• Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • The Sun sets over Tankwa Town
  • Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • Tankwa Town flaming by night
  • Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • A Not-so-Royal Wedding Gathering in Tankwa Town
  • Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • The San Clan before Burning
  • Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • The Hand of God
  • Tickets for AfrikaBurn 2012 will be available from Wednesday 25 Jan 12PM
  • The Vuvuzela Art Car
Get ready for Tankwa Town 2012!

AfrikaBurn is the spectacular result of the creative expression of a community of volunteers who, once a year, gather in the Tankwa Karoo to create a temporary city of art, theme camps, costume, music and performance!

Our website has gone to the forge to get ready for AfrikaBurn 2012. Until then here are the latest announcements.

AfrikaBurn 2012 Art Theme
The Art Theme for 2012 is M I R A G E

The Art Theme for 2012 is M I R A G E~ a naturally occuring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce an illusion of water, people or objects.

What is there? What is real? And what is pure imagination? Is this a mirror of ourselves? A shimmering reflection. Temporary, transient.

We gather on that lively line where the hot earth meets an aloof sky, and this is where we dance, sing, rejoice. But come quick, for if you wait too long, by the time you get there, we may be gone.

The Ten Guiding Principles

“Our intention is to generate a society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society”

~ Burning ManlineExplore The Guiding Principles

Ladies and gents your brand new forum awaits!

Name Our New Forum!

If there's anything you'd like to say, a conversation you want to initiate or a topic you feel requires a spotlight, feel free to make your voice heard by joining our new forum.

Registrations are OPEN until 28 February 2012

Get Your Creative Grant!

AfrikaBurn is an art event, a blank canvas of Karoo gravel on which a fantasy is created by its participants. Anything’s possible in Tankwa Town - all you have to do is make it happen!