Our community’s mission is to inspire creativity, foster cultural inclusivity, educate the community and ignite a passion for lifelong learning. We enact this vision through year-round events and projects in the Sacramento area and beyond, which culminate in our annual participation as a theme camp in Burning Man’s Black Rock City.
Our Sacramento-based community originally first came together in 2018 to attend Burning Man as a theme camp. The camp began as “Comfy Cozy VooDoo Lounge”, offering a cozy lounge with VooDoo-inspired aesthetics as part of a larger “village” of theme camps called the Black Rock French Quarter. The camp’s main offering was to facilitate introspection and healing through the lounge “VooDoo Man,” a large human-sized doll in the shape of the iconic burning man effigy upon which visitors could stick messages of hope, redemption, and other offerings. The messages were later gathered and ceremonially burned and released. The ritual was designed to facilitate communal healing, connection, and renewal.
Beginning in 2022, the camp left the French Quarter in order to explore new themes, and in 2024 the camp moved away from the VooDoo theme in order to prioritize cultural inclusivity. In more recent years, the community has leaned into the lounge as a space of community connection and growth and evolved to focus more on facilitating shared learning and collaborative projects, and is now known as the Comfy Cozy Community year-round, which hosts the Burning Man Camp Comfy Cozy Community College.
Key to our vision is prioritizing inclusivity, accessibility, consent, and safety, as well as the 10 principles of Burning Man (see below). We hope that all our community members and guests feel welcome enough to not just participate, but are able to unlock their fullest selves, explore their creativity, thrive within community, and are empowered to co-create the Comfy Cozy vision.
Cozies (also called “Coozies”) are brought together by a shared sense of connection to everything that the greater Burning Man world-wide community stands for, and something greater than ourselves: a desire to build a world where community, creativity, and joy come first.
And finally, none of this would come together without hard work! We foster a strong culture of participation, where everyone is expected to contribute time, effort, and funds to keep our community running year round and help build and manage our camp at Black Rock City. For more on camp roles and participation,explore the pages linked below.
Connect with the Comfy Cozy Community Apply to join our Annual Burning Man campThe Comfy Cozy community is dedicated to a harassment-free environment that nurtures mutual respect amongst all community members and visitors. All Comfy Cozy members are expected to read the Consent Policy and comply with its principles at the Burning Man event and throughout their time year-round, virtually and in-person, when interacting with other community members.
Read Our Consent PolicyWe take Radical Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity very seriously in our camp, based on the understanding that many groups of people all over the world are treated differently based on their race, gender, sexuality, religion, and other characteristics, and we envision our community as radically different from this discriminatory and often violent status quo. We want our spaces to allow anyone who believes in our same values to feel safe and ideally thrive in our community. We also believe that RIDE is not about "checking a box" and is not only relevant to minority groups - RIDE impacts ALL of us! Aside from it being just the right, good thing to do as human beings in relation with one another, without RIDE, we risk losing out on the beauty, resilience, and creativity that only comes from having all different kinds of diversity in our community.
Some of the ways we enact this vision are by practicing the following:
We are a diverse group of folks who aim to inspire creativity, foster cultural inclusivity, educate the community and ignite a passion for lifelong learning, both in our year-round home of Sacramento, California and at the annual Burning Man event.