2025 Archive
- Burning Man 2025 Tickets
- 2025 Camp Plan
- 2025 Pavillion
- 2025 FT Playa Calendar
- Camping with the Turtles - Orientation 2025
- Teams and Leadership - 2025
Burning Man 2025 Tickets
https://tickets.burningman.org/
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| Wednesday 4/30/2025 12:00 pm PST | STEP Sale Registration Opens |
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| Wednesday 7/30/2025 12:00 pm PST | OMG sale Commences |
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2025 Camp Plan
This PDF shows the camp plan for the Future Turtles 2025.
2025 Pavillion
We are considering a major redesign of the main interactive area of the camp for 2025. The concept would be to have a single, strong central pole supporting multiple shade triangles.
Inspiration pictures
Schematic
Aesthetic (Tomorrow Today!)
The theme of our public areas, Tomorrow Today, pulls elements from:
- Atomic Art
- Jetsons Aesthetic
- Mid-century
- Googie Architecture
Reference images:
2025 FT Playa Calendar
Camping with the Turtles - Orientation 2025
Actual Orientation
- This year we are at 7:00 & Ellison, at the heart of the queerborhood. Nearest portos are between C & D
- We are in a hub called Rainbow Village. The other camps are:
- Gender Blender
- Camp Beaverton
- 8-bit bunny
- Slightly Conscious
- Queertirement
Queer Camps At Burning Man
Gayflower training film
Turtle Responsibilities
- Strike (starts noon Sunday, break for temple burn. Nobody leaves until camp is moop sweeped, expected 3pm Monday)
- Shifts (newbies who miss shifts: sponsor must fill in). Missing shifts is really the only reason turtles have been kicked out.
- Daily lunch-time meeting at noon in camp
- Carry a moop bag (bring one that clips to your belt or something)
- Use your cubby. Don't leave your shit lying around dining room.
- Don't let me find a table full of shit that people left out "in case anyone else wants it" like sunscreen and 240 volt adapters and half a can of green beans. It will be covered by dust in 30 minutes and then definitely nobody will want it. Put it the fuck away.
Turtle Spirit
- If you see a turtle doing something, just help them
- Nobody should come into our camp without being greeted
- Invite turtles on your adventures
Electrical
- If you want to plug something in in your tent bring an outdoor-rated 25' extension cord. No heaters, air conditioners, cooking, hair dryers.
Amenities you can find in the Empire Fort and borrow
- Electric fans
- Camp furnishings (folding chairs)
- Hammocks
- Welcome mats
Water
- In the kitchen, water costs $5 per gallon. FIVE DOLLARS. Be extremely stingy in how you use water to clean dishes. (This is why we burn our plates)
- Don't fill canteens with ice water - use the canteen filling station
Trash
- Kitchen, bar, and build team will generate some trash which can go in the truck and dropped off at the Reno dump on Tuesday.
- YOU and only YOU are responsible for:
- your own trash
- moop you found and picked up
- wrappers for snacks someone gave you, even turtle snacks
- cans for beers someone gave you, even at the turtle bar
- the little plastic insert used to keep the battery fresh on a fairy light that you just pulled out, i saw you!
- This is going back home with you
- Have a couple of trash bags for it. It won't be too much.
- Bring it back to SF. Don't leave it in public trash cans in Reno. Reno people hate us enough as it is.
- There are burning man trash cans at the airport in Reno if you're flying out of there.
- There is no place for trash at Peik's lot where the food fort goes
Stuff that used to get ruined every year and cost us time and money to fix
- Gayflower and food fort MUST be winterized before leaving playa.
- There can be no food, shelf-stable or otherwise, or food trash, in any of the storage containers, or the food fort, or the empire fort, or the gayflower. This attracts mice which carry hantavirus and destroy our gear
- There is a dropoff for shelf-stable food to donate in Nixon
- Or, drop it off at Colexodus for restoration / dpw volunteers to eat
- Otherwise it goes in the trash truck
Legal
- Smoking pot is illegal and easy for law enforcement to detect, especially at big art cars and sound camps
- ZIP UP YOUR GODDAMN TENT
- Don't give drugs to someone you met on playa - there are undercover narcs who look like real burners and going to jail in Lovelock sucks
- Sex & erections can't be visible from the street. Gently move those into the kink fort.
Jetpack's list of things I never see anyone do to make their burn more excellent
- Get light for your tent. USB battery pack + USB tent light near the entrance
- Have a go bag ready with everything you need to survive 24 hours outside of camp (hot, cold, snacks, water, goggles and dust mask)
- On arrival, expect to step off the bus into a whiteout. Have goggles and dust mask in easy reach. Bring a snack and lots of water for the bus as it can encounter severe delays.
- When working, wear gloves to avoid painful chapped hands all week
Teams and Leadership - 2025
Food
The food team is responsible for preparing healthy and delightful food for campers. We aim to provide two hot meals daily. Lunch is served at noon which is also the daily camp meeting and mandatory for everyone. Dinner is served at 6pm. This year we are going to put more emphasis on making it easy to find something healthy to heat up and eat at any hour.
Lead: Christophe
Subteam: Healthy Snacks
Mess Tent
This team serves the food, maintains the snack area, cleans up after meals in the dining room and keeps that area clean and tidy.
Lead: Scott
Guardians
The guardians team is responsible for camper's emotional well being, camp cohesion, new camper acculturation, and other "soft skills." They are responsible for noticing campers in crisis and other difficult situations and either helping out or arranging professional help.
Lead: Jihoon
Finances
Keeps the books for the camp, collects camp dues, files camp tax returns (990s), and arranges reimbursement for campers who purchased things on behalf of the camp. Going forward, this team will also create a budget for each department.
Lead: Ben W
Team: Alejandro
Tools, Supplies, and Procurement
Camp storage, tools, equipment, and supplies. Maintains inventory spreadsheets, figures out what we need for camp and how to get it to playa. Leads the project during Reno Work Weekend to prepare the Tool Fort for playa making sure we arrive with everything we need. Publishes the "where is it" sheet so that campers, and especially the build team, can find things quickly and figure out where to put things away.
Lead: Spacemaster
Parties and Events
Plans all the camp parties. Publishes events to PlayaEvents, including any smaller events put on by campers. Publicizes all the events on- and off-playa
Co-leads: Peter, Ben, Michael
DJs / Music / Audio
Manages all audio gear and also the DJ program for our events.
Lead: Ben W
Team: Shuai
Architecture and Layout
Designs the camp frontage and major structures to be built by the build team. Produces schematic plans and drawings required by Placement, Build, Infrastructure, and other teams.
Lead: Gary
Transport
Organizes a truck from San Francisco to bring bulky items to and from playa. Drops off the camp MOOP at a dump. (No personal moop!)
Lead: Alex Sartel
Bikes
Manages and maintains our fleet of 50 bicycles.
Lead: Alex Sartel
Build
Arrives early on playa to build the camp.
- Lead: tbd
Confirmed Builders: Beam*, Basil*, Joel*, Jeremy S, Mdm Viv*, Klajdi, Dat*, Alex H, Ed, Gary*
Possible Builders (not 100% yet) Jon, Jorge
* = new york
Infrastructure
Manages the electrical grid and the water system, including fresh water, grey water, and black water and the Gayflower.
Jetpack, Ben Wild, Beam, Space Master, Kyle
Strike
Plans the strike of camp at the end of burn week. Coordinates all campers on playa to help take everything down easily and quickly and leave it in good condition for next year.
Lead: Efendi
Volunteer Coordinator
Insures that there are volunteers lined up for every shift on playa. Prepares those big charts telling everyone where to show up for their shifts.
Romain
Drinks
Plans and purchases any drinks that we gift at our bar, whether alcoholic or not. Organizes a steady supply of ice, ice water, and electrolyte drink for campers 24/7 and coffee for campers in the morning.
Alex Holman-Butt
Camp Tickets Coordinator
Helps campers secure tickets to Burning Man. Manages the Stewards Sale program that insures our camp can receive a certain number of tickets.
Lead: Jeremy
Pillow Fort
Designs and plans the pillow fort / cuddle fort areas of camp
Lead: Tristan
Recruiting & Acculturation
Finds great new Turtles and prepares them for Burning Man
Lead: Jorge
Moop Squad
Organizes LNT efforts on playa. Keeps the camp clean throughout the week, especially public areas.
Lead: -