Art Lecture: Burning Man - Drama in the Desert

Each year tens of thousands of people from all walks of life travel to the extreme environment of the Black Rock Desert outside Reno, Nevada to create Burning Man - a vibrant community based on radical self-expression, participatory art and generosity. The result is a remarkable and magical week of art, music, performance and play. 

The Mill Valley Public Library is thrilled to welcome Holly Kreuter and Barbara Traub, authors of critically acclaimed books on this mysterious subject. Their books are titled Drama in the Desert and Desert to Dream, respectively, and include contributions from author Dave Eggers, filmmaker Les Blank, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to name a few.  Kreuter and Traub will share their unique perspectives on this dynamically evolving event and also discuss the very different roads they took to publish their books. Join us for a revealing discussion of what has been called, among other things, one of the greatest art events in the world.