Burning Man pleads for donations to save the festival

Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell has called for “urgent” donations as a way to help save the festival amid staff lay-offs. The US countercultural gathering was founded in 1986 and has grown from a three-day, 80-person ‘zone trip’ to an nine-day event attended by around 80,000 people.

While the non-profit festival has been known to sell out of tickets months in advance – sometimes within 30 minutes of release – this year organisers opened sales for non-registered buyers for the first time after…

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