Good Day CommUnity,

The HPZ Winter Blitz Fundraiser is our primary source of funding from November to April. With the unpredictable weather, we are forced to cover and winterize the art car until the Spring returns, not counting Breakfast of Champions! But truthfully, after 17 HPZ events in the last 11 months, we need a little rest.

*In 2023, 13 of our 17 events were full art car appearances, most of them were Free & Family Friendly with zero net revenue.

If you’ve ever danced on HPZ…

If you’ve ever seen HPZ rockin’ a street party…

If you’ve ever watched one of our DJs crush it…

If you’ve ever peddled alongside HPZ on Playa…

If you’ve ever just smiled at all our bouncing stuffies…

Or if you just like what Heavy Petting Zoo does and represents...

WE WOULD THANKFULLY AND GRACIOUSLY ACCEPT YOUR DONATION OF SUPPORT!

HPZ IS A COMMUNITY ART CAR

The Heavy Petting Zoo is not just a Burning Man Art Car, we are an ever-growing, year-around CommUnity of Dancers, DJs, Artists, Performers, Creatives and Advocates of Equality & Inclusivity.

Yes, Burning Man is a huge part of Heavy Petting Zoo's history and our "Origin Story" absolutely starts in Black Rock City.

However, Burning Man is only 12 days out of the year for us. The other 353 days we dedicate ourselves to building community through a variety of local Bay Area appearances and free events. We embrace Radical Inclusion, Radical Self Expression and Radical Celebration. Additionally, we recently adopted Consent and Safety Guidelines that will be passionately enforced at all of our events moving forward.

HPZ - THE ULTIMATE LIFETIME FIXER UPPER

Owning, running and sustaining an art car is an endless cycle of repairing, fixing, upgrading, replacing… then doing it all again in a different order hoping it works better this time!

2023 was our busiest year by far and with it comes a long laundry list of things that were broken, lost, stolen, damaged by rain and extremely mudded on.

100% of your donation will go directly to helping repair, sustain (costs like insurance, storage & general operating expenses) and hopefully upgrade the Heavy Petting Zoo pArty Car for the 2024 season.

IS YOUR DONATION TAX DEDUCTIBLE?

YES! HPZ Events is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and donations made to GoFundMe charity fundraisers such as this one are guaranteed to be tax-deductible in the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland, and Australia and will receive tax receipts automatically from our charity partner, PayPal Giving Fund.

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY COLLEAGUES & COLLABORATORS

Over the years we've had the pleasure and honor of collaborating with dozens of Burning Man Camps, Bay Area Crews and Local Venues, including: Airpusher Collective, Blackrock City Explorers, Booty Mashup, Bounce Car, Brass Tax, Burning Man, Camp Fur, Daybreaker, Decadent Oasis, Duck Pond, Dusty Rhino, Entheos, Flaming Lotus Girls, Gold Bloc, Icarus, Kidsville, Monarch Gardens, Opel Productions, Opulent Temple, 7th West, Space Cowboys, The Great Northern, The Midway, unSCruz and VauDeVire Society, among others.