2021: American Dream 2.0
(Cars, Big Front Lawns and Free..dom)
Although the Burning Man has decided not to formally organize The Burn, the Bureau of Land Management has confirmed that the Black Rock Desert will be open for dispersed camping! We’ll be out in the desert July 1st through September 12th providing bikes and trailers. See you in the dust!
2021 Impact Projects
To date we have funded and incubated a sustainability lab, a social wealth collective, a community recycling mini-factory and a media lab all have to been funded because of our efforts and your support to utilize bikes as circularly and inclusivlely as possible.
Holistic Garment Manufacturing: Introducing Dilisha Shrestha
Motivated and driven to provide women with a bright future, Dilisha is taking her experience in the handmade fibers, fabrics (nettle,hemp) and handicraft sectors to create a new social enterprise serving the women of Nepal opportunties to help them thrive. She grew up around a family business where she has learned to source goods and produce handicrafts for Western markets.
With millions of workers across Asia working for so little in terrible conditions, Dilisha is striving to create a better model or business. A model that put’s it’s workers holistic well-being.
With more and more brands looking for quality realiable manufacturers oustide of China, we have decided to try to support Dilisha with the startup support and machines needed get started. We believe her project will provide many women educational and economic opportunties that just can’t be found here. We believe that her project can help provide an example for sustainable, ethical and collaborative change the garment industry needs.
Chyau.Bio: Mushroom Based Insulation, Packaging, and Products
“Construction industries contribute to approx 100 million tons of waste every year globally and deposited in landfills. We at Chyau.bio truly believe there are better alternatives to this problem. We produce fully garden compostable Insulation panels made from agricultural waste and mushroom mycelium to help transition the world towards a more sustainable and circular future.” Visit their website to learn more about their work.
www.chyau.bio.github.io
This year we hope to help them find the resources they need to put a proper HEPA HVAC system for their lab and large scale hydrolic heat press for the insulation panels. In total they are looking for around $45,000 in investment. Over the last 6 months we have been working with them to design some new products (mushroom grow kits, lamp shades and hexayurt.)
Meet The Team!
Kathmandu Community Radio: Meet Nischal Khadka.
“I am an artist, dj, curator and creative entrepreneur based out of Kathmandu Nepal. I am currently working in the fields of arts, culture and technology with the specific interest in electronic music and digital culture.”
Nishcal is currently working on building Kathmandu’s first community radio station aptly named: Kathmandu Community Radio.
Art Bike Relief is supporting his efforts with funding for equipment (antenna/mics/pc’s/stands/mixer), website development and start-up support. The equipment we purchase will be available for public and educational purposes. We have witnessed Nischal’s passion for art’s and culture and are super pumped to see Nischal’s passion for community and art’s expressed in such an amazing project for all of Kathmandu Valley to benefit from.
Nischal hopes to have the online platform up and running in a month or two and as funds allow purchase the necessary equipment to go analog to reach the masses of Kathmandu. All in all, Nischal is working to raise around $10,000 to see his vision for a community radio station realized.
Want to know more about the project
2021 Year of The Free Bikes and E-Bikes
E-Bikes
Bike Share Program
2021 Year of the E-bike!
These bikes travel around 25 miles an hour and have a range of about 35miles on electric only power 50-60 miles with peddle assist. Batteries take around 5-6 hours to fully charge. You can visit us to exchange batteries every couple of days.
Safety Third….Ok, so actually that is not the motto e-bike riders or any other operator of potentially lethal machines should abide by. Just like driving a car, the safety implications for the community and yourself should be your number one concern. Stay lit and don’t be a darkwad. This year with cars on playa it’s going to be way more important to be lit up like the Man.
Need a bike?
With the yellow bike project not available for appointments this year we have decided to step up and create a bike share program. We have got 2000 bikes just a few miles north of the desert and have a special project for 2021 only.
Unfortunately, the Yellow Bike’s rules can’t apply simply because the desert is too vast to allow for bikes to be abandoned anywhere and everywhere. The thought of having to scour the entire Black Rock Desert for 500+ orphaned bikes would prove impossible. In addition to that the costs associated with the insurance, repair, storage, transport and playa resto efforts all have real dollar costs. That’s why we have decided to make two requirements for our 2021 bike share program.
1. Sustainable Participation Requirements
All bike share participants are required to volunteer two or more hours of their time on playa making a sustainable impact doing whatever they want mooping, recycling, cleaning up shit or helping with someone elses problem. Everyone also needs to share their stories in a digital medium(text, photos, videos, etc). You can volunteer doing anything you want that is related to playa restoration or civic duty.
After we have recovered from winterizing the fleet and processing returns we’ll get to assembling all of your stories and share a picture of how we each are a pixel of the big indifference in simple efforts in the lives of our fellow burners, communities and our home The Black Rock Desert.
2. Secuirty Deposit: $200
The two main reasons for holding a security deposit is that it helps DRAMATICALLY with the percentage of bikes that are returned so we don’t have hundreds of moop bikes and the second is that those few souls that got way to drunk and lost their bike chasing rabbits down playa holes will help us cover the overhead associated with the repair, storage and maintenance of the fleet.
We want bikes to be available for everyone economically. If a security deposit is outside of your budget requirement by volunteering with us for a day cranking wrenches you can earn your bike. Send us an email to info@thecyrcle.org and we can get you all signed up.
$100 off for early reservations.
Save $100 on Base Rent and an additonal $100 of of the deposit for the first 10 E-bike and 20 Bike Share Reservations. Prices below reflect the discount. All rentals are available from July 1st through September 12th.
*2021 Refund Policy*
Cancelations: Cancel before 14 days before your reservation for a full refund. Cancellations 13 days or less before the reservation will forfeit their deposits.7 days or less and you will be charged the full rent or deposit.
Us:
Bikes are hard for all the car poolers and pond hoppers. They also create a huge waste problem for the playa. That’s why we exist. This year will be our last year providing bikes and trailers on playa. Last burn we picked up and transported over one and half thousand bikes from the desert.
This year our camp will be helping through the month of September with playa restoration efforts. Join us and hang out at the ranch north of the Playa anytime between July 1st and Oct 1st. We are awaiting approval from the BLM for our SRP. Pickup and dropoff will occur either at the ranch a few miles north of the playa, in Gerlach or Reno if the BLM decides against allowing us and/or other vendors.
Past Projects: The Cyrcle, The Sustainability Lab and More
Trailers
All trailers include: A full tank of water, 1 propane tank, clean sheets/pillows, basic kitchen utencils, refrigerator, shower, toilet, stove, bikes and AC units. You must provide your own electrical source. The rental cost includes cleaning fee, delivery fee, and final black/gray water evacuation.
We do have additional accesories including generators, tables and chairs. As always waste evacuation is handled by a third party.This year we cannot guarantee waste evacuation until our 3rd party vendor confirms they are operating on playa. If they aren’t operating, we will be providing compost toilets you will be lucky enough to take with you when you leave.
(Prices reflect discount and will be set the normal amounts of: Sandpiper=$5000, Mallard $3250, Grey Wolf $5500.)
Contact Us:
Our mailing address in the US is:
The Global Art Collective 501(c)3
280 Northway Rd Ext
Linden, PA 17744