BINNEKRING BLOG
You Are The Experience Of AfrikaBurn
Words: Shannon Smith / Photos: as per credit The hype is huge, the excitement is next level, the build-up is ever growing and everyone is jittery with excitement. Like teenagers going to their first ball, outfits are strewn …More »
Her Name Is Nokubonga Vusani
Words: Travis Lyle (photos: as per credit) Once upon a time, back in 2015 when our offices were still in the old Bijou building in Obs, Cape Town, our small year-round office team often heard screams from the …More »
The Making Of A Clan
Words: Lindsay Cessford (images: as per credit) Chapter 1: The Accidental Artist It’s hard to explain how I am feeling right now, however I am a woman of words so I am sure I will find my way. …More »
TTT – THE TANKWA TOKOLOSHE
Words and photos by Solar Santa The Tankwa Tokoloshe is at it again. He is inside my brain filling it with bright ideas. Not many people know about him because he’s very sly and cunning. As are most …More »
The Great Trek (helpful hints to survive your first Burn)
Words: Solar Santa / Photos: as per credit Back in 1836 the history books tell us that the Afrikaners disenchanted with British rule packed their voorlaaiers, Bibles and grannies into their ox wagons and headed into the great unknown. …More »
Best kept secret: volunteering
It is one of the principles: participate, get involved, no spectators, the more you give, the more you get. And that’s the truth as discovered by many Burners. I had to fish hard for this little jewel, which was told …More »
To You the burner, participant, woman and man
(words: Skeleton Leaf of Change Crew / photos: as per credit) We the ladies of The Skeleton Leaf of Change would like to share a bit of our experience from AfrikaBurn: Working title (2018) with you. The burn …More »
Of cogs, fire and quanta: Steampunk at Afrikaburn 2018?
Article by Dr John Steele, published in the South African Journal for Art History (SAJAH, ISSN 0258-3542, volume 33, number 3, 2018: 62-73) Quantum mechanics reveals that just about the only certainties we have are that margins are permeable and …More »
Falling in Love at AfrikaBurn
I keep on falling in love at AfrikaBurn. Now sitting behind my computer, midyear through tax returns and a full diary, back in the default world I am reflecting on those moments of Love and Magic. It helps me …More »
The Silence of Silent Burns
Words: Eleen Polson / Images: Alexander Polson (unless otherwise specified) My first Burn in 2016 was, like many would agree, quite a shake up. I came to clean out my head, reconnect to my creativity by burning a bit of …More »
