Theme Camps – 2023

Outlaws and in-laws! Swing by the Outlaw Saloon for drinks on tap and rockin’ saloon ‘toons. We’ll treat you to the finest swill this side of the paddock - courtesy of our barkeep, trained in the wild country slinging illegal slop. Whether you’re here for wet high-noon shoot outs, to pre-party the upper paddock, or trip into our giant safe, mosey by to say hi and cause some trouble.

Events: Gallopin’ Heist • Racing Demons • Huntin' • 3 Out of 10 lass’oops • Tell us what to do • Do our washing up • High-Noon Water Duels • The Mighty Quizard's Terrible Quiz • Pizza Run

We are all about assisting participants who have issues with accessing the many wonders to be found on our Paddock. If you want to know what can be done to improve access to your camp or art piece come and chat with us.

Welcoming like a warm bowl of soup, we’re an eclectic collection of humans creating a space where whatever your label is, you’re welcome.

We’re here to provide a safe, emotionally accessible space for rainbow+/LGBT2QIA+/queer people - whether that means queer-focused support or just locating other queer burners!

Come chill, nerd out, and connect with your community.

Events: Pronoun Badge and Patch Making • Pronouns 101 • How did the chickens cross the road? - A reading of Terry Pratchett • Anxious Bisexual Speed Maybe Dating • Silver Screen Slumber Party • LGBTQIA+ Safe Space • LGBTQIA+ Meet & Greet, Imbibe & Vibe • 12 Pups of Christmas - The "best" movie at the burn • Magic the Gay-athering Draft • Queer High Tea Party

Aquanest is a place that’s safe in sound for you to rest. Where hydration and rejuvenation is at its all time best. A buffet of music will transform our cozy nest. We want to share with you spritz and sparkles in which we invest. You can recognise us by the blue sashes worn across out chests. Come to our camp for a spread of delicious vibes that you can in-jest.

Events: Breast Massage • Fred Again Boiler Room Set • Sims 2 Party • Badjelly the Witch audiobook listening party • Watercolor Wisdom • Cosmic Circle • Syn - Aesthetic Library • Syn - aesthetic library • Clothes Swap

Boutique debauchery. Pleasure overdose. Practised partying. The craft of indulgence.

Events: Sanglife 101 • Pancakes, Porridge and Poetry • SAUCE • Sound Journey

The world as you know it, has at last come to an end and as you guessed it - the Meows now rule supreme! It's a purrfect world!

Come and experience a sniff and a lick of life as it was always meant to be.

Drop in to pay homage to your new furry and playful rulers.

Stop by at our cafe and play with us, or drop in at our events to learn how to blend in and become one of us. You never know when something meowgical might happen!!

Events: Caterwauling • Baristacats Cat Cafe • Sensual spanking workshop • Body Painting demonstration and Art Jam • Aristocats Cat Show! • Fresh roasted coffee beans

Bedlam Apocalyptica is one of few civilisations left after the apocalypse, and we’re confused by all of the friendly, unarmed bohemians roaming the wasteland. We offer an immersive experience of post apocalyptic sound, light, and art. Come and visit our civilisation for heaps vibes, heaps hangs, and heaps party.

Events: Wander The Wasteland • Post-Apocalyptic Percussion Playtime • Graffiti The Wasteland • Metal Taming • An Uncivilised Post-Apocalyptic Civilisation Party • A Post-Apocalyptic Daytime Civilisation Party

BIPOC o te Patiki is a service camp dedicated to people within the Black, Indigenous, People of colour/culture community. A place for us to hang out, share knowledge, uplift each other and take up space. Come be apart of the movement! He kāinga, haumaru, he āhuru mōwai mōku.

Events: 🍿Melanin flavoured movie night🍿 • Reindigenize your understanding of the ancient Indian arts (Yoga & Tantra) • Bhakti Yoga & Kirtan • Surya Namaskar (Sun salutations) • Mātauranga Māori • Hula fitness with Lee 🌺 • Taonga Pūoro Guided Meditation • Poetry & Waiata open mic

Equally likely to seduce or sacrifice you; the Pagan priests, priestesses and playmates offer a Divine Den of Iniquity for your play and pleasure. Come experience ecstatic celebrations of sensuality and sacred service. A place to revere the cycles of the natural world, connect to the divine, and honour your debased self. Will the altar be adorned with crystals, stuffed toys, or butt plugs? Wait and see.

Events: Buddhism of Polyamory • How to Burn all year round • Ritualistic Uses of Grass • RBDSMA demo, discussion, & practice • Multisensory Massage Experience • Sex & Conscious Communication Couch • Shibari connection • Toys, Kinks, and Gender Diversity • Sensual Sensations • Ero's Eve Feast • Kitty Kafe • How to be good to your transgender self or lover

18+

*Ukulele serenade*

Welcome to “Burn The Rainbow” - a queer-positive, all inclusive rainbow-themed camp that would make Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole proud. We’ re a camp dedicated to all things LGBTGIQ, Rainbow, Queer & Ally. This includes a host of deliciously rainbow-flavoured events that would make anyone melt like a lemon drop.

Don’t believe us? Why not stop by for some pole-dancing, movie nights & disco parties. Or you can drop-in on partners Alphabet Soup & Consent Club for some safe and queer-friendly chillout zones.

*Ukulele serenade slowly drifting off*

Events: Spill the T Nail Salon • Rainbow Morning Mate Fiesta • Exotic Pole Dancing Lessons for All • Burn the Rainbow Meet & Greet • 56 Flan-gee Flow • Time Warp Open Mic • Yoga for Every Body • Drag Lube Wrestling • Dragtastic Transformation Extravaganza • Hookah & Hooks: Rainbow Shisha and Crocheting Social • Rainbow Reels: Cinema Under the Stars • Queering psychedelics • Rainbow Pot’lunch Party • Porro Palooza: A Latinx rolling session

Are you a bored burner? We will have daytime fun times for anyone who is bored and wants a bit of fun or a mental challenge. With our giant sized snakes & ladders game, giant jenga and a variety of board games available, we'll keep you bored burners busy and mentally challenged during your daytime downtime.

Events: All Day - Board Games • Bored Games

Work hard, make it through the influence of people from distant lands could have you wondering if this occurs. Your heart may be ready for an exciting new start of some kind, perhaps metaphysical, social, ecological, or humanitarian work. You'll be able to straighten things out in spite of anything but true passion. Relax and enjoy situations like this will be able to see things from a few flowering plants as an opportunity to let them talk you into trouble.

Events: Taxidermy petting zoo • Bring us your cat pictures • Mission Incoherent • The 2nd Semi-Annual Cushion Olympiad

Camp Inflatable is the new The Den!; The den has been around for many burns offering a safe space for burners new and old.

The den offers tools, solar power and assistance (as though the place doesn't have these in abundance).

We are offering a handful of activities - there will scheduled events but also we can talk and show pretty much any time.

These activities are:-

- an introduction to a Theremin - an instrument played without touching it;

- the invention of clothes, with examples out of the prehistory;

- for fun rope becomes costume as Shibari.

Come and find us for a fun interactive play or chill time.

(The Keepers of the Inflatables are this year raising an infant instead of being with us, so these toys are absent.)

Events: Introduction to a Theremin • The Invention of Clothes • Shibari - rope as costume

The key to a fulfilling and happy Burn is low expectations.

Happiness is fleeting and elusive. It’s only there for a few moments and gone before we know it. If you ever find yourself feeling unhappy during the burn, remind yourself of the happiness formula.

Happiness = Reality - Expectations

Focus on the things you can influence and cultivate gratitude to lower your expectation baseline. When you feel happy, enjoy and savour that moment to the fullest. Know it’ll go away. But rest assured, it’ll be back again soon.

Events: Don’t Expect Much Party • Expectation Management Yoga & Meditation • How to give a BJ • Berghaim Party - Guaranteed Entry • Massage Train-ing • Speed Dating

MPR is a space that offers a platform for aspiring performers to share their creativity with the world.

We have a booking system and offer it to new artists and guests to contribute to the magic of MPR over the week of Kiwiburn. You are welcome to perform a DJ / VJ / live set, art / dance performance. We will do our best to accommodate and find a suitable time to book you in. We provide our guest artists with sound, lighting and visual equipment to enable creativity, taking away the barriers and giving you a platform to express yourself. We endeavour to make our guests feel as “at home” and included as possible.

We will judge the performances for a Kiwiburn Idol competition. The winner gets a big box of 2 minute noodles and gets to name our camp for 2023. What is MPR?

Events: How to DJ 101 • Hardcore power ashtanga yoga session • Poi Spinning & making workshop • Gymkhana games • Astro photography workshop

We’ve been time traveling since before it was a theme! Camp Nipple Clamp (CNC) is a 1970s inspired retro, comfy lounge that’s a slice of (nana’s) home. Want to be laughed at, laughed with, and laughed next to? Then kick off your shoes, pull up a beanbag and turn the TV on - maybe get on it? Home of the nightly 7.35ish o’clock news - you make the content, we take the credit. PS: Sexy - but still #notasexcamp

Events: Who wants to be a Millio-nang • Bogan Record Throwdown • Sunday Vinyl Sessions • Matchy-matchy Dickbag Disco • Covid in Space: The Musical • 7.35ish O’Clock News • The Nightline News

Bringing the frothiest froth to the paddock as always!

We welcome and invite you to revel with us in our froffin fun times and remember to keep an eye out for when the bar's open... who knows, there may even be an (actually) inflatable surprise this year. Have questions? What's froth? Whos inflatable? Pay us a visit to find out.

Events: Punk Night • BlueSunday • Super Frothy Toothbrush Silliness • Make a Leather Do Bro Holster out of Leather • \M/ METAL NIGHT \M/ • A Gang$tas 4:20 • A Pompous 4:20 • Ska! Ska! Ska! @ 4:20 • 4:20! 80's Glam Edition! • Leave No Trace Amazing MOOP relay race • Absinthe Breakfast

18+

We at Camp No Fun, believe there is too much fun at Kiwiburn and we are on a mission to demolish it! We are the moaners, the whiners, the complainers, the uninterested, and the tame people of the paddock. Here to promote a mundane and lifeless burn. Ugh.

Events: Ring Stinger Curry Roulette • Bum Bonding Art Class • Helium Karaoke • Hoodie-Saurus Rex Race • Twisted Twistee Twister • Ugly Salon • No Flow Yoga • Brussel sprout BBQ • Stink Bar Un-Happy Hour

Everyone's welcome at Camp Raglan - our little slice of West Coast paradise on the Paddock. We bring you a cozy lounge, where both good conversation and unexpected shenanigans are the order of the day. Join us from mid-morning till sunset(ish) for our eclectic array of workshops, pop-up performances, classy drinks & tasty snacks (when we can be bothered) and other stuff that we haven't decided on yet. Topped off with our version of the infamous Sunday Sessions to get you feeling all yummy before Temple Burn.

Events: Dinner for Two • Shimmy, Bump & Grind • Naked Folks Reading • Improv Games • The Mating Game • Raglan Rouge (life drawing with a twist) • Sunday Sessions (at the Notti)

Can't Get a Head, Get a Hat. We've got the head, not just any head. THE HEAD. We can almost guarantee you don't have a head like this so grab a hat and shimmy on down to what is probably the best head in the paddock.

Events: Saturday Morning Sports Ball • Head(Hat) Hunters • Hat Decoration Station

Cape Carnival is back for the umpteenth time with our deservedly infamous Cheez and Whine Party, drumming circle and great tunes.

Events: Whine and Cheese • Drumming Meditation - With or Without your Drum • Face Painting

Castaway is an interactive metal casting expereance. We take the used aluminium cans, melt them down and teach you how to compress sand around your choise of mould. we then pour in the metal and you get to keep and take home the thing you make.

During the festival treasure will be hidden at various locations around the site. Clues and Maps will be drawn up that will lead participants on a treasure hunt.

Events: Can Pressing and Embossing • Castaway Foundry Sand Casting • Castaway Can Crushing

Childish Adultish is back and travelling backwards faster than our dignity can keep up. Time-trip through medieval-fantasy challenges, leaving your brains decaying somewhere in the Stone Age.

Events: Josh's Gymnastics • Skål With Childish Adultish • Beer Can Jousting • Taste Tripping • Connect Four Tournament

The filthy Vikings of Cöffeehölm (Kiwiburns second best traditional viking teahouse) will be returning to the paddock with the ultimate experience in delicious hot beverages and soft squishy warm things. Come chill out in the shade with a coffee and an ancient boardgame all day, or snuggle up with cushions, blankets, & hot chai at night. Also hosting a plethora of weird and wonderful events through out the week.

Skål!

Events: Foraged Flogger Competition • Whiskoffeelosophy • Viking-style hair braiding • A quiet place • Dark & Stormy Story Time • Tea and Tarot • Get SAVAGE with me! • COFFEE SCRUBS • Collective Suffering • Viking Rap Battles: The Art of Flyte • Late Night Chai • Viking Coffee Lounge • Building consent culture: men doing the work • Battle scars and Brews

Our kaupapa is centered around an intersectional, anti-discriminatory, and restorative framework of consent. Not only do we work to uphold the importance of consent, we actively resist all forms of discrimination and entitlement that inform non-consensual and disrespectful behavior.

Our trained volunteers (Consent Guardians) work to promote safety and consent amongst festival goers

Welcome travelers, the Cosmic soup kitchen is open!

Bring a vessel, pull up a chair, and tell us of the adventures you've had.

Fill your soul (and definitely your bowl) at Cosmic Soup. All welcome!

Serving soup until we run out

Events: Vagabond Soup • NeuroSoup • The Great Soup Debate • Drunk Jam

Devour & Delight is about embracing consensual delights, and devouring good food! We're back this year for more sensual experiences and sexy twists to keep you begging for more.

Events: Tasty Teaser • Erotic MasterChef • Human S'mores • Polyamory Happy Hour • Sensual Connections • Flirting workshop • The Pancake Slap • Pleasure Portal • Pole and Roll • Eye Candy Cabaret

The Door Frame. Home to the cherished Doors Bar. A tribute to the mighty Threshold in its metaphysical and material form.

Caves the original door frame, 2000BC Egyptian architecture for the first false door, the Romans in 74Ad for the first sliding door. the presence of 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine in plants, Aldous Huxley's experimentation with such things and the sparkle of a certain book on a shelf. Jim Morrison and the keys, Albert Walker and the 2021 hit track "Door Frame, Yeah!" and Camp Daddy Reuben for rescuing a drowning idea from a spa that was too hot. There is a lot hinging on this, perhaps the fate of the entire universe.

Events: TWERKSHOP • Intro to Massage • Dusty Sunset Party @ the DoorFrame

Providing food for all.

Cooking meat and vege on fire

Frolicking fandango is a time travelling vajayjay. A sacred portal through which you can be reborn at any point in time you choose, as whoever you want to be. Your imagination is the limit ✌️

Events: Eating the O • Womb Bar Frolicks • Merkin Schmerkin

Come one, Come all: We have an inclusive space with an ensemble of artists, musicians and funky people that like to party. This is the place to be if you want to dance the night away.

Events: UV Masquerade Ball • Effigy Burn Party • Nang Wrestling • Sparkle Party

Led by a secretive champion of an ancestry rarely seen in these parts, Hail Mary reveres something of unknowable complexity and origin. It is unknown how this group recruits its members, but for years the numbers have been growing in secret. Now they're making one of their first assemblages in a village far from the "civilizard" world. Corrupt leaders are not be abided, this group seems to function in a non-hierarchical way... The only sense of hierarchy present in the assemblage is how some physical structures may stand taller than others. Mostly active in the day time. Strange relics, weird idols and rabbit holes of words are to be found when entering this area.

Events: Sensual Slip-Slop-Slapping Workshop • Sock Wrestling • (Semi) Naked Blindfolded Twister • Mail Thiefs Dream Show • Love Letter Station • Booty Bounce Twerkshop • Unqualified Qualified Advice • Web3 WTF • Anything Goes Q&A • Sound Bathing

Take a detour off State Highway 1 and come and experience the best of the bay. Join us for some high (and maybe a little lower) brow events that exemplify our world class hospitality and sunny disposition.

By day we are a relaxed place to rest in the shade. By night we transform. Our delicious evening offerings from the bar will revitalise you for your paddock adventures. Creatives rejoice, we will have a variety of arty events to satisfy your cravings.

Events: Shots, shots, shots! • Wine, Cheese & Story Time • Shots @ Sunrise • The Official Unofficial World's Longest Spank Train • The HBFA Community art project

Hijinxx returns to the paddock bigger and better than ever this year. Expect our signature flames, Freak Show, Whip It Out Bar, some of the finest DJs NZ has to offer and some very special secret surprises.

Events: Freak Show • Afterburn • Morena Espresso Martini's • Whip It Out Wednesday • Kiwiburns Got Talent

Got a thirst for the ‘booch? Wanna smooch a cooch? Mooch some hooch from a pooch? Or scootch your gooch over a babouche? You’re in luck! This is a place like no other. Come tickle our ivories while we moisten your gullets with rotten fruity vinegar tea.

Events: Midday Monikers • 6th Block PE with Mr C! • Ecstatic Dance • Ramble ‘n’ Gamble • Special Ks Race to the Other Side • Ultimate Team Speed Jumbles Jangles • Open Piano Hour

Home of the (in)famous Big Red Button and questionably epic yarns. Swing by for some Cornhole, giant Jenga or nicotine-free e-shisha, 24 hours a day.

Events: Picklebacks & Ticklebacks with Nickelback • 420 Chill • Speed Mating • Apparel Pool • Time Travel Wheel • Traditional Hookah • Mini Games Medley • Traditional Hookah • Traditional Hookah • Traditional Hookah • Mad Hatter Miracle Berry Morning Tea • Magical Mimosas • Wine Wanking with Will

18+

Bringing the joy of ink to the dusty paddock......tacky memento anyone?......making stuff is fun!

Events: Clothing Yard Sale

Littles' Playhouse is a camp for the youngest burners on the paddock. A safe, supportive inviting, informative and entertaining space for burner parents and their kiddos. Littles' Playhouse is helping guide and teach our future thinkers, doers and leaders a path for the benefit of the earth. We offer child-focused workshops and entertainment. Note: we are not a daycare, we expect parental involvement. Let's keep the fires burning with our little future kiwi-burners!

Events: Pregnant Pause • Gem Creations • Gem Creations • Gem Creations • Littles Variety Extravaganza. • Quiet Time • Littles Playhouse Cat Ear Making for our Futuristic Felines • Little Yoga Bugs • Big Yoga Bugs • Story Time • Kids Capoeira • Faerie Queen Visit

Mint Country Club aka MCC is the place to be for an ice cold GIN & TONIC. Be cool as cucumber, play lawn sports, join in the games and fun activities. Keep eye out for the roaming gin bar there for your refreshMints. Come join the club, get Minted and wear GREEN.

Events: MCC presents the Trollied spinners • Meet the Minters • Human platter • MTT at the MCC • Photographic consent in a tiny tent • Mini burner light up • Get ready to burn! • PLBA (Paddock Lawn Bowls Association) • MCC Goth Dance Party • The Rant Off @MCC • The Inaugural Mint Country Club Hobby-horse Polo Match

Mu Mu Land Lost Island Paradise

Events: Fiesta Del Mu Mu • Return to the Lost Island Paradise Party • Somatic Dance Workshop

Octopussy's Garden is a nod to the eight-fold path and validating the experience of those that practice multi-love. Our members are all polyamorous - the expanded polycule and affiliates practice different formats of polyamoury. Experiential sensory reality guides our offerings including silent meditations and discussion on the realities of polyamoury in today's society. Watch out for our temporary tattoo team if you're looking for your body to be decorated.

Events: Silent Meditation

Radio Station

Events: TRANSMISSION START • PAPER SCISSORS ROCK QUEST ENTRY ROUND 1 • PRELOADER • PAPER SCISSORS ROCK QUEST GRAND FINALE • THE TRANSFER LOOP • MUTINY! • THE NEWS LIVE @ CAMP NIPPLE CLAMP • PADDOCK JAM • CATTLE PROD BREAKFAST • THE LIVE OVERNIGHT SHOW • PAPER SCISSORS ROCK QUEST ENTRY ROUND 2 • ZOOTOPIA • ROBO BLENDER

Pangea is a camp offering a eclectic smattering of workshops and some adhoc low key daytime live music

Events: Poetry Slam • Cacao ceremony • Home Brew Sharing Hour • #freethenipple (or cover them in pretty things) • Morning Lo Fi • C64 demoscene cuts • Jungle themed fancy dress goon and cheese

Embrace your dual human nature in our camp of two halves - quiet yin and party-loving yang!

On Paradiso Airlines, tighten your seatbelts, tuck your head between your legs, and get ready to boogie: Kiwiburn's first and only airline is open for business! Although our plane is a little worse for wear, the pilots have been sipping spiked coffee, and our oxygen masks will probably supply you with something other than oxygen, we'll strive to get you where you need to go. So brace for a good time and get ready to depart. No boarding pass necessary.

Need to recharge your social batteries between flights? Come visit the tranquil island oasis of Camp Introvert, where peace and quiet are on tap. Enjoy a selection of puzzles, books, and art supplies, or simply relax and rest your eyes.

Events: Quiet hours • ‘Oxygen’ Masks Deployed • Liftoff! • Maynard Keenan Appreciation Hour • Bedtime Stories • Bedtime Stories

By all accounts, Paradox should not exist. Lying between dimensions, this remote market outpost is home to colourful characters from all over: in search of connection, music or their next bounty. Come hang up your space boots, grab a drink or an instrument and lose yourself in the sounds, smells and tastes of the multiverse.

Events: A Freaky Night at the Cantina • Perineum Sunning with Crazy James • Grounds for Friendship • Sh*t That Hits the Fan: How to Craft Photorealistic Fake Poo • The Bizarre Bazaar • Fire Jam Paradox • Genital Printing Salon • Official Crap Art Tour • Silicon Subservience (not like that) • Tantrum Release • Cacao Ceremony & Ecstatic Dance • Shamanic Breathwork

chill and positive vibration tunes for the daytime with spiritual consciousness and immersive interactive projected environment on some nights

Events: Erotica Electronica • Soul Salve

Kiwiburn's hub for flow arts, fire spinning and expressional movement.

Join us for workshops during the day and fire spinning every night.

We will encourage and inspire flow arts in all people, from newbies to experienced flomies.

Events: Poi basics • Power Flower Sticks • Beginner 3 ball juggling • Poi basics • Skin 2 Skin • Power Flower Sticks • Effigy Fire Spinning Sign up • Fire spinners safety briefing • Beginners Staff Workshop • Hooping 101 • Contact poi • Poi No Beats • Power Flower Sticks • Intro to Poi Antispin and Flowers (intermediate) • Skin 2 Skin • Fire fans basics • THE BOUNCY ASSHOLE! • Kids Flow • Poi basics and intermediate • Kids fire spinning • Rope dart basics • Claymotion Juggling • Rope dart basics • Diabolo - all levels • Fire Party! • Chill Fire Jam • Only Flames • Beginners Shibari

Psst hey human. Wanna get some snugs? Pillowtopia selects only the finest of pillows straight from the clouds themselves—it’s legit! Trust us, we all have PhD's in chill times! Come drink lots of tea, and have lots of consensual cuddles. All cool creatures craving cascades of comfort are welcome 🙂

Events: WAP-py Hour • Philosophy Jam • Pillowtopia gives out free cash to everyone • Reichian bodywork workshop • Feline Fortunes • Ace Space • Burnesque • Songs in the Shade • Slackgammon • PILLOWFIGHT! • Philosophy Jam • Reichian bodywork workshop • Backgammon Boss Battle! • Blanket Fort! • Why Anything? Why Me? • Kinky Life Drawing

Planet Devita is a wild yet wholesome, interstellar society of pagan psychedelic giraffe worshippers of abundance.

Fuck your Desmond. As the divine feminine rises, our goddess Devita goes beyond time and space to exist in new dimensions and imaginations. We will celebrate Her arrival via our infinite cosmic portal, as She leads us towards an alternative timeline with Her abundance, powered by the light of the solar system inside Her.

Events: Devita's Divine Arrival • Kundalini Yoga with Devita • Fritter Away Fritters and Coffee Shmop

Weeee'reee BACK, and this burn is our 5th Birthday! Come play! We run creative and crafty workshops. Swing by for a chat and see what we’re doing today, see if we're organized enough for a notice board. Are you more the kind to spend the day hiding from the heat and hangovers? Relax in the shade with us. Will there be birthday cake? Who knows!? Come play with strangers.

Events: Eight-legged Races • Dig the Jig • Cinnamon Scroll Hugs • Gallery on the Paddock • Creative Writing Workshop • Hugging Workshop • The Soapbox Taxiderby • Pawnographic Instruction (Introduction to Chess) • Collar Making • People's High Court of the Paddock

Zea mays everta; a kernel hard of shell and of solid base, is known to explode into soft and fluffy deliciousness when heat and pressure is applied. The same can be said about the fiends inhabiting the Popcorner. Chill, boogie, quiz and sponge with us. We tend to go well with salt, caramel and butter.

Back for the 4th year by POPular harassment!

Events: CHILLI QUIZ! • Sunset Churros • Human Battleships • A Song of Fire and Ice (TM)

Pups Paddock Post are proud to announce the return of Kiwiburn's oldest postal service. Our traditional ethos of "We will read you mail and we might deliver it" continues to yield the best results on the paddock, and we are excited for more outrageous delivery requests this year. Whether you want to send a love note, junk mail, court summons or perhaps a whole roast chicken, Pups Paddock Post will take the job. All mail to be delivered should be dropped in the post box at the Pups Paddock Post tent or flag down one of your friendly or possibly hostile Posties when you see them out on their rounds. NO POST ON SUNDAYS.

Events: Pups Paddock Post

Rodents come in many shapes and sizes, from the smallest pygmy rat to the biggest capybara. R.A.T is here for all the critters out there. Enter our nest and get weird with The Rodents – there’s puzzles for your fingers to fiddle with, and tunes to bump and grind! Our rat den is a safe space for every kind.

Events: WET T-SHIRT RUN • It's not a phase mom! • Dubstep Lipsync Battle • Sex Work Q&A • Maditation • Nude Life Drawing

18+

Camp Riddikulus welcomes everybody to come and cast a spell on all their fears in a supportive safe environment, “Riddikulus”! Let loose your silly side. Don’t be afraid to be yourself!

Events: Floor flow • Rock Painting • Festival Quests • Nicholas cage colouring

We are a theme camp collecting the lost and infirmed, Stragglers and slow pokes, Ponderer's and Contemplators.

Safe haven for travelers and provide space and infrastructure for those who are traveling from overseas.

Come see us for chill vibes, educational talks and all who would like to contribute a talk please contact us via our Facebook group

Events: Cluffy's Classified's • Chill out and read a Cook book • Basic bants and average advice • Non-Violent Direct Action Training • Scamps Humble Taco Journey • A Failed Politician Speaks • Annual Brewers Gathering

We are all about providing a welcoming & safe place to enjoy low-key, simple pleasures to the burner community. Take a break from lovely madness, have a cuppa, enjoy a cuddle, learn to give the perfect foot massage, have a snack, learn a craft.

Events: Random Pleasure • Coffee Time! • Cacao Readings • Paint a Rock! • Cacao Readings • Learn Foot Massage

Come sail away with us at Solarsails, the ultimate destination for solar-punk enthusiasts and DIYers! Our camp is all about sustainability, creativity, and living off-grid. We're passionate about sailing, bamboo construction/natural building, composting, dumpster diving, and permaculture. Join us for some exciting conversations and hands-on workshops centred around living a low-impact, resource-conscious lifestyle.

Events: Pussy Bangers • Belated Sunrise Yoga (5pm) • Maker Porn • Badtime Stories • Mushroom Growing 🍄 • Seamanship for Bruners • Perform in a music video • Daily Morning Deep and Meaningful • Little SolarSailors Playgroup • Pockets for the People

Hating on your campmates? Sick of psytrance? One too many hugs? Get locked up and surrender into the beauty and punishment of Solitary Refinement. Repent and restore to a curated soundscape in a private, sumptuous cell. Treats for inmates on their best behaviour. Let the hole make you whole again!

Events: Solitary refinement

Welcome all to the Space Cadets' Hideout - the paddock’s local alien oasis! Offering all interplanetary pirates somewhere to refuel, relax and have a boogie. Come start your morning off with some wholesome day time fun before setting off on your next adventure, or slink on over in the eve for the tastiest and funkiest vibes that ever did be.

The Hideout has had a makeover. We are emerging from our chill cocoon. This year we will be hosting breakfast each day (in the new wing of the mothership) accompanied by live music, soft dj sets and some fun morning antics, with a few special evening events in the midst.

Events: Skittle's Classical Hour • Seventies Stomp • Magic the Gathering in the Rangitikei Gorge • Musical Wanderings, an Open Mic • Paleolithic Party • Saturday Futuristic Fandangle • Interactive Live Production Jam • Annual Sexy Banana Walk Off Competition

Welcome to the new improved, enlarged and eco-friendlier Stitch & Bitch! We are here to help you pimp your costumes with a smorgasbord of wonderful bits and pieces that we can teach you how to sew on to your gear to help you strut fanstastically on the paddock. More than this, we can help you fix your gear - has your hem come down, your buttons come off or your knicker elastic lost its spring? We have the stuff you need, and will show you how to mend, make-do and fix your gear to withstand non-stop days and nights of frolicking. Just bring your self, the items you want to pimp or repair and turn up to one of our afternoon sessions. While we help you stitch, there will be some hilarious bitching for your entertainment.

Events: Stitch & Bitch sewing sessions

Strange Brew is a weird little chill space for nighttime downtime. We have art, we have toys, we make chai and we sacrifice birgins.

Events: Collage for Humans • The Fine Art of Stabbotage • Adults with ADHD meetup • Perseptive Tarot for Fools

Swingfling returns... Debuting our brand new circus marquee! As usual we'll be teaching all things circus; silks, lyra, yoga, acro, juggling. But just like an "as seen on tv" ad there's more! An amazing cocktail bar, craft beer, flames, swings, DJ's an art car and 20+ events to feast your eyes over. Don't miss our cabaret show on Friday night "The Biggest Show in Town!"

Events: Partner Stretching • Partner Acro • Disney Yoga • Slutty Fitness • Swing Fling Cabaret • Aerial Jam (Experienced Aerialists) • Aerial silks • Doubles trapeze and Lyra • Naked People Reading Dr. Seuss • Send Noods • Piet's Za • How not to start a sex cult • Learn to juggle • Juggle Jam • Beatnik Picnik • Sunday Mass • Life in Flow • Life in Flow • Opti-Mystic Optome-Tricks

Squeeze me some steeze, we’ve got what you need. Iced tea, fresh tunes, good company - yes please!

Events: Crystal Sound Journey • Fruit Salad Party • Hat & Robe Party • Steezy Warm Up • Tangerine Jam • Hip Chakra Flow • Sound Healing Workshop • Sea Shanty Singalong • Dancing Freedom • Singer-Songwriter Session • Bachata Party • The Steezy Dodgeball Tournament • Chess Workshop + Tournament • Write Club • Ukulele Jam • 420 Reggae Party • Decolonising Kiwiburn

Travel through time with Tardis and Tea. Escape with the Doctor to a different time zone through the tardis. You are invited to pass by for your unique experience complemented by delicious chai (Futcha Chai). Disorientate, Reorientate. Find yourself in another time and space with intimate, fun connections.

A shady secret society of night dwellers who shelter from the sun beneath our mysterious silver screens. Gladly providing void-screaming, philosophical pondering, and silent disco-ing, we're here to bring shade to the day and light to the night. Don't forget to slip, slop, slap, and wrap.

Events: DIY Tesla Coil Workshop • Aluminati Opening Night + Silent Disco • 🎧 ASMR Open-Mic 🎧 • Philosophy Workshop: Happiness & Wellbeing • Philosophy Workshop: Misinformation & Post-Truth

Lush, lovely, nutritious and soulful... The groovy Pufferfish vibes come back to the paddock this year with its latest addition -- a compact and intimate version of the best place to be at a party... It's a pimped-out, fully-kitted kitchen! This is the place for chefs'n'foodies to hang out, creating deliciousness to surprise and delight... all to the backdrop of the sweet, soulful, 70s-esque sounds of the Pufferfish Lounge... right next to Centre Camp, with a lovely outlook on Temple. Guest chefs most welcome! (By prior arrangement, preferably. Call Pete 029-973 6111) : Bring ingredients to whip up your signature dish/cake/pastry/etc for sharing -- and we've got everything else you might need! (mixer/oven/freezer/espresso machine/hobs/hot water/crockery/etc). For more info, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/kiwiburn/permalink/10158854010998388/

If we manage to bring the big truck, and get to time-travel back with it far-enough before the festival starts, then expect The Pufferfish Lounge's unique hand-built structure overhead, carpet underfoot, and even a woodburner oven to keep you warm at night. Designed for conversations and interaction, it's a groovy, upbeat, vibrant refuge from the doof. Make a note to hang around for our Sunday Post-Burn Lounge Party, for a perfect way to say goodbye to the loveliest festival along the timeline.

Events: Sunday Post-Temple Send-off @Pufferfish • A Pizza di Lounge @Pufferfish • Retrogrove In Residence @Pufferfish • Making Lush Lamps @Pufferfish • Sofa Sounds in The Pufferfish Lounge • SPREADSHEET PORN: Ultimately Easier Camp Admin & Festival Camp Cookbook • Fleeting Guest Chefs @Pufferfish • "Who kneads a pizza ma soul?"

The Closet is an portal to another world... a portal to the REAL YOU!

Enter the Closet, be welcomed by our fabulous Closeteers and feel the vibes which will naturally flow from your limbs as you move to the grooves of our fruity DJ's...

DANCE, BE & FEEL FREE - take your pick from our rails of weird, wonderful and wacky clothes & accessories and don't worry... We understand love affairs are common on the paddock and if you happen to fall for any of the closet items, please feel free to accept them as our gift to you, and may they bring you joy & happiness for the rest of your years.

oh and..

YOU. ARE. FABULOUS QWEEN!

Can't wait to see you! X

Events: Twisted Twister • Paintarock • Burn Night Closet Party

Welcome to The Cottage! Grandma has a steaming cup of tea ready for you, a tin of biscuits, and crafts for days! Get stuck into some knitting, drawing, or whatever takes your fancy - we have plenty of supplies. This is a safe space for you to stop by any time you need to recharge and unwind.

Events: Tea time with Nana • Nana stay yoga • POT POT POT • Bedtime Story • Bedtime Story • The Magic of Plants

Deep underground hidden from the prying eyes of the law is a seedy laboratory committed to the goal of bringing life to what was once thought to be impossible.

This sound camp is bent on global domination and together we will breed an army of incredible creatures with the power to change the world.

Events: Space rocks n shit • Gangsta Babe Shit • Bullrush is back baby • PORTAL OPENING

A freestyle rap den, our camp supplies the goods to scratch your hip-hop itch. A safe space for wanna-be rappers to come together and spit hot fire (or tepid embers) over a cascading stream of instrumentals. We provide the mics and energy, you bring the lyrical prowess, or at least a can-do attitude and a mouth.

Events: Hip Hop and Hashbrowns • Dark and Stormy Geography Tours • Open Mic • Dancing for nervous people • Giant bubbles • 90's Party • Telestration Against Humanity

Chill out / food area by day / bar by night

Events: Team Doss House Presents: “How to pour a pint” • Team Doss House Presents: “The BBQ” • Team Doss House Presents: UhhhhRrrhhhhgggg Hangover cure breakfast • Team Doss House Presents: Rock! Paper! Scissors! Lizzard! Spock!

Slowly becoming one of Kiwiburn's only re-lie-able theme camps, The Hangout is back from the future to let you know our hammocks are still the best source of shade and comfort until 2052, when hover-hammocks hit the shelves and take the world by storm. A constant source of shade, delightful tunes and more hammocks than you can shake a stick at, come by anytime, day or night, and Hangout.

Events: Hacky Sack Jam & Workshop • Brown Town • Bleach dying fabric for Beginners • Bloody Mary Breakfast Club ft. Mimosas and Meat Sticks • First Night Films • Meet your year-round Crew Assistant Care Bears • Napping with Nach

The Petri Dish is a medium for growth. Come inoculate our substrate and let's see what happens!

Events: Best NAPs in town! • Rejuvenating NAP • Gentle guided nap • It's NAP time! • Oral Hygiene Session

Born from the ashes of road kill, the Pheasant brings you pleasant things and chill happenings. When the rigors of the night before leave you needing home comforts, come relax on our couches for a cuppa and a cuddle. If you've had your fill snorting ketamine off frogs, join us for baked goods and lawn games. If you need a break from the doof, we've got Music You Know The Words To (tm). If you're finding all that positivity overwhelming, we've got cross stitch and nihilistic optimism; or you can battle it out to be champion of our Butt Wrestling ring. Join us for speakeasies, yoga, capoeira, food, spite, and love. If you know the truth is out there, spin the conspiracy pinwheels to get red pilled.

Events: Lawn games and jungle (feat. chicken fighting) • Improv Games! • Capoeira workshop (all levels) • Deep House & Techno Night • Brief Dating • Disco you know the words to • Discussion: Decolonising the Burn • Afterburn Sunrise Slowdance • Dude, Hold My Beer • The Ed Hearnshaw Memorial Butt Wrestling Championship

We cure people with poetry and shit talk, but mostly empathy and damn fine care. Come over for a poetic medic style consultation when your mojo is low after excessive stimulation, and we’ll prescribe the right tincture or treatment. Our team of guessing practitioners (GP’s) will keep you sane in times of this radical madness with emergency grooms and thirst aid. Bring your festival exhaustion here and equalize and recharge in the recalibration room till you reach inner homoeostasis. Disclaimer: I'm not your doctor!

Events: Group massage • Seuss Meditation • Laughter Yoga

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Events: Santigold Appreciation Hour • Witching Hour • Flo's Psychedelic 60s Session • Wobbly Wednesday • Throwback Thursday • Meet the Rusties • Pssst!..I heard daft punk was playing at the Rusty fence.... • Limited Appeal • The Rusty Joint present: the Rusty Joint Second Annual Lapdance competition! • Tradie Day

The Sensory Dispensary is a psychedelic wonderland full of sensory delights and experiences, a place to chill out and explore the unexpected. We have what you need to delight your five senses, and more LAMP than you can shake your eyeballs at. Open 25 hours a day!

Events: Deep House Coffee hour • Bacon Bloody Brunch

Come and snuggle down with the Snuggets at The Snuggery!

The Snuggery is returning to KB23. Voted the best snugging venue in 2021 (take that Pillowtopia!).

The Snuggery is lovingly crafted to warp you back to your childhood and relive your most snuggly memories. Join us for cuddle puddles, board games, storybooks, and more! The new and improved Snuggery awaits!

Events: The Snuggery • Tears workshop • Story time • The Playroom • Snorkel Tour • Story time - My Uncle Oswald • Unicorn Dance Party • Cuddle puddle with Mary Jane

Over hedonism of the Burn? Need a wholesome break? Want to learn tangible skills to forge yourself some clothing from sheep to shirt? Pop by Sew Knot Fun for workshops and yarns with some of your craftiest friends.

Events: Spin us a Yarn - no really • Spinster Hour! • Spinning Yarns w/ Monty • Cock Socks 101

We are trampy and stampy. Some of us love the moon. Some of us hate the moon. If you like trampolining, calimocho, octopissing, capes, yelling at the moon or tramp stamps, come talk to us.

Events: Cycle touring in NZ • Moon protest protest • Trampy run • Moon protest • Kids birthday party for adults

We celebrate the triangle, a sculpture in four dimensions that travels both forward and backward in time.

Events: Water Fight! • Bi-visibili-tea • Moogitation • Synaesthesia • Redecentralize the internet

Two Couches and a Rug will once again meet your expectations by bringing two couches and one rug to the paddock.

Events: Heckling Workshop • Guided Double Brown Tasting • Buttplug Craft Hour • Come Watch The Game at The Acid TAB • Drug Song Karaoke • Acid TAB - 24 Hour Sports Action

Come chill day and night with a variety of teas and spontaneous activi-teas - Bring a cup and some love

Events: Drawing The Naked Truth • "High" Tea • Mystic Mug

We are Kinky. With our core group of friendly and experienced Kinksters from Wellington and all over NZ, we bring our skills, knowledge, experience, and deviant alternative brains to the paddock eager to share with all who want to experience and learn more.

Consent is important to us along with SSC, RACK, and PRICK. Come down and pop in for a visit (even just query the alphabet soup!).

Curious? Indulge with us at our fun and friendly Parties, Workshops and Discussions on Rope/Shibari/Kinbaku, bondage, S&M, sensual touch, and debauchery, we welcome everyone from the experienced to the inquisitive.

Events: Very Alternative Demos • Shibari 101 • Intimate/Connective Rope Play • Latex Chat + Show'n'tell • Pet Play 101! • Kinky Safety and Etiquette, Consent and Negotiation Workshop • Behind the sex curtain: What really happens on a porn set • Freeform Shibari - how to make a net • Kinky = Queer • Amosphere & Headspace Management • Sensory Play • Bondage escape • Femme Dom Chats! • Kinkster AMA • Ethical Non-Monogamy discussion circle • How to go f*ck yourself: sex toys 101 • Rope Nerds Talk a Lot • Pegging workshop! • Let's talk about P0RN (penis owners only!) • VAG Kinky Play Party • Pleasure Awakening - Inner Beloved Journey (vulva owners only!)

Imitation Is the biggest form of flattery, but there’s nothing insincere about our compliments. We love the theme camps so much that we Wannabe just like them. Expect some half assed, budget versions of your favourite Kiwiburn camp events along with some unique ones that we’ve pulled out of our twisted little brains.

Events: Quiz On My balls • Bondage Karaoke

Need a moment of 'aww' and whimsy? Pop by our camp to choose your very own warm fuzzy, fuzzily warm doodleboppers, hand crafted MOOP bags, a hug or some other cute & quirky creation! Perfect for the Paddock or for a quick pick-me-up for your return to the default world....

Events: Doodlebopper making workshop • Oracle Readings • Just Breathe and Let Go

A social and spiritual journey of sustainability, loving our land, our planet and each other through passion and creativity. Honest conversations, funky tunes and self expression welcome.

Events: Disco Disco Dance Party • Radiestesia, Dowsing and Geobiology • New Zealand's Future Land Use & The Land of the Future • Kids Acro Circus/Adagio • Circus Circus Circus!!! • Kids Rock Painting • Playdough and bubbles • Udder Art • The telling of the bees • Mixology - Disco time • Mixology. Hair of the dog

Zef(f) Camp, home of the Zeffouisie, is a post apocalyptic ski chalet cargo cult. What happens when a band of survivors encounters the photographic remnants of àpres ski culture, integrates, then has a few generations of descendants who forgot how it all started? We're the 3rd generation ne'er-do-well grandchildren of those survivors, here to bring you our interpretation of Zefpres ski culture, conspicuous consumption, hostile architecture, and capitalist hierarchy in the ways that make sense to us. Come around for Zefpres ski nights before we head off to Zeffigy for the techno set. Interested in a drink from our toboggan themed bar, tobargan? Or come to our inexplicably goose themed open jazz night. Confused? So are we. Zef(f) Camp, home of the Zeffouisie.

Events: Genital Life Drawing with Bjork • Nude Life and Death Drawing with Jeff Goldblum • ZEMF Night and Bernhain • Zefpres Ski Night: The Sacrament • Peach Parade • Bref with Zeff • Maid Brigade • Accessories Only Fashion Show Vague-stravaganza • Zeffoise Spa • Burns Night • Snow’s Magic School Bus - A Natural History of the Kiwiburn Site • Get Bear Hugs from your year-round Crew Assistant Care Bears • Zefpres Ski Night: Goose Jazz and Open Mic • Sexy Storytelling: The Paddock Edition

18+

You’re a weary traveller lost amongst the hazy, cobbled laneways of Anatolia. Looking to rest your feet and coaxed by the smell of freshly brewed coffee, a small shop catches the corner of your eye. καφέ İstanbul, run by a small collective of eccentric artists, offers mediterranean hospitality, a luscious dream space, and intimate cuisine and art experiences.

The beat of a darbuka. Your fate in the coffee grinds. The shimmy of a dancer. Flavoured smoke fills the air. Come and find something we’ve been searching for.

Events: Mural Art for the gods • An hour of Simp…a life time ink • Μεζέ μαζί • Luscious life drawing • Ελάτε για καφέ! Come for coffee