GUD: ...... 2-14 Community Expectations Gate - The Gate is the portal through which you Playa del Fuego believes its participants want to enter the event. The event has 2 gates, front and Basics: ...... 2-3 back. The front gate turns tickets and valid IDs The Grand Unified Document is the sum total of all be good citizens. Getting to PDF can be a lot of into official wristbands during specific hours Community standards: .3-5 policies, rules, and regulations for Playa del Fuego. hard work. We think people genuinely care about posted elsewhere. The back gate is next to the Contact the BOD or the PC to make updates or revi- the community they work so hard to contribute Rules: ...... 5-6 main parking lot and features the Greeters. sions to these guidelines. The WWW doesn’t write to. This document contains information partic- Always show your wristband to the nice people this stuff — just prints it. We’ve added a few notes. ipants need to sustain this sincere experiment. Sound Policy: ...... 6-7 working the gate when you enter, leave, or bring They are in italic. We encourage all participants, newbie to gnarled, Public Health and Safety: to look over this document and be reminded this them a cold beverage/tasty snack. 7-9 experiment in collaborative community is not PONY - PONY stands for Planning and Playa del Fuego complete anarchy. Generally, if something is not Organization Need You. It is the official online Planning Participation, Grand Unified covered in the GÜD, and it is legal in the larger planning and discussion forum for Playa del & organizatiOn: . . .. 9-10 world, it is allowed at the event. Fuego. http://playadelfuego.org/pony. Document Community Process — how the PC - The Planning Committee makes the nuts event/site guide: . . . 11-12 v3.3 May 2015 GÜD evolves and bolts choices that run the event. The Planning amenities: ...... 12-13 These policies were created by the Planning Committee is comprised of anyone and everyone Committee or the Board of Directors, which are who calls the Planning Meeting conference call or Art: ...... 15-16 all volunteer positions. Either a participant sub- attends it in person. You may attend as many or as 1. basics mits a proposal to the Planning Committee and few meetings as you like, however, your vote only ongoing events: . . . . . 17-20 the PC approves it, or not, or the BOD makes counts for meetings you actually are a part of. Thursday/Friday events: 20-26. What is Playa del Fuego? a decision about something because there is a Read more about the PC at the PONY. Playa del Fuego is the Mid-Atlantic Regional compelling safety/liability or future-of-the-event PDF, Inc. - a Maryland not-for-profit corporation Saturday events: . . . . 26-32 Burning Man Event. Events are held every spring issue at stake. Once something becomes an official recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3. and fall, on Memorial Day and Columbus Day event policy/procedure/rule via the BOD or PC, it BOD - Board of Directors. A dozen or so unpaid Sunday events: . . . . . 33-36 weekends. Playa del Fuego is an experiment goes into the GÜD, which is compiled by humble volunteers in search of a hot tub in which to sit Theme camps: . . . . . 37-39 in collaborative community featuring art and scribes. The best and easiest way to reach the PC and think. They also handle all the boring legal music created by those who join us to partici- is via the PONY. http://playadelfuego.org/pony. parts of the event like taxes, insurance, liability, Maps: ...... 42-43 pate. Attendees are known as participants. There and adhering to our mission. are no spectators at Playa del Fuego; everyone GLOSSARY PDF - Playa del Fuego Comp Tickets - There are no comp tickets at collaborates in some way to create the event. PDF. Not even for volunteers, artists, DJs, the MOOP - matter out of place, anything that is not Inspired by the Burning Man festival, it is a place Planning Committee, or the Board of Directors. for radical self-expression and an experiment in indigenous the natural environment you are in, for temporary community building. It is a place of example: litter, cigarette butts, glitter Reserve Tickets - These are used to ensure that people essential to the smooth operation of the acceptance, inclusivity, and respect. It is orga- Rangers - helpful people who rove about in khaki All content is subject to change. Content submitted nized entirely by volunteers. Art and entertain- with radios. They are neither cops, your mom, nor event attend. Everyone approved for a reserve ment are created solely by participants. There required to wear utilikilts. ticket must still pay for it. Art Grant recipients before posted deadlines may be edited for length or also receive reserve tickets because art is central clarity, or may be left alone for the sake of Radical are no concession stands. No cash transactions VNVMC/ The Vets - Viet Nam Veterans (except ice sales) are permitted at Playa del Fuego to our mission and artists are bound by contract to Self-Expression. Content submitted to the WWW Motorcycle Club, our hosts and landlords who be present at the event. — even bartering is discouraged. This is a sincere refer to this place as FIRE BASE LLOYD. Be or Theme Camp coordinator after posted deadlines experiment in creating a gift economy. If you respectful of them. will not be included. We’re all volunteers. need something, ask for it. If you have it, gift it! Coordinator - A super-volunteer who doesn’t 2. COMMUNITY Standards Apologies for spelling or other errors. The WWW There are no garbage cans; everyone is respon- just work a shift, they run an entire department sible for packing out their garbage or throwing is not a newspaper; being printed here does not like DPW, PARKING, THEME CAMPS, or GATE. PLAYA DEL FUEGO PRINCIPLES make it true and it should not be used as the final it into one of the handy dumpsters. Playa del Fuego is a blank canvas; expect nothing...bring Burn - slang for a Burning Man-inspired event Self-Expression authority on anything. everything. like ours. Burns are not music festivals. A few Our events foster an environment of creative differences being: at burns there are no spectators, self-expression, where participants feel supported Event Location burns follow The 10 Principles, and the pretty girls to honestly express their inner selves through VNVMC Vietnam Veterans at burns aren’t dancing ankle deep in a pile of artistic creation, performance, and in their social Motorcycle Club of Delaware beer bottles and cups. “Have a nice burn.” interactions. 474 Flemings Landing Road 10 Principles - Burning Man’s version of the WWW STAFF Townsend, DE 19734 10 Commandments, wherein you are permitted Self-Organization Our events foster an environment of self- Editrix...... Vondervixen to covet your neighbor’s wife but not to litter Nearby Medical Care organization. The event is 100% volunteer run. or participate in cash activities like vending. Layout/Production/Guru...... Wick Christiana Care No one gets comp tickets. Everyone is invited And so very much more. See 10 Principles in Middletown Emergency Department to plan. Everyone is invited to play. Everyone Data Liaison/Delivery...... Fumbles COMMUNITY STANDARDS. 621 Middletown Odessa Rd is invited to work. The Planning Meetings and Non www print stuff...... Whiplash (across from Wawa near Rt. 1) Volunteer Central - AKA “Participation Station”; Planning Committee are open to everyone to Middletown, DE 19709 a large temporary shelter located next to the red attend. Cover Art...... Starfleet 302-203-1300 stage. It has volunteer schedules and sign-ups, lost and found, ranger HQ and radios, copies of the Accountability WWW Guide, and a few shady seats. Good place Our events foster an environment of per- to go with a question. sonal accountability, where we hold ourselves

2 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 3 responsible for our own actions, and take personal UNACCEPTABLE. RANGERS ARE HERE TO HELP an area of real laws. Try to make that coexistence responsibility for meeting our own needs, for the - YES can turn into a NO at anytime and that Rangers are not cops or your mom, but they do a peaceful one. Abide by all relevant local, state, event itself, and for the event’s impact on the needs to be respected. You or the other person want to try to ensure that everyone is having the and federal laws. If you see law enforcement offi- world at large. doesn’t have to go along with something, even if best burn possible. cers, be nice to them. PDF will cooperate with all it was previously agreed on. If you change your People who Ranger are usually those friends that local, county, state, and federal officials. We all Cooperation share an interest in having a smooth event. Our events foster an environment of cooperation, mind you should speak up, and if someone else you always know will be there for you. The PDF where participants work together to resolve changes his/her mind you should act in accor- Rangers do their thing via the FLAME method: Drinking and Driving potential conflicts respectfully, to help mediate dance with that new boundary. Find out, Listen, Analyze, Mediate, Explain. But Don’t be stupid, motorized vehicles don’t mix conflicts between others, and to create art, perfor- - Before you assume someone wants your physical you don’t need to be a Ranger to do this yourself! with intoxication. Any ticket holder found driving mance, and social space on a larger scale than one attentions, ASK. Being direct is OK. This includes If something or someone is bothering you, try while intoxicated/under the influence may be person could alone. Additionally, participants seek anything from hugs, spankings, kissing, etc. Some to talk to that person calmly and work it out. If banned from the event for no less than one year to keep events sustainable by volunteering, clean- people do not want to be touched, and that should something doesn’t seem right to you, ask about and possibly for life. There are no plans to bring ing up after themselves, and assuming personal be respected. Asking is expected protocol, and it — Find out what’s going on. You may discover breathalyzers to PDF, so the BOD reserves the responsibility for conducting themselves in accor- sexier than you might think. Not respecting these it’s not really a problem, or you may discover that right to ban participants suspected of altered driv- dance with local, state, and federal laws. boundaries can be considered sexual assault, and it is and that you either need to make a request, ing based on concerns raised by members of the will not be tolerated at the event. or explain one of our few rules and see if you can community. TEN PRINCIPLES recruit that person to help you respect it. At Playa del Fuego we follow the Ten Principles of - Respect the moment. Comfort levels vary at A motorized vehicle is defined as a non- Burning Man. See page 14. different times and with different people. Even If/when you decide you want help, something is human powered vehicle and includes cars, RVs, if a person seems comfortable with one person more intense or complicated than a minor dis- buses, art cars, tractors, go-karts, golf carts, scoot- EXPECTATIONS AND BOUNDARIES touching them does not mean they are OK with agreement, or you or a friend might need help ers, and similar devices. Community Expectations everyone touching them. from an outside resource of any kind, find/ask Playa del Fuego is an experiment in community, a Ranger (they are those funny looking folks in Off-Limit Areas - If you’re not sure if what you’re about to do is The Viet Nam Veterans Motorcycle Club of ad-hocracy, and do-ocracy. Respect is fundamental khaki). If you don’t see one wandering about, head OK, either where you are, or who you are with, Delaware (VNVMC), who owns the land on which to this community. Please respect yourself, other ask. Not everything is a good idea everywhere. over to Center Camp where you will find Ranger Headquarters (behind the Participation Station) we camp, has indicated that the following areas participants, and our hosts. Participants can be - Being under the influence is not an excuse for and the Ranger Base Radio. There are instruc- are 100% off-limits. PDF is not responsible for held liable for endangering or injuring other par- infringing on others boundaries. Consider your tions posted near the radio on how to turn it on what happens to you if you disrespect these areas. ticipants or their property. Please plan all projects level of sobriety. Are you able to ask permission and call for an available Ranger to meet you at At a minimum, you will be forced to leave: and activities accordingly and use common sense. and respect others’ boundaries? Consider the Participation Station. We are ready and waiting to Anything to the left of the gravel drive is off-limits Playa del Fuego operates on a gift economy. It is other person’s level of sobriety. Are they able to help you have an awesome PDF! except the showers and porta-potties next to the expected everyone contributes to the community give consent? TIP: You can say that you would in some meaningful way and gives as much as Interested in becoming a Ranger? Have you showers only. Stay to the right of the road at all rather wait until you both have your full judgment other times. they receive. There are many ways to give; do not before doing anything you may regret later. attended at least one PDF prior to this? If so, feel limit yourself to material gifts. free to come by Ranger Headquarters on Friday • The Clubhouse - a yellow and white building - Don’t hesitate to check in with others around night at 7 pm for Ranger Training, or ask a Ranger located between the showers and pavilion. Boundaries and Consent you. If someone looks uncomfortable, don’t be to help you find Animal or Snuggles, our On-Site • The Flagpole - located at the right edge of the Self-Expression and Cooperation require a social afraid to say hello and ask how they’re doing. contract to make our event a safe place to play. Ranger Coordinators, or Mythic, Off-Site Ranger gravel road and is near the clubhouse. It is sur- - If you are uncomfortable, ask for help. We are Coordinator. rounded by a fence and is clearly marked. These rules apply to everyone regardless of their a tight-knit community and look out for each • The helicopter, its stand, and the miscellaneous gender or sexual orientation. Remember that not other. Look around — are friends close by? Theme bombs and ammo boxes surrounding it. everyone wants your attention so be courteous camps? Random people walking around? Let them and always ask for consent. know that you aren’t comfortable in the current • Any buildings, closed fields, or fields with What do we mean by consent? Consent is an situation. contact the bOd or animals in them. affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision - Rangers are trained in mediation techniques and Just because it isn’t on the above list, does not by each participant to engage in mutually agreed- can diffuse any number of situations. In addition, the pc to change the mean you are allowed there. Use good judgment. upon activity. The consent has to be ongoing if there is a violation of your boundaries, Rangers throughout any encounter. While consent is gen- gud . the www just VNVMC Sovereignty at Event can intervene and will keep a log of the incident There are unique benefits that come from holding erally spoken about in terms of sexual activity, it in case the offending party continues this type prints it and can’t our event on the VNVMC site but they are not extends beyond this at PDF - we apply the same of behavior. Assault or repeated harassment may without a few strings. Our landlords, the VNVMC, guidelines to taking pictures of others, hugging, lead to ejection from the event; reporting incidents change it . reserve the right to object to actions of our par- entering a camp’s private space, etc. helps us spot predators. Rangers are the cool kids ticipants and ask those participants to cease the While we strive to make PDF a safe place for walking around in khaki with walkie-talkies. offending activity immediately, with no discussion. everyone, assumptions can be made (sometimes - Practice saying YES as well as NO. We know it In other words, if the Vets say so, it is so. The from those who have never been to a Burn before) can be challenging to communicate your feelings Vets’ demands supersede anything that may be about what is acceptable and what is not. The fol- or boundaries verbally. And no one should assume 3. RULES contained in this document or may seem other- lowing is PDF’s stance on consent and “best prac- they understand someone else’s body language. wise OK in the larger world. tices” for protecting yourself and others. Being clear about what you want or don’t want Rules have consequences. The consequences may - NO always means NO. Only YES means YES. can help avoid situations where boundaries are include being ejected from the event and/or being Event Entry Get an enthusiastic YES before proceeding with being violated. unable to attend future events. Wristbands Everyone is required to wear wristbands. Anyone anything that might infringe on someone else’s - Remember, respecting personal boundaries Illegal Activity found without a wristband will be ejected. boundaries. includes taking pictures or video, as well as physi- Please note: Playa del Fuego, Inc. does not con- Replacements can be acquired at the Front Gate - After someone has said NO, cajoling, plead- cal and verbal interaction. done ANY illegal activity. We create a temporary during ticketing hours. If someone asks to see ing, or any form of emotional blackmail is city with its own rules. This city coexists within

4 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 5 your wristband, it’s cool, just show them. c. The use of subwoofers, woofers, or any device Application form on the PDF Web Page before people that incidentally appear in the shot. capable of producing sound at or below 100Hz is the Theme Camp Placement deadline. The Sound However, it is expected that the photographer Re-entry not permitted between the hours of 10 PM and Marshal and their designees will limit the number will exercise judgment about the content of their If you leave the event site, even to just get some- 10 AM. of approved applications as they see fit. photographs, and will obtain consent whenever thing from your car, and wish to re-enter, you practical. must be wearing a wristband. d. Quiet Camping Areas – The Front Field and VI. Enforcement Back Field open camping areas are designated a. Individuals and Camps are required to comply with If a photographer is perceived to be violating these Gate Crashing and Sneak-ins as Quiet Camping. The use of generators, loud any Turn-Down request made by anyone as per “The rules, guidelines, or the community trust, they Gate crashing and sneaking in violates core prin- musical instruments (horns, drums, etc.), or any Sound Rule” until the issue has been investigated by a may be confronted by any member of the com- ciples of our event and are not tolerated. Gate other disruptive sound generation is not permitted member of the Sound Patrol, the Sound Marshal, or a munity. If the problem cannot be resolved, ask a crashers and sneak-ins will be treated like anyone between the hours of 10 PM and 10 AM. member of the PDF BOD. Ranger to help mediate. Ultimately, someone vio- else without a wristband and be ejected. lating PDF rules or interfering with other’s safety b. Individuals and Camps are required to comply IV. Roles and enjoyment of the event may be evicted. Scalped and Counterfeit Tickets a. PDF Board of Directors (BOD): The PDF BOD with any Turn-Down or Turn-Off order as made Scalped and counterfeit tickets violate core prin- has ultimate authority to turn down or off any and by a member of the Sound Patrol, the Sound Let the Reveler be Wary ciples of our event and are not tolerated. Scalped all sound as deemed necessary for the security of Marshal, or a member of the PDF BOD. This order Despite the Playa del Fuego photography policy, and counterfeit tickets are void and will not be the event. may be made for any reason from Sound Policy Playa del Fuego cannot be held responsible if a accepted for admittance or exchanged for a wrist- b. Sound Marshal: The Sound Marshal is respon- violations to formal complaints lodged against the photo of you appears in public. band. Wristbands obtained with scalped or coun- sible for PDF-wide compliance with the Sound event from local residents or county officials. terfeit tickets or in any other nefarious manner Minors and Children Policy and has the authority to Turn-Down or will be voided and the wearer ejected. VII. Sanctions For the protection of minor children and in Turn-Off any and all sound as deemed necessary, Sanctions for violations of the Sound Policy accordance with DE law, any minor child No Nudity within Sight of Gate with deference to members of the BOD, or to a may include, but are not limited to: Turn-Down attending this event must be accompanied by Our landlords, the VNVMC, requires that all quorum of the BOD if the Sound Marshal is a or Turn-Off orders lasting anywhere up to the someone with legal authority to make deci- participants within view of the gates, using the member of the BOD. remainder of the event, removal of the offending sions for the minor or child. porta potties at the front gate, outside the gates, in c. Sound Sponsors: Camp Leaders, individuals des- sound source from the event, prohibition of the A minor is anyone under the age of 18. the parking lot, or off the property, dress accord- ignated by a Camp Leader, or an individual bring- sound source from future events, or immediate ingly – that means modestly. If you can be seen You are solely responsible for the care, super- ing amplified sound to a PDF event responsible for eviction of one or more individuals as deemed vision, and well-being of the minor AT ALL from the road or a neighboring home, you should sound levels generated by their sound system who necessary by the PDF BOD. be properly attired for a public setting. Meaning TIMES. The accompanying guardian must sign will remain readily available within earshot of said an event waiver of liability for the minor. there should be nothing about your attire that system while it is in use. Photography and Video There may be activities that are not suitable allows others to see parts of your body the law d. Sound Patrol: The Sound Patrol are volunteers does not normally allow to be displayed in public. Individuals retain legal rights to the use of their for children or behavior that you may not wish tasked with enforcement of the above restrictions images, and the use of any media for commercial your children to see. Do not expect anyone Generally, if you can see the road or the “outside during a PDF event with the authority to tempo- world” make sure you are covered. purposes is strictly forbidden without the express to censor their behavior because children are rarily turn down any sound causing a perceived written permission of Playa del Fuego, Inc. and present. Playa del Fuego Sound Policy violation of the sound policy, reporting as neces- any subjects of the photographs and video. sary to the Sound Marshal for any necessary fur- Inability to take care of the minors you bring I. Purpose Photographers may not photograph anyone who ther intervention or policy dispute resolution. to the event can result in ejection. The Playa del Fuego (PDF) Sound Policy is requests not to be photographed, and must destroy intended to protect the longevity of PDF events e. PDF Attendees: Any attendee of a PDF event Minors volunteering: In general, parents’ best any existing images at the subject’s request, even judgment should be used regarding appropriate by establishing standards for the control of noise who perceives a violation of the Sound Policy if prior consent had been granted. from an individual or camp may invoke “The volunteer tasks for minors. However, minors pollution extending beyond the boundaries of said It is prohibited to take pictures in a camp or of Sound Rule,” as described in the Procedures sec- may not ranger or be responsible for checking events. a person that has posted a “No Photos” sign, or tion below. IDs at the gate for legal and safety reasons. II. Scope at an event where a “no photos” policy has been Coordinators and shift leads have the right This policy applies to any individual, group, V. Procedures announced. The slip and slide ALWAYS is a no to remove unsupervised minors from tasks or instrument, or device (instrument, installation, a. The Sound Rule: photo event. shifts at their discretion, if a situation becomes speaker system, generator, etc.) producing audible Anyone who suspects another individual or camp Guidelines for Photographers:­ unsafe or problematic. or sub-audible sound within and during a PDF is in violation of the Sound Policy and may pose We expect photographers to be open about their If you have additional questions or concerns event. as a disturbance to the events landlord’s neigh- activities. If someone is seen trying to hide that about children or minors at the event, please III. Restrictions bors may approach them IMMEDIATELY with they are taking pictures, malicious intent may be look for more info at our Website. a. All sound at PDF events shall be limited to a their concern. If satisfactory action is not taken assumed. to correct the issue, please report the issue to the predetermined decibel (dB) level, measured at 50’ Photographers obtain permission to take pictures Sound Patrol, Sound Marshal, PDF BOD member, 4. PUBLIC HEALTH AND from the source of the sound, dependent on the of individuals. This permission would ideally be or Ranger (such that they may contact the respon- time of day, as follows: obtained beforehand. However, if a great candid SAFETY sible parties by radio) as quickly as possible. 10 AM – 10 PM: 80dB shot presents itself, a digital photographer may 10 PM – Midnight: 74dB If you are approached by anyone about a choose to “shoot first,” and ask permission after- Porta Potties Midnight – 10 AM: 68dB perceived sound policy violation, you MUST wards. He/she is still obligated to erase the picture If it wasn’t made by your body, don’t put it in b. The use of electronically amplified sound IMMEDIATELY CORRECT or CEASE the activity, if the subject does not approve. the potty. Your wastes and 1-ply toilet paper are only after which you may reach out to the Sound between the hours of 12 PM and 10 AM shall A photographer may take a picture of groups the only things that should be in the potties. Patrol or Sound Marshal to resolve the issue. only be permitted to those approved by the Sound of people, or of artwork with people nearby, in “Flushable” baby wipes, tampons, food, beer Marshal or Sound Committee prior to the event b. Any camp or individual who wishes to have a public area that has no specified prohibition bottles, etc. clog the hose of the pottie truck, dam- through the Sound Camp Application on the amplified sound between the hours of 12 PM against it, without asking permission of all the age the pottie truck, make the pottie man’s life PDF Website. and 10 AM must apply through the Sound Camp

6 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 7 difficult, and may result in our potties not getting Don’t ever throw toxic or dangerous things into TRACE, NO PUBLIC TRASH CANS. their polluting effects. If a generator must be used, emptied on schedule. Also, potties are not trash any fire. it should be sited in such a way to minimize its cans. Do not abandon your trash on the floor or Ash Dump effect on neighbors and the community. Spent ashes go in the ash dump, not the dumpster. bench of a potty. See LEAVE NO TRACE, MOOP, GARBAGE No Public Trash Cans The location of the ash dump has changed now and THERE ARE NO PUBLIC TRASH CANS. No Dogs Burn barrels are not trash cans. There are no and then. Ask a Ranger, DPW, or smartie-pants Dogs are prohibited (with the exception of service FIRE, BURN BARRELS, and public trash cans at this event. At all times, at all where it is. Wise campers stop their fires early animals) at the event due to the presence of local BURNING ART places on the site, you are responsible for the trash Sunday evening so their ashes are cold during dogs and a history of territorial issues. Fireworks you create. Don’t ask someone if they have a trash Pack Out on Monday. Fireworks of any kind are prohibited in the state of can — they don’t. Recycling 5. GUIDELINES Delaware and are not welcome at the VNVMC. There are several recycling centers near the shop- Firewood ping centers in town. Participants are encouraged Not rules, but friendly suggestions to make things Firewood is included in your ticket price. It is to collect their recycling and drop it off at one easier on you and everyone else. available while supplies last. Participants are of these centers, or bring it home for your local pickup. Social Media welcome to take as much firewood as they need In our community consent is key so please, never from the main stack near the where the Pony Water as a “Trace” post photos of other people to social media unless burns. Don’t take wood once it is stacked under Water leaves a trace and should be used thought- those people have consented to have their photos the Pony effigy. fully. Private “sun” and other types of showers, posted online. Many people in our community Sharing is much cooler than hoarding and that kiddie pools, vigorous washing up, dishwashing, have sensitive jobs or family lives and a careless includes wood, too. Help keep greeters and gate and other large water uses are discouraged and post could potentially do something like jeopar- volunteers warm and safe at night by not taking should only be used when a plan on how to dize a career, make a messy divorce messier, or wood from the front and back gates where burn disperse the water properly is in place. In general, who knows what else. Also, by posting images barrels provide warmth, safety, and a welcoming small amounts of gray water should be dumped on most social media sites you give ownership of beacon. Have something that burns a lot of wood? into existing ditches on the site. Gray water those photos to the social media sites. Theses sites Consider bringing some of your own wood. should not be dumped onto the ground in areas retain those photos even if you delete them. It is Because there are evil insect species going around where people are camping. Be especially careful understandable to want to share images and the AND it is a Delaware state law, only bring wood using water near roads and pathways. Muddy myriad feelings they evoke, just be thoughtful and from a local Delaware vendor. paths are a nuisance and can be a safety hazard. get consent first when using images of people. See LEAVE NO TRACE. Only build fires in burn barrels or other suitable Hydration containers that are elevated off the ground to Pools Dehydration is a very serious risk at PDF; DRINK prevent ugly, dead, permanent, burn scars. Build Pools by definition are any body of water used WATER, and lots of it. Alcohol and caffeine dehy- your last fire with enough time for the ashes to explicitly or in some part to bathe, swim, or cool drate you; it is not water. Water is not sold at the cool for safe disposal. Cool ashes get dumped in off. event (except in the form of ice), so bring all the the ASH DUMP. Hot ashes in the dumpster will Pools filled with liquid are only allowed in per- water you will need. We strongly recommend a set the dumpster on fire. The horror. The horror. Leave No Trace Leave no trace is an important but simple prin- sonal or theme camp areas. They can not be placed minimum of 3 gallons/per/day. Signs of dehydra- Fire Lanterns are Forbidden ciple of our community. The goal is to leave no in communal areas. tion: Fire lanterns, aka Chinese fire lanterns, aka sky trace of our amazing event. If possible leave things All gray water must be dealt with appropriately • Feeling uncharacteristically cranky lanterns, are prohibited. They are flying, flaming in better condition than we found them. That and in accordance to event policy. That is, it can- • Rapid or sudden weight loss MOOP whose trajectory can’t be controlled or not be dumped out on the ground and must either means to not leave trash, cigarette butts, poop, • Increasing thirst predicted. feathers, sofas, bacon grease, beer cans, glitter, or be packed out or disposed of at an appropriate sequins behind when we leave. That means to not drain location. If you don’t know where an appro- • Dry mouth Safety, Extinguishers, and Spinners • Cessation of sweating All flame must be attended at all times. This harm the environment by scorching the ground priate spot is, it is YOUR responsibility to find out. includes campfires, tiki torches, fire spinning, can- by burning something improperly, or altering or See WATER AS A TRACE. • Weakness or lightheadedness (particularly if dles, or any other open flame. If you build a fire or destroying trees or existing structures. We also All filled pools must be either attended by an adult worsening on standing) light a flame it is your responsibility to monitor it don’t leave problems for other people to deal with. 18 years or older or somehow locked up or fenced • Darkening of the urine or a decrease in urination and ensure its safety. Bring a fire extinguisher. Fire Dumpsters in at all times. (drink enough water to “piss clear.”) spinning without a safety is prohibited. Dumpsters are a luxury at PDF that exist at the Vending/Gifting Burnable Art insistence of our hosts; most burns are pack-it- Vending of any kind is not allowed. This includes 6. PLANNING Burning art is part of our culture at PDF. It is in-pack-it-out. Dumpsters are for household type promotion of other events. Gifting does not equal a symbolic celebration of the cycle of life and trash only. If it does not fit in a trash bag, it should bartering, nor are you entitled to anything. It’s pARTICIPATION, AND death—we don’t dwell in what we’ve done so not go in a dumpster. No furniture, large items, only a gift when offered freely; taking something orGANIZATION much as we celebrate what we can do. or spooky chemicals are allowed in the dumpster. because you want it is still theft at PDF. Ask per- Do not put ashes in the dumpster ‑— they belong IF YOU PLAN ON BRINGING ART THAT YOU mission before taking or touching anything or There is a vast hive of activity behind the super-slick, in the Ash Dump. Hot ashes set the dumpster on WANT TO BURN: you must contact the Burning anyone. seamless production that is Playa del Fuego. We fire. Seriously, no one wants to deal with a flaming Art Coordinator in advance for approval and coor- would LOVE to have your help! Here’s the skinny on dumpster. Dumpsters are a huge expense — billed Generators dination, [email protected]. the world behind the curtain. by weight, so please bring home as much as you Generators must be attended at all times when There is no guarantee that your art will burn. Plan can or minimize what you bring. One way to running, because generators are a fire hazard. Volunteer other creative ways to destroy your art that are bring less trash is to remove excess packaging Generators create many types of pollution, includ- This event is 100% run by volunteers. There are no less reliant on the weather. before you come. See ASH DUMP, LEAVE NO ing noise pollution, and should be used thought- comp tickets. The volunteer opportunities are var- fully. Generators should be boxed to minimize ied. To sign up online for one of the below (except

8 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 9 Board), go to playadelfuego.org. person or by calling in to the planning meeting please look for the Mayor. Mayor Toohey (2E) is the ticket takers do what they need to do. It’s a Greeters and Parking Patrol: responsible for conference call. No invitation is necessary, join in! a Gemini, who likes long walks around the Playa, great time to practice the zen art of patience, start welcoming participants to the event and maximiz- making parking recruitment memes, slow dancing de-stressing, and make friends with the folks in Board line next to you. ing our limited parking. The PDF board of directors, AKA BOD, is made under the moonlight, and rotating turtles all night Rangers: not cops or your mom, but always avail- up of members of the PDF community who have long. Normally found on a golf cart or at the back Each participant should come to the Front Gate able to help mediate problems when needed, or agreed to increase their level of liability on behalf gate this adorable, funny, blue-eyed devil will warm with a state-issued ID and a copy of their ticket. help you find the resources you need to take care of the community. They’re not a shady, evil cabal, your heart. If you want to reach him, simply put It’s also acceptable to have a written down unique of yourself. and they like to talk to you. If you would like to your lips together and say “where’s 2E.” barcode number in lieu of the actual printed out ticket, but you MUST bring your ticket number DPW/Moop Clean-Up: responsible for finding contact the board, email them at: in some form. The Greeter station does not have errant MOOP at the end of the event and making [email protected]. 7. EVENT/SITE GUIDE it go away. copies of tickets nor can they look them up. If you The PDF Board of Directors handles the legal side don’t have a ticket, please don’t loiter at the gate How to get to the event what to do when Participation Station: always available with of the organization. They maintain the website, looking for a miracle. We love you, but practicing you get there. It is always advisable to read this helpful information and to help you participate in manage PDF funds, purchase event insurance and Radical Self-Reliance means you don’t come until part in advance, because the effects of playa-brain volunteering. supplies (potties, wood, structures, etc...), file tax you can (need a ticket? Visit the ticket board on can set in rapidly. Board: responsible for legal aspects of the event documents, etc... The day-to-day planning of the the PONY!). event (dog bans, budget decisions, ticket cap, and and for the burden of deciding when a participant Early Entry Policy Your ticket will be scanned and your ID checked. so on) is handled by the planning committee. eviction is necessary. General entry does not begin until 5 pm. Those You must present photo identification at the gate. Stage: where you can perform for an audience. They do all of the routine paperwork and legal and who arrive early can not wait in the parking Special wristbands are issued to persons under the Everyone wants a turn, so please don’t hoard financial stuff that’s needed to make the events lot until 4 pm on Thursday. Those helping with age of 21; those without ID will be issued a minor stage time. happen and keep PDF Inc. (a 501c3 non-profit) setup must be pre-registered to do so. Carpoolers wristband. All minors must be accompanied by a Lamplighters: the solemn folks who light our humming the other 50 weeks out of the year. They attached to registered volunteers will no longer legal parent or guardian. are also responsible for shaping the long-term way at night. be allowed early entry unless they too have pre- Your wristband will be put on by a member of vision of what PDF will or can be in the future, as registered. An early entry coordinator will manage There are many other ways to contribute too. the ticket team tight enough that it will not slide well as how it fits in to the greater burn and arts the list of volunteers and help direct setup on site. Check the official event board, PONY, for other off. Participants must wear this wristband while communities, both regional and national. Early volunteers must agree to follow the direc- volunteer opportunities: on-site for the duration of the event. If a wrist- tion of the early entry coordinator and/or depart- www.playadelfuego.org/pony. Board Nominations & band breaks or is removed, it may be replaced mental coordinators before being permitted to set from within the gates by exchanging the broken More information about departments including Interns and Volunteer hours up personal camps. band for a new one at the gate. If you are con- Department Coordinator Contact information can For information about Board Nominations cerned about it being a hazard while spinning fire, be found at www.playadelfuego.org. & Interns and Volunteer hours visit, Ticketing Hours playadelfuego.org. New arrivals are welcome for ticketing during the you should remove it and exchange it when you Art Grants following hours. Those already with a wristband are done spinning, cover it with something, or The mission of the Art Grants Committee is to Communications may come and go at will. possibly wear it on your ankle. Wish there was a What Where When for the rest promote participatory and unique art at Playa del Thursday: 5 pm - Friday 2 am You will then be directed to the back for parking, Fuego through funding. Art enables humans to of the year? Regularly check our website, playa- Friday: 9 am - Saturday 2 am drop off, and greeting. grow and thrive and learn and love. The best art delfuego.org. To connect with the community projects provoke thought, feelings, movement, outside the event, you can participate in any or all Saturday: 9 am - Saturday 8 pm (Closed for Pony Parking and participation by all who wish to join in. Art of the following communities (and many others Burn) The parking station is located on the outside of Grants Committee is dedicated to providing small besides): Sunday: CLOSED (if you show up Sunday, you the back entrance in the back field. When you grants to help defray participants’ cost of creating • playadelfuego.tribe.net will still be able to get your wristband, you will enter the property please follow the signs to the art for Playa Del Fuego. Anyone may join the Art • facebook.com/groups/4288891886 just have to wait for a GOD to come to the gate.) main lot. Once through the overflow/large truck lot you will be greeted by one of our flaggers Grants Committee, and anyone can apply for an • [email protected] Monday: CLOSED Art Grant. For complete information, application who will ask to see your wristbands and whether • [email protected] and deadlines go to www.playadelfuego.org. Getting There you are parking on-site or need to enter the • [email protected] For directions visit playadelfuego.org. event for dropping off your gear. Art • [email protected] Parking on-site: It is important to follow the flag- One of the greatest ways to participate in the ADMISSION gers and park where they ask you to in order to PDF community is to create art. You don’t have More information can also be found at playadel- When You First Arrive maximize the number of available parking spaces. to apply for an Art Grant, you can just bring fuego.org or join in the discussion at the Playa Pull off the road into the driveway and proceed If there is not a flagger, please follow signs and some, announce it in the What Where When, del Fuego PONY discussion board (Planning and to temporary parking as directed by the parking avoid parking in roadways or paths. and enjoy the adulation of your community. If Organization Needs You!) you can find the link to volunteers. DO NOT park or remain stopped in you would like special placement of your art in the PONY at the top of our Website. the road or driveway. There is other traffic -com Drop offs: If you are dropping off your gear, please a public space, or are in need of other resources, Mayor ing and sometimes going fast. We do not want to follow the flaggers’ instructions to proceed to the please contact the Burning- or Non-Burning Art Each event there is a Mayor. What the heck is the risk an accident or complaints about traffic being parking tent to receive a temporary parking pass. Coordinator, as appropriate. Mayor of PDF? Pretty simple - besides getting to obstructed. Not only could these problems result NOTE: Passes are for 30 minutes only. Please do in people being injured or killed in car accidents, not stay on site with your car for more than 30 PDF Planning wear a really spiffy hat, the Mayor is just a mem- ber of the board whose job it is to listen to the but at the very least they will attract police atten- minutes and fer goodness’ sake, remember to pick Playa Del Fuego takes year-round effort from tion and upset the local community. up your license! While we try our best to get your volunteers. To get involved or see what is going community members for concerns, ideas, topics for everyone to consider, complaints, worries, bribes. license back to you if you forget it, we are not on our various planning and volunteer boards see Ticket Booth responsible for your license if it is left at the event. www.playadelfuego.org/pony. You can, of course, talk to any board member any This is the business end of PDF, and it can be a time, but the Mayor is someone who has made The Logbook will be put away Sunday evening! Our Planning Committee is composed of anyone bit of a circus during peak times. Please be ready themselves conspicuous for your convenience. If with everything you need and be patient while who would like to attend a meeting, either in you have any questions or concerns (or bribes),

10 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 11 Greeting re-enter, you must be wearing a wristband. strictly off limits. See LEAVE NO TRACE, MOOP, What to Bring Once you’ve gotten wristbands and parked AMENITIES THERE ARE NO PUBLIC TRASH CANS. Necessities: your car, head inside and you will be greeted Water Stage • Bedding and shelter of some type (a good camp by our dedicated greeter team inside the back The stage is available every day until midnight. tent is recommended, along with sleeping bags) gate. The greeters’ mission is to give you hugs, There usually is water available in 3 places. Exact Slots are first come, first serve, but if you come • Three gallons of water per person per day (for a What Where When event guide, explain the location subject to change. Look for blue flags on site to mark the water: first, please don’t hog all the slots. Sign up online drinking, dishwashing, food prep, etc.). Keep a 10 Principles, spank virgins, answer any simple in advance of the event. Those with stage time may • Near the Pavilion and sink bottle of water with you at all times questions your may have, and provide information want to consult an event guide to see if their time (like where to volunteer, nudge-nudge). Spanking • Near the former horse barn • Enough food and beverages for your entire party coincides with other events, like art burns. PDF org for the length of your stay is optional, but (butt!) it is always appropriate to • Between Field 5 and 6. provides sound equipment. Any other equipment approach a Greeter bearing gifts. needed by performers is up to the performer to • All required prescriptions, contact lens supplies, Please be mindful of mud as MOOP - don’t leave toiletries, etc. Temporary Unloading Passes hoses running to create hazardous swamps. See provide. When signing up, be sure to include your So that everyone gets a chance to come in and also LEAVE NO TRACE, WATER AS A TRACE email information, as slots assigned to just a name • First aid kit may not be honored due to the coordinator being • Single-ply toilet paper (the port-a-potties only unload in a timely manner, your temporary Ice unloading pass allows you no more than 30 min- unable to communicate with them. get serviced once a day) Ice is available to purchase from the Vets. Bring utes to unload your vehicle. If you leave your • Garbage bags (more than enough for all of your cash, small bills are appreciated. WEATHER AND CONDITIONS vehicle inside longer than 30 minutes, you may be garbage—it’s good to bring extra for MOOP that towed. If you return your pass in less than 30 min- Showers Be Prepared for Weather Extremes accumulates during the event) utes, parking is free! Unload your equipment and There are 2 sets of showers on site. They are a Our event is held rain or shine. It has been held during Nor’Easters, severe thunderstorms, coastal • Can or bottle opener if bringing cans or bottles return your vehicle. Do not hunt down all your luxury. Be brief to conserve water, especially hot that need opening friends or set up your camp now. Communicate flooding, plagues of insects, and record heat and water, as supplies are limited. No electrical outlets • Portable ashtrays if you are a smoker (Decorated with your campmates in advance so that you may cold. A shade or rain structure can be helpful are available at the showers. All personal items mint tins work great) proceed directly to where you plan to camp. But brought into the shower including toiletries, gar- and shared with neighbors. Be sure to properly please, only drive on marked roads, for everyone’s ments, and trash must be taken with you when you stake or rebar any structures you erect. Tents • Flashlights (headlamps are very useful) safety! leave the shower. See LEAVE NO TRACE, MOOP, have blown away and out of the event grounds, • Extra batteries for everything becoming MOOP. Shade structures have become THERE ARE NO PUBLIC TRASH CANS. Generally, • Sunscreen and sunglasses Once you unload your vehicle, return promptly to windborne and hit people in the head. the front gate, return your parking pass, and collect the cinder block hut with stalls near the Vet’s yel- • Insect repellent low building is single sex, single user. Co-ed and your license. When returning your passes please Insects • Sturdy closed-toe footwear pull over to the side of the road and do not block co-showers are more easily accommodated in the Be prepared for a variety of biting, stinging, • A cup for beverages, many camps have drinks to traffic coming in or out of the event. Someone at large open showers near field 4, next to the red and annoying insects. If you know you have share, but you must bring your own cup the greeter station will then give you directions to barn. At the cinder block showers, people wishing an allergy, bring the supplies you need to stay the back lot where you should park as directed. You to shower together, or shower on the opposite healthy. • Ice for the entire duration of your stay or cash should not park in the front lot unless directed to gender’s side should ask consent of all those they for ice sales would be showering with. Our event is inclusive Mud Burn do so by someone at the greeter station. When conditions are muddy cars can become • Common sense, an open mind, and a positive to all genders and sexual orientations, and that woefully stuck. Be sure to follow all directions attitude On-Site Parking Passes includes the showers, too. Don’t like it? Come back of volunteers and obey any signs, barricades, • Anything else you can’t live without On-site vehicle passes are available on a first- later. If someone is making you uncomfortable in or detours. Park at your own risk. When it gets come, first-serve basis, determined via pre-reg- the showers, or anywhere at the event, or is acting Recommended: swampy cars get stuck. Do not spin your tires if istration with the parking coordinator. Only without your consent, speak up, let them know. • Shade structures, umbrellas, parasols, sheets; you get stuck; find people to push or tow you out vehicles such as RVs, vans, trucks (with caps), and If that doesn’t help, ask a ranger to FLAME the things to break the cruel mid-day sun or keep safely. The parking lot and roads may have to be campers are permitted to be parked on-site for situation. you dry in the rain closed if conditions are severe and a carry in/carry sleeping. Otherwise, you need to sleep in a tent, • Rebar to keep the above structures firmly rooted out situation could happen. yurt, cardboard box, or whatever. Sleeping in your Local Supplies to mother earth car in the parking lot is strictly prohibited. The shopping center at the intersection of 301 and 299 includes a major hardware store, a big- PREPARATION • Ice chest(s) to store your perishable foods and Please park your vehicle where instructed to by Really Radical Self-Reliance beverages the volunteers at the gate. Once it is parked on box discount department store, a grocery store, a drugstore, a dollar store, and several restaurants. Playa del Fuego is an exercise in radical • A cooking stove site, your vehicle must stay there until you leave self-reliance. Bring everything you are going to the event — you cannot drive it out and re-enter. The shopping center at 896 and 301 just south of • Cash for ice sales, the Vets prefer small bills 95 includes a grocery store and other stores. Many need, including food, water, shelter, basic medica- On-site parking passes will be issued and must be tions, and hygiene products. Gifts are a wonderful • Earplugs, not everyone will sleep when you do displayed at all times. If you did not pre-register, new strip malls have been built in the Middletown area in the recent years. expression of community, but you must take • Eye shade eye pillow, see above do not arrive at the event planning to park at your responsibility for your own survival and well- • Insect bite and sunburn treatment/medication campsite or sleep in your vehicle. Pavilion being. Do not show up expecting the community Feel free to use the pavilion for cooking, dining, • Watertight protective bags, like heavy Ziplocs, Art Cars to take care of you. We have dedicated volunteers for cameras, electronic gear, etc. and playing, but please practice Leave No Trace who are also EMTs on site, but they are an emer- Art cars are permitted on site but must be • Blinky lights, toys, magical fabulousness, hand- and clean up after yourself when you are done. gency resource only. Do not rely on them for basic pre-registered and remain parked. If you have any made, and heartfelt and swell stuff to share; any- Do not leave behind leftover food for the taking OTC medications. questions about parking or art cars please email thing you think would make things more fun for [email protected]. — the best way to get rid of leftovers is to “take them for a walk” and offer them to other people. you and your fellow PDFians Re-entry If the pavilion is not kept clean, pavilion privi- • Pre-moistened towelettes, aka baby wipes, handy If you leave the event site — even to just leges may be lost. The yellow building adjacent wipes get something from your car — and wish to to the Pavilion belongs to our landlords and is

12 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 13 individual. No one other than the individual or Flaming Dance Pole • Spray bottle (for misting) a collaborating group can determine its content. Art Artist: David Serrahima • Rope, string, duct tape, zip ties It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the Art Grant Recipient • Fuel for stoves, generators, mutant vehicles, etc. recipient. Balloon Chain & Flying Foam • Rain hat, rain gear Artist: Michael Cha Gendermazing • Sun hat Communal Effort Our community values Art Grant Recipient Artist: Asher Kory • Seating, because you can’t dance forever creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive Art Grant Recipient • Simple tool kit and a sewing kit to produce, promote, and protect social networks, Boob's Rainbow Dangles Navigate the maze of gender iden- • Abundant amounts of whatever makes your life public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction. Artist: Jessica Boobs tity and explore beyond the binary. better: beer, bacon, chocolate, coffee, lift, etc. Art Grant Recipient Sometimes the journey is more import- • Open mind, and good attitude and common Civic Responsibility We value civil society. Solar powered magic makers! Taste the ant than the destination. sense rainbow The point of preparing and understanding how Community members who organize events should PDF works is to help you relax into the experience assume responsibility for public welfare and Location: Pavilion LuminUS and enjoy the playground of ideas and community endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to Artist: Anatoliy Kaverin that make the whole thing worth the effort! The participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, Down to the Wire v2.1 Art Grant Recipient GüD is here to provide clarity and a framework Artist: Bxiie for our grand experiment. Like the constitution, it state, and federal laws. is a living document. If something is unclear, miss- An extruded aluminum and recy- Matriarchal Advisement Square ing, or you have other questions, feel free to let us Leaving No Trace Our community respects cled-plastic framework support 2,304 Artist: Children of the Matriarchs know: [email protected]. the environment. We are committed to leaving individually-addressable LEDs. The Like moms? Need advice? Need a mom no physical trace of our activities wherever we LEDs change according to patterns but hug? Just wanna sit your happy ass The Principles of gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, can be directed via a radio remote-con- down for a margarita and nice con- whenever possible, to leave such places in a better trol. The current operating software Burning Man state than when we found them. versation? Join us right at the dining that controls this artwork includes room table with some of our very sound-reactive and user-controllable Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Participation Our community is committed own mothers to enjoy their advice as Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that elements. we always have. Is the table currently newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted transformative change, whether in the individual without a mother? Bring your own! not as a dictate of how people should be and act, or in society, can occur only through the medium Dreams Or your own mom-self and give your but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and of deeply personal participation. We achieve Artist: Scott Frias and All of Y’all :D most favorite bits of advice! We have culture as it had organically developed since the being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. event’s inception. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real Art Grant Recipient books! We have crafts! We have booze! through actions that open the heart. This Fall’s collaborative painting is enti- But most importantly, we have mom tled Dreams. It is a cloud with about advice! Radical Inclusion Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the strang- Immediacy Immediate experience is, in many 70 or so smaller clouds overlaid as tape er. No prerequisites exist for participation in our ways, the most important touchstone of value in onto it. You will be asked to peel away Parking Pals community. our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that a single cloud and paint your dream Artist: Saint stand between us and a recognition of our inner onto the space you reveal. Paint your The “Parking Pals” have been part of Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift selves, the reality of those around us, participation dreams into a cloud made of dreams. Gifting in society, and contact with a natural world PDF for several years, serving as silent giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting Location: Pavilion sentinels watching over our gathering does not contemplate a return or an exchange for exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute something of equal value. for this experience. with messages of hope, direction, and Ellipse Staff inspiration. The original 24x7 volun- Decommodification In order to preserve the Artist: Dan Lazarus teers, they steadfastly stick to their spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create Art Grant Recipient post (screws and ropes help.) They will social environments that are unmediated by com- As the foci emblem, the ellipse is a be there to greet you as you enter from mercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. contact the bOd or symbolic witness to compassionate either gate, and may turn up at other We stand ready to protect our culture from such communication and emanate co- locations. The Parking Pals have given exploitation. We resist the substitution of consump- the pc to change the tion for participatory experience. creation. The Ellipse Staff is wandering global and universal consent to photos, gud . the www just interactive art designed to be explained so feel free to include them in your by its bearer in an ellipse. This proto- pictures! Radical Self-reliance Burning Man encourag- prints it and can’t es the individual to discover, exercise, and rely on type will burn with the temple - 8 Location: Back Gate his or her inner resources. change it . dollar art grant recipient, infinite thanks. Radical Self-expression Radical self- Location: Camp foci expression arises from the unique gifts of the

14 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 15 Pile The Rage Cage Daiquiris? Dirty Dumpster Derbys? Artist: Quentin Davis Artist: Timothy Dougherty Ongoing How creative can we get as mixolo- Art Grant Recipient Art Grant Recipient gists? Let’s find out. Gabe Gets you a MONEY shot!!! Location: Roaming Propane Tetherhead Do you like drinking? Well Good. Come Bring: Drink-Dumpster contributions, and smiles! Artist: Joseph M. Robins Artist: Saint by Balls Camp for a very SPECIAL Art Grant Recipient Tetherhead will be back, despite an MONEY SHOT. Just roll in and yell Fistful of Grapes Bounty Board encounter with an overly excited dog “GET MONEY” and Gabe will hook The Cockle Crew has been spotted after last PDF. Tetherhead is part you up. lurking around the Playa, committing art, part game, and part bad idea Location: Balls Camp acts of skulduggery! The good Sheriff Bring: Shot glass of Fistful of Grapes asks for your help, that sends a terrible message. Try to think just about the fun part, though. humble citizens in bringing them to If the stump is still strong enough, Guerilla Lawn Othello justice. Please drop off all bounties, Tetherhead will be positioned to the Play your favorite game of light vs. dead or alive, to Fistful of Grapes to right of the stage, hung from a rope dark free in the green, grassy battle- collect your reward! on a tall pole. Feel free to enjoy a lively field of the great outdoors. Or you Location: Fistful of Grapes game with friends, but be careful that could reverse things and go with some Bring: A bounty! Dead or Alive she doesn’t hit back. Players should other game like Annexation. We pro- have their sensibilities when enjoying vide the pieces, you provide the imagi- Boob’s Rainbow Dangles Tetherhead. nary grid and cunning play. World of pure imagination! Come Tetherhead rule #1 - NO FLAMING Location: Roaming and see my renegade rainbows! Solar- TETHERHEAD!! Bring: Massive intellect and opposable thumbs. powered magic! Location: Stage Location: Pavilion TIKI Fire Circle Tetris Shadow Stage TIKI welcomes all fire performers to Get Your Twist On! Artist: Jeff Omega participate in our fire circle. Bring your Hey, we have a giant Twister board. Art Grant Recipient toys and come play! Come play around on it. This art piece will be a towering Tetris Location: TIKI Location: Laissez-Faire piece standing 16ft tall and 24ft wide. Bring: Your fire toys and supplies Within the shape will be a DJ booth Reclaiming Ugliness overlooking the dance floor below. The Teeny Tiny High 5s What would it mean if we were ugly? bottom section will be open to partici- Do you need to work on the precision What would it mean if we didn’t run pants to climb inside and dance behind of your High 5s? Are your High 5s too from our own ugliness or each other’s? two 8ft by 8ft shear screens while flood big? Too loud? Do you miss the thrill How do we take the sting out of ugly? lights project the dancing silhouettes of High 5-ing your childhood stuffed What would it take for us to be able toward the front. The face of the piece animals? A little freaked out by the to risk being ugly, in whatever that will be fitted with different shapes Easter Bunny, but love bunnies any- means for us? What would happen if across the top where visual graphics way? Fuggles wants to help! Explore we stopped apologizing for our ugly, will be mapped and projected while the the mysteries of teeny tiny hand hellos stopped being ashamed of it? What if Bangarang beats bump huge all week- from a true master of this art! High 5 we let go of being beautiful, stopped end. clinics will run all weekend, just look spending enormous amounts of time Location: Decadance for the tiny pink bunny with a huge and money on things that don’t make personality called “Tiny Victories” and us magnificent? prepare your pinkie for a moment of Location: W.I.T.C.H. Tower of !Babel profound connection. Bring: Yourself Artist: Alan Shecter Location: Roaming Art Grant Recipient Bring: Your pinkies and child-like wonder! Your Event Here! Are you reading this and telling your- The Wandering Hypnagogic Dirty Dumpster Farewell Soiree! self, “I should have done ______this Dream Bar Our dumpsters are shipping out! fall?” or Not seeing that really cool Artist: Nicole Russo Let’s see them off in style with mixed event, offering, round table, craft, wed- Art Grant Recipient drinks and merriment. Dirty Dumpster ding, or experiences in this falls offer-

16 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 17 ings? It’s not too late for you to make it The Return of the Cicada running self-organized camp. Just The Wandering Hypnagogic happen! Camp foci is offering a 20 x 20 He has returned. show up with some stuff and we’ll work Dream Bar event space in the shade, tables, chairs, Location: Roaming it out. Camp with us or swing by and We’ll be hauling our super silly, kind projector, computer, paper, pens, and Bring: The noise see how our solar powered Hot Pockets of odd, really pretty and musically basic crafting tools, all here to help are doing. inclined Dream Bar all over the Playa. you to share the things your most Wormwood Beverage Wagon Location: Back Field Open Camping While wandering around in a state passionate about with the Playa. Time Miss Fidget will be dragging around the Bring: Food, drink, camping gear of hypnagogia, we’ll be offering tasty slots and registration slips are at the Wormwood Wagon giving Wormwood snacks, scrumptious cocktails, and Participation Station Wormwood Beverage talks with sam- Everything Changes dreamy dance parties. There will also Location: Camp foci ples! Wormwood is easy to grow local- “Some men just want to watch the be games to be played and prizes to be ly and the plant has many fun uses world burn.” Torchwood is full of won, all while having lots of semi-lucid Plink to Drink! including absinthe. Learn and sample those people. Except our worlds are fun! Free booze is hardly in short supply a simple safe way to extract the active staves, swords, nunchucks, fans, and Location: Roaming in these parts but our concoctions are ingredient, thujones. If you have aller- hula hoops. While we might not think Bring: A cup truly unique! Stop by throughout the gies, run us off. enough of ourselves to train people event and take your chances. This event Location: Roaming in how to flow, we ARE interested in Camp Re-Charge is ongoing with no set start/end times. Bring: EpiPen if ya got allergies making sure everyone flows safely, and Hours of Operation for Camp Just listen for the jerk with a mega- speaking with anyone with even a pass- Re-Charge will 24 hours a day. If the phone. 2E’s Last PDF ing interest in the art. Stop by anytime lights are on in the Camp Re-Charge Location: Drinko-Plinko Seems that 2E has accepted a job off and speak to us about fire flow safety, tent, we are up and running. We are Bring: A cup and your sense of adventure in sunny Australia and will not be back whether it be what to watch for, what along the right fence line theme camps for a long time. Please go give him a to wear, how to react, or even to teach before you enter the dreaded Back hug and tell him how much you will US some things. We follow the Safety Field! Bring your own cords to charge Kowtow Before Captain miss him. Third principle; but note that safety whatever you need. No high-energy use Condescending Location: Front Quiet Camping is also First and Second. If you plan items such as coffee pots, crock pots, Do you feel the need to be patron- Bring: HUGS! to flow in our circle, know our safety or those really big sex toys you naughty ized? Put in your place? Having an rules, play safe, and have fun! folk have hiding in your tents. amazing life changing experience at Feeling Blue? Location: Torchwood Location: Camp Re-Charge the burn and need someone to ruin Bring: Flow Toys, Safe Living Bring: Your cords, etc. Rangers aren’t your mothers. Radical that rosy outlook? Come see Captain self reliance sometimes needs a boost- Condescending at Classholes for a les- er. Maybe you just need to be put in Grapefruit and Egg Drop-Off Trash Pickup at Fuck-A-Duck son in disdain, that is, if the Captain time-out and Sanctuary is too main- Site Please bring your trash to Fuck-A- condescends to see you. Expect to wait. stream for you, you sparkly pony you. Have extra eggs you don’t need? How Duck. We have a ongoing recycling Location: CLASSHOLES Do you see a shining blue light in the about grapefruit? Kamp Karnak will challenge going on and would love distance? Odds are good that it’s sig- be accepting smooth eggs and large to have the extra trash for our steam Barefoot Bliss naling a place for you to plop down and grapefruit all weekend. The stinkier powered trash compactor. Come see The best care available for women with have a moment with some wonderful and more spoiled the better. Please if Peter, Keith, or Caitlin can save the two feet (or even one!). Reconnect with and protective sorts. Look around the come drop them off any time at Kamp most recyclables from the incinerator. and revitalize your feet by pampering Playa; we’re here for you! Participating Karnak waaaaayyyyy at the very end of All compacted paper trash bricks will them with a Barefoot Bliss treat- Camps: Torchwood, Camp Kinky Tiki, front field camping, as far as you can be burned on Sunday night in our ment—a luxuriant reflexology foot Camp Wrong Way, The Gang Forms get without falling in the ditch back TRASH PAGODA!! massage using rehydrating lotion. Utter A Cult, Balls Camp, Camp Re-Charge, there. Location: Back Field Open Camping bliss is guaranteed (hence the name!). TIKI, Camp Burning Hearts, Camp Location: Front Quiet Camping Bring: Trash bags, trash cans, sorted recycling Your feet will thank you! Available Stay Gold, Barrel of Fun, Camp Justice Bring: Smooth Eggs, Big Grapefruit upon request each day beginning League Teapee Friday morning. Look for the Barefoot Location: Roaming Slackers Unite! Teapee is an interactive durational Bliss banners at the camp and ask for Bring: You, you sparkly pony you Slacking performance. Come anytime for herbal Extremities. While offered for women, Location: Slacker Camp ginger tea and tales around the Teapee we may have an assistant who will be Lonely No More Lone Rhino Bring: No motivation, or whatever Tripod fire-pit. Teapee is a magic hobo available at select times for interested camp! boyfriends and overflow women. Funtimes! You don’t have to be lonely—join Location: Teapee Location: Pyramid People Bring: A cup or a story Bring: Solefulness! Camp Lone Rhino! We’re PDF’s longest

18 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 19 24-Hour Self-Serve Coffee Join us at the dumpster for an hour Fri 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Station (BYOM*) of appreciating everyone’s favorite Friday Just Say No to Drama: Families In the spirit of our fine playa garbage receptacle. Bring a chair, your Fri 9:00 am to 11:00 am and Lineage Do-ocracy, Stardust is happy to offer beverage of choice, and something to Join us for a discussion of how the you a 24-hour, self-serve coffee station throw away while we pay tribute to our Camp Green Goddess Open family units to which we were born or on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! How favorite dumpster on the playa. You are Coffee Social led, and our lineage, can be a source do we do it? EASY. We make you do it. encouraged to sweep for MOOP on the Enjoy of cup of Sticky Mike’s signature of drama, and ways to eliminate that So bring your own mug, sally up to the way to the party! SHITTY coffee and be thankful you did Location: Back Gate drama. This is the first of three High coffee maker. We’re gonna go out on a not wake up next to one of us! Noon Just Say No to Drama discus- limb here, and assume you’ve used one Bring: Chair, drink and something to throw away Location: Camp Green Goddess sions. Saturday will be Polyamory before. (btw, if you’re looking for our Bring: Cup and Open Relationships and Sunday Vietnamese Coffee Service, those are Volunteer for a Stage Shift will be Group House and Intentional not ongoing, but are held Sat and Sun Come by Stage on Thursday between Fri 10:00 am to 11:00 am Community dynamics. afternoons at 3:33 pm). 6 pm and 9 pm and select an available Boobs and Bacon Location: Camp Drama Llama Location: Stardust Stage Shift to help the stage happening We have serviced your BOOTYS for Bring: Bring ears, experience, and a willingness Bring: *BYOM: Bring your own mug happening. If you absolutely need to be several burns now, so lets change it spanked, we also provide that service. up and start paying attention to the Fri 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Yardzee! Location: Stage BOOBIES! Want some bacon, show us Blue Lights Unite Yard Dice. A bucket of fun for every- Bring: Your pleasant attitude your boobs, and we will gladly give you Torchwood has humbly and accidental- one. Come on over and play a game or some bacon. Have a package of bacon ly found itself helping to lead the way two. Double Firenado Living Room to share? Well then, we will show you for full inclusion of Blue Light Safety Location: Laissez-Faire of Doom our boobs in appreciation, and gladly Camps into our little slice of burn-dom. Come warm your witches tits and cook up that bacon to gift to the rest We invite leads from all participating Tiny Hookah Lounge warlock testes at Camp Fuck-a-Duck, of the playa! Consent is still a thing camps to stop by and discuss what Join us in Absolem’s Hookah Lounge evenings, out back by the pond. We will you know, so if you want bacon and being a BLC means to them; how they and see how far down the rabbit hole also be serving GMO-filled, free-range not boobs, or heck even boobs but not show that they are, what they do if you can go. free, grilled cheese just like your grand- bacon, well we can do that too! Come someone needs that extra hand. This Location: Laissez-Faire ma made at whenever-the-fuck O’clock. see us at Leopard Lounge, right next to event is open to BLC leads, leads inter- Praise Cheesus! Green Goddess, there might be bacon, ested in taking on the BLC way, and Last Aid Location: Back Field Open Camping but there will definitely be boobs! even people just curious as to what we Attention sinners! We have been Bring: A chair and a story Event runs till the bacon is gone, and stand for. charged by God and blessed Saint the slacking resumes. Location: Torchwood Murphy S. Lawe, patron saint of Bad Location: Slacker Camp Bring: Your safe and helpful self Decisions, to provide succor to the Thursday Bring: Bacon, plate, and boobies, if ya want degenerate citizens of the playa. Sister Fri 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Drop Kick and the Chaos Pope will Thu 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Fri 11:00 am to 1:00 pm A cappella Flash Mob Practice be wandering around each night with Allons Y! Did Someone Say 80s? Can you sing? Can you croak? Can you their Last Aid cart, containing a variety We missed out in Spring, but we’re You know the time, even if you can’t do these things naked? Never mind; of items you lowly reprobates might back with an all new sense of time. remember it. Some say it was the come to practice and we’ll learn a tune, need at the end of a night of debauch- Torchwood welcomes you Home with Golden Age of music, and others are then give the gift of our singing, naked ery. Gatorade, basic first-aid items, and the arrival night “test” of the blazing wrong! (if you please) bodies to the Playa as basic hygiene items, including a supply fire circle this band of maniacs brought Location: Laissez-Faire a surprise! We’ll also briefly discuss of condoms so that thou may protect to the last two events. Fire and Glow Bring: Bad fashion choices/pre-internet freedom the implications of surprising people thineself from the pox. If you need Performers are welcome to come spin with naked singing, and public nudity. it, chances are the Sisters of Murphy their toys and literally “warm up” for Fri 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm Consent is sexy, naked harmony is even will have it. Look for the black cart the glorious weekend ahead. Expect BLOWJOB DEMONSTRATION sexier. with bells. If we’re not wandering, and active fire spinning and performance, Pick up a trash bag and head over to Location: Participation Station you’re in need, we’ll be at Radish. as well as a test run of our fire bubbles. the pavilion. Now is a good time to Location: Roaming Strict Fire Safety in effect at all times! clean it up. Fri 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Speak with camp members with any Location: Pavilion Radish Karaoke questions or safety needs. Bring: Trash bags Calling all singers! Radish Karaoke is Dumpster Appreciation Party Location: Torchwood We hate MOOP. You hate MOOP. returning for another exciting rendi- Bring: Flow toys, fuel, safety gear tion of your favorite song, performed 20 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 21 by YOU! Grab some liquid courage if Fri 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm Fri 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm cry out for the spiritual enlighten- you need it, then step up to our song Tall Santa visits the Playa Tipsy Arnold Palmer Happy ment of the Siberian taiga? JOIN US book and sign up. New and improved Tall Santa will be returning to spread Hour ON FRIDAY NIGHT as we crush the this year, it will (hopefully) only some cheer and to give gifts to those The legendary drink makes its first Decadent Imperialist Camp Tiki and include songs we actually have! Book that want them. When you hear the appearance at PDF. Drink mixers liberate their bar and drinks from the available for perusal at Radish all week- bells and hear the Ho Ho Ho’s, come Whirlwind and Space Jam at your nest of criminal capitalist swine who end. running to join the fun! Elves and occupy it illegally and prevent its free Location: Radish service, just stop on by with a cup and other helpers are welcome, and this thirst, we’ll do the rest. enjoyment by the glorious sisters and Santa is happy to accept a cold adult Location: Next To Burning Hearts brothers of the Playa! NOSTROVIA! Na Fri 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm beverage as he makes his trek around Bring: Cup, inflatable sharks Zdorovie! Act I: The Great Spaghetti Heist the camps. Be sure to choose a gift Location: TIKI Bring: Cups Just another day down on the ranch, from his sleigh that you’ll love but not Fri 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm gettin’ ready to cook up some spaghet- leave since Santa puts moopers right PDF 101 Fri 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm ti. Looks like that Cockle Crew is fixing on the naughty list! New to PDF? Been here before by for trouble. Where’s the law in this Location: Roaming think you haven’t figured it out yet? Testicular Saline Infusion with town anyways? Bring: Your holiday cheer Wondering what TTITD and our rela- Gary! Location: Fistful of Grapes Are you a MAN? Do you enjoy mastur- Bring: Your fancy-pants self tionship to it is? Have no idea what The Fri 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm 10 Principles that people keep refer- bation? Want to take it to the NEXT The Flavor-Tripping Party is ring to are? Trying to figure out where LEVEL? Gary will be setting up a work- Fri 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Back! you fit in, how to contribute), or just shop on Testicular Saline Infusion. The Art of NOT BEING ON FIRE Join us at Camp Tasty for some taste what we’re really all about? Sit in on Join us as he shows you how to make Torchwood prides itself on taking fire sensation fun and experience firsthand PDF101. This crash course will fill you every orgasm INTENSE with your balls safety VERY seriously. We joke, “Safety how the fruit known as “the Miracle in on the important details about PDF, LARGE AS GRAPEFRUIT - SMOOTH Third,” but in reality, at Torchwood, Berry” modifies flavor perception. This and maybe even answer all your ques- AS EGGS. Supplies are limited. Show safety is also filed under First and is safe for all ages and the effects wear tions or lead you to the right ones. up early. Second! During this event we will off in about 15 minutes. Come early, Location: Participation Station Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin discuss Fire Safety in detail. Through supplies won’t last! Bring: BALLS and an open mind! discussion and demonstration, we will Location: Camp Tasty Fri 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm teach what our knowledge base holds, Balls Camp Happy Hour Fri 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm as well as seek input from partici- Fri 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm The front field will be made great again Intro to Sexual Therapy Animals pants. We are all learning and evolving Hypnosis Workshop with Balls Camp’s rocking Happy Hour! Karnak will introduce you to his together, and Torchwood is as open to Learn about hypnosis for performance Come join us for a drink (or 10) and award-winning technique of training input as everyone else. Join us to learn enhancement, pain management, plea- enjoy bouncy beats from our resident Sexual Therapy Animals. This 3-hour about Fire Safety (and our individual sure management, etc. Sessions avail- class will answer questions like “What theme camp’s rules relating to it), and DJ. able on request. Location: Balls Camp is a Sexual Therapy Animal, “How use your new skills to assist us and Location: Camp Contact Bring: Cup Can I make Better Eye Contact with other spinners through the event! my Goldfish during Coitus, “Four- Location: Torchwood Fri 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Fri 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm legged Foreplay - Which Peanut Butter Bring: Interest in, or knowledge of, fire safety Should I Use, Chunky or Smooth?, and The Spice Must FLOW Catty Corner the ever popular “Why IS My Cat So Fri 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm After all that chatter about fire and If you don’t have anything nice to say, safety, lets have a bunch of playtime! come talk shit with us! Judgmental??”. Training is intense, so PomPom Happy Hour Location: The Gang Forms a Cult a small break will be provided at the There will be glue, pompoms, and The circle is open for some daytime, unlit practice, and workshopping. We Bring: Attitude halfway point. booze (and non-alcoholic beverage Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin invite spinners willing to share their Bring: Dog cookies, A rolled up newspaper, lube options). The rest is up to you. If you Fri 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm have a specific item that is in need of knowledge in their favorite props to pompom enhancement, bring it along. join us and spread the joy of flow. End Soviet Takeover of TIKI Fri 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm We will also provide some craft sup- time is not definitive, and practice is Comrades! The decadent bourgeois welcome until the circle is needed for capitalist spectacle of oppression has POTLUCK DINNER plies to support your pompom creation If are reading this you should head over dreams. camp events. gone on long enough! Do you yearn Location: Torchwood to the closest shower with a trash bag Location: High Five to breathe the free air of Mother Bring: Flow toys, the will to FLOW Russia again? Do you crave the ten- and clean it out. Bring: Anything you want to add pompoms to Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin der embrace of The Red Tsar—Father Bring: A trash bag Stalin—across your bosom? Do you 22 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 23 Fri 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Fri 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Remember, How I Learned to Stop Worrying A Home-Cooked Meal Ranger training and Love the Hot Potato In the past Camp Burning Bear has is required for ALL This is not an exercise. Have you ever served culinary favorites from several Rangers; it’s import- seen a commie eat a baked potato? different countries. This year the Bears ant for old and current Take a break from the deviated per- will be presenting a true “HOME- Rangers to attend as well! COOKED” meal. The menu will consist Location: Ranger HQ vert mutiny and reinvigorate your life Bring: Awesomeness! essence with our non-fluoridated baked of roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy, a vegetable, and des- potatoes and toppings, no change nec- Fri 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm essary. sert. Hell, we may even have a vegan Location: Back Field Open Camping selection. Does your family do that for Erotic Hypnosis Fri Bring: Receptacle for your potato; firm resolve! you? NO. Think of this as a Holiday Learn about erotic hypno- 8:00 meal without the B.S. We won’t ask sis. Sessions available for pm to Fri 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm you all those prying question that your women on request. 9:00 pm annoying and nosy relatives ask. We Location: Camp Contact Hand Drumming 101 don’t give a damn about your business. Welcome Starting with the basics. Learning dif- Home ferent hand positions, tone regions, Eat, relax, play games, take a nap. Fri 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm and a few basic rhythms to play on Location: Camp Burning Bear Superheroes Dinner Bring: Cup, plate, and eating utensils if you can Join the Gang for your hand drum. Recommended for Against Humanity a Thanksgiving-style anyone interested in drumming in The heroes have final- Fri 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm meal as we welcome you Conclave. The only rule is: LISTEN ly snapped. They’ve back to the Playa. Family FIRST. Come to Kamp Kinky Tiki with MackDown! Snackdown embraced their dark Everybody on the ground come to friendly. Bring your own plate your drum (and something to sit on if and disturbed senses please. you’d like) and ask for Moose. Camp Laissez-Faire to chomp on some of humor and have champ mac n cheese! No nouveau-cui- Location: The Gang Forms a Cult Location: Kamp Kinky Tiki been sighted rant- Bring: Plates, cups, utensils, and appetites Bring: Hand drum and something to sit on (optional) sine low-fat, gluten-free pansy pasta; ing back and forth at we’re talking hefty hot drippy cheesy one another playing a Fri 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Fri 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm chunks tag-teamed with an assortment game called “Cards Against Drink the Kool-Aid of victorious toppings sure to satisfy. Humanity.” Come by CJL for Batty’s Belly Circle BYO bowl if you can. *veg options a dose of your favorite offensive party Does the sound of a more exotic beat Are you jonesing for a drink? Join speak to your soul? Do you like to the Gang for a delicious glass of total- available. **also macaroni masterpiece game. MTG, Super Munchkin, Fluxx, craft options. and other games also will be present. shimmy and wiggle while clad in jin- ly-not-poisonous Kool-Aid. Learn more gling bells? Come join us at Torchwood about the all-seeing Dab Owl while we Location: Laissez-Faire Location: Camp Justice League Bring: Bring your own bowl for BATTY’S BELLY CIRCLE and let make tin foil hats to the sweet beats of your inner gypsy unfurl! All skill levels our in-house DJs. Fri 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Fri 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm and genders are welcomed to get their Location: The Gang Forms a Cult Aiming To Misbehave jiggle on! Total noob? Totally ok! Don’t Bring: Cups PDF Ranger Training Everyone deserves a night to unhinge, Like helping people? And wearing be shy, let your bellies fly! EveryBODY and Friday belongs to the crew of come have some fun! Fri 5:00 pm to Sat 10:00 pm khaki? Come to Ranger Training! Torchwood. Tonight, the circle becomes Training is open to ALL participants Location: Torchwood Birthday Buddies the space to step in and play with one Bring: Clothes that jingle and a will to wiggle Stop by Decadance on Friday and pick although to be a Ranger you must have of our favorite manipulations of fire: been to at least one full PDF. If you up your charms to help you locate your FIRE BUBBLES! Join us in the ring Fri 9:00 pm to Sat 3:00 am birthday buddy over night. After you enjoy helping people, keeping everyone to gather a big handful of wonderful, find your buddy, bring them to the safe, and being a guiding hand for new soapy goodness and light that puppy Playaween participants, you just might be an awe- up! Fire Bubbles are fun anyone can Boys and girls of every age Quinceañera on Saturday for the big Wouldn’t you like to see something celebration. some Ranger. Rangers function mostly have, and you’ll be shown how to play as non-confrontational community safely. Stop on by to play (or maybe get strange? Come with us and you will see Location: Decadance This, our town of Playaween Bring: Your birthday buddy, dancing shoes mediators who are aware of potential a flaming chest-punch from one of our situations, and encourage communica- eager crew)! We’ll be giving out treats and good tion to alleviate or prevent them. We Location: Torchwood beats! We’re just one stop on the trick are NOT your mom, we are NOT the Bring: Willingness to be set on fire or treat express. Stop by Balls Camp, police, but we ARE awesome sauce! Ticketing, Barrel of Fun, Bangarang,

24 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 25 and Camp Jelly Fish for some more distractions, and more! homeschooling, and other drama. What’s your experience? Can treats. Location: Torchwood paradigm-busting parenting decisions. you help others who are seeking Location: Laissez-Faire Bring: An adult (if you can find one) In a casual discussion style, I will share non-traditional, drama-free group Bring: Costumes, tricks, treats, dat ass my experiences, offer some trouble- romantic lives? This is the second of Fri 11:45 pm to Sat 1:00 am shooting for breast-feeding concerns, three High Noon Just Say No to Drama Fri 10:00 pm to Sat 12:00 am The Midnight Streak! baby-wearing technique, and I hope discussions. Friday will be Family and (Not a Wedding) Wedding Bash At every Playa Del Fuego since the we can all learn from each other. Bring Lineage and Sunday will be Group Three of our couples are getting mar- Woodstock era, a hearty, hardy band your baby/toddler and baby carrier if Houses and Intentional Communities. ried before the end of the year and we of participants have gathered at 11:45 you have one. I’ll have a few carrying Location: Camp Drama Llama wanted to take the time to throw a Friday night to strip and stretch. At options for folks to try out. Bring: Ears and insights celebration with our playa friends and the stroke of 12, they set out on The Location: Poly Haven/Camp Red Bottom family! Midnight Streak! Lose your clothes, Bring: Baby carrier (optional) Sat 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm Location: Burning Hearts gain your freedom, run with us Balls Camp Potluck Lunch Bring: Cup, dancing shoes tonight! The Streak starts at Camp Sat 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Want lunch you can have a ball with? Drama Llama and tours the entire PDF Fruity Brunch Come join the most up and coming art Fri 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm campus, recruiting new streakers as we Serving an assortment of fruit to start camp on the Playa! We’ll be sharing our Holacracy: New Organizational go. Shoes are recommended. This is not your day off right. balls with you and invite you to share Structure a race; more a joyful, gentle jog/strut. Location: TIKI yours! Meatballs, melon balls, cheese We will be watching some YouTube on Streak now or forever hold your piece. balls, whatever round or ball shaped the basics of Holacracy followed by a Location: Camp Drama Llama Sat 11:00 am to 12:00 pm foods we can find! And don’t forget round table discussion. This system Bring: Shoes and sass Kombucha-mosas! your ball gowns! And stick around after was born in Philly and represents a Like a Mimosa, but with Kombucha. for our inaugural kilt walk! truly distributed non-hierarchical, Saturday We have lots of flavors to try! Come get Location: Balls Camp action-based, organizational structure. fizzy, leave a bit tipsy! Bring: Plate, cup, utensils, ball-shaped food Location: CLASSHOLES We will have handouts of the Holacracy Sat 7:00 am to 11:00 am constitution for those interested. Bring: A Cup Sat 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm Location: Camp foci Mikey’s Metal Morning A Cappella Flash Mob Practice Here it is, yes it’s back. The next bru- Sat 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Can you sing? Can you croak? Can you Fri 10:00 pm to Sat 4:00 am tal installment, a heavy metal attack. How to Deliver a Baby do these things naked? Never mind; Gather round, one and all, if this was a This will be an uncomplicated vaginal come to practice and we’ll learn a tune, Disco to Death Party!! hotel, we’d tear down the walls. If blast Shake your groove thang, at the Disco birth. Nothing fancy. then give the gift of our singing, naked beats and shredding, are something Location: CLASSHOLES (if you please) bodies to the Playa as to Death camp, where we love to love you crave, then you need not worry, you!! We’re so excited, cause it’s got to a surprise! We’ll also briefly discuss prepare to be saved. Be sure you’re Sat 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm the implications of surprising people be real, and it will be raining men! We ready, bring your angst and pain, for are family so come down and Boogie with naked singing, and public nudity. this is our outlet, for what we disdain. BLOWJOB DEMONSTRATION Consent is sexy, naked harmony is even oogie oogie at this Disco Inferno! Location: Barrel of Fun Pick up a trash bag and head over to Location: Disco to Death the pavilion. Now is a good time to sexier. Location: Participation Station Bring: Superfly dance moves and your bell bottoms Sat 9:00 am to 11:00 am clean it up Location: Pavilion Fri 11:00 pm to Sat 4:00 am Camp Green Goddess Open Bring: Trash bags Sat 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Balls Ballsitty Balls Balls Balls Coffee Social Cut It Out! Well after the official propane bubbles, Enjoy of cup of Sticky Mike’s signature Sat 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm This event made such amazing art in just after the bellies wiggle, but before SHITTY coffee and be thankful you did the Spring we are bringing it back this Just Say No to Drama: Fall! Create your own collage art and Torchwood vanishes into the backfield not wake up next to one of us! Polyamory and Open night, stop by and be ridiculous with Location: Camp Green Goddess reconnect with your elementary school Bring: Cup Relationships artistic self. Cut and paste images from the denizens of our camp! Maybe the Is it possible to have an open relation- bubbles turn back on, maybe we have old magazines and other art supplies to Sat 11:00 am to 12:15 pm ship or practice polyamory without make your own masterpiece. Feel free another Fire Circle Dance Floor, maybe getting caught up in drama? Fear of we spin stuff, who knows! Since this Baby-Wearing Meet-up to bring a few of your favorite maga- For parents interested in baby-wearing, that drama and its fallout are enough zines/images to share with your fellow is also our night to be, ridiculous, the to scare some people away from even camp will turn off and on randomly, attachment parenting, breast-feeding, artists. gentle-parenting, free-range parenting, exploring the options. But there are Location: Camp Tasty depending on wanderlust, shiny ways to manage and even eliminate

26 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 27 Sat 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Sat 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm Sat 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm Sat 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Not your Grandfather’s Balls to Walls Kilt Walk! Cannonball’s Stoned-Hearth Chicken Daddy’s Jerk Chicken Stamp-making Workshop Wanted: men/women in kilts, please Pizzeria Welcome to Chicken Daddy’s Jerk Did you grow up hearing tall tales bring a kilt and your balls, do a kilt You guys loved our pizza grilled cheese Chicken Day! The infamous Chicken of how your Grandpa used to make walk over the faces of people who want in the spring, so we’re bringing it Daddy, formally known as Tommy stamps by walking 10 miles uphill in to see some balls! Ball flashing is not back—thin crust quesadilla style! Pick Hogunz will be giving away free chick- the snow, both ways? Well, the times mandatory for this event but partic- some toppings, make idle banter with en wings from 3 pm until he runs out. have changed. Like the modernization ipation is heavily encouraged. Come Cannonball and Ashley, and stuff your All you have to do is your best rendi- of raisin farming, stamp making has for lunch and stay for balls! This event noisehole full of Better Ingredients! tion of the Funky Chicken Dance. Get entered the modern era. Come make is immediately following our pot luck Location: Camp Mouthful creative, he has seen most of them. your own rubber stamp to proclaim to lunch! Bring: Anchovies, obviously Location: Decadance the world that you too can cut rubber Location: Balls Camp Bring: A plate and your best Funky Chicken Dance and cover it with ink, just like your Bring: Yourself and if you have a kilt, wear it! Sat 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Grandpa used to do. Blindfolded Dodgeball Sat 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Location: CLASSHOLES Sat 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Dodgeball, without your eyes. We’ll Makeovers by OLP Bring: Sense of wonder, and an idea to be stamped Fire Massage Discussion and play at the front field near the Pony The artists at the OLP-Salon work Demo burn. Meet us at Classholes Camp under one mantra: makeovers should Sat 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm Does fire intrigue you? Do you enjoy if you don’t find us. Ask for Captain be fun! Our staff has been interested Tattoos and Tequila receiving or giving relaxing massag- Condescending. in makeup/doing makeovers for almost Stop by Tiki Saturday afternoon to es? Are you curious why folks might Location: Burning Art Area half their lives. They don’t feel con- get loosey goosey with some tequila be walking around with odd red cir- strained by established traditions of shots and then get tatted with love! cles on their backs? Stop past Camp Sat 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm North American makeup application Spankings on the St. Andrew’s Cross Torchwood to sate your curiosity. We Big Gay Cider Cart and instead prefer a more freeform available upon request. will be holding a discussion about the The Big Gay Cart is back! This time, and avant-garde approach. Please come Location: Camp Tiki basics of fire massage and fire cupping, we’ll be serving hot (alcoholic) cider by the Pavilion for your one of a kind Bring: Good vibes as well as offering to do a few demos during the Naked Slip ’n Slide. Find us makeover experience. Shots for courage for folks who would like to experience in the Pavilion during the event! and baby wipes for cleanup, if needed, Sat 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm the sensation first hand. So stop past Location: Pavilion can be provided. (NOTE: Average artist Radish Karaoke to take a peak, or stay to enjoy the Bring: Cups age: 5) Calling all singers! Radish Karaoke is flame. Location: Pavilion Bring: Unwanted Makeup to donate; your cup returning for another exciting rendi- Location: Torchwood Sat 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm tion of your favorite song, performed The Art of NOT BEING ON FIRE Sat 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm by YOU! Grab some liquid courage if Sat 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Torchwood prides itself on taking fire you need it, then step up to our song Scintillating Scalemail safety VERY seriously. We joke, “Safety Snack Time: Adult Milk and book and sign up. New and improved Want to learn the art of weaving Scale Third,” but in reality, at Torchwood Cookies Edition this year, it will (hopefully) only Mail? This medieval armor takes a safety is also filed under First and Visit our bar where we’ll be serving up include songs we actually have! Book modern twist to make beautiful cos- Second! During this event we will everyone’s favorite adult creamy bev- available for perusal at Radish all week- tume pieces which are also excellent discuss Fire Safety in detail. Through erage, Coconut milk White Russians!! end. conversation starters! We will have discussion and demonstration, we will And, of course, we’ll have some home- Location: Radish show pieces and a limited number of teach what our knowledge base holds, made chocolate chip cookies to dunk in tools and scales for a hands-on work- as well as seek input from partici- your milk! After all of the studying and Sat 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm shop. Bring your own tools/materials pants. We are all learning and evolving schooling we’ve put you through, it’s PDF/ATPBA and finished pieces to show off, if you together, and Torchwood is as open to the least we could do! Come by the Pony Burn Pad while have them. Part of Wolf’s Workshop input as everyone else. Join us to learn Location: CLASSHOLES we finish assembling the effigy and Series. Don’t be late. Assembly skills about Fire Safety (and our individual Bring: A Cup! feel free to Ask The Pony Builders build on one another and we cannot theme camp’s rules relating to it), and Anything. We will be on hand to rehash for late-comers. use your new skills to assist us and Sat 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm answer questions with arbitrary accu- Location: Scratch’s Costume Camp other spinners through the event! Signs, Signs, Everywhere Are racy and offer you alcohol until our Bring: Tools, scales, rings (if you have them) Location: Torchwood Signs words sound like gospel. Bring: Interest in, or knowledge of, fire safety You probably know your sun sign, Location: Pony Burn Pad but do you know your moon sign? It’s Bring: Your own cup

28 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 29 not quite as easy as figuring out your acid flashback. covered! This event begins promptly at Sat 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm sun sign, so use the interwebs search Location: The Gang Forms a Cult 4:21 on Saturday afternoon at Camp Rhythms of the Conclave machine that rhymes with “oogle” to Bring: Cups, a rug that ties the room together Tasty, which is located waaaay back in Before we brightly burn tonight, we figure yours out, then come to the the back field along the fence; look for join and practice the rhythms of the pavilion to create a necklace showing Sat 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm a purple flag on an orange flag pole. Conclave. Bring your drum and learn your two signs! Or, just design a real- Couples Hypnosis Location: Camp Tasty the base beats for this evening’s Burn. ly funky cool necklace if you’re not Couples intimacy building trance. Bring Bring: Your fabulous self Come to Kamp Kinky Tiki with your astrologically inclined. THREE-WAY your partner. Sessions also available drum (and something to sit on if you’d ALERT! This event is part of a mid-field outside of this event on request. Sat 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm like) and ask for Moose. The only rule takeover by Balls Camp. If you’ve never Location: Camp Contact Vegetarian and Vegan Potluck is: LISTEN FIRST. made it to the deep playa of front field Bring: A partner Are you ready for veggies with a side of Location: Kamp Kinky Tiki to see us, we’ll meet you half-way. Super? Justice League is bringing back Bring: Hand drum and something to sit on (optional) Makeovers by OLP will be offered in Sat 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm the Vegan and Vegetarian Potluck this conjunction with this event, and Balls’ The Spice Still Must FLOW burn! Have a vegetarian or vegan dish Sat 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm resident DJ will be playing the main After all that chatter about fire and that you would love to share? Bring it! Jungle Juice Happy Hour stage at the same time! safety, lets have a bunch of playtime! Mingle with the other non-carnivo- The TIKI bar will be serving games and Location: Pavilion The circle is open for some daytime, rous. Justice is served. debauchery along with our delicious Bring: Inspiration unlit practice and workshopping. We Location: Camp Justice League jungle juice punch and other tropical invite spinners willing to share their Bring: Dish to share, plate, utensils concoctions. We have NO CUPS FOR Sat 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm knowledge in their favorite props to YOU, be a good burner and BRING Vietnamese Iced Coffee join us and spread the joy of flow. End Sat 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm YOUR OWN Experience the iced-cold caffeine time is not definitive, and practice is Testicular Saline Infusion with Location: TIKI delights of Caphe Suada, a century-old welcome until the circle is needed for Bring: BRING YOUR OWN CUPS—strictly enforced! coffee beverage served in the tradition- Gary! camp events. Are you a MAN? Do you enjoy mastur- al style of Southeast Asia. Suada, also Location: Torchwood Sat 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm known as “Vietnamese Iced Coffee,” bation? Want to take it to the NEXT Bring: Flow toys, the will to FLOW LEVEL? Gary will be setting up a work- Drink the Kool-Aid is renowned for its strength and Are you jonesing for a drink? Join the sweetness. So whether you’re already shop on Testicular Saline Infusion. Sat 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Join us as he shows you how to make Gang for a delicious glass of totally- a big Suada fan, or just a parched and not-poisonous Kool-Aid. Learn more drowsy burner with a sweet tooth, Pop Quiz Happy Hour every orgasm INTENSE with your balls Of course you’ve heard that LARGE AS GRAPEFRUIT - SMOOTH about the all-seeing Dab Owl while we obey that craving and get yourself over “Knowledge is Power.” Well at make tin foil hats to the sweet beats of to Stardust! (This offering is inspired AS EGGS. Supplies are limited; show Classholes, knowledge is currency! up early. our in-house DJs. by VICC, the Vietnamese Iced Coffee Want a fancy cocktail? Get in line, kid! Location: The Gang Forms a Cult Camp, who have been serving up Suada Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin You gotta take a pop quiz in the subject Bring: BALLS and an open Mind! Bring: Cups to the denizens of Burning Man for the of your choice. And you gotta follow past 15 years) Teacher’s rules. You don’t wanna end Sat 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm Sat 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Location: Stardust up in Detention! (Or do you?) Extra Bring: Vacant adenosine receptors and a sweet tooth POTLUCK DINNER TIKI’s Pre-Burn Polynesian Credit: To whom is the above quote If are reading this you should head over most commonly attributed? Luau Boozefest Spectacular Sat 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm to the closest shower with a trash bag There’s nothing like a fruity cocktail to Location: CLASSHOLES and clean it out. Conclave Fire Safety Meeting Bring: Cup, brain make you feel like you’re in the tropics. Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin Come by TIKI as we prepare delicious Want to spin in the conclave? Than Bring: A trash bag don’t miss the mandatory fire safety Sat 4:21 pm to 6:00 pm traditional Tiki cocktails to help you meeting! Until than! Sincerely, Pena get your luau on. We’ll have a special and Skully conclave coordinators. The Camp Tasty 4:21 Munchie Sat 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm menu with several tasty concoctions Location: Pavilion Pot Luck Make your OWN headdress to choose from and, of course, those It’s Fall, and that can only mean one Have you ever wanted your own head- snarky, sexy TIKI bartenders you’ve Sat 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm thing at Camp Tasty: Pawpaws! Stop by dress? Well then, you bring the feath- come to know and love! Camp Tasty for our 4:21 Munchie Pot ers and I’ll bring the fabric! After the Location: TIKI Big Lebowski Lawn Bowling Luck for pawpaws and whatever else main burn we can find and install your Bring: Luau attire and CUPS! The Dude abides! Join us for White shows up! Don’t let those playa munch- own animal totem over the coals of the Russians and lawn bowling. What do ies turn into actual hunger! Sweet, effigy! you do for recreation? Oh, the usual. I salty, crunchy, chewy, we’ve got you Location: Participation Station bowl. Drive around. The occasional Bring: Feathers 30 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 31 throwing a huge birthday celebration. ities will randomly pop up all day long Join us after the burn to get down the Sunday so be on the lookout for this very spe- Sat 9:30ish? pm until ? Bangarang beats we love. cial birthday bunny! Location: Decadance Sun 6:00 am to 10:30 pm Location: Roaming The Pony Burns! F*cking Adult God Damn Bring: A teeny tiny birthday hat (optional) Everything is Awesome Pony! You Sat 10:00 pm too can build the pony. Or a fort. Or Coloring 8====3 Sun 10:30 am to 12:00 pm a spaceship. Use your imagination TIKI Ignites! Do you crave an outlet to express your and feel like a kid again with our After the Pony falls, the circle will inner foul-mouthed ruffian? Need Sourdough Pancakes! movable, usable, interactive Pony ignite and bring an evening of killer some wall art for your tent? Want to The Pyramid People will once again be experience. The Pony builders are fire performing to TIKI! Bring your just draw dicks on the back of a paper? serving Andy’s sourdough pancakes to Jamilah Dalton and Greg Morse. props and light up the night with the Come make and take some colorful the masses! But what shall we do while welcome atmosphere and monster art with a shit ton of inappropriate or we cook? Another JC Superstar Sing- beats of TIKI to drive your burning extremely appropriate designs. Lots Along, or something new? We won’t rhythm. Safeties are nearby, but bring- and lots of colored pencils, crayons, decide until the last minute! ing a friend is encouraged. Fuel contri- and markers, and designs provided. Location: Pyramid People Sat 10:00 pm to Sun 3:00 am butions always welcome. Spin bright, Much less shitty than the coloring Bring: A plate and a fork Curse Your Sudden But spin safe, and have a spectacular Burn book you have at home. Feel free to Inevitable Spin Jam! Night at TIKI! donate your own designs to the table Sun 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Flow artists, this is your night! The Location: TIKI to share. PARTICIPATE! Make a gift for The Cooler Brunch Pony has fallen, and your Burn Night Bring: Fire Props, Safety Buddy and Supplies someone you hate. Come one, come all, come hungry. is underway. The team that brought Location: Pavilion Come by Camp Justice League for the the epic fire circle to TIKI last fall, that Sat 10:30 pm to Sun 12:00 am Bring: Your sassy ass and attitude, fine motor skills coolest brunch on the Playa! We’ll be brought Part 1 of the sword battle art Daft Punk plays Balls Camp cooking up everything we have and project tentatively entitled “Torchwood If you saw it in the Spring, you defi- Sun 6:30 am to 7:30 am serving it up buffet style, so bring your vs Evil” in the Spring is back at it nitely don’t want to miss it this year. Extreme Tea plates and forks and help us clean out tonight! A special thank you kicks off If you missed it in the Spring, WTF?! Join Brandon and the Gang for an our coolers! the non-stop fun and beats! Spinners Daft Punk. Balls Camp. After the Pony amazing cup of tea and maybe some Location: Camp Justice League of ALL skills are welcome to step in Burns. group therapy. Bring: Plate, utensils the ring. Torchwood has fuel, blankets, Location: Balls Camp Location: The Gang Forms a Cult and safeties, but the more the merri- Bring: A cup, belief Bring: Bring your cups! Sun 11:00 am to 12:00 pm er (Workshop participants, put them Fruity Brunch skills to use!). Revelers, come to wit- Sat 11:45 pm to Sun 2:00 am Sun 9:00 am to 11:00 am Serving an assortment of fruit to start ness non-stop, mind-bending fire per- Make Art at Midnight Camp Green Goddess Open your day off right. formance through the night, and even From the people who brought you Location: TIKI dance the night to resident hot tune Pigment of the Imagination (aka, Coffee Social spinner, Turk-E! Enjoy of cup of Sticky Mike’s signature Make Art/Take Art) we invite all of SHITTY coffee and be thankful you did Sun 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Location: Torchwood you to a special event: MAKE ART AT Kombucha-mosas! Bring: Flow toys, fuel, safety gear not wake up next to one of us! MIDNIGHT! On Saturday night after Location: Camp Green Goddess Like a Mimosa, but with Kombucha. the Pony burn, make your way to the Bring: Cup We have lots of flavors to try! Come get Sat 10:00 pm to Sun 12:30 am deep back field, and look for the bright fizzy, leave a bit tipsy! Pickle Jacks lights to guide you to Camp Tasty, Sun 10:00 am to 11:00 pm Location: CLASSHOLES Picklebacks with a twist! Choose from where we will have paint and mini can- Bring: A cup a variety of homemade pickles for a vases and assorted crafting supplies for Fuggles’ 2nd Birthday Party! delicious chaser thats sure to please! you to use and make your middle-of- Everyone’s favorite teeny tiny high 5-ing puppet is turning two years Sun 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Complete with a shot of Jack Daniels, the-night art. Camp Tasty can be found Get Baked lots of love, and terrible jokes. waaaay back in the back field, along the old and you’re invited to the great big teeny tiny celebration! Break out Stop by The Gang Forms a Cult for Location: Decadance fence. Find the light and join us! a delicious baked brunch, featuring Location: Camp Tasty your teeny tiny birthday hats and join Fuggles throughout the day for teeny all manners of family-friendly baked Sat 10:00 pm to Sun 2:00 am tiny DJ sets, teeny tiny cupcakes, teeny goods. There will be additional baking Quinceañera tiny games, and (of course) teeny tiny at our blunt rolling workshop. In honor of PDF’s 15th year and all the high 5s! The teeny tiny birthday festiv- Location: The Gang Forms a Cult beautiful Libras out there, Decadance is Bring: Plates, utensils, blunt filler

32 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 33 Sun 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm Sun 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Sun 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm coffee beverage served in the tradition- BLOWJOB DEMONSTRATION Tag (with Your Butt) The Great Bod/Coordinator al style of Southeast Asia. Suada, also Pick up a trash bag and head over to It’s Tag, except you can only use your Meet and Greet!! known as “Vietnamese Iced Coffee,” the pavilion. Now is a good time to butt for tagging purposes. Only one Come say “Hi” to the folks who help is renowned for its strength and clean it up broken toe and a twisted ankle last make the magic happen! This is where sweetness. So whether you’re already Location: Pavilion year. Let’s top that! We will be playing the Coordinators and the BoD let their a big Suada fan, or just a parched and Bring: Trash bags at the open field above the pavilion, hair down and get crazy (or stand drowsy burner with a sweet tooth, you know, where they burn stuff. Meet around and chit chat). We may have obey that craving and get yourself over Sun 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm there at noon, or be square shaped. another sing along, we may have com- to Stardust! (This offering is inspired Just Say No to Drama: Group Location: CLASSHOLES petitive yodeling. You never know!! by VICC, the Vietnamese Iced Coffee Bring: Yo Ass Location: Ranger HQ Camp, who have been serving up Suada Houses and Intentional to the denizens of Burning Man for the Communities Sun 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm past 15 years) Do you really want drama to follow Sun 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Location: Stardust you home? In some group houses and Fantastic Ferments! Spuds With Your Buds Bring: Vacant adenosine receptors and a sweet tooth intentional communities that’s how it Come try our ferments! Natural fer- It’s BACK! Come on over to Camp mentation precedes human history. Decadance where we will show you how goes. It’s enough to scare some people Since ancient times, humans have Sun 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm away from even exploring the options. to take your boring, run of the mill The Spice May Be Dead Inside, But there are ways to manage and exploited the fermentation process to baked potato and turn it into a culinary even eliminate that drama. What’s enrich the diet through development masterpiece! Choose from a plethora but Must FLOW your experience? Can you help others of a diversity of flavors, aromas, and of toppings; from bacon to beans to Last chance for some daytime play- who are seeking non-traditional, dra- textures in food substrates; to preserve butterscotch! So join us at our five-star time! The circle is open for some unlit ma-free group living options? This is substantial amounts of food; to enrich potato bar where once you TOP you practice and workshopping. We invite the third of three High Noon Just Say food substrates with protein, essential won’t STOP! spinners willing to share their knowl- No to Drama discussions: Friday will be amino acids, and vitamins; to eliminate Location: Decadance edge in their favorite props to join us Family and Lineage and Saturday will antinutrients; and to reduce cooking Bring: Plate, fork and spread the joy of flow. End time is be Polyamory and Open Relationship time and the associated use of fuel. not definitive, and practice is welcome dynamics. Event will start after Tag with Your Sun 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm until the circle is needed for camp Location: Camp Drama Llama Butt! events. Location: CLASSHOLES Color Powder Fight Party Location: Torchwood Bring: Bring ears, experience, openness Bring: A plate and fork Color Powder Fight Party celebrates Bring: Flow toys, the will to FLOW happiness, health, and the spirit of the individual. Participants are showered Sun 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Sun 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Sun 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm PB&J Bar with colored powder, dousing each Hitting that afternoon slump? Feeling Improv on the Playa other in beautiful colors while celebrat- Great Burner Bakes a little drained, a tad pouty, or even Find your inner child and go back to ing their own senses of health, happi- Camp Laissez-Faire invites you to downright hangry? IT’S PEANUT uncensored fantasy and brain waves. ness, and spirit. This basically means stroll on over for tea, cakes, coffee, and BUTTER JELLY TIME!!! Stop by Gift your fellow participants with you will toss color powder all over one more. Feel free to participate and bring Classholes and fix yourself a satisfying characters and situations and discover another. Come dressed in white, black, a favorite bake, or just hang out and snack that will fill you up and smooth untold stories together. Brace yourself or light colors that will best show off enjoy others’ great bakes. for emotion and fun, and it might even the color powder. Your clothes may Location: Laissez-Faire you right out. Choose from various Bring: Your mouth and perhaps your favorite bake breads, spreads, fruits, fixins, and a come in handy in the default world! become stained so you should choose Facilitated by Unique (Aniek Ivens), items you won’t mind being perma- baseball bat. Chill for a while and opine Sun 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm on your favorite sandwich combo, or experienced improv coach, trained in nently altered with color streaks, but the Netherlands and NYC. keep in mind that part of the fun is in Act II: A Resolution take it to go, strutting majestically Location: Camp foci into the sunset to spirited chants being able to walk around while sport- Those Cockle Crew boys are at it again. of “THERE HE GO, THERE HE GO, ing your new colors. Leapin’ horny toads! Is nothing sacred THERE HE GO!” Sun 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Location: Camp Burning Bear in this town? Location: CLASSHOLES Paint Your Own Genitals Bring: The color powder will be provided Location: Fistful of Grapes A BYOG event! We provide paint and canvases to explore immortalizing your Sun 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Sun 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm genitals as a beautiful work of art in Vietnamese Iced Coffee What the F is foci? your own artistic style. Experience the iced-cold-caffeine foci is a filial forming feminine frater- Location: CLASSHOLES delights of Caphe Suada, a century-old nal organization that most members of Bring: Your genitals

34 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 35 camp foci are not exactly sure about. Sun 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Burning Hearts Built on Holacracy, foci aims to bring Spaghetti Western Dinner Theme Camps Formerly the group, Idea Dome, we are people together around common inter- Legend has it, on the final night of a fire performance family hailing from est and provide the phyiscal space to do PDF, you can obtain some of the finest Camp Dip It In the Lehigh Valley. We love spinning this at the lowest possible cost, freeing pasta and libations this side of the Rio Love chocolate, well we do too! and watching our friends spin, so bring folks from the two primary means Grande at Fistful of Grapes. Come on Bringing fondue to a playa near you! your toys and a spotter friend and spin of economic control, the debt from down to the backfield for a good-ol Join Camp Dip It In for gooey good- with us! We’ll keep you warm. banks and taxes from government. foci hootenany! ness in the back field. Stop by and join stands for F?*^a# order of common Location: Fistful of Grapes us for Chocolate Fondue served with Camp Burning Bear interest, and the traditions and val- Bring: Cup, plate/bowl, fork a cacophony of fresh fruits and other ues are to be forged in the fires of the Camp Burning Bear is comprised of devilishly delectables waiting to be lov- a group of fun-loving burners from Playa. Come sit at the round table, help Sun 11:00 pm to Mon 1:00 am ingly skewered then gently slathered in decide roles for the founding circle, and the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area. It’s Better to Burn Out, Than melted dark chocolate fondue eager to Burning Bears started as a private burn decide once and for all what exactly the titillate your taste buds. Dippity Do Da, F is in foci. To Fade Away to celebrate the Legend of the Burning Dippity Yay, my oh my, What a Dippity Bear. Burning Bear celebrates the end Location: Camp foci The Effigy and Art have burned, some Day! heroically, some somberly, and we have of summer and beginning of the Fall Sun 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm one final night to light the Playa with Harvest each Labor Day weekend on love, energy, and (of course) FLAMES! Balls Camp the Armenia Mountain in northern POTLUCK DINNER After the art has fallen, Torchwood will Where ball gowns will be worn, balls Pennsylvania. Camp Burning Bear If are reading this you should head over open the circle to more continued and will be played with and/or dodged and brings the Mountain to the Playa. Each to the closest shower with a trash bag epic fire spinning to close out the event Principles will be upheld! We invite year Camp Burning Bear plans activ- and clean it out. in style. Fuel, blankets, and safeties are you to come have a ball, where it’s all ities that can be enjoyed by all. This Location: Upper Dutch Blumpkin about the balls. Ball gowns, bouncy year’s theme, “Home.” Bring: A trash bag on hand, but participation and assist- ing is always welcome. Newbies that balls, meatballs, rum balls, gum balls, may have felt shy last night, jump in dodge balls. We might not have the Sun 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Camp Drama Llama tonight for a more low-key takeoff. biggest balls of them all, but we’ll defi- “Everybody knows there’s no drama in Saint’s Wake Location: Torchwood nitely have the best! Bring your balls, baseball.” Well folks, this ain’t baseball! A wake is a celebration of a life, and Bring: Flow toys, fuel, safety gear wear your ball gowns, and join the This is Camp Drama Llama. Whether even better if that life isn’t over. This fun! Warning balls may or may not be you are a thespian or someone who event is really centered around the fact returned! loves drama, or someone that drama that I have a handmade coffin that I Monday just follows around like a little lost constructed as part of a large art proj- Barrel of Fun llama, this is a theme campin’ and ect, and this seemed like a good way Mon 10:00 am Has it really been 20 long years socializing place to get your play on, to put it to use. Please don’t nail me What Did I Miss? already? No? Ten? Nope. It has, how- player. Check out our activities, emote in the coffin or toss it on the fire. Just I just got here. Sorry I’m late, there was ever been 20 wonderful PDFs for BOF! through our dueling megaphones, play saying. Camp Tiki has agreed to host this thing, with this guy, in a place. But In celebration of our nine and a half Drama Llama Ping Pong, and meet up the affair, so it should be a happy time I’m here now. Wait, where’s everybody years of attending PDF, we present the here for Friday’s Midnight Streak. for all. You’ll want to sign the guest going? BOFiest BOF that ever BOFed! Our book and be there for the reading of Location: Front Gate Game of BOFs will return. Our BOF the will. Camp FireBrook BAR is back! We’ll be spinning jams We are a close group of friends from Location: TIKI Mon 12:00 pm and fire! Barrel of Fun: Where clothing Bring: A cup, maybe drinks to share Brooklyn, NY who love PDF and all Time to Leave and sanity is always optional! that it stands for. We love to play with Sun 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm You don’t have to go home, but you fire arts and fire puffers. We are an can’t stay here. Pack your camp, clean Burn Baby, BURN!! open-minded fun group of people with Jungle Juice Happy Hour up your moop, wave, hug, and kiss your Parents (single parents especially)/ just a touch of NYC charm. So fugged- The TIKI bar will be serving games and goodbyes, and drive safe! Me, I’m head- guardians of little burners, come join about your troubles and just enjoy the debauchery along with our delicious ing for brunch and a flushing toilet. us this burn at our “kids camp”! We will journey. jungle juice punch and other tropical Location: Not here camp together, play, sing, dance, eat, concoctions. We have NO CUPS FOR Bring: Nothing! Take it all with you and share in the joys of this experience. Camp foci YOU, be a good burner and BRING We will play hard and party harder. YOUR OWN. New this Fall, Camp foci is the prov- Let’s help the next generation to con- ing ground for the F?#$%@* Order of Location: TIKI tinue the 10 Principles! Bring: BRING YOUR OWN CUPS—strictly enforced! Common Interest, a forming institu-

36 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 37 tion for change. With a Transparent in and make your own metal swag Party, Five-Star Baked Potato Bar, Kamp Kinky Tiki Holocractic Constitution we are during our foundry event open to all. Grilled Cheese Bar, roaming mobile Kink friendly lounge, arial arts, and evolving through the processioning of We were formerly Foundry Camp. bar, along with a stay-at-home bar bondage equipment. Rope classes and tensions, un-learning, and co-creation. featuring a Gin Tasting and homemade idea sharing. You can sign up to use our 20 x 20 Camp Tasty picklebacks! You may find that our event space, to meet around whatever Tasty Food, Tasty Folks, and Tasty hospitality is simply overflowing. Hm, Killa Beez interests you. We are looking for lead Talk. Camp Tasty has been a backfield quite.” Wu Tang Camp ain’t nothin’ to fuck links and interest circle members going tradition since Spring 2011. Come in, with. forward and want to include you in our sit down, and chill out with the fine Disco to Death founding. folks of Camp Tasty. Every Saturday Friends who met at a variety of region- Laissez-Faire afternoon at 4:21 we serve up a tasty al and NYC events have joined together Let it be. Purveyors of sarcasm, sonic Camp Green Goddess array of munchies to fulfill your post- to create a new theme camp this fall. amusements, and general tomfoolery. Camp Green Goddess is a drag-tacular 4:20 needs. We’re in the deep in the Come dance with us for our Disco to Come for the nickel tour, give us a twisted train wreck that will feature backfield along the fence. Look for an Death party or just chill in our Disco dollar, or mooch. It’s up to you. Sticky Mike’s really shitty coffee served orange flagpole with a purple flag. Dome while we break it on down for with a smile. Just look for the green you. machine and to find your way home. Mahna Mahna Camp2: 215/202 Food good. Tree pretty. Fire awesome! Camp2 (formerly know as Camp215) Drinko-Plinko Yay boobies!!! Mahna Mahna is an Camp Jammy Jam (Stage Camp) and the DC gang join forces! Come on Take a chance. Have a drink. Make unplaced theme camp typically located Camp for the eight folks who are going by and let us entertain you with: the some friends. in the front field on the path that goes to help run the stage. Wiggle Zone, Quentin’s Burning Art, from the main road to the camper alley. Giant Twister, and other games. Oh Fistful of Grapes Camp Jellyfish yeah, Bloody Mary/Momosa happy Hey there pilgrim. Throat parched? hour too! Next To Burning Hearts Come get jelly and snuggly with the Swimmy vision? Come wet yer whistle As it turns out, we’re usually hard to Gods and Goddesses of Camp Jellyfish! with some wine at A Fistful of Grapes. find. So this year we’ll make it real- Play chess, have a drink, or just chillax CLASSHOLES We even have some of that char-don- ly simple for ya: We are Next to the and shake dat ass to music. Hoopers Class is back in session! Come by for nay for ya sissies. And you can spin our Burning Hearts camp and we’re locat- and fire spinners are encouraged to a reminder of all those special school wagon wheel, if you think you’ve got ed conveniently next to the Burning apply within. Home of Limoncello puro times, that hot teacher, that epic the gumption for it. We-hell do ya? Hearts. If you still can’t find us, simply and the Bacon Grilled Cheese Sandwich school-wide game of tag, that 4th listen for our camp’s battle cry, “Shit, w/powdered SUGAR, the gateway drug! Place Honorable Mention Spelling Bee High Five God Damn.” trophy you still have, that time you Need a high five? Come visit us! Have Camp Justice League swiped your mom’s Arbor Mist and high fives to give out? Come visit us! brought it in your water bottle, that Pyramid People Superheroes. Games. Comfort Food. We might be high. We are the Pyramid People. We camp Conversation. Cuddling. Geekery. time you got caught masturbating in the bathroom with pictures of ... well, under a giant purple pyramid, we make maybe not THAT time. But what mat- IncogCeno pyramid necklaces, and we play games Camp Re-Charge ters is that you learned something! Trying to find your fave homebrew with colorful little pyramids. Pyramids Camp Re-Charge is the place to go to Check the blackboard for daily activi- camp, Cenosilicaphobia, and they don’t are cool. (We also dig cubes and round recharge your stuff that you use vs. ties, and prepare to get schooled! seem to be ANYWHERE on playa? They things.) going to your car. We have USB hubs may be hiding—going a little incognito, and power strips. Bring your cables and if you will. While we have some home- Decadance Radish feel free to leave them or chill in our brew to share, most of our best and No one can explain what it is to be rad- pillow lounge while you charge. “Dance with Decadence!” Philly’s tastiest is currently gathering bubbles Wobblehood is combining sound and ish; one simply is or is not radish. No and brewing itself up into a storm for radishes allowed. decadence to bring home a sound camp next year. So come swing by to see the Camp Scarred For Life called “Decadance.” Stop by. Be lavished Participate in our events and you familiar (and infamous) faces of your with our overflowing, decadent bass homebrew bartenders slinging cocktail Scratch’s Costume Camp will never be the same. Stop by to be and chillin’-illin’ lounge. Dance your BURNTASTIC GEAR AT GIFT scarred mentally or physically (con- specials in the wee hours. The drinks pants off on our flaming dance pole, or will be tasty (and bottomless), and we ECONOMY PRICES!! Unprepared with senting adults only). Try our brand paint your moves with some sound-re- appropriate burn attire? Poor newbie. of electroshock therapy, branding, or hope you aren’t in this relationship active LED color on our dance boxes. JUST for our homebrew. Maybe you’re a seasoned burner that’s come hang in our chill bar space. Stop Featured for Fall 2016: Playa Birthday 99% fabulous and just need something to complete your look. Whoever you 38 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. What, Where, When Guide | Playa del Fuego | OCTober 2016 39 are, visit Scratch’s Costume Camp The Gang Forms a Cult Upper Dutch Blumpkin W and W where one person’s clothes, wigs, In the beginning, the All-Powerful Dab In the late 20th Century, there is still Once again..... and accessories become the fashion Owl created the universe, Us, and more one people that are over looked—the treasures of another. We plan to be Owls in Its image to live in fear of Its fine people of Upper Dutch Blumpkin. W.I.T.C.H. open for business 12 pm to 5 pm on presence, in humble submission to Its They fled their Dutch homeland for Women’s International Terrorist Friday and Saturday, possibly other gracious authority. But all of us have French Guiana, only to be forced Conspiracy from Hell times during the daylight hours, too. rebelled against Dab Owl and, in con- into the northern part of that coun- We encourage supermodel attitudes. sequence, must suffer the punishment try because of their open practice of Clothing donations encouraged (fabu- of our rebellion: Physical death by way the Blumpkin religion. They are still lous only, please!) of Kool-Aid and the wrath of Fab Owl. oppressed to this day. FREE UPPER Thankfully, Ducks initiated a rescue DUTCH BLUMPKIN Slacker Camp plan—the great second coming—which Slack off! No really, come slack off with began with Its choosing the nation of us. We have comfy things for you to Virginia Beach to display Its glory lounge about in the Leopard Lounge, in a fallen world, until the great while slacking off from just about flood. Quack. anything, except your volunteer shift! Come find us next to Green Goddess, TIKI and feel free to enjoy the space even if Come get freaky with TIKI! We mix no one is there, because we might be up delicious fruity island cocktails, slacking off elsewhere, or whatever. and DJs provide some of the hottest Oontz-oontzes on the playa. Bring your Stardust fire to our Tiki fire circle and show us Camp Stardust is a burner theme what you’ve got! Come play on our camp at Playa del Fuego. We brew Tiki-style St. Andrew’s Cross, or just Vietnamese Iced Coffee and host other admire our shiny bar! Take a break at activities which vary from burn to our lounge or dance the day or night burn. away. So break out your finest tacky beachwear, Hawaiian shirts, grass Teapee skirts, and coconut bras and come find Teapee is an interactive interdisciplin- us and discover why “all roads lead to ary art installation and theme camp. TIKI.” **Jungle Juice available all day, Herbal tea is brewed over a campfire every day** where all are invited to commune and consume, make music and tell tales. Torchwood Teapee is a magic hobo jungle. Spinning out of TIKI (pun intended), this expanding fire camp reminded The Poly Haven Playa that all you need to flow is a Once again, the good folks from “The hot circle, hot jams, and a hot crowd. Poly Haven” will create space for Torchwood is led by the TIKI Fire Team safe, frank discussions about open that made the Fall 2015 post-pony relationships, polyamory, commu- burn spin jam happen, and you may nication, boundaries, jealousy, etc., have witnessed our camp’s Round One etc., etc. Be sure to attend our dis- in the Spring, complete with fire sword cussion workshop(s)or just stop out battle, and we want YOU. Bring your to see who is around chat. As a value fancy fire or glow toys and play with added feature we expect to also have Torchwood all night long! We have a discussion workshop on Anarchy & safety seminars, flow practice, spin Libertarianism. Exercise your brain jams, propane bubbles, and more, while or your heart. Either way, we have also being a Blue-Light Safe Haven. many of your “adult needs” covered. See WWW for Open Relationship & Anarchy Discussion, listing(s). 40 deadline to be included in the WWW is usually 4 weeks before opening Thursday. 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