BINNEKRING BLOG
Follow The Light
Let me clear something up once and for all, this is not a festival, it’s a temporary community and ideal we’d like one day to share with the rest of the world, which if everyone else in society followed would make for a much happier peaceful world….just saying…More »
Memoirs of A Burner
I don’t think I could possibly mention all of what I saw and keep this review under a reasonable word count, but suffice it to say it was all wonderfully spellbinding. There was nothing I experienced at any of the installations, artworks, theme camps or mutant vehicles that made me wish I hadn’t seen or done it.More »
Let’s Talk Kak
Many people talk kak, but few walk the talk. Here’s the lowdown on our shitters, with input from an expert. Like the loo with a view? Think it can be improved? Step up! More »
Clan 2015: Community Building
Thanks to the support of Mzansi Golden Economy, an initiative of the Department of Arts and Culture, ten local unemployed people have signed up as apprentices to build the Clan under the training and guidance of Project Lead Nathan Honey and his small band of international volunteers. More »
Why I Love This Time Of Year
If you listen closely and look around, in garages, gardens, workshops all around the country, you’ll hear a new sound. The sound of people sawing, hammering, drilling, planning, plotting scheming.More »
AfrikaBurn Is A Tool
If you can draw it, you can make it. So get out a pen and a serviette/newspaper, and draw The Thing. Photograph it and send it to your friends. You’ll find yourself down a rabbit hole in no time that you can’t reverse out of.More »
Padstal: Like A Phoenix
The Padstal might have been burned down, but it only succeeded in making the owners even more determined to rebuild the biggest little padstal in the Tankwa. Read on for info on how you can help them make that happen. More »
The Gift Of Life
They ignite the temple, it catches fire, and an orange light is cast on the playa … and in that light, if you look around you, you see something you’ll never see anywhere else: 40,000 people crying.More »
Owning AfrikaBurn
There’s a lot of love out there. And when it comes to explaining the experience, how do you write love, anyway? That’s why we make and burn art – it says it better. It says it all.More »
Green Your Burn
You’re probably going to drive to in your carbon belching car (or truck), and will take lots of litter that you are not going to leave lying around. Right? Here are a few tips to greening your burn from Jezebel. Because dolphins.More »
