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FLOODING IN THE MIDWEST-CALL TO ACTION!

Recently, the Midwest has experienced unprecedented flooding that has destroyed homes and crops on a massive scale, and naturally individuals from the burner community are asking how they can help out.

If you live in an area that has been flooded and could host a work weekend or longer, let us know and we will put it on the website and post it to the lists in your area. If you are already helping out and would like some company, please e-mail projects@burnerswithoutborders.org

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PISCO, PERU RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT

 
IMPORTANT UPDATE: BWB will be hard at work in Peru through August 16, 2008. Please Join Us!

Volunteers are doing amazing work and you can read all about it here in our Six Month Report.

Follow this YouTube link to see the hilarious new, original music video about the BWB cornerstone project titled, "The Shitter Song (Give us Donations)", produced by our very own volunteers in Peru.

We are proud to announce that BWB Volunteers have just completed construction on the school below-complete with murals!

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Read Here
Gregory Dicum's story in the March Conscious Choice magazine about BWB's reconstruction efforts in Peru, or this one in the April 6th San Francisco Chronicle.

HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?

Come on down and volunteer or support BWB's projects through August 16th or by making a Donation.

We currently need financial support with the following:

-Desks, chairs, and school supplies for the schools we  are building
-$700 to repair BWB work truck so that we can haul rebar,cement and people to work sites
-$1800 to container ship the metal form for the cornerstone project to be used in future deployments

This is one of those times when every contribution from our community is making an enormous impact.

You can make a difference.

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SUPPORT THE "HOUSE OF YES"
AN ARTIST SPACE DEVASTATED BY A HOUSE FIRE APRIL 22, 2008


Eight talented members of our extended community in New York, lost their house and their art space to a devastating fire.  The "House of Yes" was a vibrant performance venue, a costume shop, a communal living space and a gathering place for New York circus performers, musicians, and other creative spirits.

Click Here to read the list of needs and find out how you can contribute to the community support that will help this amazing community get back on its feet.

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BWB AND MUTAYTOR?

That's right. The band, Mutaytor, just came out with a new album, Yelling Theater in a Crowded Fire.  The last song on the album, Sunrise, was inspired by the work of Burners without Borders.  Mutaytor has made this song available for you to download here for 99 cents. All proceeds go to BWB.

A little about Sunrise from Atom of Mutaytor. "Sunrise is about having such faith that tomorrow will be better that we stay up all night to greet it. Sunrise is about making tomorrow better. Sunrise is about Burners without Borders, and artists like David Best, and the mad geniuses working out the math that makes tomorrows world inhabitable. It's a love song to this community and to our heros here. You're doing the right thing, and we support you."

Thank you Mutaytor, for so creatively supporting this community!

You can have a listen and Download Sunrise Here

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BACKGROUND: WHAT IS BURNERS WITHOUT BORDERS?


Every summer Burning Man participants (aka Burners) meet in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to re-engage with our community, and to celebrate shared values of radical self-expression and self-reliance. We celebrate the power of community, honor the importance of art, and enjoy the immediacy of experience. Then we leave - without a trace of our having been there.

BRC Dept. of Disaster ReliefBut that experience and those values don't get left behind in the desert. They inform who we are, and how we interact with the larger world around us. BWB is a manifestation of what can happen when we take our values off the playa and out into the rest of the world.

Click around, check into what's coming up, and get in touch.

Sign up for our mailing list!

You know how it works; you sign up, you get info in a timely, clever fashion, good stuff ensues

 
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