Remembering Max

Max passed from this realm on Wednesday afternoon, March 18th, at his home in Richmond, VA, surrounded by close friends. He had been fighting cancer for 10 years. After receiving a diagnosis that indicated he had less than a year to live, he outlived his prognosis by many years. Max was a devoted camper at Camp Contact. He came to his first event with us in 2014 and participated in many of the regionals, festivals and big burns with the camp, sometimes not showing up until strike. He supported the camp as our electrician, and overall fix-it guy, and loved to participate in acro yoga any time it happened, as well as offer workshops around energy sovereignty through solar generated fossil fuels. Here is a remembrance of Max from his local newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch. There will be a gathering to remember Max on Saturday, April 4th, at 11 am at Friends Meeting House, 4500 Kensington Ave. in Richmond. There are also plans in the works to have a celebration of life in June.

Camp is coming together well for 2026 at Burning Man!

Camp Contact’s most significant annual gathering happens at Burning Man, where we form a community of movers who celebrate Contact Improvisation, Acro Yoga, Ecstatic Dance and Authentic Relating.

We have about 35 people signed up, with more telling me they'll be signing up, and we've got a camper planning to bring a Dance Pole and 16' aerial rig to complement our event offerings! I've heard from a number of you who want to offer workshops! In particular, we have someone planning to bring a Kama Flight workshop to camp! Kama Flight is a blend of things we love so much-- Acro Yoga, Thai Massage and Contact Improvisation.

In addition to our standard pods of Contact Improvisation, Acro Yoga, Authentic Relating, and Metamodern/Liminal Web pods, we have an Austin-based pod and a Florida-based pod planning to join us! I've been reaching out to some highly experienced Burner lead chefs to coordinate our meal team this year, and excited to bring our kitchen back to the pre-pandemic awesome experience it was. If you know of anyone who might want to help, please be in touch. Here is our latest list of roles and where we are at with them:

• Build Lead - Dorf
• Leave No Trace - Interviewing someone from Austin Pod!
• Strike Team Lead - Needed
• Build Chef - MamaRocq
• Plumbing & HVAC - NEMO
• Electric - Interviewing someone
• Camp Layout, Flow & Architecture - Eva
• Camp Organization / Communication / HR / Project Manager -- Interviewing someone

• Consent Team Lead - Needed
• Emotional Support Team Lead - Needed

• Lead Chef -- Interviewing someone
• Ordering / Food Logistics - Needed

• Events Coordinator - Needed
• Contact Improv Program coordinator - Needed
• Center Camp CI Jam coordinator - CousCous (Marcus)
• Morning Meditation & Yoga coordinator - Julian
• AcroYoga Program coordinator - Needed
• Authentic Relating Program coordinator - Needed
• Ecstatic Dance Program coordinator - Needed
• Sound Team Lead - JonEye
• Internal Events coordinator - Needed

All roles are open to having backups & assistants, particularly where it says "interviewing someone"

There are other roles that are also needed but not as important to find at this time. If interested in any of these roles, please reach out to Darrell on Telegram or at dance@campcontact.org

We won't be taking last minute campers this year, it is important for people to be connected with camp ahead of time through our Zoom Calls. We've already assembled a crack build team for 2026, with Nemo, Dorf, Jessie, & Eva planning to join us to set up camp, along with campers from our hubmates BRC Studio & Spa and Dark Heart. We welcome others to join us for build! Registration for Camp Contact at Burning Man 2026 is open!

--B0LTh , Camp Contact Source-Keeper

Burning Man Tickets

Some things have changed with Burning Man tickets this year. If you aren't able to get tickets in the Stewards sale coming up, I encourage everyone who is considering going to Burning Man this year either:

1. Let me know by Monday, March 30th that you want a ticket/vehicle entry pass from our allocation.
2. Pre-Register and Enter the Main Sale on April 29, 2026 at 12:00 pm (noon) PDT
3. Apply for the Ticket Aid (Low Income) Ticket Program which has just opened!

We've asked for more space to set up what is essentially the similar setup and layout to what we did in 2025. We've added a third aluminet shade structure that will give room for more tents and will also allow for the event space to take up the entire 60' x 60' area provided. The Dining room will be on the other side of the kitchen from the event space, and share some of its space with tents. We may end up reducing our footprint depending on how many campers join us; we want to be as responsible for MOOPing as little land as possible.

We are excited to be creating a Hub with two other camps in 2026. Last year's neighbors, BRC Studio & Spa reached out and asked to join us this year, and we are glad to share utilities with them. We reached out to Dark Heart, with whom we've had some great campers join our camp from, and they are now joining us. Below is the proposed alignment of camps in the Hub we submitted to placement!

We will run a small Container to the Playa in 2026, from Washington, DC to Black Rock City and back! Load in will be Saturday, August 15th, 2026 at GlowHouse. There are other containers being run from DC.

Camp Contact will be attending Playa Del Fuego! Please sign up today if you're thinking of joining us! We want to bring our DJ booth this year and offer Ecstatic Dance! Signup form for events coming soon!

There is one round left of ticket sales for tickets to Playa Del Fuego. Please buy additional tickets coming up on April 1. We ask everyone who can help Camp Contact to get tickets please sign up to buy tickets in this round, even if you don't think you're going to PDF. If you are chosen with a low number in line to buy tickets, and are offered the opportunity to buy tickets, we ask that you buy all four, or as many as you're able to support fellow campmates who will inevitably need them! Please create an account on the ticketing site ahead of time so that you're ready to buy tickets if you're chosen by the system to be able to buy tickets.

Round 2: Wednesday April 1 @ 8:55 PM

We don't anticipate doing any other events besides PDF and Burning Man this year, as we want to maintain our focus on these two great events and not dilute our efforts or get distracted with other events.

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 forged. You put the connection into Contact. We look forward to dancing with you!

Camp Contact relies on your donations and support to grow our embodiment 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 - d@duane.com
• 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@campcontact.org

We also rely on volunteer support and will have a work party in Middleburg, VA later this year to organize and repair our gear! We also can use help with other aspects of camp!