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Fire Pits on Ocean Beach-See the Designs and Donate to make them Happen!
| What | hotter |
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| When |
2007-04-14 19:00
2007-04-14 22:00
2007-04-14 from 19:00 to 22:00 |
| Where | Ocean Beach, SF, CA |
| Contact Name | Carmen Mauk |
| Contact Email | carmemauk@gmail.com |
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UPDATE April 23rd. Who wants some video? Check out these news stories about the installations, including this one from SFSU, and this one from ABC Channel 7.
UPDATE April 13th: More news hits, this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian.
UPDATE MARCH 22: Check out this fantastic story on the front page of this morning's San Francisco Chronicle! We still need to raise almost $14,000, so if you can contribute, please do, and thanks to everyone who already has donated!
Last year, the National Park Service almost banned fires on Ocean Beach in San Francisco, due to consistent problems with trash and debris.
The Burning Man community joined others in opposing the ban, and in part in response to a Jack Rabbit Speaks plea more than 3,000 letters poured in to the Park Service, who agreed to give it one more chance--only this time with designated fire pits.
What? A chance to build permanent, public fire art in San Francisco? As you can imagine, we had to be part of that solution, and that's how Burners Without Borders has come to be collaborating with the National Park Service, the Surfrider Foundation, and the Ocean Beach Foundation to design and build fire pits for Ocean Beach--to be installed this April 14th, 2007!
We're getting great press, like this story in the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
The call was put out to the community for fire pit designs. Over thirty five were submitted, and six were chosen to take to the Parks Project Review Committee. Most of the designs were approved immediately, and the artists have already begun work to meet the April 14 deadline. The Park Service has planned to host a volunteer clean up that day and with the help of the press will help to educate the public about the fire pits.
But just making the designs isn't enough--we need your help! Namely, we need to raise money to pay for this art. Although the Park Service could only offer $3,000 for the project, we've already been able to raise $38,500 of the $42,000 needed.
What you can do: check out these designs below. Then go to our Donate Page and make a contribution. You can contribute directly to BWB via PayPal
If you'd like a tax deduction ( and hey, who doesn't now and then?) make it out to 'Black Rock Arts Foundation' and send it to Burners Without Borders, c/o Black Rock Arts Foundation, 1900 3rd Street, SF, CA 94158.
Beach Primrose design
by Rebecca Anders and Yasi Mirwaz-Khan. You can see their 
Isn't this project so exciting? We have to pinch ourselves sometimes.