SPACECATS: a 2022 Burning Man art project

Spacecats Crew is organizing this fundraiser.

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Spacecats originally debuted at Burning Man in 2016 as a memorial to all beloved pets who have departed our earthly realm.

Each year, the event prominently features a temple space for participants to grieve, release, and heal; to our knowledge, Spacecats was the first project to provide an arena that specifically pays tribute to pets.

Heartfelt response inspired its return in 2017, and this year's 3rd iteration of Spacecats will spectacularly expand for its final flight path:

The crew of interstellar animals is growing from 3 members to 20, and their rocket from 40ft² to 400ft²! Hissss-torically serving as a vehicle for participants to transmit sweet messages to their furry friends in the sky, preceding rockets reached their capacities for inscriptions at the event.

This year, “The Mothership” is growing to provide all 70,000 attendees with an opportunity to contribute and interact. It will be a fully-outfitted, boardable vessel, featuring human-sized cat climbers, viewing ports, a navigation console, and many more treats!!

The Mothership will be safely burned on-site (7:35pm on Friday, September 2nd), giving this project’s series finale the proper send-off it deserves! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Prefabrication is well underway in Chicago, but with the price of fuel today, it’ll take a NASA-sized budget for Spacecats to fully launch! Our $20,000 crowdfunding goal will be allocated toward these approximated expense CATegories:

• Transportation – ($10,000)

• Rocket Fabrication // Lumber – ($9,000)

• Figure Fabrication // Costumes – ($7,000)

• Warehouse Rental – ($3,500)

• Rocket Interior – ($3,000)

• Lighting // Solar Power – ($2,000)

• Leave No Trace // Burn Safety – ($1,500)

• Tools // Consumables – ($1,000)

All art at Burning Man is generously gifted to the participants, by the participants— inspired purely by connection and creativity! Months and sometimes years of effort are donated by the creative teams who make Burning Man's yearly event the cultural metropolis that it is.

Your financial support makes this magic possible and will help Spacecats on its 4,000-mile round trip orbit one last time!

For those who want to help Spacecats honor the animals that enrich human life, or to participate directly (even from afar), Spacecats supporters are invited to:

Commemorate companions with a name engraving on The Mothership (all species welcome)
Commission a Spacecat figure to be modeled after your Purrrson (limited availability)
Claim some custom Spacecats merch to bring a piece of the project home

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Spacecats is deeply grateful for the many crew members, volunteers, donors, consultants, and participants who have contributed over the years. Thank you all so much for helping us along our journey, and for making this beautiful blastoff possible. It really means the whole galaxy to us… ♡

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Meet the 2022 Human Crew (so far):

Ayda Keshtkar

Aimee Rusch

Alex “Aloe” Aguilar

Andres Sesma

Austin Heredia

Brendan “Blove” Freaney

Brendan “Bdub” Welsh

Kate Puckett

Kurt Collins

Leila Ryndak