Online ticket sales end tomorrow at 12pm MT. You can purchase tickets at the gate, but please bring exact $'s because we can't make change. Tickets are $105. Montopia is upon us! Hope to see you there.
7-11 Painting Party!
Wednesday, July 7th, 7pm-10pm!
We have another bench in the works and can start painting some signage! If you have signs you want to make for theme camps or activities and things, we can git 'er done! Bring your vision and let's bring it to life!
Drop in anytime! All skill levels welcome, stick figures are art too!
Paint donations are accepted, and this is a family friendly event!!
Tour of Storm Castle (Promo Video)
A few week ago we were able to go scope out the Storm Castle Retreat. What a treat this is going to be. The land is beautiful! There is so much possibility. We are extremely excited to see how we are able to transform this place with all of your help.
While we were there, Andy George, one of the core members of Montopia, took lot's of footage on foot and by drone. With that, he made this amazing promo video for us. Thank you Andy!
Montopia PAINTING PARTY 2.0!!
THIS WEDNESDAY, June 20th, 3pm-10pm at the Green Garage! Drop in anytime!
Last weekend we got an awesome start on the bench and now we made a bar that needs your artistic magic on it!
ALL skill levels are welcome!
Stick figures ARE art!
We will have grilled cheese and art supplies. All we need you to bring is your authentic self and we can let the magic unfold!
The Green Garage is located at
317 W. Beall St., Bozeman
There is parking on Beall and also Villard
This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event and paint or other donations are gratefully accepted!
PAINTING PARTY!!
Join us for our first painting party of the season! This bench wants you to leave your mark on it!
THIS SATURDAY, June 9th starting at 2pm at the Green Garage! We supply the paint and fixins and want to see your creative expressions! We will be grilling and making some grilled cheeses, feel free to bring something to throw on the grill!
See you on Saturday and e-mail us at montopiamt@gmail.com if you need directions!
Montopia 2018 Compression Party @ The Filling Station
May 25th
9pm-1am
We're gonna deck out the Filler burner-style! $5 Cover, only $3 for people in costumes and/or blinky things. Plus, FREE GRILLED CHEESE at midnight! Experimental surround sound mix happening. Will the Jellyfish art car make an appearance in the parking lot?
This Compression Party is to raise funds and awareness of our Arts & Burn from July 26th-29th at Storm Castle!
Featuring the following DJ's:
Poppa Chachi
Mama T
Buddha
Silver Lining
Participate!! At An Art Burn, There Are No Spectators!
Check out this awesome article from the Burning Man Journal! There are many ways to participate! What participation gifts do you have to share? One ear to listen and two arms to hug are a great place to start! We look forward to participating in Montopia with you!!
TICKET SALES OPEN TODAY!!
Tickets are now available here on the website! Thank you in advance for buying your tickets early so we can use your contribution for art grants and fun things like domes for center camp!!
We will share more details as they become available!
The 10 Principles of Burning Man (also Practiced at Montopia)
Taken from Burning Man's official website:
Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the Ten Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception.
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.