Podcasts about nevada's black rock desert

It's an end of summer tradition, where Nevada's Black Rock Desert transforms into a thriving art and culture hub. But "Burning Man" is also known for producing poor air quality. Meteorologists Patrick Zahn, Hilary Minor, Jeff Beamish, and Marcus Hylton examine the health effect "Burning Man" has on its participants, and ways people attending can protect themselves from harmful particulate matter.

"Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man.  Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’ll show you the collection. Cheers.” — LadyBee, Archivist & Art Collection Manager, Burning Man On the night of Summer Solstice 1986, Larry Harvey and Jerry James built and burned an eight-foot wooden figure on San Francisco's Baker Beach surrounded by a handful of friends. Burning Man was born. This weekend, the 34th annual Burning Man gathering begins to assemble on a vast dry lake bed in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the nomadic ritual's home since 1990. An estimated 80,000 people will come. How do you archive an event when one of it's driving principles is "leave no trace?" Where The Burning Man is in fact burned? What is being kept and who is keeping it? As part of The Keepers Series, The Kitchen Sisters take a journey into the archives of this legendary gathering to find out.

Craft curator Nora Atkinson takes us on a trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to see the beautifully designed and participatory art of Burning Man, revealing how she discovered there what's often missing from museums: curiosity and engagement. "What is art for in our contemporary world if not this?" she asks.

In case you do not know, "Burning Man" is an annual eight day event in the desert of Nevada. An entire city is built on the "playa" and then removed after it is all over. Many thousands of artists and architects, musicians and spiritual leaders, celebrants and performers all converge on this huge dusty plain each year in August/September to conduct what is becoming a "gathering of the tribes" for the twenty-first century. "Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having left no trace whatsoever." You are invited to come listen to my friend, Becky Hannah, as she tells us about her trip to the event. To read more about "Burning Man" here are a couple of websites and blogs: http://www.burningman.com/ and http://blog.burningman.com/?author=22 and