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E SURVIVAL GUID “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 ErnstLass *

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. If you like Days can hit the high 40s, Please note: the only exception be living at ‘Buitekring and 3:30- there’s only us. Help us instruct your bike, lock your bike. nights can be freezing, there are here is for Guide Dogs. ish’. We have street signs and others - if you see someone street lamps to help you figure spectacular storms and gale- acting irresponsibly, introduce out where the hell you are. force winds can cause whiteouts. yourself and speak up. Get Be prepared for extremes: involved - it’s where the magic The roads are named in weather is unpredictable, happens! NEW IN 2017 alphabetical order radiating and rain far away can cause NEW IN 2017 outwards from Binnekring. instant flash floods. In 2012, rapid flooding saw many tents And camps that take a fee for These names change every year WANT TO VOLUNTEER? No Plug & Play Camps SUPPLIER DEPOT according to the theme of that and vehicles damaged. Avoid basic infrastructure costs? natural selection - camp in the Volunteering at AfrikaBurn is camps that offer a paid As you arrive at the gate, take year. All except for Binnekring Hayibo: Those are fine, as long as they’re designated area, or stand the superb fun. It engages you on experience aren’t permitted at note of where the Supplier Rd, Buitekring Rd, Lady Davina prepared to show open books risk of your camp being washed levels that you would never our event. But what are Plug Depot is – if you have a delivery Boulevard, Stofadil Rd and the that indicate no profit is being away. Not so lekker. have thought possible - and it & Play camps? They’re a camp of water, tents, wood or other radials (2-ish through 10-ish). made. helps the event tremendously. where, instead of you taking camp infrastructure, this is where The most accurate forecast for To volunteer at the event, head responsibility for your needs, you you’d need to meet the supplier Tankwa Town weather can be over to the Participation Station pay someone to set the camp up, No MV’s on the to escort them to your camp found here: volunteer booth at Off- take it down, or do the cleaning, location. Binnekring Centre Camp (now found at cooking etc (and in the process Our city’s a busy place now, 8ish) and sign up - we always someone makes a profit). This which means that Mutant GO TO PAGE need help, and you’ll be warmly kind of paid experience may be Vehicles are no longer allowed to welcomed. available at other events, but cruise the Binnekring road, as it’s AfrikaBurn isn’t other events. a cycle and pedestrian zone. MV’s So, if anyone offers you a luxury should cross into the circle over package, explain to them that’s Binnekring Rd, and can travel not how it works. down all radials off the ring. 55 Artwork by Grace De Kroon Artwork by Anthea Duce 6 The property our event takes place 01No Mutant Vehicles are allowed off road outside of Tankwa Town on is a private - rather head out on foot for the wide-open spaces. Heading to the dam in the nature reserve. Tankwa National Park next door? It’s not part of Tankwa Town, so to go there you’ll need to exit the As we’re all If you want to ride, head for the event site, and there’s a small bike track, which has up to 35km fee per person to access it that guests on this of cycling through epic scenery goes towards the upkeep of an land, please treat around Stoney and starts & ends incredible national park. it with respect. at the yellow Welkom caravan at 2nd gate. If you use the bike 03 It’s a sensitive track, please keep to the track (or the twee spoor) as bicycles biosphere: leave can leave deep cut lines in the terrain: in sand, they’re the two- plants, stones wheeled equivalent of stilettos. Vehicles left on site are a and critters real headache. Sometimes undisturbed. What 02 shit happens and you have to leave your wheels behind makes it so special because the whole shebang is the natural state is broken. Remember this is somebody’s home, and we’re so please don’t here temporarily. If you have to leave a vehicle behind because make any new it really can’t be moved, please tracks, and drivers: make the effort to meet with the Stoney landowners to explain the situation. And be sure to make arrangements to retrieve it as a priority - definitely before our DO DPW crew leave site (mid May). NOT 04 Loud music after the end of the CREATE event is not cool.05 People live here, they’re keen to catch up on their sleep come the end of DONUTS the event … so keep it tidy (and quiet) on the Monday/Tuesday IN THE (this doesn’t mean no music, just STONEHENGE RESERVE be neighbourly - turn it down, GUIDELINES DUST. and respect the residents.

7 Artwork by Mischka Byram 8 GO IN the POTTY. POWER? Toilets are placed along the outskirts of the town, and have lights and flags to find them by GO GREEN! day or night. They’re mostly Come on, people, we’re in the within 300m of anywhere on desert here – use the available the Binnekring - including the power resources: go solar! Or, to explain where camp fire additional portaloos. Disabled consider getting a wind turbine extinguishers are and inform toilets are also provided. or deep-cycle 12V battery for all camp members of where the lighting in your camp. LED’s are Not quite rock, but pretty damn Medics, Security and Sanctuary PLEAsE NOTE: getting cheaper by the day & close. Bring along a hammer (at are and how to orientate Don’t wait till you are use very little power. Use them least ten-pound; the bigger the yourself. Elect a Trash Baron to desperate to find a loo. Don’t instead of incandescent bulbs, better) and heavy-duty pegs. The HOW CAMPing take care of separating waste use artworks or the dark even if you have a party space. pegs that came with your 4-man and compacting cans. Choose patch behind someone’s tent And for fairy lights etc, choose tent? Forget those; you need in TANKWA someone who’s the Costume as private places to ablute. solar: they last longer, and you’ll something much stronger, and & Make-up department. Think Freerange toileting? Not cool. have no dead batteries to get longer. Which is why you need about who has the skills you’re rid of. rebar – it’s difficult to get in, but TOWN WORKS after - it’ll lighten the load TAMPONS: look for the red worth the sweat once a wind or Camping happens on a first- and make for a better, more triangle flags: these toilets storm hits. come, first-settled basis. Please is as important as radical self- enjoyable camp. have tampon bins provided. Rebar. It’s the name given to the don’t settle in a reserved spot expression - prearranged ‘sort PHonE round, grooved, steel bar used – reserved camping areas are all your shit out for you’ package to reinforce concrete. Get some for registered Theme Camps, tours are not how we do things. and have it cut to size – but don’t and are clearly marked out. If SIGNAL? TOILETS TANKWA TOWN use anything less than 15mm you arrive at night, wait until Around 12ish on high ground you They’re famous, our toilets. width. Rebar is an excellent way morning to find your friends or can sometimes get a signal with You either love ‘em or hate to anchor your tents, especially get your bearings. If you’re part RVS AND YEAR-ROUND an MTN phone. This works best ‘em. Historically they’ve been Bedouin/ freeform tents. When of a larger group and your camp for SMS. Beyond this, we don’t pit toilets with an amazing It’s easy to get attached to the you’re whacking it in and once mates have arrived earlier, get offer a phone service unless for CARAVANS view. We treat our toilets with land that Tankwa Town springs it’s in the ground it’s dangerous, them to leave a message on serious medical emergencies. effective microorganisms (EM) up on every year. It’s also lovely so cap all exposed ends with the notice boards at Off-Centre You’re welcome to bring a and untreated sawdust to keep to visit there when the Burn is empty tins, plastic bottles, Camp with their location, or at recreational vehicle, but be the odours at bay and speed up tennis balls or old dolls heads – our event gate. Remember that aware that there’s no dumping not on, but it’s private land so, decomposition. To ‘flush’, use anything that prevents foot/ leg the term “Quiet” at AfrikaBurn station on-site and you’re not if you’d like to visit Stonehenge a small scoop of the sawdust CAMPING injuries. is a relative term. So when we allowed to dump grey water or Private Reserve outside of found in buckets at each toilet. give advice about this, we invoke trash anywhere in Tankwa Town. AfrikaBurn times, contact Try to position your tent and any There’s also no potable water Please don’t put anything in the the owners first. They’re very EQUIPMENT our favorite suffix at AfrikaBurn: shade structures to present the toilet other than what came out “ish”. If you are keen on a good sold, so plan accordingly. welcoming but need to know smallest profile to the wind. The of your body. Not tampons, beer night’s sleep while in Tankwa that you’re coming. Phone AT TANKWA wind at Tankwa goes all over the cans, trash, plastic bags or ex- Town don’t settle in the loud area +27 (0) 21 846 8298. If you find place - keep an eye on the wind boyfriends - in other words: ( for more on this, please see the yourself in the vicinity, and TOWN: tHE direction, but if forced to identify section titled ‘SOOP – Sound Out DELEGATE haven’t prearranged access, stop a prevailing wind, we would Of Place’ on page 14). IF IT DIDN’T COME OUTTA off at the Tankwa Tented Camp say that it is NW-SE. For smaller and check if it’s OK to visit. GOSPEL Of tents, weight the interior corners Once you’ve found your spot, CAMP ROLES YOUR BODY IT DOESN’T of your tent or attach them to put your keys away in a safe If you’re camping in a large REBAR your vehicle. For tents bigger place – you’re now a pedestrian group, it’s a good idea to have than 10m x 10m (i.e: 100sqm), or cyclist! Radical self-reliance At AfrikaBurn the ground is a meeting before the event and lash down with a ratchet strap. delegate tasks. For example, hard, unlike anywhere you’ve nominate a Safety Baron ever camped before (unless you’ve camped on solid rock).

9 Artwork by Natasha Viljoen 10

MOOP Respect the In Tankwa Town 04 SMOKERS - CARRY A 08 NO TRAsH IN thE TOILETS PLEAsE Don’T PORTABLE AsHTRAY Please don’t put anything MOOP stands for “Matter Out Of Dump your rubbish, or your RV/ other than human waste – Place”. Everything brought to Tankwa: leave it Always have a small container campervan grey water, or blue 01 ALWAYS CARRY A BAG and the one-ply toilet paper Tankwa Town is potential MOOP: for your stompies and spent water (i.e: chemically-treated as you found it. This way when you have & sawdust supplied – into the cigarette stompies, glow sticks matches. toilet effluent) on the R355 on the There is no rubbish collection at finished that drink, energy toilets. and glow stick connectors, tent way out. Don’t dump anywhere Tankwa Town. Everything you bar, chewing gum, or packet stakes, bottle caps, cigarette 05 Don’T SWEEP tHE DESERT - not on farm roads, not picnic bring in, you take back with you: of crisps, you don’t have to 09 SECURE YOUR LOAD stompies, ashes, wood debris, hold on to the wrapper or can FLOOR spots. Take your trash home, and matchsticks, orange peels, Every. Single. Thing. dispose of it responsibly, thanks. until you find a solution. It’s Not for your artwork, not for When leaving, pack carefully cigarette stompies, wood, there already, hanging from your camp (you can move and make sure your rubbish pistachio shells, boa feathers, Please join your neighbours your shoulders. big rocks, but no sweeping). and other items do not come rope fibres, sequins, false REDUCE on Sunday and Monday after Desert rocks and stones don’t loose on the ride home and eyelashes – even abandoned the burn, or schedule two YOUR TRAsH magic themselves back into litter the highways. Hunt bikes…oh, and did we mention 02 NEVER LET ANYThING HIT hours on your own during your place once you’ve left. Those about for large feedbags or the stompies and cable ties? thE GROUND stay to help clean up Tankwa Before you head to the desert: scars stay forever. sugar bags to put your black bags in. They’re tough enough Town. Restore your campsite MOOP also includes natural Remove excess packaging 03 SECURE EVERYThING IN to withstand high-speed and conduct a MOOP sweep to materials. They are not OK from everything 06 NO DIGGING Of HOLES inspect your space. You’ll be to leave in the desert – in the YOUR CAMP winds as you hurtle home on Don’t bring glass - buy cans or Unless it’s as part of an the R355. surprised how much stuff you’ve desert, things take ages to You never know when a decant into plastic. artwork’s supporting structure. left lying around. Go to the decompose. Hay, seashells, plant windstorm is going to happen Any holes dug by art crews Volunteer Booth at 8ish if you matter, fruit peels, vegetable Don’t pack your feather boa, and if everything in your camp 10 GOT A GENERATOR? must always be filled in again. want to be steered to a particular peels, nut shells, feathers, coffee glitter or styrofoam of any is secure at all times, nothing Soundproof it, using cleanup project. grounds, etc. are all things kind will blow away. Have bins with nonflammable materials, and that must be removed and lids, or duct tape old 5-litre 07 if you see moop, pick it up make sure you don’t cover the Don’t pack flying lanterns or Want a Green on the MOOP returned to whence they came. water containers with a small If you see MOOP on the ground exhaust or air intake. flares Map? Find a member of our Watermelons? Bad idea: the skin hole cut out, onto your tent in Tankwa Town, please pick it Don’t bring too much fresh Theme Camp crew (at the OCC) becomes a festering science poles. up and take it with you. experiment in your car on the produce – if you don’t eat to get your camp OK’d and way home. it, you’ll have to cart rotting signed off. food home. Not lekker. Not fabulous.

11 Artwork by Matthew Fraser 12 Music’s an important part of Tankwa Town for Our site is relatively small (1.6km at the longest many people, reach), so when we give advice about this, we so if you’re invoke our favorite suffix at AfrikaBurn: the mighty bringing “ish”. In the city layout and music, design we have attempted to make provision for everyone’ll all tastes, but it ’s not possible to please all the love you. people all the time.

13 Artwork by Philippus Johan Schutte 14 TERMS OF SOUND Loud zone If you have REFERENCE These are the areas where a dancefloor, PLACEMENT Note we locate the camps that but nobody’s Sound has been our If you use an amplified Sound Rangers are are gifting music of the Quiet Zone dancing, turn it biggest hot potato item sound system at your stationed at Off-Centre amplified variety. We have of feedback in the last camp or Mutant Vehicle, Camp - if you need them, At AfrikaBurn, this is a two areas in our town down, or off. 4 years. It requires that keep the volume at head over there and ask relative term. We have where we place camps Tomorrow’s everybody at Tankwa a reasonable level. the Volunteer crew to call 13 000 happy people whose gift is amplified Town remembers that Crazy sound levels that them in via radio. They will celebrating life and music. One is in the 2-ish another day and nestled right next to continue after requests also visit dance floors to creativity and they area (extended this year, the desert’s not Radical Self Expression and warnings will be check that sound is placed generate noise in all and facing North), and the is the principle of Civic disabled. Some artworks correctly - please work manner of weird and other at the end of 10-ish kind on those Responsibility and are intended to be quiet with our crew to ensure wonderful ways. In Boulevard. who don’t sleep. Communal Effort. and reflective spaces – the best results for your technical terms these respect this and cut your neighbours, and yourself. are spaces that are not Buffer zone Keep all this in mind when Before you crank out your sound when approaching located next to large choosing your spot to favourite tracks, take note art installations and sound systems and you This is the midway camp. It’s simple - want of where your neighbours performances. are likely to get more shut between the loud and relative quiet when in your are and how - and on what eye. quiet zones. In these and in what direction your Generators? Insulate them areas, as in the Quiet personal camp? Don’t speakers are placed. Bass using non-flammable Zone, playing your car camp in the Loud Zone. bins must be raised off damping materials. stereo is not OK - if Want to play loud music? the ground (on a platform you want tunes, head You simply cannot settle such as a pallet), and all to the Loud Zones. in the Quiet Zone. The greatest concentration speakers must be aimed of family camps where a inward to your dance good night’s sleep can be floor, away from camping had are between 5-ish and areas and the Quiet Zones. 7-ish streets or in the new This is for stationary expanded camping areas. sound systems.

15 Artwork by Philippus Johan Schutte 16 AfrikaBurn is a decommodified zone, where branding is not welcome. Advertising? Hell no. It doesn’t belong in Tankwa Town, which is in no way (or will ever be) a place to launch your career, business, website or product. Got a van from work with logos? Cover it up. Got a rental truck or RV? Cover or decorate the logos. Branding, in a place where nothing is for sale, or to buy? Hayibo: it doesn’t belong. Nor does touting for business before, during or as a result of, or after, the event. RESPonSIBLE GIFTING Part of a theme camp giving away drinks or food? If your gift contains alcohol, know this: the responsibility for those who you gift to lies with you. If anyone looks under age, ask for identification. Every person entering the event will be issued with a wristband, and those under 18 will have a specific colour.

17 Artwork by Natasha Viljoen 18 PLAY IT SAFE SANCTUARY Sober UNABLE to Write your ID number on the Feeling overwhelmed? Not consent means underside of your wristband - handling your situation well? Burning Too young this way, in an emergency our Having a rough time of it If you are a sober burner, we Too intoxicated team will be able to find out mentally? Head to Sanctuary at have sober support networks who you are. Off-Centre Camp (between 8ish Too asleep or unconscious that are amazing and are just and 9ish on the Always carry water on waiting to meet you! Too scared or intimidated Binnekring) for a quiet, calm you. Drink water regularly, Too ill space where you can speak especially if drinking alcohol. to someone or simply take a Best gauge of hydration? If Nudity, skimpy clothing, or even SAFETY breather. Please be aware that your piss is clear, you’re in the Consent raunchy behaviour is not an Sanctuary is not a place for clear. To avoid a Urinary Tract invitation to have sex or any form drunk folk to sleep it off. Infection (UTI), piss often - Guide to of intimate physical contact. this means girls too! The only invitation is a clearly Bring sunscreen and a hat, spoken invitation. Ignoring Avoiding someone’s inability to consent and use them both. Health not only contradicts the spirit Bring dust goggles and a WTF? of our AfrikaBurn community bandana – dust storms are Alerts & completely, but is a crime. only fun if you’re prepared. Simply put: yes means yes, no Personal lighting: light your Advice Moments means no, maybe means no and A gift is only a gift if the receiver body when going out at night. When in doubt you can ask silence means no. says “Yes” - preferably, “Hell, Make sure that you can see advice directly from Sanctuary yes!” In order for a gift or other and that others can see you. or Rangers- we keep our ears advances to be good for all Bring a torch/headlamp (or very low to the ground, so that The standard for concerned, the receiver must be two) and lights for your camp. any important health issues able to say “Yes, I want to receive consent in our can be identified early. We also If you bring a bike, pop a light it” or “No thanks, I don’t want it.” help people identify personal community is an on it. potential risks and how to avoid There are snakes, spiders and them. enthusiastic Hell, scorpions in Tankwa - check If someone is your shoes before pulling YES!! them on, and check your UNABLE to say bedding and tent before Support “Yes” then don’t And if you don’t get one, then the answer is no. packing up. If you or your loved ones think gift them the All camps should have you may have an alcohol or For a really good explanation of an all-purpose (Dry substance use problem there are experience. how consent works, check out Chemical Powder) serviced a range of supports and solutions Just like if someone is unable this great video: fire extinguisher and a available- which do not rely on to say yes to a cup of tea - then comprehensive first aid kit. sobriety, or abstinence. If you’ve don’t make the tea, don’t pour Nominate a Safety Baron to had a difficult experience in the WATCH VIDEO PERSONAL the tea down their throat, and manage the safety aspects of past, please pop by to chat to us don’t get grumpy because they your camp, and make sure all at Sanctuary - we can help you didn’t say yes. If they say yes, campmates are informed of make sense of it, and can help and then change their mind, where the first aid kit and fire prevent it in the future. don’t pour the tea down their extinguishers are placed. throat, and don’t insist that they already said yes, and have to drink it. 19 Artwork by Jeanne Fourie 20 DOCTOR SAYS NotE - AfrikaBurn will not Be responsible for yourself cover costs associated with and your medical conditions. Please think about what medical evacuation. you need to bring and read the info here to understand what AfrikaBurn’s medics provide and under what IN thE EVENT Of A MEDICAL EMERGENCY circumstances you can access these resources. Stay with the person needing The following (and similar) assistance. injuries will be stabilised There will be medics and referred to the nearest onsite, but they’re there for Request someone else hospital, with the patient to emergency situations only, (anyone else) to go call the provide their own transport. and may turn patients away medics. Make sure you give We recommend having a if the situation is not an instructions to that person of designated driver in your emergency… your exact location. Eg: “tell them that we are about 10m camp/group of friends in Remember to bring adequate behind Burning Mail Camp case of emergency: supplies of any prescription on 9ish” medications. The medics are Minor bone fractures not a pharmacy and can’t Do not move the person. legally dispense these. Make sure they are Stabilised soft tissue injuries In case of severe emergency comfortable (put a jersey Broken teeth the medics can evacuate under their head etc) and wait All non-life threatening and patients by road or air. for Medics to arrive stabilised minor events Bring a first aid kit. Make sure Don’t panic Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) - it is stocked up with more remember to piss regularly plaster and bandages as well The following are indicative as eye drops (for the dust) and of what will be treated on Major injuries such as citrus soda. (UTI’s). site: those listed below will be transported by ambulance Diarrhoea or by air (as appropriate) to MEDIC! OMG, WHERE Antiemetic medicine for the nearest major medical nausea and vomiting facilities at the discretion of the lead medical officer: ARE thE MEDICS? Headaches They’re at Off-Centre camp, located between 8ish and 9ish on Hypoglycemia Resuscitated patients the Binnekring. Dehydration Major bone fractures including LOOK FOR THE BIG RED CROSS Hyperthermia longbone, cervical and AND MEDIC SIGN. skeletal Hypothermia Asthmatic major Anaphylactic reactions Severe concussion Stings and bites Major laceration, burns and Minor asthmatic emergencies soft tissue injuries Minor soft tissue injuries All unstable life-threatening Sunburn and other minor emergencies may need burn wounds evacuation by air Stabilisation of any fracture 21 Artwork by Karl Schulschenk 22 If something catches on fire, CARAVANS (OR RV’S/ Other than we will get people out of CAMP SAFETY TENTS harm’s way and then probably Don’t store too much gas and CAMPERVANS AND Allow safe spacing between just let it burn out – our the scheduled store any gas at least 10m away BOTTLED GAs tents, caravans and cars. Rangers and Fire Safety crews from your main camp activity in protect people, not property. Always change cylinders Never use candles or any burns of shade - NOT IN DIRECT other open flame in or near a Be prepared and know what in open air, away from any SUNLIGHT. Petrol at camp must to do. Bring adequate fire source of ignition. tent. Torches are much safer. artworks, the be kept to a minimum and extinguishers and FIRE signage should indicate fuel Check connections are tight. Flammable liquids and know how to use them: focus of fire on site. Please comply with fire The best way to do this is a Liquefied Petroleum Gas practice Pull, Aim, Squeeze and safety when making a camp fire. little water with washing-up cylinders should be kept Sweep (P.A.S.S). control in Have at least 2 fire extinguishers liquid and soft brush. Brush outside the tent. If you have available in a 50sqm area, and all connections with liquid: no excess fuel, store it at the Fuel In the case of tent or structure when cooking with oil, have a fire bubbles = no gas leak. Dump (ask at the OCC) Tankwa Town fires, do not attempt to enter blanket close by. Turn off at main valve when Oil burning appliances are the tent/structure to remove not in use. not recommended. is avoidance, possessions. For large gas and fuel storage Keep cylinders outside your Cooking appliances should When planning your camp, (for camps or Mutant Vehicles or awareness caravan. not be used in small tents. leave at least three meters Artworks), please contact the Fire between flammable items. Safety Officer (at OCC) to request Before going to bed or leaving Keep cooking appliance away and active By way of example, have storage at our fuel dump. the caravan, turn off all from walls and the roof where your tent three meters from appliances. Turn off cylinders it can be easily knocked over. prevention your generator, which should unless appliances are be five meters from your designed to run continuously. OPEN FIRES fuel. This applies to cars FIRE LANTERNS, Never use a cooker or a Please note: You are not and campervans as well. All heater in a moving caravan. camps storing fuel and or FLARES AND permitted to make an open fire have an open fire, must have on the ground at AfrikaBurn. IF YOU SUSPECT A LEAK (yep, we know we’ve said it 3 a fire extinguisher on hand FIREWORKS? NO and visible. Turn off all appliances. times: it’s that important). They’re pretty death machines. You can’t make fires directly Mobile arson. They are a very Open all doors and windows. on the ground - braais and IF YOU HAVE A FIRE serious fire hazard, and create Do not smoke. braziers must be used. problems with neighbouring It should be in a raised Fires can’t be left unattended farms and the Tankwa Karoo Do not operate electrical platform and downwind, at (the Rangers will put them National Park. Flying lanterns switches. least 10m from any tent out!). also become snares for animals Clear wood, leaves, etc, to You may not burn so please don’t bring them, as otHER HAZARDS form a circle of earth around you’ll only be asked to put them unapproved artworks. If you Take care when cooking - the fire would like to burn something out. Basically, if it burns or can never leave any cooking or Build a stack that will that you’ve created, let the cause a fire don’t set it alight open flame unattended. collapse inwards whilst Art crew know, by contacting or shoot it into the airspace of Keep matches out of the burning. Ideally your wood them via the Arteria, at Off- Tankwa Town, thanks. reach of children. stack must not be higher than Centre Camp. If you smoke, use metal the sides of your fireplace When burning structures, ashtrays. Do not leave fires unattended keep a safety perimeter equal to three times the height of FIRE SAFETY Never smoke in bed. Make sure that fires are fully your sculpture (or more if Our Tankwa Town Fire Safety Children should not be left extinguished team works for a safer burn the wind is strong). Mark out alone in a caravan. Have 25 litres of water (and/ community. The following the perimeter with lights, or a fire extinguisher) nearby information will help you be Keep your caravan ventilated. nailed-down tape or other to extinguish a fire safe markers. aware of the potential hazards Don’t block up air vents - it whilst camping outdoors. could be fatal. 23 Artwork by Skubalisto 24 GUIDELINES FOR OPEN Note Ranger Bob says 06 Don’T LEAVE YOUR FIRES, BURN BARRELS, Please remember that petrol PARENTINGPARENTING Small children are a wonder at CHILDREN AT thEME BAMBOO tORCHES ETC is a dangerous fuel to use to the burn but your average teen CAMPS start fires. Explosive vapours can be a horror and even more WIthIN thEME CAMPS: can instantly build up as it is It’s a wonderful horrific in an anarchic enclave You might be keen to have a Open fires (ie: on the ground) applied, and as the fire is lit it thing to have kids with music, booze, and countless wander and enjoy yourself but aren’t permitted - use a can flash and burn you. at AfrikaBurn, but temptations. AfrikaBurn is not the leaving children in the care of brazier, braai, etc. place to bring your distant teen in theme camps without their you have to prepare the hope it will bring you closer. agreement is irresponsible and Burn barrels or braais can’t IF A FIRE BREAKS OUT them and be prepared unfair to the Theme Camps and be left unattended - if found Contact the Ranger, Security, your children. unattended, they will be put Medics or Fire Branch and yourself. TOP TIPS FOR PARENTING out. give the exact location 07 OLDER KIDS At least one camp member If possible give a street PREPARE YOUR KIDS 01 ORIENTATE YOUR KIDS should be designated Safety Older kids are going to want to reference - “corner of 9ish and Let your kids know in advance When you get to Tankwa Town stretch their limits and cruise Baron and tasked with fire A Street”, etc. about the kind of things that - walk around with them and safety (including locating fire around on their own – make If this is not possible, provide they will or might see and identify landmarks that will help some guidelines that you both extinguishers where they’re hear. Nudity, iconoclastic them navigate and be safe. visible and easily accessed). a landmark such as a theme feel comfortable with, including camp or artpiece art, sexuality, rude language, how far to go and how often to If winds pick up, all open fires cultural commentary, and weird 02 GET TO KNOW YOUR check back in. must be put out immediately After following above points - behaviour are all a part of the and burn barrels must be remove any objects (i.e. tents; AfrikaBurn experience. Steer NEIGHBOURS extinguished if they begin to wood; vehicles; your mother- them away from whatever you The community is one of the Please note throw sparks. in-law, etc.) from the vicinity feel uncomfortable with, but be great strengths of AfrikaBurn. Theme Camps cannot gift of the fire - if safe to do so. matter-of-fact about the stuff Open fire or burn barrels Neighbours help to look out for alcohol to those under 18 and they are curious about. must be extinguished at kids, bikes and everything else at camps gifting alcohol can ask for the request of any Ranger FUEL STORAGE your camp, while you do the same identification if in doubt. Consider your child’s normal for them. or Emergency Services If you have a large volume of frame of reference: have they personnel, or they’ll do it. fuel or gas, please head to Off- For more info on parenting at camped before? Talk to them Centre camp and enquire about the burn, there’s great advice A 7m zone around any about common-sense safety - 03 ORGANisE EARLY storing it in the fuel dump. on our blog. fire must be free of any advise them to be cautious about MORNING ACTIVITIES flammable materials, such getting too close to aggressive Children may be up well before as, but not limited to: cloth, art, destructive robots, and you and wandering about. READ ARTICLE paper, tents, plastic, etc. moving vehicles, playing in ash All liquid fuels must be kept heaps or burn scars. A little bit of at least 15m away from any care goes a long way in a chaotic 04 PROTECT thEM FROM open flame. environment. All parents should tHE ELEMENTS attend to their children and Get your children to wear sturdy A supply of at least 25 litres are responsible for their safety footwear and hats, use sunscreen of water (and/or a fire and well-being at all times. You and carry water with them extinguisher must be kept on and your kids should know who wherever they are. hand to extinguish the fire in is responsible for them at all case of high winds or other times. Rather over-communicate hazards. with your kids than leave them 05 MARK YOUR KID’S BIKE Burn barrels must be secured without important info. Parents Take some duct tape and a and constructed in a way that not behaving responsibly with permanent marker and mark your the burning surface is at least regard to their children may be kid’s bike with their name, your 15 cm from the ground to asked to leave the event. name and your camp address. prevent baking of the surface.

25 Artwork by Grace De Kroon 26 Tankwa Town is one of MEDIA, CAMERA AND event. If your work requires seek permission from In the case of using images the most photogenic DOCUMENTARY INFO post-production, you must them before recording of artworks for editorial places on the planet. provide a copy as soon as it is their likeness or voice use, we encourage the completed. Stock agencies are media to credit specific But please remember One of the abiding Images, footage or sound principles of AfrikaBurn is not permitted to film or record recorded for personal use artists you’re here to the event. participate, so don’t that participants do not are not restricted - but any interfere with the immediate published material can PARTICIPANT RIGHTS forget to engage. Don’t experience of other EVENT ORGANISER’S look at the whole only be used by registered AND RESPONSIBILITIES participants. As a member of RIGHTS AND parties. To register, go event through the lens; the media, you’re expected here: You have ultimate you’re part of the show to be respectful and comport RESPONSIBILITIES responsibility for your

- embrace immediacy, yourself accordingly. If you do, AfrikaBurn has the image and should ask and keep in mind that your coverage will be far more responsibility to create an REGISTRATION photographers how your we want to protect authentic and meaningful. environment for participants image will be used. If you people’s right to that doesn’t tolerate rude or Anyone shooting stills or encounter a problem, express themselves. If any participant asks you to irresponsible use of film irresponsibly may report it to a Ranger or at stop filming, you must stop photographic or video be requested to switch the Media Centre. immediately. If you continue recording equipment. Anyone their equipment off, or, if You have the right to ask Media at our to photograph or film, you the matter is of a serious event provide an who doesn’t respect the rights someone to stop taking a may face the possibility of and wishes of others with nature, asked to leave the picture of you, recording opportunity to inform being escorted from the event respect to photographs, video, event. your image or recording and affect the world or recordings of any kind may your voice in any way. by illustrating and You must ask permission be asked to leave. ARTISTS’ RIGHTS and However keep in mind documenting what we before photographing RESPONSIBILITIES the nature of radical self- do as a community. or filming any individual AfrikaBurn reserves the right expression – capturing Reporting and participant who might be to disallow the use of related You have the right to expression is a form of documenting is a recognisable. Crowd shots imagery and recordings of protect the image of your self-expression. are exempt, except when the any kind for commercial form of expression we artwork or performance You have the right to know artist, performer, and majority or unapproved editorial welcome, and those You have the right to ask what someone plans to do of participants request no use, particularly if such someone to stop taking with your image. filming at the event cameras or filming use(s) undermine personal images of your art or have undertaken to expression and the privacy of performance if you don’t USE OF IMAGES TAKEN not interfere with your Members of the media have participants or the integrity of approve AT AFRIKABURN (OTHER experience. the responsibility to check in the event. on arrival at the Media Centre You have the right to be THAN PERSONAL USE) IS If anyone with a at Off-Centre Camp to register PHOTOGRAPHERS/ credited for authorship PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE or pick up their accreditation. of your artwork in any PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT camera does screw VIDEOGRAPHERS/ OF AFRIKABURN. with your experience The Media Centre opens at AUDIOGRAPHERS published use of your by invading your 10am and closes at 2pm each work, and negotiate the day. terms To apply for accreditation, privacy, please ask You’ve got the right to please see the Photo & express yourself and create You have the right to them for their name If you’re considering any Media page: art as a photographer, enforce copyright and and check in at the commercial use of still photos, videographer and/or audio trademark ownership of Media Centre at Off- video or audio recorded artist your unique artwork. To APPLY HERE at the event, you must Centre Camp to let our have the greatest legal provide a copy of your work You have the responsibility media crew know. protection, artists should to the event organisers for to be respectful to people apply for a copyright archive within 90 days of the you wish to record and

27 Artwork by Philippus Johan Schutte 28 Bicycles are a necessity in Tankwa Town; they make MARK YOUR BIKE HOW NOT TO everything more accessible. With your name, phone number Bear in mind that bicycles are or email address, and camp LOSE YOUR BIKE not public property. Be sure location. your bike is in good working To improve your chances of order before the event, and being reunited with a lost bike: bring tools, like a wire brush, Label it with your name, chain lube, and extra tyre BRING SPARES MUTANt VEHICLES camp address & email. tubes. The ground in Tankwa Town is not kind on bikes: bring extra Take a picture of it on your tubes, tyres and a puncture phone / camera. repair kit (they’re a great gift to Unless your Mutant #1 MOST Log the make & model info those who need them). You may somewhere safe. IMPORTANT BIKE need them – and if you don’t, you can help those who do. Lose a bike during the event? is registered before TIP? LOCK IT OR Mail a description of the lost bike to lostandfound@ you arrive, your VERY IMPORTANT LOSE IT! (Even LEAVE NO TRACE afrikaburn.com Mutant vehicles carrying flame effects or any other lethal Don’t ditch your bike at Do it as soon as you get home, because there’s just a Mutant won’t be weapons must contact DMV AfrikaBurn: dealing with when in camp) before the event and have a live abandoned bikes stretches our short window to identify your test on site. Bikes go missing and turn up already over-taxed resources. bike before DPW head home. permitted to ride. after everyone has left, and some And did we mention that if you Email [email protected] for disappear and never come back, don’t lock it up, you could lose more info. so lock your bike. Don’t lock your it? It’s true. When the going gets LOST Make sure you’ve registered it with DMV bike to guy wires or artwork - crazy, bikes go walkies. Lock it up (and they’ve given you your license to arrive). this may hamper performances – especially if you’ve borrowed BIKE PROCEss No quads and no motorbikes If you don’t adhere to the and scheduled burns. No bike’s your friend’s R25 000 extra- 01 Any bikes left on site are permitted at all – unless rules, you understand and considered stolen unless the special-chrome-plated-limited- will be documented & they’ve been licensed by DMV accept that the vehicle may lock was bust, and no bike’s edition Himalayan expedition photographed considered lost until the event bike, or you could well end up (and the only way they can be immediately immobilised, is over. crying into your beer. 02 Lost bike owners will have be licensed is if they’ve been that the vehicle’s DMV license 2 weeks to identify their completely mutated so they (and/or the driver’s right bikes with details (mail no longer look like a normal to drive the vehicle on site) DECORATE LOCK.YOUR.BIKE. lostandfound@afrikaburn. vehicle). may be revoked for a period com) Any and all vehicles seeking of between 48 hours and/ YOUR BIKE 03 There is no Step 3, proceed DMV licensing must have or the duration of the event to Step 4… (the duration of which is It’s much less likely your bike will all driver(s) reviewed and signed off on an on-site safety to be determined by DMV be borrowed without permission 04 Positively identified bikes leadership, on behalf of if it looks unique. Light your bike will be brought back from and indemnity form. Every driver of the Mutant Vehicle AfrikaBurn), and that the for nighttime riding – use LED’s, the Tankwa and owners driver may be ejected from EL wire, solar-powered fairy informed via mail needs to sign indemnity and must accompany the vehicle the event. lights or whatever you can come 05 Unclaimed bikes will then be up with – get creative! for final registration and donated to underprivileged licensing. communities in the Tankwa. The indemnity form must be completed and signed and on your person from the minute you step through the gate.

29 Artwork by Mischka Byram Artwork by Jeanne Fourie 30 DMV Commandments RULES Of ThAT ROAD 01 ThOU SHALT 05 thERE Is NO RULE 5 10 ThOU SHALT There have been deaths on the R355, and many Make every effort to decorate/ Proceed to Rule 6, do not collect Help look out for the safety of head-on collisions. Please drive cautiously. If you create/conjure your golf cart, R200. Stay outta jail. Pour your fellow freaks, aliens, and drive badly, it will end badly. truck, limo, etc. yourself a beer. Take a deep even passersby at all times - even breath. Be nice to small animals if they’re ex-girlfriends who have and remember to call your recently slept with your father. 02 ThOU SHALT NOT mother from time to time. And tHESE ARE tHE TEN RULES Of tHE ROAD Steal, commandeer or for crying out loud, stop worrying ‘borrow’ any official form about your weight. You’re 11 ThOU SHALT 01 No overtaking when you can’t left as possible. DON”T stop of transportation. Theft or beautiful just the way you are. Report any safety issues, see ahead. EVER. completely as there are cars destruction of any vehicle will Right. Where were we? Oh yes… violations, and/or problems to behind you that also can’t not be tolerated – we reserve keep reading, you’re nearly done! Rangers and DMV immediately. 02 Plan ahead to leave at a good see. the right to eject anyone caught time (Sunday morning 8am – acting in this way. 10am is not a good time) 07 Some people do travel 06 ThOU SHALT NOT 12 ThOU SHALT REALLY slowly, this may be Attempt to get on nor attempt to Have a registered Mutant Vehicle 03 Look for alternative scenic because they’re on their last 03 ThOU SHALT NOT get off a moving mutant vehicle driver, who will be required to routes home (Calvinia, Koue spare tyre filled with tyre- Try to get on, impede, or stop a (in case you never got that the wear a laminate provided by Bokkeveld, etc). weld. If you’re one of those moving art car, mutant vehicle, first time). your sexy DMV on registration. people travelling at 20kmph, plane, balloon, helicopter or any 04 Getting home WILL take you pull off the road every now other flying or driving device. all day. Slow down and enjoy and then to let everyone pass. 07 ThOU SHALT NOT 13 All MUTANT VEHICLES the ride. Operate any mutant vehicle and/ Should have an all-purpose 08 Support the Padstal. Stop 04 ThOU SHALT or its artistic additions without (Dry Chemical Powder) 05 Do NOT party ‘til the Sunday off, relax and let some of the Dance around, wave your arms, permission of its owner(s)/ fire extinguisher and a and leave straight away to traffic pass you by. and ask politely to get onto a operator(s) including the firing comprehensive first aid kit. beat the traffic. We all share passing mutant vehicle: of cannons, potato cannons, the road and need to get 09 If you need to stop to change home safe. a tyre or whatever, make sure Once the Mutant Vehicle has sawdust cannons, use of 14 All MUTANT VEHICLES you’re 100% off the road. come to a complete stop, (if attractive body parts of vehicle 06 If you can’t see ahead, slow needed) ask for assistance occupants, sounds and light Towing trailers must have down, this isn’t Days of 10 Be lekker. Treat people how or hop on the vehicle in a systems, etc…). conductors and walkers. Thunder. Holding your line you would like them to treat safe, appropriate manner If your MV is found without, it will and driving through dust is you. We’re all in this thing (remember: be sure to thank be stopped until you have the 08 ThOU SHALT NOT not the answer. Rather slow together and all want to get the driver) crew to fulfill this requirement. Hijack, hoodwink, harass, or down to 10kmph and stick as there & back in one piece. If the mutant vehicle does harangue the driver whilst they not stop for whatever reason, are in command and control of 15 PLEAsE DO NOT LEAVE do not attempt to run down, the mutant vehicle. Thanks to Braai Bliksem for these tips! jump on, hog-tie, and/or bitch YOUR VEHICLE BEHIND If it’s broken down, please head at the vehicle or driver. Read all about his horrific accident on this blogpost: 09 ThOU SHALT to Off-Centre Camp and enquire Have a good time (like you need about how you can contact the READ ARTICLE telling). landowners.

31 32 stones puncture sidewalls Don’t cross over the stony Like psycho-pitbull- with- You’ll come to Checkpoint RULE ONE: SLOW DOWN (yes, even the sidewalls of ‘middle-mannetjie’. Directions a-hangover dangerous. DO Charming first, here they your Roadmuncher Desert NOT DRIVE AT HIGH SPEED. We recommend that you will check (charmingly) that Please bear in mind the R355 Eagles), so drive carefully It’s a long road - take in the take two spares with you as SOUTH 32.326841 everyone has tickets is a deceptive dirt road that and slowly. It’s tempting to view, read the signs. well as a tyre repair kit. Take Next you’ll come to the Gate has claimed lives. Please drive feel like you’re almost there EAST 19.748139  a tip from the local farmers Round about now, you lose to Tankwa Town. Here you calmly, even if you have a 4x4, when you hit the dirt – you – carry snotplugs and a cellphone signal. Switch it off will be checked in, and your and especially if you don’t. aren’t. It takes about an hour FROM CAPE TOWN compressor (or tyre pump / and forget about it. Goodbye tickets scanned. The last stretch of road is on a and a half to cover the dirt Tyre Weld). telecommunication, hello narrow farm road – please be Move along to the Greeting section, which is the most Aweh! Rad you could real communication!  patient when arriving as there Keep your spare tyres treacherous part. We’re not make it, bru! Station. Take a deep breath. may be a queue. kidding – observe the many accessible when packing. Stay on the R355 towards Step through the portal. Take the N1 North, passing Calvinia (Don’t turn right to stripped tyres alongside the Our crew don’t patrol the If you’re a Virgin, ring the Paarl, Worcester and De Sutherland, unless you like  road. These are Stoffadils, road, and isn’t able to bell! Doorns. 10km before you large radio telescopes). HOW TO SURVIVE THE and they didn’t grow there. provide assistance outside of reach Touwsrivier, 160km R355 the event. You’ll pass a settlement Cellphone coverage is patchy from Cape Town, take the  called Tweefontein and a Normal road safety rules along the dirt road. The There is a tyre repair station LEFT onto the R46, towards Welcome! small white bridge crossing apply, even to RV’s and 4x4’s. last reliable signal is just at Tankwa Tented Camp (just Ceres. If you need to fill up the Tankwa River bed. At before you pass through before you get to the event on fuel, do so – Worcester Just because you drive a this point, you’re about Karoopoort. gate). Here you can have or Touwsrivier are your last 5-litre 4x4 doesn’t mean your 2kms from the turn off to the your tyre/s repaired before chances. ass won’t roll and your tyres If you stop on the dirt venue. You’ll also see a tall you head into (or out of) the won’t get shredded. road, pull off to the side This road continues for tower on your left hand side. event. - and do not, under any approximately 40kms and We strongly recommend Stay on the R355, it’s not circumstances, stop on a Respect donkey carts and ends in a T-junction. At  traveling in convoy. long now. See that T-junction blind rise. animals - donkeys do not the T-junction turn RIGHT up ahead with the signs on Drive up during daylight move out of the way! onto the tyre-munching your right? That’s it – turn hours – it’s much safer! R355 towards Calvinia and  When passing, slow down to right into Stonehenge Farm Don’t overload your vehicle. SAVING YOUR TYREs reduce rocks and dust. Sutherland. Approximately 100m on, you’ll hit the dirt. It’s a rough road, so take it Don’t speed - 70km/h is It’s legend and fact: the R355 SLOW DOWN. easy - you’re nearly there. good, but if your vehicle is As you go through the eats tyres for breakfast, lunch You brought a spare wheel, CONT’D heavy, reduce speed to 50 or gate there are some small and supper. Here are some EXTREMELY IMPORTANT right? Good. Oh, you brought less, depending. Enjoy the cottages on your right at a blowout avoidance tips: two? Smart move. view. DO NOT OVERTAKE settlement called Lekkerlag. Check your tyres before you Drive at dawn - in the heat WHEN THE ROAD AHEAD This stretch of road – which  leave, make sure they are in of midday tyres heat up, is 113km long – is dangerous. good nick. IS OBSCURED BY DUST. which means your sidewalls / tyres puncture easier and Keep your tyres on the hard We’ve had numerous cases of the shale rock on the road side, so that the sidewalls of head-on collisions due to this fractures easier, and sharper. your tyres have less exposure kind of dangerous driving. Cooler tyres + cooler roads = to sharp stones Please understand – this is lethal, fatal, dangerous less punctures or blowouts. We know it’s a big ask, but behaviour. Don’t do it. The R355 is one helluva lot try not to overload your of dirt road. It has some vehicle. bad patches where sharp

33 Artwork by Anthea Duce 34 FROM JOHANNESBURG the event. Calvinia is the last place where you can get VIA BLOEMFONTEIN From Jozi? Huzzit, chana! supplies (water, gas, petrol,  Take the N1 South to etc), so if you need them, get Van Bloem af, chomma? Bloemfontein/Cape Town. them. There are no shops Mooi so! after Calvinia.  Stay on the N1 through  Take the N8 to Kimberley and Colesburg, Hanover and  Travel carefully along the then continue along the N12 Richmond. R355 for approximately to Victoria West 100kms.  From Richmond travel 64 kms  Turn right into the R63 at on the N1 and turn right onto  Do not turn off to the Tankwa Victoria West (T junction), the R63 to Victoria West. Karoo National Park. thereafter follow the directions listed above for  Travel on the R63 through  Watch up ahead for a Johannesburg from Victoria Victoria West and follow the T-junction – here you’ll see West onward. road and signs to Calvinia. the AfrikaBurn event sign and a Stonehenge/ Lekkerlag  Drive through Calvinia and farm sign. Turn left here boet! about 2 km outside of town You’re almost there. FROM DURBAN you’ll see a sign ‘Ceres R355’. Turn left here onto the gravel  Drive about 5 km SLOWLY From Durbs? Hundreds bru! road to Ceres. along this farm road.  Take the N3 out of town, and  Do NOT drive faster that  Holy crap, you’re close now! head to Harrismith. 70km per hour under any  You’ll come up to Checkpoint circumstances, or in any Charming  At Harrismith, take the N5 via vehicle, at any time along this Bethlehem to Winberg, where gravel road!  Further along you’ll come to you join the N1 and follow this the Ticketing Centre. to Bloemfontein.  Take note: This is the last time you will have phone  Move along to the Greeting  Thereafter follow the signal until you get back to Station. Take a deep breath. directions listed for this spot - this includes at  Virgin? Welcome! Bloemfontein

35 36 FLYING IN USING thE FLYING thERE? AIRSPACE UAV / DRonES & Flying an Flying in? Lucky you! We have lots of people who are The operation of drones and AFRIKABURN looking for aircraft rides to the RC aircraft of any nature is othER AIRCRAFT RPAs or Model PLEASE NOTE: You may not fly into AfrikaBurn - or fly any form burn, making your wishes known restricted and falls under the Any form of use of the airspace AIRPORT on this blog with your numbers, new very strict CAA rules: - including or any kind of Aircraft, of aircraft at the event - without first making contact and reciving The airport is a place aircraft weight and dates will help you aerial movement, requires an allocation number. There are land and take off, taxi and park. link up with others who may be authorisation. Any form of drone or toy VIEW PAGE some important and very specific Entry into the operations area going your way. Commercial aircraft operated at AfrikaBurn instructions for using this is restricted and only allowed if fights to the burn are not requires authorisation - and at Afrikaburn particular airstrip and airspace. you are a pilot or a passenger. allowed however. AfrikaBurn’s this includes Unmanned Aerial Passengers will be given clear policy is that it’s fine for burners It is highly illegal to operate a Vehicles (UAV’s), recreational In line with new Civil Aviation to solicit services, but a service drone or an RC aircraft without Authority guidelines, no Email instructions as to where they can drones, commercial drones provider may not solicit Burners - the necessary license and recreational drones can be flown [email protected] and go by their pilots. (ie: carrying video cameras), this includes commercial fights. insurance under the ATZ in the anywhere near an active airstrip. an info package will be sent skydiving, paragliders hot air TTZ. And we have an active airstrip. your way, or visit our Airspace A rotating prop which happens balloons and operators of model Sorry folks: your drone will have page: to meet up with you can make aircraft. a large and deep impression, FUEL STORAGE to sit this one out. one you’re not likely to enjoy. If you are bringing any type of If you plan on operating a VIEW PAGE Parents, please make your kids gas or aviation fuel, please use professional drone (or other aware that planes are not toys our dedicated fuel dump to make aircraft of some description) and it is extremely dangerous sure it is safe, available and away please contact uav@afrikaburn. Please also note: if flying in, you if they are touched, interfered from the tented community com and our team can assist still need a ticket to AfrikaBurn. with or in any way approached. where it could be a risk. you by providing info on how to Don’t get in the plane without The active area of the airport get authorisation, where the fly one. Pilots are responsible for is cordoned off and everyone zones are and how and where the return of their non ticketed is requested to respect this. you and your aircraft/drone/ surf PAX’s. Rangers and Airport crew will rocket can be checked at the respectfully ask you to leave if event, prior to taking to the air. you are found to be in this area.

37 Artwork by Matthew Fraser 38 YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME You are expected to insure all property brought by you to the event whether THE FOLLOWING RISKS, or not you own such property. Mutant RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY Vehicles, Artworks, Theme Camps OR DEATH BY ATTENDING and Performances are not owned or operated by AfrikaBurn and you THIS EVENT, AND RISK OF therefore assume any and all risk DAMAGE OR DESTRUCTION of injury associated with or arising from their operation or occurrence. OF PERSONAL PROPERTY You appoint AfrikaBurn as your BROUGHT BY YOU TO THE representative to take actions necessary EVENT (WHETHER OR NOT to protect your intellectual property or privacy rights, recognizing that OWNED BY YOU). YOU AfrikaBurn has no obligation to take ACCORDINGLY ACKNOWLEDGE any action whatsoever. All vehicles including trucks, trailer, caravans and THAT AFRIKABURN ACCEPTS RV’s entering and exiting AfrikaBurn are NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR subject to search by the Gate staff. DAMAGE TO YOUR PERSON Tickets are non-refundable even if OR YOUR PROPERTY the event is terminated or cancelled HOWEVER CAUSED AND due to harsh weather, acts of nature, governmental regulation or other RELEASE AFRIKABURN FROM conditions beyond AfrikaBurn’s control. ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM This ticket is a revocable license that THIS RISK. may be revoked by AfrikaBurn for any reason. Use of images taken at AfrikaBurn (other than personal use) You must bring enough food, water, is prohibited without the prior written shelter and first aid to survive for consent of AfrikaBurn. a week in a harsh environment. Commercial vending is prohibited, as are all firearms, fireworks, rockets and USE OF YOUR TICKET TO other explosives. You agree to read and AFRIKABURN CONFIRMS YOUR abide by all the rules contained in the AGREEMENT TO THE TERMS survival guide and to follow national and local laws. This is a LEAVE NO REFLECTED ABOVE. TRACE, pack it in, pack it OUT event. You are asked to contribute two hours of general clean up in addition to your own camp before departure.

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The design, layout and art for this gorgeous Survival Guide was made Content was compiled & For reading this guide, possible by the following volunteers: edited by Travis Lyle, with contributions from a host of Anthea Duce Philippus Johan Schutte willing and able crew members. you’re a rockstar. Illustrations on pg. 6 & 33 - 36 Illustrations on pg. 13 - 16, 27 & 28 Big thanks to Guillaume behance.net/AntheaDuce phijos.com Vagrante for designing this year’s map. Ernst Lass Karl Schulschenk Please share it with Illustrations on pg. 1, 2 & 39 Illustrations on pg. 3, 4, 21 & 22 All information in this guide is instagram.com/ernsnext karlschulschenk.com correct at time of publication, anyone who could use the but is subject to change in Grace De Kroon Matthew Fraser subsequent versions. info. The more it’s read, Illustrations on pg. 5 & 26 Illustrations on pg. 11, 12, 37 & 38 gracedekroon.tumblr.com Mischka Byram the better the experience Jeanne Fourie Illustrations on pg. 7, 8 & 29 Layout design & Art direction behance.net/mishkabyram for everyone who Illustrations on pg. i, ii , 19, 20, 30 - 32, 41 & 42 Natasha Viljoen participates in AfrikaBurn. eye-of-jnn.com Cover art Illustrations on pg. 9, 10, 17 & 18 behance.net/natashaviljoen

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