# The Future Turtles Camp # Work Requirements to Camp With the Future Turtles Camping for a week in the harsh Black Rock Desert is tough. We try to make it easier by collaborating to build a beautiful camp, organizing delicious shared meals together, and providing communal gifts to the Burning Man community. The magic of Burning Man is the collaboration. Not only will you be collaborating to build something really awesome that you can be proud of, but you will test your own limits, learn many new skills, and make incredible friends for life. Burning Man is a transformative experience and the people you go through it with make all the difference. This all takes a ton of work, both in the months leading up to the event getting everything ready, and during the week of Burning Man itself. To camp with us, you can expect to put in several days of work before you even get to the event, and several hours of shifts every day once we’re there. ## Off-Playa Contribution Each turtle is required to contributed meaningfully to the preparation for Burning Man in one of the following ways: 1. Participate in a work weekend in Reno, NV in the spring to help prepare our gear 2. Join the [early build team](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/books/the-future-turtles-camp/page/how-building-camp-works "Building Camp"), arriving on playa a week before everyone else to build the camp 3. Join the post-strike team, staying behind on playa a day and helping put away gear in Reno after the event 4. As a part of the food and beverages team, prepare food and the food truck in Reno before the burn 5. Meaningfully contribute to a camp art project and/or bring your own form of art ## On Playa Work Teams Every turtle will also be a part of a work team on playa. The teams may change a bit from year to year, but in 2024 we had the following work teams: 1. Food (preparing two hot meals a day) 2. Dining Room (serving meals and cleaning the dining room afterwards; maintaining snack stations) 3. Drinks (including drinks served at parties, water and electrolyte drinks available to campers, and ice) 4. LNT (cleaning the public areas of the camp) 5. Gayflower (cleaning the private shower area) 6. Infrastructure (maintaining the generator and water infrastructure) These teams organize their own shifts throughout the event week, with a goal that each turtle contribute approximately 12 hours of work during the week as a part of their particular team. ## Other Teams We have a variety of teams, large and small, that take care of some of the other things that keep our camp working. These teams often meet in advance of Burning Man to prepare and their work during the event may vary depending on the team. This work is all in addition to the work shifts mentioned above, and almost every turtle contributes to at least one of these teams. Your contribution may be to one of these existing projects, or you might have an idea to start your own project!
**Team** | **Typical pre-playa work** | **Typical on-playa work** | **Typical post-playa work** |
**Parties** | Choose themes for parties, prepare decor and accessories, line up DJs and entertainment, produce publicity and submit events to Playa Events, coordinate with drinks team | Run the parties, make sure there are volunteers to staff parties as greeters, monitors, consent monitors, bike parking, lighting directors, DJs, and bartenders | |
**Guardians** | Plan for orientation activities, schedule training for new turtles and pre-playa meeting sessions | Deal with personal, emotional, health issues, and conflict that may come up; coach campers whose behavior puts them at risk of not getting invited back | Produce programming for re-integration and "decompression" from playa; make sure unresolved issues during the week are addressed |
**Bikes** | Inventory bikes and order new parts | Check bikes out and in | |
**Turtle Truck** | Reserve a rental truck and pick it up; coordinate load-in and drive to playa | Coordinate load-in, drive from playa, take camp trash to the dump, wash truck and return it | |
**Turtle Bus** | Coordinate the charter bus and make sure the right people are on it and it goes to the right places; communicate with riders | Coordinate the charter bus and make sure the right people are on it and it goes to the right places; communicate with riders | |
**Camp Decor and Design** | Plan camp layout and decor | Set up decor and lights | |
**Art Projects** | Build art for the playa Work on an art car | Set up art, maintain art lighting, maintain art car, etc. | Take down art |
**Pillow Fort** | Plan pillow fort layout and decor | Coordinate on-playa pillow fort activities | |
**Workshops and Events** | Prepare some kind of on-playa workshop or event | Example events: Tarot Reading, Turkish Coffee Fortunetelling, HIIT training, Yoga, workshops and small classes, etc. |
builder | arriving Reno | Transport Reno -> Playa | |
1 | Joel | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
2 | Beam | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
3 | Basil | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
4 | Madame Vivien V | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
5 | Dat | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
6 | Gary | Mon Aug 18 1pm flight from NY | Turtle RV |
7 | Klajdi | Jeremy's car (from SF - there from July 24) | |
8 | Jeremy | Jeremy's car (from SF ) | |
9 | Alex H | Jeremy's car (from SF - SFO flight Mon Aug 18 2:15pm) | |
10 | Ed | Jeremy's car (from SF - SFO flight Mon Aug 18 2:15pm) | |
11 | Neptune | own van | |
12 | PB | own van |
Date / Time | Early Build Team | Food Team |
**Mon Aug 18** 1:00p | Meet in Reno - Pick up RV - Shop for build team food - Get RV ready - Fill up diesel - Buy DEF if needed for generator - Overnight at GSR - Fill water - Last minute shopping and prep Jeremy's car will arrive in Reno 6-7 pm - Transfer excess luggage to RV | |
**Tue Aug 19** 6:00 am | Entry - Drive from Reno - Enter playa - Call placement - Get placed - Measure positions for delivered vehicles - Call: - Peik Construction - Empire Storage - Generator - Water - Prepare first night shiftpods | |
**Wed Aug 20** | General Build Team A: Shade Structure Team B: Interactive Pavilion Team C: Utilities (petrol, music while working, water, power) | |
**Thu Aug 21** | General Build continues | |
**Fri Aug 22** | General Build continues | Enter playa |
**Sat Aug 22** | Furnishings and decor Turtles arrive |
**Leonardos** | **Donatellos** | **Michaelangelos** | |
Arrival | Park RV temporarily where the food fort will eventually go Wait for placement | Wait for placement | Make breakfast |
After Placement | **Survey for Peik Deliveries** Measure and flag for Tool Fort, Bike Fort, Pillow Fort Call Peik 775-674-9207 | **Survey for Empire Deliveries** Measure and mark fire lane. Then flag locations for Empire Fort, Moving Truck, Water, Shower, and Generator. Call Empire 828-406-5099 Sierra Site Svcs 888-458-8777 Generator World 916-668-0605 | |
After Deliveries | **First tarps** Lay down six tarps as numbered on schematic (enough for the initial outpost and Shiftpods for build team) | **First EMT structure ("sticks")** Follow Leonardos building sticks for initial outpost: the Kink Fort, and, time permitting, enough to protect six shiftpods for the build team. Air conditioners for Kink Fort | **Turtle event sign** Build and light the sign listing our events at the street corner **First Shade** Follow Donatellos adding side and roof tarps to sticks. Kink fort first, then, time permitting, enough to protect six shiftpods. |
**First Shiftpods** Follow Michaelangelos to setup first six shiftpods | Make dinner | ||
Personal setup and dinner -- done for the night. | Personal setup and dinner -- done for the night. | Personal setup and dinner -- done for the night. | |
Wednesday | **Remaining Tarps** Continue laying down tarps | **Remaining sticks** Follow Leonardos building sticks | **Pavillion** Measure and survey. Assemble mast on ground. Include sails, guylines, Turtle sign and its power cord along guyline, and two paracord pulleys on each face (allowing things to be pulled up to the top later). When mast is assembled, **all hands** gather to raise it and secure guylines. |
**Remaining Shade** Follow Donatellos adding tarps to sticks | **Remaining Shiftpods** Follow Leonardos setting up Shiftpods | **Pavilion** Anchor all the sails and perfect | |
dinner and done for the night | dinner and done for the night | dinner and done for the night | |
Thursday | **Electrical grid** Generator, all banded cables, distribution boxes, and spider boxes Initial power up and test | **Amenities** Light whips in bike parking area Bike parking signs Lotus Belle Tent and its Furnishings (including ACs) Lounge furnishings and lights Kink Fort furnishings and lights | **Observation Decks** Set up and anchor ladders for observation decks Build pipe structure on observation decks Connect wire guardrails Connect final pavilion sails to observation decks |
**Dining Room Setup** Tables, chairs, camper cubbies, signs and whiteboards, snack area | **Utility Lighting** String lights for dining area and camper shiftpod area | **DJ and Audio Gear** Setup and wire all speakers Get DJ gear working (booth may not have arrived) | |
dinner and done for the night | dinner and done for the night | dinner and done for the night | |
Friday | **DMX Lights** Connect and test everything on the ground Then mount it in final locations | **Water setup** SSS water connection for food fort SSS grey water connection for food fort Water filling station in dining room Set up backup pumping mechanisms (fresh / grey between Food and Gayflower) | **Pillow Fort Setup** Empty remaining items in Pillow Fort Set it up |
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 TentThis 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** ## GuardiansThe 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 ## FinancesKeeps 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 ProcurementCamp 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 EventsPlans all the camp parties. Publishes events to [PlayaEvents](https://playaevents.burningman.org/), including any smaller events put on by campers. Publicizes all the events on- and off-playa
Co-leads: Grant, Peter ## Music / AudioManages all audio gear and also the DJ program for our events.
Lead: Ben W Team: Shuai ## Architecture and LayoutDesigns 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 ## TransportOrganizes 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 ## BikesManages and maintains our fleet of 50 bicycles.
Lead: Alex Sartel ## BuildArrives 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 ## InfrastructureManages 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* ## StrikePlans 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 CoordinatorInsures 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 ## DrinksPlans 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? ## Camp Tickets CoordinatorHelps 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 FortDesigns and plans the pillow fort / cuddle fort areas of camp
Lead: Tristan ## Recruiting & AcculturationFinds great new Turtles and prepares them for Burning Man
Lead: Jorge ## Moop SquadOrganizes LNT efforts on playa. Keeps the camp clean throughout the week, especially public areas.
Lead: - # Camp Design and Architecture What our camp looks like! # 2025 Camp Plan This PDF shows the camp plan for the Future Turtles 2025. [Future Turtles.pdf](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/attachments/25) # 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 [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/vU6LbJqddRZiq2Vn-screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5-45-14-pm.png) [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/Ncnp48yk2wqcUHim-screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5-46-21-pm.png) ## Schematic [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/EPnbsZNmEGivmTD9-screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5-47-21-pm.png) [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/xBuipsw2oePbmkup-screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5-47-54-pm.png) ## Aesthetic (Tomorrow Today!) The theme of our public areas, Tomorrow Today, pulls elements from: - Atomic Art - Jetsons Aesthetic - Mid-century - Googie Architecture Reference images: [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/WVYRaOI9xx3uyhrv-screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5-52-14-pm.png) [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/6EtHVp7snDvk6CPN-dsc-1980.jpg) [](https://wiki.futureturtles.com/uploads/images/gallery/2025-02/sm6K9TtULy45G18c-il-800x800-5213630019-cevt.webp) # Burning Man 2025 Tickets [https://tickets.burningman.org/](https://tickets.burningman.org/) ### Important dates:**Date** | **Thing** | **Details** |
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**Wednesday 4/30/2025 12:00 pm PST** | STEP Sale Registration Opens | - Face-value, verified ticket resale |
**Wednesday 7/30/2025 12:00 pm PST** | OMG sale Commences | - No registration needed (just burner profile) - Based on availability following earlier sale(s), ticket prices may or may not include $550, $650, $750, $950, $1,500, and $3,000. |
**Month** | **One Way (SF)** | **One Way (Reno)** |
June | $180 | $140 |
July | $190 | $150 |
August | $200 | $160 |
This is archived information from 2024.
Just like the Burner Bus Express, the Future Turtles Bus skips the line to enter and exit playa -- which can save 10 hours some years! It is operated by Burning Man, but it is chartered by the Future Turtles and goes directly to our camp at 7:00 & F. - **WHY THE BUS IS AWESOME****Month** | **One Way (SF)** | **One Way (Reno)** |
May - June | $160 | $130 |
July | $170 | $140 |
August | $180 | $150 |
Ask Jetpack for permission to edit the Jotform and update it for 2025.
We open this up to Future Turtles first to give them priority. Then we open it to other camps in the neighborhood to try to fill the bus, because we have to pay for the whole thing.Jetpack is on a WhatsApp group with TCOs of all the other camps in our HUB and all the queer camps in general, which he can use to promote the bus.
## The mailing list In 2024 we set up a Google Group so we could quickly email everybody who had booked a bus ticket, whether they were in the turtles or not. This turned out to be invaluable to get the word out quickly when rain messed up the schedule.