Burning Man are partly sponsored by the Burning Man Project. Burning Man Burning Man is an annual event in the western United States at Black Rock City – a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada, approximately north-northeast of Reno. The late summer event is described as an experiment in community and art, influenced by ten main principles: radical inclusion, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy and leave no trace. The event takes its name from its culmination, the symbolic ritual burning of a large wooden effigy ("The Man") that traditionally occurs
World Ski and Snowboard Festival World Ski and Snowboard Festival The World Ski & Snowboard Festival (WSSF) is an annual celebration of snowsports, music, arts and mountain culture. The Festival is held each April in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada and has been recognized as the largest annual winter sports and music festival in North America. It has been called the snowsport industry's version of Burning Man. The World Ski & Snowboard Festival was created by Doug Perry in 1996. The festival was developed in a partnership between Perry, Tourism Whistler and Whistler/Blackcomb. In 2006 the ownership of the festival was consolidated in a joint acquisition