Mayan Warrior Art Car Creators Are Throwing a Final Party – Billboard

Burning Man’s well-known Mayan Warrior artwork automotive was destroyed in a hearth this previous April, however that’s not stopping its creators from throwing one ultimate celebration.

On Tuesday (July 18), the Mayan Warrior introduced its final ever present: a Halloween celebration in Los Angeles. The Oct. 28 occasion is being produced in partnership with Los Angeles-based manufacturing firm Stranger Than, Mayan Warrior’s longtime associate on its off-playa tour stops.

The occasion will occur at downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park, the place Mayan Warrior hosted its first West Coast occasion in 2017. Whereas the precise Mayan Warrior artwork automotive will clearly not be on-site for the occasion, the celebration shall be thrown within the custom of its longstanding festivities. The occasion is a fundraiser for the Mexico Metropolis-based Mayan Warrior group, with cash going towards this group’s subsequent Burning Man camp and artwork undertaking.

No artists have but been introduced for the present, with Mayan Warrior events usually not revealing lineups till instantly earlier than the occasion. Tickets go on sale Aug. 1.

The Mayan Warrior present shall be simply considered one of a number of occasions Stranger Than will host in Los Angeles over Halloween weekend. Since increasing to Los Angeles from New York in 2018, the corporate has made a name for itself by internet hosting dance exhibits in places not usually used for music occasions, together with the seaside and native museums.

Since debuting at Burning Man in 2012, Mayan Warrior had change into one of many occasion’s status artwork vehicles, with a high-level soundsystem and a rotation of DJs representing Mexico and the worldwide digital scene.

The automotive caught fireplace and burned to the bottom on April 5 whereas en path to a fundraiser in Punta de Mita — a seaside city on the nation’s central Pacific coast. The reason for this hearth has not been given.