We'd love to hear how your regional is handling ticketing. We'll discuss the following questions:
– How are you handling advertising or do you even need to advertise?
– Do you have a pricing strategy? Is your event responsible for funding the other 360 days a year?
– What policies do you have in place for critical staff? Theme camps? Returning volunteers? Other?
– Do you offer specialty tickets or add ons – dogs, vehicle passes, ice etc?
– Have you found a process to increase donations?
– What software are you using and how is it going?
– What policies have you implemented?
– Does your regional have a Learn & Burn plan?
– Do you have a refund plan for if/when your event must be cancelled (prior or during the event)?
And more!

How do you explain Black Rock City to someone who has never been? You bring them there.

BurnerSphere is an official virtual Burning Man experience, created in collaboration with Burning Man Project. No headset needed: participants explore art, camps, and gatherings together in real time from a VR headset or a desktop. It started in 2020 on AltspaceVR. When that platform sunset in 2023, we went looking for a new home and decided we needed to build our own: a home for Burners, by Burners.

In this session, we’ll bring BurnerSphere into the room with a live demonstration. Then we’ll go behind the scenes: what we film on playa, how we capture art installations, and how those captures become worlds you can walk through together. You’ll see how passive viewership turns into story living.

We’ll also look at BurnerSphere as an educational tool. For your first-timers and anyone curious about making the trip to the big burn, it’s a way to feel the scale of the city, meet the art, and get a sense of the culture and the 10 Principles before they ever pack a dust mask. We’ll close with an open conversation about what BurnerSphere could mean for regional communities, and we want to hear your ideas.

Come take a stroll in the digital dust.

Burner Training Channel will host the best of the best recorded lessons for burners by burners. Burner Scouts is a crowd-sourced and modular system of patches for participants that anyone can use or add to. Whether you want to help build these systems or just tap into them, come learn more.

The million dollar question is should your organization Buy land or Rent/ Lease it to hold events on.
There are a # of things to consider prior to making this decision.
Aquisition of… locating land that works for you
Considerations:
Zoning
Permitting
Cost/ Cash or acquiring a loan
Fitting in & acceptance by the neighbors
Governance:
Legal entity of ownership
Taxes
Insurance

Robert’s Rules of Order is the most widely used parliamentary procedure in the United States. Most non-profit organizations use it, and unfortunately, many don’t use it very well. This session will walk you through the basics in plain language and show you all the acceptable shortcuts to help make your Board Meetings and Minutes compliant with your bylaws—they likely specify Robert’s as your meeting standard. If you want to use Robert’s but don’t want your meetings to be stuffy and pretentious, this session is for you.

Previous participant feedback: “It was a fun and informative session.  Fantastic presentation.  Surprisingly, I really enjoyed it.  Thank you.” “Very informative; thank you!” “Thank you again for a really wonderful presentation (full disclosure- I’m a nerd for this stuff!)”

We're all volunteers here. None of us are getting paid. This presentation will start us on the topic of treating our volunteers (and ourselves!) with curiosity, empathy, and thoughtfulness. We will discuss why appreciation and gratitude matter.

You can have all your processes and knowledge perfectly documented, but it won’t help successors if they don’t know what’s in those documents or where to find them. How do we help orient our successors to the historical resources they have available?