Burn BC is a community development project working to create The Cascadia Burn, a NO Vending, temporary autonomous zone somewhere in BC. We facilitate the design of "Arena's for Creative Self Exploration" to empower our expressive culture.

The Burn in it's cultural sense, is best summed up with the following poem.
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"Everyones Mad"

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Jack Kerouac

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Burn BC (Vision, Mission, Values)
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VISION

Burn BC is a community development project and BC-wide network of creative people who love "The Burn" (literally and figuratively). Burn BC fosters healthy "Arena's for Creative Self Exploration" and community development. These arenas encourage participants to experiment with, explore, and redefine, personal creativity; as a tool of empowerment and personal growth, to develop healthy, self-defined personal identities.




MISSION

* Produce "The Cascadia Burn".
* Fund and manage an industrial Arts Center.
* Fund and manage property for storage.
* Fund and manage property for an Arts Retreat.
* Foster Collaborative Community Development projects.



VALUES

In regards to personal space:
The singular root value that underlines the Burn BC project is:
Mutual respect for personal boundaries, while encouraging "Creative Self Exploration", through various forms of participation and experimentation.


In regards to Shared Spaces:
Burn BC encourages participants to understand the following statement when entering Burn BC managed spaces.
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When you enter a common space (Literally and figuratively).
You should clearly understand the following statement of common respect.

* Respect the Art
* Respect the Space
* Respect Each Other
* and (Most importantly) Respect yourself !

And you will probably have a very good time.
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Self-discovered values
By extension to understand how you can contribute self-discovered values to the Burn BC project please read and understand the following three articles on the Burn BC website.

* Open source philosophy
* Play
* "Everyone is Mad"

http://tribes.tribe.net/burnbc