Community

Welcome to the Kiwiburn Community!

Here you’ll find the latest news and info, as well as connect with other Burners (via Facebook), and keep in touch with the happening at Kiwiburn Organisation, through our annual Census and Afterburn Reports.

Also, stay in touch via our Facebook Page and Facebook Group, which contain official information from the organisation and discussions with the community respectively (though of course all official information will be released here and in our Weekly Digest too).

Burning Around New Zealand

Wanting to connect with local Burners? There’s a wide range of places on Facebook to get information about local Kiwiburn communities

Latest News

Kiwiburn 2024 Decadance Ticket Price Announcement

The much anticipated lottery will be drawn later today, but you might be keen to find out what a coveted ticket will cost? Well, $exCom has crunched some serious numbers and were superkeen to keep prices as low as possible. Given the cost overruns for Kiwiburn 2023...

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Lottery Goes Live Tomorrow!

(Quick note: As previously stated, the lottery was due to be run today. Due to an unfortunate Quicket situation (involving weather and power outages - rain just loves to mess with Kiwiburn...) we will unfortunately need to delay the lottery until tomorrow. The lottery...

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Art Grants are Granted

Kiwiburn Art Committee (KAC) have been busy making coffee and meerkat-fuelled decisions (don’t ask - we don’t know either) and have allocated over $25,000 in funds for Paddock Art.  You know what this means?  There is going to be some hella epic Art for KB24 and we...

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Survey Lead & 2ic

You’ll never guess what we need… more volunteers! The Survey Team (the awesome peeps who take a map and turn it into Paddock reality) need a Lead and a 2iC. These roles lead and support the surveying team in marking out the Kiwiburn site including road networks,...

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Lead Ranger Needed

Calling all Burner legends! Kiwiburn 2024 is on the lookout for a Lead Ranger. If you fancy yourself a conflict-resolver, are capable of amicably strolling through the Paddock, or you want to live out those Aragorn fantasies of being the mysterious ranger that...

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Giga-Pan is Giga-Great!

Stitched together from over 600 aerial photos, the immense, 1.6 gigapixel picture of Burning Man: Animalia is up on the interwebs! Taken on August 31st, just before the initial deluge. See if you can spot your favourite Theme Camps, or perhaps your missing bicycle is...

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Recent Blog Posts

How to start a Theme Camp #8 – Final Tips

Welcome back! Captain here, this is the final blog in my 'How to start a Theme Camp' series. This time I'm discussing any final tips that may come in handy. I asked 25 fellow Theme Camp leads what...

How to start a Theme Camp #7 – Health & Safety

Welcome back! Captain here, continuing the 'How to start a Theme Camp' blog series. This time I'm discussing health and safety for your Theme Camp. I asked 25 fellow Theme Camp leads what they...

How to start a Theme Camp #6 – Structures & Set up

Welcome back! Captain here, today I'm continuing the 'How to start a Theme Camp' blog series. This time I'm discussing best practices for Theme Camp structures and set up. An important aspect of any...

How to start a Theme Camp #5 – Choosing Events

Today I share how to decide on events for your Theme Camp.

How to start a Theme Camp #4 – Camp Members

In this edition of the ‘How to start a Theme Camp’ blog series, I discuss how to choose and organise your new camp members.

Weekly News Digest

Kiwiburn Census

We want to get to know you better, take feedback, and learn how we can improve. The Census happens every year after the event, and the results provide insight into our community and a range of comments and suggestions.

Afterburn Reports

The Afterburn report is an annual summary, released after each Kiwiburn event, to keep the community up to date on what’s going on behind the scenes, and our plans to make the event even better.

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