Event Guide

Wednesday 4pm - 5pm at the Depot

For those that are vapidly against reading or just didn't feel like it. Come on down to Center Camp and learn everything you need to know to survive KB, meet other new burners, learn all the inside gossip, ask some questions, give your opinion or just to complain about the terrible WIFI signal 🙂

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture

Wednesday 5pm - 6pm at the Temple Paddock

Join us for the opening Paddock Gathering! A chance to come together for karakia and mihi, acknowledge everyone who makes Kiwiburn possible, and share a moment of collective appreciation. Please bring something to make lots of noise (drums, pots, pans, hands, voices). We’ll finish with a community feast, so bring blankets and kai for yourself or as a camp.

Discussion / Conversation • Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 6pm - 9:30pm at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Back for another round of toe-curling ohhh-gasms...Vulva-bearing participants are invited to leap into a world of empowerment and pleasure as they hop onto one of our two Motor Bunny ride-on sex toys in a safe, and fun environment. Win a custom Camp Ohhh-gasm medal if you have an ohhh-gasm! 🫦

Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Wednesday 6pm - 8pm at Camp Meerkat

Meerkats look out for one another. Slide in for some self-care,restoration, and post-build recalibration vibes to get prepped for the week ahead. Let us look after you.

Music • Health & Wellness • Party

Wednesday 6pm at Ye Olde Bad Dragon

Come one, come all! It's the first ever Grand Feast at the ol' Bad Dragon! Bring a plate, bowl, or drink to share, and let's all make the biggest potluck KB has ever seen!

Whether you can't be bothered cooking the first night or you have some questionable leftovers you want to get rid off, Ye Olde Baddragon welcomes you to the table to enjoy each other's food and conversational abilities!

Food & Drink • Chillout

Wednesday 6pm - 7pm at Paddock Penthouse

Let's start off our loving Burn with some wine and nibbles with a space to chillout for all those that have been setting up and creating amazing stuff for the week to come.

Chillout • Food & Drink • Music

18+ (Alcohol)

Wednesday 7pm at Two Couches & a Rug

Feeling like the spark is fading? Let’s have a casual, honest chat about why folks are losing interest or feeling divided. We’ll discuss how to bridge the gaps between Kiwiburn, Ignition, and the community at large. No formal discussions—just a neutral space to vent, brainstorm, and figure out how we bring the magic back together.

Discussion / Conversation

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7pm - 8pm at The Queer Hour

Speed friending (guided 10min), social networking, dress up and enjoy the vibes of being in a room full of the friends of Dorothy.

Chillout • Party • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Wednesday 8pm - 9pm at the forest

Bring your divine being to a blessing of the land, all who make KB possible, and ourselves as we open to fun, connection, and growth at Kiwiburn. Join us in the forest by the bonfire, with trees, river, and unseen guardians. Drummers welcome; energy workers invited 30 mins early to help hold the space. All are welcome.

Arts & Crafts • Spiritual & Healing • Talk / Lecture • Performance

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8pm - 9pm at The Queer Hour

Relax to chill music, BYO towel, seek massage, soft touch or light pleasure in a space where others are also playing. Agreements for the space will be posted: mutual proactive consent, expressing and honoring boundaries, and health and safety—facilitated by interpersonal communication faeres.

Chillout • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Wednesday 9pm at Alphabet Soup

After a day of camp set up, come and spice up your life with a “so bad, it's good” movie night! Get your girl power on with Alphabet Soup and the 1997 Spice Girls movie.

Chillout • Performance

Wednesday 11pm - 11:59pm at the Depot

A respectful, grounded space for people processing unusual experiences, whether remembered, symbolic, or unexplained. Come to share, listen, and find community without judgment. Supportive, calm, and open to both serious accounts and curious newcomers @ Centre Camp.

Discussion / Conversation

18+

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Two Couches & a Rug

Do you love sport? The Acid TAB has got you covered! Join us for 24 hour LIVE sports action this year with more sport!

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Friday, Saturday and Thursday roaming around

As one of the great pieces of Art (tm) from Kiwiburn 2025, the dancing noodle man is back! Gaze in awe and wonder at this majestic mammoth marvel. We don't know when, we don't know where, but he might be right behind you.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday roaming around

Roaming around the paddock is a flock of bobs. A diamond formation, moving in unison, might float past you at any time. AND THE FLOCK IS GROWING! If you find yourself (consensually) caught in the flock, make sure you blend in! Just copy what everyone else is doing. Join us or WATCH OUT! The Flock is coming.

Performance

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Cycle Cove

Need wheels? Our camp is offering decorated communal bikes for getting around the burn. Treat them with love and return to camp if possible or leave them out for others to use.

Health & Wellness

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Come check out the possibilities. Make sense of it as you like. What is time anyways?

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Doodle your worm in our chill space, and stick it in our Hall of Worms to enter our low-risk, yet wildly-exciting Worm Doodle Art Competition! Closes 2pm Sat. Awards & Worms-Giving 4:20pm Sat.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Performance

18+

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Souper Kitchen

Come along and see what delicous food Souper Kitchen is serving up today......will it be Soup, Salads, Fritters, Curry, DIY Noodles or Home Baking?

There is normally something on offer to nourish you so you can continue to party on the paddock.

Food & Drink

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

2 years recording 20 voice actors in a garage in Island Bay. 8 years of intensive sound design. 15 hilarious episodes of beautifully-produced, highly-infectious audio comedy, inchworming into a mind near you... Doodle a Worm in our chill space, and surrender to our surreal psychedelic audio comedy series. Inspired by Bad Jelly the Witch & Monty Python. Made with 420% Love.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Performance

18+

All day Thursday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Deep in the bowels of the Lost Worm Galaxy, two humans struggle to end all war! But first, they must escape from the stifling influence of... the Normal Worms. **WARNING: Contains 420% reeferences to sex, drugs, and psychedelic worms.**

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Performance

18+

All day Thursday at Secret Sasquatch Society

NOTHING!!!!

Games

18+ (Alcohol, BDSM, Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Littles' Playhouse

A drop-in zone for families. Join us for friendly chats, art activities and equipment. Whether you need a breather, advice, entertainment, or simply a cup of calm, this is your welcoming hub for festival families. THIS IS AN ALL DAY, SO BASED ON IF YOU SEE US AROUND, COME SAY HI! Note: If we aren't around you can supervise your kids on the play equipment.

Performance

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Sodden Velvet

The Sodden Velvet camp will be roaming the paddock with all you need for a re-useable water bomb fight. Keep an eye out for a real fun time on a hot day, or pop by to book it for your event. Squirt on your crush or get really wet with all the people you desire.

Games

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Print a thought to share with the universe. Prompt: What thoughts are percolating as you make sense of the effects of patriarchy and intersectionality while here at the festival?

Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation • Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday roaming around

Something silly is afoot! Catch your roaming Juice TV correspondents making you giggle paddock-wide with coordinated nonsense.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday at Secret Sasquatch Society

FIND US!!!

Performance • Games

18+ (Alcohol, BDSM, Sexual Content)

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Depot

Event? Art piece? NOBODY KNOWS.

The Revolving Clothesline is an all-genders all-sizes event-long clothing swap. Bring your unwanted clothes & grab a new outfit! Or just come by & check it out. Open 10am Wednesday-1.45pm Monday.

One rule: NO DIRTY UNDIES. We don't want to have to deal with your groady skidmarks. Keep it clean, people.

Any leftovers will be donated to Aunty Dana's Op Shop, Welly.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Tramp Stamp

Welcome to the Tramp Stamp Tattoo Parlour! Whether you’re a tat rat thirsty for ink or you hate the Moon and want the world to know, we have tattoos for all tastes and no taste. Wear your pants low, your g-strings high and your Tramp Stamps with pride!

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 8am - 9am at Wild Connections

Greet the day in a whole new way. Ground into the whenua, connect with the mighty papa cliffs & magikal waters of Rangitīkei Awa. Explore Somatic movement, shaking & a Warrior Hatha Yoga flow accompanied by a delicious soundscape.

Arts & Crafts • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness • Chillout

Thursday 9am - 10am at Littles' Playhouse

Pregnant? Thinking about getting pregnant, first time or more or freshly thrust into the world of parenting? First time camping with kids? Come for a hang out/playdate and chat with the parents of Littles’ Playhouse kids camp. Q&A style. Think of a topic or question. Kids are welcome of course.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 9am - 12pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Come get your rope on at our two gigantic Shibari workshops. ALL skill levels welcome, from beginners to advanced, we have many teachers. There will be rolling group sessions throughout each session so rock up when you can. There will also be space for free practice and potentially some demos. Limited rope available so bring your own if you have it. Bring a partner if you can.

Workshop

18+ (BDSM)

Thursday and Saturday 9am - 10am at the forest

Sound Journey by the River with Didgeridoo, Native American flutes, crystal bowls, and percussion. Relax to live vibrations that help release physical, emotional, and spiritual blockages. Lie or sit comfortably—bring something to lie on and a blanket to stay warm.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Thursday 10am at the Depot

I will share fun insights on farming and prepping edible insects. We will discuss their environmental impact, who eats them, why they’re the ‘food of the future’, and their other uses. There may be a chance for a taste too:)

Talk / Lecture • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Wild Connections

The Chapel of Wild Connections is a space for love, unity, and connection. Celebrate with yourself, friends, or new connections. Host a workshop, activity, or ceremony by booking the board. Part of Sunday is reserved for legal weddings; other times welcome celebrations of love and joyful nonsense. Legal weddings require contact at least two weeks pre-Kiwiburn.

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Health & Wellness • Party

Friday, Thursday and Saturday 10am - 5pm at Camp Rock

Ye Olde Boulder 2.0 is open for all your climbing pleasure! Rock up any time, have a jam, and hang out with our awesome crew for as long as you like. Come show off your sick moves or just come give it a go for the first time. Ye Olde Boulder is now twice as big, boasting a sexy collection of various angles to climb on, from 15 degrees to 30 degrees, so there’s something for every climber.

Chillout • Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11am at Cycle Cove

Drop off workshop to keep your wheels spinning. Leave you ride with us for any repairs or tuning required and wheel have you back on the paddock in no time.

Workshop

Thursday 10am at Camp Low Expectations

We cannot eliminate expectations but we can shape them. Experience the benefits of examining your expectations and learn strategies to transform them when they arrive.

Workshop

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 10am at Paradiso Airlines

First time at Kiwiburn? Head over to the First Time Burners Workshop and find out what it's all about. Captain will be sharing tips on how to make sure you have a great time at Kiwiburn, giving advice on everything he wished he knew at his first Burn. Everyone welcome, even seasoned Burners!

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture

Thursday 10am - 11am at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Maybe your libido is not what it used to be, or your body doesn't respond like it used to.

Maybe long-term relationships, breakups, aging or hormones have shifted your desire in ways that feel confusing or painful, and you don't know what to do with it.

In this experiential workshop, we'll grieve the erotic together and make room for the next expression of pleasure to emerge. Arrive on time.

Workshop • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 11am at Burner Bum Sun Club

Slow down, stretch, and embrace your natural state. Our resident yogi will lead us through a Vinyasa or Yin session (TBD), but we're also open to any volunteers who would like to lead the session. BYO yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Thursday 10am - 11am at the forest

Curious about how food systems are changing with climate pressures, innovation, and sustainable farming? Wonder what the site is like when Kiwiburn isn’t on, or what regenerative farming really means? Join an open, facilitated Q&A exploring regenerative practices and life on the working farm that hosts Kiwiburn year-round.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11:30am at Existentially bent

Coming together in a circle to share is a timeless practice of diverse peoples and cultures around the world. It is a space for everyone and anyone to have a place with an equal and honored voice. It is also meant to help each person speak from the heart and speak truth.

Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Visit Kiwiburn’s own nudist beach. Grab a drink and be free to frolic in the “waves”, sunbathe, or play a variety of games available.

Chillout • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday 10am at Tramp Stamp

Tramps, come earn your stamp! Start off Kiwiburn the right way; run, walk, or tramp our course through the paddock for as many laps as you want up to the full 5k. All finishers will receive the limited edition Tramp Stamp (TM) logo to adorn your body as a badge of honour for the rest of your Kiwiburn existence.

Health & Wellness

Thursday 10am - 11am at Ancient Astronaughties

Ucchāra is an ancient yogic meditation, it uses sounds and actions to activate, cleanse, and fine tune one's chakras. It was used by spiritual seekers in 7th - 12th century India. Done regularly it brings up hidden samskaras and vikulpas (trauma) and help reintegrate the energy into one's body.

Spiritual & Healing

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am at Sensory Dispensary

Back for another year, the Sensory Dispensary will be rustling up some chilled morning brown. Freshly brewed right on the Paddock - and this year, with decaf available! Serving until we run out!

Food & Drink

Thursday 10:30am - 12:30pm at Tangerine Steeze

Nau mai, haere mai ki Tangerine Steeze ki te kōrerorero i te kaupapa o te purenga ihomatua. Why are burns so white? Whose land are we on? How does Kiwiburn relate to tangata whenua and to Te Tiriti o Waitangi? This workshop aims to develop a collective understanding of what decolonisation is in Aotearoa and how Kiwiburn as a community can engage with this process.

Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Thursday 10:30am - 11:30am at Souper Kitchen

Get ready for a informative, sustainable adventure at our Festival Food Survival workshop!

Discover how to keep your veggies fresh, savor the flavours of home-grown food, and learn why caring is sharing when it comes to food and community. Eat smart, share more, and join the fun—your festival food adventure starts here!

Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 10:30am - 11am at TechnOasis

Take a break from the noise and join our relaxing, hands-on session where you’ll turn simple paper into beautiful keepsakes. We’ll guide you through beginner-friendly folds with options for all skill levels. Whether you’re feeling creative, curious or just need a breather, come chill out, make something cool & leave with a little piece of art you crafted yourself. All materials provided

Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am - 12pm at Wisdom Dispensary

Thursday: 'The Palmistry of Fingerprints' - a look at the psychological significance of the unique biometric markers that are your fingerprints!

Friday: 'Anatta - Do I have a Soul? - an exploration of the Buddhist teachings on anatta and the illusory nature of the ego

Saturday: 'The Astrology of Living Experience' - navigating your life with awareness of planetary cycles and transits

Talk / Lecture • Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 10:30am - 11:30am at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Welcome to yoga for people who want to relax & feel like they sort of accomplished something. This slow-flow, yin session is a gentle negotiation between your body & gravity. Guided meditation pops in through the practice like that wise friend who shows up uninvited. By the end, you’ll feel looser, calmer, & mildly proud that you didn’t fall asleep on your mat. Honestly? That’s personal growth.

Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Caffeine dispensed at 11am daily by one of our lovely weirdos. No pants required.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 11am - 12pm at Warm Fuzzy Doodleboppers

Learn how to make your own doodleboppers!

A cute accessory to brighten up your day.

Materials provided (but limited)

Arts & Crafts

Thursday 11am at Inky Fingers

Sporting new enhancements to speed up wait times - like a two headed Unicorn vomiting ink onto two chests at once, fun!

Bring your own spew sponge or grab one from us...it's t-shirt printing time, Bitches!

Arts & Crafts

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday and Friday 11am - 12pm at Camp Douche

Need a hottie to snug? Don’t we all. Let us deliver a hot water bottle to your nest for a tasty warm bed to crawl into - delivered between 10pm-1am.

Come by Camp Douche from 11am-12pm to pick up a flag to mark your sleeping quarters.

Zero guarantees on delivery or that we put it in the right bed.

Health & Wellness

Thursday 11am at Cosmic Zip

Sam is a psychedelics and harm reduction researcher at the University of Auckland where he investigates real world drug use, harm reduction, and benefit maximisation. This will be a presentation with opportunities for discussion around how we support real world use of psychedelics.

Talk / Lecture • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday 11am - 12pm at Wannabe Camp

Ever wondered how your name looks in Arabic — or just keen to wear a word with meaning?

Choose your name, a feeling, or a secret word, and we’ll turn it into flowing Arabic script on your skin (temporary, promise).

Baklava in hand, chilled Arabic beats in the air, slow vibes and good yarns welcome.

Temporary ink. Permanent memories.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am at Faerieland

Feeling an embodied whisper seeking permission? Group discussion and safe exploration in pairs of consensual intimate touch with a male-bodied queer facilitator over multiple sessions. Normalise engaging openly with consent, needs, desires, boundaries, sexual health, meaning, and care. Safely co-create the workshop from a menu of eye-gazing, body-washing, massage, touch, and other R18 encounters.

Health & Wellness • Discussion / Conversation • Workshop

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday 11am - 12pm at No Regerts Tat-Teas

Wear your wildest head attire and bring your fanciest tea cup or any outlandish vessel that is not a cup for some delicious iced tea. Engage in frivolous natter, ooh and aahh over the wondrous hats. If the urge bites, indulge tea party guests with a reading or poem.

Food & Drink

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am - 12:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at LOW EFFORT BOGANS

A garden shed full of tools and useful stuff. 

Forgotten building bits? Car wont start? Tent fugged? We *might* be able to help!

If you're lucky there may be someone around to laugh at your problems and give you crap advice.

- Shed open Daylight hours only -

Workshop

Thursday and Friday 11am - 12pm at the forest

A gentle vinyasa flow open to everyone. Come as you are, stretch into the moment and leave feeling centered and renewed. Meet me at the forest entrance, and don’t forget to bring your own yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Thursday 11:30am at The Big Kids Table

It’s our mascot Marcella’s 89th birthday and you’re invited! There will be the BEST party games, like pass the parcel, a potato & spoon race, and pin the ? on the donkey! Don’t forget the cheerios, fairy bread & a Woman’s Weekly birthday cake! It’s the party your 7 yr old self dreamed about… except it’s for grown-ups who like fun stuff. Cya at 11:30am & get ready to put on your PARTIEST PARTY HAT!

Games • Food & Drink • Party

18+

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 11:30am - 1pm at Creature Lab

Science Rocks! Join this geology field trip to answer the ultimate burner question: "Why is effigy paddock so far away and so high?". A 100% real scientist will bombard you with geology facts as you traverse three paddocks, four terraces and 14,000 years of rocks to learn about the past 2.6 million years of climate change in the Rangitikei.

Talk / Lecture

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 11:30am at Alphabet Soup

Do you ever tell people you are gay, straight, bi or queer because it's easier to explain? Does that label feel inaccurate? We have a workshop to discuss the other sexualities with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Do you want to learn the difference between Polyamory and Polysexual? Or discuss what being Finsexual means to you. Maybe it's all new to you. Everyone is welcome!

Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday and Friday 12pm - 1pm at Juice TV

Juice TV is pouring juicy delights from midday! Rehydrate with a refreshing range of chilled juices (flavours change daily), whilst quenching your sensory and social palates with some nostalgic tunes, silly games and surprises from our camp correspondents.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 12pm at Paradiso Airlines

Crash landing? Pfft, not gonna stop our world class service. Our sexy cabin crew have lined up an in-flight feast not to be missed, so make sure you're in your seat when the trolley rolls by!

Your boarding pass is essential so don't miss check-in. Thursday counters open 9am same day and our Sunday service offers advance check-in at 10am Friday.

Byo cutlery + mug. Come see us for menu & allergens.

Food & Drink • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at the forest

Ronnie Holmes & The Wiener Dogs take to the stage to bring you warm, heartfelt and acoustic sounds for your ear holes. Blending joyful playfulness with personal and thought provoking lyrics to bring you a familiarly homely and yet new and exciting sound. A mixture of classic covers in their own unique style and new original music that'll knock your socks off (if you're wearing socks).

Music • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at Cycle Cove

In the World card, Jesus Christ in Majesty is replaced with a dancing naked woman. Embrace this spirit and come to this Tarot workshop, where cards are dying to get you naked - at least in spirit. Pull a card, and let's see how far down the rabbit hole we go.

Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Thursday 1pm at Camp Rock

Beginner Boulders welcomes any climbing newbies who are keen to give it a go! Our climbers will take you through the basics, from simple movement on the wall to how to use your feet properly, which is the real secret to climbing. No experience needed and no pressure at all. Just rock up, learn a few handy skills, have a laugh with the crew, and enjoy giving something new a go.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Thursday 1pm - 1:30pm at LOW EFFORT BOGANS

A head bangers guide to consent. Come on up to the Effigy Paddock to talk shit, have a beer and have some yarns.

Stick around after the consent chat for some absolute ripping metal tunes. Best air guitar wins, HELL YEAH!

Music • Discussion / Conversation • Party

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 1pm - 2pm at Wild Connections

Awaken your innate resilience and experience nervous system buoyancy. Learn simple tools from the Japanese lineage of Jin Shin TARA to calm anxiety, integrate experiences, strengthen boundaries, and reconnect with your authentic self. Led by TARA Approach practitioner Sanson, this guided, practical session offers resources you can use for yourself or others. All ages welcome.

Spiritual & Healing • Workshop • Health & Wellness

Thursday 1pm - 2pm at Pillowtopia

Curious to hear how others navigate the world of non-monogamy? How many different versions of relationships have you experienced or are you open to? What's your favourite part? What advice would you want others to not have to learn the hard way?

Discussion / Conversation

Thursday and Saturday 1pm - 2:30pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Fancy yourself as an artist or a life model? Come try either! Materials provided or BYO.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout

Thursday 1pm at Easily Distracted

Help Spread the spirit of Revolution at the press. Create your own absurd proclamations and pamphlets in our 18th Century Print Shop. Denounce aristocracy, invent new laws or declare yourself Minister of ...Something Entirely Unnecessary.

Cheap vin rogue for revolutionary spirits!

Arts & Crafts • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday 1:01pm - 3pm at Palace of the Sand Dragon

The Twin Dragons have roused from a thousand year slumber! They demand a tournament of mighty warriors to fight to the death for their Amusement! BeyBlades, Launchers and stadiums provided. BYO Sick one liners and backstory. Stop by the camp for pre registration or first in, first served on the day!

Games

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 1:01pm - 2pm at the Effigy

Through a serious of physical theater, contact and movement exercises we will take you on a silent journey to search and connect with what is already within. There will be touch and there be joy, discovering what is so freely available in our bodies. The real vehicle is meat, blood and breath.

Following Pedro’s passing, friends Fred and Ana offer this adapted event in his spirit.

Workshop

Thursday 1:30pm - 3pm at Tangerine Steeze

An opportunity to learn some basic weaving skills through making a putiputi. Come and let your hands walk to make at least one flower. Each participant will make at least one flower.

Arts & Crafts

Thursday 1:30pm - 2:30pm at the Depot

An examination of ideas about happiness and the meaningful life, from various ancient and modern philosophical traditions. We’ll also look at some relevant findings from modern psychology, consider ways in which pleasure, happiness, and meaningfulness might differ, and discuss how we can explore these ideas in our own lives.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Thursday 1:30pm - 2:30pm at Littles' Playhouse

This event is for “dadish” identifying folks to discuss the highs and lows of being a dad, matua dada, papa, daddy, uncle or other masc role model’s in our tamariki lives. Come for a hang out/playdate and chat with the parents of Littles’ Playhouse kids camp. Think of a topic or question or just come along and listen. Kids are welcome of course.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 2pm - 3pm at Paddock Penthouse

A gentle, trauma-aware workshop open to people of all genders and identities, focused on building clarity and safety around consent and boundaries. Inviting you into guided exercises with no nudity and no sexual touch. This space supports practicing clear yes, no, and maybe, at your own pace, to foster trust, self-respect, and more conscious connection 💖

Discussion / Conversation • Workshop • Chillout

18+ (Alcohol, Sexual Content)

Thursday 2pm - 3pm at Luna Lounge

Let's talk about cycles! You've got questions? We've got experts with [most] of the answers...we will touch on menstrual physiology, management strategies, and the social stigma surrounding periods. The Cycle Circle is for anyone interested in understanding menstrual cycles and our coming together is to open a conversation that expands beyond the burn.

Discussion / Conversation • Health & Wellness • Performance

Thursday 2pm at Definitely Not Cops

A panel discussion focused on our history, the current landscape, where we want to go and how we can get there.

Performance • Talk / Lecture

Thursday 2pm - 4pm at The Ranch

Kick open our saloon doors and make your very own wild bronco from a pile of recycled scraps.

Whether you´re a dusty wanderer, glitter outlaw, or just here to stir up some trouble – swing by The Ranch and get crafty.

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 2pm - 4pm at Camp Douche

Calling all filthy hippies and their consorts - it’s time to go through the carwash! Let Camp Douche clean you top to toe in our showers with a thorough scrubbing, sudsing, buffing and spritzing experience. Get a token for the carwash then swan about eating pickles and enjoying the Camp Douche bar till it's your scrub time. BYO towel or let us use a grubby wet one on you.

Health & Wellness • Party

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 2pm - 3pm at Infusion of illusion

Fresh matcha with a jam session. BYO instruments

Chillout • Music • Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 4pm at Neon Dreamscape Oasis aka rusty bullet hole

Neon Dreamscape Oasis - Mimosaic Mosaic Workshop

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2-4pm

Build your own 8-bit pixel art mosaic. Mimosas served as you are guided through the process of making your own mini-mosaic tile creation to take home. Pro-tip: first 2 workshops we have abundant materials and enthusiasm, set a low bar for the last workshop and you wont be disappointed!

Arts & Crafts

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 3:30pm at Wisdom Dispensary

A sacred women’s wisdom circle for those born as and identifying as female. An intentional sanctuary to be seen & heard, a gentle, ritualized space for grounded heartfelt sharing. Come for clarity, community or a deeper connection with self and leave feeling supported, inspired, more fully embodied. Please arrive on time to respect our ceremonial circle, once begun, no one else will be admitted.

Spiritual & Healing • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 2pm - 4pm at Camp Old News

If tea is for two but more than two are for tea, can there be tea too? No! Tea is not allowed! 

Join the Mad Hatter for an afternoon not-tea party. Bring a hat and a beverage. Tea is not allowed!

Food & Drink • Games • Performance

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday and Friday 2pm - 4pm at Knots & Nonsense

Sick of losing your cup in the chaos of the paddock? Come craft your very own vessel-holding contraption—chain, harness, strap, dangly thing—whatever you want to call it! Never walk away without your drink again. BYO cup and a healthy sense of humour.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 2pm - 4pm at Tiny Town

Welcome to the most delightfully diminutive destination—Tiny Town! We're inviting you to unleash your creativity at our Tiny Hat Making Workshop. We're providing all the essential supplies you'll need. If you've been hoarding tiny treasures or found objects during your journey, bring them along! No crafting experience necessary. Bring your friends, bring your imagination, and create!

Arts & Crafts

Thursday 2:03pm at Zef

The cute police will reside at zef but will roam the paddock issuing fines for being too cute and will not let any get away without gentle encouragement to do it again

Performance

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 2:03pm at R.A.T

THERE WILL BE CAKE THIS TIME I SWEAR TO GOD.

Come and celebrate the darling of the Paddock with us. Sprogus is turning 3 and as any mature rat knows, gratitude is the secret to a long and happy life. Get your burn started right - Come and share some food and some gratitude with all of us at R.A.T.

This is a shared lunch picnic so bring a plate and some kai to share 🙂

Chillout • Food & Drink

Thursday, Friday and Sunday 2:30pm - 4pm at Budju Oasis

Budju brings Budju Juice for all Budjus (alc/non options). Plus daily 80s beats + extras. Come say hi – meet Budju!

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2:30pm - 3:30pm at Littles' Playhouse

This is a time set aside for story telling of all kinds. So bring along your favorite stories or listening ears. Adults, teens and even children are welcome to come and tell a tale or just listen. Examples: verbal, puppet/prop stories, reading books, singing songs/waiata.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 2:30pm - 4pm at Budju Oasis

Is your plain hat letting your funky Kiwiburn outfit down? Come along to Budju Oasis, try some Budju Juice, and give your hat a special Budju makeover! Instant Budju success guaranteed! BYO Hat, all other materials supplied.

Arts & Crafts

Thursday 3pm - 4:30pm at TechnOasis

Learn the basics of Japanese Inspired rope bondage to tie either ourselves or partners. With a technical focus on building Practical restraint and ties. This workshop is being led by a well practiced Shibari performer and instructor

Workshop

18+ (BDSM)

Thursday 3pm at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Feeling inspired by all the incredible art around you? Need to unleash some creative juices and feel a little snacky? Come paint macarons with us! We’ll have colourful edible paints, blank macaron canvases, and a lineup of delicious fillings for you to pipe in. Make something beautiful, munch something sweet, and let your inner artist (and sweet tooth) play.

Food & Drink • Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 3pm - 6pm at Mint Country Club

Come for some one on one with the mintiest Minters on the paddock. Ice cold gin and tonics, cucumber club sammys, lawn sports, games, green clothing line, prize for the most minty dressed.

*MCC minty group photo at 5pm

(Gin and tonics donations very welcome)

Chillout • Food & Drink • Games • Music • Party • Performance

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 3pm - 3:01pm at Pangea

A lived experience visceral gauntlet of learning

Prepare to upskill, learn how to arrive on time by shifting mindsets, managing realistic estimates, using reminders, planning the night before and minimising distractions to build reliability for professional/personal success

Runs strictly 3:00pm to 3:01pm. No early admittance. No late entry

Talk / Lecture • Spiritual & Healing • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday 3pm - 4pm at Wild Connections

"Bring a blanket and rest your head whilst our residence fable queen lulls all into a world of mystery and magic.

Come gather and connect with remembering through the conjuring of story"

Chillout • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 3pm - 4:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Thursday 3pm at Camp Low Expectations

Exhale the need to predict and control, inhale a sense of agency. Embrace vulnerability to reconceptualise power.

Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday 4pm - 5:30pm at Very Alternative Gathering

We'll talk about the etiquette of attending a play party and chat about how to negotiate play, things we wish we had known and traps for the inexperienced.

We will discuss safety considerations of using our kinky toys and furniture, and how to make the experience one to repeat for all parties.

Attendees will receive their wristband for entry into the play party.

Session repeated on Friday 10.30am.

Workshop • Talk / Lecture

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 4pm at Alphabet Soup

Wig snatching is like tag with wigs. As is tradition, starting now, the Wig Snatching event will begin with the ceremonial call and response. Q: Do you vear vigs? A: No! Q: Vill you vear vigs? A: Yes! Q: Vhen vill you vear vigs? A: Now!

Then the wig snatching commences! A flurry of barnets, a woosh of wigs, a tossing of toupees! The winner will be crowned with the winning wig for you to keep.

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 4pm - 5:30pm at The Ranch

Forget the DJ´s, we're taking over the saloon. Three 30-minute line dancing sessions with space for up to 10 dancers each. Expect boot-stomping tunes, big energy and zero standing still. Yeehaw guaranteed!

Workshop

Thursday 4pm - 8pm at Paddock Penthouse

We will adore you and adorn you, fulfilling all your Lingerie and costume needs and dreams. Hundreds of pieces to giveaway.

Thursday only!

Chillout • Music • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 4pm at Tramp Stamp

The moon has ruled the night for far too long. Join us as we rise up against the smug, cheesey overlord in the sky. First we will make protest banners then we will take our message to the paddock.

Arts & Crafts • Performance

Thursday 4pm - 6pm at Pangea

Acoustic cozy relaxed all welcome Open Mic.
 Soft chords, quiet voices, or loud. Bring a song, a poem, (or a scream), anything goes. 
Lean in. Keep it gentle (or not). Make yourself known to the Pangeans when you arrive and we will add you to the schedule xxx

Music • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 4pm - 5pm at the river

Join the crew from Littles’ Playhouse, down by the river swimming hole. This is for parents and kids. We have a big green mat for sitting together. Nature hangs and swims. Bring snacks and sunscreen for your kiddos.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 4pm - 6pm at Tangerine Steeze

The annual Sexy Banana Dance Off is back! A chance to strut your stuff and show us what you got. We have plenty of Banana accessories and costumes for the willing (of course you can BYO outfit). You get one song to be your sexiest banana. Only 1 special Banana will take away the coveted title and be crowned Kiwiburn's Sexiest Banana 2026!

Party • Performance

Thursday 4pm - 5:30pm at Cosmic Zip

Shed your skin and let your inner wild out. This primal, ecstatic dance takes you from slow, grounding rhythms through deep, building beats into full unleashing—roaring, stomping, shaking, howling at whatever moon shows up. Guided moments help you drop in and let go. No dance experience needed, just a willingness to get weird and move what wants to move. No shoes required. Growling encouraged.

Workshop • Music

Thursday 4:30pm - 5pm at Two Couches & a Rug

Don't know how to shelve? Just put it in your butt.

Workshop • Talk / Lecture

18+

Thursday 5pm - 6pm at the Depot

Art Shark @ Centre Camp is brought to you by KAC (Kiwiburn Arts Committee). It is basically like Shark Tank or Dragon's Den, but for art projects. Pitch your fantastic idea for a Kiwiburn art project and maybe walk away with one of those massive cheques, a.k.a an approval in principle for your 2027 grant. Audience participation/heckling welcome. Half-baked ideas are always encouraged.

Arts & Crafts • Performance

Thursday 5pm - 11pm at Knots & Nonsense

Come for the BBQ, stay for the brews! Swing by for some budget snags sizzling on the grill and wash them down with a bevy or two from Echo’s home-brew collection. BYO vessel and pull up a seat for some light-hearted banter and joyful nonsense-talking with the Knots & Nonsense crew. Good vibes, cold drinks, great company. R18—sorry young burners!

Party • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday 5pm - 7pm at Camp Meerkat

Set your night off on the right paw with foot spas, a cosy chill lounge, smooth tunes, and delicious beverages. Come unwind, reset, and ease into the evening Meerkat-style.

Health & Wellness • Music • Party

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 5pm - 6pm at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

An experiential workshop to explore pleasure, the mindful way!

Join somatic sexologist Bia Bliss to slow things down and notice how pleasure shows up when you stop rushing to get somewhere other than here. You'll leave with practical tools to stay present with pleasure and take it with you into the rest of the burn and default world! Arrive on time.

Workshop • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday 5pm - 6pm at No Regerts Tat-Teas

Wanna take a tattoo for a test drive before locking that sucker in? Your chance to try out a tattoo with no regerts – take your pick of spray on, stick on or glow in the dark. Come along and attach yourself to one of our groovy temporary tattoos. Fancy a French or Fishtail braid with some pretty ribbon or thread while you wait – we gotchu!

Arts & Crafts

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday and Saturday 5pm - 6pm at Tiny Town

Join us for the most charming happy hour you'll experience all week. We're serving tiny drinks accompanied by tiny compliments. Wear that tiny hat you crafted earlier at our workshop (or any other tiny garments you have), and prepare yourself for an evening of sophisticated small talk. Bring your friends, bring your sense of whimsy, and have a tiny adventure with us.

Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 5:30pm - 7pm at the forest

Do you love to hear, feel, play and dance to the sounds and energy of drum beats?

Come and join us to jam and flow in this amazing space.

We love to jam with drums, pans, flutes ... any music instrument that you want to bring.

If you don't have one there will be one you can use. We also celebrate with dance, singing, come play with your special flow

Music

Kid-Friendly

Friday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 5:30pm - 6:30pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Most people know what kink and BDSM are in theory - or at least in stereotype, but do you know what it looks like in practice?

Your favourite Paddock kinksters are here to give you a window into the normally behind closed doors practices so you can have a glimpse into this deep, dark world of whips and chains.

Performance

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 6pm - 9:30pm at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Back for another round of toe-curling ohhh-gasms...Vulva-bearing participants are invited to leap into a world of empowerment and pleasure as they hop onto one of our two Motor Bunny ride-on sex toys in a safe, and fun environment. Win a custom Camp Ohhh-gasm medal if you have an ohhh-gasm! 🫦

Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 6pm - 7:30pm at the Depot

Kiwiburn artists and all art lovers are invited to come and have a wine and nibble of cheese (non-alcoholic and plant-based offerings too). Celebrate the uniqueness of Burner Art with other artists, volunteers, and crew at Centre Camp.

Arts & Crafts • Food & Drink

Thursday 6pm at Zef

Cabaret and cake! How do they go together? Watch zef and friends take our clothes off and be surprised at how this involves cake and for the daring to try some

Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 6pm at The Doss House

Heavy beats, dirty bass, and zero excuses. Lose yourself in the rhythm, dance till your legs fall off, and ride the sound straight through the night. It’s loud, relentless, and made for those who don’t stop when the music hits

Party

Thursday 7pm - 9pm at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Roll up! Come and join the creepy crew of Cirque Macabre for an evening of kooky carnival games, including wacky wig snatching, mini-stilt racing and freaky fortunes.

Games

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 7pm at The Lodge upon Bozo Heights

MPW has a theme camp now. Get used to it. Come enjoy the dingy excuse for an attempted pub-atmosphere by doing a team style pub trivia. There may even be some skill testing questions amidst the shit talk. BYODB

Discussion / Conversation • Games • Chillout

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday and Friday 7pm - 9pm at 3nt1ty

Open decks!

Test some tunes youve made, get some guidance on using pro DJ gear and generally kick off the burn by blasting some tunes to ya mates through the 3nt1ty soundsystem

Music • Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 7pm - 8pm at Paradiso Airlines

Prepare for the most unhinged inflight entertainment of your life! This is theatre that happens in the aisle, behind your seat, and quite possibly right in your lap. Join us from a disastrous takeoff to a spectacular crash landing. Will we find our way home? Our premium passenger zone is limited. Late arrivals may find themselves missing the full turbulence. Check in early for the full ride.

Performance

18+

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 7pm - 8:30pm at Faerieland

Pinklet's and Anal.

R18 hearty group discussion on the in’s and out’s of Anal.

A fun curious, consent based conversation led discussion around the taboo/stigma of anal sex and masturbation the good the bad and the ugly.

Bring your curiosity, wisdom and stories to share.

Finishing this event with tasty Pikelet's cream and jam.

Your host Muppet.

Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink

18+ (Sexual Content)

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7pm - 8pm at The Queer Hour

Speed friending (guided 10min), social networking, dress up and enjoy the vibes of being in a room full of the friends of Dorothy.

Chillout • Party • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 7pm - 9pm at 🚌 (or the camp FKA The Magic Doof Bus)

School disco at the doof bus! Eurodance, pop, awkward slow dancing and crippling self consciousness. Children friendly 🙂

Party • Music

Kid-Friendly

Thursday 7pm - 9pm at Wannabe Camp

Wanna show the paddock you're the sickest DJ here? Sick of hearing Psytrance and DNB and want to play some Hip Hop? Only played in your bedroom and fancy playing a gig?

Come down to Wannabe, sign up for a slot and bring your USB (we know you carry it everywhere) and show what you've got.

All abilities & genres welcome.

Music • Party

Thursday 7:30pm at The Palace Lounge

Its movie Monday on Thursday, come and kick back and prepare for a long week ahead with a journey through surreal worlds, absurd survival and the quiet weight of being human. (films to be decided by the infamous wheel)

Chillout

Thursday 8pm at Tangerine Steeze

Pineapple? Cherimoya? Persimmon? All fruits of all sizes are cordially invited to join for an evening of juicy, sweet tunes. Freshly squeezed from the Fat Owl soundsystem, a delectable sonic fruit salad awaits the eager. YUM.

Party • Music

Thursday 8pm at Creature Lab

Have you exhausted all avenues to find love? Maybe it will be found at the Creature Lab (stranger things have happened). Come along & get coupled up, or enjoy meeting the Creatures & contestants. Couples will go on to take part in a series of tests and challenges over the next day and a half to hopefully impress the judges, come out on top & be crowned KIWIBURNS LAB ISLAND BOMBSHELL COUPLE OF 2026

Games • Party • Music • Spiritual & Healing • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday 8pm at Paradiso Airlines

Oh my god, it's happening again! The pilots got all whacked out on goof balls and we're going down! Someone should really warn us next year.

But hey we make the best of a bad situation. We’ll have music, we’ll have drinks, we’ll have life vests. Maybe.

Allow extra time to clear airport security.

Food & Drink • Music • Party

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8pm - 9pm at The Queer Hour

Relax to chill music, BYO towel, seek massage, soft touch or light pleasure in a space where others are also playing. Agreements for the space will be posted: mutual proactive consent, expressing and honoring boundaries, and health and safety—facilitated by interpersonal communication faeres.

Chillout • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday 8pm at Cycle Cove

Step into a portal of light and sound, and journey deep into the meanders of your own mind. Suspended in a hammock, you’ll be bathed in high-frequency LED pulses that explode into kaleidoscopic visions. Layered with immersive soundscapes this is an intense sensorial adventure. Limited space, registration req at camp.

Performance

Thursday 9pm at Ye Olde Bad Dragon

Stare into the fire with us!

We'll be running a brazier for marshmallows and s'mores as a backdrop to an open fire circle, come watch our camp mates spin fire in a relaxed setting! All spinners welcome, chill beats included!

Warning ⚠️ Spontaneous deep and meaningfuls may occur while chatting by the fire.

Performance • Chillout

Thursday 9pm at TechnOasis

We can't save your soul but we will certainly help you celebrate it! Allow TechnOasis to tempt your devilish curiosity as we lure you into 3 nights of full noise, beginning with our Saint or Sinner party. Naughty or nice, virtue or vice we encourage you to dress for the theme but be warned, you might have your moral fibres tested!

Music • Party • Performance

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday 9pm at Easily Distracted

Live rope performances - come experience the connection, tension and playfulness of shibari. With performers from across Aotearoa, featuring self-tie, partnered ties and suspension.

Performance • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday 9:30pm at Definitely Not Cops

Check out our event board to check out what drug themed cinema masterpieces were playing tonight

Performance • Chillout

18+

Thursday 10pm at The Big Kids Table

Remember the phrase ‘Mum/Dad are away…. party!!?’ Come by the Big Kids Table Thurs 10pm for games, drinks & music your teenage self would fizz over. With Vodka jelly shots, cask wine & the cheapest rum and coke we can find, we’ve got your drinks sorted. And with games like consensual spin the bottle and the best 90’s 1 hit wonders, fly times will be had. (For adults, not actual teenagers).

Games • Party

18+ (Alcohol)

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Two Couches & a Rug

Do you love sport? The Acid TAB has got you covered! Join us for 24 hour LIVE sports action this year with more sport!

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Friday, Saturday and Thursday roaming around

As one of the great pieces of Art (tm) from Kiwiburn 2025, the dancing noodle man is back! Gaze in awe and wonder at this majestic mammoth marvel. We don't know when, we don't know where, but he might be right behind you.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Cycle Cove

Need wheels? Our camp is offering decorated communal bikes for getting around the burn. Treat them with love and return to camp if possible or leave them out for others to use.

Health & Wellness

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Come check out the possibilities. Make sense of it as you like. What is time anyways?

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Souper Kitchen

Come along and see what delicous food Souper Kitchen is serving up today......will it be Soup, Salads, Fritters, Curry, DIY Noodles or Home Baking?

There is normally something on offer to nourish you so you can continue to party on the paddock.

Food & Drink

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Friday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Normal Human Gemma has a problem: she’s too socially awkward to flirt with the Cute Couples who come her way! If only there were some Helpful Worms around who could tell her the Normal Thing To Do… Come. Doodle Your Worm. For art. And be sure to tell us The Normal Thing To Do...

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Performance

18+

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Littles' Playhouse

A drop-in zone for families. Join us for friendly chats, art activities and equipment. Whether you need a breather, advice, entertainment, or simply a cup of calm, this is your welcoming hub for festival families. THIS IS AN ALL DAY, SO BASED ON IF YOU SEE US AROUND, COME SAY HI! Note: If we aren't around you can supervise your kids on the play equipment.

Performance

Kid-Friendly

All day Friday at Creature Lab

All day the Lab Island couples will be completing challenges and competing to give the judges the biggest heart ons. Come gamble, place your bets, set your own challenges, become a mole, spread rumours, corrupt the system, steal a couple and fall in love? Create a love triangle..start a throuple? The world is your oyster.

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Sodden Velvet

The Sodden Velvet camp will be roaming the paddock with all you need for a re-useable water bomb fight. Keep an eye out for a real fun time on a hot day, or pop by to book it for your event. Squirt on your crush or get really wet with all the people you desire.

Games

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Print a thought to share with the universe. Prompt: What thoughts are percolating as you make sense of the effects of patriarchy and intersectionality while here at the festival?

Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation • Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday roaming around

Something silly is afoot! Catch your roaming Juice TV correspondents making you giggle paddock-wide with coordinated nonsense.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Depot

Event? Art piece? NOBODY KNOWS.

The Revolving Clothesline is an all-genders all-sizes event-long clothing swap. Bring your unwanted clothes & grab a new outfit! Or just come by & check it out. Open 10am Wednesday-1.45pm Monday.

One rule: NO DIRTY UNDIES. We don't want to have to deal with your groady skidmarks. Keep it clean, people.

Any leftovers will be donated to Aunty Dana's Op Shop, Welly.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Tramp Stamp

Welcome to the Tramp Stamp Tattoo Parlour! Whether you’re a tat rat thirsty for ink or you hate the Moon and want the world to know, we have tattoos for all tastes and no taste. Wear your pants low, your g-strings high and your Tramp Stamps with pride!

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Friday 3am at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Kia ora, Haere Mai.

Join me for a kōrero sharing some ancient and modern Māori celestial stories, our whetū, constellations and clusters, and how this mātauranga connects to the natural world. Bring something comfy to lie on and stargaze as we explore the cosmos and Aotearoa’s history together. My knowledge is primarily Kāi Tahu (South Island) — local insights are warmly welcomed.

Talk / Lecture

Friday 9am - 3:30pm at fat tummy

Friday Asado:

We will be cooking some beautiful, nourishing, local produce, meat, veges for you all.

Please come and hang out, relax, help with cooking or whatever else you may want to.

We will be cooking all morning and we will be serving at 14:00-15:00

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Food & Drink • Discussion / Conversation • Health & Wellness • Talk / Lecture

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9:30am - 10am at The Big Kids Table

Start your day the gentle way. Roll out of bed (pjs acceptable), snuggle up with a cushion and join us for story time. Each day we’ll read aloud an installment of the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox. Listen along whilst being served freshly brewed coffee and South African rusks. Join us for one reading or become a regular to see the story through - the choice is yours!

Chillout

18+

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Wild Connections

The Chapel of Wild Connections is a space for love, unity, and connection. Celebrate with yourself, friends, or new connections. Host a workshop, activity, or ceremony by booking the board. Part of Sunday is reserved for legal weddings; other times welcome celebrations of love and joyful nonsense. Legal weddings require contact at least two weeks pre-Kiwiburn.

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Health & Wellness • Party

Friday, Thursday and Saturday 10am - 5pm at Camp Rock

Ye Olde Boulder 2.0 is open for all your climbing pleasure! Rock up any time, have a jam, and hang out with our awesome crew for as long as you like. Come show off your sick moves or just come give it a go for the first time. Ye Olde Boulder is now twice as big, boasting a sexy collection of various angles to climb on, from 15 degrees to 30 degrees, so there’s something for every climber.

Chillout • Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 10am - 11:30am at The Ranch

Saddle up and mosey on over to The Ranch for a cup of Cowboy Coffee.

We´ll be slinging hot cups of caffeinated love, poured slow, so bring your wild stories and your favourite mug.

Food & Drink

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11am at Cycle Cove

Drop off workshop to keep your wheels spinning. Leave you ride with us for any repairs or tuning required and wheel have you back on the paddock in no time.

Workshop

Friday 10am - 11am at Luna Lounge

Make an impression using plants and fabric paint to spruce up your clothes. Bring a cotton item, and we’ll supply the paint, tools and leaves, but feel free to BYO plants. It’s a chance to leaf your worries behind and create something unbe-leaf-ably beautiful with new friends.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Friday 10am - 11:30am roaming around

Fooling is the art of playing with whichever mask/part/self shows up on stage/playground, giving expression, being curious...open to be surprised by yourselves..... Hosted by Colin

Workshop • Talk / Lecture • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 11am at Burner Bum Sun Club

Slow down, stretch, and embrace your natural state. Our resident yogi will lead us through a Vinyasa or Yin session (TBD), but we're also open to any volunteers who would like to lead the session. BYO yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Friday 10am - 11am at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Join Pleasure Queen Bia Bliss for this paddock favourite workshop! You’ll learn how to fill up your own cup & ignite your pleasure within, with simple practices using breath, sound & movement, touch & awareness. Your inner beloved is calling you, can you hear it? Leave this workshop with an overflowing cup, and the limitless potential for pleasure and intimacy at your fingertips. No late entry.

Health & Wellness • Workshop • Spiritual & Healing

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11:30am at Existentially bent

Coming together in a circle to share is a timeless practice of diverse peoples and cultures around the world. It is a space for everyone and anyone to have a place with an equal and honored voice. It is also meant to help each person speak from the heart and speak truth.

Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 10am - 12am at Faerieland

Curious about what it means to be a sperm or egg donor, or to grow up as a donor-conceived child? This workshop invites donors, donor-conceived adults, LGBT+ parents, and anyone to share stories of alternative family paths. We’ll talk about known vs. anonymous donors, sperm banks, and what these choices mean for children and families. Come learn, share, or just listen in the in the circle.

Discussion / Conversation

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Visit Kiwiburn’s own nudist beach. Grab a drink and be free to frolic in the “waves”, sunbathe, or play a variety of games available.

Chillout • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am at Sensory Dispensary

Back for another year, the Sensory Dispensary will be rustling up some chilled morning brown. Freshly brewed right on the Paddock - and this year, with decaf available! Serving until we run out!

Food & Drink

Friday 10:30am at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Does the creature of your dreams have funky ears? Do your visions include goblins, psychedelic kittens and intergalactic bunnies? Let me guide your fantasy into reality, let others experience your wackiness, make the unthinkable come to life.

Build your own ears workshop... let's get weird with it.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Friday 10:30am - 11:30am at Pillowtopia

Welcoming all Dungeon Masters and Game Masters, current forever DMs and future forever DMs! If you are experienced or just curious - come and share tips and tricks to running a fun role playing game!

Discussion / Conversation

Friday 10:30am - 11:30am roaming around

This workshop explores how to meet challenging psychedelic experiences (“bad trips”) with grounded, compassionate support in both Sanctuary, and on/off paddock settings. We’ll also discuss the emerging legal landscape of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in Aotearoa NZ. Practical, harm-reduction focused, and peer-led. No substance, medical, or legal advice. Presented by Jarek.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

18+

Friday 10:30am at The Big Kids Table

Take yourself to connect with your inner child in a short and sweet guided meditation.

Spiritual & Healing

18+

Friday 10:30am - 12pm at No Regerts Tat-Teas

Wanna take a tattoo for a test drive before locking that sucker in? Your chance to try out a tattoo with no regerts – take your pick of spray on, stick on or glow in the dark. Come along and attach yourself to one of our groovy temporary tattoos. Fancy a French or Fishtail braid with some pretty ribbon or thread while you wait – we gotchu!

Arts & Crafts

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 10:30am - 12:30pm at Pangea

Ease into Friday with Pangeas scrumptious Pancakes. Piles of toppings, accompanied by mimosas and live Jazz, from 10:30am until we run out of Pancakes, or Jazz!

Speaking of Jazz, take a chorus and trade some 4s, real book (not)supplied

All of this is a warm up for the annual Pangea jam night, come back in the eve and get amongst the improvised musical chaos till the wee hours

Food & Drink • Music • Chillout

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 10:30am - 11:30am at Infusion of illusion

Cultivate the collective life force with qigong and chai.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Games • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Friday 10:30am - 11:45am at the Depot

Discover tensegrity - structures that float through tension, not rigid supports! Learn the physics behind these gravity-defying sculptures, then build your own bamboo creation. Like community, each piece supports the others to form something greater. Hands-on workshop for ages 10+. No experience needed - just curiosity!

@Centre Camp.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am - 12pm at Wisdom Dispensary

Thursday: 'The Palmistry of Fingerprints' - a look at the psychological significance of the unique biometric markers that are your fingerprints!

Friday: 'Anatta - Do I have a Soul? - an exploration of the Buddhist teachings on anatta and the illusory nature of the ego

Saturday: 'The Astrology of Living Experience' - navigating your life with awareness of planetary cycles and transits

Talk / Lecture • Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Caffeine dispensed at 11am daily by one of our lovely weirdos. No pants required.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 11am - 12pm at Wild Connections

Experience the wonder of breathwork - your own medicine! Whether you are a curious beginner or a veteran enthusiast. This is a carefully curated & safely held space by certified advanced BBTRS Breathwork practioner, Anahera Worthington. Bring a blanket and a open mind.

Arts & Crafts • Health & Wellness • Performance • Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Friday 11am at Inky Fingers

We’ve been collecting fun threads all year for our annual yard sale - come and grab that extra something to zhuzh up your paddock look.

Arts & Crafts

Friday 11am at Littles' Playhouse

A welcoming, supportive workshop where children and teens explore communication, confidence, and personal boundaries through fun, age-appropriate games and guided discussion. Fully non-sexual, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-inclusive, it allows ages 5–16 to participate together at their own level. Take-home tools help caregivers continue learning beyond the festival.

Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday and Friday 11am - 12pm at Camp Douche

Need a hottie to snug? Don’t we all. Let us deliver a hot water bottle to your nest for a tasty warm bed to crawl into - delivered between 10pm-1am.

Come by Camp Douche from 11am-12pm to pick up a flag to mark your sleeping quarters.

Zero guarantees on delivery or that we put it in the right bed.

Health & Wellness

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am at Faerieland

Feeling an embodied whisper seeking permission? Group discussion and safe exploration in pairs of consensual intimate touch with a male-bodied queer facilitator over multiple sessions. Normalise engaging openly with consent, needs, desires, boundaries, sexual health, meaning, and care. Safely co-create the workshop from a menu of eye-gazing, body-washing, massage, touch, and other R18 encounters.

Health & Wellness • Discussion / Conversation • Workshop

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday 11am at Easily Distracted

Dress your best for an outrageously indulgent morning tea. Come for the boozy cake pops, stay for the court gossip and wash it down with whiskey.

Enjoy it while it lasts- you're all destined for the guillotine!

Food & Drink • Party • Music

18+ (Alcohol)

Friday 11am - 12:30pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

A slow, embodied partner yoga class grounded in Hatha yoga and informed by somatic and tantric principles of awareness and presence. Through gentle postures, breath, and mindful partnering, we explore trust, listening, and embodied connection. Consent-based and optional touch throughout. Bring a partner or meet one gently. No experience needed. Clothing required.

Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

Friday 11am at Sensory Dispensary

Most of us do poos but we hardly ever seriously discuss them! This will be a friendly and facilitated feces forum for us to get together and talk shit. Bring your best stool stories and fecal facts to share!

Discussion / Conversation

Friday 11am - 12pm at Camp Douche

A kaleidoscopic vinyasa flow for wobbly minds and curious bodies. Expect giggle-friendly movement, deep breaths, and moments that make you go “whoa… my hips feel feelings.” No substances required. Just show up, tune in, and let the weird be wonderful. All levels welcome. Reality optional.

Health & Wellness

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am - 12:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 11am - 12pm at Warm Fuzzy Doodleboppers

Pop into the Warm Fuzzy Doodlebopper camp and pick up a handmade MOOP bag to carry with you on your journey around the paddock.

Where the hunt takes you can be either your choice, or we can tell you where to go! (nicely of course)

Possible prizes for anyone who comes back and shows us the MOOP they've collected. *possible prizes include: fist bumps, high five, water mist.....

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday and Saturday 11am - 4pm at Hatmosphere Lounge

Tumble into the Hatmosphere; our absurd headwear bazaar where you can take a hat, leave a hat, or simply revel in the absurdity. No hosts, no rules (except consent). The hats are watching, but they don’t judge. Drop by anytime the brims are open… and please, ask before you snap & leave a little stranger than you arrived.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at LOW EFFORT BOGANS

A garden shed full of tools and useful stuff. 

Forgotten building bits? Car wont start? Tent fugged? We *might* be able to help!

If you're lucky there may be someone around to laugh at your problems and give you crap advice.

- Shed open Daylight hours only -

Workshop

Thursday and Friday 11am - 12pm at the forest

A gentle vinyasa flow open to everyone. Come as you are, stretch into the moment and leave feeling centered and renewed. Meet me at the forest entrance, and don’t forget to bring your own yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11:11am - 12pm at Faerieland

Come let the world slither past your fulcrum! Warm coconut oil, naked bodies - push, squish - in this sensual extravaganza. R18 - intimate but not sexual.

Chillout • Games • Party

18+

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 11:30am - 12:30pm roaming around

Learn how to give and a relaxing massage, and receive. Bring a partner or come solo and be paired gently. This workshop covers the basics of Swedish massage using oil on skin, focusing on calm, presence, and healing touch. Nudity welcome but non-sexual. Bring a towel or sheet you don’t mind getting oily. Max 20 participants. Hosted by Joe.

Chillout • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Friday 12pm at Alphabet Soup

Do you have a financial plan for your future? Do you want one but don’t know where to start? Bring yourself and your curious mind and learn all the tips and tricks to becoming a financial (self-employed) rockstar.

Anyone and everyone welcome.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday 12pm at Sodden Velvet

Sometimes it's hard to spot a bisexual out and about - be seen at Sodden Velvet and we'll share a cuppa and some bi-ckies. We've called it this because it's a good pun, but the space is welcome to bi / queer / pan / questioning / other people.

Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness

Thursday and Friday 12pm - 1pm at Juice TV

Juice TV is pouring juicy delights from midday! Rehydrate with a refreshing range of chilled juices (flavours change daily), whilst quenching your sensory and social palates with some nostalgic tunes, silly games and surprises from our camp correspondents.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 12pm - 1:30pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Come along to cultural hour to celebrate te ao Māori through movement and song. Together we will learn a waiata aroha - a song of love, I Ngā mokai. We will learn the lyrics and the movements. If there are any kairakuraku interested, feel free to bring your gat.

Music • Performance

Friday and Sunday 12pm roaming around

Keep an eye out for Camp Bored Games' Mobile Chai Cart. We'll be doing the rounds and sharing our delish Almond milk chai.

Food & Drink

Friday 12pm - 1pm at the Depot

An examination of how we create meaning in our lives, both individually and collectively; and a think about how identity, agency, and authenticity fit into this process. We’ll also explore some different philosophical ideas (especially from Existentialism, Stoicism, and Buddhism), and discuss anything that resonates with our own experiences.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at the forest

Ronnie Holmes & The Wiener Dogs take to the stage to bring you warm, heartfelt and acoustic sounds for your ear holes. Blending joyful playfulness with personal and thought provoking lyrics to bring you a familiarly homely and yet new and exciting sound. A mixture of classic covers in their own unique style and new original music that'll knock your socks off (if you're wearing socks).

Music • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at Cycle Cove

In the World card, Jesus Christ in Majesty is replaced with a dancing naked woman. Embrace this spirit and come to this Tarot workshop, where cards are dying to get you naked - at least in spirit. Pull a card, and let's see how far down the rabbit hole we go.

Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Friday 12:03pm - 1pm at the Depot

Calling all awesome humans who've slung ice at Depot over the years, and anyone who wants to sling ice in future!

Come hang out with your fellow Depot crew members past and present and relive shift changeover fun, complete with icy-cool and refreshing beverages and snacks ... and coffee of course!

We'd love to see you and catch-up <3

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Party

Friday 1pm at Camp Rock

Have you been climbing for a few years but stuck on that V4/V5 plateau? Come level up with our intermediate bouldering workshop! We’ll dive into technique, body tension, footwork and clean movement concepts to help you break through the barrier and start sending harder with confidence

Workshop • Talk / Lecture

Friday 1pm - 4pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Interested in stepping into the world of kink? This intro workshop covers consent negotiation, safety, space to explore toys, sensations and dynamics. Come on your own or with others. Workshop entry at 1pm or 2.30pm.

The space stays open until 4pm for hands-on exploration, guided play or simply watch and learn from others.

Workshop

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Friday 1pm - 2pm at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Are you polycurious? Polyevangelist? Just a bit chaotic? Round robin speed dating style discussion forum for your non monogamy lifestyle issues, joys and woes. Come and share how you navigate them and how we've messed them up. Gossip and sexcapades encouraged. Grouples of any size welcome.

Discussion / Conversation • Workshop

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday 1pm at Easily Distracted

Featuring the latest health and wellbeing fad hitting the paddock, embrace your inner eldritch infection and let your personal demons take over. (this is basically a flash mob with a lot of screaming in Latin)

Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Friday and Saturday 1pm - 2pm at Hatmosphere Lounge

Join us for a hat-decorating jam where you can make a hat pop with MOOP-friendly materials. Whether you're adding flair to your favourite lid or starting from scratch, this is your chance to express yourself—loudly and sparkly.

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 1pm - 2pm at TechnOasis

Take a break from the noise and join our relaxing, hands-on session where you’ll turn simple paper into beautiful keepsakes. We’ll guide you through beginner-friendly folds with options for all skill levels. Whether you’re feeling creative, curious or just need a breather, come chill out, make something cool & leave with a little piece of art you crafted yourself. All materials provided

Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Friday 1pm - 2:30pm at Wannabe Camp

Come grab a mic or two and get down with the conscious hip hop vibes over DnB and fresh mashup beats hosted by UK/AU wannabe rap star Amy Be...

Music • Performance

Friday 1:30pm - 2:45pm at Mint Country Club

Back by popular demand, the Air Instrument Championships for 2026 will be held at the Mintiest Club on the paddock! Bring your imaginary instrument, your passion, and a performance! Who will be named the champion of 2026?

Music • Performance

Kid-Friendly

Friday 1:30pm at Inky Fingers

Sunny is back with her badge machine - come and draw something and she’ll squash it into a button badge for you.

Great for a low cost paddock marriage proposal or wedding gift. Just get married, it will make your life a happy fairytale forever.

Arts & Crafts

Friday 2pm at 3nt1ty

All this talk of AI, big tech firms control and power hungry data centres giving you the digital heebie-jeebies?

Join us for a workshop / discussion on AI where we will discuss potential benefits, concerns, outcomes of further development and sustainable/safe data privacy concepts/practices for yourself and the wider community!

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Friday 2pm - 4pm at The Ranch

Giddy up! Bring, make, be or imagine your steed! We´ve got all the enthusiasm & none of the knowledge. Come compete for glory in the most chaotic rodeo to ever grace the paddock!

Games

Friday 2pm - 4pm at Wild Connections

You are invited into a deeper relationship with the Rose, whether familiar or newly met as medicine. Open to teens and adults. Through sound, story, ceremony, tinctures and balms, and ancient Japanese energy medicine, we explore how Rose meets us in the energetic body and supports our lived human experience. Facilitated by Tara and Sanson.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Workshop • Talk / Lecture • Health & Wellness

18+

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 4pm at Neon Dreamscape Oasis aka rusty bullet hole

Neon Dreamscape Oasis - Mimosaic Mosaic Workshop

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2-4pm

Build your own 8-bit pixel art mosaic. Mimosas served as you are guided through the process of making your own mini-mosaic tile creation to take home. Pro-tip: first 2 workshops we have abundant materials and enthusiasm, set a low bar for the last workshop and you wont be disappointed!

Arts & Crafts

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 3:30pm at Wisdom Dispensary

A sacred women’s wisdom circle for those born as and identifying as female. An intentional sanctuary to be seen & heard, a gentle, ritualized space for grounded heartfelt sharing. Come for clarity, community or a deeper connection with self and leave feeling supported, inspired, more fully embodied. Please arrive on time to respect our ceremonial circle, once begun, no one else will be admitted.

Spiritual & Healing • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 2pm at the Depot

For centuries, there's been fierce rivalries between the Kiwiburn volunteer departments over which is the best.

It's time to decide once and for all which department truly is #1!

Come along and watch members of the departments go head to head in a gameshow style event.

Winning department gets bragging rights and the first ever KB Volunteer Department Cup for 2026!

Games

Thursday and Friday 2pm - 4pm at Knots & Nonsense

Sick of losing your cup in the chaos of the paddock? Come craft your very own vessel-holding contraption—chain, harness, strap, dangly thing—whatever you want to call it! Never walk away without your drink again. BYO cup and a healthy sense of humour.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 2pm - 3:30pm at Palace of the Sand Dragon

Play with shapes, leaves, and light to make sun-prints using turmeric as a natural dye. No rush, no rules, no experience needed. We'll have some materials to share but you are welcome to bring your own paper and paintbrush.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Games

Friday 2:03pm at Planet Devita

Come for an afternoon session of ear tingling transcendent live ambient music as we call on the spirit of Devita to deliver an abundance of cosmic healing energy and divine harmonic resonance.

Music

Thursday, Friday and Sunday 2:30pm - 4pm at Budju Oasis

Budju brings Budju Juice for all Budjus (alc/non options). Plus daily 80s beats + extras. Come say hi – meet Budju!

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2:30pm - 3:30pm at Littles' Playhouse

This is a time set aside for story telling of all kinds. So bring along your favorite stories or listening ears. Adults, teens and even children are welcome to come and tell a tale or just listen. Examples: verbal, puppet/prop stories, reading books, singing songs/waiata.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Friday 3pm at Alphabet Soup

…and by camp we mean gay. Test your queer history, film, music and pop culture knowledge as well as a wild girrrl round. This is not your average quiz as our film round brings a fashion show of costumes from iconic queer films for people to guess!

Games

Friday 3pm - 4:45pm

At Artwork - PianOasis.

"Whimsical and profound; lyrically brilliant and musically compelling; uniquely genius"

"Raw and vulnerable, honest and hilarious, beautiful and authentic."

"Millyclown will have you smiling to yourself, laughing out loud and cringing with shared pain. A roller coaster of emotions. Story based sound entertainment at its best."

Performance

Friday 3pm at The Doss House

Shameless Sangria shenanigans, the Doss House way. Come, have a boogie to some sexy beats while savouring in the sensual satiation of home made Sangria! Vamos a bailar!

Party • Music

18+ (Alcohol, BDSM, Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 3pm - 4:20pm at Mint Country Club

Mint Country Club have been inkahoots with The Rusty Joint again and will be taking on the legendary event of The Rusty Joint Smoko/Tradie Day. Don’t forget your work boots, Hi-vis, and tool belts…

Food & Drink • Music • Party • Performance

Friday 3pm - 4:45pm at Camp Low Expectations

Consent forward connection games that allow you to choose your spice level. Faster paced than a tantra event, more depth than a bar mixer, less pressure than a speed dating night, and more variety than an authentic relating workshop. Get playful and make new connections! Disclaimer: friendship not guaranteed.

Discussion / Conversation

18+

Friday 3pm - 4:30pm at Ancient Astronaughties

Come enjoy a tea and channel some chi at 3:00

Food & Drink • Spiritual & Healing

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 3pm - 4:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Friday 3pm - 7pm at The Ranch

The bar is open & it´s only playing bangers! Chop your pants into chaps, oil yourselves up & come live out your early 2000s Coyote Ugly dreams, dancing on the bar or riding the bull. We´ve got tequila and songs with words! Firing shots till the barn doors slam.

Party

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 3pm - 4pm at Ancient Astronaughties

Sitting with one another in authentic awareness is a powerful practice, it's enlightening, healing, & transforming. This is a practice of exploring being with who you are, in connection with another. This practice over time significantly raises your level of conscious awareness & intuitive awareness, which in turn opens up previously unthought of levels of choice & sovereignty in your daily life.

Spiritual & Healing

Friday 3pm - 7pm at Cape Carnival

Cheezey tracks, whiney patrons, and the finest of vegan and traditional wine and cheese. Come and enjoy this allergy conscious musical escapade. Opening set by Yonderman; founder of Kiwiburn. Parental supervision required.

Music • Party • Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 4pm - 7pm at The Palace Lounge

An invitation to slow down and speak in colour, You bring the body, we bring the paint.

Come with a friend (or find one), get consent, and turn each other into art. Zero skills required—just curiosity, laughter, and a willingness to get colourful. This will be accompanied by gentle acoustic serenades and ambient soundscapes

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Music

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 4pm - 5pm at Two Couches & a Rug

Need a butt totem? Come on down! Butt plugs and attachment supplies provided. Please come prepared to what you'd like to have attached to your butt plug. This is a workshop for creating plugs, not using them, please save insertion for the privacy of your own space or a designated 18+ play space.

Arts & Crafts

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday 4pm at Definitely Not Cops

Join the crew for a silly, informative, and sideways quiz.

Prizes for the winning team, for second to last, and bonus points if you can pass our field sobriety test while on it. We're 'not' the popo so bribery is encouraged x

Games • Performance

18+

Friday 4pm at Tramp Stamp

We pour, you roar. Grab a tasty drink, browse our extensive Karaoke catalogue and sing yourself stupid. May run for more than an hour.

Music • Party

Friday 4pm - 6pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

We are taking over Doss House - everyone’s favourite bogan bar. Expect vegan BBQ, cocktail slushies, body adornment, and music from Naked Pete.

Party

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 4pm - 5pm at the river

Join the crew from Littles’ Playhouse, down by the river swimming hole. This is for parents and kids. We have a big green mat for sitting together. Nature hangs and swims. Bring snacks and sunscreen for your kiddos.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Friday 4pm - 5:30pm at R.A.T

Have you ever felt like a bit of a weirdo? Like the way you express yourself doesn't make sense to the world around you? R.A.T welcomes you to a playful, explorative, silly, all-ages, all levels experience Improv Theatre workshop! We hold a space that is extremely welcoming and encouraging of all your quirks, crazy ideas and terrible jokes that maybe dont even qualify as jokes at all.

Workshop • Performance • Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 4pm - 5pm at Luna Lounge

Lie down, close your eyes, and embark on an inner adventure as immersive music guides you through the landscapes of your mind and spirit. Experience a journey of sound, rhythm, and vibration designed to open your senses and support deep reflection and inner exploration.

Music • Spiritual & Healing • Chillout

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 4:30pm - 5:30pm at Mint Country Club

This event is for the weary metalhead who, despite the restorative atmosphere of Kiwiburn - just needs to headbang to some mixed metal tunes. We will be showcasing a wide range including Nu Metal, Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Pirate Metal & Viking Metal. Come, headbang and show the other burners that metalheads are loving people too!

Music • Party • Spiritual & Healing

Friday 5pm - 6:30pm at Wannabe Camp

Love Bondage? Love Karaoke? Come sing your heart our while getting tied up by our Shibari Masters! Singers and Shibari Masters welcome!

Performance • Party

18+ (Alcohol, BDSM)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 5pm at the Depot

A riff on the now famous Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee, enjoy a paddock flavoured poor imitation run by Carl George. Contestants will spell words based on obscure clues, generally making fools of themselves. Still looking for a couple of contestants as of submittal!

Games • Performance

18+

Friday 5pm at Ye Olde Bad Dragon

The grannies are once again invading the paddock, hunting to reclaim the bbc.

Come show off in your best grandma outfit, we may have gray hair spray to help your transformation!

We'll spend an hour getting our dresses on and enjoying baked goods, before we invade the paddock.

Cookies and Tea at 5, WE MARCH AT 6!

Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 5pm - 6pm at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Elevate your handjob skills in this interactive workshop for penis lovers, presented by sexologist and former escort Bia Bliss. Learn to give mind-blowing, body twitching pleasure with just your hands. You MUST bring a phallic object to practice. No spectators allowed. Must arrive on time. No late entry.

Discussion / Conversation • Workshop • Health & Wellness

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 5:30pm - 6:30pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Most people know what kink and BDSM are in theory - or at least in stereotype, but do you know what it looks like in practice?

Your favourite Paddock kinksters are here to give you a window into the normally behind closed doors practices so you can have a glimpse into this deep, dark world of whips and chains.

Performance

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 6pm - 9:30pm at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Back for another round of toe-curling ohhh-gasms...Vulva-bearing participants are invited to leap into a world of empowerment and pleasure as they hop onto one of our two Motor Bunny ride-on sex toys in a safe, and fun environment. Win a custom Camp Ohhh-gasm medal if you have an ohhh-gasm! 🫦

Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 6pm at Easily Distracted

Whispers are spreading across the paddock...Rumors of cake shortages, Murmurs of rebellion.

We've had enough of - well whatever it is. We got distracted.

Pitchforks encouraged, chanting mandatory, revolutionary spirit mandatory.

Vive La Burn (don't lose your head)

Party • Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 6:30pm at Inky Fingers

A short and sweet cocktail hour with tunes - get in quick!

Food & Drink

Friday 6:30pm at Palace of the Sand Dragon

Answers don't matter, points are made up, and the rules are known only to the Quizard.

Quizle it out for the title of the 2026 Quizlord, or be forever Quizless.

Bring a team, join one, or simply enjoy the chaos. Latecomers welcome (you may be heckled).

Games • Discussion / Conversation • Performance

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 7pm - 10pm at 🚌 (or the camp FKA The Magic Doof Bus)

Come play some tunes through our rig - play bangers for 15 minutes without clanging, win a secret prize. Clang and you're done!

Party • Music

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 7pm at Zef

Experience a wild evening of femboys and cocks and tails, dancing and show us your animal side!

Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday and Friday 7pm - 9pm at 3nt1ty

Open decks!

Test some tunes youve made, get some guidance on using pro DJ gear and generally kick off the burn by blasting some tunes to ya mates through the 3nt1ty soundsystem

Music • Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 7pm - 8pm at Camp Old News

Share your fav moments of bureaucratic intimacy - performatively! Release an interpretive dance of your last speeding ticket. Spicily soliloquise your best-ever winter electricity bill (so hot!). Recount that spine-tingling accountant chat about your 2023-2024 tax return. Bureaucratic materials will be available in case you didn't bring yours to the Burn (so unlikely)!

Performance • Spiritual & Healing

Friday 7pm at Sodden Velvet

Slide yourself tightly into the Sodden Velvet snug for an evening of queer New Zealand poetry. Your pyjama-clad hosts will read to you from a selection of Aotearoa’s finest queer and takatāpui poets to titillate and delight.

Performance • Chillout

18+ (Sexual Content)

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7pm - 8pm at The Queer Hour

Speed friending (guided 10min), social networking, dress up and enjoy the vibes of being in a room full of the friends of Dorothy.

Chillout • Party • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 7pm - 8pm at the Depot

Theory, practice, and personal potential of Somatic Therapy. How it works, why it's hot right now, how to access the body's wisdom and stay safe. Offering a mindful, visceral experience of somatic insight.

Workshop

Friday 8pm at Tangerine Steeze

Tangerine Steeze's longest-running event is back! Adorn yourself in your finest hat and robe and come boogie in style to hefty bass and tasty beats.

Party

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8pm - 9pm at The Queer Hour

Relax to chill music, BYO towel, seek massage, soft touch or light pleasure in a space where others are also playing. Agreements for the space will be posted: mutual proactive consent, expressing and honoring boundaries, and health and safety—facilitated by interpersonal communication faeres.

Chillout • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Friday 8:45pm at Definitely Not Cops

Party with the ministry of misuse, hear beats the coppaz would seize ya system for! Best dressed ‘Undercover Cop’ wins a prize!

Music • Party

Friday 9pm at Camp Low Expectations

Our temple-side shisha lounge is taking a pause, so Hookah is hitting the Road all the way to top paddock with a Pop-Up collab bringing together Persia and the South Pacific. Expect fragrant clouds, rich e-shisha, steaming chai, cosy vibes, and resident Hookah Rd DJs. Share a pipe, sink into music, and enjoy kai, inu, and quality yarns (shit yarns also in stock).

Chillout

18+

Friday 9pm at The Pheasant

Bring your butts to compete in the best sport that's not (yet) in the Olympics. In memory of one of the greatest butts we've ever had the honour of wrestling.

May also include the wrestling of socks. May also feature MPW in one of the greatest showdowns of all time.

Games

Friday 9pm - 11pm at Paddock Penthouse

Come try our terrible Cocktail menu and successfully win in a few games that will test your impairment. Possibly a cheekie sausage sizzle...

Chillout • Party

18+ (Alcohol)

Friday 10pm at TechnOasis

Enter into a world where the rolling baselines & pulsing rhythms of Techno set the tone for uninhibited self expression. Oil up & squeeze into your latex, strap on your ....harnesses & don't fear the power of the black aesthetic. Tonight we encourage the paddock creatures to don their wildest garb. Be creative. Be adventurous. Be the mistress or be the sub. Kink & fetish wear encouraged.

Party • Music • Performance

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday 10pm at Paradiso Airlines

*crrrrqk* Uhh this is your captain speaking. We have embezzled 50% of the airlines’ operational budget to purchase a subwoofer that -probably- won’t explode like last year.

To put that to the test, we have Captain on the (flight) decks who got lost on the way to HBFA.

Followed by our very own bassmaster, Psymontology, to drop his filthy tunes all over the place.

It’ll be wubby; it’ll be ~weird~

Music • Party • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Two Couches & a Rug

Do you love sport? The Acid TAB has got you covered! Join us for 24 hour LIVE sports action this year with more sport!

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Friday, Saturday and Thursday roaming around

As one of the great pieces of Art (tm) from Kiwiburn 2025, the dancing noodle man is back! Gaze in awe and wonder at this majestic mammoth marvel. We don't know when, we don't know where, but he might be right behind you.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Cycle Cove

Need wheels? Our camp is offering decorated communal bikes for getting around the burn. Treat them with love and return to camp if possible or leave them out for others to use.

Health & Wellness

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Come check out the possibilities. Make sense of it as you like. What is time anyways?

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Souper Kitchen

Come along and see what delicous food Souper Kitchen is serving up today......will it be Soup, Salads, Fritters, Curry, DIY Noodles or Home Baking?

There is normally something on offer to nourish you so you can continue to party on the paddock.

Food & Drink

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Saturday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

“Let’s get you out of those moist, crotchless, assless, legless chaps…”Doodle Your Worm whilst listening to our raunchy, sexy, filthy, audio comedy series. Press your Worm Doodles up against the wall by 2pm today, so our judges can have a probing perusal before our Worms-Giving Ceremony…

Chillout • Arts & Crafts • Performance

18+

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Littles' Playhouse

A drop-in zone for families. Join us for friendly chats, art activities and equipment. Whether you need a breather, advice, entertainment, or simply a cup of calm, this is your welcoming hub for festival families. THIS IS AN ALL DAY, SO BASED ON IF YOU SEE US AROUND, COME SAY HI! Note: If we aren't around you can supervise your kids on the play equipment.

Performance

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Sodden Velvet

The Sodden Velvet camp will be roaming the paddock with all you need for a re-useable water bomb fight. Keep an eye out for a real fun time on a hot day, or pop by to book it for your event. Squirt on your crush or get really wet with all the people you desire.

Games

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at The Queer Hour

Print a thought to share with the universe. Prompt: What thoughts are percolating as you make sense of the effects of patriarchy and intersectionality while here at the festival?

Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation • Performance

18+ (Sexual Content)

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday roaming around

Something silly is afoot! Catch your roaming Juice TV correspondents making you giggle paddock-wide with coordinated nonsense.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Depot

Event? Art piece? NOBODY KNOWS.

The Revolving Clothesline is an all-genders all-sizes event-long clothing swap. Bring your unwanted clothes & grab a new outfit! Or just come by & check it out. Open 10am Wednesday-1.45pm Monday.

One rule: NO DIRTY UNDIES. We don't want to have to deal with your groady skidmarks. Keep it clean, people.

Any leftovers will be donated to Aunty Dana's Op Shop, Welly.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Tramp Stamp

Welcome to the Tramp Stamp Tattoo Parlour! Whether you’re a tat rat thirsty for ink or you hate the Moon and want the world to know, we have tattoos for all tastes and no taste. Wear your pants low, your g-strings high and your Tramp Stamps with pride!

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 2am - 3am at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Snackish? Need a refuel to boogie your night away, munchies or just a pre bed nibble? Cheese toasties on offer at the convenient time of 2am-ish.

Vegan options, tea and average banter available.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 9am - 3:30pm at the forest

Saturday Asado:

We will be cooking some beautiful, nourishing, local produce, meat, veges for you all.

Please come and hang out, relax, help with cooking or whatever else you may want to.

We will be cooking all morning and we will be serving at 14:00-15:00

Arts & Crafts • Discussion / Conversation • Chillout • Food & Drink • Games • Music • Performance • Talk / Lecture

Kid-Friendly

Thursday and Saturday 9am - 10am at the forest

Sound Journey by the River with Didgeridoo, Native American flutes, crystal bowls, and percussion. Relax to live vibrations that help release physical, emotional, and spiritual blockages. Lie or sit comfortably—bring something to lie on and a blanket to stay warm.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9:30am - 10am at The Big Kids Table

Start your day the gentle way. Roll out of bed (pjs acceptable), snuggle up with a cushion and join us for story time. Each day we’ll read aloud an installment of the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox. Listen along whilst being served freshly brewed coffee and South African rusks. Join us for one reading or become a regular to see the story through - the choice is yours!

Chillout

18+

Saturday 10am - 11am at The Pheasant

Rock out with your tots out! Back by popular demand - it's the Pheasant baby rave experience of a lifetime. Bring your babies/toddlers/young kiddos and we'll bounce around to some EDM versions of all our favourite nursery rhymes and Wiggles hits. Child friendly event but enthusiastic adults are more than welcome <3

Party

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 10am at The Doss House

Battleships, but boozier. Call your shots, sink their fleet, and every hit means a shot of spirits. Miss and you’re safe… for now. Strategy blurs, aim gets questionable, and the last captain standing wins bragging rights while everyone else wonders how their destroyer disappeared so fast.

Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 10am - 11am at Ancient Astronaughties

A substance-free psychedelic journey powered by breath alone. Activate your built-in spirit molecule through rhythmic breathing, sound, and surrender. You may see visions, feel feelings, meet the void, or nap like a god. No drugs. Full safety briefing. Raw-dogging the cosmos, responsibly.

Spiritual & Healing

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Wild Connections

The Chapel of Wild Connections is a space for love, unity, and connection. Celebrate with yourself, friends, or new connections. Host a workshop, activity, or ceremony by booking the board. Part of Sunday is reserved for legal weddings; other times welcome celebrations of love and joyful nonsense. Legal weddings require contact at least two weeks pre-Kiwiburn.

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Health & Wellness • Party

Friday, Thursday and Saturday 10am - 5pm at Camp Rock

Ye Olde Boulder 2.0 is open for all your climbing pleasure! Rock up any time, have a jam, and hang out with our awesome crew for as long as you like. Come show off your sick moves or just come give it a go for the first time. Ye Olde Boulder is now twice as big, boasting a sexy collection of various angles to climb on, from 15 degrees to 30 degrees, so there’s something for every climber.

Chillout • Games

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11am at Cycle Cove

Drop off workshop to keep your wheels spinning. Leave you ride with us for any repairs or tuning required and wheel have you back on the paddock in no time.

Workshop

Saturday 10am - 11am at Camp Ohhh-Gasm

Ever wondered why some Ohhh-gasms feel like tiny sneezes and others feel like fireworks, or even divine union?

In this experiential workshop, somatic sexologist Bia Bliss will share the secrets of toe-curling, full-body buzz, breath-taking ohhh-gasms. Join us if you are keen to take your Ohhh’s to the next level!

No late entry.

Discussion / Conversation • Health & Wellness • Workshop

18+ (Sexual Content)

Saturday 10am at the Depot

Learn what a Poofer is and why they call it that.

It's an oversized BBQ and you are a lump of meat so lets do it safely, nobody likes the smell of burnt meat.

What effect does an accumulator have?

Learn why you make ice when emptying your LPG bottle

Workshop

18+

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 11am at Burner Bum Sun Club

Slow down, stretch, and embrace your natural state. Our resident yogi will lead us through a Vinyasa or Yin session (TBD), but we're also open to any volunteers who would like to lead the session. BYO yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am - 11:30am at Existentially bent

Coming together in a circle to share is a timeless practice of diverse peoples and cultures around the world. It is a space for everyone and anyone to have a place with an equal and honored voice. It is also meant to help each person speak from the heart and speak truth.

Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Visit Kiwiburn’s own nudist beach. Grab a drink and be free to frolic in the “waves”, sunbathe, or play a variety of games available.

Chillout • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am at Sensory Dispensary

Back for another year, the Sensory Dispensary will be rustling up some chilled morning brown. Freshly brewed right on the Paddock - and this year, with decaf available! Serving until we run out!

Food & Drink

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10:30am - 12pm at Wisdom Dispensary

Thursday: 'The Palmistry of Fingerprints' - a look at the psychological significance of the unique biometric markers that are your fingerprints!

Friday: 'Anatta - Do I have a Soul? - an exploration of the Buddhist teachings on anatta and the illusory nature of the ego

Saturday: 'The Astrology of Living Experience' - navigating your life with awareness of planetary cycles and transits

Talk / Lecture • Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 11am - 12pm at The Queer Hour

Shed your clothes. Begin with a few deep breaths as you connect with your body and inner voice. Say a little about what it’s like in your body, tell us about your body, share a memory about an experience with your body. Listen to others’ stories as we take turns in this interactive workshop. All genders, all bodies welcome.

Workshop • Health & Wellness

18+ (Sexual Content)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Caffeine dispensed at 11am daily by one of our lovely weirdos. No pants required.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 11am - 2pm at Knots & Nonsense

Jump in, get creative, and make something sparkly, funky, or full of meaning! Whip up a bracelet for yourself or gift one to a friend (or a future friend). Materials, inspiration, and excellent yarns (the talking kind) provided—just bring your hands and your burner vibes.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Discussion / Conversation

Saturday 11am at Warm Fuzzy Doodleboppers

If you love blowing bubbles and need to calm your mind, just for a wee while, pop in for a fun bubble meditation with the Warm Fuzzies. Some bubbles will be provided, but feel free to bring your own.

Chillout • Spiritual & Healing

Saturday 11am at Inky Fingers

The breakfast of people who don’t care about themselves. Come and make yourself sick with other Burners who are too lazy to make something sensible to eat. We have 8 insulin-pumping flavours!

Food & Drink

Saturday 11am - 12pm at Wild Connections

By nurturing the soil's health, we foster the foundations for human well-being, as the vitality of the earth reflects directly in our own.

Listen to a workshop by an expert in Holistic Land Management and biological health in the Soil Food Web

Health & Wellness • Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

Saturday 11am - 12pm roaming around

Other/self-soothing through interoceptive grounding.

When you find yourself (or your friend) overwhelmed – from sensory overload to a bad trip to garden variety drama – there are a few simple practices you may engage in to down-regulate disturbed emotions and regain some breathing space instead of letting them spiral out of control. Hosted by Tomasz

Workshop • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

Saturday 11am - 12pm at Infusion of illusion

Refreshing foraged herbal tea to mix and match with a twist.

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Saturday 11am - 12pm at Pillowtopia

Come learn about the new road side drug testing laws and your rights when talking to cops and upon arrest.

Talk / Lecture

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am at Faerieland

Feeling an embodied whisper seeking permission? Group discussion and safe exploration in pairs of consensual intimate touch with a male-bodied queer facilitator over multiple sessions. Normalise engaging openly with consent, needs, desires, boundaries, sexual health, meaning, and care. Safely co-create the workshop from a menu of eye-gazing, body-washing, massage, touch, and other R18 encounters.

Health & Wellness • Discussion / Conversation • Workshop

18+ (Sexual Content)

Saturday 11am - 12pm at the forest

There are days when Budju loves to hang out in the forest, quietly reading her book. Let's keep her company (shhhh). Meet in the forest with your BYO book and comfort for some Budju Juice and silent reading time. Discuss afterwards, or adventure away.

Chillout

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11am - 12:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday and Saturday 11am - 4pm at Hatmosphere Lounge

Tumble into the Hatmosphere; our absurd headwear bazaar where you can take a hat, leave a hat, or simply revel in the absurdity. No hosts, no rules (except consent). The hats are watching, but they don’t judge. Drop by anytime the brims are open… and please, ask before you snap & leave a little stranger than you arrived.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout

Saturday 11am - 11:30am at Littles' Playhouse

Let's boogie! Fun toddler friendly dance party, music, bubbles and lights. Adult supervision required. Lets have a blast together at the Littles’ Playhouse. Ages 1-4 yrs (older siblings (6-8) are okay but must be careful with their bodies around the littles.)

Music • Party

Kid-Friendly

All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday at LOW EFFORT BOGANS

A garden shed full of tools and useful stuff. 

Forgotten building bits? Car wont start? Tent fugged? We *might* be able to help!

If you're lucky there may be someone around to laugh at your problems and give you crap advice.

- Shed open Daylight hours only -

Workshop

Saturday 11am - 12:15pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

A workshop in conscious touch and the “energy body”.

Touch that remembers we are human.

Touch guided by presence, that becomes listening, nourishing and healing to the nervous system.

Hands meeting Energy awareness, meeting what moves beneath form- held within consent and boundaries.

Bring a partner to work with or couple up at the workshop, all an invitation.

(No Need to be fully naked)

Spiritual & Healing

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11:11am - 12pm at Faerieland

Come let the world slither past your fulcrum! Warm coconut oil, naked bodies - push, squish - in this sensual extravaganza. R18 - intimate but not sexual.

Chillout • Games • Party

18+

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 11:30am - 12:15pm at the forest

Trees are our friends! Let's dance with them 😀 Come along and learn a soothing, nature inspired dance that will momentarily cleanse your burner soul. Easy to learn, this workshop will give you a well earned reprieve in the calm of the forest.

Workshop • Health & Wellness

Saturday 12pm - 2pm at Camp Douche

Calling all filthy hippies and their consorts - it’s time to go through the carwash! Let Camp Douche clean you top to toe in our showers with a thorough scrubbing, sudsing, buffing and spritzing experience. Get a token for the carwash then swan about eating pickles and enjoying the Camp Douche bar till it's your scrub time. BYO towel or let us use a grubby wet one on you.

Health & Wellness • Party

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 12pm at Juice TV

ONE JUICER TO RULE THEM ALL. Juice TV is once again helping the paddock rehydrate with chilled juice at midday, but today, the stakes are higher. Compete to juice increasingly difficult foods, with increasingly useless equipment.

Games • Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 12pm at The Lodge upon Bozo Heights

MPW is proud to inaugurate the First Annual MPW Butt Wrestling Spectacular. Come take part in their blossoming rivalry with the buttless Pheasants as we collectively celebrate the inventor Ed Hearnshaw by determining who has a lower centre of gravity and the strongest booting booty.

Games • Health & Wellness

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at the forest

Ronnie Holmes & The Wiener Dogs take to the stage to bring you warm, heartfelt and acoustic sounds for your ear holes. Blending joyful playfulness with personal and thought provoking lyrics to bring you a familiarly homely and yet new and exciting sound. A mixture of classic covers in their own unique style and new original music that'll knock your socks off (if you're wearing socks).

Music • Performance

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm - 1pm at Cycle Cove

In the World card, Jesus Christ in Majesty is replaced with a dancing naked woman. Embrace this spirit and come to this Tarot workshop, where cards are dying to get you naked - at least in spirit. Pull a card, and let's see how far down the rabbit hole we go.

Spiritual & Healing • Workshop

Saturday 12pm - 1pm at Mint Country Club

Mint Country Club have been inkahoots with The Rusty Joint and will be taking on the legendary event of The Rusty Joint Lap Dancing Competition, now rebranded, “The Rusty Mint Lap Dancing Competition” for 2026…

Please see Rahn (the reigning champion) at MCC for sign up and song choice.

Music • Performance • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol, Sexual Content)

Saturday 1pm - 1:45pm at Cosmic Zip

Earlier in the week, burners are gently ambushed with a completely unnecessary survey. This event reveals the results using live Python code, absurd graphs and over engineered maths. Learn how surveys turn into data, models and questionable conclusions, all in good humour.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture

Saturday 1pm - 2pm at The Pheasant

Have you ever thought, "I don't get art"? Well this tour will save your day! I'll tell you exactly what you're looking at and how to feel about. All questions welcome! Meet at the Pheasant, and we'll wander on. By the end of this tour, I’ll have you saying, “I don’t know what’s worse, the art or that tour guide”!

Arts & Crafts

Saturday 1pm at Camp Rock

Are kid crushers flashing your projects and making it look easy? Have you been watching those hardcore boulder bro’s smashing it in the gym? Ever thought, “damn, I wanna do that”? Come join one of our experienced climbers and learn how to train with purpose. We will help you understand key concepts that will allow you to get stronger, improve your technique, and become a more well rounded climber

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Thursday and Saturday 1pm - 2:30pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Fancy yourself as an artist or a life model? Come try either! Materials provided or BYO.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout

Saturday 1pm - 2pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Ever wondered why some people love to dress up as animals and mess around? Come learn all about the world of pet play, ask your burning questions and see what it's all about.

Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Saturday 1pm - 2pm at the Depot

An overview of some spiritual and philosophical traditions that have explored finding meaning through transcendent experiences and higher states of consciousness; such as Buddhism, Daoism, and Sufism. We’ll discuss topics such as meditation, the nature of the self, the limits of ordinary cognition, and the role of allegory, art, and metaphor.

Discussion / Conversation • Talk / Lecture • Workshop

Saturday 1pm - 3pm at Cape Carnival

Explore the familiar and unfamiliar fusion of sound at this unrehearsed jam. Have a go at playing a handpan. Bring your favourite instrument (if you have one) to play or to share.

Our DJs will play accompanying beats for patrons to vibe to.

Music

Friday and Saturday 1pm - 2pm at Hatmosphere Lounge

Join us for a hat-decorating jam where you can make a hat pop with MOOP-friendly materials. Whether you're adding flair to your favourite lid or starting from scratch, this is your chance to express yourself—loudly and sparkly.

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 1pm - 2:30pm at the forest

Sunday paella,

Seafood and meat paella.

Served at 13:30 ish- bring a plate.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Food & Drink • Games • Music • Performance • Talk / Lecture • Workshop • Party • Spiritual & Healing

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 1pm - 3pm at Tramp Stamp

Come on down to the depths of the bottom paddock ahead of the big Burn to stick some shit to your head and call it fashion! We'll provide up-cycled curiosities and op shop oddities for you to bash, bodge and twist-tie into a crown worthy of rubbish royalty. Become the trash you deep down know yourself to be.

Arts & Crafts

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 1:30pm - 3pm at The Queer Hour

We consider how group experiences can affect us, what helps us feel safe & able to grow & challenge ourselves. Group experiences can be very valuable, but if run without due care & attention to safety, can do more damage than good. Intensity, catharsis, transformative processes; healthy vs unhealthy structures: exploitative/ fundamentalist/'culty'; & some experiential bits. Led by Beth St Claire

Health & Wellness • Workshop • Spiritual & Healing

Saturday 2pm - 4pm at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Learn a little origami, make a Kandi bracelet, or bring your own project along to work on. Various supplies and tools will be available.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 2pm - 3pm at LOW EFFORT BOGANS

Yeah nah Gidday!

5th annual meeting of the KiwiBurn Young Farmers Club, meet at the top hay paddock.

Toss a horseshoe, chuck a gumboot, crack a whip and have a beer. If Trev can get the barbie going we might have a couple snags on the go too.

Bring ya gumboots and checkered shirt!

Games • Food & Drink • Discussion / Conversation

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 4pm at Neon Dreamscape Oasis aka rusty bullet hole

Neon Dreamscape Oasis - Mimosaic Mosaic Workshop

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 2-4pm

Build your own 8-bit pixel art mosaic. Mimosas served as you are guided through the process of making your own mini-mosaic tile creation to take home. Pro-tip: first 2 workshops we have abundant materials and enthusiasm, set a low bar for the last workshop and you wont be disappointed!

Arts & Crafts

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2pm - 3:30pm at Wisdom Dispensary

A sacred women’s wisdom circle for those born as and identifying as female. An intentional sanctuary to be seen & heard, a gentle, ritualized space for grounded heartfelt sharing. Come for clarity, community or a deeper connection with self and leave feeling supported, inspired, more fully embodied. Please arrive on time to respect our ceremonial circle, once begun, no one else will be admitted.

Spiritual & Healing • Discussion / Conversation

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 2pm - 4pm at Tangerine Steeze

Skittles’ Classical Hour featuring choral music with Beethoven’s 9th (Choral) Symphony as the anchor piece. Supporting Ludwig will be George Handel’s Zadok the Priest. There will also be a special guest spot for a recording of the NZ Youth Choir with their Māori and Pasifika works that wowed the judges.

Music • Performance

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 2pm - 5pm at The Pheasant

Welcome back to The Pheasants' annual lawn games extravaganza. With SPORTSBALL!© (all the games everywhere all at once), pro Mölkky tournament, Chicken Fighting, sock wrestling, and more! Featuring Music You Know The Words To (tm) and fancy drinks.

Games • Food & Drink • Music

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 2pm - 3pm at Luna Lounge

Discover your unique tea profile through gentle exploration. Whether you need warming support, tension release, sustained energy, or mental clarity, we'll find your perfect blend from an array of teas and herbs. Join us for a tea ceremony circle, where we'll playfully taste and explore each creation together, then take home your bespoke signature blend in your own vessel.

Food & Drink • Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Saturday 2:03pm - 3:06pm at R.A.T

Curious about the ins and outs of sex work? Got a burning question, or a general fascination about it? Come along to our rat den and chat to a panel of wonderful workers who'd love to answer your questions! The panel will be primarily full service workers though we aim to have perspectives from other SWers too. To submit Q's before the event please pop em in R.A.T mailbox!

Talk / Lecture • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 2:30pm - 3:30pm at Littles' Playhouse

This is a time set aside for story telling of all kinds. So bring along your favorite stories or listening ears. Adults, teens and even children are welcome to come and tell a tale or just listen. Examples: verbal, puppet/prop stories, reading books, singing songs/waiata.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 2:30pm - 4pm at Wild Connections

We will help you to speed the process and ignite connection at this speed dating event, for friendships or more. This is an inclusive an open event, all gender and sexualities are welcome. We can't guarantee a match but awkwardness and fun guaranteed.

Discussion / Conversation • Games

Saturday 2:30pm - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

What scares you in love? What do you long for? What feels possible? This workshop offers space for reflection and heartfelt sharing with others. Open to all relationship statuses and styles. An authentic container for honesty and human connection around Life's most important topics.

Workshop

Saturday 3pm at 3nt1ty

Calling All DJ's! We will have the Sound System ready to go - bring your USB's and a couple of your biggest heaters to get ready for the Effigy Burn!

All experience levels welcome!

Music • Party

Saturday 3pm - 6pm at Camp Low Expectations

This year, the unofficial Hookah (on the) Road has merged their mischief with V.A.G and CLE in the most deviantly delectable way, delivering a tantalising twist on Hookah Road's OG Lemons & Lingerie. Three camps, one delicious rendezvous. Bringing you mouthwatering fruit treats, goosebump inducing beats & vibes that are oh-so-sweet. Lingerie optional, wear what makes you feel juicy!

Music • Party

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 3pm at Planet Devita

Come slurp away the day with us, bring your favourite additional spirits, or sip in sublime sobriety, in the sun or under the shade of the Devita soul-haven.

Food & Drink • Music • Chillout

Saturday 3pm - 4:20pm at Paddock Penthouse

Inviting people of all genders and identities to explore sensuality through intuitive movement and deep listening to the body.

We’ll also play with embodying different characters that live within us through movement.

You’ll leave feeling more grounded, connected to yourself, and free to move in your own authentic way 💖

Performance • Workshop

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 3pm - 4:30pm at The Dream Oasis

Is your soul feeling dry and restless, longing for something to fill the quiet spaces within?

Step into the DREAM OASIS, where wandering hearts sip from DEEP WATERS, soak in CALM & emerge REPLENISHED. We’re LIGHT HEALERS & DREAM INTERPRETERS, helping you tune into the UNSEEN, restoring BODY, MIND & SPIRIT.

• Dream Decoding

• Healing Harmony

• Mirror Magic

• White Light Special

Come drink deeply…

Spiritual & Healing

Saturday 3:30pm - 5:30pm at TechnOasis

Learn how to use rope and basic Shibari techniques to explore desire, build better communication, and communicate consent verbally and non-verbally with your partner; exploring your style of submission and domination in a safe, non-sexual environment. Partner required.

This workshop is being led by a well practiced Shibari performer and instructor

Workshop

18+ (BDSM)

Saturday 4pm at The Lodge upon Bozo Heights

Back in 2005 email was a legitimate way to flirt. Come listen to a dramatic rereading of an email thread between a indie-kid-wannabe and her slightly older, cooler, comic artist crush. It’s excruciating - She'll unironically use the phrase ‘hardcore drugs’ and admit that she's doesn’t understand art. Expect references to obscure chch bands, shameless posturing, and 2005 era witty banter

Talk / Lecture • Spiritual & Healing • Performance

Saturday 4pm - 5pm at Camp Old News

Do you struggle to understand your Mastodon from your Meshuggah? Do Black Metal and Death Metal sound the same to you? Do you get muddled between Cannibal Corpse and Converge? Come along to learn about the history of metal and its many subgenres! Test your knowledge and earn the honour of calling yourself a trve metaller!

Music • Talk / Lecture

Saturday 4pm at TBC - Themeless But Confident

Bring colours and joy to your skin and to that of others! From small doodles to large paintings, come express your creativity on the most beautiful canvas: the human body. We provide the paint markers, you provide the talent and skin! Don’t worry, it’s all water-based and washable… but who would want to wash art off their body?!?

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 4pm at Creature Lab

The Lab Island contestants have been battling it out for the past 24h to win our hearts. Come and see the final challenges, do some gambling and make corrupt votes for the winning couple.

Party • Games

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 4pm - 5pm at the river

Join the crew from Littles’ Playhouse, down by the river swimming hole. This is for parents and kids. We have a big green mat for sitting together. Nature hangs and swims. Bring snacks and sunscreen for your kiddos.

Chillout

Kid-Friendly

Saturday 4pm at Cosmic Zip

Like a deciduous tree, shed the leaves that no longer serve you, and let your body to guide you to your deepest roots.

Allow your branches to unfold through Psybass/Chillout sound journey, supported by the grounded Mmmmmm of the Psymatic Sound system, facilitated by ElectriFae (née Thunderbunny), inspired by her own body-mind healing journey.

Music • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

Saturday 4pm - 6pm at Wild Connections

Strip yourself back to your natural state, express yourself or allow us to express on you. Body paint provided, along with the camp's most creative minds. Expect plenty of holi paint to get beautifully messy. Bring any other body art you might want to use. Good vibes and music while we get creative.

Workshop • Party • Arts & Crafts • Chillout

Camp's Featured Event!

Saturday 4pm at Pillowtopia

We got your bucket, bring your mops and Wet Ass Pussies! It is Wappy Hour! Come dance to WAP while drinking White rum And Pineapple juice!

Food & Drink • Party

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 4:20pm - 6:30pm at Paddock Penthouse

COME ONE ..Talent Show.. COME ALLL Show us what makes you sparkle✨️💖? Do you have the ultimate yoga pose? Or can tell a few jokes! Or want to share a Haiku? Get amongst it at the Penthouse by the Effigy ❤️‍🔥on tap 🚰

Chillout • Discussion / Conversation • Performance

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 4:20pm - 5pm

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Our judges have perambulated around the Hall of Worms, and gestated on the artistic merits of your Worm Doodle. Come by at 4:20pm to see if your Worm Doodle has won a prize <3 Go back in time 2 hours and 20 minutes earlier to submit your Worm Doodle and be considered by our *fearsome* judges, carrying *fearsome* clipboards.

Chillout • Arts & Crafts • Performance

18+

Saturday 4:30pm - 5:30pm at Pillowtopia

You're invited to our lounge for a guilty pleasures dance hour. The playlist you guiltily dance to before you go out and meet your friends for the 'cool' music. Come boogie with us and indulge our guilty pleasures.

Party • Music

Saturday 5pm - 7pm at Camp Meerkat

Glow up with the Meerkat crew and get yourself ready for a fabulous night out. Glam, touch-ups and hype-ups—we’ve got everything you need to feel effigy-ready.

Health & Wellness • Music • Party

Thursday and Saturday 5pm - 6pm at Tiny Town

Join us for the most charming happy hour you'll experience all week. We're serving tiny drinks accompanied by tiny compliments. Wear that tiny hat you crafted earlier at our workshop (or any other tiny garments you have), and prepare yourself for an evening of sophisticated small talk. Bring your friends, bring your sense of whimsy, and have a tiny adventure with us.

Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 5:30pm - 6:30pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Most people know what kink and BDSM are in theory - or at least in stereotype, but do you know what it looks like in practice?

Your favourite Paddock kinksters are here to give you a window into the normally behind closed doors practices so you can have a glimpse into this deep, dark world of whips and chains.

Performance

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 7pm - 8pm at The Queer Hour

Speed friending (guided 10min), social networking, dress up and enjoy the vibes of being in a room full of the friends of Dorothy.

Chillout • Party • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (Sexual Content)

Camp's Featured Event!

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8pm - 9pm at The Queer Hour

Relax to chill music, BYO towel, seek massage, soft touch or light pleasure in a space where others are also playing. Agreements for the space will be posted: mutual proactive consent, expressing and honoring boundaries, and health and safety—facilitated by interpersonal communication faeres.

Chillout • Party

18+ (Sexual Content)

Saturday 9:30pm - 12:30am at Paddock Penthouse

Cleaning out the extra weight!

Come grab a snack or a drink if your just walking by or need a break. Dump your burnables or Burn a love note to the universe ❤️‍🔥

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Food & Drink

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 10pm at Creature Lab

Full send party at the Lab for burn night, come through to get the best music, best cocktails and best shenanigans on the paddock. You know you want to..

Party • Music

18+ (Alcohol)

Saturday 10pm at Tangerine Steeze

FULL STEEZE! ALL. NIGHT. LONG. Dance the night away to the bassiest, filthiest beats on the paddock, served to you by our steeziest DJs. You know you want it 😉

Music • Party

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Two Couches & a Rug

Do you love sport? The Acid TAB has got you covered! Join us for 24 hour LIVE sports action this year with more sport!

Games

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Cycle Cove

Need wheels? Our camp is offering decorated communal bikes for getting around the burn. Treat them with love and return to camp if possible or leave them out for others to use.

Health & Wellness

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Sunday

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Overwhelmed by the paddock? Missin’ yer stories? The Normal Thing to Do would be: Listen to Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

It will make you feel worm-whole again. Missed us this time? Find us online right after the burn. Love you <3

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Performance

18+

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Sodden Velvet

The Sodden Velvet camp will be roaming the paddock with all you need for a re-useable water bomb fight. Keep an eye out for a real fun time on a hot day, or pop by to book it for your event. Squirt on your crush or get really wet with all the people you desire.

Games

Kid-Friendly

Camp's Featured Event!

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday roaming around

Something silly is afoot! Catch your roaming Juice TV correspondents making you giggle paddock-wide with coordinated nonsense.

Games • Performance

All day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Tramp Stamp

Welcome to the Tramp Stamp Tattoo Parlour! Whether you’re a tat rat thirsty for ink or you hate the Moon and want the world to know, we have tattoos for all tastes and no taste. Wear your pants low, your g-strings high and your Tramp Stamps with pride!

Arts & Crafts

Kid-Friendly

Sunday 12:30am - 3:30am at Camp Douche

From the desire for a post-burn party with a bright, dancey, loungey atmosphere, Camp Douche brings you Club Douche! Let us wash you in the suds of upbeat music as you dance. Or, recline in our day spa lounge with our homemade beers, cocktails or kombuchas… maybe even a cucumber if you’re lucky.

See you there for a 3 hour power shower!

Party • Music

Sunday 5am at Sensory Dispensary

Tired of dancing, but not quite ready for burn night to be over? For a fourth year, the Sensory Dispensary is back with another chill playlist and a nice spot to watch the sun rise. Get on our lawn and hang out with us while we look at our art and wave goodbye to the best party night of the year. BYO chair.

Chillout • Music

Camp's Featured Event!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9:30am - 10am at The Big Kids Table

Start your day the gentle way. Roll out of bed (pjs acceptable), snuggle up with a cushion and join us for story time. Each day we’ll read aloud an installment of the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr Fox. Listen along whilst being served freshly brewed coffee and South African rusks. Join us for one reading or become a regular to see the story through - the choice is yours!

Chillout

18+

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Wild Connections

The Chapel of Wild Connections is a space for love, unity, and connection. Celebrate with yourself, friends, or new connections. Host a workshop, activity, or ceremony by booking the board. Part of Sunday is reserved for legal weddings; other times welcome celebrations of love and joyful nonsense. Legal weddings require contact at least two weeks pre-Kiwiburn.

Performance • Arts & Crafts • Health & Wellness • Party

Sunday 10am - 12pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Interested in exploring your Femdomme side? Or want to experience being ordered around at someone's every desire?

Come along and explore the world of Femdomme at this interactive workshop. Bring a partner(s) or come solo for some yarns in a space to explore this side of kink.

This event welcomes all genders, and focuses on kink play lead by fem-presenting people, with submissives of any gender.

Workshop • Discussion / Conversation

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 11am at Burner Bum Sun Club

Slow down, stretch, and embrace your natural state. Our resident yogi will lead us through a Vinyasa or Yin session (TBD), but we're also open to any volunteers who would like to lead the session. BYO yoga mat.

Health & Wellness

Sunday 10am at the Depot

Learn how to safely play with low voltage DC power:

What are Volts?

What are Amps?

Understand why P = V * I.

How do I use a Multimeter?

Hands on with a solar panel with a controller and you can build a device to charge your USB devices etc

Workshop

Kid-Friendly

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Visit Kiwiburn’s own nudist beach. Grab a drink and be free to frolic in the “waves”, sunbathe, or play a variety of games available.

Chillout • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am at Thompson Bros. Cirque Macabre

Caffeine dispensed at 11am daily by one of our lovely weirdos. No pants required.

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 11am - 2pm at Knots & Nonsense

Come get crafty and make something colourful and fun! Create a bracelet for yourself or make one to gift to a friend. All materials are provided, along with plenty of creativity and cheerful chats. Kids, whānau, and grown-ups are all welcome—children must be supervised by a parent or caregiver at all times.

Arts & Crafts • Chillout • Discussion / Conversation

Kid-Friendly

Sunday 11am - 12pm at Pillowtopia

Feetsies a bit sore? Eyes a bit puffy? No judgement here you party animals. Come along for some wellness via the Lowtopia paddock spa, for a massage(not a sex camp), face mask, or just a wellness chat. We have a range of treats for your various body parts - foot rubs, head rubs, Burly Man 4-Hands massages. (PLEASE be clean - maybe have a swim or visit Camp Douche before the rubbings)

Chillout • Health & Wellness

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 11:11am - 12:15pm at Ancient Astronaughties

Did last night make you feel tight? Come and stretch deep with us with the froggiest of poses. Bring loose clothing and a belly laugh or a ribbbbbbeeeerrt

Health & Wellness • Performance

Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11:11am - 12pm at Faerieland

Come let the world slither past your fulcrum! Warm coconut oil, naked bodies - push, squish - in this sensual extravaganza. R18 - intimate but not sexual.

Chillout • Games • Party

18+

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 12pm - 1pm at Juice TV

Has burn night left you parched? Juice TV is pouring juicy delights from midday. Rehydrate with a refreshing range of chilled juices (flavours change daily), whilst quenching your sensory and social palates with some mellow nostalgic tunes, silly games and a Sunday surprise from your camp correspondents.

Food & Drink • Games • Chillout

Friday and Sunday 12pm roaming around

Keep an eye out for Camp Bored Games' Mobile Chai Cart. We'll be doing the rounds and sharing our delish Almond milk chai.

Food & Drink

Sunday 12:30pm - 2:30pm at Camp Low Expectations

Connect to your intuition and artistry. Paint and bless the chakras in this deep, heart expanding, nourishing, and relaxing guided experience. Clothing is optional and the whole body can be used as a canvas. Bring a friend to paint and be painted by or make a new one, just don’t expect it!

Food & Drink • Arts & Crafts

18+

Sunday 1pm - 2:30pm at Wannabe Camp

Start your Sunday off with Bottomless Mimosas. Not unlimited, but served by our bottomless bartenders! Turning up bottomless is enthusiastically encouraged, but not a requirement.

Party

18+ (Alcohol, Sexual Content)

Sunday 1pm roaming around

At 1pm you may see yellow robed and masked figures moving through the festival grounds and converging on an undisclosed location. If you are curious, hear the call or serendipitously cross paths you are invited to bear witness to the ceremony.

Performance • Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 1pm - 2pm at Paradiso Airlines

Crash landing? Pfft, not gonna stop our world class service. Our sexy cabin crew have lined up an in-flight feast not to be missed, so make sure you're in your seat when the trolley rolls by!

Your boarding pass is essential so don't miss check-in. Thursday counters open 9am same day and our Sunday service offers advance check-in at 10am Friday.

Byo cutlery + mug. Come see us for menu & allergens.

Food & Drink • Performance

Sunday 1pm - 2:15pm at the Depot

Discover tensegrity - structures that float through tension, not rigid supports! Learn the physics behind these gravity-defying sculptures, then build your own bamboo creation. Like community, each piece supports the others to form something greater. Hands-on workshop for ages 10+. No experience needed - just curiosity!

@Centre Camp.

Arts & Crafts • Workshop

Sunday 1pm - 3pm at Cape Carnival

Oracle and Energy Work - Good vibrations and purely, positive Sunday vibes; oracle cards, singing bowls, healing and smiles.

We will host short Reiki healing sessions given by a Tripper Reiki Master and guide. The other energy workers in our camp will contribute in their own, unique ways.

Health & Wellness • Spiritual & Healing

Sunday 1pm - 3pm at Mint Country Club

The Inaugural Mint Country Club Hobby-Horse Dressage Competition.

Saddle up your show ponies for serious horse play & compete to win laughs, fans & adoration. The MCC stables will have a few extra studs to choose from for those who are super keen but horseless.

Food & Drink • Games • Music • Performance

Kid-Friendly

Sunday 2pm - 6pm at Inky Fingers

We’re putting on some cocktails and tunes and having a little dance. Come and hang out for a while before Temple Burn.

Food & Drink • Music • Party

Sunday 2pm at Creature Lab

The Creature Lab presents EXTREME BUTT WRESTLING – ANNIHILATION FEDERATION OF MAYHEM. A savage rejection of soft-touch novelty leagues. We go harder, deeper, and without dignity. Brutal, violent, excessive title fights driven by zero mercy. Blood spills, egos break, legends are forged. Only the strongest survive.

Games

18+

Sunday 2pm - 3pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

Join us for a discussion around New Zealand's laws around nudity.

Talk / Lecture

Sunday 2pm at Cosmic Zip

The 'war on drugs' has been failing for 50 years. It's increased drug harm, routinely breaches civil rights, and wastes billions of dollars every year. Many people who use drugs believe that legalising drugs is the answer but what would that look like? Come and join Sam from Students for Sensible Drug Policy to discuss and co-collaborate on how you would like to see drugs legalised in Aotearoa.

Discussion / Conversation • Workshop

Sunday 2:03pm - 4pm at Definitely Not Cops

Its our day off! Come hang out with our crew and listen to some beats before temple burn.

Music • Party

Sunday 2:03pm at The Doss House

Strip Volleyball Pong! Where each point scored losing team takes a shot! or one less item of clothing. Be good or be drunk and naked! Honestly we just want to play volleyball but we know burners wont turn up unless there is alcohol or nudity involved so pick your poison!

Health & Wellness • Food & Drink • Party

18+ (Alcohol, BDSM, Sexual Content)

Sunday 2:30pm - 3:30pm at Wannabe Camp

Shake yo Ass, Watch yo self! Come shake what your mama gave you! Let's get sassy, sexy and silly % Twerk it out with HannahBoom Lector as she gives you some twerking pointers while you boogie away to the bouncin' tunes from DJ Ashtre!

Music • Performance

18+ (Alcohol)

Thursday, Friday and Sunday 2:30pm - 4pm at Budju Oasis

Budju brings Budju Juice for all Budjus (alc/non options). Plus daily 80s beats + extras. Come say hi – meet Budju!

Food & Drink

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 3pm - 5pm at Camp Old News

Come pawn-der life with us over a game of chess with a twist. Play with a partner or play with a new mate; whoever you play, if you lose a piece, you lose a piece of clothing or draw a card from our ‘rewards’ deck. Chess-perts on hand if you’d like to learn the rules. Please bring a chess set if you have one on paddock.

Games

18+ (Sexual Content)

Sunday 3pm - 4pm roaming around

Enjoy and relax to a guided meditation where you will go on a nourishing and healing journey. This will run for approximately 1 hour. Following the meditation, there will be a energy exchange whereby each participant will have a turn being the one to receive energy and light for cleansing and healing. You will leave this space feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, light & happy! Presented by Suzy & Frank

Chillout • Spiritual & Healing • Health & Wellness

Sunday 3pm - 4pm at Burner Bum Sun Club

A historical record and exploration through various periods and perspectives. Nudity as analogy for various abstract concepts, often relating to vulnerability, authenticity, exposure, or a return to a fundamental state. Nudity as a statement and state of mind. Nudity and its sensuality from tantric perspective.

Come, explore, and experience. Actual nudity is NOT a requirement.

Talk / Lecture

Sunday 4pm - 7pm at The Palace Lounge

Have you a song to share, a story to tell, a poem to recite?

We have mics, speakers and instruments! Guitars, bass and percussion!

Jump up and share the inner depths of your soul or a silly jingle, bring a friend or 3 and have a jam. The stage is your proverbial oyster of possibility! All abilities welcome!

Chillout • Music • Performance

Sunday 4pm at The Lodge upon Bozo Heights

Come on you cowards, don't wait till after the event to post online about whatever bullshit has you groaning and moaning! Come tell it to MPW's faces; bring your petty grievances, boring stories & unsubstantiated complaints, and we'll either console you with sad puppy noises or make fun of your gripes, whichever we feel like most.

Discussion / Conversation • Spiritual & Healing

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 4pm at Planet Devita

Join us as Camp Devita marches to the Procession of the Ascended Neck. An interdimensional celebration of Devita’s wisdom, abundance, and truth. With pulsing beats and tales of cosmic evolution, we’ll traverse the paddock, inviting all to join our quest. Prepare for luminous giraffe effigies, rituals, and sacred dances that bridge the organic and digital. Look up - Devita awaits.

Performance • Spiritual & Healing • Music

Camp's Featured Event!

Sunday 4:20pm - 5:20pm

At Artwork - Gemma vs The Normal Worms.

Ask her some questions. She may answer them.

Discussion / Conversation • Performance • Chillout

18+

Friday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 5:30pm - 6:30pm at Very Alternative Gathering

Most people know what kink and BDSM are in theory - or at least in stereotype, but do you know what it looks like in practice?

Your favourite Paddock kinksters are here to give you a window into the normally behind closed doors practices so you can have a glimpse into this deep, dark world of whips and chains.

Performance

18+ (BDSM, Sexual Content)