Frequently Asked Questions

1. My Band wants to play at Scorched Nuts can we get comp tickets? 
   
   You want to play at SN? Super! Register your band. Now about those comps: Unfortunately we cannot comp tickets. This is a 100% volunteer event, intended to create community and art, not to make a profit. We do everything possible to keep the price as low as possible. The reason why we cannot comp tickets is if we comp your ticket someone else ends up paying more to cover your ticket. Since participating is a requirement to attend SN, we cannot comp everyone. We are all here to create art, so please no comps. We are all contributing towards Scorched Nuts, and no contribution is more valuable then another. We do offer $20 scholarship tickets to help people who cannot otherwise afford to attend. Deadline to apply is May 30th
   
   
   
2. What are the 10 Principles of Burning Man?
   
   
   1. Radical Inclusion
      Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
      
      
   2. Gifting
      Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
      
      
   3. Decommodification
      In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
      
      
   4. Radical Self-reliance
      Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
      
      
   5. Radical Self-expression
      Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
      
      
   6. Communal Effort
      Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
      
      
   7. Civic Responsibility
      We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
      
      
   8. Leaving No Trace
      Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
      
      
   9. Participation
      Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
      
      
   10. Immediacy
       Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
       
       

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