Check out Michael Webster’s short “dawn to dawn” themed Burning Man photo slideshow, which features a few Comfort & Joy related photos, including the bikers headed away from our camp (above).

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There is a very important story in this week’s Bay Area Reporter about the Trans March, Pink Saturday and the Dyke March. These events are in danger of being canceled next year due to high fees.
Please e-mail the Mayor and Supervisors to let them know how important these events are, and to support the Music [...]

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Comfort & Joy’s next fundraiser will POP with color thanks to Chickpea, our resident blacklight artist and art director behind the legendary GAYGLO troupe.

We are GIDDY about Afterglow’s visual theme: Blacklight Discothèque… with a hardwood dancefloor filled with outrageously colorful setpieces from Gay Glo’s blacklight theatrical production of WIZARD OF OZ… plus the professional-grade [...]

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Get ideas, inspiration… and practical preparation…. at a series of special events designed to help YOU get ready for Burning Man!

The “Prepare for the Playa” Expo features how-to craft workshops, fashion shows, djs, artist & vendor booths, drink specials, art installations, theatrical performances and more! It’s a great way to get ideas, meet [...]

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Burning Man has a grand tradition of creating amazing environments for spiritual contemplation. Many artists are inspired to create “temple” spaces like the Tasseograph, as seen in photo above. Artist & architect David Best is featured in this very moving 8 minute video documentary about 2007’s Temple of Forgiveness:

Although David Best [...]

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What happens when you light a 600 pound upright piano on fire, load it on a giant catapult, and launch it in the air? Find out:

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We are delighted that Burning Man’s version of the World Naked Bike Ride is coming back to Black Rock City. As is tradition, Comfort & Joy will host a climax reception for the riders before they ultimately arrive at the Deep End.

Check out this year’s flyer and LOTS of photos from previous years [...]

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A treasured member of our community is being forced to leave the country in less than one month. Doghood, a brilliant conceptual artist known for his sophisticated light installations, is getting deported for organizing activist queer street theater.
Doghood must leave the country by June 16th…. right as a new exhibition [...]

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Big News! The circus performance troupe Vertigo Posse will be offering daily dusk aerial acrobatic peformances at Comfort & Joy during Burning Man this year. Led by Benn Mendoza (above), Vertigo will also offer technique-based trainings at the camp during the day, alongside our yoga classes and other creative workshops (including makeup [...]

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