Another Global Leadership Conference (GLC) has ended, and the last of its participants are trickling out of the city and back to their homes and communities across North America and the world. In the wake of the energy and intensity of this year’s conference, there is a quiet listlessness amongst the tired but happy conference […]
03Apr
GLC 2017: Burning Man Challenges Participants to Step Up with Project Citizenship
Last year, once the dust had settled on another Burning Man event, Operations Director Charlie Dolman didn’t focus on the nuts and bolts of how things had gone. He found himself focusing on a paper cut. The paper cut belonged to a participant who had rocked up to RAMPART for treatment — along with 12,000 […]
31Mar
GLC 2017: City of Oakland’s Roberto Bedoya on Burning Man’s Role in Creative Place-Making
On Friday, the City of Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Manager, Roberto Bedoya, will help open the Global Leadership Conference (GLC) with a talk on “stewardship of imagination” and creating civic well-being. His presence on the opening plenary panel not only illustrates the variety of voices at this year’s GLC, it also highlights the City of Oakland’s […]
29Mar
GLC 2017: Politics, Picket Lines and the Ten Principles
Burning Man’s 11th Global Leadership Conference begins in Oakland on Thursday, with over 630 Regional Contacts and community leaders converging from around the globe to swap skills, shoot the shit, and share the successes and challenges of their events, projects and communities. Knowledge exchange is the name of the game at this annual conference. But […]
20Apr
Burners Making Real Changes in the World? Game on!
It may be a game, but Andrea Gini plans to “maker” a world of difference with it. Andrea, a Regional Contact for Europe and a long-time tinkerer, has joined forces with three other Burners, Nathan Parker, Ian Collingwood and Ben Ahmed, to create the Make It Go project. The project, which kicks off in May, […]
07Apr
GLC 2016: Making the Metas Matter
“But what exactly do you do?” I wail at the poor bastard standing in front of me. I’m ensconced at the Communications Department desk at Burning Man HQ, blogging for the upcoming GLC, when I make eye-to-eye contact with a real live “Meta”. More than just a “Meta”, Peter is Meta Comms, and he’s talking […]
04Apr
GLC 2016: A Little Less Conversation, A Lot More Action – Burners Without Borders Awards Grants
On Sunday, Burners Without Borders (BWB) helped four Burner projects put their money where their mouths are by announcing the winners of the Walk the Talk Grant Program. At the closing session of the GLC, Christopher Breedlove, the BWB Program Director, and Eli Peterson, Burning Man Arts Programs Services Manager, announced $3000 worth of grants […]
01Apr
GLC 2016: Money, Art and Burning Man’s Future — It’s Time to Talk Hurty
Today, GLC participants are rocking up for their first day in the land of plenary. With two unconference sessions, four plenary sessions, and 41 breakout workshops, there are many juicy topics planned and even juicier topics and conversations that are yet to reveal themselves. How could they not? Take 500 Burners from the around the world, […]
31Mar
GLC 2016: Bubble, Bubble, Roll and Trouble — Making an Impact with a Default Derby
Devin Breen is here to burst your bubble. Devin is the co-founder and president of Chicago’s CHIditarod, the love child of an unholy matrimony between a food drive, dodgem shopping carts, wacky races, a bar crawl, street theatre and all-round chaos generator. He’ll be talking bubbles and making the right kind of trouble when he […]
30Mar
GLC 2016: Calling Out Around the World
Each year, we put more of the Global in GLC by gathering our growing tribe from far and wide. This week, we have representatives from an ah-mazing array of countries jetting into San Francisco for the 2016 conference, which begins on Thursday. For those scratching their head over these three little letters, the GLC — […]