L.A. Burning Man Decompression Art & Music Festival

09/27/2025

Join local Burners at the Venice Afterburn October 4-5 Venic Beach. Watch this site for news on the Decompression event planned for summer of 2026.

10/17/2022

https://www.presstelegram.com/2022/10/17/this-long-beach-event-offers-a-mini-burning-man-festival-experience/

If you miss or missed out on the Burning Man Festival in Nevada this year, the Decompression event in Long Beach will reunite burners and feature art from the annual fest.

09/21/2022

Tickets are now available:

Event Date October 22, 2022 starts at 1 PM ends at 2 AM

Get Tickets for LA Decompression 2022.

09/12/2022

Los Angeles League of Arts and your Burning Man Regional Contacts Present

The 15th L.A. Burning Man Decompression Festival on October 22, 2022

The L.A. area Burning Man Decompression Art & Music Festival will be back after several years’ hiatus due to the pandemic. DECOM will take place on October 22, 2022 at 1 pm in a large, smoothly paved parking area surrounding the Scottish Rite Event Center in Downtown Long Beach (855 Elm Street). After 10 pm there will be an on-site After Party in Center’s dance hall and theatre.

As always, DECOM will feature DJ’s, theme camps, art, music, Flow Arts Fire Performances, art cars, food trucks and bars. Unlike at past events, you will be able to take your drink anywhere at this DECOM since it’s on private property. This version of DECOM will resemble the 2016 event held in the L.A. Arts District.

Why aren’t we back at the State Park near L.A.’s Chinatown? Bottom line, it became too expensive after their huge renovation because of their fragile new watering system. As careful as we and our DECOM participants were, the repairs to fix broken watering pipes cost us over $10,000.

More details on the October 22nd DECOM will be published in our local Burning Man Newsletter, on Facebook, and at LADECOM.com

If you or your camp would like to participate, perform, or volunteer please contact the production team at:

Flow Arts
http://tiny.cc/LADecomFlowArts

Art/Art Cars
http://tiny.cc/LADecomArtArtCars

Theme Camps
http://tiny.cc/LADecomThemeCamps

Performer
http://tiny.cc/LADecomPerformer

Volunteer
http://tiny.cc/LADecomVolunteer

Due to the site’s dimensions, theme camp space is limited. The sooner you contact us to sign up, the more likely you will be able to be placed at the event.

Esquire Jauchem & Gina Rubinstein, Co-Producers
Sal Flores & Dan O’Brien, Long Beach Coordinators

For further information contact: [email protected]

Photos of the historic landmark Scottish Rite Event Center are available at:
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/long-beach-scottish-rite-long-beach-4

02/11/2022

Board Elections

The Los Angeles League of Arts (LALA) is the non-profit entity that supports the local official Los Angeles Burning Man Events. LALA Board Members collaborate with the L.A. Burning Man Regional Contacts in order to bring you events such as Decom, Blissmas, BEquinox, and more.

We received five nominees for the upcoming three-year term. The nominees are:

Sal Flores-Trimble
Keith MacGregor
Gina Rubinstein
Glenn Searle
Victor Wright

LALA is looking for two people who will help make the foundation of the organization stronger.

As you vote, please think about what would make the strongest possible Board of Directors.... who would help grow the Los Angeles League of Arts into the organization that best represents you.

Each nominee was given the opportunity to submit a resume, photo of themselves and a video.

Voting will close on March 7, 2022

The two new members will be announced on March 10, 2022

Here is the link to vote for your two nominees!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/boardlala

BEquinox 2022 – Reunion

2020 tickets have been refunded. 2020 tickets will not be honored at the gate.
We have updated some dates on the bequinox.com website. Please check it out.

The 2022 Covid policy will be updated and posted well ahead of ticket sales.

In a nutshell:

Theme Camp, Art Installations, Art Cars – Applications close on March 4, 2022

Free\Reduced priced tickets will go on sale March 12, 2022 and will close on March 27, 2022. Folks that earned a free or reduced priced ticket have been contacted directly. Please check your email\trash\spam for this email if you believe that you qualified for a free\reduced priced ticket.

General Ticket Sales will be on Saturday March 19, 2022 at 10am (PST)
Volunteer applications will open on March 21, 2022 and will close on April 8, 2022

OMG ticket sale – if tickets are still available – will happen on April 2, 2022.

If you have questions, please send an email to [email protected]

Thanks so much

07/08/2021

We are working to book a new location in Long Beach for October in 2022. The covid situation has made large gatherings this Fall in the LA area inadvisable.

(We had to move from the waterside park because Long Beach has rescheduled the Marathon to that date due to covid restrictions earlier in the year and moved the Long Beach Grand Prix to that area for the same reason making the park inaccessible.)

02/10/2020

02/10/2020

THIS EVENT HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO THE COVID OUTBREAK

LA Decom 2020 on October 10, 2020 in the Long Beach Shoreline Aquatic Park. Join the greater LA Burning Man community as it celebrates everything from this year's Burning Man Festival: Art, Music, Theme Camps, Art Cars, a day of crazy, colorful fun. Join us! More details soon...