Share your Knowledge and Creativity at 2024 Burning Man ELS!
YOU are invited to co-create the Burning Man European Leadership Summit (ELS) in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia from 4 to 7 April 2024!
We welcome contributions ranging from workshops, panels, and talks to art installations, performances, and experiences. YOUR great ideas and offerings will inspire participants, enrich the Summit experience, and help facilitate Burning Man culture in the world. Our 2024 summit theme is “BEing & Bridging: Together we Gather.”
Here are resources to help you:
- Preview of Content Submission Form Questions
- Call for Content Guide
- Call for Content FAQ
- Videos from the 2019 European Leadership Summit: https://bit.ly/2019ELSVideos
Completing this form will take 8-15 minutes per proposal.
This form will record up to one content, one performance, and one visual art proposal. If you would like to submit additional proposals, you can fill out additional forms. (We’d love it if you did!)
Email elscontent-2024@burningman.org with questions.
* Required
- Email address *
- Name *
- Phone Number
- Organization/Group
- City
- Country *
- Bio – Describe your experience and background including your Burning Man-related projects. (maximum 150-200 words) *
- Links to your website or profile
- How do you want to contribute? (You will have the opportunity to propose more contributions later.) *
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- Content Skip to question 10.
- Visual Art or Installation Skip to question 21.
- Performance Skip to question 39.
Content
Please include the following in your description:
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- Ideas and questions you want to explore
- Successes or challenges that help showcase ideas you offer in your session (for example: lessons learned on event safety from last year’s regional burn)
- Group or individual activities in your session, if any
- Expected outcomes, key takeaways, or new skills or knowledge participants can apply after attending your session
Call for content closes on 23 January 2024 at 23:59 EEST.
- Contribution Name *
- Description (max 500 words).*
- 12. Reason you want to contribute this content *
- Format * Mark only one choice.
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- Talk: Information on an important topic delivered classroom-style with time for Q&A.
- Panel: Panelists represent a range of experiences, philosophies, and approaches to a common question with a designated moderator.
- Group Discussion: A topic is presented with participants spending the majority of a session discussing in one large group or small groups.
- Dine-Around: Casual small group discussion about a topic over a meal.
- Workshop: Hands-on skill-building, collaborative learning activity (i.e. how to …)
- Wellness/Movement Activity
- Demonstration: Presentation or showcase of a project.
- Other:
- Website about events, successes, or educational challenges featured in your proposed session (if you have them).
- Duration (minutes) *
- Ideal number of participants (e.g. at least 5 and no more than 20)*
- Ideal type of room set up *
theater seating (chairs in rows)
classroom style (tables with chairs facing front)
workshop tables
open space, no furniture
other ________
- If you have presented this content elsewhere, please tell us which events.
- Co-presenters, if any (name, email address) *
- Do you have an additional contribution? * Choose one. If you have more than one of each type of content to propose, you can fill out a new form for the additional ones.
- Visual Art or Installation Skip to question 21.
- Performance Skip to question 32.
- No Skip to question 39.
Visual Art or Installation
This form will help us understand your art project, determine if it’s a good fit for the Summit, and if so, how we may be able to support you in bringing it to the ELS.
Responses are due by 1 March, 2024. Thank you!
- Project name *
- Describe your project: What does it look like? How do participants interact with it? *
- Dimensions of project (Width x Length x Height) *
- Image of the project, if you have one: Provide a link or email it to els-2024@burningman.org. This can be a sketch, diagram, photograph of the piece or a scale model, CAD design, or any other method of visual explanation.
- Website for project
- Physical installation: Please include a description of how your project is secured to a surface or ground.
- Electrical requirements, if any: Describe type of connection.
- Sound/audio component, if any: Please describe.
- Does your project involve fire? If yes, we will follow up with additional questions specifically for Fire Art. * Mark only one choice.
- YES
- NO
- How might the ELS team best support bringing your project to the Summit? (for example: volunteer support, lighting, rigging transportation, installation support)
- Do you have an additional contribution? * Choose one. If you have more than one of each type of content to propose, you can fill out a new form for the additional ones.
- Content Skip to question 10.
- Performance Skip to question 32.
- No Skip to question 39.
Performance
This form will help us understand your performance, determine if it’s a good fit for the event, and if so, how we may be able to support you in bringing it to the ELS.
Responses by 1 March 2024 are appreciated. Thank you!
- Performance name *
- Describe your performance *
- Website/link of performance: video links are great, if available. For DJs, links to sets are great.
- Technical requirements: If you have any documents that provide details (for example: stage plots, input lists, rigging plots), please email them to els-2024@burningman.org..
- Does your project involve fire? If yes, we will follow up with additional questions specifically for Fire Performance. * Mark only one choice.
- YES
- NO
- How might we best support bringing your performance to the ELS?
- Do you have an additional contribution? * Choose one. If you have more than one of each type of content to propose, you can fill out a new form for the additional ones.
- Content Skip to question 10.
- Performance Skip to question 32.
- No Skip to question 39.
Tell us more!
- This is your chance to tell us something not captured in this survey.