Everywhen 2025 is Nearly Here!
🐍 Year of the Wood Snake
2025 marks a new cycle—and a new shape for the Everywhen. The Wood Snake is a signal: Shed what no longer serves. Make room for the strange. Start fresh.
This year, we’re anchoring the village with a new geoglyph, expanding infrastructure, rethinking how we gather—and inviting you to help build what comes next. Let’s dive in.
Get Your Camping Ticket
The event runs July 2nd through July 8th, 2025, in the Black Rock Desert.
If you haven’t picked up your ticket yet, we encourage you to do so. The cost is less than a single night in a hotel in any urban area, and it gets you:
Six days and nights in the desert
Shared meals (if you opt in)
Infrastructure and support
A real, living community
This is a ticket to build community, to nourish the spirit, to leave no trace, to tell tall tales, and above all, to do no harm—to each other or to the land.
Bass Breakers + Chester + MURS Radio Network
Bass Breakers is one of our featured camps this year. They’ll be right in the center of the village—next to the Plaza (the Snake’s head)—and will be bringing a massive sound system and DJs Thursday through Saturday, during our peak population times.
Also in the Snake’s head is North Star, our operational headquarters.
If you lose something (or find something), check there. If you need help or want to reach a ranger, go to North Star. This is the central point for coordination and community support.
This year we’re also rolling out a MURS radio system for communication. We’ll publish our community channel in a later post before the event.
And: we’ve partnered with Chester the Horse—our fire-breathing art car friend—for another year. We just spent the weekend getting him ready for the playa with repairs and maintenance.
Come Volunteer! Build the Dream.
Pre-Event Builders (June 27–July 1)
Help install shade, layout the geoglyph, build the Temple, and bring the village to life. We feed you daily. You bring:
Water
Shelter
Goggles, gloves, and sunrise grit
On-Site Roles (July 2–8)
Gophers – Errands, radio calls, support
Mayors – Check-ins, placement, census
Rangers – Community support and safety
Let North Star know when you arrive to claim a shift.
Post-Event Strike (July 9–12)
See the village vanish. Join the team that restores the playa and helps us Leave No Trace.
Village Layout Changes
We've also restructured the camping village.
In past years, the loud areas—sound camps, fire art, dance zones—were on the outside, while the quiet spaces and community services were in the center.
This year, we’re inverting that.
Now, the center is the core of activity—where you’ll find:
Meal plans and kitchen service
Lounges
Workshops
And areas to dance, chill, and enjoy our giant fire pit that shoots fireballs into the air.
And the quiet zones? They now stretch outwards, toward the temple and the tail of the snake.
If you're looking for rest, you’ll find it in those outer areas—especially between 2 to 7 AM, when our quiet zone policy is in effect.
New Services
At our Winter Summit in Gerlach, we looked inward. The Everywhen Project just turned five years old as a nonprofit, and we used that milestone to ask ourselves:
What worked well?
What didn’t?
And where are we headed?
One realization was that, beyond our essential services—porta potties, rangers, permits, and our ability to help the community gather, do fire effects, shoot fireworks, and bring in vendors—we’re a community benefit organization. Our job is to help people do what they came here to do.
This year, that includes more practical support than ever:
We’re selling propane
Providing ice
Continuing our meal plans
Whether you’re cooking, firing up poofers, powering your art car, or keeping your camp going—these services are there to help make your work possible on playa.
The Geoglyph
Another realization: while we’ve always had a temple, our geoglyph—the physical layout and light-anchored shape of the village—has quietly become one of the core features of Everywhen.
Last year’s geoglyph was a partial constellation—a circle that was part of a larger planned cluster (the Pleiades). The year before that, it was a "U".
This year, it’s the Snake, tied directly to our theme. And going forward, we’re committed to making the geoglyph a permanent art element—one that changes shape every year but always anchors the camp, provides orientation, safety, and meaning.
We already have some ideas for what next year’s shape might be—and we’re looking forward to sharing them with you.
Infrastructure, Costs, and the Call to Build
As always, the Everywhen Project is a community benefit organization. And running this village—out in the middle of the desert—is not cheap. We cover the logistics to make it all possible:
Transportation
Storage
Fuel
Electricity
First Aid
Insurance
Rangers & Community Mayor
Wifi Internet (for Ticket Holders)
So where does your ticket money go? It helps pay for the things the community needs to succeed:
Shade structures
Infrastructure repairs
Seating
Power distribution
Nobody gets paid. Not the board, not the planners. We’re all volunteers. And the only way it works is that you show up and help.
Raising the Temple, Everywhen 2024
Come Early to Help Build
If the playa calls to you, this is your invitation to come early.
We’ll be on the ground beginning June 27—building the camping village, installing the temple, creating the geoglyph, and getting everything ready before the crowd arrives.
If that speaks to you, let us know.
We’ll feed you—meals are provided for volunteers. All you need to bring is:
Your own water
Your own shelter
Goggles, gloves, and a willingness to start working at 7 a.m.
We’ll take care of the rest.
If you can’t come early but still want to help, we always need on-site volunteers.
Gophers are our runners—the people who help the camp function smoothly. That might mean:
Helping someone who lost something
Resolving a conflict (with support from rangers)
Running into town for supplies
Just being where you’re needed
It’s a small commitment—you can take on a shift when it works for you. Sign up now or drop by North Star on site.
Another key role is our Mayors.
Mayors check people in, help with the census, and help shape the camping village as it grows. They’re also the ones helping people land in the right area—making sure folks looking for quiet aren’t right next to the dance floor.
These shifts run all hours of the day and night, so whether you’re a morning person or a night owl—we need you.
Cleaning the Playa, Everywhen Strike 2023
The Magic of Strike
If you care about the future of the playa, strike is one of the most beautiful parts of the event.
This is where we take it all down. We watch the village slowly vanish into the dust, and the land return to its raw, natural state.
It’s not just logistics—it’s reflection. It’s the people who remain coming together to finish what we started, and make sure we leave no trace.
If you want to experience something quiet, powerful, and deeply grounding, stay and help strike.
It makes everything else possible—for next year, and for years to come.
New This Year: The Storm Ofrenda
One new project we’re honored to host this year is the Storm Ofrenda.
Led by Jadestone, with support from Tweeter and Johnny, this is a three-walled shrine with an open alcove—a space for ancestral veneration, mourning, and quiet reflection. Built from reclaimed pallets, the ofrenda honors Sera Storm, a longtime spiritual guide and ceremonial teacher in our community.
It’s not just a personal memorial — it’s open to anyone who wants to remember a loved one, leave a note or offering, or simply sit with the past for a moment.
The outer shadow boxes will allow for small items and offerings. The inner space is quiet and calm. If you’re interested in helping paint or decorate, or want to contribute artistically or spiritually, stop by the build or visit during the event.
Thank You from the Everywhen Project
Thank you. From everyone at the Everywhen Project—the executive board, the crew, the artists, the builders, and every dusty soul who’s said yes to creating this shared space:
Let’s make this Wood Snake year one of renewal, creativity, and collective magic.
— The Everywhen Project Board & Crew
