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      <title>WAKE UP!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;We're more than halfway there!!!!! Bwaaah! What's going on?!&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:37:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>KayOSweaver</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-03-11T21:37:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>THE GCBEC wants you!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;GCBEC 2007 Security
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Hi all...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ok, who wants to help with the GCBEC beaver patrol/ team???
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;its terribly boring and no fun at all.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;i am offering to help from afar ( sigh) to assist any that is running this here adventure.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;from what i know
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Sunshine is busy and will post something soon!
&lt;br/&gt;everyone is busy and will be getting down soon in that dusty place
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;the GCBEC needs YOU to help keep it safe and cool for all that compete.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;interested join read --- gcbec.tribe.net/
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;still interested
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;so please contact me I'm just Doooing it till someone says stop.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;contact me directly at vertumnus AT shaw DOT ca subject = GCBEC security
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;we prob need about 10 peeps.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;everyone wins!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;V&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:25:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Vertumnus</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-08-16T05:25:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Kanuckistan 2.0</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;So the votes are in the Kanuckistan is A go. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:15:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2007-05-30T13:15:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Vote kanukistan</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Everyone:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Voting via email closes at noon (12:00 noon Mountain Time), Tuesday May 29.
&lt;br/&gt;Please email your vote to tom2293@gmail.com and CC: batfink192@hotmail.com.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The finalists for the name of the Alberta Regional Theme Camp:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Camp Eskimo Kiss
&lt;br/&gt;Camp Frosty
&lt;br/&gt;Kanuckistan 2.0
&lt;br/&gt;Ninja Pirate Funk Academy
&lt;br/&gt;Snowballs
&lt;br/&gt;S*3K
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 02:19:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>so what about a kanuckistan village?</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;anybody? thoughts?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;vertumnus posted an email to the alberta burn list proposing that we unite in one playa area so as to party better together, do more art together, and generally rock out more. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;i feel like i'm part of burning groups in toronto, calgary/edmonton, &amp;amp; victoria...... i know i'm not the only one. i think it would be great.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;would the ontario or BC groups object to being assimilated into the kanuckistan thing? would it bring us together but in a bad way??? hmmm. are there other provincials with identities that i don't know about?&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:13:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>amiraemma</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-10-06T22:13:53Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Theme Kamp -- Kanuckistan Village?</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I've been getting some messages about moving the Kanuckistan Village project forward. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The next step are, as far as I can see: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;- get guidelines for village application/ management form BM web site (clipped below, probably not due until early summer)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;- solicit Kanadian camps (Post here or get ahlod of me). 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;- announce 'positions' that are open and solicit people to fill them 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;So far, I've heard of support from
&lt;br/&gt;-  Alberta (the ever-so-cute Cap'n Q as regional, but with the support of many others) 
&lt;br/&gt;- Edwierdo in Montreal
&lt;br/&gt;- Vertumunus as part of Calgary/Toronto/Vancouver crews
&lt;br/&gt;- Camp Couseller Brad in the Torono/London/C4 side of things
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Which other camps other than the Albertan F.U.C.K.ers and C4 might be interested. Is anyone on other listservs/tribes? Could we put out the call?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;There is another discussion on this tribe on what we would want the theme camp to be (oh, and 'villages' are techincally 150 or more people, so we'll have to have that many people confirmed before we go for village status)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Any ideas? Anyone part of the planning crew for their camp interested in speaking up?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And for now, except a link to reccomendations for theme camps:
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.burningman.com/themecamps/resource_guide.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;North in the East 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;___________________________________________________
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Here's the criteria as clipped from last year's event: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;2005 THEME CAMP CRITERIA
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&lt;br/&gt;Criteria for a Theme Camp and Village 
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&lt;br/&gt;Camps should be visually stimulating.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Theme Camps must be interactive. They should include activities, events or service to the Burning Man Community in general. In most cases creating a chill dome with music and relaxation is not enough to receive placement. Some camp members should be at your camp at all times in order for your activities to be as accessible to others as possible.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Theme Camp Registration deadline for Burning Man 2005 is July 1st, 2005 at midnight.
&lt;br/&gt;Please register your camp prior to the deadline so that you may receive the Theme Camp Announcements that we send once you are registered. They will provide you with all of the answers to your questions. Get in the loop - register as soon as your plans are solidified.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Camp Maps and Clean Up Plans must also be received by July 1st. We will not place your camp without these plans. Maps must be in aerial perspective complete with dimensions in feet.
&lt;br/&gt;You can submit the plans four ways: 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Send map URL in an email with camp name in the subject line to campplans (at) burningman (dot) com. Include camp name in subject line.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Email Clean Up Plan only to campplans (at) burningman (dot) com. (NO ATTACHMENTS!) Include camp name in subject line.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Fax Map and Clean Up Plan to 415-707-2168
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Send plans via US Mail to:
&lt;br/&gt;Burning Man/Theme Camps 
&lt;br/&gt;P.O. Box 88468 
&lt;br/&gt;San Francisco, CA 94188-4688 
&lt;br/&gt;Fax: 415-707-2168
&lt;br/&gt;We look forward to seeing your plans for 2004! It will be exciting to see the creativity bar raised once again.
&lt;br/&gt;—The Placement Team. 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2006-01-17T19:48:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>the JRS speaks: great edition...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Burning Man Update: The Jack Rabbit Speaks
&lt;br/&gt;Vol 10, Issue 9
&lt;br/&gt;December 15, 2005
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;ART THEME 2006: HOPE AND FEAR – THE FUTURE!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The future’s a projection of the here and now: expanding with our  
&lt;br/&gt;hopes, contracting with our fears. This year’s art theme will explore 
&lt;br/&gt;  how we create futurity. Express what you most hope for! Express 
&lt;br/&gt;what  you most fear! The Burning Man, as heartbeat of our city, will 
&lt;br/&gt;be made  to rise and fall upon this tidal flow or our emotions and  
&lt;br/&gt;imagination. For more details visit the front page of our website  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.burningman.com&gt; and then express your hopes and fears for 
&lt;br/&gt;  the theme at the "poll" on the middle of the home page! At the end 
&lt;br/&gt;of  this JRS is information about Art Grants for 2006.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;JACK RABBIT LOOKS AT THE FUTURE !
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Some years these damn themes are right on the money, other times I  
&lt;br/&gt;dunno. But, ever since Larry began revealing the '06 theme a few 
&lt;br/&gt;weeks  ago, it's reverberated more throughout the Project than any 
&lt;br/&gt;other I can  remember. It probably started with the Burning Man Board 
&lt;br/&gt;retreat in  October where we dealt with where the 6 board members are 
&lt;br/&gt;in our lives.  Then the Sr. Staff and full-time office staff spent 
&lt;br/&gt;six days meeting.  Time was spent reviewing this year's event, but 
&lt;br/&gt;for the first time ever  the majority of the retreat was spent 
&lt;br/&gt;talking about the future -- the 5  year future, even the 10 year 
&lt;br/&gt;future.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We all seemed to agree that we are reaching a new comfort level with  
&lt;br/&gt;the event, a certain confidence in how we're approaching things. 
&lt;br/&gt;We're  still learning about managing people, process and 
&lt;br/&gt;community. We're  still learning about how to create a society, if 
&lt;br/&gt;only for 8 days in the  desert. But for many of the past 10 years we 
&lt;br/&gt;have been driven by the  possibility the event might not even happen. 
&lt;br/&gt;We've struggled, fighting  for survival. Living on adrenaline, we've 
&lt;br/&gt;learned to face our fears,  but now that we've apparently come 
&lt;br/&gt;through, we're forced to ask  ourselves: What was all this effort 
&lt;br/&gt;for? For the mere right to exist,  or for the hope of being and 
&lt;br/&gt;becoming something more? Very fortunately  for us, we're not alone, 
&lt;br/&gt;as it sometimes seemed in the past. Instead,  we are surrounded by 
&lt;br/&gt;great and fertile and brilliant community of  people -- and it's now 
&lt;br/&gt;their hopes and their initiatives that spur us  on.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;At the center of our part of this picture is the Black Rock Arts  
&lt;br/&gt;Foundation &amp;amp;lt;http://www.blackrockarts.org&gt;, which saw a huge leap in  
&lt;br/&gt;activity and confidence in 2005. It started out the year by hiring a  
&lt;br/&gt;new Executive Director, Leslie Pritchett. She made it clear that the  
&lt;br/&gt;Foundation would not survive without a big push from all 12 board  
&lt;br/&gt;members. Not wanting to loose the ball of fire and energy that is  
&lt;br/&gt;Leslie, the board took notice. Not only did it distribute 5 grants to 
&lt;br/&gt;  interactive art NOT on the Playa, but it also, with very, very 
&lt;br/&gt;little  lead-time, hustled to install 2 large installations in San 
&lt;br/&gt;Francisco.  One in May/June the other in October/November. Leslie 
&lt;br/&gt;drove the Board  and community to raise the money for the 
&lt;br/&gt;installations at times when  the bank account held barely enough to 
&lt;br/&gt;cover administrative costs.  Leslie was driven by hope, the Board 
&lt;br/&gt;members were certainly driven by  the hope, but possibly more of a 
&lt;br/&gt;fear of loosing momentum, and an  opportunity to really illustrate 
&lt;br/&gt;what the Black Rock Arts Foundation is  capable of doing.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It's one thing to reach beyond the Black Rock Desert if the fruit 
&lt;br/&gt;falls  easily into the green space of San Francisco, but our mission 
&lt;br/&gt;mandates  that our efforts go beyond San Francisco. Throughout the 
&lt;br/&gt;year, as  Burning Man board and staff members have traveled to 
&lt;br/&gt;regional events,  lectures and an art car festival, some of us have 
&lt;br/&gt;also worn our Black  Rock Arts Foundation hats. In the cold of 
&lt;br/&gt;February Larry Harvey and  David Best (also a Black Rock Arts 
&lt;br/&gt;Foundation Board  &amp;amp;lt;http://www.blackrockarts.org/board.html&gt; member) 
&lt;br/&gt;were invited to speak  to students at the University of Michigan. 
&lt;br/&gt;Afterwards, the regional  contact hosted a gathering at a local pub. 
&lt;br/&gt;Of course they all began to  scheme and plan for ways to bring large 
&lt;br/&gt;scale public art to the Detroit  area. The seed of that idea now has 
&lt;br/&gt;two sprouts on it. One likely to  manifest itself through the Black 
&lt;br/&gt;Rock Arts Foundation and the Burning  Man regional contact in 
&lt;br/&gt;Michigan in February 2006.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The other is, well, way-cool on a "David Best, Burning Man, Black 
&lt;br/&gt;Rock  Arts Foundation, Holly Shit" sort of scale. And, it's NOT in 
&lt;br/&gt;San  Francisco, and it's NOT in the Black Rock Desert.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This was before Larry was asked by a non-profit organization in 
&lt;br/&gt;Houston  to join the judges panel for the largest art car parade in 
&lt;br/&gt;the United  States. The Orange Show (the name of the non-profit),  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.orangeshow.org/&gt; not only produces the Houston Art Car  
&lt;br/&gt;Festival &amp;amp;lt;http://www.orangeshow.org/artcar.html &gt; but is actively  
&lt;br/&gt;supporting outsider urban art in Houston. The Black Rock Arts  
&lt;br/&gt;Foundation and Burning Man donated the first prize for the night-time 
&lt;br/&gt;  illumination category.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This happened right about the same time we received the call from the 
&lt;br/&gt;  Executive Director of the San Francisco Arts Commission  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://sfartscommission.org/home.htm&gt; wondering if David Best might  
&lt;br/&gt;want to install his art temporarily in a new green space. How fast 
&lt;br/&gt;and  calmly can you say "Hell yeah!"? (As we scramble to raise the 
&lt;br/&gt;funds.)  Then there's the call from people in the city 
&lt;br/&gt;infra-structure just as  we headed off to the desert. They wondered 
&lt;br/&gt;what interactive art we'd  bring back ready to install in the city. 
&lt;br/&gt;Uh, let me get back to you  after I drag all my shit into the desert, 
&lt;br/&gt;back home again, take a  shower and decompress a little. No time for 
&lt;br/&gt;that. Approval was given  before the end of September for the next 
&lt;br/&gt;piece. Michael Christian's  "Flock" 
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://images.burningman.com/index.cgi?image=2728 &gt; from  Burning 
&lt;br/&gt;Man 2001 was brought out of retirement and installed in  mid-November 
&lt;br/&gt;in the Civic Center of San Francisco across from the  mayor's office.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Breath.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Then the calls went from a trickle to a flood. Burning Man and  
&lt;br/&gt;non-Burning Man artists want to know how to get their work displayed 
&lt;br/&gt;in  temporary settings around the country. The interest from artists 
&lt;br/&gt;is  nearly overwhelming.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Oh, and I haven't even mentioned the initiative taken by Burning Man  
&lt;br/&gt;regional contacts to draft a plan for moving art pieces from one  
&lt;br/&gt;regional community to another. Or the collaborative community art  
&lt;br/&gt;projects brought to the playa like the Machine from Seattle.  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://images.burningman.com/index.cgi?image=21340&gt; And did you see  
&lt;br/&gt;Charlie Smith and Jamie Laudet's Synapses project?  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://images.burningman.com/index.cgi?image=24478&gt; Did you know 
&lt;br/&gt;each  piece was produced in a different Burning Man community with  
&lt;br/&gt;instructions from Charlie and Jamie?  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/2005/ 
&lt;br/&gt;05_art_funded.html#synapses&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And brought to the playa? Can you say collaboration? Community? The  
&lt;br/&gt;warmth you felt standing amongst those pieces at Burning Man 2005 
&lt;br/&gt;came  from the hands and hearts of a cross-continental collaborative 
&lt;br/&gt;project  that reached far beyond our event! Don't you want to see 
&lt;br/&gt;more? And NOT  just at Burning Man?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;WOW, but can we make all of this happen? The Burning Man Project is 
&lt;br/&gt;not  able to fund the efforts of the Black Rock Arts Foundation. We 
&lt;br/&gt;are  depending on members, supporters, foundations and volunteers to 
&lt;br/&gt;make  all of our interactive art dreams come to fruition. With all 
&lt;br/&gt;this  excitement and who-ha you wouldn't know that at the last Board 
&lt;br/&gt;meeting  Leslie made it clear BRAF's financial situation, as we 
&lt;br/&gt;approach the end  of 2005, is very challenging, and that we'll not be 
&lt;br/&gt;able to engage in  any of the ideas on deck for Detroit, San 
&lt;br/&gt;Francisco or maybe, soon, in  your hometown, else unless we can raise 
&lt;br/&gt;more funds.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I feel like I'm personally living next year's theme. Excited by the  
&lt;br/&gt;hope of placing one of the most striking pieces of art from Burning 
&lt;br/&gt;Man  on top of a building in San Francisco (and doing it without 
&lt;br/&gt;installing  any hardware that would damage the historical building), 
&lt;br/&gt;traveling to  visit regionals, listening to artist map out where and 
&lt;br/&gt;when to install  their pieces.You think Black Rock City is big? Hey 
&lt;br/&gt;we've got an entire  planet outside the orange fence line!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Can we do it all? Do we have the manpower? The help? The inspiration? 
&lt;br/&gt;  The money? Jeeze the MONEY. That's the hardest part. We don't sell  
&lt;br/&gt;tickets to the Black Rock Arts Foundation. We raise money to make 
&lt;br/&gt;stuff  happen. But what happens if we don't raise the money?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;On Saturday evening, I had a conversation with our youngest member of 
&lt;br/&gt;  the BRAF Advisory Board. We both agree the Burning Man event will 
&lt;br/&gt;have  a finite life span, but to keep the ethics, values and core 
&lt;br/&gt;experience  alive that influences so many lives is what's so 
&lt;br/&gt;inspiring to us. I  don't want the event to end, and I fear it'll end 
&lt;br/&gt;before we have the  Regional Network working at full strength. It's 
&lt;br/&gt;hard to really swallow,  but when we compared Burning Man to other 
&lt;br/&gt;important stretches of time  we both admitted that big cultural 
&lt;br/&gt;swaths left upon the past aren't  often marked with 20 year tags, but 
&lt;br/&gt;more often 50, 100 or 200 years. If  that's the case, then we both 
&lt;br/&gt;agreed that the efforts we're engaged in  might not fully realize 
&lt;br/&gt;themselves in our lifetime. Excitedly driven  forward? Towards what? 
&lt;br/&gt;For what?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Black Rock City is the purest manifestation and highest concentration 
&lt;br/&gt;  of Burning Man values once a year in the Black Rock Desert. There 
&lt;br/&gt;is no  reason why people can't live year round in a more connective, 
&lt;br/&gt;creative,  self-expressive empowering way for an entire lifetime. To 
&lt;br/&gt;do that we'll  need more than an annual ritual with 35,000 
&lt;br/&gt;participants on a dry lake  bed.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It's that time of the year when not only are each one of us trying to 
&lt;br/&gt;  find, make, express gifts for our loved ones, but non-profits are  
&lt;br/&gt;hitting us left and right for a year-end tax-deductible donation. 
&lt;br/&gt;Well,  the Black Rock Arts Foundation 
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.blackrockarts.org&gt; is in the  same position. Though its 
&lt;br/&gt;mission may not seem as tangible as animal  shelters, it's getting 
&lt;br/&gt;more tangible by the minute. We have the  momentum, we are making it 
&lt;br/&gt;happen right before our very eyes. But we  are caught between hope -- 
&lt;br/&gt;the brilliant ideas, options and projects  spread out before us in 
&lt;br/&gt;our great community -- and the fear of not  having enough energy, 
&lt;br/&gt;money or manpower that will allow of this to come  to life. 2005 
&lt;br/&gt;hasn't even ended, but "Hope and Fear: the Future" has  already 
&lt;br/&gt;begun. "We are emitters of the future", this year's theme text  
&lt;br/&gt;says.  Please donate 
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.donatetoblackrockarts.org/doanam.html&gt;  money now to BRAF 
&lt;br/&gt;and make that future happen.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;2006 ART GRANT PROPOSAL DEADLINE!!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Now that the theme is announced, we'd like to inform everyone that 
&lt;br/&gt;the  deadline for art grant proposals is February 15, 2006. We do not 
&lt;br/&gt;  require that your project be based on our theme (See Burning Man’s 
&lt;br/&gt;Top  Ten Art Myths at 
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://burningman.com/installations/top_myths.html&gt;)  , but we do 
&lt;br/&gt;give extra points for that, as well as for interactivity.  If you 
&lt;br/&gt;wish to apply for a grant visit  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.burningman.com/installations/art_guidelines.html 
&lt;br/&gt; &gt;. Please  read this document through to the end. It will tell you 
&lt;br/&gt;what to do  next. It states somewhat bluntly: Most proposals 
&lt;br/&gt;submitted will not  receive funding -- but this doesn’t mean that 
&lt;br/&gt;many projects won’t be  given grants! We are eager to see what you 
&lt;br/&gt;might propose. If you have  any ideas to run by us before you write a 
&lt;br/&gt;proposal, feel free to email  artgrants (at) burningman.com. To gain 
&lt;br/&gt;a broader view on the entire art  installation process, we strongly 
&lt;br/&gt;recommend that you first inspect our  Art Installation Guidelines and 
&lt;br/&gt;Questionnaire  
&lt;br/&gt;&amp;amp;lt;http://www.burningman.com/installations/new_guidelines.html&gt;. This  
&lt;br/&gt;will help to guide you in preparing a proposal. One last tip: If you  
&lt;br/&gt;get your art proposal in early – say, before February 1 – we might 
&lt;br/&gt;have  a little more time to read and consider it before our deadline.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This year we are also creating a special category for interactive art 
&lt;br/&gt;  works that can function in conventional civic settings, as well as 
&lt;br/&gt;at  our event in the Black Rock Desert. Already, in 2005, the Black 
&lt;br/&gt;Rock  Arts Foundation &amp;amp;lt;www.blackrockarts.org&gt; has installed two major 
&lt;br/&gt;public  art works in San Francisco – a temple by David Best and a 
&lt;br/&gt;large  sculptural installation by Michael Christian, entitled Flock, 
&lt;br/&gt;which  currently stands in front of City Hall in San Francisco’s 
&lt;br/&gt;Civic Center  Plaza. Furthermore, such projects are by no means 
&lt;br/&gt;limited to Burning  Man’s hometown. The Foundation also has plans 
&lt;br/&gt;underway to erect a  temple designed by David Best in the heart of 
&lt;br/&gt;Detroit! In 2006, BRAF  hopes to cull even more portable art projects 
&lt;br/&gt;from among those that  appear on the playa. Its ultimate aim is to 
&lt;br/&gt;distribute and erect this  art, with the help of local communities, 
&lt;br/&gt;in cities throughout the  country. If you would like your artwork to 
&lt;br/&gt;be both eligible and  feasible for such a purpose, please first 
&lt;br/&gt;communicate with us at  artgrants (at) burningman.com and we’ll give 
&lt;br/&gt;you advice. All decisions  regarding this program or any art works 
&lt;br/&gt;that might be displayed will be  made by BRAF in the coming year.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thanks for a great year! You all ROCK!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Maid Marian
&lt;br/&gt;Jack Rabbit Speaks
&lt;br/&gt;jackrabbitspeaks@burningman.com
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>amiraemma</dc:creator>
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      <title>Orgies the bedrooms of the nation...</title>
      <link>http://tribes.tribe.net/kanuckistan/thread/36bd7e33-a888-49cb-bca1-95e163d9292c</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;... is where the government shouldn't be. I love how liberal the Canadian courts are these days:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'No one was pressured to have sex, paid for sex, or treated as a mere sexual object for the gratification of others,' Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in a Supreme Court decision that essentially legalizes group-sex clubs as long as participants are consenting adults. (The Globe and Mail)
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I think the only thing America has on that is more state where it's legal to have sex with animals. &lt;/div&gt;
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      <dc:creator>north</dc:creator>
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      <title>Found it...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;seem to have found some people I know out there...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;explorin'...&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:20:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Conrad</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-12-22T22:20:10Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Flaming hot burning man links!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I've been catching a lot of good web debris for the burn lately (seems the playa kids have finally had enough time ot download/develop all that stuff they've been taking in all year).
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Here's a few links:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Great little videos of a crazy crazy city (thanks Amira for sending this one out)
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.lennyjones.net/burn2005/burn2005video/b5VIDEOweb/b5view4.html
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;This space shot look at the playa:
&lt;br/&gt;http://shortu.com/gfxh
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Toronto Star special on the whole event (the guy camped with the Toronto C4 crew this year)
&lt;br/&gt;http://shortu.com/ggxh
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I know there are way more of these out there (google maps sattelite map and that catoon book photo album come to mind). Please add to the list!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:00:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>north</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-12-06T03:00:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>toronto decomp this saturday</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;are we all going, those of us in the smoggy world of toronto?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;what are we dressing as or contributing this time.....?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;i think i'll be face painting...&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>amiraemma</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2005-11-02T21:50:59Z</dc:date>
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      <title>F.U.C.K.ing Manifesto</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Hello.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I wanted to post this up for everyone to take a look and see what they think of the manifesto. Please make comments. All for now, komrades. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Vive la Kanuckistan Libre!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;_________________________________
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;F.U.C.K.ing Manifesto
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The people of the Front de Liberation du Kanuck are neither Messiahs nor modern-day Robin Hoods. Not remotely, even. They’re really just a group of fun loving freaks whom have decided to do everything they can to assure that Kanucks everywhere can take their destiny into their own hands, and mold it like a little ball of playdough. Hell, we might even take a nibble off it when we think nobody’s watching. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Freely United Cartel of Kanuckistan wants total independence for Kanucks; it wants to see them united in a free society, a society purged of dumb victimless crimes, desperate unfulfilling consumerism, mindless conformity and tacky outfits that some people unwittingly wear without even a hint of irony. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Front de Liberation du Kanuck is not an aggressive movement, nor a passive one. It’s kind of more of a social club for people who decided life as offered was just way too boring, and that they really liked having dry desert dust caked into their skin (and you thought mud facials were good). 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Once, we believed it worthwhile to channel our energy and our impatience into the vast bastions of federalism, but the general short-sighted nature of the political system shows that what is called democracy is just a lazy excuse for not being a part of the bigger picture. We’re all about a do-ocracy. Got something you think should really be done? Well, what are you waiting for? Fucking do it, already! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We here in Kanuckistan know that people can get together and have a good time without worrying about the whole goddamn culture falling to pieces. Forget about the traditional definitions history has handed us. Most of our institutions are so crazy they should be institutionalized. People can only cling to the inner logic of the system before the system uses no logic at all. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We can make a world more exciting than the cookie cutter consumerist place we live in now. It can be without guilt-giving advertisements, without silly stifling social taboos, without clothes, and without creative constraints. We can build communities that are open and nurturing of the talents and ambitions of its members. Just joining gives that tacky outfit the sense of irony you always knew it needed. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We can stop worrying about consuming and give things away, living in the haphazard freedom of the gift economy. The art of production is being married to the production of art. Why be living in another mass-produced stressed-out life when you can enjoy all the wealth and freedom that we’ve already got. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Why worry about getting stuff you don’t need when you’ve got no time to kick back and enjoy it? Isn’t life for living, not just earning? We prefer to live a little lighter on the land. Be active, take a load off – you’ll weigh less. Drop that guilt off your shoulders; it’s not your fault. We have a beautiful, plentiful world here in these rich corners of the world, plenty to create with, and plenty to share. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;People of Kanuckistan! Artists, anarchists, dreamers, teachers, students, CEOs and the unemployed! Begin from this day forward to take back what is yours; take what belongs to you: your jobs, your determination and your freedom. Feeling tired? Is that a hamster wheel your running around? 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Show your creativity in your neighbourhoods, in your places of work. Or don’t – And watch the corporations wipe away our pleasures with the cold calculation of an accounts pen. There is more to life than that. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;WE ARE KANUCKS, and we are prepared to F.U.C.K. things up. With the help of our little population, we want to replace this society of consumerist slaves with a bunch of happy artist crazies, a community to help and hope and keep people happy. We are beautiful, sexy, smart, and capable, no matter what the ads tell us. Our struggle can only be victorious. Once you know how free you can be, you can never go back to being bored. Come, join us. There’s plenty of cheer and beer to go around. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Long live the Freely United Cartel of Kanuckistan! 
&lt;br/&gt;Long live our comrades of the burn! 
&lt;br/&gt;Long live the Kanuck Revolution! 
&lt;br/&gt;Long live the Front de Liberation du Kanuck! &lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:57:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>*BURNING MAN at home:*</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;This was up on the albertalist -- I'm thinking I'll try and mirror some of the best stuff there up here, including some of the interesting conversations. Cap'n said this is an oldie, but this is the first time I've read it. Enough a' me. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Burning Man at Home:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt; 1. Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any
&lt;br/&gt;direction. Put the house back together. Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When everyone leaves, follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze, and break things.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;2. Buy a new set of expensive camping gear. Break it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;3. .Stack all your fans in one corner of your living room. Put on your most fabulous outfit. Turn the fans on full blast. Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;4. Pitch your tent next to the wall of speakers in a crowded, noisy club. Go to sleep.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;5. Lean back in a chair until that point where you're just about to fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment. Hold that position for 9 hours.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;6. Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away.
&lt;br/&gt;Drain all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 4 days. Hide all the toilet paper.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;7. VISIT a restaurant and pay them to let you alternate lying in the
&lt;br/&gt;walk-in freezer and sitting in the oven.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;8. Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/ emotion altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;9. Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body. Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;10. Buy a new pair of favorite shoes. Throw one shoe away.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;11. Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect, most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;12. Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or until you think you are going to scream. Scream. Realize you'll love the music for the rest of your life.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;13. Bust your ass for a "community." See all the attention get focused on the cracked out drama queen crybaby.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;14. Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house. Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;15. Sprinkle dirty sand in all your food.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;16. Mail $200 to the Reno casino of your choice.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;17. Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more disturbing but beautiful paintings. Climb inside it.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;18. Spend thousands of dollars on a deeply personal artwork. Hide it in a funhouse on the edge of the city. Blow it up.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;19. Set up a DJ system downwind of a three-alarm fire. Play a short loop of drum'n'bass until the embers are cold.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;20. Have a 3 a.m. soul baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms, a crocodile, and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating. Lust after Bugs Bunny.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:21:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>north</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Game</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;All I can say is "wow."
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;http://www.gamecontrol.com/
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And this isn't the only one.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:10:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>KayOSweaver</dc:creator>
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      <title>Welcome!</title>
      <link>http://tribes.tribe.net/kanuckistan/thread/e79460cd-683c-4f95-b007-53c4571299b3</link>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Hey there Kanucks... this is the big new thing, an open space, a way to post and keep a conversation going. Note the Disscussion, Events, and Listings (for help, buying/selling, or whatever). 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I know not all of you are addicted to your computers, but please feel free to chat/get things going/put up pictures/read around and comment just when ya' wanna. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I'm hoping this space will allow us to do things we haven't been able to on the albertalist -- mainly have a dialouge (rather than one-way emails), and post pictures (I think the max. file size for the list is 30 MB). 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Thanks for checking it out. Come on in, stay a while. 
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:38:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2005-09-25T19:38:19Z</dc:date>
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