FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
StacycatS
[email protected]
http://goldbergs.com/mbrc
Announcing The First Annual Miss Black Rock City Beauty Pageant 2004
NYC, NY – May 19, 2004 – Calling Miss Texas and Miss New York! Calling
Miss Disorient, Miss Thunderdome, Miss TOA, and Miss HOTD!
It’s time to take beauty out of the hands of corporate America and back
into the eyes of the beholder. At the 2004 Burning Man, Asylum will hold
the First Annual Miss Black Rock City Beauty Pageant. Participation is
open to all men and women, all sexual preferences or identities, all theme
camps, villages, tribes and tents.
Come help celebrate your tribe’s uniqueness and beauty. Unlike TV’s The
Swan, the Miss Black Rock competition knows that perfection does not equal
beauty. Beauty is much more unique. Your are encouraged to be yourself,
wear what you want, and help put a face to your camp and to represent the
best of Burning Man.
“The Miss Black Rock City 2004 competition is a great way to give all
tribes a face, a persona, to show the citizens of Black Rock how each
tribe, with its own unique flare, makes up the whole that is Burning Man!”
said StacycatS, organizer and the original Miss Black Rock City - The
Self-Proclaimed Beauty Queen.
To make this event a success, Asylum would like to see contestants from
all the theme camps. “It is important that each theme camp / village /
region be represented at the pageant, so that the full spectrum of
identities that comprise our city can be appreciated at one event, at one
time on the playa.”
The competition will begin on Thursday, September 2 with a preliminary
event, which will include contestants running an obstacle course carrying
trays of beverages. The Prelims are open to all, with 10 finalists (and
five alternates) moving on to the main competition on Friday, September 3.
The Pageant will feature the Dustwear (instead of swimwear) competition,
the Illumination wear (instead of evening gown) competition, as well as
interviews and a Talent competition where contestants can show-off their
creativity and uniqueness.
Special gifts for the finalists will be announced soon, but Paula of
dumbclothing.com will supply materials to create sashes. There will be a
sash making workshop lead by Paula in the Smoochdome at Asylum earlier in
the week. All contestants can make a sash and all finalists get a scepter,
but only Miss Black Rock City 2004 walks away with the most coveted sash
and a tiara!
Grand Gift donations for the pageant finalists should be directed to
[email protected]. Suggestions for non-monetary, sentimental,
and rare playa gifts are highly encouraged!
Miss Black Rock City Beauty Pageant 2004 is produced by StacycatS and Asylum.
