GÜD: COMMUNITY STANDARDS/BOUNDARIES Playa del Fuego Guide THE TEN PRINCIPLES WHAT FALL 2014 Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles as guidelines for the newly- formed Regionals Network. They were crafted Communal Effort: Our not to dictate how people should be and act, community values creative but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and cooperation and collaboration. WHERE culture as it has organically developed since the We strive to produce, promote, event’s inception. “Burning Man” is understood and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and not as an event, but refers to a way of life lived methods of communication that consistently with these Ten Principles. support such interaction. WHEN Civic Responsibility: We Radical Inclusion: Anyone may be a value civil society. Community part of Burning Man. We welcome and members who organize events should respect the stranger. No prerequisites assume responsibility for public welfare exist for participation in our community. and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They Gifting: Burning Man is devoted to must also assume responsibility for acts of gift giving. The value of a gift conducting events in accordance with is unconditional. Gifting does not local, state, and federal laws. contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value. Leaving No Trace: Our commu- nity respects the environment. We are Decommodification: In order to committed to leaving no physical trace preserve the spirit of gifting, our of our activities wherever we gather. community seeks to create social We clean up after ourselves and environments that are unmediated by endeavor, whenever possible, to leave commercial sponsorships, transactions, such places in a better state than when or advertising. We stand ready to protect we found them. our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consump- Participation: Our community is tion for participatory experience. committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative Radical Self-reliance: Burning Man change, whether in the individual or encourages the individual to discover, in society, can occur only through the exercise and rely on his or her inner medium of deeply personal participa- resources. tion. We achieve being through doing. Radical Self-expression: Radical self- Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is expression arises from the unique gifts invited to play. We make the world real of the individual. No one other than the through actions that open the heart. individual or a collaborating group can Immediacy: Immediate experience is, determine its content. It is offered as in many ways, the most important touch- a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver stone of value in our culture. We seek to should respect the rights and liberties overcome barriers that stand between of the recipient. 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 powers. No idea can substitute for this experience. SAFETY TURD place NOT THIS thumb here 44 WHAT, WHERE, WHEN GUIDE | EDUCATE. INFORM. BRAINWASH. INDEX/STAFF/WHAT IS PDF? GÜD: GLOSSARY Grand Unified Document v3.11, WHAT IS THE WWW? Nearby Medical Care VNVMC - Viet Nam Veterans Motorcycle edited for length ........................................2-13 The What Where When is a handy guide to urgent care Medical Aid Unit - Club, our hosts and landlords who refer to stuff at PDF. It publishes user-submitted and Christiana Care Health System this place as FIRE BASE LLOYD. Be respectful Basics ..........................................................2-4 committee-created content with a wink and 124 Sleepy Hollow Drive of them. Middletown, DE 19709 Community Standards ..............................4-6 a dash of style. The WWW doesn’t write this Coordinator - A super-volunteer who doesn’t 302-449-3100 Ten Principles ............................................4-5 stuff. The front of the book is excepts from just work a shift, they run an entire department the Grand Unified Document, which contains Rules ............................................................6-7 Christiana Hospital like DPW, PARKING, THEME CAMPS, or GATE. every policy and guideline of the event. The 4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road Burn - slang for a Burning Man-inspired Sound Policy .............................................7-9 Planning Committee and Board of Directors Newark, DE 19718 event like ours. Burns are not music festivals. Public Health & Safety ............................9-11 manage/change/update the content of the 302-733-1000 GUD; the WWW only publishes what’s already A few differences being: at burns there are Event/Site Guide ...................................11-12 there. The event and camp listings are created Community Expectations no spectators, burns follow The 10 Principles, Amenities ...............................................12-13 from stuff people enter online. Content is Playa del Fuego believes its participants want and the pretty girls at burns aren’t dancing to be good citizens. Getting to PDF can be a ankle-deep in a pile of beer bottles and cups. Planning, Participation, & edited and, if needed, embellished. lot of hard work. We think people genuinely “Have a nice burn.” Organization ............................................... 13 WHAT IS care about the community they work so hard 10 Principles - Burning Man’s version of Art ..............................................................14-15 Playa DEL FUEGO? to contribute to. This document contains the 10 Commandments, wherein you are information participants need to sustain this permitted to covet your neighbor’s wife but Ongoing Events ......................................15-18 Playa del Fuego is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Burning Man Event. Events are held every sincere experiment. not to litter or participate in cash activities Thursday Events ......................................18-19 spring and fall, on Memorial Day and We encourage all participants, newbie to like vending. And so very much more. See 10 Friday Events ............................................19-24 Columbus Day weekends. gnarled, to look over this document and be Principles in COMMUNITY STANDARDS Saturday Events .......................................25-30 Playa del Fuego is an experiment in collab- reminded this experiment in collaborative Volunteer Central - AKA “Participation community is not complete anarchy. Generally, Station”; a large temporary shelter located next Sunday Events ..........................................31-25 orative community featuring art and music created by those who join us to participate. if something is not covered in the GÜD, and to the red stage. It has volunteer schedules and Monday Events ............................................. 35 Attendees are known as participants. There it is legal in the larger world, it is allowed at sign-ups, lost and found, ranger HQ and radios, Theme Camps .........................................36-40 are no spectators at Playa del Fuego; every- the event. copies of the WWW Guide, and a few shady seats. Good place to go with a question. Maps .........................................................42-43 one collaborates in some way to create the Community Process — event. Inspired by the Burning Man festival, how the GÜD evolves Gate - The Gate are the portals through it is a place for radical self-expression and an These policies were created by the Planning which you enter the event. The event has 2 All content is subject to change. Content sub- experiment in temporary community building. Committee or the Board of Directors, which gates, front and back. One gate turns tickets mitted before posted deadlines may be edited It is a place of acceptance, inclusivity, and are all volunteer positions. Either a partic- and valid IDs into official wristbands during for length or clarity, or may be left alone for the respect. It is organized entirely by volunteers. ipant submits a proposal to the Planning specific hours posted elsewhere. The back sake of Radical Self-Expression. Content submit- Art and entertainment is created solely by Committee and the PC approves it, or not, gate is next to the main parking lot and fea- ted to the WWW or Theme Camp coordinator participants. There are no concession stands. or the BOD makes a decision about some- tures the Greeters. Always show your wrist- after posted deadlines might not be included. No cash transactions (except ice sales) are thing because there is compelling safety/ band to the nice people working the gate We’re all volunteers. Apologies for spelling or permitted at Playa del Fuego - even bartering liability or future-of-the-event-issue at stake. when you enter, leave, or bring them a cold other errors. The WWW is not a newspaper; is discouraged. Once something becomes an official event beverage/tasty snack. being printed here does not make it true and policy/procedure/rule via the BOD or PC, This is a sincere experiment in creating a gift PC - The Planning Committee makes the it should not be used as the final authority of it goes into the GÜD which is compiled by economy. If you need something, ask for it. If nuts and bolts choices that run the event. The anything. humble scribes. The best and easiest way to you have it, gift it! There are no garbage cans: Planning Committee is comprised of literally reach the PC is via the PONY. everyone is responsible for