Heads up Theme Camp leads! It’s time for another Hui. This time it’s all about Town Planning. The Town Planning team will be joining us to get feedback on how to improve for Kiwiburn 2025 and beyond. The hui will take place 29 May 2024 at 6.30pm. The link is in the...
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Burnable Arts
Do you want to watch the world burn?! Yeah, nah. Neither do we. How 'bout watching your Art burn?! Keen as! Expressions of interest for Temple and Effigy are closing in a couple of weeks (31 May 2024, to be exact) so if you’ve got an awesome idea for either of these,...
Our IT crowd needs another digital dynamo! (and Sharky needs a sidekick!)
We’ve tried turning it off and back on again, and it’s still not working: We need a circuit sorcerer! It might shock you to learn, my fellow Burners, that we too, are practitioners of the dark arts of digitization. Kiwiburn can’t run without airtables, spread sheets,...
25 to Thrive Shoutout
25 to Thrive Community Forums on May 12 at either 5am or 12noon (NZT) What should the next 25 years of the Burning Man Regional Network look like? What would it take for all of our communities to be more successfully interconnected and thrive? All of our global burner...
BONZA 2024 Civic Ignition Grant
Burners Without Borders (BWB) is teaming up with Burners of New Zealand and Australia (BONZA) to provide a Civic Ignition Grant up to the value of AUD$2,300 (approx. NZD$2,500)! Anyone can apply as long as your application is in before 27 May 2024. The applications...
Vote for next year’s theme!!
The ExCom Summit has just taken place and we’ve been lucky enough to learn some juicy details that we just had to share with you. The community spoke and guess what? $exCom listened! This year, you’ll get to have your say on the Theme and the poster for KB25 -...
Year-Round Roles Shoutout!
Hey Burners! Ready to dive back into our wild world? Excited for the next Burn? Us too! But, we need YOUR help to make the magic happen! From setting up stages to wrangling art, there's always something exciting going on behind the scenes. Join the crew and be part of...
Auckland Decompression
Next up is the Auckland Decompression. We wrote about this in an EFP recently, but given it’s happening this weekend, we thought we’d post up a quick reminder! Given that Kiwiburn 2024 is done and dusted, how about one last hurrah before the long wait for Kiwiburn...
Regional Round Up
Wondering what’s new in the wonderful world of the Burn? Well you’re in the right place! Read on to see what’s happening. AfrikaBurn AfrikaBurn 2024 is nearly here, it’s set to take place from the 29th of April to the 5th of May. AfrikaBurn is a Burning man regional...
Services 2iC Needed!
In case you didn’t know, Kiwiburn is entirely powered by the blood, sweat, and tears of a bunch of hard working volunteers. The services (Gate, Greeters, Parking, Ticketing, and Traffic teams) are a huge part of what’s required to make Kiwiburn happen, and the...