Aural Pleasures for the Ride to BRC

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

A guide to the Honorarium art and artists at Burning Man 2017. A great way to get fired up about the amazing art that's going to be on playa! Listen while you're packing, driving to Black Rock City, or just stuck in D Lot!

We don’t usually think of rituals as dangerous, but Crimson Rose literally dances with fire. Her ritual practice has clear and obvious stakes: if something goes wrong, people get burnt. Crimson, who over time has created (or she might say “discovered”) most of Burning Man’s most prominent fire-rituals, sees ritual practice not as a way of going through the motions of what you already know, but as...

Has it ever seemed to you that there are more ways to be a citizen of Black Rock City than there are to be a citizen of anyplace else you live? Your home town, your county, your state? Well, it's not actually true, but it can certainly seem true. And the reason it seems true, according to Walker Fisher, is that there is a link between creative freedom and civic engagement. People who feel creative...

Theresa Duncan spent her whole adult life doing development and fundraising work for non-profits. But after she went to her first burning man, she realized she hadn't understood gifts at all. On playa she discovered a gifting culture so powerful that at first she didn't even know how to participate. That's not an uncommon experience: many of us realize, our first Burning Man, that we are so used t...

Burning Man tech staff member Anselm Engle put the pieces together, suggesting that the experience of going to Burning Man is itself a manifestation of the “Hero’s Journey” — a kind of mythical journey common to most (or even all) cultures.

UCLA Anthropologist Dr. Megan Heller studies play — how we do it, why we do it, what impact is has — and when I asked her if she had any thoughts about this year’s theme, “Radical Ritual,” she came back with a challenging question: What’s the difference between “ritual” and “play?”

Ritual, Dr. Tanya Luhrmann says, is the way we connect the world as it ought to be with the world as it is – and orient ourselves to it.