Burning Man 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 on the Saturday evening of the event.First held
Money burning which Aristippus had when he did so." Since around 2015 the UK has experienced a surge of interest in money burning. This has been noted in both the book 'The Mysterium' and in a 'Kindred Spirit' article that is reprinted in International Times. There is also a UK based magazine 'Burning Issue' that claims to be "for money burners and other destroyers of currency". An annual Mass Burn Event - where people are invited to burn money - is held at the Cockpit Theatre in London every autumn. Publicly burning money can be an act of protest or a kind