Camp Info

Because we have a strict limit on the number of people our base camp can support, to register in this camp, you must secure a space with one of the collaborating Pods. For registration availability, contact the individual Pod leaders or email charles (at) fractalnationvillage.com.

We do have a Waiting List for space availability. If you’d like to be on our Waiting List, please Register here and under “Pod” enter “WAIT LIST.”  You’ll be notified when spots open up.

Background

Envisionary will provide a different kind of camping experience this year. It is a camp by working artists, for working artists. It is not a hotel, and there will be no open registration. Nearly everyone in base camp is either Core, Crew, artist, performer, support staff, guest or VIP. This means that Envisionary is a participatory camp, and one way or another, we are all responsible for making it run. Our talent, our labor, and our hard-earned funds, in the form of camp fees, are what drives this project.

We understand that many, if not most of us, work the festival circuit professionally. We’re all used to being treated a certain way, and we often have a lot of expectations, since this is how we make our bread. What we hope in part to achieve with Envisionary is not just an unparalleled production in terms of quality and excitement, but also a more modest return to the fundamental ideas of radical self-reliance, and radical participation. In other words, look at your participation in this camp not as being “in” a scene, but in helping create a scene . What will this camp offer the general population of Black Rock City, as our gift to the Playa, in this auspicious and memorable year of “Rites of Passage?” How many of us found our true lives and souls out there on the sun-baked gypsum fields? For all those who will come seeking transformation, what will be our part in helping to create the best transformative experience anyone could ever seek?

Both Envisionary Camp and FractalNation Village are grassroots efforts by Playa veterans.  There are no big money interests behind this project, no investors or pools of cash. We the artists are manifesting and creating this experience ourselves, from our own wherewithal.

We have devised a kind of modularized “Pod” system which apportions space to each collaborating entity. Our camp population, and management, is broken down into these Pods, represented by each of the separate collaborating groups. Each Pod is responsible for sourcing its own roster of 10-30 campers, building its own residential area, and creating its own meal plan. With your Pod, you can plan to bring your own food to store and prepare, in which case we will provide a Refrigeration Truck and Communal Kitchen to support that. Or you can chose to cater your  needs, and contract a meal plan with our main caterer,  or bring in your own catering crew at your own expense.

We know you know the drill, so what we’d like to ask of you is that you come prepared, and be willing to lend a hand somehow. With a baseline amount of focused effort from everyone up front, we will be able to sit back and enjoy ourselves throughout Burn week, etching into memory what will invariably be the time of our lives.

We look forward to sharing love, joy, and release in the dusty chaos….

Your Envisionary Core & Crew

FEES & RESOURCES

Envisionary camp fees will cover the following expenses:

• Communal kitchen infrastructure with cold storage, prep, cooking, cleaning and water/waste removal.
• Dedicated Kitchen for Meal Plan
• Drinking water & 5gal solar shower bags (12) with greywater removal
• 5 days of continuous marquee programming – an abundance of Art, Music, Speakers & Performance with many of the Playa’s most popular talent.
• 60′ Dome to serve as the central gathering space/Chill Zone/art gallery featuring Tribe 13, Ten Thousand Visions, and others.
• 60′ tall Do Lab observation tower
• The Kaleidoscope – A mind-bending, full sensory visual art installation from Boom Festival. The worlds largest Kaleidoscope.
• Gateway Portals designed by Carey Thompson
• Outdoor Bamboo Stage designed by Bamboo DNA.
• 38k sound system by The Ohm Guru.
• Bamboo forest designed by Nils Volkmer Hammerbeck & Hanuman of Wabi Sabi/Balifornia.
• Luminatural art, orb, & dreamcatcher installation by Luminature
• A 30′ Private Chill Dome located inside Base Camp
• 30′ Live Painting dome from Temple SF
• 18′ and 30′ Healing Domes
• Android Jones live painting art car.
• Transportation & fuel (a reality in days of $4.00/gl fuel prices)
• Inspirational community & an unparalleled Burning Man experience

NOTE:

• Communal meals are sourced by each individual Pod.
• An optional comprehensive meal plan will be catered by Enosh Baker, Akeneton Flores & Co,. This is a separate fee from base camp dues, and is all-inclusive. The $150 covers food, equipment, cold storage, and dedicated staff. They will provide two full meals a day, a self-serve breakfast, with meat and raw options. There will also be two special meals: a Wednesday opening night dinner, and a Sunday breakfast with Random Rab. Akenaton and his team of 3 fellow chefs will craft an international menu which should be made available by Aug 1.
• Meal Plan fee is to be paid at time of Registration

Camp Dues – $200.

Without work shifts – $300

Optional meal plan – $150

RV Fee: $300

CONTACT

For all project related logistics, management & operations including production & programming contact Charles Shaw – hrchuckinstuff (at) gmail.com.

For all art related inquired contact Carey Thompson – carey2012 (at) gmail.com or Jennifer Ingram – Herbanmama (at) gmail.com