Are you making Art That Moves? Whether it’s an Alien Spaceship or a Steampunk Hedgehog, if it moves, it must be registered, and to be registered it must meet a bunch of criteria. Read all about what needs to happen to make your magic steed gallop safely and awesomely...
Kiwiburn’s infrastructure build crew, Ministry of Public Works (or MPW) are undergoing a wee shake-up as the Mighty Nan, leader of all My Little Pony followers on the Paddock, is stepping down from the MPW lead role. He is handing over reins to his 2IC’s Bing and...
The Arts team is one of the biggest and busiest Kiwiburn Departments, looking after not only Arts, but also Theme Camps, Events, Mutant Vehicles and for good measure also the Artery, Centre Camp and Depot. You know. Nothing IMPORTANT. So it’s probably a good thing...
The Effigy is in the works, and Jo Artemis Fox, who made the beautiful Phoenix sculpture for KB2021, is in charge this time. Meet Jo. She’s amazing: Tell us a little about yourself: I've been to 7 Kiwiburns and have been involved every year in various capacities. I am...
This year we have two wonderful humans in charge of creating the Temple: Karl Matthews as design lead, and Tora McKenzie as the build lead. While we are not giving away the design in any way, see what you can guess from what they shared with us: Tell us a little about...
An additional 100 tickets have been allocated to Theme Camps out of the pool of 550 reserved for volunteers, Effigy, Temple, and crew. Historically any surplus tickets in this reserved pool were released into the STEP queue around the start of January once all...
There are an absolute plethora of year-round volunteer roles within Kiwiburn that are currently (in some cases desperately) seeking capable applicants. If you are interested in giving back to your Burner community, in helping Kiwiburn continue to thrive – even grow –...
The newly established Community Department was set up to support the humans of Kiwiburn to do community even better. So important, and so vague! It would be easy to colonise this space with our own assumptions about what should happen, or respond with ad hoc reactions...
The Government has recently announced that they will fund recreational drug testing at festivals and events, giving $800,000 to Know Your Stuff, a service that was first made legal in New Zealand as of December, 2020, Getting this funding will enable them to attend...
Fancy yourself a bit of an art connoisseur? Know your Bansky from a Hirst? Good for you, though not really necessary for this role. What we do need though is someone who can lead in a calm manner, who can talk to Theme Camp leads, work with Paddock artists, enforce...
