BINNEKRING BLOG

Burning Fiscilla

Among the many projects that added to the diversity of this year’s event, a posse of students from CPUT (Cape University of Technology) saw a glittering fish artwork named Fiscilla, and a band stage, take shape. Here’s the lowdown from CPUT Design Project Imagineer Andrea Broom. More »

Allegory In The Binnekring

As the fog recedes you start to see the words slowly appearing in the skyline, words etched into those desert clouds that have become your muse, the words: you are amazing, you are beautiful, you are incredible, and one day, you are going to change the world.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 »

Donkey Cart Weekend – Many Bridges Built

Initiated by Padstal owner Hein Lange and Robert Weinek (and other members of our Outreach team), the Donkey Cart Weekend has turned into an annual event that’s now a community-building experience that’s building bridges into the future. 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 »

Wet in the Midwest : AfrikaBurn on exchange

Bowties, lake swims and braai in the U, S and A? Duncan Larkin experiences Lakes of Fire, thanks to the Burner Exchange Program.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 »

The Desert People at 6 o’clock

They look more weathered than the rest, and there’s a good chance your first shared dialogue with them might be quite offensive. Don’t take it personally – that’s just how DPW shows affection. More »

The First Time I Came

A smiling face offered me a cocktail at sunset, I plonked my dusty bones on a bean bag with a rag tag assortment of dust dwellers and I thought – hey – this is alright…More »