholes and get yer fiz on. MAN ON CROSS I will sit on a seat attached to a Cross and hold Location: CLASSHOLES Bring: A Cup dialogues with people. Event type: Drink Location: Burning Art Area

26 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. Bring: An Open Mind OPEN DISCUSSION ABOUT “OPEN” Event type: Educational, Spiritual RELATIONSHIPS Facilitated discussion, Subjects determined by SAT 1:00 PM TO SUN 4:00 AM participants. Sample subjects: Different styles of polyamory, Dating with or without your partner, MINI ARCADE (VIDEO GAMES, FOOSBALL, AIR HOCKEY...) Sexual orientation & polyamory, Resolving conflict, Stop by and have some fun in our mini arcade! We Poly etiquette, Feeling safe, How much to share have tons of free video games, foosball, air hockey, a w/partner, Managing jealousy, STIs & safer sex, claw machine and coloring books! “Integration” of families, Public disclosure,Poly- Location: SON OF A BIT saturation, Poly-breakups, Avoiding poly- agony, Valuable to anyone in a relationship. All configurations, orientations, stripes, colors and SAT 2:00 PM TO 3:00 PM experiences are welcome. FIFTY SHADES OF REDBOTTOM Location: The Poly Haven Bettie Page, the Matron Saint of Camp RedBottom, Bring: Seating said “50 Shades of Grey? Bah! RED!” There are Event type: Educational Adults only many ways to make a bottom red. We invite you to learn about some of our favorites in this introductory workshop. We’ll cover basics like SAT 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM consent, safety, negotiation, and safe words. After that, focus will be on intro to impact play and other ART GRANT SOIREE BDSM activities, including fire play, bondage, body For all those receiving an Art Grant, we will have harnesses, and whatever else inspires us or you. This a mixer with some light refreshments and a round will be both demo & participation-oriented, so there robin of discussion on art, creativity, and take may be volunteer opportunities. All bottoms are suggestions on evolving/improving/sustaining our welcome, but no assholes, please! Feel free to stay art system. The Art Grant committee will tour all after the workshop for our pallet wrap suspension the artworks prior to the soiree and all are welcome demo immediately following. to walk with us. Meet at Stage camp one hour or so Location: Camp RedBottom prior to the event time. Event type: Educational Location: Stage Adults only Bring: A good attitude Event type: Art SAT 2:00 PM TO 3:00 PM SAT 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM GUIDED MEDITATION Experience guided meditation and deepen your BATTLE OF THE BARDS AKA BARDIC personal meditation sessions. KARAOKE This is a group activity. Private sessions by request. Druids, Rogues, and Drunken Masters all get plenty of time to shine - this one is for the Bards. You might Location: Camp Contact be a Bard If you have a mystical connection to the Event type: Educational harmony of the universe through the magic of song... or if you thrive on attention and tend to flirt all your SAT 2:00 PM TO 3:30 PM problems away. Regardless, the Golden Radish wants YOU! Come work your magic on our mic, beguile the IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE PLAYSHOP crowd and earn the acclaim you deserve. Calling all movers, wigglers, can’t-sit-still-ers and Location: Radish that’s-my-jam-ers! Do you watch people breaking it Event type: Music down on the dance floor and hear a little voice say “I can’t dance”? Maybe you’ve been grooving for a while and you feel like your flow needs a funky refresh? SAT 2:00 PM TO 5:30 PM Experience a new way to get down with Shira as we POLY HIGH TEA explore different ways of inspiring movement! Poly High Tea is a Burning Man tradition, usually Location: New Haven held at camp Poly Paradise. The default world sends Bring: Your favorite song to dance to us constant messages, socializing us to think and Event type: Art feel that monogamy is good and other options are non-existant or wrong. Maintaining connections to SAT 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM our polyamorous communities and talking about our lives can help us re-socialize ourselves and AVOIDING “POLY-AGONY” remember that our relationship choices are valid,

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 27 valuable, and viable. I provide tea and cookies and SAT 3:30 PM TO 4:00 PM moderate the conversation. CONCLAVE FIRE SAFETY MEETING Location: Camp Rainbow Unicorn Want to spin in the conclave? Than don’t miss Bring: Cup, Chair or blanket to sit on Event type: Drink, Educational the mandatory fire safety meeting or you will not preform!!! SAT 3:00 PM TO 4:00 PM Location: Droppin Propper Bring: flow props ANYBODY CAN FLY - PALLET WRAP Event type: Educational Adults only SUSPENSION Considered by some to be the most comfortable form SAT 4:00 PM of suspension, pallet wrap adds a versatility that allows any body type to experience the “”flight”” of COUPLES HYPNOSIS WORKSHOP traditional rope suspensions. Join us after our Fifty Shades of RedBottom workshop to learn more! Bring a partner and be hypnotized together for a rewarding relationship building experience. Private This workshop will be both demo and participation- sessions available by request. oriented. If you wish to suspend or experience being suspended, the interaction will be negotiated to the Location: Camp Contact comfort level of all those involved. Bring: Your partner Event type: Educational Location: Camp RedBottom Bring: Educational Event type: Adults only SAT 4:00 PM TO 5:30 PM WHEN PIGS FLY - (YOU CAN TOO!) SAT 3:00 PM TO 4:30 PM Kick back with us as we are sporting a Russian River MEN’S EMPOWERMENT CIRCLE - BROTHER Brewing keg of Blind Pig as well as a whole slow roasted pig to eat! This is a gift-away process, all you IN ARMS @SANCTUARY have to do is bring a cup, utensils and a plate-like A circle for discussion, openness, vulnerability and device for your grub. Donations will be accepted for brothers of all backgrounds to come and unload (NOT MONEY), in the form of smiles, ridiculous the burden they carry on their shoulders, whether stories and good vibes! Feel free to check out our it be societal issues, beliefs, old habits, self-abuse, dome while you’re around! We’ll be supplying sound etc. that requires a safe space to share and release for your fine dining experience too! Huzzah! in order to see it and heal it. This circle is meant to Location: The Invisible College encourage bonding and connection between men, Bring: Cups, Plates, Utensils who often spend the majority of their life avoiding Event type: Art, Drink, Food, Music their brothers and competing with them instead of Over 21 collaborating with them to achieve a higher place of being. Allow yourself to be, in all your being and SAT 4:00 PM TO 5:30 PM choices, and find new light in your own darkness. We shall meet at the Sanctuary led by Ignis and Shiva. POTIONS! GET YOUR POTIONS HERE! Location: Participation Station Have you taken a beating on your adventures? Are Bring: Yourself ready to open up your magic reserves depleted from casting all those Event type: Spiritual fireballs? Did the Battle of the Bards blow your Adults only mind and you need to recover with a delicious adult beverage? Come to the Golden Radish and enjoy our SAT 3:00 PM TO 5:00 PM Health and Mana Potions. Open after karaoke, and whenever else we can track down our bartender. LIVE TECHNO JAWNY JAM Location: Radish This hour we’d like to collaborate and make some Bring: Cup fun live techno. This ain’t no hippie dippie drum Event type: Drink circle. This is a live techno experience. Bring any Over 21 acoustic jawn that makes noise, and lets get funky. Pots pans kazoos, champagne glass, vocal chords SAT 4:00 PM TO 6:00 PM whatever inspires you to bang it out to a beat. DROP YOUR PROP SPIN JAM Location: Droppin Propper Bring: Jawns that make noise Drop your prop here at camp Dropping Proper, Event type: Art, Music where you can drop all the things, show off, make a fun time or just learn with us. Warm up your arms and props at our all levels spin jam. Have a prop you

28 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. don’t know how to use, have a prop you’ve mastered both horizontal and vertical techniques. We’ll go well, want to learn how to spin all the things. Come over safety precautions, and of course, if you wish spin all your things! We always Dropping it Proper at to volunteer, all interaction will be negotiated to the this spin jam. comfort level of those involved. Location: Droppin Propper Location: Camp RedBottom Bring: Flow Toys Event type: Educational Event type: Music, Sport Adults only

SAT 4:21 PM TO 6:00 PM SAT 10:00 PM TO SUN 12:00 AM CAMP TASTY 4:21 MUNCHIE POT LUCK TIKI IGNITES THE NIGHT! Stop by Camp Tasty for our traditional post- After the Pony falls, we will light our fire circle and 420 pot luck party to chow down on a variety of continue an evening of fire performing at TIKI! munchies and delectable delights, both sweet and Bring your fire props and light up the night as salty! Munchies are a menace plaguing burners our fantastic DJs set the beat for you. Safeties are everywhere - and Camp Tasty is here to help! This available, but bringing your own is encouraged. Fuel event begins at 4:21pm sharp! contributions are always welcome. Location: Camp Tasty Location: TIKI Bring: an appetite, a dish to share is welcome Bring: Fire Props, Safety Buddy, and Supplies Event type: Food Event type: Drink, Music, Sport

SAT 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM SAT 10:00 PM TO SUN 5:00 AM JUNGLE JUICE HAPPY HOUR FIRE JAM- SATURDAY POST EFFIGY Come join us at TIKI for our famous happy hour, Calling all Pyromaniacs! Burners of the Playa unite! featuring games and general debauchery, some We welcome you to Camp Dropping Proper for a delicious jungle juice fruit punch, and other tropical chance to drop it with us! Didn’t get your fill at drinks. Bring Your Own Cup (none supplied) and the Effigy? Didn’t get to burn enough? Want to see your participation spirit! more fire? We will bring you fire. Join us while we Location: TIKI deliver scorching hot beats to satiate all your fire Bring: Bring Your Own Cup!!!! flow desires DP style. Twist it, Turn it, Burn it’. Flip Event type: Drink it, Stall it, Toss Reverse it’. Bang the drum! Bring fuel Over 21 and props to camp dropping proper. Bang the drum. Location: Droppin Propper SAT 6:00 PM TO 8:00 PM Bring: fuel, flow toys Event type: Music, Sport LEBOWSKI HAPPY HOUR Donny was a good bowler and a good man. Enjoy SAT 11:45 PM TO SUN 3:00 AM White Russians with the Dropping Proper crew in his memory. We will be serving tasty Caucasians, MIDNIGHT MOVIE - FEAR AND LOATHING and bringing you the finest tunes that are sure to IN LAS VEGAS get your juices going and your booties shaking. Kick back, relax, dance, or fuck a stranger in the ass, Just Join us for an outdoor projected showing of “Fear remember never fuck with the Jesus. and Loathing in Las Vegas”. You bring the bowl, we’ve got the hot buttered popcorn! Location: Droppin Propper Bring: Cup, pomeranian, marmot, stories from Location: SON OF A BIT Nam Bring: Bowl for popcorn, chair or blanket Event type: Drink, Music Event type: Adults only Over 21 SAT 11:59 PM TO SUN 1:30 AM SAT 7:00 PM TO 8:00 PM ART AT MIDNIGHT FIRE ON FLESH - MASSAGE AND MORE After the pony burns, come play with various arty Experience the feel of fire on your skin! It can things while supplies last, including coloring books, be sensual or sadistic, depending on your goals. pencils, markers, pastels, stamp carving (lino), and It’s always beautiful, and its power can be a little paint and mini-canvas. bit scary. Join us at dusk for a hands-on fire play Location: Camp Tasty demonstration/workshop that will include fire Event type: Crafts massage, fire cupping, and fire plumes. We’ll show

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 29 SUN 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM SUNDAY NO-NEW-FRIENDS TEA TIME Tired of making new friends? Feeling like all of your SUN 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM gruntles got dissed? Want to relax with a hot cup of tea after a long night? Come to our No-New-Friends YOGAFLOW tea time. Channel your inner introvert and just Let’s breathe together and show our bodies some chillax! Disclaimer: Friendly faces will not be turned love before we put them through the ringer. Start away, all are welcome. your day off right with a Vinyasa flow with Shira! Time subject to change. Location: CLASSHOLES Bring: A cup Location: New Haven Event type: Drink Bring: Mat and water but I do have a few spares Event type: Art, Educational, Spiritual, Sport SUN 1:00 PM TO 3:00 PM SUN 10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM FRITO PIE PIG OUT PANCAKE BREAKFAST...OF DANGER Come try this guilty pleasure. Arrive early because end time is approximate and we will be serving until Come have a tasty breakfast with us! We’ll have we run out. All ages. pancakes. coffee and vegan options. They will have no glass in them. Zero. Location: Camp Scarred For Life Bring: Appetite and a fork Location: New York Dangerous Event type: Food Bring: Your own plate and cutlery Event type: Food SUN 1:00 PM TO 3:00 PM SUN 10:30 AM TO 11:30 AM BRUNCH BOUNCE SUNDAY WAFFLES Got Eggs? Got Meat? Got Beats? We do! Let’s Traditional for many years! Join us for whole grain BOUNCE! SHAKE! WAKE! mix waffles. Take the scrapple challenge, too! Please Whether you’re still up like a boss from the night bring your own plates and utensils! Real maple before, or if you want to wake up and rage, this is for syrup will be available, but bring you own toppings. you. We’ll provide food and music that will nourish Location: Videogasm your soul and recharge your body. Bring: Plates and utensils Location: Droppin Propper Event type: Food Bring: plates, bowls, forks, cups Event type: Drink, Food, Music SUN 11:00 AM TO 12:00 PM SUN 1:00 PM TO 4:00 PM FRUITY BRUNCH Bring a cup and a bowl or plate to TIKI for some MAN ON CROSS fresh-cut tropical fruit and a cocktail. I will sit on a seat attached to a Cross and hold Location: TIKI dialogues with people. Bring: Cup and plate or bowl Location: Burning Art Area Event type: Drink, Food Bring: An Open Mind Event type: Educational, Spiritual SUN 11:00 AM TO 12:30 PM UNDERPANTS YOGA SUN 1:00 PM TO MON 2:00 AM When I first started inviting people to do yoga with MINI ARCADE (VIDEO GAMES, FOOSBALL, AIR HOCKEY...) me at burns, I kept hearing the same thing: “I didn’t bring any yoga clothes!” I started answering “so Stop by and have some fun in our mini arcade! We come practice in your underpants,” and underpants have tons of free video games, foosball, air hockey, a yoga was born. This is a creative vinyasa-style yoga claw machine and coloring books! class appropriate for all levels of yogi and tailored Location: SON OF A BIT to whoever is in attendance, with a sense of humor and relaxed atmosphere. Oh, and underpants. SUN 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM (Participants only, no spectators please) Location: Camp Contact MUPPET MIXER COCKTAIL PARTY Bring: Yoga mat if you have one, water, sunblock Mix and mingle with the muppets of Mahna Mahna, Event type: Educational, Spiritual, Sport

30 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. who have mixed up some crazy concoctions for your Bring: Bring Your Own Cup!!!! enjoyment! Come as your muppety selves, because Event type: Drink everyone is a little bit muppety. Did you make a Over 21 sock muppet yesterday? Great! Bring it, be it, show it off. Want to bring a cocktail or supplies to share/ SUN 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM contribute? Awesome! No “special” ingredients, please. BYO cup/vessel. 2 HOURS OF FUSION Location: Mahna Mahna These two hours we’ll have open CDJ’s, welcoming Bring: BYO cup/vessel other camps to join us at Camp Dropping Proper Event type: Drink for some music fusion. We can do a mash up of styles cultures and genres. Come Prepared to dance SUN 3:00 PM TO 4:00 PM and see how we can fuse with each other. CDJ’s and Rekordbox is our format, Vinyl junkies bring your WEDDING- MALLARD DUCK AND UNI records! UNICORN Location: Droppin Propper Two Camps, both alike in shenanigans, Bring: flashsticks, vinyl In fair Tamaqua, where we lay our scene, Event type: Educational, Music From skeezer grudge break to unholy matrimony, Where civil Ducks makes civil Unicorns unclean. SUN 7:00 PM TO 8:30 PM A pair of camp-cross’d inflatable pool toys vow their lives to each other. CACAO CEREMONY RITUAL Please join us in the union of Mallard Duck and Cacao (AKA pure chocolate aka “The Food of Uni Unicorn the Gods” has been used in ancient shamanic We will have a short ceremony followed by your ceremonies for thousands of years. It’s subtly favorite underground house tunes by the Dropping euphoric, energetic and heart opening effects are too Proper crew. Dress code: extremely casual, birthday legit to quit. We’ll be serving cacao in warm liquid suits are welcome. form. Bring a cup, make an intention for whatever Location: Droppin Propper you want to manifest in your life and let Gaia work Event type: Music, Spiritual her magic through and within you. You are the conscious co-creator and the master that makes the grass green. The sky’s the limit. SUN 4:00 PM TO 5:00 PM FYI: Cacao and large doses of anti-depressants STUMP and anti-psychotics (SSRI’s) don’t mix. Google any If you woke up this morning thinking, “I JUST medications you’re taking before participating please. WANNA HAMMER SOME GODDAMN NAILS”, you’re Location: 50 Shades of Grape Redux not alone, friend! Come to Classholes to get your Bring: Cup, intentionally intentional intentions hammerin’ fix with a daily game of Stump. The goal Event type: Art, Drink, Music, Spiritual of Stump is to flip a hammer in the air and then, Over 21 in one motion, drive your opponents nails into a tree stump, taking turns until you are the last nail SUN 10:00 PM TO 11:30 PM standing. Stump is a game of finesse. A game of strength. A game of panther-like reflexes. And if that GAME OF THRONES WATCHING PARTY tickles your pickle, just wait till you hear the drinkin’ Come Watch the Season Finale of Game Of Thrones! rules! Beers, dreams, and fingers will probably be crushed. Sparks will literally fly. It is the greatest Location: Balls camp drinking game you’ve never played until now! Event type: Art Location: CLASSHOLES Bring: closed toe shoes SUN 10:00 PM TO 11:30 PM Event type: Drink, Sport SLAP, BUMP, ROLL! SUN 5:00 PM TO 7:00 PM Come learn and practice grappling techniques with Camp Lazer! Styles include Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Folk JUNGLE JUICE HAPPY HOUR Style Wrestling, and Judo. All experience levels welcome. Come join us at TIKI for our famous happy hour, featuring games and general debauchery, some Location: Camp LAZER delicious jungle juice fruit punch, and other tropical Bring: Dress comfortably drinks. Bring Your Own Cup (none supplied) and Event type: Sport your participation spirit! Location: TIKI

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 31 SUN 11:45 PM TO MON 3:00 AM CAMP CONTACT MIDNIGHT MOVIE - THE ROOM We are a group committed to exploring connection in community and between individuals. We do this Join us for an outdoor projected showing of “The through dance, movement, play, games, and inter- Room.” You bring the bowl, we’ve got the hot subjective meditation (We Spaces). We attend many buttered popcorn! regional burning man events and burning man itself. Location: SON OF A BIT Bring: Bowl for popcorn, chair or blanket CAMP FAMILIA Adults only “Who says you can’t choose your “”Familia””? Join this multi-ethnic bunch at our dance floor, our chilling Dome, or breakfast station with members MONDAY coming from Italy, Morocco, USA, Finland, Jamaica, Colombia, DR, and PR. Music, hugs and delicious MON 12:00 PM breakfasts will keep the party going! Featuring: New Dance floor structure, Chilling area TIME TO LEAVE! in our Dome, The Burn Unit Station, Shot Bar, You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. Breakfast Every morning and the sickest DJ lineup Pack your camp, clean up your moop, wave, hug, and ever seen at PDF: kiss your goodbyes, and drive safe! DJ Luca G. | DJ Carlo di Placido | DJ Taurus | DJ Location: Not here Sanam | DJ Giacomo | DJ Maxipad |DJ Hydrophonic Bring: Nothing! Take it all with you CAMP GEMSTONE The Gemstones spread their mineral magic THEME CAMPS everywhere they go. They are open to expanding the camp, but right now it’s just Ruby and Amethyst. They will be the ones wearing masks, in all red and 50 SHADES OF GRAPE REDUX all purple. Say hello and they might have something 2012 was a simpler time. The year of Superstorm for you... Sandy, a potential apocalypse, and millions of If they ask you to choose a card, you could be in for straight-laced suburbanites receiving inaccurate kink a little show. They might even be persuaded to teach education through some Twilight fan-fiction called an impromptu wire wrapping class anywhere on the 50 Shades of Grey. Six and half year ago the Grapes playa. initially emerged as everyone’s favorite dysfunctional wine camp known as 50 Shades of Grape. Come CAMP JAMMY JAM (STAGE CAMP) back to get weird with us as we bring you a night of chardonnay with ice cubes and mischief before the Camp for the folk that are going to run the babysitter has to leave. This means you, Becky. impromptu stage.

BALLS CAMP CAMP JELLYFISH Where Ball gowns will be worn, balls will be played Come get jelly and snuggly with the Gods and with and/or dodged and Principles will be upheld! Goddesses of Camp Jellyfish! Play chess, have a drink We invite you to come have a ball, where it’s all or just chillax and shake dat ass to music. Home of about the balls... Ball gowns, bouncy balls, meat Richard’s famous limoncello, taco fiesta, and Nekkid balls, rum balls, gum balls, dodge balls.... We may Happy Hour! not have the biggest balls of them all but we’ll definitely have the best! Bring your balls, wear your CAMP LAZER ball gowns and join the fun! Warning balls may or Camp Lazer is a cathartic melting pot of visual may not be returned! artists and gregarious neo-hippies. Blending the old with the new, the chill with the frenetic and the BAR subtle with the in-your-face, we strive to generate Your shitty neighborhood dive bar on the playa. synthesis from opposites...and oh yeah! we have Stop by for a cheap beer, bad facilities and an even lasers. worse staff. And if you time it just right, you might The famous LAZER’s Mimosa Train will be making hear some tunes and decide to shake your tail its way to you, so please check your local station feathers. That is if we manage to keep the lights on. schedules.

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32 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. your stuff that you use vs. going to your car. We blackboard for daily activities, and prepare to get have USB hubs and powerstrips. Bring your cables schooled! and feel free to leave them or hang out while you charge. COFFEE AND CONTEMPLATION Coffee and Contemplation is an inclusive safe space CAMP REDBOTTOM that offers the gifts of fresh coffee and thoughtful Welcome to Camp RedBottom, hosted by Fire Tribe. conversation. We welcome all burners to sit down, We are a group of fun, friendly kinksters with a relax and discuss the wonders of the universe with passion for BDSM. We welcome the opportunity us while we brew you the best french press coffee to talk about and demonstrate a few of the many on the playa with tender loving care. activities we enjoy under the kink umbrella. Come have a conversation with us, and maybe even DAMNATION ALLEY try out some light impact, bondage, or fire play. Creatures are here. If you are a creature too, you are Consent and safety are essential to what we do, welcome to stop by. Not a creature? Fuckit, you can so all interaction will be negotiated to the comfort stop by too you damn sexy not creature. We have level of those involved. We are looking forward to things and stuff. And it’s Monster Mew’s birthweek. meeting you! Hizzah and shit. Because fuck having a day when your birthday is on memorial day weekend. CAMP SCARRED FOR LIFE Participate in our events and you will never DROPPIN PROPPER be the same. Stop by to be scarred mentally or We are dropping proper! Known for the physically (consenting adults only). Try our brand underground sound of Philadelphia DJs and of electroshock therapy, branding, or come hang scorching hot fire flow art. We take visual appeal in our chill bar space. Stop in and make your own and crunchy base lines and push the sound barrier metal swag during our foundry event open to all. for Playa residents to enjoy. We were formerly Foundry Camp. HM PYRO CAMP STAY GOLD Camping for the crew of HM Pyrotechnics. Bringing A little group of misfits and outsiders, bonded you some of the best boom we can since 2010. together by weirdness, gaming, and friendship. We want to share our love of gaming, art, the ten principles, and the pleasure of geeks, nerds, and ILLUMINATION other weirdos being a community within the PDF Spreading light into the darkness for the weary community. Let your freak flag fly! burner. Showing videos into the night. Super Nintendo. Sundown till the genny runs out. CAMP TASTY Tasty Folks, Tasty Food, and Tasty Talk. Camp LOVEBURGER W/CHEESE Tasty has been an open camping tradition since We like our sweet nothings with extra cheese. Spring 2011Come on in, sit down, and chill out Events we host may relate to love, sex, burgers, around the fire with the fine folks of Camp Tasty. cheese, and more. Life is gouda. Every Saturday afternoon at 4:21 we serve up a tasty array of munchies to fulfill your post-4:20 MAHNA MAHNA needs and on burn night we do Art At Midnight. An ensemble of characters known for their Camp Tasty strongly encourages dramatic readings absurdity, sarcasm, wit, outbursts, zany ideas, and from - then the burning of - every available copy of random singing? Yup, that’s us! Burner style, of any book in the 50 Shades series. Please drop off course. Food good; tree pretty; fire awesome; yay, any available copies at any time so we may destroy boobies! it for you.

CLASSHOLES MILLENNIAL CAMP Class is back in session! Come by for a reminder of We are Millenials and all about life in the 21st all those special school times... That hot teacher... century. that epic school-wide game of tag... that 4th Place Honorable Mention Spelling Bee trophy you still NACHO AVERAGE CUDDLES have... that time you swiped your mom’s Arbor A welcome space for people of all backgrounds Mist and brought it in your water bottle... that time to come together and enjoy the universal snack: you got caught masturbating in the bathroom with NACHOS. Nachos bring the people together. pictures of... Well, maybe not THAT time. But what matters is that you learned something! Check the

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 33 NEW HAVEN gift-away scheduled for early Saturday evening We’re a brand-spankin’-new theme camp and Playa before the burn! Come throughout the burn for a Del Fuego 2019 is our debut! We’re a lo-fi chill and photobooth set up inside the dome should you feel flow space, dedicated to offering musical options so inclined! outside bumpin’ high-bpm tracks. We’re hosting quirky fun-filled events all burn long, come hang out! SHITSHOW... FOR SCIENCE! We’re a Shitshow but it’s all in the name of science. NEW YORK DANGEROUS Come to our bar, have a drink, listen to some music, We are a merry band of adventurers from New York and chill in our cuddle puddle. We’ve got some City and specialize in “everything your mom warned amazing DJs for you to dance to, a lot of laughs from you about”. We like talking with strangers, listening our witty bartenders, and overall just a lot of love to to loud music and have been known to run around give to the burn. with scissors. Come say hello, we have Free Candy! Come get Shitty with us at “Camp Shitshow... For Science!” You won’t regret it... Until the next day. PANDORAS FLOWERS We were backfield at the old, muddy, windy grounds. Pandora and all her flowers invite anyone to stop by We’re excited to see what the new land has to offer. for hot tea and conversation at any time during the burn. SON OF A BIT Missing the soothing glow of electronic monitors PONY EXPRESS STATION and the hypnotic beep-boops of the arcades of your childhood? Come chill in our retro arcade lounge PRAYER PINECONE - POSITIVE with sweet tunes, fighting game tournaments, and a PINEAPPLE movie every midnight. You like claw games? We got These pinecones are gathered from Hallowed one. You want bragging rights? Come get you some. Grounds and are covered with color changing flame. Oh and did i mention air hockey and foosball?! We Grab a pinecone from Sanctuary and take a moment will also be tapping a keg of homemade beer each to send a message into the Universe. Meditate a and every day (time TBD). Stop by and hang out positive thought, feeling, prayer, etc of whatever you until your mom says it’s time to come home, because desire at this moment for yourself and/or others. you don’t need quarters here! Afterward, place the pinecone into the opening at the top of this Giant Pineapple. Be sure to witness your SPACEBAR prayers send off into the Universe on burn night! We’re Spacebar! We like to serve drinks and talk Your future self thanks you for existing! about science! We have a telescope to look at stars! We have a spot to chill! We have lots and lots and PYRAMID PEOPLE lots of alcohol...and we love to experiment. Talk We are the Pyramid People. We camp under a giant space with us, talk skepticism with us, bring your purple pyramid, we make pyramid necklaces, and we cup, bring your imagination, bring your curiosity, play games with colorful little pyramids. Pyramids and come chill with us! are cool. (We also dig cubes and round things.) THE POLY HAVEN RADISH Once again, the good folks from “The Poly Haven” will For those who are weary from their travels, we have create space for safe, frank discussions about open rest and libations. For those who have but newly relationships, polyamory, communication, boundaries, embarked upon their road, we have quests and other jealousy, etc, etc, etc. This PDF, we are offering a new exciting opportunities! For those who stumble upon event, “THE COCONUT OIL SLATHER” where you us, we have a bunch of nerds standing around like can slather yourself, or others (with their consent) they’re about to LAPR or something. Yes, the Golden with high quality, organic coconut oil. Radish has something for everyone! Be ye Ranger or Rogue, Paladin or Drunken Master (you know who THE BURLINGTON GOAT FACTORY you are), come to the Golden Radish, the biggest The Burlington GOAT Factory is a revolutionary AI little D&D tavern in all of Tamaqua. mission-driven technology solutions firm (RAM. DTF) that always delivers 111% in this post- THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE global global e-economy. Visionary CEO Hotbone The Invisible College has a 25 foot geodesic dome and the rockstar BGF management team utilize with interior lighting and sound for your enjoyment! groundbreaking machine learning algorithms to Great vibes with a lot of strange music and stranger bring you game-changing thirst, pliability, and audio people! Be sure to check out the event section for solutions. Simply put, this RAM.DTF is the Greatest information about our planned food and libations of All-Time. All Burlington GOAT Factory events are BYOYOLO.

34 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. THE KILLADELPHIA EXPERIMENT Art Support camp for the Mutant Vehicle “The Killadelphia Experiment”.

THE ORPHANAGE A home for all orphans, full of laughter and joy and character growth through interesting menial labor. The Queen will appreciate your efforts.

THE PLAYAGROUND Adults at play! Playground equipment, fire, beer; what more could you ask for?

TIKI Come get freaky with TIKI! We mix up delicious fruity island cocktails, and DJs provide some of the hottest Oontz-oontzes on the playa. Bring your fire to our Tiki fire circle and show us what you’ve got! Come play on our Tiki style St. Andrew’s Cross, or just admire our shiny bar! Take a break at our lounge or dance the day or night away. So break out your finest tacky beachwear, Hawaiian shirts, grass skirts and coconut bras and come find us and discover why all roads lead to TIKI. ** Jungle Juice available all day, every day **

UPPER DUTCH BLUMPKIN In the late 20th Century - there is still one people that are over looked - the fine people of Upper Dutch Blumpkin - they fled their Dutch homeland for French Guiana - only to be forced into the northern part of that country because of their open practice of the Blumpkin religion - they are still oppressed to this day. FREE UPPER DUTCH BLUMPKIN

VIDEOGASM Long time Burners returning to PDF with the Playa Theater.

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 35 COLOR ME HUMAN

36 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. RELAXED YOU WILL BE

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 37 MAP OF EVERYTHING

38 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY. PLAYA DEL FUEGO

WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | PLAYA DEL FUEGO | SPRING 2019 39 VOLUNTEERING HAS ITS REWARDS!

INTRODUCING THE NEW AND IMPROVED

PLAYA DEL FUEGO VOLUNTEER RESERVE* TICKET PROGRAM

ONE RESERVED TICKET TO NEXT PDF FOR 6 HOURS OF VALIDATED VOLUNTEER TIME

HOW IT WORKS:

• Get a volunteer laminate at the participation station for your shifts • Get your volunteer hours validated by getting coordinator sign off on the laminate • Bring laminate with minimum 6 validated hours to the participation station to get registered for the program • Departments with offsite volunteers still get credit towards the program

REGISTER / MORE INFORMATION AT THE PARTICIPATION STATION

Disclaimers / Information / Definitions / Fine Print: • One ticker per qualifying volunteer. • The Volunteer Reserve Ticket Program (VRTP) can be redeemed for playa del fuego (PDF) only; the ticket and/or volunteer hours performed at pdf are not transferable to constellation or any other Fire Pony Creative Society (FPCS) event. • Volunteer is responsible for verifying the accuracy of their email address at time of program registration. This email address will be used for your registration and purchase of next year’s reserved ticket. * • Reserved means set aside. Not discounted, not free - reserved. The volunteer must participate in the specially designated reserve ticket sale prior to the next event to obtain their reserved ticket. • Persons that are banned from FPCS events at any point are ineligible to participate in the VRTP or redeem a previously earned reserve ticket. • Reserve tickets are available for the next PDF event only. 40 DEADLINE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE WWW IS USUALLY 3 WEEKS BEFORE OPENING THURSDAY.