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🚨 BIG NEWS! We've been placed at Center Camp on Playa!
🌐 We'll be in a new sector of the city for the first time in 3 years and it's an exciting time for us to come together to create something unique for Kaleidoscope.
📫 If you're interested in applying to camp with us this year, please email us at kaleidoscope.wtf@gmail.com.
See ya so soon in the dust you beautiful people! 🌬️
KALEIDOSCOPE Through the years!
KALEIDOSCOPE Through the years!
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Who are we?
Who are we?
If you're new to Kaleidoscope, first a little bit about us.
We first went to Burning Man in 2015 as a group of friends that loved hanging out and doing projects together, returned as a theme camp in 2016, and have been back to playa every year since. Our goal is to combine the principles of communal effort, radical inclusion, and self-expression with the love of coffee!
We know that coffee can be an essential element of community and connection, and we strive to create a space on playa and off that is welcoming, inclusive, connected, and fun.
What ARE OUR offeringS?
What ARE OUR offeringS?
We run a “fancy” coffee & tea lounge out of a brightly decorated 50ft x 33ft tensile shade structure. Unlike other coffee camps that are a more “grab and go” style, we have a menu that visitors order from, and each cup is brewed fresh. This encourages people to sit down and have conversations with the baristas and other visitors to the lounge.
We also offer a 26ft crow’s nest lookout tower. This provides a place where approx. 8 people can climb up, relax, converse, and check out their surroundings from a high vantage point.
With a camp of ~35 people, Kaleidoscope runs a cafe each morning from 9am-3pm from Monday through Saturday. We expect all camp members to take two 3-hour shifts to help us run the cafe, and 2-3 shifts throughout the week performing camp duties such as heating up dinner, cleaning dishes, etc. This allows for the camp and cafe to have enough hands on deck throughout the week while also having more autonomy in the evening.
Events on Playa:
Pour over coffee
Mon-Sat, 9am-3pm
Cold brew coffee shaken over ice
Mon-Sat 12pm-3pm
T-Swift Tuesday party
Tues 11am-3pm (lead by Renee)
Stories from the Playa
Tues 9pm-11pm
1920's speakeasy cocktail bar and murder mystery
Tues 11pm-1am
Sensate (Ambient Bass and Euphoric House Set by Trytab)
Thurs 3am-9am
Pre-Playa Schedule
1) Virgin orientation: required for playa virgins!
End of July - location and time TBD
2) Potluck/hang-out for Bay Area members
End of July - location and time TBD
3) Camp All Hands
First week of August, location and time TBD
4) All hands on deck to cook and pack the camp dinners! (Aug 8-10, and Aug 15-17)
5) Build team arrives on playa
Aug 20
6) Gates open (event start) Aug 24
7) Temple burn (event end) Aug 31
8) Strike team leaves playa Sept 1
9) Decompression, location tbd (Sept 2-5)
What’s it like camping at Kaleidoscope?
What’s it like camping at Kaleidoscope?
Our goal is to create a fun, inclusive, and cohesive camp experience for all members. It is important to practice the 10 principles of Burning Man and actively participate in the community.
While we like to go out and have fun, we are generally not a camp of folks looking to treat Burning Man as an extended EDM music festival.
We love having virgins with our camp! We provide resources leading up to the event such as a Slack channel for virgins to ask questions and guides to help them prepare. We also host a pre-playa newbie orientation meeting, with slides and Q&A.
Monday night is camp community night where we all get to know one another, have "opening ceremonies", be sure everyone has gone through orientation, and most importantly have the ‘virgin bike ride’ where we invite all of camp out together and we have the virgins decide where we go and what we do. We’ve found that the virgin bike ride provides an inclusive and fun way for virgins to acclimate at the beginning of the week and to get to know the rest of camp and how to get home.
CAMP SUMMARY
We will be at Center Camp this year!!! WAHOOOOOO there will be multiple other coffee camps as well.
Our cafe runs each morning from 9am-3pm, Monday through Saturday. We expect all camp members to take two 3-hour shifts to help us run the cafe, and 2-3 shifts throughout the week performing camp duties such as heating up dinner, cleaning dishes, etc. This allows for the camp and cafe to have enough hands on deck throughout the week while also having more autonomy in the evening.
Dues for camp are on a sliding scale! We welcome artists and the unemployed
To apply to camp please email kaleidoscope.wtf@gmail.com. We are targeting 30-35 members this year
AMENITIES PROVIDED
Large shade structure for you to pitch your tent under
Fresh potable water and gray water removal
Hot dinner served at 7pm every day - in addition to a warm meal to start off your evening, this provides a great synchronization point for camp members to connect and share their night plans.
Full kitchen to prep your own breakfasts and lunches
Showers
Air Conditioned Hexayurt chill space for daytime napping
Charging stations for small electronics (not to run your air conditioner, but for most smaller items like charging phones, running lights, etc. If you have a larger power need, please ask.)
Communal camp hangout areas
A large beautiful public space to host your own events in the afternoons and evenings
Unlimited coffee!
PLEASE BRING...
Some easily accessible food and water for the gate line
A tent or other living structure
Breakfast and lunch food
Personal supplies (goggles, dust masks, sunscreen, headlamp, daypack, water bottle, toiletries etc). Suggested packing list here
Bicycle, lock, and lights
Personal gifts
IMPORTANT DATES
End of JULY - TBD: Virgin Orientation
End of JULY - TBD: Bay Area Potluck
First week of AUG: Camp All Hands
AUG 9-10th and 15-17th: All Hands on Deck to Cook and Pack Camp Dinners
AUG 20th: Build team arrives on playa
AUG 24th: Gates open (event starts)
AUG 31st: Temple burn (event ends)
SEPT 1: Strike team leaves playa
SEPT 2-5th: Decompression, Location TBD
GETTING INVOLVED! HELP MAKE CAMP AWSUM
GETTING INVOLVED! HELP MAKE CAMP AWSUM
PRE-PLAYA
Get involved by helping out with a project before the burn. Lots of options such as helping cook meals, design frontage/decor, roasting coffee, coorindating infra and more. It is a great way to get-to-know the community as well! All project leads are looking for interested folks to shadow/learn their respective areas as well. Reach out to the leads in our project breakdown to get involved
Have a project idea? Pitch it in our slack to chat with a camp lead.
Virgin? Check out some virgin guides online to get acclimated and hit up #bm-virgins to have all your questions answered. Camp will also have virgin acclimation programs to help you get plugged in!
Buying things for camp? Check with the leads first for approval, and track your purchases via splitwise. Ask Luke or Danny for details.
ON-PLAYA
Camp shifts are a crucial part of showing up for the community and helping camp continue to run smoothly.
Finally, if you can, we always appreciate as much help with Build (Wednesday before the official gates open). Please let Zach or Pablo know if you'd like to come early for build and which day you'd like to come.
POST-PLAYA
Strike (breaking down camp) will begin on Sunday morning! We expect everyone to be marginally rested on Sunday to help break down camp. Our goal is to finish by Monday afternoon
Decompression will be scheduled to those who are interested. Camp members will gather at a house in Reno and hang out for a few days to decompress before joining the rest of society. Please reach out to to the leads on slack if you're interested in going!
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