WHO WE ARE
A Community-First Burning Man Camp
Veteran-Led, Virgin-Friendly
For over 10 years, we’ve attracted an ever more amazing community gathering on the playa in some form or another.. HEX Collective, Camp Awesomeness, Disco Bomb… Together, we’ve created a community of creativity, accountability and awesomeness — striving toward ever more beautiful and fun camper and visitor experiences on the playa.
We gather on the playa to connect, laugh, grow, dance and share! A family reunion of friends, old and new, normally scattered across the globe, but together for 1-2 weeks, in this crazy desert we call home.
- We’re a very international group, with no one home base. Once you’re in Sol Family, you’ll have friends in every city.
- Sol Fam come in all shapes, types, personalities and ages (but please note that 2026 is a kids-free year for us).
- We don’t provide tickets, but we have a robust network to help you find a ticket. We currently have campers with extra tickets ready to share with new incoming campers.
- We come together to build. We’ve gotten pretty great at creating a space that’s relatively comfortable in the middle of the desert. Everyone takes part in building and taking down camp and leaving no trace. Read about what camp provides (and doesn’t provide) on the Apply page.
- We come together to give. Read about Our Offerings.
- We come together to dance, share, hang, and venture out. We also have camper activities (planned and spontaneous) that all are welcome to take part in (or do your own thing, that’s cool too.) Wandering art tours, photo shoots, sunrises in deep playa… you get the drift.
- We come together to eat. Our (optional but awesome) daily camp dinners (by campers for campers) are consistently most voted “favorite part of camp”.
Our values are closely aligned with the 10 Principles of Burning Man written by co-founder Larry Harvey. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it has organically developed since the event’s inception. We have represented our values here in the same fashion and intention.
We’re a growing tribe, a dynamic open system which recognizes that new energy fuels our momentum. We humbly and ecstatically invite others into our tent and hearts, to play, share, grow, dance, and co-create with us.
We are a tribe but we are individuals first. In recognition of this fact, we are committed and embrace the mantra of self care. It is important to be whole before you can help and be of service. We encourage and provide resources to maximize the individual strength of each one of our members.
We honour the time and energy it takes to put together our camp and therefore we are committed to each other to help with the planning, building, striking of camp. We are also committed to the greater mission that is BRC and the leading edge cultural movement that is the BM community.
We are a group of givers on and off the playa, fully aware that bestowal upon others is an infinitely rewarding experience, and that the value of gifting is undefinable and the terms unconditional.
The health and safety of our camp members and our guests is paramount. In fact, it’s the third-most important thing. We are committed to creating a safe and fun space for all residents of BRC. We engage our neighbours and greater community to co-create a space designed for comfort and safe play and expression.
We fiercely uphold the “pack it in – pack it out’ mantra and we are committed to leaving our canvas, campground, playa home and wherever else we roam cleaner than how we found it. All of our members are committed to MOOP patrols in camp and when out on the playa.
We believe participation is not a luxury in that our spirit calls us to it and our inner expansion demands it. We hold supportive and encouraging space for one another as we answer this call. Everyone is unique and has special qualities. We identify those talents and place our members in roles that allow them to shine and to flourish.
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts and enthusiasms of the individual as well as the exponential offerings that a collaborating group can create together.We encourage and honour the expression of the individual within our highly collaborative setting and take great care in walking this balance. We are a collection of unique eclectic artists from all over the world, an international camp from a vast array of backgrounds with an incredible scope of heart-centered creativity. One of our primary values is to fiercely hold space, through our offerings and presence, for our guests and the greater community to practise radical self expression in any way that is safe and respectful to others.
We embrace the moment and the ongoing dissolution of hesitancy as a barrier to discovery, expansion and connection. We encourage everyone to be fully present and to say yes to everything that invites their spirit, and to push our own boundaries through new connections and new experiences. While we’re creating amazing memories, we remind ourselves that reality only exists in the now, and that this value above all others can change the world.