• Burning Man for Beginners, Online & In Person July 10th
• Camp Contact Fundraiser at Flash Sunday Love, July 14th
• Transformus, July 18 - 22, Westfield, NC
• Burning Man, Saturday, August 24, Tuesday - September 3rd, Black Rock City, NV
• Gathering of Tribes, September 11-15, Portugal

Spacious will host a Burning Man for Beginners, focused on new burners coming from the DC Area at GlowHouse on July 10th, 8pm Eastern, 5pm Pacific. You can also join us on Zoom with the password "Contact"

Camp Contact has been granted a large chunk of space just outside of the burn field for Transformus 2024! We are excited for the new venue, in Westfields, NC, just 2 hours from Asheville, NC, yet 5 hours from DC, which has a river to go swimming in! Camp Contact will be bringing its Pinwheel Shade Structure, and word has it that AJ may bring his ice bath! Get your tickets on or before July 12th. We'll be gathering for Acro Yoga, Contact Improv, DreamShopping, Metamodern Philosophy and more! There will be about 25 of us at camp this year! We have room for RVs/ Vans if you've got one! Further, there are some scholarship tickets available if you sign up by Sunday evening. Disregard the message about scholarship tickets all being assigned at the top of the form! Please register for camp here if you're at all interested! We have our camp planning meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday July 10th Online & at GlowHouse!

Registration is still open for Camp Contact at Burning Man 2024! We are currently working to build out Camp Contact's organizational structure and set intentions for our time in the dust. We understand that many of you don't know your plans and that life is more uncertain than ever, and we welcome your application and statement of interest now, even if you're on the fence! We will do less and take on less this year, as well as being a smaller camp of 150 people, and focusing on building our Contact Improvisation offerings, Acro Yoga, and Ecstatic Dance. and continue offering Authentic Relating workshops. We're excited to have many aerial artists in camp this year and anticipate having an aerial rig with a lyra set up!

Camp Contact Charter Bus

We again will have our Camp Contact Charter Bus coming in on Saturday, August 24th directly to Camp and departing on Tuesday September 3rd at 6pm for Strike. Get the party started early and leave playa in style!

Event Submissions Now Open

JMath, our dedicated events coordinator, has opened event submissions for 2024!

She Writes: Hi wonderful people! I'm super happy to be your events coordinator again this year. Event submissions are now open for Camp Contact at Burning Man 2024. I'm so excited for all the amazing events and workshops you create. Events can be submitted at the link below. If you have any questions feel free to message me here or email me at events@campcontact.org. We are excited to have a new format for events this year, inspired by Maddie's experiences at other events. We are looking for 20 minute offerings, that would be offered back to back over a two hour time block, to happen under the pinwheel. Please reach out to Maddie at maddie.hana.fontaine@gmail.com if you have a short embodied offering that would go well on our wooden dance floor!

Burning Man Tickets

Burning Man tickets are in good supply this year. At this point, we have tickets if you need them!

Camp Getting Organized

We are building out our core teams that make camp run email dance@campcontact.org if interested:

• Infrastructure team, Led by Torsten, gathering Sunday, August 18th in Reno, and arriving on Playa starting on the 19th with others arriving over the coming days. We have plenty of SAPs (early access passes) at the moment and would love to have you join us if you can!
• Meals/Food/Kitchen/Chefs Team, organized by Nathalie and Lorax, with a number of lead chefs signing up!
  
• Events Team, Led by JMath, with coordination from Maddie (Contact Improv), and Olivia (Ecstatic Dance), Nick Irons (Authentic Relating) (Looking for Acro Yoga coordinator)
• Consent Team, Led by Jenna
• Contribution Coordinator: Claudia
• Ambiance & Decor team, Led by ShellyBelle
• Strike Team (need leader!)
• Social Media
• Videography - Lets make an explainer video for camp, we have the footage thanks to GianMarco

See full list of people & open positions

While this isn't set in stone, this is the latest iteration of our camp layout for 2024!

Camp Contact is excited to be hosting the 2024 Regional Network Celebration in our Alps structure on Wednesday Afternoon! The Burning Man Regional Network is looking for someone in the bay area to produce this event. If you're interested or have further questions, please reach out to Iris at iris@burningman.org

Here is a role description for this annual gathering in BRC welcoming Regional Contacts, official Regional Event organizers and their guests for a playa reunion.

• Producer helps bring the event vision to life through designing the event and in collaboration with Regional Network Team and volunteers.
• Source supplies, food, beverage and other elements (i.e. decor, furniture if needed) and work with Regional Network Team to transport
• Coordinate invitations, RSVP system, comms with Regional Network Team
• Lead coordination and recruitment of artistic collaborators and volunteers, and work with Regional Network Team to coordinate
• Prepare run of show/production flow
• Be present onsite for prep, the event, striking the event. Oversee event and calmly troubleshoot issues
• Participate in an event debrief.

The preference is for a San Francisco-Bay Area based human because we have the opportunity to easily transport food, beverages etc to BRC from San Francisco.

We are interested in hosting other gathering or fundraisers in other cities. There is some talk of an event gathering in NYC! Let us know

Our Beloved Steambath suffered a lot of damage at the end of Burning Man 2022 in the tremendous dust storms that rocked the playa during strike. We lost two full panels, and the door panel was significantly damaged. We brought the Steambath to Burning Man with the intent of using a new structure for it in 2023, but the rains prevented us from having the time to set it up. The kind leaders of VibeCamp invited me to bring it to Vibe Camp 3 at Ramblewood, MD in June, and it took a bit of work, but I got some great support from Vibecampers and we built new panels and fixed the Door. The door Panel was installed inside out, and this is an easy fix. It isn't quite as tight fitting as I would like, but its easy to seal up the gaps with tape as needed!

Speaking of Vibe Camp, we had about ten Camp Contact friends join us in cabins, tents and vehicles at VibeCamp 3! Spacious hosted two workshops, one about Burner Culture and another about Metamodernity and the Liminal Web. In addition to the Steam Bath, Camp Contact brought a 30' dome, which was easily set up (and taken down) by other attendees in a great community building exercise, as well as our sound system that Hazard as so graciously curated over the years, not to mention our disco ball. Overall attendance was just under 400 campers, and there was a clear vibe alignment between Camp Contact and the Vibe Camp community. Prior to the event, Spacious participated in a Twitter Space with the VC team. We look forward to future collaborations!

In addition to Transformus, Camp Contact is planning on Constellation, October 10-14, 2024! Round two tickets go on sale Sunday, July 14th! Be ready to buy them by 11:55 AM, they will sell out fast! Sign up to join us on the Camp Contact Website!

And, save the date for Love Burn!

Love Burn 2025: Realms of the Underworld

Scheduled Dates: February 13-16, 2025

Camp Contact will be going to its first international event in Portugal, September 11-15 for Gathering of Tribes! We will provide a shelter to host events in, and there is a shared kitchen on site. The purpose of the Gathering of Tribes is to strengthen the regenerative ecosystem, its tribes and the connections between them by creating a time to gather in nature, celebrate, building a culture of meaningful dialogue, mutual learning, peer support and connecting for action. Humanity is in the depth of a metacrisis, on the verge of a great transformation. Where do we want this transformation to take us? The tribes, -- companies, communities, villages, DAOs, of the regenerative ecosystem are building a new society, a new relationship to the Earth. How can we support their growth and scale their impact? This event also doesn't have any additional dues, only the ticket price. Please sign up for camp and follow the instructions on the site.

We're getting ready for another Container to the Playa in 2024 thanks to support from our trusty driver Rusty, our Container coordinator Jessica, and a great load in location that we hope to return to! We are hoping to coordinate drop of points in Richmond and Philly again, using our other trailers to move gear from these locations to the main drop off point, please reach out to container@campcontact.org if you can help! Here's our Facebook Event!

Authentic Revolution has put together a map of the various Authentic Relating communities around the world, and Camp Contact is listed in their directory for Black Rock City, Nevada! We're looking forward to a great week of Circling and Authentic Relating this year, thanks to our curator, Nick Irons who is gathering many workshops! One of our Sister Camps, Metamodern Magicians, will be hosting the Authentic Relating track in their dome, right next to us as we collaborate with them at BRC this year.

Metamodern Magicians, a pod of Camp Contact since 2019, is launching as its own camp of about 25 campers this year at Burning Man! They will be right next to Contact, and use one of our domes, and along with Authentic Relating, they'll be offering a Tea lounge as a part of the Longevi-Tea pod, lead by Laurence Ion from Decentral. They will have their own kitchen. Metamodern Magicians seeks to host campers who identify with the Liminal Web, an emergent subculture that has a various components and interest around the Polycrisis and MetaCrisis, the Meaning Crisis, Changemaking, Developmental Stages, Integral Theory, GameB, and other emergent topics!

Cold Yogis, also a pod of Camp Contact for many years, is coming on strong this year at Burning Man with an estimated population of 50! They'll have their own kitchen and shade, and be a self sufficient camp right next to Contact at 6:30 and Enchant! Along with their standard offerings of breathwork and cold showers, word has it they'll be bringing a Slack line!

My Place is a free app for finding fellow Camp Contactistas and other friends and friends of friends who are open to hosting others in their homes! Its a Peer to Peer networking tool that allows you to find other campers in the cities you visit! We're at 9 members now, lets grow this network! It only works on iPhone and Android, not on Desktop or Laptop, however you can click on a link and get a QR code for your phone to join our network!

Nic Garner (aka Blank) writes:

·Hey everyone,

I have something I have been thinking about for a while,

As we look back on our journey with Camp Contact and ponder its future, I've been thinking deeply about what it means to be part of this vibrant community that Darrell has brought us into. His vision has guided us here, and now it's our turn to think about what comes next.

Community Vision: How do you envision carrying forward the work Darrell started? Which aspects of the burner experience and our community's principles do you feel most connected to, and how do you want to expand them to influence broader world culture?

Personal Reflection: What are you passionate about bringing into the world, and how are you currently applying these passions outside of our events? What do you do in life outside our gatherings?

Future Growth: Is growing Camp Contact into a tool for spreading our culture and principles something you're interested in? What role do you see yourself playing in this growth?

I encourage everyone to share your thoughts and ideas. Your insights are invaluable as we shape the future of Camp Contact together.

Looking forward to your responses.

Cheers,

Blank

Additional Info

I have been bringing things forward in my own life by building a business around a mission of channeling consumer spending to businesses that care in this world and working to grow a community that is more physically connected distance wise through my Dream Project. https://goxaas.com which has been taking shape these last few months. In camp contact, I would like to see more sustainability(forming a non profit organization that can operate of revenue it generates rather then donations to subsidies these experiences for all of us and with the open invitation new members to join us. when it comes to the experience we all want and growing its ranks by connecting more people and enabling the creating of more smaller sub-camps under camp contact, bringing together people who are geographically connected and enable them to meet and participate in the default world with a much lower effort than right now. Possibly taking us in the direction of an infrastructure camp that facilitates the growth of smaller geographically connected groups being able to meet up on the local scale and at larger events globalizing shared values to the world and expanding our network and reach.

I was talking with another friend and this is how they put it

"..yeah like i wish that the vibes of this community existed elsewhere. i go to burn parties where i see these people but this issue is that we are all gathering for a very alcohol/dance/drugs centered thing where the positive aspects of burns could permeate regular areas of life"

I my self am tired of having to travel to live in pocket experiences and want to live in a world that is just better at large. To promote a more welcoming and open world over all

Sort of like like what this article talks about here but going hyper regional https://journal.burningman.org/.../brc-torch-passed-to.../

Darrell (Spacious) writes: Thank you Nic for starting this conversation. I too wonder how we can formalize and strengthen the camp as a enduring entity. I've found a lot of support over the years for brief periods of time, and am thankful for the many campers who come year after year, some longer than I've been a part of the original Contact Camp. I've dreamed of a Board of Directors being assembled and starting a Non-Profit entity, and its a lot of extra work to do this. That said, there is a particular opportunity for us to become a non-profit organization with a lot of ease. I see many camps come and go, it is sad that there is so little sustainability among camps. For now, if you'd like to join in the conversation, and/or are interested in being a founding board member, please join our Camp Contact Sustainability Telegram Group

We've lent one of our domes to the Twin Oaks community in Louisa, VA so that they have space to offer workshops at their upcoming Communities Conference and other events over the summer! We had a good weekend in the woods building it over the Solstice weekend. We understand that our long time camper Booda will be at the conference, which happens during Burning Man. Booda may miss Burning Man, but he won't miss our domes!

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.