Our regular meetup to gather, chat and build our local burner community. Come along! How amazing was that? Our biggest burn yet and you all did an amazing job at keeping the flame burning. Let's meet up and tell stories and find out what we missed out on!
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Local paper on the Paddock
The Manawatu Standard arrived on the Paddock on Wednesday and our media team showed them round the site. Their observations are here.
Radical Self-reliance
Kiwiburn is built on the ten principles of Burning Man. Number four is Radical Self-reliance; you need to bring EVERYTHING you need to survive with you, including water, whether you’re a Theme Camp or a happy camper. There will be no access to farm water. It is not...
Respect our Burn Perimeter!
At the Effigy and Temple burns, we take special safety precautions to make sure our participants and the firefighters who help us with our burns are safe. DO NOT CROSS THE BURN PERIMETER! It is clearly marked out around each big burn and patrolled by volunteers and...
Map of the Paddock
Where will you be camping? What will be happening on the Paddock? Is there a Pot Luck dinner every night? You'll hardly be able to contain your emotions once you read the Event Guide, which is finalised and has gone to print! A copy is handed out at Gate when you...
Event Guide
What will you be doing on the Paddock? Download the Event Guide – there are so many amazing events happening. You'll receive a printed copy at Gate when you arrive which also includes a site map! Have a read of the online version, being updated daily
Early Entry
IMPORTANT: Only volunteers, artists and Theme Camp representatives with approved early entry will be allowed onsite before 10am, 27 January 2016 – NO EXCEPTIONS. We are on private property and need to keep our pre-event population to a minimum. NOTE: being a volunteer...
Ticketing update
Saturday’s ticket sale didn’t go quite as planned! Kiwiburn is well and truly oversold. Maybe there were ghosts in the machine, or Mercury being in retrograde is playing havoc with technology. Whatever the cause, ALL THE OVERSOLD TICKETS WILL BE HONOURED. Every cent...
Ticketing update after server crash
So many of you were trying to get tickets this morning that our server overloaded and died a horrible death, followed by the back up plan we had in place failing too. While we were trying to fix it all, a Kiwiburner unofficially posted a link taking you directly to...
Surviving on the Paddock
Be prepared! Read the Survival Guide for essential information about the event, the site and for ideas on what to bring. Download the pdf now – here.