DATES, TICKETS AND MORE
Mark your calendars, request time off work, and get your theme camp and costumes ready for the most fabulous beach event of the year. Official event dates are January 25-27, 2019 at the same beautiful location.
Tickets are scheduled to go on sale in middle of July. We are working out final budgets and cost estimates so we can offer you tickets at prices that keep the event sustainable by the community and for the community.
Recap of 1-day celebration – We burnt the effigies!
One-day Love Burn celebration was held on Saturday, April 28, 2018. The Hands of Love and the Globe were still standing. High winds were great for shooing off mosquitoes but were horrible for burning large structures. 500+ amazing Love Burners joined us as we celebrate with friends and spend the night with fire dancers, poetry with O, Miami’s Poetry Festival and burning of the effigies.
It was an entirely new event to plan with permits, insurance, fire department, venue rental, and cost more than $18,500. Ticket sales and donations covered costs. Your involvement made the event a “cost-zero” event, meaning it broke even. Woo hoo! Thanks for your help in working together as a community to solve an unexpected problem.
Thank you for creating The Love Burn!
We are so thankful to each and every participant at The Love Burn 2018.
Participation was a step up from even previous years with the amount of Volunteering, Art, Music, Costumes, Theme Camps and more. Love Burners bring their best, most innovative art glowing with positive energy. We cannot thank you enough for bringing everything you brought to Historic Virginia Key Beach in Miami, Florida. Despite some pretty powerful and constant winds, theme camps were set up, big art was built and music pumped through the airwaves from day to night and lasted through beautiful sunrise experiences. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Love Burn Effigies. Photo by Karli Evans.
In The NEWS
Yes, we made the news again and again. You, your art and your energy were shared with the world in a fun, positive way. Newspeople were taken on tours by our amazing host so they could see and hear what magic you brought without interfering with your event experience.
Featured in Miami New Times pre-event
The Love Burn Brings Burning Man to South Florida
Glen Gray, lead event organizer at Virginia Key Beach Park’s Love Burn, is riding around in a golf cart, greeting old friends and assessing the progress of the park’s transformation. By the end of the week, the park, now just bare bones and building blocks of colorful circus-like tents, will be transformed into another world, or more accurately, dozens of worlds.
“Narnia,” “The Temple of Love,” and “The Landing of the Mothership” are just some of the names of the utopias that will be constructed by the time the park opens for revelers this Friday night…. by Celia Almeida | January 22, 2018. Read more.
Love Burn Brought Group Hugs, Raver Fashion, and Dinosaur Installations to Virginia Key
“The group hugs are the first clue there are definitely some genuine connections — whether artificially enhanced by touchy love drugs. Everywhere you turned, groups of people were hugging and lying in stoned cuddle puddles under fire-lit geodesic domes on the sands of Virginia Key Beach Park. Couples made out on the grass next to fire installations. Others raved beneath a jungle gym crafted for an adult dance party. Attendees dressed as those they wish to be in daily life — whether in animal costumes, rave-wear, or partially nude — creating a world where burning art installations takes precedence over the outside world…” by Celia Almeida | January 29, 2018. Read more.
Miami New Times Mention #3 – Woo Hoo!
The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Miami has far too unique a nightlife to sit around at the same house parties or in the same clubs week after week. If you’re looking for a new adventure this weekend, the Love Burn at Virginia Key Beach Park promises a psychedelic Burning Man experience all weekend long, right here in South Florida.
PHOTO TOUR by Journalist
Burning Man brought its regional world fair to Historic Virginia Key Beach January 26 through 28 for a Miami-style Love Burn in one of the few U.S. cities still comfortable this time of year. Burners were invited to re-imagine the world we live in as they wish it were, while contributing to a uniquely communal and creatively constructed festival experience. Photography by Karli Evans. See pictures.
The Love Burn, South Florida’s Burning Man, reigniting on Virginia Key
“The Love Burn, for the uninitiated, is South Florida’s version of the massive Burning Man arts festival that attracts revelers every August to the scorching desert of Black Rock City, Nev. Virginia Key won’t be nearly that blistering, but it will get hot: The Love Burn is three days of off-the-grid community fun, sun salutations, costumes, circus-like tents, performance art and parlor games.” Read more.
by Phillip Valys | January 23, 2018
Now onto the office stuff:
The Census – Tell us what you think, spent, and could improve on.
Next Meeting: FAQ and Your input desired. Join us for the monthly Thursday night call at 7:30pm EST on the 2nd Thursday of the month. Details on bottom of this page.
Your Facebook Group (run by you and your Love Burn friends – no affiliation to Love Burn)
PICTURES on Facebook – Your media share page. Please email us your photos to volunteers@theloveburn.com with your name so we can properly credit you.
Share Your Photos
Did you take some awesome photos? Please send them to us. Try to put your name on the file image so we can credit you when Burning Man or media ask to use your photos. Email us at volunteers@theloveburn.com
Check out photos by your friends on FB. If you want a photo removed, please PM the poster directly then email volunteers@theloveburn.com. We are just volunteers with only so much time to mediate. 🙂
Next Meeting
FAQ and Your input desired.
Join the next VIRTUAL MEETING:
Q&A MEETING: 2nd Thursdays of month at 7:30pm EST (30-60 minute call)
DATES: Thursday, March 8, April 12, May 10, June 14, July 12, August 9, September 13, October 11
Dial-in Number: (515) 739-1030, Access Code: 884-355-704#
Conference Call Page: http://freeconferencecall.com/wall/loveburn
Team in-person meeting slated for Saturday, March 10th in Fort Lauderdale. Details to be announced.
$how me the money!
Want to see where your ticket dollars went? If you sponsored an art project, then you got to see it, interact with it, play with it and take a hundred photos, but….if you bought a ticket, where did the money go?
The list is long and financials will be posted online soon. But just for reference, your ticket dollars went to venue rental, fencing, wristbands, gifts, porta-potties, bathroom cleaning, venue clean up, fire department, city permits, insurance, generators, propane, fuel, security, medical support, and much, much more. We tried to be frugal, but lots of little costs add up to one very large bill. We could not have done it without your countless hours of volunteer work.
PHOTOS
We love pictures. Please share your with us. Be sure to include your name so we can credit you.
