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Once a year, tens of thousands of people gather in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA to organize the Burning Man festival for community, art, performance, and creativity...

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The Burning Man festival began during the summer of 1986 when two friends at San Francisco beach wanted to organize a burning wooden doll on the beach. Immediately, this idea attracted more than 35 curious people to participate and quickly replicated it, bringing in thousands and thousands of people everywhere.

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The festival lasts seven days, running from the last weekend of August to the beginning of September, and is organized by the Burning Man project of the Burning Man nonprofit.

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To understand the impact of attending the Burning Man Festival is to understand its juxtaposition to its location and the resulting activities it creates as a social and artistic event.

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The Festival is held in Black Rock, Nevada which is considered the second flattest piece of land in the United States (first is the Salt Lake Flats in Utah). The Black Rock desert is an ancient lakebed estimated at 400 square miles in area and composed of a desolate, flat, desiccated land upon which there is nothing. No hills, no scrub, no trees, no animals. Nothing.

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In the decade and a half of presenting the Burning Man Festival, it has grown in attendance to 26,000 (as of 2000) visitors and is international in scope with attendees from just about every state in America and from at least 17 other countries.
Despite the intense and hostile nature of the Black Rock desert, people continue to attend the Burning Man Festival, and in each succeeding Festival, its total attendance increases.

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Due to the intervention of the police and the government, since 1990 the Burning Man festival moved the venue to the deserted desert of northern Nevada. Although participants have to cross a long way to reach the Black Rock desert, it is completely isolated, completely free to do what you want, and the pilgrimage in the desert is also very impressive. Participating adds enjoyment and excitement.

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The Burning Man Festival is an annual performing arts festival and has come to be acknowledged as the largest outdoor event of its kind in North America. It began in 1986 with the premise of building a sculpture of a human figure and burning it. Although the burning of a wooden effigy is a tradition that is thousands of years old, its modern evocation radiates a certain mystique and has come to be a metaphor of new beginnings and of change. The flaming sculpture has come to represent a letting go of emotional baggage in creating a 'clean sweep' from past and unwanted episodes of one's life. In the decade and a half of presenting the Burning Man Festival, it has grown in attendance to 26,000 (as of 2000) visitors and is international in scope with attendees from just about every state in America and from at least 17 other countries.