If you have plans to bring a Theme Camp, or a Mutant Vehicle or Artwork to the dust, you might have plans for fundraiser events in support of your projects. We encourage you to fundraise – and get creative in finding ways to source the materials you need to do the thing you want to do – and we have some important information for you around this.
First things first: please don’t use the San Clan emblem, or the date badge from our website, on your promo material in a branding fashion. We’re a decommodified community and organisation, and wouldn’t want our identity used in a context that could create the impression that AfrikaBurn endorses, or is associated with, any brands.
If you use our identity it can create the impression that your event event is ‘organised by AfrikaBurn’, which can be problematic. More than that, your events are an opportunity for you to develop your identity as a Theme Camp, Mutant Vehicle, Artwork or Performance. Use that to your advantage.
Tempting as it may be to call your fundraiser an ‘AfrikaBurn’ event, please don’t. It’s a little misleading and so presents us with a chunk of potential problems including liability and certification issues. An official AfrikaBurn fundraiser event (such as our Decompression and Streetopia events) has to have proper Health & Safety plans in place, an event permit and a host of other legal requirements. Please note: the use of wording also applies to Decompression – as tempting as it might be to call your post-Tankwa event a ‘Decompression’, we do ask that you avoid using that name, as it also creates the impression that it might be the ‘official’ Decom – but if it’s not, it’s not.
Feel free to mention AfrikaBurn in your Facebook group name and in your fundraiser promotion but please make sure that it is only in reference in a sentence.
e.g. CAMP CARROT – a project for AfrikaBurn
or CIRCUSACT – a theme camp fundraiser for AfrikaBurn
or CATALYST FUNDRAISER – an art installation for AfrikaBurn
Your project or event name is the star here – make it the largest and most noticeable text.
RADIO FREE TANKWA NEEDS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!
If you’re in touch with members of our community who have projects, or would like to inform our community about your project in the dust, please consider creating PSA’s for your community radio station, or suggesting to others that they do so.
It’s really easy and anyone – even a sleeping infant two-toed sloth – can create their own PSA’s. Here’s how:
Download Audacity (it’s free and easy to use) or use other sound software. If you need an Audacity tutorial, there’s a useful one here. Then send us the PSA’s at [email protected]
The Baardskeerder is available for you & your project info! Use it to promote your fundraising activities, make callouts, or simply to get your project known out there.
The Baardskeerder usually goes out every two weeks from January to May, and on a content basis the rest of the year.
To submit newsletter content, please click right here.
NB: Your info has to be in by 6pm the day before the newsletter goes out.
Posts on Facebook are not as easy. We usually prioritise event related information. If there is space, our communications team will post your fundraiser at their discretion, through the AfrikaBurn channels. You can also post it on the AfrikaBurn Facebook groups or event pages yourself.
There’s a really relatively helpful list of social media and community links here.
Our ticketing agent (Quicket) has kindly offered their platform for projects to easily collect money from supporters. It’s not a crowdfunding platform (like Thundafund, IndieGogo or Kickstarter) – it’s more like a donations box that makes it easier for people to contribute money towards your project using all sorts of payment platforms.
This operation involves costs, and Quicket will do it at cost price. This means you’ll pay whatever they pay in credit card and bank fees, but only that. If you’re interested, send an email to [email protected] (they’re also burners, and will do their best to help you).
This is a page on our website that lists all the projects that are open for collaboration, and allows interested collaborators to contact you directly.
When you registered your project, you were asked whether you wanted your project to be listed or not. You can go back and change your answer anytime, as well as the content about your project to be displayed on the page (if you choose to be listed).
We recommend that you update this, as and when the needs of your project change.
Check the Community Directory Page.
To change your info: Log into your Burner Bio, and click on the name of the project you want to edit. Edit the relevant section of the registration.
If you have a registered project, we can offer you an official letter of motivation from AfrikaBurn towards securing donations or discounts from suppliers and service providers.
If you think this would help, please request this to [email protected].
If your project is stuck because you don’t have a workspace, tools, enough hands on, expert advice, etc. and you have already tried everything you can to solve this and are still coming up dry, please don’t give up. Send us an email and tell us about your struggle and we’ll see how we can assist.
Remember that Radical Self-Reliance and Communal Effort are two of the 11 Guiding Principles.
Contact Us – You know how to contact us: [email protected]
And please remember the first rule of Art Club:
Always use the name our your project in the subject line of your email.
E.g. [PANTS OF FIRE] – Letter of Support
This is a huge help to keep email communication effective between us. Emails without a subject or a subject such as “artwork question” might take a long time to be answered.
Something to consider when organising your fundraiser would be your venue – is it an inclusive space? Don’t forget that your fundraising event will be seen as an extension of AfrikaBurn, and its community – consider both location, and the nature of the venue, in terms of accessibility and inclusivity, and make the right choices with that in mind. It could make a big difference to the experience, and the number of people able to be at your event.
Plan ahead, and make use of the whole year for fundraisers. Think about getting in there early, in the quieter months between burns when we’re all itching to plug back into that Tankwa Town feeling. In summer energy and enthusiasm run high: it’s a great time for fundraisers. Remember that in the lead-up to AfrikaBurn, there’s a lot happening every weekend – so if you plan an event at that time, you stand a fair chance of being drowned out by the many others that are happening.
Think about your dates carefully, and try not to compete with any major events that might be aiming for the same crew you’re hoping to attract.
You’ll want to get the word out as soon as possible and spread it as far as possible, and we have the tools to help you do that. Our newsletter, Facebook page, Instagram and Twitter account are all great methods of spreading the word and they are at your disposal for fundraisers.
Newsletter:
Head to the Baardskeerder’s submission page to send info in for our newsletter.
Include a brief write-up exactly as you’d like it to be printed, including all the important detail. You’d be surprised how many people send info without dates and venues! Don’t forget to include the project name, date, venue, price, theme, etc. If you have made a Facebook group page and or event page, include the link for that too.
Your announcement will be included in the next newsletter – usually within two weeks.
Facebook?
You’re welcome to post your event info on our main page – and event pages – on Facebook. There are also numerous other pages and groups out there which would be useful to broaden your exposure – use them!
You can find a handy list of many of the AfrikaBurn-related pages and groups on social media on our Community Links page.
Twitter? Instagram?
Follow @AfrikaBurn, and #tag us, and we’ll be able to pick up on the content.
One word about asking our Communications crew to punt your event: whilst they’re happy to help from June to December (which is our annual ‘quiet’ period as far as communications about our main event goes), it’s not possible to promote your event from January until the end of May, as our channels need to be kept clear for important announcements.
rmits you to play in most areas unless it’s a silent zone near the temple or other silent art works.
Level 2 any amplified sound, like a taxi. This may only be played in special areas within the Binnekring and deep tankwa.
Level 3 large club or stadium size sound, ie: really loud. These system may only be played at full volume in loud zones with speakers pointing away from Binnekring.
Please be very aware of quiet zones, and the 2am sound cut-off zones, and silent art works; and which way your speakers point. Please consult SOOP map which will be explained to you when you do your final licensing at [email protected]
As it happens, our crafty Creative team have knocked together a helpful PDF that provides you with lots of helpful tips that will assist you in making the best decisions when it comes to your planned fundraiser. Grab the Fundraising Guide here, read it, and share it with your Collective crew members.
Good luck with your fundraising! Get creative, and think out of the box – there are loads of ways to raise funds. You’re resourceful – make it happen!
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