Berringa Community News News and views from the residents of Bellbridge, Bethanga, Granya & Talgarno Circulation: 570 ABN: 96 071 800 843
Summer 2016
What is Burning Seed? A Party? A Festival? No - a Burn Anyone travelling along the Murray River Road over the October long weekend, may have wondered what event was occurring on a property near Talgarno. Burning Seed is an experimental gathering dedicated to creativity, collaboration and a gifting community – conceived, built, run and returned to nothing again by the participants. Ten principles guide this special something, called a Burn. People new to Burning Seed often assume that a Burn is like a festival: a mostly passive experience where event management organise everything and you just need to pay and rock up “Here’s my ticket – now feed me,
entertain me and clean up after me”. Instead, a Burn is created by its participants, not for them. Together, we pool our resources, skills, ideas and imagination to create the funding, the city, the entertainment and the experience itself, filled with art, theme camps, gifting, performances, crewing, music, fire and more. It is this very act of collaboration and participation that makes Burning Seed special. Burning Seed follows in the footsteps of Burning Man, which began life on a San Francisco beach in 1986 and has been taking place in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert since 1991. Burning Man attracts up to 65,000 attendees each year.