The Namibian Burn

Stolzenfeld Saloon Campsite are located 80km east of Windhoek just before Dordabis.

Namibia Independence Weekend

On Request: Under 18 Burn fee available for parents and legal guardians on request.

Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. This is not a glamping thing, plug and play or trance festival for profit, it is a Burners Burn.

Smaller art pieces are more environmentally friendly, safer, easier to build and more cost-effective. It opens the creation of art to every-one.

GUIDELINES

All art pieces must be built on a standard size pallet or on a comparable size base.

Pallet Size: roughly 1.2 m x 1.2 m or smaller. It should be no larger than a standard size pallet.

The pieces will have to be lifted using 2 strong poles slid through the pallet then lifted onto the burn-pit. Similar to a forklift, but using poles instead.

Art Height Maximum: Up to 8 feet (2 m) tall. It can be smaller though.

Materials: These small art pieces are to be made out of wood or safe burnable materials that do not create lots of sparks. Pallet wood works perfect.

Weight: since the piece & pallet will be picked up using poles, we ask that you be mindful about how heavy your piece is.

All projects must be on site by 16H00 on second afternoon. The community would love to have the time to see and appreciate your art.

There is no limit to how many projects we can burn, so BRING ON your burning creations!!

Bring your hand-sanitizer, mask and disinfecting hand-soap . Own tent, equipment, food and drinks for 4 days. Your own medical kit. You are a Burner, be radical self-reliant.

This is a 'leave-no-trace' event. Clean-up after yourself. Whatever you bring, you take home, including your garbage and lover.

Want to bring a theme camp?.
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Space, place and our support is there for you - Radical Self-reliance is a Principle ....Speak to us.

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Arrive and park it till you leave. This is private land: Respect the private off-limit areas.

Bring head-lamps, solar-lamps, gas-stove. Sound camp will have electricity.

There is enough drinking water, but bring your own toilet-paper. Wood & Ice for sale.

Busy finailizing the Survival Guide. Watch this space.

Respect for yourself, respect for the diversity in our fellow humans, respect the gift of labour, respect for nature and this earth. Respect is not a given, it is earned through your actions.

Our Burn community encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner, and own resources in being radical self-reliant. We volunteer our knowledge and skills in service of our global Burn community.

In order to preserve the spirit of selfless gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience or monetizing this experience.

The Burn community value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavour to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local and state laws.

Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Any-one may be a part of our Burn. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community. We ask only, respect our Burner ethos and Principles.

The Burn community are devoted to acts of responsible gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

The dream to bring a Burning Man-inspired gathering based on the 10 Principles to Namibia started in 2014, while some Rangers from Namibia was on a decompressing walk-about after the Afrikaburn event.

A Namibian Burner Facebook page was created in 2016, combined with Burner-Bar events in Swakopmund and Windhoek to test interest.
It seemed that the Namibian Burn community was maybe still too small, not ready? The dream of a Namibian Burn had to be replanned.

In 2017, a small team consisting of Rangers from Namibia was formed to develop this dream and come up with a plan. New ideas and concepts was developed and tested at other Southern African regional Burn events. At the same time, 'Rangers Without Borders' was founded, which offered support, knowledge and insight into smaller global Burner regional events.

Burner Bar evenings was again hold in Namibia 2018 and 2019 after the South African regional Burn events, with mostly international Rangers and a few local Burners attending. And it must be said; there was tremendous support from our International Burners in supporting in getting a Namibian Burn going.

2019 seen the first Ranger training in Windhoek. With that, a Burn was born to take place in 2020.

2020. Well, no explanation needed...

And here we are 2021. The first Namibian Burn. A Burners Burn by your friendly Burn Rangers.

NamBurn, the Namibian Burn - Burning Nam:

The 'Namibian Burn' is an pure non-profit civic responsible volunteer based entity open to all individuals who show an involvement in and a commitment to the ethos, spirit and Principles of Burning Man as embraced by 'NamBurn', or as it is locally called 'Burning Nam'.

We do not discriminate against participation in our global Burn culture, on the basis of race, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability.