The Flavor Of The Festival
Reprinted from the Mercury News:
The Flavor of Burning Man
By Mark Boslet
Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:31 pm in Burning Man, General.
You know Burning Man as the communal festival held every year in the Nevada desert. This year’s no different - though maybe the event has grown a bit. It seems immense. The official tally lists 44,000 people in attendance as of Friday.
As always there are many reasons for going. “I think a lot of people come here for spiritual reasons,” said Gail Haley, an author and a first burner from North Carolina. Haley has studied the role of the Green Man in religion (often seen as a symbol of fertility and fecundity) and when she learned of this year Green Man theme, she couldn’t stay at home. But even for Haley, the festival is not without play. She and her man came to “have all the fun we can.”
You’ll be happy to know the festival’s absurdity is as vital as ever. Just drop in on Aaron Selverstan of San Francisco, who decided served “high tea” from his tent in the sandy wastes of northwest Nevada. A Victorian couch in beige stood next to a print of an English garden party. “We wanted to create a comfortable, stylish, sexy, relatively cool space where wandering people can some in,” said Selverstan, who goes by Guv’nor on the playa.
Welcome
Reprinted from the Mercury News:
The Flavor of Burning Man
By Mark Boslet
Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 4:31 pm in Burning Man, General.
You know Burning Man as the communal festival held every year in the Nevada desert. This year’s no different - though maybe the event has grown a bit. It seems immense. The official tally lists 44,000 people in attendance as of Friday.
As always there are many reasons for going. “I think a lot of people come here for spiritual reasons,” said Gail Haley, an author and a first burner from North Carolina. Haley has studied the role of the Green Man in religion (often seen as a symbol of fertility and fecundity) and when she learned of this year Green Man theme, she couldn’t stay at home. But even for Haley, the festival is not without play. She and her man came to “have all the fun we can.”
You’ll be happy to know the festival’s absurdity is as vital as ever. Just drop in on Aaron Selverstan of San Francisco, who decided served “high tea” from his tent in the sandy wastes of northwest Nevada. A Victorian couch in beige stood next to a print of an English garden party. “We wanted to create a comfortable, stylish, sexy, relatively cool space where wandering people can some in,” said Selverstan, who goes by Guv’nor on the playa.
Welcome
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