How Not to Get Dumped at Kiwiburn Your relationship(s) may have survived many festivals over the years but believe us when we say that this event is very different. Attending a Burn is not like your standard music festival. It takes much more preparation, packing,...
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How to Make Kiwiburn Better for Yourself and Better for Others
The 4th Principle: Radical Self-Reliance Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources. I’ve only had the pleasure of attending Burning Man once and I can definitely report that The Black Rock Desert isn’t f*ing...
Moop, Moop, Moopity, Moop, Moop, MOOP!
The 8th Principle: Leave No Trace (LNT) Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better condition...
Gifting: The Second Principle
A Letter of Gratitude Dear Halcyon, The advice that you have gifted all of us, in my opinion, is hands-down the most thorough, most heartfelt, the most informative available for virgin and non-virgin Burners alike. Your videos and writings both prepared and inspired...
When You Know Better, Do Better
Thoughts on making Kiwiburn a more inclusive community By Ann K Addley Changing the World, One Burner at a Time I want to talk about Inclusion, and not in a preachy way. Not in a do this or else way, but as a vehicle for cultural change in our communities. Let’s face...
Civic Responsibility and Communal Effort: How to Do the Do-acracy.
We continue our journey through the 10 Principles and beyond! This week, two closely related principles take the stage in our conversations with Kiwiburners: Civic Responsibility and Communal Effort. Ever since the first happening on a sandy, California beach in...
Radical Self-Expression – What is it and how do we do it?
Kia ora, all you beautiful Burners! Thanks for showing up and participating! The aim of this Blog post is to cast a wide lens across one of our most favourite principles: Radical Self-Expression. We all know it, but do we really?? Do we? Burning Man...
The Sustainability of Kiwiburn: History, Intentions, Participation, and All the Yummy Data!
Participation is a hot topic for Kiwiburn 2021 - Mythical Picnic, so we thought it would be good to catch up with one of the coolest, up and coming Committees on (and off) The Paddock - The Sustainability Committee. 2019 saw the formalisation of the new Sustainability...
The 2021 Mystical Picnic Paddock Weather Report
Photo Credit: Peter Jennings [Artist Unknown] [Special News, Breaking Alert graphics] [Do do do do do do do do do do do do] [Tom, the News Anchor:] Broadcasting live from the memory of a giant television stage somewhere on the Effigy Paddock, it is now time for...
Art Grants ahoy!
Brows were beaten, coins were tossed (jokes), gauntlets were thrown. Mythical Picnic Art Grants have been decided, but it wasn’t easy. Kiwiburn Arts Committee (KAC) had a busy time banging our heads against a table to figure out how to allocate funds so you could...