August is a busy month for Burns! There’s heaps of regional Burns popping off, as well as the Granddaddy Burn itself.
Burning Man – Burning Man 2023 Animalia starts in a week, a week! It’s going to be a menagerie of much-anticipated madness, so if you are one of the lucky S.O.Bs that are on your way to Black Rock City, have the most amazing time! The BM survival guide is freshly published and full of great tidbits for Birgins and Veterans alike. There’s also a great piece by Stuart Mangrum about what Animalia means as a theme for BM23. Get amongst it!
Ignition Festival: ELECTION NIGHT – Three years have passed since the brutal Pest Control wars of 2021, and the creatures of that paddock now find themselves attempting to coexist in some form of functional society. But utopian ideals can quickly turn into dystopian realities and the tyranny of corruption cannot continue…
Ignition Festival 2024 invites you to navigate through the wild political landscape of the paddock as the pests protest and campaign for their preferred candidates and ideologies. That’s right! The biggest, baddest and boldest Burners are throwing everything into Ignition 2024; and I do mean everything. Election Night promises to be an evening of exceptional magnificence. Scoot over to the Ignition FB page for more deets.
Coracle – A lesser-known regional burn held in North Carolina, The word Coracle means a small round boat woven together. (my god, that’s adorable). Coracle is the weekend of Nov. 4-5, 2023 in Pittsboro, NC. A weekend up in the mountains surrounded by Burners; sounds amazing!
Microburn (14th-18th September) – Wales, as well as having loads of sheep, and the most-capped test-rugby player of all time, has a Burn! Microburn is coming up and if you’re in and around the UK, is definitely worth checking out!
“The MicroBurn is a not-for-profit community which is inspired by Burning Man principles and wants to make events that are run with this sort of ethos accessible to the people in more Northern areas of England and the UK”
