AfrikaBurn

Are you ready for 2025? AfrikaBurn will guarantee your artistic success from 28 April to 4 May, at Quaggafontein in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa.

We're busy building our CREATION archive, so if you have a collection of images that you took at this year's event (and have permission to share), please email photography@afrikaburn.com with a link that we can download. Art: The Soft Mother by Neil Carr Photo: Jacques Grobler

While some stories have now been told, we'd still love to hear your story of CREATION. If you've not completed the AfrikaBurn 2024 survey, please visit: tickets.afrikaburn.org/creation-surve… as we'll close it at the end of this month. Artwork: Tree of Stories Photo: Gautier Berr

This was your AfrikaBurn. Created, conceived, populated and personalised to you. Thank you for sharing your time, your co-creations, your suffering and your celebrations with us. Mutant Vehicle: Red Hot Rita Photo: Lexy

If the worst case scenario happens, we have placed emergency messages, including contact details, positioning, and other life-saving comms on the rear of all the road signage. Get to the nearest sign, and check the sticker on the back - it's there to help. Photo: Arash Afshar

Believe it or not ... the Spirit Train is making a return journey to AfrikaBurn this year. To read the whole story of how and why, in their words and ours ... please visit: afrikaburn.org/binnekringblog… Photo: Jonx Pillemer

As a toast to the New Year, from January 19th to 22nd, we seized the opportunity as women and gender non-conforming people to come together for RISE: Resilience In Shared Endeavour. Read all about RISE here: afrikaburn.org/binnekringblog… Photo: Kelly Franciscus

The Last Chance Ticket Sale is this Thursday - 29 February, 12:00 noon SAST (UTC+2). Only about 250 General Sales Tickets are expected to be available in this sale. Be prepared: tickets.afrikaburn.com

The Communications Infrastructure and Analytics team (CIA) is reaching out to our Burner community with a unique volunteering opportunity to contribute your skills and passion to our organisation's upcoming annual event. Want to know more? Contact them via cia@afrikaburn.com

Our Spark Grant Programme was (yet again) a resounding success, with little sparks flitting throughout the country, and igniting AfrikaBurn spirit and community as they go. You can read more here: afrikaburn.org/development-ne…

The 2024 AfrikaBurn poster for CREATION has just been released and features contributions from our recent artist residencies with artists Zama Mwandla and Ariel Tavener. You can read how the poster was made and download a printable version here: afrikaburn.org/art/creation-2…

Somerset West & Stellenbosch Burner Bar this Friday! Come and join us for a lekker evening with DJ Paul on the turn tables, great food and a wide variety of drinks. Date: 18:30 - Fri 9 Feb Location: Triggerfish Brewing W.R Quinan Blvd Unit 9, Somerset West

Picture this: a space for folk to just sit in gratitude, sparkling drinks to keep the heat at bay, daily meetings, and a bunch of things to raise your experience rather than your blood alcohol level. Please support SOBERLAND here: quicket.co.za/fundraisers/24… photo: Jonx Pillemer

Will you be filled with the joy of CREATION at the end of this month? The last 250 tickets to CREATION are going on sale on 29 February at 12 pm SAST. Find out more here: tickets.afrikaburn.org photo: Jonx Pillemer

Tomorrow night! The Space Cowboys 🌕 are throwing a retro sci-fi party 🛸! Join them at District, Cape Town, for a huge fundraiser party for their AfrikaBurn theme camp. Can’t wait to see lots of you there! spaceccowboys.co.za/party

SOBERLAND is a theme camp fundraising to provide a supportive space at AfrikaBurn for those participants who are in recovery. You can find out more and help them out here: quicket.co.za/fundraisers/24… photo: Jonx Pillemer

The MELD exhibition, featuring new artworks by Zama Mwandla, opens at the Bijou in Observatory (Cape Town) tonight, Friday 26 January at 6 pm. We'll see you there later on!

The MELD exhibition, featuring brand new artworks by The Son opens at the Bijou in Observatory (Cape Town) tomorrow, Friday (26 January) at 6 pm.

Supplier Town Hall Meeting tonight! At 6 pm (SA time) at the Shackleton Brewing Company in Cape Town, There will be an informal Burner Bar afterwards, too. Also online via youtube.com/c/afrikaburn Image: George Pratts, d. 1784. Edinburgh Town Crier (Creative Commons)

AfrikaBurn is proud to be hosting its first arts residency exhibition, titled: "MELD." The exhibition opens at the Bijou in Observatory (Cape Town) this Friday (26 January) at 6 pm and will close on 1 February. We'll hopefully see lots of you there!