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The summer after my first Burn in 2013, I endeavored to give something back to the DC Burner community, and found an opportunity that also lay at the intersection of my work as a Producer as well as being involved with a storytelling organizations as a storyteller and board member. So when applications for a performing arts festival in 2014 opened, I applied to present the Ten Principles )’( storytelling project.

The Ten Principles themselves were an essential factor in the process. Radical Inclusion informed the casting process, in that anyone who wanted to participate could, once they committed. So it was first come, first serve. Gifting informed what we did with the percentage of box office revenue we received. And in addition to gifting our time, we gifted ticket sales to first-time Burners, audience members planning on going to Black Rock City for the first time.

So over the four years, we’ve gifted a total of roughly 3,500 dollars to 29 Burngins to help with their first Burn, whether it went to travel expenses, supporting an art project, or anything else they needed or wanted to for their first trip, or even helping pay for ASL interpreters for the show in 2016.

And while 2017 would see the fourth and final production as part of this annual performing arts festival, it would be the first time we would bring true stories from DC Burners to Black Rock City.

So join us for a second year of DC burners telling true stories about life in the District of Columbia, and how our experience at Burns and with the Ten Principles inform our lives.