Saturday Events 2025

Please stop by for some fresh french press coffee and contemplative dialogue in the mornings.

We’re cooking up a hot and tasty breakfast – eggs, bacon, pancakes, coffee, and potentially other delicious items! Served until supplies last!

Please Join us at Stay Gold for the 2nd annual Honk Off! Prizes for the Loudest Honk!!

Come enjoy Irish Coffees, and other craftful coffee cocktails with a Wish, served up by your favorite Genie! Your drink is my command. *Prepared to order and with or without alcohol.

The Zookeepers at Camp Zoo dedicate this time to help you show your allegiance to your spirit animal by tattooing (temporarily) on your body. We have a range from small flash sizes to large arm/leg pieces, while supplies last. This event is suitable for all Zoo Burners. Come get Tat-ZOO’d and unleash your inner animal for the remainder of the burn.

Come join the playful animal frolics. This event is an exploration into mindful movement, play, and connection. It’s a great activity for adults, and greater for adults who want a fun exercise to do with their children!

Ever wanted to learn how to sign that one word you have always been curious about or just randomly wondered how to sign this or that? Now is your chance to meet our deaf guru and learn any sign of your choosing… whether it is your favorite animal, a feeling, a Burning Man principle, or something totally random.

Pancakes?! At Flaketown?! Pancaketown?! Heck yeah! We even have vegan pancakes in addition to our normal ones.

Join us at Camp TIKI for our popular late-morning gathering over delicious fresh-cut fruit to snack on while enjoying great company, chat, & music to get your day going. Friday’s Fruity Brunch will feature a surely baffling musical journey through the decades with TIKI’s own DJ KRM. Saturday will be easy-going to the tune of chill beats & vibes.

Bring your Magic decks, your board games, or anything else you’d like to play and find a partner(s) to group up with! We’ll have some games on site and may bring some Commander decks to share.

Green Your Burn wants your recyclables! Drop off aluminum cans (uncrushed), food scraps for composting, empty propane canisters, vapes/e-cigs, and new this year dead batteries, cigarette butts, and glass/plastic beverage containers with a NY $0.05 deposit (non-redeemables will be returned to donor). Proceeds will be donated to 2026 PDF art grants.

Come do some daytime flow with us! And if you want to learn some double staff or poi, I’d be happy to teach a few things. Unless you know more than I do – in which case, you can teach me! All levels welcome.

Grab your wand and let’s make levi-magic! Join us at Camp Du Jour for a flow session. Other props welcome!

Join us for aerials on the lyra and lollipop AND partner acro jam. All levels welcome, wear close fitted clothing/leggings. Yoga mats helpful!

We have instructions, corn husks, string and wooden letter beads. And I’m sure you can find some sticks. If you would like to leave yours with us we burn them Sunday evening after the Temple Run.

If you find yourself rewarded with one of our detention slips then congratulations, you’re still disappointing authority. Luckily we’re not the authority we just like bad behavior! Whether you’re the jock, the nerd, the slut, or a bit of each, bring your slip for a sip of some no no juice & maybe you’ll finally learn a lesson @ Camp Field Trippin’!

Discover the healing power of eye gazing, as well as the tantalizing medicine of authentic intimacy. Who are you when the mask comes off? See and be seen in all your glory while making new friends.

It’s time to go pick up your ice!
Ice is available for $3 per 7lb bag. If you pre-purchased online, now is also the time to go pick up your ice. Ice sales are only available Friday, Saturday & Sunday; between 11am – Noon and 5 – 6pm. Payment through credit/debit card only; NO CASH
You can buy online here: peacock.firepony.org

Celebrate the awakening of a new day at the Carrot Flower Castle garden lounge. Lay about the flowers whilst sipping bubbly kombucha and bathing in live electronic astral sounds.

Get ready to unleash your inner goofball at the ultimate googly eye extravaganza! Join fellow creators for a playful afternoon where the only limit is how many eyes you can glue. We’ll be providing mountains of googly eyes (all sizes and styles), glue, and an assortment of stunna shades ready for embellishment!

Join us on the cutting room floor to create a one-of-a-kind button/pin. Peruse our mags, scraps, and stickers for an interesting image, layer a few prints, draw something from scratch, or come with your own fodder for the button press. Dirty mags available to make smuttons! (Kids, please come with parents/guardians-because scissors and smut mags)

Authentic Relating (AR) is the practice of freely expressing your true experience to create connections based on who you really are. Authentic Relating games create a safe, intentional space – rooted in play and supported by clear boundaries – to create meaningful and enjoyable connections to self and other.

Want to help keep your fire-spinning friends safe?
Learn how to be a fire safety!
Topics include:
• how to let spinners know if –oops!– they’re on fire!
• how to extinguish people and props with a fire blanket
• how to not get burned in the process
We’ll wrap up with a hands-on opportunity to practice extinguishing props and people.

Join us for a blend of creativity and advocacy! Stand for issues that matter to our community by writing postcards to the Senate. Enjoy delicious snacks and express your political frustrations (via postcards and more!). We’ll provide all the materials, templates, and mail the postcards on your behalf. Let’s snacketize our activism together!

Got a bold opinion? A spicy theory? A totally unnecessary hill you’re ready to die on? Welcome to the most ridiculous roundtable on the playa! Come share your hottest take—or challenge someone else’s. This is your moment to stir the pot. Applause, laughter, and dramatic gasps encouraged
(No actual debate skills required)

Come to Camp Tasty to make Shrinky Dinks!! I will supply the dinks and some necklace cords, together we can watch them shrink in the camp oven. Bring any shapes you would like to trace for your shrinky dink, some templates will also be provided for tracing.

Would you like a buddy for your adventures? Or decor for your extremities? Fear not! Supplies and directions are provided to assist you in creating a cool, silly creature! We will use fun patterned socks and the works to personalize your puppet! Once created, you can choose to revisit the camp to have your very own puppet show! Come on by!

Plant seeds of change- literally and metaphorically! Swap guerrilla gardening tips, trade revolutionary seeds, and craft protest art to radically express yourself. Whether you’re an activist or just curious, and join us to grow, connect, and resist with joy. Let’s make resistance irresistible!

Let’s talk about it.

This is an acting audition. Don’t let the song lyrics fool you. There will be no singing. You will be given sides to perform as a monologue. I want to see your dramatic talent. Search for James McNicholas for examples.

Hi, I’m Chris! A glittery poi spirit told me I must teach everyone to spin, so here we are. Come learn sock poi basics with me—whether you’re brand new or want to level up your flow. Poi provided or BYOS (Bring Your Own Socks)! No fire, just spins, smiles, and probably some giggles.

Chef Samir is doing it again!! Hot, tasty gyros served with love and some zest by the Camp Familia crew.. Bring your hungry tummies and beautiful smiles and enjoy some time with the most international camp at PDF. Be self reliant and bring a plate, please.

Consent. Is. Sexy! Words and phrases will be called instead of numbers. NOTE: 1. Limited to the first 30 people, one card each; 2. When someone yells “Bingo!”, KEEP PLAYING YOUR CARD, because there are *several* ways to win, and YOU may be next! Prizes will be awarded! (Cards and marking implements will be provided.)

Come one come all to Playa Jugging Club to Juggle clubs and other things like balls. With 20 years of experience teaching and a big bag of salty balls I’ll have you on your way to jugging in no time. If you get 6 catches the balls are yours. Or just come watch the juggling.

Bend, twist, and shape your way to a stunning bracelet in this beginner-friendly wirework class! Learn simple techniques to create a custom piece that’s sleek or bold—your style, your call. You’ll leave with a finished piece and the skills to make more. All tools, materials, and instruction provided.

Come peruse our fine selection of clothes, burnwares, books, charging accs, knickknacks & more that are a sure value to all burners alike! PDF Burn Bucks are available to volunteers from shift leads, in the WWW & in portos. Get your butt over here and pet Noodle, the Bodega Cat (not for sale) & Re-Commodify Your Burn Today! Hours: Fri-Sun 1-3pm

Lets Dance, Contact Improvisation style. This rolling, amorphous, interactive movement practice explores sharing of weight, relationship with gravity and awareness of physical & energetic connection with others. We’ll start with some warm up exercises and relax into an open jam! Different teachers each day!

Band ‘ten HUT! 76 Trombones led the big parade… but they got eaten by bees and now all I have is some kazoos. Come join the BoF Musical Moving Mayhem Machine and PI Services LImited! Band practice is Fri/Sat day at 1pm, with a performance/Parade from BoF to the Burn before conclave. Other parade acts are HEAVILY encouraged.

Have you seen the over-commercialization and exorbitant cost of Dan Power Spay lately?!? And these tariffs certainly aren’t helping! ALL HAIL POWER SPAYER OF THE DANS. If you love Dan Power Spay as much as Mr. No/Know (or want to know what the hell he’s babbling on about), then stop on down to learn how to make your own for penis on the dollhair!

I am bringing all my extra kittens from the winter for FREE!! Take all you want!

Girl, do you want the 411 on playa drama? Need to know the 8 secret steps to have the fattest and juiciest cheeks? Want to see the most chaotic and ill-prepared guest interviews to never grace your television screens? Then you better keep your ears and eyes PEELED for the hottest one episode talk show of the season! Run time: 1 hr. (with ads)

The most impactful things we do in our life outside of burning obviously is how we make our money where we work and how we spend our money or what people do we keep in power. Come participate in our guided discussion.

What’s better than belting your heart out at karaoke? Belting your heart out with a beverage in hand! In honor of Radish, Balls is throwing a complementary complimentary happy hour RIGHT NEXT DOOR! (Assuming the City Planning Overlords grant us their placement blessing. If not, we’ll just blame Mercury in retrograde.) Drink Deep, Sing Sweet!

Attention sweet sluts, fruity fairies, and avaricious allies! Sashay your way to feast on our fabulous fruits. A bountiful and beauteous buffet awaits, so come sample our smorgasbord of succulent seasonal sweetness. Ready your mouth to fill up with a jammy juicy jackpot to sustain and succor your burn. Every day at 2 pm.

Radish is back, and so is karaoke! Take advantage of our extensive song list and request your favorite song, or just hang out and cheer on your friends and neighbors. Don’t be shy – we’re all rooting for you!

Come on out & show what spanking or tactile toys you have made or found, to the group. Learn what you already have around the house for spanking & whatnot. Emphasis on items from the Asian supermarket household isle.

Calling drum circle elders and drum circle beginners to learn from each other in this interactive workshop. We will share our experiences around the circle and chat about drum circle etiquette. Discussing techniques and making some musical connections. An inclusive space for all levels to learn, grow, and let the beat unite us.

Is your playa ensemble missing that finishing touch? Needing that final piece to complete your look while you prance around playa? We have the perfect add! Come to Camp Field Trippin’ & get your craft on! Want to flaunt your newly fashioned attire on the dance floor? Head over for our nighttime dance parties and show ‘em what you’re working with!

From bright-eyed spacefarers to dystopian techno-blights: bring your favorite short sci-fi story to share in a classic read-aloud. Aim for 7 minutes or less. If you want to share a story but would prefer not to read aloud, a reader will be provided at no cost.

Do you get a thrill out of making people laugh? Got jokes? Have a poem that’ tickle our funny bone? Do you have a silly passage from a book you wanna share? Then prepare your puns, dust off your embarrassing stories, & let hilarity reign. Hop on our stage & become the class clown! Prove to your friends that you’re funny & not just full of hot air!

Is it too hot? Are your camp mates being uncooperative? Did your water pack spring a leak? Join us for Kvetch (complaining) sesh and be received by one of two exciting group responses to your complaint. Kvetch your heart out! Feel seen. Note: while this is intended to be therapeutic, this is not therapy.

Along with our Flat Earth Happy Hour today, we’re also having our annual Caramel Apple Sangria Happy Hour! Yes, it’s the sangria that got the owner of Pegasus Farms completely trashed during Constellation Burn! It’s delicious, I promise. Bring a cup!

Nothing fancy. Just an iPad, a mic and an amp. Choose any song and it probably exists in Karaoke format.

THE EARTH IS FLAT! Or at least our shots are! Come join Spacebar at their annual Flat Earth Happy Hour where all shots are served on plates! Bring a plate! We’re serving up 5 different shots for you to enjoy this year. Talk space and nebulous ideas with us! BRING A PLATE! Cups are boring.

Join us for Acro Yoga! We’ll go over some acro activities and then open the space to a jam!

I composed and produced a 25 minute rock opera that complements Apocalypse Bead Feats, the radical gifting game. During the performance you may be offered brie in order to practice brie-commodification.

Think you have a handle on general trivia? This game has questions on common knowledge about history, science, pop culture with a twist: each one is followed by a surprising connection to deaf history, culture, or community. Come solo or with a team. Trivia questions will be written, so reading ability is required.

It’s back! Come by Camp du Jour and make your very own DIY Floral Suncatcher. Back and better than last year (MOAR FLOWERS..SHADE!!!..ORGANIZATION?! woahh) Choose from an assortment of hand pressed and dried flowers/leaves and make your very own DIY Suncatcher using flowers, an embroidery hoop and contact paper. The possibilities are endless!

Explore deep states of relaxation and awareness through continuous, rhythmic breathing. This guided session will help you quiet the mind, expand your consciousness, and reach a heightened meditative state. No experience needed.

This all-levels friendly jam is a bit different than most. Lyrics and chords (with uke chord diagrams!) will be displayed on a screen while you play and sing along with the group to popular songs! Even students from our beginner class will be able to play along. Bring your own instruments or borrow one of our ukes or drums, or just come sing along!

Have you always wanted to know what it would be like to be dominated by Clippy? Do you fantasize about were-whales? Now is your time to delight and horrify with weird erotica readings. Bring your own short reading or just bask in the oddity. No readings involving consent violations and keep it under 8 mins.

Join Fiona and Hatter for a Gin Rat Pack cocktail party. We’ll be serving G&T, T & Lime and Bees Knees, and listening to Rat Pack Live at the Sands. The party goes until the gin is gone or the show ends.

Green Your Burn wants your recyclables! Drop off aluminum cans (uncrushed), food scraps for composting, empty propane canisters, vapes/e-cigs, and new this year dead batteries, cigarette butts, and glass/plastic beverage containers with a NY $0.05 deposit (non-redeemables will be returned to donor). Proceeds will be donated to 2026 PDF art grants.

Join us as the post-420 munchie madness turns into a culinary carnival at Camp Tasty’s legendary 4:21 Pot Luck extravaganza! A snacktopia buffet awaits your hungry soul—sweet, salty, savory, and everything in between. It’s time to tame the mischievous munchies that plague our participants! Don’t be late—the noms start at precisely 4:21pm!

It’s peak mango season so come get some mango sticky rice! We’re serving up the sweetest, stickiest, coconut-creamiest mango sticky rice on the playa! And this tropical temptation is vegan & gluten free, so everyone can indulge! Come get a sweet treat, and enjoy it while you enjoy our Fourth Annual Talent Show!!! We’ll serve until we run out!

Is there such a thing as the perfect grilled cheese sandwich? You’ll have to drop by Flaketown to find out! We’ll have vegan cheese and gluten free bread available in addition to our usual options.

After a lengthy environmental impact study, the smallest Jurassic Park is finally ready to open to the public! Come see Western Pennsylvania’s newest attraction. Marvel at how small it is. Wonder why we chose to do this in the first place. Then navigate the red tape to create your own tiniest dino park to take home!

Dig into a feast fit for a pack of hungry velociraptors! Jurassic Tarp is back with dino nuggets and cheese & mac (contains more cheese than mac). Served while supplies last!

Join us for the 3rd Annual PDF Redhead parade! We will kick off with a celebratory “High Anesthesia” cocktail/mocktail. We will celebrate ALL redheads from the fieriest flamers among us, to the faux reds. We will parade around PDF, visiting camps and encouraging them to “bring out their reds.” Redhead friends/admirers welcome!

Step into the spotlight with a celebration of creativity, courage, and pure burn magic! This is your moment to share your gift of talent with a community that thrives on radical self-expression. Sign-ups will be open at Camp Field Trippin’ and all acts are welcome! As always, we will have a prize for all our brave and talented souls!

It’s time to go pick up your ice!
Ice is available for $3 per 7lb bag. If you pre-purchased online, now is also the time to go pick up your ice. Ice sales are only available Friday, Saturday & Sunday; between 11am – Noon and 5 – 6pm. Payment through credit/debit card only; NO CASH
You can buy online here: peacock.firepony.org

Come prepare for your evenings with Happy Hour at Camp TIKI, and hang out with us at the Matt GerBar for drinks (including our popular TIKI Jungle Juice), silly bar games, music, and merriment. Perfect warmup for your night of booty shaking ahead as the sun says its farewell for the day!

Sip and swing with Camp Dreadful as we help you recharge from the days heat. Bring your bowl, bring your mug, bring your dog, whatever. We’ll even pour it in your mouth if you promise not to sue!

A visit to the Krusty Krab makes everyone happy! Join the Krusty Krew as we serve up some smiles! Come by to enjoy a Krabby Patty! We will have vegetarian patties available as well.

Get everything you need to be in the right state of mind for burn night. Need some snake juice from our bar? Treat yo self. Need some glitter and accessories for burn night? Treat yo self. Need to get something off your chest at our town forum? Treat yo self. Encouragement to go do the thing? Treat yo self. Best day of the year!

The final chapter (and my personal favorite). Drive your DeLorean, ride your horse, choo choo that steam train that can also fly for some reason to Camp Friends Of Ours for the grand finale! Cheer for the good guys! Boo the bad guys! (Showing earlier in the evening, so we can all get to the burn.)

Have you been itching to light up your props? Whether they’re fire or LED, come spin with us!
If you’re looking to spin fire, please find one of our on-duty fire deputies in order to be added to our cipher and guided through our protocol. Thursday is likely to be LED-only unless we get active interest, but come find us, and we can discuss.

The TIKI Fire Circle is in action again for 2025! Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the space with the zeal & talent you’ve always showered it with! We will have a fuel dump setup & safeties on hand if you need us while you fling those beautiful flames to the blasting beats you know us so very well for!

Tease it, freeze it, crank it to 11, and step back in time at Daisy Camp’s Saturday 80s Night right after the burn. Dammit Janet is in the booth with the beats, and the bar is slinging bevs with pickles and beets! Wear your best 80s attire, and remember: The higher the hair, the closer to heaven!

Zookeeper KASPR makes his annual appearance at PDF. If you haven’t already seen his performances, you’re in for a WILD treat. KASPR brings not just a finely crafted electronic music performance, but most importantly, a live-light-synced show performance to make a deeply cinematic experience. Come as a friendly burner, and leave as a friendly ghost.

Slow down and step back in times with classic black-and-white silent films featuring legends like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Watch how storytelling comes alive through gestures and movement alone. A cozy, visual experience perfect for all ages. Bring a blanket, bring a friend, and enjoy the magic of movies before sound.

The 1960s liquid light show is a live show… created while you watch! Projected psychedelic imagery, similar to the visuals used by ‘60s psychedelic bands, will include imagery produced using liquid dyes and colored oils, augmented by slides, videos, and laser patterns. Tune in and turn on to the psychedelic imagery and music of the ‘60s!

We’ve traveled light-years across the cosmos to bring you an intergalactic party! Come groove with vibes so silly, they could only come from another planet! Wear your space suit or your zaniest alien garb, then blast off into a dance party that’s out of this world! So, grab your crew & get ready to dance while our DJ’s take you to a new galaxy!

A series of x-rated images will be presented shortly after Professor Willie’s Retro 1960s Liquid Light Show. Willie has taken some of his photographs of nude models and run them through a generative AI system. The results are anatomically bizarre, unsettling, erotic, and thought provoking. Over 150 images chosen for their aesthetic (?) qualities!