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Volunteer Tickets on Sale Now!

6/15/2026

 
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Discounted (12+ hours of volunteering) and VIP (8+ hours of volunteering) tickets are on sale today!
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If you volunteered 8 or more hours in 2025, you should have an email from LLC in your inbox with a link.
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If you volunteered for 8 or more hours in 2025 and did not get an email, email the LLC so they can get that sorted!


More info on the ticketing page!

Summer Town Hall Wrap-Up

6/13/2026

 
While we got off to a bit of a rocky start with an unavoidable delay, we had an excellent turn out both at the venue and streaming on Discord! Here's what went down:

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Your leads for 2026
CITY 
Batcave City AFs: Guapo and Enabler
City Planning: Exo 
City Mapping: Professor 
Earth Guardian: Off Limits 
Land Prep: HazMat 
Site Ops: Radio 
Theme Camps: Morning Star 
Zone Guide: Toast 

ART 
Batcave Art AF: Viv

Art Projects: Necrotic 
DMV: Peach Rings 
META: Dirk 
Procession: Nick Pryde 
Production: Skyler 

MEDIA 
Batcave Art AF: Viv
Information Management: Viv 
Survival Guide: Princess Nip Queen 
Tech Lead: Bun ​
PARTICIPANTS 
Batcave Art AF: MakeItSo
Events: Raptor 
Greeters: PossumDaddy 
Ice: Cam 
Parking: MakeItSo 
Volunteer Coordinator: Goldfish 

SAFETY 
Batcave Art AFs: J-Cakes and Snapshot
Echelon: CatBird 
Fire: Handy 
Fire Art Safety: Senator Hot Stuff 
Gate: KamKam 
MEAT: Grit 
Perimeter: Shadowcat 
Radio: Carabeaner 
Rangers: Payull 
Sanctuary: QwnBri 
Sound Marshall: Bunni ​

Temple and Effigy Proposals 
We had so many wonderful and well thought out proposals - it was so hard to choose! But you know... we had to. ​



TEMPLE WINNER: DRAGON
A large half-circle bench with a dragon looming over, wings open, shielding the inside
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​EFFIGY WINNER: LLAMALAND TAVERN 

A large air-conditioned tavern with tables and chairs that can transform into a house of "cards" for the burn. “Cards” can be rated by participants using burnable materials! 
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LLC Update 
Join the LLC! They need interns!
What does an intern do?
  • Meet virtually approximately once a week 
  • Help resolve grievances and hone processes 
  • Be available and baseline onsite during the burn for any LLC needs 
Feel free to reach out to the LLC with any questions! ​

Adopting the Burning Man Ten Principles 
The community voted to adopt the Burning Man Ten Principles! Here's what they are:
  • Radical Inclusion 
  • Decommodification 
  • Gifting 
  • Radical Self-Reliance 
  • Communal Effort ​
  • Radical Self-Expression 
  • Civic Responsibility 
  • Leaving No Trace 
  • Participation 
  • Immediacy
We also added the addition of core Myschievia principles: Consent and Playful Mischief ​

Becoming an Official Regional Burn 
The community also voted to become an Official BMORG Regional Burn! Everything about Mys will remain the same, we will just be on the list of Official Regional Burns which gains us access to:
  • Possible legal support 
  • Possible grant funding 
  • Discoverability 
  • Ability to use trademarked materials 
  • Lead support and documentation
We still need to get sponsored by another regional before this takes place, but LLC is reaching out to see who would love to sponsor us. ​

Ticket update 
Emails will be all be sent for discounted (12+ hours of volunteering) or VIP (8+ hours of volunteering) tickets by Monday 6/15. Email LLC if you still don't have an email by Monday 6/15. 
  • Ticket Sales for VIP begin June 15  and go through August 31.
  • Ticket Sales for GA begin July 1.

Lead updates 
META will need builders! Sign ups should be ready mid-July.
Land Prep will need help with land improvements during work weekends. Stay tuned for dates!
Volunteer for Earth Guardians and keep the site MOOP-free! ​

Tribal Cities updates
The Tribal Cities volunteer app is currently being updated. There should be a new version ready for the community by July 15th (with a Batcave testing edition ready July 1).

WHEW! We covered a lot!
​Stay tuned for updates about META sign ups, work weekends, and volunteering updates. Thanks to everyone for participating!

Summer Town Hall This Saturday!

6/8/2026

 
Don't forget to email those Effigy and Temple proposals to Batcave

The final appearance of Mys 2025 lost and found will be at this town hall. If you think you left something behind, show up and grab it!

Aside from Effigy and Temple presentations and voting, we'll also be voting on a couple of important issues we'd love the community to give their informed input on -

GUIDING PRINCIPALS
Myschievia's eight guiding principals are:
  • Unity in Diversity
  • Consent
  • Solidarity
  • Accountability
  • Stewardship
  • Playful Mischief
  • Liminality
  • Self-Organization
You can read more about what those mean near the middle of the page here.

We'll be voting on whether to adopt BMORG's ten principals:
  • Radical Inclusion
  • Decommodification
  • Gifting
  • Radical Self-reliance
  • Communal Effort
  • Radical Self-expression
  • Civic Responsibility
  • Leaving No Trace
  • Participation
  • Immediacy
(We would also be adding Consent as our 11th principal.)
You can read more about the BMORG Principals here: https://burningman.org/about-us/10-principles/

BECOMING A BMORG OFFICIAL REGIONAL BURN
We'll also be voting on whether or not we want to become an official Burning Man Regional Burn. Here are some reasons why we're interested:
  • Leadership Support
  • Discoverability
  • Legal support*
  • Financial grants*
  • Access to resources like safety and operational models and documentation
  • Use of trademarked terms and intellectual property
*Potential - not guaranteed.

If we get a positive response from the community, the only conditions we don't currently meet is a sponsorship from an existing regional and the adoption of the BM Ten Principals above. We have a plan to seek out a sponsor after the vote.

What do y'all think?
Let us know how you feel and then come to Summer Town Hall to vote about it!

Deep Ellum Art Company and streaming in the Myschievia Discord server
2pm Saturday June 13

​See you there!

Effigy and Temple Submissions Wanted!

6/3/2026

 
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Don't forget to submit your Effigy and Temple proposals to present at the Summer Town Hall!

You don't have to know how to put it together - just put together a quick presentation of your idea, talk about it at Summer Town Hall (in-person or virtually), and the META team can work with you if yours gets chosen.


So put together a presentation, email it to Batcave, and show up at Summer Town Hall to present it!
Things to keep in mind for your ideas:
Accessibility: Make sure all burners, even those without the ability to climb a ladder or stairs, can participate in the art.
Feasibility: Try to keep it in reasonable terms as if it can be made structurally sound, built by human hands, and within a decent budget.
Environmental impact: We can't use pressure treated wood or chemical-based paints or dyes.
Size and portability: Effigy must be no larger than 20’x20’x20’ at the time of incineration. The structure must be modular & transportable in 2 26’ box trucks. Temple: must be no larger than 12’x12’x12’ at the time of incineration. The structure must be modular and transportable in 1 15’ box truck and must be able to be relocated from the temple site to the burn scar.

Start sending in your ideas and don't forget to attend Summer Town Hall on June 13 @ 2pm to check out the ideas and vote on them!
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