PEERS is still recruiting volunteers, and training/shift signup for 2025 is now open!

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Every year, hard working participants create over a thousand theme camps throughout Black Rock City. Planning and running a theme camp is hard work, and Placement works even harder learning about, understanding, and responding to the needs of those camps.

Part of that job is visiting every theme camp on playa - and to do that, we need participants like you to join PEERS: Placements Exploration and Engagement Research Squad. We are the ones who visit placed theme camps to learn about interactivity, neighborhoods and each camp’s experience with the placement process. Here’s a preview of what we get up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYU4iDOvuU

It takes hundreds of volunteers to visit every camp, so if you enjoy what theme camps offer, and can spare even three hours during the event to help and have fun, PEERS needs you. You and a buddy will be given a short list of theme camps to visit, usually timed to coincide with cool interactivity going on at each camp. You’ll talk to the camp leads, enjoy some of their interactivity, and get their feedback via a survey we’ll provide. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it makes a big difference.

Shifts are three hours, and you can volunteer individually or with a friend. We ask for a minimum of one shift, but lots of people find it so much fun they come back to do even more. It doesn’t matter if this is your first burn or your fifteenth - no experience is necessary, and your help is both welcome and needed. You can volunteer alone, or team up with a friend.

Volunteer by filling out the Volunteer Questionnaire on your Burner Profile https://profiles.burningman.org/ and selecting Placement’s Exploration and Engagement Research Squad (PEERS).

For more information visit https://burningman.org/event/participat ... am/peers/ or email [email protected]