Principles Of Civic Responsibility

Communal effort acts as a principle for our community to appreciate the creative cooperation and joint effort. We strive to create, promote, and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and media that support such interactions (Midburn Ten Principles). Talking to people and making connections is easy at Midburn. The energies and vibes around are extremely uplifting which is exactly what the festival is about. I've really met some amazing people and have made such memorable experiences I will have with me for the rest of my life. My first year I ended up seeing every sunrise and sunset, my most memorable experience was watching the last sunrise sitting on top of a large structure built inside a maze on the playa made to get to the

We are committed not to leave traces of our activity wherever we gather. We clean up and seek to leave places in better shape than we found them. (Midburn Ten Principles). This principle is literal, one must collect their ash and cigarette buds, and garbage to designated recycling centers each camp has, and most people like myself tend to bring a small plastic gum container to ash in. The point of this to really make it like there we had never been there to leave nature as what it was before the

Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws. (Midburn Ten Principles). People take big efforts to help and correct others when they can. Such as respecting that photographs should not be taken unless one is asked if it is okay. As soon as I got the gates of Miburn, the first time two greeters asked everyone in the car to come outside since we were “Playa virgins” (our first time attending) and gave us the sweetest hugs and asked us to lay in the sand and make sand angels as initiation. The second year I drove into the event and one greeter jumped in the back of our car with a ukelele and he wrote, sang, and played a song on spot about us for us. Then two other greeters joined in the car and said they're coming in with us to the city and we drove in together, where they gifted our beautiful hand made shell necklaces and