It is with a heavy heart that I share the passing of our beloved burner friend, KJ Donoghue. KJ was a long-time supporter and cherished friend of Camp Contact. Although I don't think he ever formally camped with us, his contributions were invaluable—particularly at Playa Del Fuego starting around 2016, where he generously helped us construct shade at the VVMC.

A dedicated camper with IAMU and Sky Bar, arriving early to build, burning in so many great ways, and staying late for strike. I remember KJ for his humility, kindness, sense of humor, wisdom, and unwavering commitment to the burner community. His efforts were instrumental in bringing to life incredible experiences at both Burning Man and LoveBurn for many years. Most recently, KJ joined Camp Contact for build week at Burning Man 2024, immediately stepping up to construct our Himalayas shade structure and ensuring comfort and shelter for our campers. He showed up for us out of the goodness of his heart, unsolicited, and then went on to camp elsewhere that week.

Farewell, dear friend. May you rest in peace, knowing how deeply you are loved and missed. Please consider donating to support the memorial for KJ, we will have a memorial service for him on April 5th in Virginia.

Camp Contact is excited to be curating the Spiral Sanctuary Space at Lucid Dream Festival April 17-20, Thursday through Sunday! We'll be setting up a kitchen with an optional meal plan as well as offering events in this space. We also have a dedicated cabin! his nook in the woods behind Cabin S features a Labyrinth & Gazebo, and a nice open space ready for events. We'll set up some shade and ground cloth, as well as a sound system. This alcohol free space will offer workshops and events related to embodiment and awareness. Want to lead an event here? Want to join Camp Contact as a camper, or lead an event in this space? Sign up for either or both at http://luciddream.campcontact.org

Please use code "contact" to get 5% off your ticket, you can use this code even if you're not camping with us, and you can share this code with others. We are looking for various roles including events coordinator, build team, etc, and have further discounts available for camp contact staff. Please reach out to Darrell if you want to help!

Join Camp Contact at Burning Man 2025 – A Year of Renewal

Camp Contact’s most significant annual gathering happens at Burning Man, where we form a community of dancers who celebrate Contact Improvisation, Embodiment Practices, Authentic Relating, and Circling.

After a particularly challenging strike in 2024, we are in a period of restructuring and renewal. We are not yet certain if we will be granted placement as a camp for 2025. Placement has encouraged us to take time to refine our community, ensuring we remain a sustainable, well-balanced camp, and they are open to receiving an appeal letter. I believe we will be offered placement if we can provide a strong team and coherent plan to bring our camp in 2025. This means downsizing to under 100 campers with a more manageable infrastructure. I am working with a fellow theme camp organizer assigned to me by placement to review our operations and come up with a plan to revitalize camp.

• Reviewing each piece of infrastructure and optimizing it for ease of strike
• Reviewing the social contract for campers and ensuring everyone commits to striking the camp.

We are actively seeking dedicated and experienced campmates—especially veteran burners familiar with medium to large camp logistics—who can commit to staying through Tuesday evening (or later if needed) to assist with strike and MOOP sweep. Our goal is to distribute leadership more effectively, prevent burnout, and build resilience against unpredictable weather events while taking on less and spending less time on playa.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the next chapter of Camp Contact. If you’ve camped with us before and resonate with our community of practice, we’d love to welcome you back. If you’re new but bring the dedication and experience to support a thriving large camp, we invite you to apply.

In particular, I want to create a stronger pod based form of camp, where groups of campers who know each other well come to join as a pod and offer specific meals, infrastructure and events. Not everyone will come to camp knowing people, but campers who are accepted will be assigned to a pod which will meet regularly leading up to the burn.

Let’s come together to create a sustainable, inspiring, and deeply connected Camp Contact for Burning Man 2025 and beyond.

We are now accepting applications of interest for Camp Contact at Burning Man 2025!

--BOLTh (formerly known as Spacious) , Camp Contact Theme Camp Organizer.

We're getting ready for another Container to the Playa in 2025 and have an even better load in location lined up for 2025. We also are already planning to use the same drop off point in Richmond, and perhaps in Philly. We will have a separate "Camp Contact Container" Camp and are looking to build out the Camp Contact Container leadership please reach out to Darrell aka BOLTh at dance@campcontact.org if you want to be a part of the Container team!

We are again looking for Art that represents this years Theme of "Tommorw Today" to be created for 3" x 4" stickers. We need six different graphics made for stickers with the words (and with the primary color of):

• Monday/Tuesday Build (Orange)
• Wednesday/Thursday Build (Yellow)
• Friday Build (Red)
• Saturday Build (Blue)
• Sunday (Purple)
• Monday or Later (Nature Green)

on them. We will use these stickers to label the bins and gear that people are shipping.

All Stickers should, in smaller print say "Tomorrow Today" on them, as well as "CCC 2025" or "Camp Contact Container 2025" on them.

Claim the day you want to work on in our Stickers topic of the Container Telegram Group!

Once you've finished, post it in the telegram STICKERS topic, and I"ll provide feedback as needed. Sucessful art will be eligible to ship 1 bin (or equivalent) with the Camp Contact Container Compliments. This bin shipping is giftable. Image can be submitted in JPG/PNG format and should have a 3 x 4 aspect ratio or a 4 x 3 aspect ratio

Camp Contact will be attending Playa Del Fuego, May 22-26. Don't have tickets yet? Round 2 of ticket sales will be happening Thursday, March 27th at 8:50 pm! This is the final round of ticket sales, and there are many after market tickets that we can get. Please register for camp!

Anyone want to take Camp Contact to Summerisle June 19-23? Please reach out to Darrell if so! Darrell will be at VibeCamp, but that doesn't mean Camp Contact can't go to Summerisle!

We are sad to hear that Transformus is likely not happening in 2025, we hope we are mistaken and some magic happens to bring it together for this summer. However, the "Welcome Home" burn is happening at the original location of Transformus, at Deerfields. Join the Facebook group for this to learn more!, and let Darrell know if you want Camp Contact to come!

Save the date for our 3rd annual Burner Meetup & Fundraiser! Rua will be leading the wellness workshop, and we'll have our standard fare of a burner outfit exchange, vendors, a chance to meet other campers and camps and chat about plans for Burning Man 2025! We are accepting burner outfit donations at GlowHouse now through the end of June, leave them in the burner bin that's in front of the house on the right!

Save the Date! VibeCamp, happening June 19-22, 2025 at Ramblewood, in Darlington, Maryland, is an emergent community in its fourth year that gathers for a long weekend of conversations, workshops, special events, dance parties, and all the rest. Attendees come mostly from loose connection of networks on twitter, including the 'tpot' community. I was especially glad to find the list of growth modalities created by Christine of this community. Attendees include Rationalists, Burners, Effective Altruists, Lurkers, and people who had never heard of those things.

Camp Contact is excited to join in the festivities again this year. Plans are still being made for Camp Contact's Role at Vibecamp 4

Camp Contact creates transformational workshops that bring embodiment, awareness, sensitivity and inspiration and offers them at burns! And, we work together to understand and grow in our relationships. This camp is an ever growing network of amazing humans. We are so grateful that, at each event, bonds are foraged and/or deepened. You put the connection into Contact. Thank you for being you! We look forward to dancing with you from the Eclipsing Sun to the Dust.

Camp Contact relies on your donations and support to grow our movement movement. If Camp Contact has impacted you in a positive way, please consider sending a financial donation of any size via any of our payment methods to keep us going strong and support our offerings and infrastructure:

• Venmo - @campcontact
• Paypal - dance@campcontact.org
• Zelle - dance@campcontact.org
• Crypto - campcontact.eth on Ethereum and sidechains

If there are other forms of Financial Capital you'd like to donate, or if you'd like to receive a tax deduction for a donation via our fiscal sponsor, please be in touch at dance@campcontactr.org

We also rely on volunteer support and could use help with admin and technical support, particularly Linux System administration and PHP/Drupal coding. We would love to document our culture, create/edit videos about camp life, infrastructure construction and other aspects of camp.

We are interested in hosting other gathering or fundraisers in other cities. There is some talk of a Fundraiser in New York City, message BOLTh at dance@campcontact.org