Event Schedule

The spectrum of colour inside of us is what makes our experience a beautiful thing. Expressions of sadness and joy are not always what they seem. This large, immersive art installation requires interaction to be fully appreciated. One scene in daylight, at night the scene changes as lighting comes into play. feel free to sit or stand on any of the many large cubes scattered about.

Come play your day away at Solla Sollew, enjoying our many games and art supplies! Badminton? Not at Sideburn - we only have Goodminton here! Are you ready for a real challenge? Come play Wacky Ball! Select your ball and club and see if you can navigate through our gruelling course. Beat your friends, beat your best, come and play wacky ball! Come back at night and discover Solla Sollew transformed to a psychedelic playground.

Solla Sollew transforms into a psychedelic playground every night after dark, beckoning you to frolic, play and enjoy! Glow Cock: Our cocks see how they glow. Come whack our glowing cocks, slam them, slam them hard. It will be fun! It will be a good workout. It could even get messy! Whack my Balls: Grab your weapon and give my balls a whack! Avoid the obstacles, pitfalls and traps to get your balls in the hole. Whack, whack, whack, give my balls a whack. BiatcHee: Toss off our glowing balls, toss them good. Don't toss them too hard, don't toss them too soft, toss your balls just right

Riddle game. Patrons walk through the Imaginarium to solve the puzzles and riddles for a chance to put their name in a draw and win a the grand prize, a real haunted painting.!!

Portage La Haya is an interactive art piece with a bottomless canoe. Participants use glowing tethered paddles to glide across a vibrant, rainbow-colored landscape, blending movement, light, and imagination to celebrate the fusion of Burning Man and nature.

Once the other sound systems go quiet, we rage on dancing into the night. You keep dancing, we keep playing.

Start your day off right by stopping at DejaBrew for your morning pick me up. Basic coffee done right! Or Tea and other options if Coffee is not your thing. Hot coffee starting before 7:00 am each morning and throughout the day. Other attractions like our white board listing the days events, snacks, a chill place to relax, and recharge both your devices and yourself.

Early risers and dusty doers, come fuel up at Groovy Brew! We're slinging hot, fresh coffee to keep the haya moving. BYOCup and start your day right. Non-caffienated options and tea available!

The Care Plounge is open daily until dinner — a cozy, kid-friendly space to nap, daydream, doodle, fort and friend. PG vibes.

Our massage tables are open daily for you and your crew to use. Bring a buddy, trade them with strangers and radically rest. Consent and communication are key — always ask, always check in. We've set the space — the REST is up to you.

Who The Fuck Cares is a radically caring crew spreading whimsical and wonderful vibes across the haya. Our CARE Bar is open daily from 11–4 with Confidence Spritzes, Emotionally Available Earplugs, and Dusty Affirmations — no booze, all care. We’ve got nooks for naps, a plounge to dream in and massage tables. Stop by for care that’s silly, sincere, and sparkly as hell. Who the fuck cares? We do.

Skip to our button-making station to punch out your mood, your name, your inside joke - whatever’s bubbling up. We’ve got supplies, prompts, and choreographed chaos. Open daily at 11:11 for 1 hour.

Soul Portal is an interactive art installation designed to explore themes of identity, perception, and interconnectedness.

Step into the Pronoun Palace! This interactive display offers pronoun advocacy information and vital resources on how to cultivate safe and affirming spaces for transgender and nonbinary individuals. Learn crucial facts about the discrimination they face, engage in open conversation, create a personalized pronoun bracelet, and take away a sticker. Let's build understanding and allyship together.

Come experience and explore your many hidden faces at our self-reflection station. A fun visual experience using light to paint your face from various angles.

An interactive art event that is part experience part structure. Inert art structure by day, it allows participants to sit, stand, just be and reflect in a diary (inside a old timey briefcase) on their relationship with trees. At night the tree comes alive on its own and presents its colours, then wow! Time is not a concept to the Giving Tree. Once it grows it will be, until it is taken down. Witness it, appreciate it, take it for granted. The Giving Tree will continue to be.

Come sit, dance, and stretch among the mischievous mushroom fairy circle! Gaze upon the mushrooms’ intoxicating glow at night and find the eyes that gaze upon you while within the circle! A chill space for all to enjoy in their own way. Please feel free to use the yoga mat for DIY yoga

Come find your centre amongst Sideburn’s feast of sounds and lights! Relax or meditate in our daytime sunshade/groovy light-up pyramid at night. Or travel through the fairy circle to connect with yourself in our meditation tent. Indulge with soothing meditation music or use the over-ear protection to find a bit of silence. If the lights are on, come and use the space!

We have some podcast equipement and timeslots on the Burning Man Radio staion, Shouting Fire. We'll do random interviews in our camp so drop by!!!

Launch an expedition to find The Grove nestled deep in the forest of carnivalesque colours. Let it draw you into a world within a world (within a world) with its puzzles and enigmas and interactive, immersive art experiences. Find gifts that reflect your true colours; play with light and sound; marvel in the mystery!

DJ set presented by Chris Endo. Genres: Ambient emo tech house & indie dance.

We like music, so we'll play a bunch of it. Whatever styles inspire us is what we'll play. Punk, EBM, Metal, Techno, Bass House, DNB, whatever. Stop by to see what we're cooking up!

A mix of arcade, yard, and board games available for your entertainment.

You don’t need a toilet to change a tampon—avoid porta-potty grossness and freshen up in peace. Period and burner supplies provided! Exchange a gift in the take-a-thing-leave-thing.

Come on up to the Disco Shower platform, don you best rose outfit, put on your rose tinted sunglasses and celebrate the first sunset of Sideburn with the with some rosé and pink lemonade, while getting to know some new friends on the Haya.

The biggest little Circus is back once again and do we have a show for you! Dr. Magnus Bombastus, proprietor of this fine establishment welcoming you to our little big top and the Chromatic Carnival and celebrating gathering here with delightful creatures of many spectrums, persuasions and colors and introducing Snake Oil's Sideshow and Sideburn to each other in this year's incarnation and getting the party started!

Celebrate Thor's Day and the kicking off of Sideburn with us! Gather, ye brave souls, for the Unkegging of the Sacred Mead, drinking games, live music from our humble bards, and more merriment than Valhalla’s hall can hold!

We are hosting tea and hauntings under our shade structure beyond a spooky graveyard. Come enjoy some tea, howl at the sunset, and grab a ghost costume with us when we head out as a fright of ghosts to haunt the community, where we will make the ghoulish demand of others to tell us cheesy, corny, and cutesy jokes to exorcise us. All jokes/puns will be BOOed. Don't take it personally, we are ghosts after all. We provide the ghost costumes and tea, bring a cup.

What colour is “E”, or “5”, or “Tuesday”? If you associate colours to numbers or letters, you have synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon that involves a mixing of the senses. Come compare your colour associations with your SideBurn peers (yes, there is data!)

DJ set presented by MoS. Genres: Prog & deep house

Ring, ring, ring, it’s the Dramaphone! Discover the endless joys of the Dramaphone, not your run-of-the-mill boring old office phone at all. Take-a-secret, leave-a-secret?! A drum machine?! What else is hidden in there?!

Explorer, hear my call! Come find me, and I shall grant you the grace of expressing your true colour. Do you recognize the four elements? Mix them to your heart’s desire, and perhaps you shall receive a gift.

Although I am a cosmic traveler, I now assume the humble form of a car. For eons, I have ferried inquisitive minds across the vastness of space - but on this Earth, I am broken, stranded. Oh, explorer! Will you find me? Can you fix me?

Do you feel sad sometimes? Do you maybe like feeling sad? Do you feel like the incessant happiness of disco is patronizing? Synthwave, future pop, goth rock, hard techno, maybe some melodic deep house but definitely not that uplifting stuff. Come dance with us, or just stand, frown and look aloof. We understand that not being disgusted by the presence of others *is* being friendly. This is a welcoming space and we promise absolutely no disco.

A spider missing half its legs? Something out of an industrial facility, pipes and tanks and metalwork? Spaceship fuel tanks getting ready for launch? This is an eight headed flame effect built on a wide angled base, 100lb propane tanks tilted towards the sky and reinforced in metal framing. The wide base allows participants to lie on the ground and look up at the sky while fire circles overhead. You get to control it, too.

Join us in our Cinematorium for a special screening of the 1922 silent classic Phantom of the Opera. Bring your cup and grab some complimentary popcorn, kick off your shoes, and relax in our cozy, carpeted cinema space. Stretch out, lounge, and lose yourself in this eerie masterpiece under the flicker of vintage film magic.

Howdy partners, get ready to kick up some dust and glitter at the Tammy's Tavern grand opening! DJ Kasey Riot is on the decks, blending feel-good house anthems, infectious pop hooks, and those nostalgic bangers you secretly love. Our bartenders will be slingin' ice-cold homemade beer to keep you cool and your boots tappin'. It's gonna be a boot-scootin' good time!

Step into the strange and wondrous world of Obscuras Imaginarium! Opening Carnivale Night unveils our dark Victorian circus. Enjoy music from our DJs all evening, games, curiosities, oddities, puzzles, riddles, silent films in our Cinematorium and prohibition-era cocktails at our Nocturnal Apothecary Bar as you cross the veil into a realm of mystery, magic, and macabre delight.

Kick off your Burn weekend in the big cosy tent with live bass and electronic music you can groove to. DJ Lineup: - 9-11pm: Pat Makes Music - 11-1am: Feel Nothing

Immerse yourself in the rich, cinematic soundscape — a masterful fusion of melodic techno, deep house, and progressive textures. Known for emotionally charged builds, warm analog synths, and powerful rhythmic flow, a journey that’s both introspective and dancefloor-ready. Their set evolves like a story: moody atmospheres give way to pulsing grooves, while subtle harmonies and intricate layers guide you through waves of tension and release.

Interactive visuals accompany the dancefloor behind the DJ. Hit a bleep, get a bloop projected. Press a button, generate a blip. Can you find the mystery boxes and team up with a new friend to unravel the mystery of how it all works? And if you use your voice, are you able to dominate the screen? A series of explorations allow you to make your own visual art and impact the dancefloor.

DJ set presented by DXRK QVEEN. Genres: Prog & melodic techno.

Got a DJ set that you would LOVE to play? Come play at one of our open deck slots! Sign up on the day of at Prismatic Reverie. Note: We will be switching to silent disco during quiet hours. Headsets will be provided!

Gonzo MD and Flow State will intertwine their unique styles to craft a dynamic and unpredictable musical journey. In this collaborative performance, each DJ alternates tracks, responding to the other's selections and the crowd's energy, creating a live dialogue that keeps the dancefloor engaged and ever-evolving. This format allows for a seamless fusion of genres and tempos, as the DJs weave together their individual sounds into a cohesive and immersive experience.