Twelve years ago today, Pete Lumos Wyatt accepted the role of Burning Man Regional Contact for New Zealand, joining three others at the time, including Kiwiburn founder Mark Stirling. Now there are just two of us representing New Zealand. It is a year round volunteer...
Latest News
Are you looking for the latest gossip, straight off the Kiwiburn press? Well look no further! Keep reading for the latest info, or use the archive and search below to find the relevant info.
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Dario, the Electric Fence Poster
Dario Davidson, the newest EFP writer has been added to the Kiwiburn comms team. He’s going to be contributing to the semi-regular irregular blog posts and digging up some tasty material for the EFP. His hobbies include gardening (specifically the hottest chilis he...
Burning Man Update
If you are planning on going to Black Rock City (BRC) this year, here is a list of resources to make your packing light and dust proof: https://survival.burningman.org subscribe to the journal https://journal.burningman.org/subscribe/ sign up to the JRS newsletter...
We need you! To manage Crew.
In a case of the egg recruiting the chicken, we need a Crew Facilitator urgently! Kiwiburn is kicking into gear and exciting announcements are coming soon (like ticket sales!), so we need a wise and caring captain to take the helm of our volunteer ship ASAP. This...
Midburn: call for artists from around the world
For the first time, the Midburn Art department is officially inviting artists from across the globe to present their art alongside hundreds of local Israeli artists. Midburn will assist artists from outside of Israel as much as possible with help coordinating...
Welcome to Tracey, our new EFP writer!
Weeding through seven million applications was hard, but worth it - we have an amazing new EFP writer, Tracey! First of all – how did you get into Burns and what is your Burn history? I spent a year living in Canada back in 2015/16. One of my friends over there was...
Prestigious Investment Banking Roles now available at Kiwiburn!
Got your attention? Well, fake news will do that. We are not looking for investment bankers (unless that’s your default world job, future KB Treasurer?) but we are looking for some pretty heavy weight Facilitators for our still-to-be-renamed ExCom. All of the roles...
Desert Arts Preview 2022 – with Tinkle Drum!
Our own Tinkle Drum project (the human powered musical drum and sustainability experiment) is one of the artists featured in the Desert Arts Preview this year - log in and support Bibi and team. More than that, come see what else artists are cooking up for Burning Man...
BONZA mate!
Burners Without Borders (BWB) is teaming up with the BONZA 2022 Summit to provide a Civic Ignition Grant up to USD$1,500! What projects do YOU want to see in the world? Do you have an innovative community or civic concept, or project which will: create collaborations...
Re-seeding Burning Seed
There is so much passion in the Burnerverse which often leads to amazing art and creativity, transformative experiences, spirited debate, long volunteer hours, and burnout. And occasionally, fallout. What is happening across the ditch with Burning Seed in 2022? There...