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From: Zac Cirivello
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [regionals-list] People of Color at Burning Man
To: Kallisti Dawn
Cc: Scott McNeil
regionals-list@burningman.org>
Hi Kallisti,
To answer your question, the BRC Census is a collaboration between Burning
Man Project and a group of independent academics. We support them with
resources and access and they have an academic IRB certification from
University of Denver to conduct research and publish unbiased results. The
Census questions themselves are a combination of questions from BMP and
questions from the academic researchers for their own work.
Additionally, the accuracy of the Census has been improving each year as
methodology improves, especially since the team started weighting the
online survey results with a random sample from the event in 2013. The 2015
BRC Census (results to be published very soon!) has a confidence interval
of 95% and a 1% of a margin of error for many of the data sets. This is by
far the best data anyone has on the makeup of BRC in a given year.
We've been exploring options for bringing some of these tools to the
Regional groups to help gather information and have been working casually
with a few groups over the last few years. Hopefully over the next year
we'll have something that we can offer to RC and regional event producers.
Cheers,
Zac
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Kallisti Dawn
wrote:
> I ran into a black man camped with one group last year who was just
> immersed in the identity of being (by his own words) 'the black brother' -
> he was smiling and loving that there was a brotherhood defined by hearts
> and minds - when he said brother, he and those in his camp meant it, they
> were close and connected based on the energy of each other, not skin color
> or tone - and at the same time, completely in the frontal awareness was his
> ongoing joke about being the black guy in an otherwise white camp.
>
> that being said, I actually was wondering if the census is officially a
> part of the Burning Man Project, or is the Census an off-shoot camp ...
> kind of like Earth Guardians?
>
> ~T aka K / UT (alumni)
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Scott McNeil
> wrote:
>
>> For anyone who is in the San Francisco Bay Area mid February we've a
>> great lineup of speakers for our next event!
>>
>> East Bay Burners Social: People of Color at Burning Man
>>
>> Burning Man is filed with white people, 87% white according to Burning
>> Man's own 2014 census. Remarkably, this is even a higher percentage than
>> the whole United States, which in 2014 was 62% white. Yet much of the
>> chatter in the Burner community is about diversity, inclusion and "bringing
>> the principles of Burning Man home". So what's going on?
>>
>> What's going on is People of Color are doing Burning Man...and doing it
>> in a way that may surprise and likely make you envious. From founding two
>> large, successful theme camps to giving on-playa performances to creating a
>> large-scale graphic art piece, POC Burners have a story to tell.
>>
>> Whether your a Veteran Burner, Virgin Burner or Burner Curious, this is a
>> night for you! Come learn about the POC Burner experience and join our
>> radically inclusive February East Bay Burners Social: People of Color at
>> Burning Man!
>>
>> Friday, 19 February 2016
>> 7:00pm
>>
>> Facebook event page
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/669425859827381/
>>
>> Non-Facebook event page
>>
>> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-bay-burners-social-people-of-color-at-...
>>
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Scott
>> --
>> Scott McNeil
>> East Bay Burners Regional Contact
>> http://ebburners.org/
>> http://www.eventbrite.com/o/east-bay-burners-5236115019/
>>
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Charles Plank, and Aaron Parness (Mowgli).
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