The Gateway Burn is an annual event which celebrates the Gateway Burners community.  In the spirit of Burning Man, attendees gather and camp together for four days to bring art, creativity, music, workshops, community activities, education, etc. and then end the weekend with an effigy burn (if you’re not familiar what what an effigy burn is, imagine an 18-25 foot sculpture representing the event theme that is set on fire and burned to the ground in a symbolic tradition).

Save the Date: June 19-22, 2025

Location: Fancy Lad Farms and Wildlife Sanctuary

What To Expect?

New to the Gateway Burn and not sure what to expect?  Expect to see a lot of art – visual, performance, musical, etc.; expect to see a lot of wacky costumes; expect educational and informative workshops; expect to have a lot of fun!  Some things you might not expect, but could possibly experience include gifted tokens or delicious food, spontaneous dance parties, cooling off in the adjacent creek, waving glowsticks, a hug from a new friend, a shot of whiskey, learning sign language, or a fireside chat with interesting people.

You can also find a list of policies, procedures, and suggested items to help you prepare for the camping aspect of the event in our Survival Guide.

It Takes a Village…

You might have heard the saying before: “It takes a whole village to raise a child”.  The Gateway Burn is no different!  The Gateway Burn event is organized & managed by Gateway Burners’ Event Coordinators & Event Leads, executed by our hard-working Administrative Staff & Department Leads, and staffed on-site by volunteers from within the community.  The entire community works together to make the Gateway Burn a success!

Want To Know More?

How can you learn more about the Gateway Burn?  Feel free to contact a member of the Gateway Team – a Board Member, an Event Coordinator, an Event Lead, the Adminstrative Staff or a Department Lead – via email or Facebook.

How Can I Help?

Want to get more involved?  Volunteer!  Every community member is eligible (and hoped) to volunteer during the Gateway Burn event.  It takes a generous person like yourself to make the Gateway Burn flow and run smoothly.  We appreciate each and every community member for participating and donating their time to the event’s success!

So, now that you’ve volunteered, how can you help even more?  We are always in need of Department Leads! Let the Board of Directors or an Event Lead know!

The Ten Eleven Principles of Burning Man

Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of a Burn. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting
Burns are devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-Reliance
Burns encourage the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.

Radical Self-Expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Leave-No-Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation.
We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers.
No idea can substitute for this experience.

Consent
We value the transformative experience of sensual and consensual touch, play, and interaction. We believe that consent plays a vital part in our connectivity and community. Our vision is that all parties participate in a physical encounter from a place of enthusiasm and autonomy. Consent must be explicitly granted from an individual who is clearly in a state of mind to be able to grant it.
What do you consent to? (Touch, Kink, Sex, Gifts, Photos, Foods, Substances)