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...
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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...
Meet Floyd – Our new Infrastructure Facilitator
First of all – what does the Infrastructure Facilitator role involve? Things... and bits and bobs obviously – but mostly things... and more importantly enabling the people who do the things, so we can have things on the Paddock. Kiwiburn is unique in that the...
Enter the Matrix
Keen to volunteer, prefer a virtual universe of ones and zeros to sledgehammers and tape measures? We have opportunities in our IT team for you: Burners who prefer building databases over porta potties. Our IT team looks after the arcane, marvellous and increasingly...
Fundraiser: Empyrean Temple, Burning Man 2022
Each year, the Burning Man Temple is brought to life as a safe place for embracing and releasing trauma, loss, and pain. The Empyrean temple will be the 20th embodiment of the Temple at Burning Man, and the first in three years. While the chaos of the past three years...
Kiwiburn 2023: Important updates from our Summit
On the weekend of 29 April ExCom* members sequestered themselves in a beautiful, isolated AirBnb at Manukau Heads near Auckland and hashed out the parameters for Kiwiburn 2023. There were presentations by the Green Kiwi Sustainability team and a virtual meeting with...
Ticket Lottery update
We know all those who purchased tickets for Kiwiburn 2022 via the general sale lottery and then received a refund have been feeling the loss and disappointment, and wondering what happens to you for Kiwiburn 2023. Conversely, everyone who was not successful in the...
ExCom name
ExCom needs a new name! One that is less stern, corporate and dry and represents what the Facilitators actually do, which is, well, facilitate the necessary bits and pieces to make the Burn happen. We’d love for you to submit your ideas of what ExCom should be called...