Eric Griswold, Wisconsin regional contact for the Burning Man Project, will give a free lecture, "What the Hell is Burning Man?" on Sunday, Oct. 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the BurningSNOW Center, 2578 N. Weil St. in Riverwest.

Burning Man is an annual art festival and temporary community based on radical self-expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. More than 25,000 people attend each year.

"Burning Man is the world's most significant venue for the experimental arts. Not just new art pieces, but entirely new art forms are pioneered there every year," says Griswold. "You have to go once in your life."