Open Lead Roles: Join the Lookout! Crew

We’re seeking to fill several volunteer positions! Join our crew and help bring Lookout! to the desert.

If you’re interested in a lead role or general volunteering, fill out the volunteer form.

All positions will require pre-playa engagement.

Infrastructure Roles

Help us build the thing!

Infrastructure leads should be able to join us in Black Rock City during build and burn weeks (Aug 24 – Sept 7).

Welders

Do you have MIG, TIG, or large-scale sculptural experience? Help us fabricate and assemble structural components over the next few months. Portland-based welders preferred, but we ain’t picky.

Kitchen Lead

Who feeds the fire feeders? Maybe it’s…YOU. As our Kitchen Lead, you’ll plan meals and manage our kitchen volunteers to keep the crew fed during build and burn weeks.

On-Playa Logistics / Art Support Camp Co-Lead

Want to be part of a dastardly duo? Our Logistics Coordinator is seeking a co-lead to help coordinate people and camp from build through strike.

Power Lead

BzzzzZZZAAAAAPPPPP. That’s the sound you can prevent as our Power Lead! Design and manage our electrical power — from generators and safety to on-playa troubleshooting.

LNT Lead

Whether you consider yourself trashy or just a trash aficionado, join as our MOOP Manager to lead cleanup and ensure that we Leave No Trace.

Creative Roles

Help us tell the story.

Creative leads can opt to join us in Black Rock City.

Lead Narrative Writer

Work with guest/ghost writers to shape Lookout!’s unfolding story and protagonist narrative, which will be incorporated into sound design elements, tactile art pieces, and the participant experience.

Guest/Ghost Writers

Contribute a portion of the progressive story that reveals itself over the course of the week. Writers will help build the mythology, voice, and emotional arc of Lookout!

Voice Actor

Seeking a mature, weathered voice to perform the protagonist’s narrative. Recording will take place in a professional sound design studio.

Ready to join the Lookout! crew?

Whether you want to be a lead or general volunteer, start by filling out the volunteer form.

About Lookout! and Burning Man 2026

Lookout! is a 48-foot fire lookout tower that reexamines our role as environmental stewards. Debuting in Black Rock City in 2026, Lookout! blurs the line between the delight of watching a fire burn and the urgent desire to extinguish the flames engulfing our world.

Donate today to support Lookout! and help us get to BRC.

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