Less than a month to AfrikaBurn, Africa’s Burning Man Festival
Well, they don’t seem to have updated their website to indicate it, but Afrika Burns this year became ‘AfrikaBurn‘, and will again be setting up camp in the hot dusty Karoo, a few hours’ drive from Cape Town, South Africa.
Like America’s more famous Burning Man, upon which AfrikaBurn is based, the event is one of ‘radical self-reliance’ and freedom of expression:
“It is an exercise in total self-reliance: participants camp for four days and provide entirely for themselves, including all their water, shelter and food needs. The entire festival is created by voluntary participants who invest their own personal skills, resources, time and money in the shared project of self expression and creating, for a few days: a Utopian vision. If you come to Afrika Burns, you must participate in whatever way you can. We want no spectators. “
This year’s event takes place between the 16th and 19th of October, in the temporary village of Tankwa Town. It’s not the kind of party where you pitch up and hope for the best, so make sure you read the FAQ, study the survival guide and pack accordingly!
Burn tickets are available online until the 10th of October (R350 for a weekend ticket). Or, pay R400 at the festival gate (closes at 7pm on Saturday 18th October).
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