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Hello Microburners,


This month we bring you...

1. Next planning meeting date
2. Core Principle Special
3. A view from the community
4. Low Income Applications
5. Arts Grants Committee
6. Loos, Glorious Loos
7. Dates for your diary (kind of)


1. Next Meeting 


What: Whether you're keen to get involved or prefer to spectate, you're always welcome to join our regular online planning meetings.

When: Monday 29th April 19:30 - 21:00 

Where: Google hangouts - link & agenda will be posted on Facebook Community & Slack.

2. Core Principle Special: Radical Inclusion

The Microburn community was inspired by the original principles written by Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey. We have adapted these principles to how we interpret and engage in them within our much smaller community. One of them is 'Radical Inclusion':

We value the stranger. There are no prerequisites for joining the MicroBurn Community. Anyone may come, dance, sing and play with us.

It is important at the MicroBurn that Inclusion is tied to our other principles. While we welcome all people with open arms, they are responsible for themselves and their actions within our community. There is an understanding of cooperation and participation that we each provide in our own ways when we join the MicroBurn.


3. A view from the community....


“To me, radical inclusion is a big part of the magic at burns. It doesn’t matter who you are in the default world, where you’re from or what you look like – at MicroBurn, every stranger is a potential friend. There are many barriers to overcome to create a fully inclusive burn - but remembering our intention for radical inclusion means that we can always aim to do better. We remember that not everyone is able to participate in all the ways that they would like to and balance the importance of self-reliance with the importance of welcoming people into the community.”

By Tash Bradley, low income tickets and storage lead
 


4. Low Income Applications

On the topic of inclusion...
Do you want to contribute to MicroBurn, but don't know where to start? We need a small team of people to support the low income ticket application procedure, helping make MicroBurn more accessible to those that might not be able to come otherwise. The committee is responsible for looking at each application after it has been anonymised, and deciding whether it meets the criteria to be awarded a low income ticket. The process will open soon so we need reliable volunteers to review each application in a timely manner once the process begins in early May. Please get in touch with the lead, Tash Bradley, as soon as possible through lowincometickets@microburn.org or via Facebook if you're interested in joining the committee.


4. Arts Grants Crew


Our lovely Arts Grants lead will be putting together a small crew of people to discuss and decide on art grant applications and allocations. If you take on the task of being on the committee you'll be part of a group chat on Slack to discuss applications once the deadline for submissions has passed. As a group the arts grants team will decide which projects to give grants to and how much to give each one, using criteria such as how banging the LNT plan is! Get in touch if you’d like to help out <3
 


6. Loos, Glorious Loos

 

"When I became a burner I loved the principal of Leave no trace. To be at an event with 2000 party people and absolutely no rubbish was incredible. But it’s not always as straightforward as I first thought.

If a camp at Borderland create a pizza oven from rocks, soil and sea water at the beach is it MOOP that needs to be ‘dismantled’ after the event? Or is it just matter rearranged that will revert to it’s natural position within a season?

Although you wouldn’t dream of taking a pee behind a barrio at Nowhere, what about behind a yurt at Nest in a field that obviously had animals in it the previous week and it was pouring with rain?

At my first Microburn I realised I wasn’t sure where I could brush my teeth and saw people flicking cigarette ash with the justification that it degrades very quickly and when I tried to find out what we should be doing nobody really seemed to know. Which is why I made up my own rules.

While I’m more than happy to have a cheeky pee in my own garden and I have two dogs who know nothing other than ‘al fresco’, I reasoned that if I was Kevin and Fran, the site owners, I certainly wouldn’t want 175 other buggers doing it!

So I decided to make posters for all the toilets to guide people as to exactly where they could and couldn’t deposit their various personal MOOP. From this grew the idea of pimping all the portaloos so that people would respect and enjoy them - and you certainly did. It made my day when I saw somebody exit the old ladies chintzy toilet on day 2, shake the mat outside and very diligently reposition it ready for the next occupant.

So this year I would really like some help. We will have 6-8 portaloos and and 2 sets of compost toilets. We are looking for teams, pairs, individuals, anyone really, to take on the fabulously fun task of pimping out a bog. There will be a budget available and I do have more theme ideas and some lights, but really, the portaloo is your oyster and new ideas would be amazing.

So please: adopt a toilet! it’s a very easy way to make a lot of Microburners very happy poopers <3"

By Carole Billingham, LNT lead and professional bog-pimper


7. Dates for the Diary


May: Low-income membership applications open

June: Main memberships sale commences!

Exact dates to be announced. Keep an eye on the timeline we're working to here.


Until next time,


MicroBurn HQ

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