Press Release: BURN2 2020: The Multiverse

Opening 5:00pm SLT, Friday, 9th October 2020

Ending Midnight SLT, Sunday, 18th October 2020

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/174/32/25

Burn2 rose up from the dust in 2007, became a virtual Regional in 2010 and is the oldest of the recognized universes in the Multiverse of Burning Man in Real Life. This year's theme, The Multiverse, presents interesting interpretation opportunities within the framework of the Ten Principles of Burning Man and the builder guidelines. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for participant guidelines

It’s not too late to get your own plot!

The plot sale continues! But don’t wait too long — the build period ends on the 5th of October. If you are an artist, a builder or a dusty camper, come, get a plot and create your own universe in Burn2’s Multiverse or a comfy little camp to relax and enjoy the dust, tunes and art everywhere. Where to get your own plot? Visit Plot Sales

Lack of funds? Apply for the Plottery

If you find you are unable to afford a plot, but you want a place to call your home on the playa, you can sign up for the Burn2 Plot Lottery. In keeping with our gifting tradition, we have a limited number of 512 square meter plots with a maximum LI of 156.

Create a Small Art Display or Suggest an Artist to Be Invited

The community is invited to contribute small art to be displayed in areas across the six sims. Just fill out the The Multiverse Art Grants Form to add your bit of creativity to the event!

No Such Thing as Bystanders in The Multiverse

The moment you step onto the dusty playa, you are not a mere spectator, you’re part of the spectacle: Welcome Home!
At our greeter gate we have many free gifts to help gear up for the playa.

SHARE the News and Plan to Come!
We look forward to welcoming Home Burners and the community. Experience Burn2 once again, walk through the gate, and if you are a virgin Burner, ring the bell and get your playa dust angel wings! Follow the Lamplighters on their twice-daily processions; visit the Rangers, view the Man and meditate in the Temple. Wander, explore, climb, interact. Visit three official stages and many performance camps with music to soothe, inspire, excite and incite to dance. You will be surrounded by art, music, fire and welcoming Burners! See the (continuously updated) BURN2 Calendar at https://www.burn2.org/event-calendar/ for the week’s event schedule.

Announcement: Burn2 Plot Sale Open

You Guessed it! The BURN2 2018: I, Robot Plot Sale is OPEN!

The event will be held October 19-28, 2018 - mark your calendars and start making plans!

Instead of information sessions, upon purchasing your plot, you will be asked to fill out a simple form which will help us to place your camp in the best possible location on the playa. You will not be assigned your camp location or group tag until you have submitted the form - the link to that will be in the notecard included in your plot folder when you purchase your plot.

Be sure to reserve your plot today! The sims will arrive about mid-September, but plots are limited.

Plot Sizes, Prices, Prim Limits, Maximum Build Heights

512 Plot L$2,800 LI = 156, max height = 16m
1024 Plot L$5,600 LI = 312, max height = 20m
2048 Plot L$11,200 LI = 625, max height = 24m
4096 Plot L$22,400 LI = 1250, max height = 28m
Yes - we will have the "relaxed rules" sim again this year. In Alkali, max build height is 28m regardless of plot size. Details are in the info givers at the kiosks.

Here is the SLURL to the kiosks: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/174/32/25.

Any questions, view the event staff page to find the appropriate person to contact, found at https://burn2.org/irobot-staff.

iSkye Silverweb

Press Release: Burn2 OctoBurn - Da Vinci's Workshop - Octover 15-23, 2016

"Welcome Home"

We are so excited! Planning for the Big Burn we've all been waiting for is now getting well underway. As is often our custom, we follow the theme that Burning Man announces, and this year it is "Da Vinci's Workshop."  You can read the full description of the theme as written by Larry Harvey and Stuart Mangrum at Burning Man's Website.

We had a poster contest and the posters were all so good that four winners were selected rather than just one, shown below. We will use all four posters for distributing the news inworld and online.

More Burnin' News

The plot sale opened Sunday the 17th of July and plots are being reserved. Plottery and Juried Art camp applications are coming in. It’s really going to happen! Support BURN2 and reserve YOUR plot! Can’t buy one? Apply for a Plottery plot, or take on the creative challenge and apply to be a juried camp artist at Octoburn! Note: These plots will be in limited supply, however...
Now then, all you primslingers and meshers, script wizards and graphics imagineers: Get inspired by visions of Renaissance ingenuity, Medieval machinery and the artistic, eclectic, multi-gifted genius of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and bring those creations to the virtually dusty playa - come in world and get your plot reserved as soon as you can!

A Call for Volunteers
Teams are forming up, leads will be identified, and we will need volunteers to help with greeting, building, creating, performing, dancing, and sharing the news about the happenings on the virtual playa! If you think you might be interested in joining us in a lead, co-lead or key role capacity, be sure and fill out the BURN2 Application for Key Roles form. We’ll be in touch right quick. If you don’t want to be a lead but you do want to help out, fill out the volunteer application and our volunteer coordinator will help get you started!

While We Wait...We Ain't Waiting!
We’re not just sitting back and twiddling our thumbs. We are planning all sorts of fun little things to do together. Watch for notices in the BurningMan 2.0 group - be sure you’re in that group! - and join in with your fellow Burners to participate, collaborate and just plain celebrate the fact that we are Burners!

Then, when the sims come in, let the building begin! Burn On!

Press Release: BURN2 2015 - Carnival of Mirrors Plot Sale Continues

As we previously stated, ​BURN2: Carnival of Mirrors will take place October 17­25, 2015. We have an update for you...

Plot Sale Continues
Get a Plot before 8 September, Get Some Extras!

If you get a plot for the upcoming October Burn event themed "Carnival of Mirrors" before the 8th of September, you may be able to have your plot customized.

What does this mean? It means you will have some flexibility with your plot, including:

1) Mirror Water.​This is an option that is specific to this year's Carnival of Mirrors theme. For an example of this mirror water feature, see the image below.

2) Custom Shaped Plot.​We can parcel your plot with boundaries to your (within reason)
specifications. The plot size will not change in terms of square meters, but the plot shape can vary from the usual square or rectangular configuration.

3) Modestly Increased Height Limits.​If you get a 512sqm, 1024sqm or 2048sqm plot before the ​8th of September​, your height limit will be a bit higher than if you get it after the 8th.

You will be required to attend at least ONE short and simple information session to ensure full understanding of the builder guidelines, play aesthetics, and Ten Principles of Burning Man, all of which will be in force for the October event. Once attended you will receive your builder tags and be able to build on your plot once it is placed.

So, what's holding you back? The plots even cost LESS than they have in the past two years! This is a unique opportunity to do something a bit different this year while still keeping within the traditional playa aesthetics.

After you reserve your plot, wander over to the Center Camp tent and watch the live stream of Burning Man we've got going on the screen there. That event officially begins on the 30th of August, but you can see the flow of traffic through Gerlach in these pre-­event days.

More information, including plot sizes and prices, is available on our website at http://www.burn2.org .
BURN2 is the virtual extension of the Burning Man festival and community into the world of Second Life. It spreads Burning Culture and the​Burning Man Ten Principles​all year round. URN2 is one Burning Man regional, out of more than 100 first world Regional groups.

Press Release: Burn2 2015 - Carnival of Mirrors

This year's theme is about mirrors and masks, mazes, and merger. It will be a kind of magic show that takes the form of an old-fashioned carnival. This Carnival of Mirrors asks three essential questions: within our media-saturated world, where products and people, consumption and communion morph into an endlessly diverting spectacle, who is the trickster, who is being tricked, and how might we discover who we really are?

Classic carnivals, as theaters of illusion, upheld a very strict dividing line that separated carnies, cast as showmen, from members of a naive public who were labels chumps and suckers, marks and rubes. Our carnival, however, will perform an even more subversive trick - its motto is Include the Rube. The wall dividing the observer from the observed will disappear, as by an act of magic; through the alchemy of interaction, everyone at once can be the carny and the fool.

With great glee and inspired excitement, we announce the upcoming BRN2: Carnival of Mirrors. The event will take place October 17-25, 2015, culminating in the Burning of the Man of the 24th, and the temple Burn on the 25th. Going into this season of preparation, the annual plot sale opens, along with the Plot Lottery! And prices for the plot sale are LOWER!

Get all the information you need about the Plot Lottery and Jurried Art Camp applications by going to http://www.burn2.org and finding the link to the desired application form in the menu at left under "Carnival of Mirrors." Read all the information on the form, including the guidelines and Ten Principles before you submit your application. Builder guidelines are available at http://www.burn2.org/Builderguidelines - playa aesthetics mirroring the Black Rock Desert are in effect for this event.

You can purchase a plot for Burn2 at the kiosks on the Playa. In the spirit of the theme, your receipt will be in the form of a wearable mask. Prices are as follows, and we are happy to note the prices are lower than last year:

L$2500 = 512sqm, 117 LI
L$5000 = 1024sqm, 234 LI
L$10000 = 2048sqm, 468 LI
L$20000 - 4096sqm, 936 LI

Think about the mirrors, masks, mazes, and mergers, let the word "Carnival evoke inspiration in your creative mind, then come, participate in this fiercely fun and fiery fiesta!

Burn2 is the virtual extension of the Burning Man festival and community into the world of Second Life. It spreads Burning Culture and the Burning Man Ten Principles all year round. Burn2 is one Burning Man regional, out of more than 100 first world regional groups.

Want more information? Check out these resources:

Website: http://www.burn2.org
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups.burn2

Press Release: Burn2 Lists Plottery Winners

This year’s BURN2 will be BIGGER!

Bigger means more Plottery winners!


We are very excited to announce 15 plottery winners! Each winner will receive a free 512sm plot for this year’s BURN2: Cargo Cult.

The winners are:

Neo Deezul

Calla Cela

Further Monday

Faewyn Silverweb

Xiija Resident

fredx resident

Professor Bimbogami

Zipper Moomintoog

mick lunasea

polkamatic feller

Andy Burroughs

Namor Xue

Isabelli Anatine

Alesha Hax

KT Syakumi

Plot sales for BURN2 are ongoing until the end of the month or until we are sold out.

BURN2, 2013, Press Release - First 15 Plottery Winners,  August 2013,  page 1

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Additional Information for Press:

Plot sales are going on now and will end when plots are sold out. To purchase a plot, visit http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Burning%20Man-%20Deep%20Hole/215/74/27 and pay the vendor.

This year’s theme--Cargo Cult! Learn more about it at    http://www.burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm13_theme.html More than 5,000 residents attended BURN2 2012, and this year will be even bigger, with more sims and more plots!  Come join the fun!

If you have any questions about plot sales, BURN2, or Burning Man, please email info@burn2.org.

Some important dates include:

Plot sales end 09/01/13

Building starts 9/17/13

Building ends 10/12/13

BURN2 Cargo Cult opens 10/19/13 and ends 10/27/13

Builders and artists agree to comply with the Ten Principles of Burning Man and BURN2 (http://www.burn2.org/ten-principles) and the BURN2 Builder Guidelines (http://www.burn2.org/Builderguidelines).  Builders and artists agree to comply with Linden Lab’s Terms of Service and Community Standards.

What makes BURN2 unique? BURN2 is the only official virtual Burning Man Regional and is an entirely resident supported event in Second Life.

We encourage you to use the following labels and hashtags when you write about the event:

BURN2,  #burn2 . We will promote those tags to make it easier for people to find your content.

Want more information? Check out these resources:

Website: http://burn2.org

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/burn2/

Twitter:  http://twitter.com/#!/BURN_two

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BURN2BURNERS

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Burn2.SL/

Regional Page: http://regionals.burningman.com/regionals/cyberspace/second-life/

Contact people:

communications@burn2.org

Steering Committee: steering@burn2.org

BURNING MAN Regional Contact: secondlife@burningman.com