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Burning Man is an eight-day-long annual festival that takes place in Black Rock City, a temporary city on the , under the guidance of founder Larry Harvey . In 2007, 47,097 people participated in The Burning Man Project. HISTORY 1986 to 1989 The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer Solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey , Jerry James , and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight-foot- (2.4-meter-) tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog. The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as a spontaneous act of radical self-expression. Sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the summer solstice for several years prior to 1986, and the burning of sculpture was a central theme. In addition to the burning of sculpture, a key ingredient to the pre-Burning Man gatherings was the fact that Baker Beach is a cove area frequented by nudists. Harvey attended some of the pre-Burning Man gatherings on Baker Beach, and when Grauberger stopped holding her parties, Harvey picked up the torch and ran with it, so to speak. Harvey asked Jerry James to build the first eight-foot (2.4-meter) wooden effigy with him, which was much smaller and more crudely made than the neon figure featured in the current ritual. In 1987, the effigy had grown to almost fifteen feet (4.6 m) tall, and in 1988 it grew to around forty feet (12 m). |
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