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Kiwiburn Art Grants are NOW OPEN!

Kiwiburn Art Grants are NOW OPEN!

Calling all artists! (clue: that’s you) Have you got an epic idea for Kiwiburn 2020 and need a little help to make it happen? Well, today is your lucky day! Art Grants are now open! It’s been a long time coming, your ideas and dreams have been stewing – now comes the...

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Rangering Part III and IV

Rangering Part III and IV

Check out the newest stories from our series on Kiwiburn volunteers and their experiences on our KB-log. These posts are part of a series about Rangering from the person who's quite literally been there, done that - Pete Lumos. He has a few dusty T- Shirts to to show...

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The future of Burning Man, NV

The future of Burning Man, NV

Over the past few months we've been reporting on the ongoing conversation between Burning Man Project and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) about a number of guidelines, restrictions and limits that BLM wanted to impose on Burning Man as part of a 10 year permit...

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Eclectic Decade winning poster design

Eclectic Decade winning poster design

Wow! We had the most ever entries for the poster competition (six) this year which made for tough decision making for the Kiwiburn Arts Committee (KAC). It was super close, and the winner is Erika Pearce. Thanks to everyone who entered the competition, and to the KAC...

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National Volunteer Week

‘Whiria te tangata – weaving the people together’ The theme of National Volunteer Week which started on 16 June. Kiwiburn is 100% volunteer run and there are many different ways to get involved – ranging from a one off shift with Greeters, to facilitating a team as...

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Kiwiburn farewells veteran volunteer and Operations Lead, Poppy

Kiwiburn farewells veteran volunteer and Operations Lead, Poppy

Like a lot of our key volunteers, Poppy likes to avoid the limelight, however, having been such an integral part of Kiwiburn over the years, we couldn’t let her leave without saying a few words. Poppy has been a custodian of the event from its early days at Whakamaru...

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Do you even Electric Fencepost bro?

Kiwiburn would like your feedback to make sure your pluckly little weekly newsletter is working for you, so please take five minutes to fill in the survey with as much detail as you can. It was emailed to all EFP subscribers last week, so help us volunteers out and go...

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More insights into Rangering

More insights into Rangering

Some of the AfrikaBurn Ranger team   Have you been following Pete Lumos Wyatt's KB-log series on Rangering? Lumos is an experienced Ranger at Kiwiburn and recently ventured back to Blazing Swan and onto AfrikaBurn. Parts three and four are now online. Do his...

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Regional Round up

Regional Round up

Burning Japan 2019 is coming in October! The sixth Burning Japan happens 12–14 October at the same venue as last year, Tumagoi, Gunma. This year's art theme is Hidden World. As the name implies, it is a hidden world: A fairy tale picture book I read when I was little....

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