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Registration for Camp Contact at Burning Man 2026 is open!

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 will cap our camp at 100 solid campers with strong initiative to support camp and follow through on our mission to bring transformational, embodied workshops to the playa!

We've already assembled a crack build team for 2026, with Nemo, Dorf, Jessie, Temeri, Eva, MamaRocq, Bodhi, Christop & Journey Weaver planning to join us to set up camp, along with campers from our hubmates BRC Studio & Spa and Dark Heart. This year we are organizing our build and strike schedules very clearly, and you'll know exactly what projects we need you to work on for strike or build a few weeks ahead of time! We welcome others to join us for build!

Here is our latest list of stewards and where we are at with them:

• Build Lead - Dorf
• Plumbing & HVAC - NEMO
• Electric - Journey Weaver
• Build Team Chef - MamaRocq
• Leave No Trace - Needed
• Strike Team Lead - Needed
• Bicycle Loaner Program Coordinator - Needed
• Bike Repair Team Members - Needed (come for build)
• Trailer Organization Manager - Needed
• Co-Lead Chef 1 - MamaRocq
• Co-Lead Chef 2 - TBD -- Interviewing 1
• Food Logistics & Ordering - TBD
• Food Storage and Rotation - TBD
• Compost Coordinator - TBD
• Events Coordinator -- Rio!
• Sparkle Team Coordinator (Keeping camp areas clean) - Needed

• Consent Team Lead - Bodhi
• Emotional Support Team Lead - Needed
• Sound Team Lead - JonEye
• Contact Improv Program coordinator - Needed
• Center Camp CI Jam coordinator - CousCous (Marcus)
• Morning Meditation & Yoga coordinator - Julian
• AcroYoga Program coordinator - Needed (Low Priority)
• Authentic Relating Program coordinator - Needed (Low Priority)
• Ecstatic Dance Program coordinator - Needed (Low Priority)
• Social Media Pre-Event - Needed
• Decompression Cruise Directory - Jessica

All roles are open to having backups & assistants, particularly where it says "interviewing someone" See job descriptions and latest updates on Stewards List

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 will bring our Steam Bath, but only set it up if we get the rest of our build done on time and have a crew dedicated to put it away.

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. We will be accepting workshop proposals from the link on our website at http://brc.campcontact.org/events

In addition to our standard pods of Contact Improvisation, Acro Yoga, Authentic Relating, and Ecstatic dance pods, we have a Florida-based pod planning to join us! We also will have a Gatherers' Pod, which will embrace the Metamodern Magicians community that we've been nurturing along. See more details about The Gathering event that Camp Contact will be attending in October for details about this community.

We are excited to bring our kitchen to new heights with a lot of planning ahead of time. As we did last year, we will be organizing everyone in to pods of 8-10 people which will be responsible for preparing one lunch and one dinner over the course of the week (assuming you're on the meal plan). We plan to have menus solidified by early August and arranged for each pod. We have a new question on the camp registration form. We are looking to identify lead chefs who can organize the meal prep and want to ensure each pod has one or two lead chefs in it! I've heard from many campers who've led their first large meal prep with contact that it was quite a rush to step up to this challenge and bring a great meal to their fellow campers! Please log in to our camp app and update your registration as there are other new questions.

Besides the new question, there are many new features and aspects to the camp app, including a roster with all of the current campers listed, the camp maps, pod listings with podmates, and many more upgrades in the works. I'm excited to be developing a Build & Strike management tool that will assign everyone their projects ahead of time for strike so they know what they'll most likely be doing and when. This new functionality will provide a clear path to taking down, packing away and loading our gear to the location it belongs and will be accessible on playa to check for the latest updates! We aim to be very close to done with Strike by Monday evening so we can get on our way to decompressing on Tuesday!

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. If you think you might want to come, we welcome your registration now, so that you can get synced up, and if it turns out you can't come, we understand.

--B0LTh , Camp Contact Source-Keeper

Camp Contact is again offering a 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. We have room to expand this year, with multiple trailers going from DC/VA to Black Rock City and back. We are taking time now to do routine and extended maintenance on all of our playa bound equipment to ensure safe, reliable transport that arrives on time.

• The Alps: Our 60' x 60' shade structure with Puzzle (Dojo) mats and Sound System
• Our Dome: 30' Air Conditioned dome offering privacy
• The Tetons: Our Dining room which can accommodate ~20 people for a lecture or conversation

Deadline to submit is June 25 at 9AM, if you want the event to have a chance of appearing in the What Where When book, and you can submit until early August and still be included in our printed schedule and the Dust App. At this moment there is an open schedule and we welcome event submissions from anyone. If we start running out of space, we will prioritize campers with Camp Contact for inclusion in our schedule.

We will be back out at the farm in Virginia, where we've had many memorable events, and store our Camp Contact gear. We need to unload from Playa Del Fuego, as well as organize the barn and help our gracious hosts with their land! Further, we'll be repairing the shade structures that were damaged in the wind storms last year (Himalayas pictured above) as well as testing our electrical distribution systems, organizing, cleaning. We'll go from 10 am to 6 pm, on Saturday July 18th and 25th, and we'll have plenty of time to catch up with friends and enjoy a lovely summer day! This is also a time to have fun and enjoy chill time in the countryside. We will have food, beverages, and music, as well as time in nature and fresh air, not to mention good friends & new friends! You don't have to be camping with Camp Contact to join!

If you have your own repair project or art project you want to work on at the farm, we welcome it. We have access to various hand tools and power tools such as a table saw, drill press, 3-D printer (needs to be set up), and more! Let Darrell know.

Come help us enhance the camp's structure as a vessel for emergence and transformation!

• July 18th Burning Man Prep Work Party -- RSVP Here
• July 25th Burning Man Prep Work Party -- RSVP Here

Address provided to people RSVPing to this event in the days before the event.

If you haven't been able to get tickets yet, as a theme camp, Camp Contact will able to access a second DGS sale coming up in late June/Early July. Please submit or update your registration by July 4th or tell us at the camp meeting on July 5th what tickets and vehicle passes you need. Directed Group Sale (DGS) tickets are offered to theme camps who are supporting key offerings to the playa, as Camp Contact does. If you want to join us, and get a ticket, please sign up for camp now and indicate that you need a ticket in your registration. Historically, we've usually been able to get tickets for campers who wanted to join us, but please don't wait until the last minute. I also have an extensive social network and have been able to get tickets in August, and I'd prefer not to be doing this. There will also be a OMG Last Chance sale in early August when you can get tickets. Further, if you think you might be eligible for the Ticket Aid (Low Income) Ticket Program, its not too late to apply for it.

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're already planning our time after the burn this year, and for those who are wanting a retreat after the burn, we're planning to go to Sierra Hot Springs on Wednesday and Thursday, September 9th and 10th. Thanks to Jessica, our Decompression Coordinator, we've been able to get a good chunk of research done! Look at these smiling faces from the last time we went in 2019!

Post - Strike Itinerary

-Leave Black Rock City Tuesday Sep 8 (let's rock this strike and de-MOOP our land)

-Stay 1 night at Pyramid Lake, Reno Hotel, or other TBD

(Use code BARBIE26 to get a deal at J Resort Hotel by calling 866-386-7829)

-Sierra Hot Springs Wed 9/9 - Fri 9/11 (everyone responsible for their own reservations)

-Choose your own adventure from there!

See more details which will be kept up to date on our Decompression page on the Camp Contact Dashboard in the Camp Contact WebApp!

I'm hearing from a few of you already getting excited for Love Burn 2027: SHOWTIME! Love Burn is back to the second weekend of February, happening from Thursday the 11th through Sunday the 14th.

Tickets are already on sale . We've opened up registration on the Camp Contact at LoveBurn site!

• Contact Improvisation at Burning Man
• Acro Yoga at Burning Man
• Authentic Relating and Circling at Burning Man
• Ecstatic Dance at Burning Man
• Black Rock City Yoga
• Meditation and Breathwork at Burning Man

Know of other relevant forums for Camp Contact's Themes? Let us know, we're compiling a list for our website! dance@campcontact.org

We're finally going to make it to The Gathering as a camp. We had intended to go to The Gathering - Portugal in 2024 but it was too far to go. Now, The Gathering is coming to the US! Specifically, it will be held at Camp Navarro, in Mendocino, CA, October 12-18, 2026!

The Gathering US brings together:

• Change makers

• Social entrepreneurs

• Community builders

• Systems thinkers

• Artists, creators, performers

• Scientists

These groups set up small theme camps that offer their campers a place to convene in and offer workshops, conversations and other events relevant to their efforts. This event vibes well with the metamodern and liminal web spaces, which is our draw to it. Let us know here if you'd like to be a part of Camp Contact at The Gathering!

Constellation Burn, which typically happens the first weekend of October, is going to be on hiatus this year, and is aiming for a triumphant return in 2027. More details are on the Constellation Burn website!

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!