Organisers say creative culture, not profits, will secure the desert festival’s future despite $20m budget shortfallBurning Man has faced its share of challenges in recent years. There were the Covid years when organizers cancelled the Nevada festival entirely, the sweltering record temperatures of 2022, and mud created by heavy rains in 2023 that trapped tens of thousands of attenders on the playa.Then last year, Burning Man tickets failed to sell out as they had every year since 2011. It was an indicator of a deep trouble for the week-long desert celebration in the form of a $20m revenue shortfall that meant “everything is now at risk”, Marian Goodell, the Burning Man Project CEO, wrote last fall. Continue reading...