Theme Camp Applications for Nest 2025 are opening on 12th January!
Theme camp registrations are opening along with the ticket sale on 12th January and will be closing on 16th March.
We're excited for all the possibilities of theme camps at Nest 2025! We are looking forward to welcoming many returning camps, as well as exciting new camps and communities!
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Our beloved community circle is preparing a for you to have a great experience running a theme camp at Burning Nest.
If you prefer something more interactive, don't you worry! We are planning some sessions to share info, answer questions, and help the pre-event planning go smoothly. Keep checking the newsletter and our website to stay updated.
Looking for inspiration? Nostalgia? Check out some of the Theme Camps that filled the Glade in past years.
Buildy McBuildFace
Calling all left-thumbed people, beginner friendly, no skillz required. Noe speling neaded eyether! Are you into building stuff? Do you WANT to be into building stuff? How about improvements, like to your self-esteem? Come join us! \n\nBuildy is an excessively inclusive camp of folkx who build up ourselves and each other by working together making the most ridiculous and the amazing things we can. We're an irreverent group of neurospicy misfits who have more tools than is good for us and terrible attention spans! We intend to eventually to finish this section with something better...\n\nWe pride ourselves on bringing some reasonably acceptable doubt to the integrity of this event by pushing various limits of the communal hallucination which is Nest. You cannot appreciate your Burn until it has been fucked.\n\nThis year our wide array of wacky projects range from solar powered metal casting, to theatrical disobedience and over the top tunes. Did we mention that we’re also adding an unconventional sound system ripped from the devil’s own cloaca?
Calling all left-thumbed people, beginner friendly, no skillz required. Noe speling neaded eyether! Are you into building stuff? Do you WANT to be into building stuff? How about improvements, like to your self-esteem? Come join us!
Buildy is an excessively inclusive camp of folkx who build up ourselves and each other by working together making the most ridiculous and the amazing things we can. We're an irreverent group of neurospicy misfits who have more tools than is good for us and terrible attention spans! We intend to eventually to finish this section with something better...
We pride ourselves on bringing some reasonably acceptable doubt to the integrity of this event by pushing various limits of the communal hallucination which is Nest. You cannot appreciate your Burn until it has been fucked.
This year our wide array of wacky projects range from solar powered metal casting, to theatrical disobedience and over the top tunes. Did we mention that we’re also adding an unconventional sound system ripped from the devil’s own cloaca?
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Camp Costume Camp
Camp Costume Camp
Camp Costume Camp will be bringing hundreds of costumes and a makeup station to set up a fashion hub in the lush green fields! Packed the wrong things for the entire marvel you are faced with at Nest? Come and see us and we’ll find you something wonderfully unsuitable!
Camp Crumpet
Come to Crumpet for the banging tunes .... or just the banging.
Camp Crumpet will be playing excellent music and burning twinkly lights Wednesday to Sunday night. Nothing is compulsory, everything is permitted as long as it's not bothering anyone else; all welcome for the dancing, chilling and play.
We will be running workshops and performances during the daytime , so check our notice board for timings.
As always, we work hard to ensure a safe and inclusive space for all visitors wanting to engage in consensual play and intimacy, especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Our trained camp members are on hand whenever the play space is open to ensure everyone's consent is being respected.
Camp Cream Teas(e)
We will be providing traditional English Cream Teas 4x during the event, at pop-up locations. Vegan and gluten free options available.
CreaTiPitea
CreaTiPitea is all about making things without a specific goal. Creative immediacy. All Nestlings may wander into the camp and use the materials that we provide. E.g paper and pencils, markers, wood, boxes of previously discarded bits of plastic. We’ll have tools, tape and glue guns, fabric etc. available. We will start a communal art piece that everyone can add to. But anyone may also make their own thing.\n\nWe’ll make chai tea (without black tea) for everyone to enjoy as well. \nA sub theme of the camp is to have unofficial conversations and for us to practice listening and hearing. We are interested in people’s beliefs about creativity but conversations are not limited to any subject. We simply love meeting new people.\n\nFor now it’s just our family (your friendly Amsterdam crew) and our 5 meter tipi, but we are open to include other Nestlings in our camp. Especially the outsiders of the outsiders, the Newbies the quirckie ones not yet part of anywhere else. We’ll happily scoop you up.CreaTiPitea is all about making things without a specific goal. Creative immediacy. All Nestlings may wander into the camp and use the materials that we provide. E.g paper and pencils, markers, wood, boxes of previously discarded bits of plastic. We’ll have tools, tape and glue guns, fabric etc. available. We will start a communal art piece that everyone can add to. But anyone may also make their own thing.
We’ll make chai tea (without black tea) for everyone to enjoy as well.
A sub theme of the camp is to have unofficial conversations and for us to practice listening and hearing. We are interested in people’s beliefs about creativity but conversations are not limited to any subject. We simply love meeting new people.
For now it’s just our family (your friendly Amsterdam crew) and our 5 meter tipi, but we are open to include other Nestlings in our camp. Especially the outsiders of the outsiders, the Newbies the quirckie ones not yet part of anywhere else. We’ll happily scoop you up.
Deadly White Shade
"My favourite camp at Nest. I was transported to a land of sharks and bunting with the most beautifully decorated bell tent for crafts and sing-a-longs. A well stocked bar and fire side chats. They throw The Ambassador's reception in my honour (I should possibly show my face this year)".
(I received no payment for this review) - The Ambassador
F.U.K.C (Free Use Kitchen Camp)
Free Use Kitchen Camp (FUKC) is a camp at Burning Nest that offers a clean, organised, well-equipped kitchen for Nestlings - and especially first-timers and free campers.
Our aim is to create a welcoming, sociable space where Nestlings can come together, cook together, get to know each other, share food, recipes and resources and reduce our collective consumption.
Support FUKC by donating to their Crowdfunder HERE
Flim Flam
The ground beneath your feet rumbles; the hedgerows shake and quiver; something cosmic stirs underfoot...and some bloomin' nuisance has been at my bins! Deep within the Earth, an unexplored world of carnivalling creatures and cosmic critters awaits you. Dress in your finest cosmic creations, or adorn yourself in your earthiest attire; and come prepared to impress, or face the consequences. A daytime comfortable chillout space; a night time supernova of disco dancing, carnivalistic cavorting and animalistic tomfoolery! .The ground beneath your feet rumbles; the hedgerows shake and quiver; something cosmic stirs underfoot...and some bloomin' nuisance has been at my bins! Deep within the Earth, an unexplored world of carnivalling creatures and cosmic critters awaits you. Dress in your finest cosmic creations, or adorn yourself in your earthiest attire; and come prepared to impress, or face the consequences. A daytime comfortable chillout space; a night time supernova of disco dancing, carnivalistic cavorting and animalistic tomfoolery!
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Hot Mess
Hot Mess is the place to play with fire. From dusk, see flames dance in time to music, rake patterns in flaming sand or lie down and let yourself be mesmerised by the rolling curls and whorls of our upside-down fire. Hot Mess is the place to play with fire. From dusk, see flames dance in time to music, rake patterns in flaming sand or lie down and let yourself be mesmerised by the rolling curls and whorls of our upside-down fire.
The magic shack is a family friendly chill space offering games activities and a space to escape the hustle with a brew and a chin wag. But that's not all, this year we will be bringing our crystal maze inspired exhibition through time and inviting you to join us in our build mission to bring it to life.
Panravia
Welcome to Panravia, your home away from home. A cosy spot where you can put your feet up and relax with your fellow travelers. \n\nYou are invited to join us to deepen your connection to yourself and to others. From our daily tea service and nightly fires, to frequent cuddle puddles and workshops exploring conscious connection - we create a friendly space to chill, unwind and recharge.. Welcome to Panravia, your home away from home. A cosy spot where you can put your feet up and relax with your fellow travelers./p>
You are invited to join us to deepen your connection to yourself and to others. From our daily tea service and nightly fires, to frequent cuddle puddles and workshops exploring conscious connection - we create a friendly space to chill, unwind and recharge.
Apply to run a workshop with Panravia HERE
Pampers Campers
"Pampers Campers" have a proud history of making shit happen since our foundation in 2020. Whether its Dust storms in the desert, rain in Wales - we are resolute, even when shit happens, we turn it on adversity on its head, improving, adapting, and overcoming! We shit you not. Pampering Burners is our ethos. We hold Burner Principles close to our heart, including gifting. Come find us, as we offer breakfasts on certain days from 11-12 and if the Bearded Dragon (Evan Games) is awake, a free bar too.
Psychedellyfish
Home is where the dome is <3 We're back again for a good old-fashioned jelly throw-down*. Come one, come all, for a tentacle-twitching good time with the Psychedellyfish swarm. Expect wobbly tunes, a wonky dancefloor, and bewitchingly good hippy-trap lighting. If you’re lucky (and we have the sand dollars) we might even run a bar too. Available for daytime workshops.
*and if you're extra lucky, more jelly-wrestling.
Wanna play music or run an event in the Jelly Dome this year? Apply HERE by April 12th.
Email psychedellyfish@gmail.com for all enquiries.
Sober Camp
A camp for people free of alcohol and other substance induced altered states.
Splish Splash Camp
Enjoy the (hopefully warm) water in this community shower space!
themecamps@burningnest.co.uk
Things on Strings
We celebrate all things with string. Shibari, spinning, crafts, and we put some things on string that you might not expect. Join the cosmic dance of poi, their orbs tracing celestial paths through the night sky. Explore the interconnectedness of the universe through the sensory journey of rope bondage. Connect with unknown others through the giving or receiving of gifts suspended in time and space (...aka hanging on strings). "Things on Strings" invites you to weave your part in this celestial tapestry.
Ted Camp
Ted Camp is a tent full of teddy bears where the magic happens. Join us! Open to everyone - children & inner children. Family-friendly in the daytime, discover what shenaningans the bears get up to at night... As well as our basecamp tent, look out for Ted Camp pop-ups with teddy bears & interactive activities. Come and hang out, take a ted on adventures, and adopt one to take the magic home. Ted Camp is a tent full of teddy bears where the magic happens. Join us! Open to everyone - children & inner children. Family-friendly in the daytime, discover what shenaningans the bears get up to at night... As well as our basecamp tent, look out for Ted Camp pop-ups with teddy bears & interactive activities. Come and hang out, take a ted on adventures, and adopt one to take the magic home.
The Antiquarian Speakeasy
Ye Olde Curiosite Shoppe in the Glade. A hangout space for connoisseurs of conversation at the legendary Speakeasy Bar. Astound and amaze yourself browsing through ephemera of bygone eras in the Antiquarian library. And sundry other loveliness featuring Coffee, Wordle, food and drink tastings, random dancing and general nestling engagement services.
The Flamin' Merkin
The Flamin' Merkin has been improving the Margarita-to-dust ratio since 2013. We create a space** where the more interaction and silliness - and tequila - the better! Traditionally, we gift large quantities of top-quality Margaritas during our traditional happy hour* every day, and the rest of the time serve assorted boozeyness (bring a bottle to donate if you’d like), philosophical conversation, serious ridiculousness and new friends. This year we're adding DJ sets a a few more sub-frequencies to dance to under the Merkin sails.
*tends to never be just the hour...
**beware of surprise takeovers!!Facebook Group
The Forest of Wild Love
A mysterious, beautiful glade where you'll find a safe and soberish space to explore love and connection in all their forms. We are passionate about embodiment, sacred intimacy and conscious relating. A perfect camp for anyone who likes a gentle, loving vibe in quiet surroundings.
The Forest of Wild Love is here to offer yoga, ecstatic dance, massage, authentic relating, both circles and circling, meditation, breathwork, cuddle puddles, ceremonies & rituals, conscious touch & sacred sexuality workshops, temple nights, play fighting, primal play, sound healing, and much more.
Vice Camp
Vice camp was born over a decadent Tuesday campfire with steak and red wine. We're all about the good things in life, in a low key, chilled way. And showers. Showers are important.
This is our first year as an official camp, and we're bringing workshops, cuddle/chill space, and daytime delectable delights to free camping.
