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Survival Guide and to Follow National and Local Laws URN B 17 A 20 L K RI I P A R 0 3 F - 4 A 2 DE GUI SURVIVAL “ Play is the highest form CONTENTS of research” Guiding Principles 01 Albert Einstein Before you go, prepare 03 Play – an activity from which one derives WHAT IS THE BASICS / new in 2017 05 amusement, entertainment, enjoyment or satisfaction by taking a participatory AFRIKABURN? ON ARRIVAL 06 rather than a passive role – opens up endless possibilities. It feeds, infects and You are. You build the camps, the art Stonehenge Reserve Guidelines 07 proliferates. It roots our sense of order. and the mutant vehicles. You’re the Play amplifies life. It’s our connective performer – and the audience. There’s no CAMPING 09 tissue. ‘them’ – there’s just us, and we’re all in it together. AfrikaBurn is a Burning Man LEAVE NO TRACE 11 Play offers us a portal: a magical regional event in South Africa, and you doorway that connects locations, don’t ‘attend’ AfrikaBurn - you create SOUND 13 dimensions, or points in time. Where it. All you have to do is to participate. DECOMMODIFICATION 17 truths are to be found obliquely, where AfrikaBurn takes place in the remote and nonsense, irrationality and intuition are somewhat inhospitable Tankwa Karoo, in PERSONAL SAFETY 19 prized. Openings to these magic portals the Northern Cape Province. are varied and wondrous. It may be a MEDICAL INFO 21 fabled wardrobe, the break of day, an inviting smile, or the blank canvas of the Need more inspiration? FIRE 23 burn. Read the full theme rationale on this page of our site. PARENTING 26 PHOTOGRAPHY 27 VIEW ARTICLE BIKING 29 MUTANT VEHICLES 30 GETTING THERE 33 PLANES, DRONES & AIRCRAFT 37 THE LEGAL STUFF 39 CREDITS / THANK YOU 41 i Artwork by Jeanne Fourie II 1 Artwork by by Artwork Ernst Lass * COMMUNAL CIVIC EFFORT PARTICIPATION RESPONSIBILITY IMMEDIACY Our community values Our community is committed We value civil society. Immediate experience is, creative cooperation and to a radically participatory Community members who in many ways, the most collaboration. We strive to ethic. We believe that organize events should assume important touchstone of produce, promote and protect transformative change, whether responsibility for public welfare value in our culture. We seek social networks, public in the individual or in society, and endeavour to communicate to overcome barriers that stand spaces, works of art, and can occur only through the civic responsibilities to between us and a recognition methods of communication medium of deeply personal participants. They must of our inner selves, the reality of that support such interaction. participation. We achieve being also assume responsibility those around us, participation through doing. Everyone is for conducting events in in society, and contact with a invited to work. Everyone is accordance with national and natural world exceeding human invited to play. We make the local laws. powers. No idea can substitute world real through actions that for this experience. open the heart. DECOMMOD LEAVING RADICAL IFICATION GIFTING NO TRACE INCLUSION In order to preserve the We are devoted to acts of Our community respects Anyone may be a part of spirit of gifting, our gift giving. The value of a gift the environment. We are AfrikaBurn. We welcome community seeks to create is unconditional. Gifting does committed to leaving no and respect the stranger. social environments that are not contemplate a return or physical trace of our activities No prerequisites exist for unmediated by commercial an exchange for something of wherever we gather. We participation in our community. sponsorships, transactions, equal value. clean up after ourselves and This means that anyone can or advertising. We stand endeavour, whenever possible, partake. ready to protect our culture to leave such places in a better from such exploitation. We state than when we found them. resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience. * These principles aren’t RADICAL RADICAL EACH ONE commandments, and SELF-RELIANCE SELF-EXPRESSION TEACH ONE they’re not rules – they’re ideals that offer guidelines to how we AfrikaBurn encourages the Radical self-expression arises As a self-reliant community, as a community can individual to discover, exercise from the unique gifts of the we believe the responsibility reinvent the world, and and rely on his or her inner individual. No one other than of spreading our culture lies ourselves. In summary, resources. the individual or a collaborating with each and every one of us. don’t be kak, just be group can determine its All of us are custodians of our lekker. content. It is offered as a gift to culture – when the opportunity others. In this spirit, the giver presents itself, we pass should respect the rights and knowledge on. liberties of the recipient. 2 As you prepare for the desert, remember that you’re responsible for yourself at all times. ESsENTIALS This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco. This is one serious desert fandango and you must bring: Your ticket & photo ID for Use lots of entry (SA ID book, driver’s DO NOT licence or passport) common sense 5 litres of water per person BRING theSE per day Don’t make a burden of yourself Sure, it’s a burn you’re Enough food and beverages and others due to lack of going to, but there are some for the duration of your entire planning. You need to bring items that are seriously not stay everything you need to the wanted at the event, and all desert: food, water, shelter, fuel, Shelter, bedding, warm & cool for the same reason: they’re and basic first aid. And then you clothing dangerous, either as mobile need to take it all back – because Trash bags arson, or to critters. this is a Leave No Trace event. Fire extinguisher Not lekker. Before you arrive make sure you Comprehensive medical kit have your ticket - printed or on Any required prescriptions Flares a phone / device (with battery). (please note: the medics Make 100% sure your name is on Fireworks don’t dispense painkillers, your ticket, and that you bring headache tabs or antibiotics) Fire lanterns photo ID to the gate with you. Feathers Our gate crew will need this to Light: a headlamp, torch, bike verify your ticket and can’t let light, fairy lights, EL wire (and you in if the details on your ID spare batteries). Solar lights and ticket don’t match. rock – get ‘em. Duct tape & cable ties – Your car will be checked at the because they hold the gate for stowaways. If you arrive universe together! with someone in your car who doesn’t have a ticket, it will be Bringing wood? Bring a brazier your responsibility to transport or braai - campfires on the that person back home, so make ground are NOT permitted. sure everyone in your vehicle has Recycling bins: you’ll need a ticket. This includes anyone one for wet waste, and others you pick up along the way, and for paper, plastic and metal offer to transport into the event. / glass. 33 Artwork by Karl Schulschenk 44 tHEtHE BAsICSBAsICS 01 PARK IT AND KEEP IT 03 NOThING is BOUGHT 06 PROTECTIon Of PARKED OR SOLD IN TANKWA ARTWORKS onon arrivalarrival Tankwa Town’s a pedestrian TOWN If you see someone vandalising and cyclist environment – only Except ice, and that’s to keep an artwork, please ask them GET YOUR BEARINGS RESPECT Mutant Vehicles, bicycles, your food and liquids chilled. to stop. Inform a Tankwa Town emergency and administrative Ranger if necessary. A lot of hard Tankwa Town’s laid out in a the TANKWA vehicles are permitted to cruise work goes into the art you’ll see horseshoe shape, with two The Tankwa Karoo is the habitat around. When arriving and 04 LEAVE NO TRACE in Tankwa Town - respect the art, projecting ‘horns’ at the top, of the endangered Riverine leaving, drive very slowly - the This means you’ll see no rubbish and the artists. and a long tail that stretches Rabbit, the poisonous Thick- speed limit is 10km/h for all bins or receptacles, other than down 10ish. The centre of this tailed Scorpion and lethal motorised vehicles. Heads those you bring. What you 07 PLANE? DRonE? USE horseshoe is the Binnekring, Puffadder. Our community up: motorbikes and scooters bring in, you take out with you. and it’s where a lot of the art is respects the environment, so PARTICIPATE must be mutant to drive on the Keep a bag with you: it’s good Of AIRSPACE? placed. The road that fronts this please respect the urban edge for If you want to broaden your Binnekring. for carrying water and putting You can’t fly anything into or at space is called Binnekring Road, your own safety - and that of the participation in the event, rubbish in. AfrikaBurn without registering and the streets that radiate off Tankwa’s fauna & flora. there are ample opportunities. with the relevant team. See page the Binnekring are numbered 02 BICYCLES ARE NOT Ours is a community of active 38 for more. like the hours on a clock, from PUBLIC PROPERTY 05 NO PETS AllOWED 2-ish through to 10-ish. This way, participants - so if you see a job that needs doing, get stuck Please have respect for other Please don’t arrive at the event once you’ve found your camping WEATher in. In Tankwa Town, there’s no people’s property and ensure with your pet, there are good spot for the event, you’ll have an and climate reasons for us not allowing them. address. For example, you could mystical ‘them’ who do stuff - that yours has a lock.
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