Kostume Dome 2013

The key to our mission on playa is to costume the masses and help people engage in Burning Man in a new way through the magic of a costume. We do this through a year-round costume solicitation program which contacts members of the costume industry and convinces them to donate their old, unsold and possibly unloved costumes to us. We will de-MOOP the costumes and drive them out to playa in a truck. And I say truck, because each year we bring out an entire 24-foot truck of costumes (minus the packaging!) for us to dress people in.

From about noon until about 5:30 each day, Tuesday through Saturday, we open up the Kostume Dome. We have MCs and wranglers on frontage and music playing from our sound system. People line up to come into the dome and get costumed. It is really important that participants understand the dome and take advantage of it appropriately. When a lovely burner enters the dome, they can take whatever they can wear out and it is theirs to keep! We do not give away costumes (think - consumer experience, people grabbing free shit by the armful), we transform people. They emerge from our dome as a new person, with a new way of interacting and experience the playa. They then walk down our runway for an impromptu fashion show while our capable MCs provide juicy commentary. It is a lot of fun, and we love doing it.

Each member of our camp is REQUIRED to put in at least one full shift in the Kostume Dome. A shift can be working as an MC out front or working in the Dome helping people find something that they love and managing the inventory (restocking the dome from the truck, etc).

Message from the Holy Order of Transformation (HOT):

"We are the Kardinals; spreading the Gospel of Gifting Transformation at Kostume Kult's Kathedral of Kostumes to the Kongregants on playa. (Yes, We Control the Spice).

We are the Holy Order of Transformation (HOT), stocking and running the Kathedral of Kostumes at the Site of the Great Kong. We oversee and maintain the rotation and scheduling and indoctrination of the novitiates and priests(esses) of the Holy Order of Transformation, the HOTties.

Queen Kardinal: Lori " Lolly" Connell

ASSistant Kardinals:Jessica Fernandez Garro, Eliza Spear, Joseph Martinez, Devan Skylar

Facebook event (invite all your friends): https://www.facebook.com/events/206925609431338/

KOSTUME KATHEDRAL SCHEDULE: Kathedral Shift Schedule (PDF)