Thanks to Stepheno for the awesome design again this year. Such an improvement over the hand-drawn not-to-scale versions I did long ago.
Placement questionnaire submitted today!
Thanks to Stepheno for the awesome design again this year. Such an improvement over the hand-drawn not-to-scale versions I did long ago.
Placement questionnaire submitted today!
Happy to announce we’ve been placed again this year. We’ll be in a new neighborhood for us, 3:30 and G. Very much looking forward to seeing all of our friends in the desert and making new ones too! 🙂
We’re bringing a minimal version of the Healing Foot Wash camp to the Black Rock Desert this year, from ~August 29 – September 4, 2021. Since there is no official Placement process this year, we’ve “placed” ourselves, and will see how it goes once we get there.
Approximate Estimated Location: ~ 7:45 and D (on this year’s grid, remember, most likely limited or no street signs).
~About one camp south of Burners With Kids camp (~100 families with kids).
Tentative Map location
~GPS: 40.8109897, -119.1840921
~What3Words address: https://w3w.co/integrates.workshops.important
How to use What 3 Words in offline mode to find us: https://www.blackrockdesertcamps.com/diy-placement
This is our target initial rendezvous point, as of tonight’s planning call, subject to change, but we’ll try to update final coordinates once we’ve established base camp.
We’re planning on bringing 6 sitting chairs, 100 gallons of water, all our usual foot washing supplies!
See you there?!?
Email contact: gserafini@gmail.com
Once again we are very grateful to the Burning Man Placement team for including us as a placed theme camp. We’ve now washed thousands of feet at Burning Man, and are looking forward to another great year.
Of special note this year — we’re planning to offer an after hours self-service foot wash station that will allow participants to use our setup in a limited way during evening hours when the main Healing Foot Wash camp / experience is closed. Hopefully we’ll see you out there!
We’re excited to announce we’ve been placed again in 2018! Come find the Healing Foot Wash camp at Burning Man at 6:30 & G this year and participate in foot washing. All are welcome!
We’re excited to announce we’ve been placed again in 2017! Come find the Healing Foot Wash camp at Burning Man at 5:30 & G this year and participate in foot washing. All are welcome!
Each of my three years at Burning Man has been a different experience, each with different challenges and opportunities. 2013 was a year of just getting out there in that dusty, vibrating, lively place, learning that by our kind acts and loving embrace of all came by, we were living Church in an unchurchy place. Finding a spot at the outer fringes of the Black Rock City, we washed perhaps about 100 pairs of feet, and gave away a lot of copies of Science and Health, the textbook on healing spiritually, by Mary Baker Eddy. In 2014, we applied for and received “placement”, meaning our camp was recognized as being of sufficient value to have a designated spot. We were placed close to some big sound camps, and across from the Spank Bank… and interesting answer to prayer about where to be placed! Embracing the opportunity, we continued to wash feet to the amazement of many, sharing with folks who were interested what moved us to do so. We probably washed at least 300 pairs. In 2015, we were placed near the heart of the Center Camp neighborhood, and found people were both delighted and grateful for clean feet, and generally accepted the invitation to wash their neighbor’s feet. Giving them that opportunity proved a surprising and very enriching gift for many. Each day, all 16 chairs were occupied most of the day, with folks waiting (patiently) for their turn. We estimate that well over 1,000 folks had their feet washed. Most of those 1,000 stayed to wash someone else’s feet. Here are a few moments from my 2015 week.
Some more pictures from our time at Burning Man 2015. Over a thousand people had their feet washed and also had the opportunity to give the gift of washing feet at Burning Man this year. A lot of work and a great success!
We finally arrived and were warned at Greeters that there were 40-50 MPH wind storm gusts predicted for that evening, so batten everything down that we didn’t want to blow away. We would have multiple white-out windstorms over the next couple of setup days but made the best of it and had a great time getting everything setup for our Healing Foot Wash camp.
Kind of dusty!
Goggles and face masks came in handy
Starting to build out our shade structure
Pretty hair
Pretty hair
Dusty tents
Carol hammering in rebar in the wind storm
Core of the shade structure is erected
First part of the shade cloth assembled
Working on prepping shade cloth
Waiting out a white-out dust storm at Burning Man
White out!
Happy campers
Shade structure coming together!
Pausing for some rest
Foot wash station chairs setup
Working on setting up
Happy campers
Happy campers
Dust storm left a lot of dust!
Dusty sleeping bags inside of tent
Dust storm left a lot of dust!
Hanging out after everything is setup
Healing Foot Wash camp setup! – “But do you have a flag?”
Healing Foot Wash camp setup!
We finally made it to the playa and then proceeded to wait in line (even though we’re Early Arrival there are still thousands of folks also waiting to get in even though it’s 2 days before public entry).
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