Through Communal Effort

…The Entheos community brings a lot of resources for its campers to share. We do this to make the Burn less about immediate survival for our campers so that we will all have more energy to contribute to the extensive interactivity that we gift to the entire Burning Man community. To be clear, though, we are not a Burning Man hotel where you can buy a reservation, this is a high-participation theme camp where all members work together to create an amazing space and experience for others.

Tent Shade

Entheos builds over 14,000 square of ten-foot tall shade structures for those camping in tents with 15 amp power. The tops are 100% UV blocking so that your tent does not become an oven in the sun (so nice for sleeping in after a long night of adventuring). The sides are 80@ UV filtering mesh shade cloth that provides shade while still allowing some airflow. These shade structures have been Playa tested in 60mph+ winds and virtually nothing moves inside. Tents larger than 10x10 footprint will be in the aluminet shade structure.

Meals

The camp prepares two major meals per day at brunch (around 10 am) and dinner (around 5:30 pm). Healthy and delicious food with options for omnivores and vegans. This is not beans out of a can type food; our camp members who volunteer to run the kitchen are professional chefs in the default world or are skilled amateur cooks. "Best food I have ever had at Burning Man," is a commonly heard expression around camp. Entheos provides all of the food for these meals, and most people find this to be all of the food that they need at Burning Man (where people tend to eat much less than in the default world). We strongly suggest that you check our pre-planned menu (only available to our members) and bring whatever food/personal snacks you may need to supplement or replace a meal that is not of your taste, or that you might want to carry with you while out exploring Burning Man or for those late night munchies.

Showers

Entheos has shower stalls on a raised deck. Water is provided for showers and it is a camping shower bag system. Please keep in mind that in order for campers to be able to take showers, the camp's gray water tanks must be emptied by our vendor during the week. If the grey water tanks are full, the showers will be temporarily closed and campers will need to wait until the gray water tanks are emptied before the showers can be opened again. To help manage our water use/grey water, please limit the amount of water you use to 1 shower bag/bucket/tank per shower and only 1 shower a day.

Power

To lower our carbon-footprint and to minimize noise, Entheos does not allow campers to use personal generators (either stand-alone or RV) for power in camp. We do, however, bring a large scale, trailer-mounted generator to provide power to the camp infrastructure (kitchen, stage, showers, camp lighting, sound system, etc.) and we set up a power grid to provide power to RVs (30amp, 120v) and tents (15amp, 120v). There is a Power & Infrastructure Subsidy on a per housing basis to cover the cost.

Art

Entheos Community Artists Collective hosts artists with placed art installations on Playa and large-scale art in camp. We also have ample space for the installation of art created by individuals or groups who are camping with Entheos. If you have an art project that you want to bring to Entheos, please let us know.

Potable Water

Entheos brings a large amount of potable water to run the camp kitchen, which is producing over 250 meals twice a day. We are bringing communal effort to potable water and will provide water on Playa to our campers. Campers must bring their own water containers to be filled. Most campers in the past have brought 15 gallons of water in six of the 2-1/2 gallon jugs of water from Walmart that come two to a box. Our hope with this effort is to keep over 3,000 plastic jugs off of Playa as part of our Leave No Trace effort. You are able to refill your camelbacks and water bottles for drinking water, whenever you want. This is not a resource from which to refill potable water into RVs. RVs may directly pay our water vendor MECO with cash for RV water refills. Our RV owners arranged this directly with the water vendor on site and it is not coordinated by the camp.

Grey Water

Entheos collects and disposes of grey water generated by both the camp kitchen and the camp showers. Last year, this was approximately 5,500 gallons of gray water for 250 campers. To put that in perspective, 5,500 gallons is 44,000 pounds, or 22 tons, of water. Any grey water (other than kitchen and showers) produced by individual campers is the responsibility of that camper to remove from Playa.

Ceremony Space

Entheos provides a private space for camp members, and for screened, invited guests, to engage in a variety of healing modalities, whether physical, mental or spiritual. This might be: massage or other body work; sound, light, or vibro-acoustic therapy; meditation; sacred healing circles and/or shamanic work, to name a few. It is not, however, a place to hang out and party (there are plenty of other places in camp in which to do that). It is requested and expected that this ceremony area will be treated as sacred space. Active use of the space may be scheduled, either in advance or on playa, through a conversation with Logistic (Entheos Founder), or with TedX (Ceremony Coordinator) who will approve use that is both consistent with the Entheos mission and is structured within our ethics and consent policies.