Temple of Transition

About Temple of Transition

This group is for the sharing of images documenting the Temple of Transition, Burning Man 2011.


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Description
All about the Temples project... The highs, the lows, the dreams, the schemes, and the low down—from our fingers to your eyeballs as it happens.

Love the Temple? So do we...
Website
www.temple2011.org
www.wepay.com/donate/159957

International, inclusive, and energised by a successful Burning Man 2010, a ‘back-to-basics’ crew of skilled, experienced, and very passionate burners has formed from the core that created the Megatropolis installation out of hope, sweat & dust in 2010.

Our crew, already over fifty committed members from twelve countries, comprises many veteran burners with extensive experience in planning, deploying, building and managing large projects and theme camps at Burning Man. They have also created and grown various regional events and decoms in several other countries. Along with our serious veterans, we have many newbies and not-so-newbies with extensive and valuable experience running their own festivals & events worldwide, and with volunteer contributions to other significant BM projects and regional events.

We are a simple crew who discovered something unexpected and amazing within that simplicity during our Megatropolis build in 2010. We eat simple, think simple, and get extraordinary pleasure from simply watching our community as they use and enjoy what we have gifted to and shared with them. With the barest of resources, but plenty of sweat & sunburn, we delivered something amazing to the city that year — yet we got far, far more back in return: the joyful, connecting, humbling experience of creating for our desert family, a reward that none of us fully anticipated.
We want to continue to work for our community and to share that feeling with a much larger family of volunteers in 2011. To do so, we will keep on keeping it simple. We will carry over the sense of joyful humility and service that we discovered while building and burning Megatropolis, and spread that sense into the hearts & minds of our entire extended crew for The Temples 2011 — a feeling that will be woven into the very fabric of The Temples themselves.

The Temple is far greater than any artist, any crew. As such, we do not intend to reinvent the wheel or make any bold statements. Rather, we aim to ensure that The Temples effectively and reliably deliver an experience of reverence, reflection, peace ad togetherness to the largest possible cross-section of our community. We hold that the Temple and the experience of the people within it deserve enormous respect — and establishing a feeling of respect through the structure itself is one of our primary goals. Compassion, humility and inclusion must rule as we focus on what the citizens of Black Rock City bring to and from their Temple. We intend to do our very best to listen to the opinions and input of the community, that we might better deliver a Temple that meets the City’s needs in the most meaningful way possible.

http://temple2011.org/