BINNEKRING BLOG
Solar Santa Goes to Quaggafontein 2022
Story and Pics by Ronnie Jack The long wait is over. After three painful years AfrikaBurn is back. As nearly a thousand miles lie behind me the dreaded R355 shakes my car to pieces and covers me in …More »
THE (VIRTUAL) ADVENTURES OF SOLAR SANTA 2020
(words and photos by Solar Santa aka Ronnie Jack) Has the virus pandemic left you huddled morosely gazing into your cup of soup? Lucky you. I’m old as Methuselah so don’t have the luxury of wasting what little time …More »
HomeBurn: a trilogy in four parts ~ Part 3: So Long and Thanks for All the Art
Words by Solar Santa with Isa Marques, May 2020 Photos by Isa and Jade Holling (featured image by Carmel Ives) Solar Santa’s Burn boots continue their virtual journey into the heartland of HomeBurn 2020. This time we are in the …More »
HomeBurn: a trilogy in four parts ~ Part 2: The Phoenix at the End of the Pangolin
Words by Solar Santa with Nathan Victor Honey, May 2020 Photos by Nathan Honey except the one of himself (header image taken by Mark Thomas) Solar Santa continues on his dusty virtual journey into the heart of HomeBurn 2020. This …More »
Painted Boots and a Beard ~ Part 4
Writing and pictures by Solar Santa. You are rewarded for having endured this far with more stories from Solar Santa Sonica has gifted me an amazing site. Corner of 6ish and Black Rock City. Prestigious address linked to the original …More »
Painted Boots and a Beard ~ Part 2
Writing and pictures by Solar Santa. Welcome back to Solar Santa’s continuing adventures. The journey to the Karoo is an ordeal. But an essential rite of passage. After over a thousand kilometres of tar road, in an overloaded car, the …More »
Department of Public Works Update #2 2017
Here it is – another soundbite and photo montage from the team presently on site and building our city. Reporting from the windswept desert – where things are going well, and there’s been a lot of extreme weather – here’s …More »
Department of Public Works Update #1 2017
Our DPW crew has been hard at work on site, building that city we’re all clamoring to get back to. They’ve already started grafting on the streetlamps and toilets, but why not hear it directly from the crew lead H: …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 »
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 »
