Burning Man Decompression 2025

Burning Man Decompression 2025 is coming to Oakland!!!

This year's SF Bay Area Decompression will be on Saturday, October 18th, from 2pm-12am (and 3am indoors) at its exciting new home at The Loom in Oakland! The event will feature diverse, family-friendly daytime programming and nighttime celebration with hands on art projects, maker and technology demos, speakers, workshops, a mini film-festival, food and beverage, and much more.

NOTE: The event entrance is at Livingston St & 22nd Ave, Oakland CA 94606. Map link here. Do not use the address the internet gives you for The Loom!

Convenient, monitored public parking available adjacent to the event site at 2000 Embarcadero, Oakland at a rate of $25 for the day. There is also free street parking along the Embarcadero and in the neighborhood. Please do not park in other private parking lots.

Please note that indoor spaces will be 21+ and require an ID-verified wristband from 9pm-3am.

Click here for our FAQ "Know Before You Go!" Information Guide.

Click here for this year's Program and Stage Schedules!

Featuring...

ART INSTALLATIONS:

An Event Horizon (Andrey Sledkov) ⧫ Ancestors of Dawn (Miguel Guzman) ⧫ Arc of Loving (Silke Lampka) ⧫ Ascension To Infinity with Opa Lights (Ron) ⧫ Backstage (Bench) ⧫ Carillon (Steven Brummond) ⧫ Center Camp Occulus Lighting Installation (Maxx Kurzunski) ⧫ Chill Vibez (Intrepid) ⧫ Fire Pinball (Creech) ⧫ FourSquare (Gene Feingold) ⧫ FourSquare (Gene Feingold) ⧫ Flower Kissers (Erin) ⧫ Habitat ⧫ Haven (Flaming Lotus Girls) ⧫ Hex Gates (Joel Milikan) ⧫ Human Gyroscope ⧫ Incisive Reading (Analog) ⧫ Inversion Excursion (Phin) ⧫ Kaleidostoop (Star Sailor Art Collective) ⧫ Max Loads (Wispy) ⧫ Missing Link (Missing Link Art Collective) ⧫ Mona Camp (Cacao) ⧫ Moth Disco (CuddleSlug) ⧫ NewClear Neural (Gazelle Dasti) ⧫ Nova (Chuck Sommervville) ⧫ Patches Phone (Nate and Hope) ⧫ Perception (Caleb) ⧫ ORBs (David Oliver) ⧫ Playa Plein Air (Tim Genda) ⧫ Primitive Obsession (Squid) ⧫ Project Flashlight (Searchlight) ⧫ A Portal to regen•era (Design Science Studio Evolutionary Collective) ⧫ Riding The Thermals (The Neverending Source) ⧫ SandyTaco’s “Wanda” Fish (Sparky) ⧫ Space Palette (Tim Thompson) ⧫ Squatches Star Stash (Aaron McCray-Goldsmith) ⧫ Talk To God Phone (Aaron McCray-Goldsmith) ⧫ The Collaborative Collection (Rose Cuarzo) ⧫ The Pool Table from Last Camp Standing (Gotchu) ⧫ These Three Sisters of Fate (Valerie Mallory) ⧫ Tipping Point (Christopher Schardt) ⧫ Trash Panda Portal PopUp (Cupcake) ⧫ Un Nuevo Camino (Kidnetick) ⧫ Whispers of Waste (Zulu Hero)

WORKSHOPS, TALKS, FILM FEST & ACTIVITIES:

BurnerSphere VR Demos ⧫ BWB Lightning Talks ⧫ Cultivating Consciousness ⧫ Kyrotic Wood Works-Studies in Lathe’iness ⧫ Live Glassblowing with The Crucible ⧫ Let’s Make Philosophy Fun! talk by Caveat Magister ⧫ Let’s Party Like It’s Civic Responsibility! - chat with Manny Yekutiel & $teven Ra$pa ⧫ Make a Zine, Take a Zine ⧫ Mullet Yoga ⧫ Phone Smashing ⧫ Screenprinting with Burners Without Borders (BYO Blanks!) ⧫ Siren’s Song Sound Healing ⧫ Tarot Reading ⧫ The Muse Mandala ⧫ Make Art Now with YAAHS: Yarn Art Social ⧫ Burning Man Mini Film Fest ⧫ Sneakpeak of Your Innerverse ⧫ Yin Yoga: Soundbath and Energy Cleaning

MUTANT VEHICLES:

Arabella ⧫ Bee Here Now ⧫ Coat Check ⧫ Kokomotive ⧫ Pacific ⧫ Red Hot Beverly ⧫ The Bounce Car ⧫ The Janky Barge ⧫ La Rana Hypnótica ⧫ Moby the Rainbow Fish ⧫ Scrampi ⧫ Doublethyme ⧫ Fire Birdie ⧫ Immortal ⧫ Airpusher ⧫ Dirty Goat Roadhouse ⧫ Galactic Terrapin ⧫ BRC Municipal Railway

INTERACTIVE THEME CAMPS:

DeMentha ⧫ Heavy Petting Zoo ⧫ The Sound Garden ⧫ High Octane ⧫ Kri8tiv N8tivz ⧫ Veg Out! ⧫ Unicorner ⧫ Puzzle Place ⧫ Poop Katz ⧫ Mycodelic Forest ⧫ 5Zenses Lounge ⧫ White Dwagon ⧫ Full Circle Teahouse ⧫ VICE ⧫ Key Haus ⧫ Coffee & Pasties ⧫ Yummy Ruminations ⧫  Camp Cry About It ⧫ Magic Lantern Society ⧫ Black Rock Migratory Bird Refuge ⧫ Equal and Opposite Force ⧫ Opulent Chill ⧫ Playa Artifacts Museum ⧫ Stardust Divination Casino

DJS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCE!

Actiongrl ⧫ Aleh ⧫ Alibali ⧫ Anthony James ⧫ B33SON ⧫ BarbieMode ⧫ Black Panda ⧫ BNJMMN ⧫ The Bounce Crew ⧫ Carstello ⧫ Chris Irvin ⧫ CJ ⧫ Cranky ⧫ Dancing Mandy ⧫ Deadbeatz ⧫ Denver Drake ⧫ DGAF ⧫ D!SHA ⧫ Dulce Vita ⧫ Elias Alexander ⧫ Emojis on Ecstacy ⧫ EVA ⧫ Fou Fou Ha! ⧫ DJ Icon ⧫ Influence ⧫ Janis And The Pussy Cats ⧫ KAMA ⧫ KingQube ⧫ Kobhain ⧫ Ladybeats ⧫ Little John ⧫ Lucho ⧫ MIIDO ⧫ Moist Magnolia ⧫ Mr Bounceman ⧫ Niall Augustine ⧫ OBER ⧫ OGAN ⧫ Recompression ⧫ Roam Freely ⧫ RudeSkool ⧫ Sage Farris ⧫ Sparkle Pony Rainbow Vomit Deluxe ⧫ SPCL - FRN ⧫ Tadao ⧫ Toil ⧫ TokyoHotTub ⧫ TRU ⧫ The Voltones ⧫ Yaz ⧫ Yodav

SILENT DISCO by ZEROdB:

⧫ BEETROOTS ⧫ BobWire ⧫ Calvin ⧫ Claretbirdy ⧫ Dom Basco ⧫ Darkstar ⧫ Dymonds ⧫ EyereEyes ⧫ Eon Pulse ⧫ Fal$e Profit ⧫ DJ FunkMuse ⧫ DJ Godiva ⧫ Golden Canopy ⧫ Infrared ⧫ Justin Johnson ⧫ Kaari_ ⧫ M.I.O.W.O.L. ⧫ NeonBunny ⧫ Nom de jour ⧫ RaveMom ⧫ R-E ⧫ DJ SIRHC ⧫ Spyros T ⧫ VincentAtSea ⧫ DJ Voxel ⧫ Wompsta ⧫ WorkR 

VISUAL ARTISTS:

Mind Trip ⧫ Vizzy Wiz ⧫ Bumblicous & Katnip / Vizual Nektar ⧫ Aquila Visions ⧫ Pritish ⧫ TimAbad ⧫ Hairglasses ⧫ Estioko Visuals ⧫ VJ Neuron ⧫ Rainbow Puddle ⧫ CLYZBY ⧫ Synwrks ⧫ Boom Boom ⧫ Fatty Brisket ⧫ DJMaculate ⧫ Drake Drake

NOTE: The event entrance is at Livingston St & 22nd Ave, Oakland CA 94606. Map link here. Do not use the address the internet gives you for The Loom!

Invitation to Volunteer! We need many hands to create a joyful and exciting community event. Sign up for a volunteer shift and get free admission to the event, using our Volunteer Signup Form here.

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