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The Story of an Art Grant

The Story of an Art Grant

Our own EFP writer Jo got an Art Grant last year, which helped her (financially and emotionally!) to make Reality Glitch, that bit of your grandma’s living room tucked away in a corner of the forest.  She writes about her experience in our blog this week - if you are...

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Brand New ExCom Role: Community Facilitator Needed

Brand New ExCom Role: Community Facilitator Needed

Kiwiburn’s Executive Committee (ExCom) have decided that it is time to establish a new Community Department within the organisation. This department will consist of various sub-committees: Diversity & Inclusion; Accessibility; Consent; Community Liaison; Regional...

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Year Round Volunteer Roles

Year Round Volunteer Roles

Help us round up year-round, well-rounded, all-round fabulous volunteers to make Kiwiburn go round. Don’t just stand around, fill in this form and join us at the round table (ExCom, do you have a round table? We need it for a bad pun!).  Ok, before the word round...

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Time is running out to make Time Travel Poster

Time is running out to make Time Travel Poster

We have an amazing theme, but what does our poster look like? Is it Sci Fi or SteamPunk? Pychedelic or metaphysical? Dr Who or Dr Emmett Brown? We can’t wait to see your take on our journey through time and space! Submit your design here!  Entries sent from the future...

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Art Grants are open until 15 August!

Art Grants are open until 15 August!

Got any weird and wonderful ideas brewing for Kiwiburn 2022? Now’s the time to get the gears turning. Art Grant applications are open until 15 August. Head to our website to apply now. Art: The Octopussy by Amanda Cleland and Zoe Deverick

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More info on new Lottery-Based Ticketing

More info on new Lottery-Based Ticketing

As per the announcement last week, Kiwiburn will be moving to a lottery-based ticketing system, alongside increasing reserve tickets for artists, crew and Theme Camps to 50%! This is both exciting and a little daunting, so to help everyone make sense of this, we have...

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Last Call for Poster Submissions

Last Call for Poster Submissions

Hey Burners, don’t forget to send us your submissions for the Kiwiburn 2022 poster - the theme of course is Time Travel, and submissions were gonna be due on 30 June (tomorrow!). However the deadline has been extended to 15 July to give you a little extra time to get...

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Volunteers Needed

Volunteers Needed

Hola Kiwiburners, have we got some juicy new volunteer roles ready for you to fill? Of course we do - it wouldn’t be an Electric Fencepost without some.  First up - and we know you’ll find this one particularly tantalising after all the photography debates this year -...

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Greetings from an old friend

Greetings from an old friend

The Giant Weta, built by Auckland Burners in 2016, is looking mighty fine in her final resting place. She has travelled to Burning Man, to the Paddock, has been exhibited at a number of other Auckland sites and festivals until she was transported and installed at the...

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Tickets: The Big News

Tickets: The Big News

Bells! Sirens! Bleeping sounds! Big Announcement: Kiwiburn has a new ticketing system! Input was asked and received, ExCom has conferred, and 2 big decisions were made: Kiwiburn 2022 tickets will be sold using a lottery system.  Registration will be open from 00:01 on...

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