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Central Market Arts Groups Named as Finalists for Creative Placemaking Grants
January 25, 2012
“Central Market Arts Activation” a collaboration between the Burning Man Project, Black Rock Arts Foundation, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development has been named as a finalist for support from ArtPlace, an unprecedented private-public collaboration of nine of the nation’s top foundations, eight federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and six of the nation’s largest banks. ArtPlace supports creative placemaking with grants and loans, research and advocacy. Central Market Arts Acitivation joins 128 other projects in 68 cities working to transform their communities by driving vibrancy through investments in the arts.Read more
Worldwide Good News – Maya interviews Harley K. Dubois – The Burning Man Project
September 8, 2011
San Francisco Bay Guardian: Burning Man launches nonprofit aimed at spreading its culture and art
August 10, 2011
By forming a new nonprofit organization and forging partnerships with political and business leaders, the heads of the company that stages Burning Man say they are hoping to secure and expand the long-term future of the event and the culture that it has spawned, particularly here in San Francisco. Read more
SF Wire: Mayor Ed Lee Gives a “Welcome Home” to the Nonprofit Burning Man Project
August 8, 2011
Where are we? SF Mayor Ed Lee is standing downwind from City Hall on a funky, dusty, Depression-era Front Porch art car on Market Street, welcoming a festive throng dressed in glow fur and leopard print to the place he jokingly calls “United Nations Playa.” Read more
Fast Company: Burning Man’s Big Plan To Reshape A Depressed San Francisco Neighborhood
August 8, 2011
Burning Man isn’t just about getting crazy on the Playa anymore. The organization is now taking on urban revitalization, aiming to fix up the area around its new HQ. Read more
PRESS RELEASE: Burning Man Project Launches in San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza
August 5, 2011
San Francisco, CA – Friday marked the launch of the Burning Man Project, a non-profit organization focused on catalyzing creative culture around the world. The organization announced its first Board of Directors and its six programs at a launch in San Francisco’s UN Plaza at 5 PM PST. The Mission of the nonprofit Project will be to facilitate and extend the culture that has issued from the Burning Man event into the rest of the world. Read more
Office of the Mayor: Mayor Lee Celebrates Arrival of Burning Man Project & Welcomes SF Camerawork & Pianofight Theater to Central Market
August 5, 2011
San Francisco, CA – Mayor Edwin M. Lee today celebrated The Burning Man Project’s launch in Central Market at a lively event in United Nations Plaza hosted by the new nonprofit organization. The theme, “Welcome Home,” is the greeting used at the entrance of the annual Burning Man event, and was chosen for this event to celebrate the organization’s new nonprofit orientation and its return to the center of Burning Man’s city of cultural origin, San Francisco. The organization will initially focus on its program of community-building and economic revitalization in Central Market District. Read more
San Francisco Examiner: Mayor Ed Lee links up with Burning Man
August 4, 2011
The minds behind Burning Man are melding with the minds behind City Hall as Mayor Ed Lee is helping the organizers of the annual gathering in the Nevada desert launch a new nonprofit today. Read more
NBC Bay Area: Burning Man’s Burning Desire
July 20, 2011
The founder of Burning Man has big plans to light a fire in the heart of San Francisco. NBC Bay Area’s Jean Elle explains. Go to Video
Triple Pundit: Social Entrepreneurship in the Era of Burning Man
October 8, 2010
The most interesting story about innovation and social entrepreneurship I found at West Coast Green was not in a scheduled program, but a side conversation with James Hanusa of Burning Man. Read more