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First Friday Las Vegas continues its tradition of bringing the Las Vegas community together to celebrate art by welcoming the curators of “Burn Wall Street,” an ambitious collaborative art project that will be installed as an Honorarium Art Project at this year’s Burning Man event in northern Nevada.

"First Fridays is excited to welcome “Burn Wall Street” as one of the features for this month’s event,” said Joey Vanas, managing partner of First Friday Las Vegas. “The artist and crew will provide the community with insight into how large scale art is developed, from inception to fundraising, and built by collaboration through hundreds of hours of volunteer work. It is a wonderful feature for this month’s theme, ‘The Art of Science.’"

“Burn Wall Street” was created by Otto Von Danger, a disabled veteran who has designed and built large scale participatory art for more than a dozen years. Von Danger’s purpose with “Burn Wall Street” is to spur an open discussion among all members of the community, regardless of their political persuasion; the project is fiscally sponsored by Veterans for Peace, a 501c3 non-profit.

“With ‘Burn Wall Street,’ I wanted to bring together the Left and Right wing perspectives in an effort to show that there isn’t much difference between the two sides,” said Von Danger. “What really matters is that individuals understand their rights and participate in the financial and political system in a meaningful way- not just today, but in the long run. Art like ‘Burn Wall Street’ helps move that dialogue along.”  

First Friday attendees will be surprised by the unassuming exterior of the night market set up for “Burn Wall Street” in the back of two box trucks. Inside the rented trucks, however, participants will be delighted with the opportunity to "Shoot the Bull," where $5.00 will give players five paintball gun shots at the Wall Street Bull as he moves between derivatives to options.

The Burn Wall Street Brokerage Office will be open in the second box truck. The participatory experience will include three-dimensional graphic displays of the project, a video presentation of the project that will educate the Las Vegas community about Burning Man, and more importantly, “Burn Wall Street.”

At the feature, collateralized debt obligations for the project will be offered, which will ensure recognition by donors on the project’s donor wall. T-shirts will also be offered for sale. All money collected to support the project is tax deductible. The project will be located near the Casino Center main hub between Colorado and California.

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More information is available at www.burnwallstreet.net. Tax deductible donations can be made at www.wepay.com/donations/burn-wall-street-art-project.For more information on First Friday Las Vegas, please check back on the website www.firstfridaylasvegas.com or on the facebook page www.facebook.com/firstfridaylasvegas.

ABOUT FIRST FRIDAY LAS VEGAS

First Friday Las Vegas has been a mainstay of arts and culture in downtown Las Vegas for nine years. In 2011, just shy of the October nine year anniversary, the arts and culture festival welcomed a new ownership group, First Friday Las Vegas, LLC, comprised of  Zappos.com executives Tony Hsieh, Fred Mossler and Steve Hill, as well as downtown developer Andrew Donner and marketing executive Joey Vanas. The outdoor event features several areas throughout Downtown Las Vegas that showcase artists of all calibers and genres, supplementing with live music, food and other celebratory events.