US Conference of Mayors Burning Man 2018

Led by Reno Mayor and Burner Hillary Schieve and a team from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a group of mayors from around the country visited Black Rock City in 2018.

“Seeing Radical Inclusion in action is amazing,” says Mayor Stephen Benjamin of Columbia, South Carolina, the current president of the Conference of Mayors. “It pulls out the very best of us.”

“The citizens of Black Rock City came out here and built a city,” Mayor Benjamin observes. “All the infrastructure needed to be a true 21st-century city is right here, right now, built in record time, and will be deconstructed in a way that reflects our commitment to sustainability.”

Read more in the Burning Man Journal: https://journal.burningman.org/2018/10/news/brc-news/mayors-of-u-s-cities-visit-black-rock-city/

Video producer/location camera: Bob Burnett
Editor: Alison Ray Cavanagh
Sound design: Defacto Sound
Drone footage: Luciano Chito and Jamen Percy
Special thanks to Tom McClimon, Jocelyn Bogen, Lina Garcia Harold Riddle, Christian Flynn, and Burning Man Communications