Pleasure Garden History 101

Created 11/28/06
This site is for those associated with the Burningman theme camp, Pleasure Garden.

Camp Name: Pleasure Garden

Our Mission: To provide a little slice of paradise on the "Playa" devoted to relaxation and pleasure of the senses.

Our History:
In 2006, Spatch and her dad, ConstabEL, began a new theme camp at Burning Man named The Sprawl. Determined to provide a necessary service for the citizens of Burning Man, they created the Sunscreen Station and convinced 25 random people from around the country to share their vision. The camp was an overwhelming and unparalleled success: the Sunscreen Station was popular, everyone in the camp got along peacefully, and the location on-playa at 7:30 and Destiny could not have been more perfect!!

Following the event, several members of The Sprawl were inspired to design an even more ambitious camp for 2007, which would include the Sunscreen Station, be related to the year's "Green Man" theme, and provide a more welcoming communal space for campers to interact. Thus, Pleasure Garden was born.

The camp was a huge success! All who were there participated in numerous ways and discovered a new Playa family. We celebrated our first camp wedding, had members flying in from across the map, and tried too many things to list.

For the 2008 burn, our new Mayor of Pleasure Garden is the fantastic Thunderhawk!! He is a second time burner with the greatness of the play dust running through his veins... Willing to take on the challenge (and all of the countless hours of preparatory work) to get the camp up and running for another year. (And like every other year, there is going to be lots of help needed... So be sure to volunteer, we'd love to have you join in our fun!)

Join our Camp:
You don't have to be rich or famous to join our camp, but you do have to be friendly, easy-going, and willing to clean up after yourself! Virgins and experienced burners are welcome. We do not discriminate based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, but we DO discriminate against drama queens and high-maintenance whiners. If you'd like to join our camp or want more information, please email us!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Greetings from the NEW Mayor of Pleasure Garden

I appreciate the support from all of you!

Many ideas and many more to come I'm sure! Please post them to the Pleasure Garden tribe.

One of the new things for PG 2008 will be a $10 donation for camp costs. This will help cover website (still under construction) and domain name, sunscreen, misc items, lemonade and ice. I also hope it will discourage non-serious campers from asking for space and then not showing up.

If I remember last year we had 60 people "booked" to camp with us. I think that's a good cutoff number to have this year also.

Welcome to the Pleasure Garden

Welcome to the 2008 Pleasure Garden site!

Here you will find information about all sorts of things...

Who we are...
What we are up to for the 2008 burn...
Information and links to Burning Man resources...

And much more...

Stay posted for more updates as we get closer to the event!