AfrikaBurn 2010

It’s time to imagine, reinvent and contribute to that collectively created environment – It is time to collaborate, cooperate, celebrate and have fun!

You could be forgiven for thinking that Burning Man is just a party…a fantastical amazing mind-blowing party. It is a whole lot more than that.

AfrikaBurn is all about Communal Effort, Participation, Civic Responsibility, Immediacy, Decommodification, Gifting, Leaving No Trace, Radical Inclusion, Radical Self-Reliance and Radical Self Expression. It’s your unconditional license to express yourself...

Community offerings range from astounding large-scale interactive art installations, music and performance installations to small quaint interpersonal offerings between fellow participants (the person who kindly offers wet-wipes to all those exiting toilets, a cooling spray from a water filled spray bottle on a hot day).

This “gift economy” means that here is no commercial exchange at the event - no vending, no cash bars and no branded promotion of services or products, the aim being real social interaction. 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 an Utopian vision. If you come to AfrikaBurn, you must participate in whatever way you can. We want no spectators.

For directions please visit www.afrikaburns.com/directions

Tickets:

R250 – limited amount available online only
R350 – limited amount available online and at outlets
R400 -  unlimited amount available online until Monday 19th April 2010 5pm.
R400 -  limited amount available at outlets while stock lasts
R450 – tickets at the gate.

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