by Ricardo Amaya | May 2, 2019 | External Press, HomePageSliderPost
Every year since 2015, the organizers behind Catharsis on the Mall have staged a weekend-long, miniature Burning Man beside the Washington Monument. This year, they are offering an addition to their typical festival of lectures, all-night dance parties and flammable...
by Ricardo Amaya | Feb 26, 2019 | External Press, HomePageSliderPost
“Are they Smurf hats?” I queried my neighbor, as we spy three cats in weird red hats taking the stage. These unassuming pied pipers are about to incite the burnerverse. I’m inside the Marriott’s sprawling Davis Hall at the 2017 Burning Man Global Leadership...
by Ricardo Amaya | Apr 18, 2018 | External Press
WASHINGTON — Three weeks before the National Park Service denied an activist group’s request to erect a giant statue of a nude woman on the National Mall, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke received an email from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). The Oct. 3...
by Ricardo Amaya | Nov 10, 2017 | External Press, HomePageSliderPost
Although the National Park Service denied Catharsis on the Mall a permit to erect a 45-foot statue of a giant woman, the free festival will still bring art, music, yoga and dance to the District beginning Friday. The all-night, all-weekend affair begins at noon...
by Ricardo Amaya | Nov 10, 2017 | External Press
Participants and artwork at this weekend’s Catharsis on the Mall event will be fully clothed, as organizers have scrapped all plans to include elements of nudity for the event. Activists originally intended to bring a 45-foot-tall statue of a nude woman to the...
by Ricardo Amaya | Nov 9, 2017 | External Press
Catharsis on the Mall starts Friday. It’s button-down DC’s version of the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert. But what’s fine in the middle of nowhere can be super controversial in the middle of Washington. The National Park Service decided a 45-foot...
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