Several members of the White Mischief team - and a fair few of our partygoers - are part of the Burning Man subculture which encourages creativity and self-reliance as part of a week-long community-building project in the Nevada desert. Burning Man has sprouted offshoots all over the world, one of which is in Northern Spain and is entitled “Nowhere“. For those of you bored of the bland predictability of corporate festivals and wanting to become participants rather than mere spectators, Nowhere is the place to be. It takes place between July 9-13 2008 and you can find out more by reading on.

Have you ever been Nowhere?

A place where you cease to exist as you do in the default world, where your relationships with those around are based not on “What can you do for me?” but “What can we do together?”, a place where Radical Self-Expression and Radical Self-Reliance become Radical Realities.

Nowhere is a five day event in Northern Spain, based upon the principles of Burning Man in Nevada, it is an experiment in participatory creation where everyone holds a piece of the puzzle.

We truly are a Leave No Trace event. You must bring everything you need to survive in a harsh desert environment. There is no commerce at Nowhere. No money. No shopping. If You need something, You make it happen.. And everything you bring you are responsible for taking away.

Nowhere explodes into existence for 5 amazing days, it’s participants bringing art, music, life, love, chaos and adventure into a world that has lost sense of the primal reasons for existence… then it fades back to the dust from which it blossomed.

A gift economy, radical self expression, radical self reliance, leave no trace and no spectators…. these guiding lights, and the natural filter of the desert, mean that Nowhere is not for everyone. But if you are one of those who value human interaction over financial exchange, who love to create just for the sheer joy of creating, who are one of “… the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…”

Maybe Nowhere is for you. July 9-13 in the desert in Northern Spain.

Go to http://www.goingnowhere.org to find out more