Three of Kiwiburn’s team leads are currently looking for sidekicks (well, 2ICs, though you can still wear a cape if you want to): the Communications Facilitator, Site Safety Facilitator, and Services Facilitator. The Communications 2IC helps run Kiwiburn’s social...
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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Epic Video of Effigy Burn
Check out this amazing and well edited video of this year’s Effigy burn at Kiwiburn 2021! You can find this on our very own YouTube channel. We’d love more content like this, so let us know if you have any appropriate clips we can upload and share far and wide with...
The Chair is in The House!
We are incredibly proud and excited to announce that we have a permanent Chair again! Andy Justice has decided to stop “acting” and officially become our Big Kahuna, The Great Leader, The Munificent and Extraordinary Chair of Kiwiburn ExCom (that’s the short title,...
Arts Grants Open!
What, already? Well it is the Time Travel Burn, so expect our deadlines and timelines to follow exciting new paths! Art Grant applications are opening on Monday 14 June 2021, and will be open to receive your weird and wonderful submissions for a whole two months...
Poster Design Reminder
Hey there all you arty Burners, Kiwiburn 2022 has its theme - Time Travel - and now it needs a poster to promote itself. You’ve until 30 June to submit your entries, so get scribbling with your crayons or your photoshops or your macrame collages! To view some past...
Kiwiburn represented on the international stage this past weekend!
Kiwiburn was invited to present at two virtual international Burner events this past weekend. On Saturday, Chair Andy “Money Daddy”, Event Manager Firecracker and Communications Facilitator Julia “Flying Squirrel” presented on the topic of “How to hold a Burn in a...
Kiwiburn 2022 Art Theme Announcement!
Are you excited? We are excited! The Kiwiburn Arts Committee (KAC) has sifted through a plethora of wonderful, whacky, amazing suggestions and have chosen the Art Theme for 2022. Congratulations to Tracy Earl for the winning submission of: (drum roll) Time...
Call for Posters
Now that Kiwiburn 2022 has a theme, we need You (yeah, that’s right, reader, You!) to come up with a brilliant and daring poster to proclaim this Burn to the world! You get to decide what you reckon a time-travelling Burn looks like, and how best to tell the people...
Introducing: Your New Regional Contact in New Zealand is – Shelley Watson
Congratulations to Shelley for securing the second Regional Contact (RC) role for New Zealand. She becomes part of a network that has representatives all over the world to help spread the Burning Man spirit. Please find below the official statement from Burning Man:...
Be The Human Your Burn Needs: A Volunteer Leader
Hear that weird humming noise in the back of your head? That’s the Paddock calling out for volunteers to prepare for the next Burn. Even in the depths of winter, Kiwiburn preparations must roll on, and they cannot do so without key volunteer leaders. And yet, there...