Date:         Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:06:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
Subject:      bURNINGvaN!
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What is burNINGVaN?

Our mission is to produce the annual event known as "Burning Van" and
to guide, nurture and protect the more permanent community created by
its culture. Our intention is to generate society that connects each
individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in
community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater
world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the
experience of Burning Van can produce positive spiritual change in
the world. To this end, it is equally important that we communicate
with one another, with the citizens of Sin City (SF) and with the
community of Burning Van wherever it may arise. Burning Van is
radically inclusive, and its meaning is potentially accessible to
anyone. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be
immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before
politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied
ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant
support before sponsorship. Finally, in order to accomplish these
ends, Burning Van must endure as a self-supporting enterprise that is
capable of sustaining the lives of those who dedicate themselves to
its work. From this devotion spring those duties that we owe to one
another. We will always burn the Van.


Oh...hang on... that's BurningMAN. BurNINGvAN is mostly old guys with
nothing better to do on a Saturday night than stand around drinking
warm beer on a cold beach and talk about...you guessed it...VANAGONS.

Did I mention my favorite part?: BURNING THE MAGNESIUM ENGINE BLOCK!

Jeff/ 87 Syncro Westy / MARIN


On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:35:50 -0700
> From:    Aristotle Sagan <killer.jupiter@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: bURNINGvAN
>
> Having been to both I can give this report...
>
> bURNINGvAN is just like BurningMan except for a couple of small
> differences.
> Like instead of 35,000 people, there are max about 35 people. It's
> usually
> cold as hell (cause SF gets real cold at night in the winter after
> the sun
> goes down). There are real crazys at one of these events (I won't
> tell you
> which one). There are nekkid women at one of these events (nope, I
> won't
> tell you that either). And they burn things at one of these events
> (nah,
> that's a lie, they burn things at both of these events).
>
> They are both a great time and if the Karl Wolzs are going to show up,
> Caroline and myself will probably make it up to ocean beach too
> (with or
> without kids, depending on the weekend).
>
> tim in san jose (no running vans but still a vanagoner)