What on earth should we do next year?
Interfuse has prided itself on being a community first and from the bottom-up organization. To that end, we look to the great dusty masses of our Burner families and ask, “So what do we do NOW?”
We ask you, the artists, the lovers, our prank goblins, and creative personalities abound: what should the theme be for Interfuse 2024?
We will keep this open for some time, and once we have enough submissions, expect a poll to be published for YOU (yes, you specifically reader) to help decide.
Call for Leaders and heroics
Have you been burning for awhile now? Have you been volunteering for years and find yourself helping teach rookie burners the ropes for a department or how to practically apply our cultures principals and values at the event? Can you not sit by and watch someone do something the wrong way? Well then, you just might be perfect to join the ranks of our volunteer leads and co-leads. As an entirely volunteer based organization there is never a shortage of work to be shared among those of us willing (or foolish enough) to care. To this end, we would ask you to throw your name in this hat, or throw someone else’s name under this proverbial sado-masochistic hobby we call burning volunteer leadership if you think they’ll be a good fit.
Diversity / Inclusion / Accessibility
If you were to look up the 10 Principles of Burning Man, the first thing you would likely see reads as such:
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
While this stands as a true statement, it doesn’t mean that we should be content with a homogenous demographic to our participant population. As part of the Burning Man project, our mission is the share our culture with the rest of the world and attract the most diverse tapestry of folks to our events with open arms. We deal in experience – saving and curating what we bring Home to share with others in a decommodified trade of the immaterial.
But Burning is HARD. There are challenges abound. Ranging from needing experience and gear to camp out of doors for long periods of time, to having a body that is fit and able to attend an event without serious health complications or barriers due to a lack of access.
Therefore we want to start a new department with this goal in mind. This department is very undefined at this point in how it would operate. The challenges are unique and the work specifically may take the form of a lot of meetings ahead of and after the event. If you’re interested in helping InterFuse reach out to BIPOC, and engineer solutions to challenges that may limit our events accessibility for marginalized Burners; even those who don’t know they’re Burners yet.
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