Whiskey Tastings and Bar Art

Okay, it is right there in the name! We are primarily a Whiskey Bar and we offer some of the finest whiskey on the playa! Unless you are a douche, then you get served Fireball or some shit like that. Come on by and hang at the bar or attend one of our Whiskey Tasting events. Just be prepared for shenanigans to ensue while you are here.  

Fredrick the Nautilus

Created and operated by Tim Collins of Lakewood CO

Since 2006, "Frederick" the happy go lucky nautilus mutant vehicle has graced the playa with its charm and primarily serves trips to deep playa to explore the art there with new friends (i.e. strangers) picked up along the way. Giving rides to Burners he's never met before is one of the things Tim loves most about Burns! A wheelchair accessible vehicle, many riders might not have been able to experience deep playa otherwise due to mobility issues.

If you see the taxi style light on, hail Fredrick the Nautilus down to meet Tim and enjoy a ride you will recall fondly, long after the Burn is over. 

WHERE

This art car can be seen at Whiskey and Dust Mutant Vehicle Support Camp in 2024. Or find it wandering the desert during the event.
(Note: Jumping onto a moving vehicle can be dangerous. Please signal the driver to stop to  board.)

Morning Yoga

We are a whiskey camp with a little yoga problem. Daily morning yoga classes are designed to check movement, alignment, and intentions. All ability levels are welcome. Bring your own mat. Come for the yoga, stay for the whiskey!

Because Whiskey & Dust will operate its bar in Golden Alley in 2024, there will be no yoga for the first time since we began in 2009. Don't get down, dog, yoga will be returning in 2025.

Burnopoly

By Whiskey and Dust Members - 2018 through 2023

An Interactive Art Installation, this W&D art installation features little Burnopoly houses decorated by our camp members, and inspired by our old "Donner Estates" Mini Houses which have been retired. 

Come roll the giant dice and play Burnopoly! The squares are named for various Burning Man camps,
famed locations, and Burning Man's 10 Principles. Each square has a fun action to perform! Some will keep the game rolling and some will send you off on an adventure! Roll the dice to learn where Burnopoly will lead you.

Resting at Whiskey and Dust home base in Denver for 2024; returning in 2025

Leg Wrestling

This madness started in 2018 and has seen some major throw-downs and awarded the coveted belt to some truly incredible Leg Wrestling Champions! The event is an open invitational, inter-gender, adult (18+) competition. Come show us what you've got! 

Soldier's Cross

By Jack Butler & Jerry Vanhoosen- 2017

The Soldiers/Battle cross, consisting of a rifle inverted between a pair of combat boots and topped by a helmet, is a powerful image to those who have served in the armed forces. It evolved from the practice of marking a burial place of a fallen combat soldier who could not be extricated because of remoteness of the location or requirements of battle. The rifle is topped with their helmet and possibly their dog tag for identification, in hope that the soldier’s body could be later recovered and buried with military honors.  

Regardless of the conflict or country, the willingness of our military members to put their lives at risk and in some cases pay the final price is one of the highest honorable acts in our society. Soldiers do not get to choose to go to war, they are ordered and carry out those orders. Whether in times of war or in peace, those who volunteer often sacrifice youth, relationships, physical and mental health to serve.  Those most affected deal with the terrors and rigors of combat and when required apply the oath between soldiers of never leaving a comrade on the battlefield, a code as old as conflict itself.

The weight of that promise can be very heavy. Scars and emotions suppressed and carried can shape and profoundly effect a person’s life. The inability to save a life or the necessity to take a life will each leave their mark. The myriad energy of the acts committed or seen as a solider is a burden borne by too many. Suppression of the pain in order to continue is part of the soldier's burden.

This project, placed in the Temple in 2017, was not intended or designed with the intent to celebrate war, or the violence or the loss that results from it. The project was placed included in the Temple in hopes that suffering would be lessened, that the release of the energy of pain could occur in this safe place. and to allow others to to leave a memory of comrades fallen and their own traumas endured.  You promised to never leave them and never forget. You have brought them home. Participants were invited to write something and place it in the box provided - whether it is the name of a lost comrade, an event that profoundly affected you, or anything you have been carrying which you would like to release. Remembrances of friends and family as well as gratitude to those members of your society who have sacrificed for what we all enjoy were invited to be left as well. All notes left were burned with the temple and with them, the energy and pain hopefully lessened the giver's burden, and allowed healing to begin.