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Now in its 25th year, the Burning Man festival -- an annual eight-day experiment in community, art, self-expression and self-reliance -- sold out for the first time.Black Rock City, the temporary community that rises from the Nevada desert every year to host the event, is expected to draw 50,000 attendees this year. That's the limit the U.S. Bureau of Land Management allows for the site -- a dry lake bed two hours from Reno. Burning Man 2011 kicked off on Aug. 29 and wraps up on Monday (Sept. 5).
And on Saturday (Sept. 3), the Big Burn of the Man will take place at 9 p.m. ET. Don't worry - if you didn't make it to Nevada this year, you can watch in a live streaming webcast.
This year's theme is "Rites of Passage." From the event's official site:
"[M]oving from one state of being into an unknown other obliges us to face our innermost insecurities, and it requires faith, a willingness to leap off the ladder of ordered existence."
And it's mainly up to attendees to figure out their own rite of passage. The event bills itself as purposefully unorganized -- hence no big acts booked to play on stages. Instead, the events that transpire each year are created by the event's "citizens."
In case you missed it, here's our guide to everything you need to know about Burning Man.
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This is a sick ******* event. White kkk **** that should be banned due to the gruesome past of these cults sick and obscene that this is happening
hey Bernie ... ... contempt prior to investigation ... ... ignorance is bliss ...
Bernie: It is you who are sick. Burning Man has nothinbg to do with the KKK. You see flames of any sort and equate that to Southern lynchings. You're one very haunted, disturbed person.
Bernie, if you don't know what you are talking about or what this represents don't post...you are way off base with your comment..Ignorant at best.
Dirty hippies ... where are Cartman and Ktulu when you need them?
I would love to attend this event. I have no talent of any kind. So much to see, would just plain enjoy it. Crazy eye treats all over the place!!
YOU WILL ALL BOW TO THE DARK LORD
Really? An event such as this, where there really are no limits - setting limits on attendance??? How hypocritical is that?
It was the government that set the limit, not the people behind the event.
Never been myself but I know people who have. Its about self expression and not judging. Definitely considered a positive event, all the people I know that go are overall positive people.