Burning Man, Not Floating Man: Radical Date Change For Afrika Burns

July 4th, 2007 by Pia Taylor

Checking in at Afrika Burns, Africa’s version of the unbelievable experience that is the original Burning Man Festival (in the USA), we noticed that the dates for the new event (previously set to be held in July), have been changed, rather radically.

And here’s why:

As some of you might have noticed, the Cape has experienced some unusually high rainfall in the past couple of weeks. One of the results of this is that, what was previously our fabulous desert venue has now turned into a beautiful, bigger-than-ever-in-its-history lake – an incident that had Paul J literally floating around in the middle of the night at the venue last Friday.

Now this is great for the environment, low dam levels, and cozying up next to a fire with a cup of hot soup but does not bode well for a four day freedom-of-expression, out-there camping experience. Being cold is one thing, but being cold and very, very wet is another less pleasant prospect. This is after all is an offshoot of Burning Man, not Floating Man.

Frankly, we were rather dubious about the July date in the first place (it snows up on them mountains!). But anyway, instead of 20-22 July, the festival will now be held in warmer (hopefully drier) times, between the 22nd and 25th of November.

So, if you were planning to get arty and head to Afrika Burns, best you factor that rather major date change into your own Master Plan.

Find out more about the festival here and here.

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