THE 2008 TEMPLE: BASURA SAGRADA
The 2008 Temple will be built by Shrine and Tucker and a large team drawn from the community. They did the Tasseograph Tea Temple in 2007, and this project is called BASURA SAGRADA ("sacred trash"), a reference to Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
http://www.basurasagrada.org
tuktuk writes:
"We are extremely humbled by this opportunity and hope to create a temple worthy of your blessings. The responsibilities that come with a project like this are incredible, but we are happily moving forward. Burning Man has been generous in their support of this project, and yet we know that it will take much more to realize the vision. If this is truly to be a temple for the community, then we need your help to make it happen. More than that, we want you to be involved!
HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN
GOT TRASH?
LARGE JUNK a.k.a. 'OBJETS D'ART'
Got an old car you want to get rid of? An ancient barn that is falling in on itself? A ton of windows, doors, or perhaps a giant victorian clock/chandelier/toilet? Well we want it.* We are developing our website but should soon have the ability to allow you to post up your stuff and see if we can use it. Meanwhile, go ahead and send info/images of your junk offerings to [email protected]
*...maybe. it will depend on whether you can get it to our workplace and whether it will fit into the overall design.
SMALL JUNK a.k.a. 'OFFERINGS'
Perhaps you don't have an old stained glass window or church steeple lurking in your garage. No worries: You can still offer something deeply personal to the temple project. In the past inscriptions were written on the lower levels of the temple during the event. That will still happen, but we would like to take that a step further, and give the citizens of Black Rock the opportunity to contribute both physically and emotionally to every level of the piece.
Much of Shrine's work consists of repeated shapes that create an impact from the accumulated whole. To that end, we will be publishing a series of templates that can be used to make cardboard cut outs, inscribed with your prayers, blessings, dreams and elegies, and sent in over the coming months. These pieces will be used to form design elements and flourishes throughout the temple's various structures. We would love it if people could come together and create these shapes as groups and mail or hand-deliver them to us.
VOLUNTEER
Perhaps the most important way you can get involved is to volunteer for the temple effort. While we will be working with a dedicated crew, from time to time we will need extra people in the Bay Area to help us gather materials, move it around, build it up, and make it beautiful. Got a skill? A truck? A paintbrush? Got a junkyard? Bring it on. The work will be meticulous and hard, and offers nothing beyond the opportunity to eat large amounts of cold pizza with some amazing people, and help provide a necessary sacred space for 40,000+ like-minded souls!
Once we get started, we invite you to come by our East Bay workspace and see what we're up to.
DONATE
While the playa is one of the few places on earth that eschews currency, it inevitably takes big money to build big art. To build something as large as a temple, worthy of the name, we will need more than just prayers. We will need money. After securing a grant from the Burning Man organization, we now have our footing to move forward. A big part of that is fundraising. If you cannot contribute in another way (or even if you can), consider a monetary donation. We are a non-profit effort, and in collaboration with a generous 501(c)3, we are making any donation tax deductible. Please visit our website for details, and to see what we are up to: http://www.basurasagrada.org
Gratefully,
-Tuktuk
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