The Sundowners crew cheering and waving from Rexan’s decks

🦁 Thanks for an amazing Burn — see you in 2027!

We’re Sundowners, an African-diaspora inspired Burning Man camp, bringing music, art, and community to the playa.

We create liminal spaces to celebrate the multicultural art, music, dance, and hospitality that African traditions and speakeasies bring to the world.

We strive for a holistic offering through our shebeen speakeasy and Rexan, our safari-themed art car. The deep artistry, meaning, and humanity of African-based music is our creative North Star.

We flavor our experience through Afrofuturism, imagining a positive, inclusive future through speculative art and technology, representing the diverse background and skills of our community.

Two campmates in the low sun at camp, one perched on a blue stepladder

Campmates in African-print outfits posing under the sequined Sundowners sign

A DJ playing on Rexan’s top deck, with riders below and the zebra-striped hood in front

A campmate in a leopard onesie in Rexan’s raised spotter seat at dusk

The 2022 Sundowners crew posing in front of camp, a white lion costume at the front

A campmate laughing beside a stuffed lion in yellow sunglasses at the camp bar

Our veteran, multi-continental crew offers an experience, interactivity, and vibe that is distinct from anything in Black Rock.

At every step, we strive to share the wonder and appreciation for one of the most special places on the planet, much like Burning Man itself.

Our mission is to challenge nationalism through our unique expression of diversity.

We are an African-diaspora inspired art collective named after 'Sundowners' - a wonderful South African tradition of sharing stories, laughter, and libations at dusk.

A campmate watching the sunset over a crowd gathered on the playa

We feel Burning Man, as the world's largest temporary city, is a fitting ecosystem to explore a unique ethnographic heritage that has expressed itself across Africa, America, South America, and the Caribbean.

In 2017, a passionate crew of longtime Burning Man vets from across the globe traveled to South Africa and went on a life-changing wildlife safari.

On the Savannah, we would end each day with the country's lovely sunset social ceremony.

That same year, we dubbed ourselves Sundowners and created Rexan, a psychedelic safari-themed art car to bring this special cultural ritual to the Burning Man community and beyond.

EXPEDITIONS
2026	Axis Mundi	7:45 & Bodhi
2025	Tomorrow Today	7:45 & Ellison
2024	Curiouser & Curiouser	Rest year
2023	Animalia	4:45 & Grootslang
2022	Waking Dreams	4:15 & Glimmer
2021	The Great Unknown	CANCELLED
2020	The Multiverse	CANCELLED
2019	Metamorphoses	4:15 & Hyacinth
2018	I, Robot	8:15 & Cylon
2017	Radical Ritual	7:30 & Labyrinth