
Just a reminder, the second round of art grands is STILL OPEN! You have until March 29th to submit your plan for your masterpiece - all the information you'll need is on the Art Grants page.
Good luck!
Just a reminder, the second round of art grands is STILL OPEN! You have until March 29th to submit your plan for your masterpiece - all the information you'll need is on the Art Grants page.
Good luck!
We’re planning our Site visit for 18th March. The format will be a rendezvous at the site at a very specific time on SUNDAY 18th MARCH – pay attention… early comers will not be allowed on site. Come on hippies, if there’s one thing you’re good at, it’s doing stuff in the afternoon. If you would like to have a little shenanigans and a stay over the night before, you will also need to let us know. Everyone who has expressed interest in attending will be given the full details on confirmation. All are welcome, as ever! Please register your interest via this form if you would like to come, if you would like to join on the Saturday evening and if you need a lift! |
We can now proudly declare, applications for theme camps are open! If you’re planning to grace our primordial wonderland with your theme camps, please fill out the application form. This provides essential information for the core team to undertake all the boring stuff (placement, risk assessment etc.) that brings your vision to life and helps us to promote your camp and to grow the buzz around Nest 2019. You can submit the form once you have filled in the basics, such as contact details, and return to add to it later but we need your complete form by 31st March (that’s a hard deadline hippies!). This is not a licence to be a last-minute merchant either; the earlier you submit, the quicker we can send you important need-to-know information that will help with planning your camp. We have tried to make the form as clear and accessible as possible but if there’s anything you’re not 100% about, please contact our brilliant, tame and domesticated theme camp liaison Nick. |
So we are well into 2019, and Burning Nest is just around the corner. Alas, we are still seeking some truly fabulous and hopefully competent folks to add to our core team. We are nearly there, but there are a few roles available that would make a huge difference to us.
Please take a look at the info below, and if any of them tweak your interest, drop us a line at vols@burningnest.co.uk and we will arrange for a chat and a more detailed explanation of your role;
Department of Public Works
Lighting Lead - a key part of all Nest nights,
Strike Lead - clean up duty and
Transport Lead (for equipment not people).
Arts
Decor and Signage Lead - Let your imagination run riot
Centre Camp Lead - Making sure great stuff happens there
Edge of Chaos (Ops and Legal)
Health and Safety - no further explanation needed surely!?
Burn and Events Perimeter - Safety third?
Cat Wrangling
Fluffing Co-Lead - supporting our very competent Lead to provide an outstanding Fluffing service to our hard working vols, before, during and after event.
Info Lead - A vague idea of having an info station onsite, it's a new one, any inspiration out there?
As we've always said at any of our community events, although experience in the area of your interest would be a bonus, enthusiasm and capability are definitely more important. So if you think you may not be right for something but it really floats your boat, drop us a line and we can chat to you about it, crazier things have happened!
Don't forget, Burning Nest is a community event, we the community make it, so don't be shy, get involved, it takes a village to put this shizzle together, there's a space for everyone.
Drop us a line; vols@burningnest.co.uk
cheers m'dears
Mands & Sarah
(Photo by Nathan Lemon on Unsplash)For those that attended one of the many Decom events in London recently, I hope you had a fab time, connected with both old and new friends, had a shed load of fun and managed to decompress. During Daycom Amanda (Lead Cat Wrangler), Iona (Lead Community Ambassador) and Radiant (Lead Ranger) gave a short chat about Nest to a group of experienced and virginal burners.
We had a lot of feedback about how many of you though 2018 was our best Nest yet (and as of course we had constructive stuff that we are working on too, but lets focus on the fluffy stuff here!). For the core team, we work on Nest though out the year, starting with just a few hours a month and building to ...well... whatever you have time for! Many of the core team have kindly (nuttily) agreed to take on the roles they had last year, however we want to ensure we are giving other community members the opportunity to get involved too, so we think its important to bring in co-leads for each function as a more manageable way to bring people into the organisation. The idea of co-leads is to reduce burnout and build a more capable and inclusive team, the more the merrier. If we are gonna be "Burnier Than Thou", lets also not forget about the brownie points you'd be getting for some of our principles;
participation, self-reliance, communal effort, civic responsibility and hopefully a bit of self expression too.
Arts; lots of help needed here; Decor Lead, Art Project & Grants lead
Community; Ambassador Co Lead
Tech; Co Lead (with design experience)
Cat Wrangling; (Volunteering) Co Lead
Rangering: Co Lead
We would also love some folks that would love to turn both the gate and our fluffing experience into a really wowing experience, what do you think would be amazing and how would you do it? Crazier the better!
As you can see there is a real diversity of roles. So if you think now is the time you wanna step up and give a bit more back to the community, please email vols@burningnest.co.uk. We can have a chat about what you'd like to do and we can point you in the right direction.
Nest is only as good as the effort we ALL put into it, so come on and show us how fab you are!
De-de-der derr-der-derr-de-derrrr!
Waaaah. It's all too much. Too much to think about and prepare!! Let us help you. At this point in the proceedings, there are two key things: What to bring, and where to hang out when you get there! That's what this Nest News is all about.Contents for this week
The Nest at the End of the Tunnel!
Weeeellll, you can tell we’re merely weeks away, can’t you? [err, that’s 6 weeks, Siren, not 10 – J]. Everyone is getting super excited and all the facebook and engagement action going on is just making us all beside ourselves!!! The number of New Nestlings (or Newlings, if you will!) is incredible and we’re all so looking forward to welcoming you all to our Glade! So, a LOT to cover in this one. Pay close attention!Contents for this week
Cabinicious!!
Theme Cabin reggo opened a couple of weeks ago and we are quite overwhelmed by the amazing response. So far we have 10 cabins signed up and a few more to come. The story so far:We’re updating the Theme Cabin page on the Nest Website over the next couple of days.
You can also find lots of info for each on the Facebook Group, so do head there to hook yourself up!Community
Pump Up the Vols!
Ahhhhh... Can you believe we are but weeks away?! It's going to be here before you know it. As ever there are lots of little logistical things that we're going be asking of you in the coming weeks and especially giving you more and more opportunity to get involved. Remember, at Nest there are only participants. There are no observers. We don't sit on the sidelines. Even the shyest of Nestlings are no wall flowers. We all get involved. And if you aren't already contributing directly to the event, here's your chance!! Newlings, Oldies and everyone in between. All are welcome to share their gifts. Now, you might be noticing a theme over the last few editions of Nest News and that is intentional. We want yo to see and experience the amount of work, the detail that goes in to the magic - all year round - gifted to you all by our Core Team. it's not the fairies who come and do it for you. Setting up our Home, in our Glade ready for you all to arrive and Nest the heck out of Spring takes a very lot of effort. Last week we heard from our lovely Edge of Chaos Leader, Sam. This week we have Amanda Connolly, our Chief Cat Herder to impart how you can get more involved! And if you haven't yet signed up for membership, remember we are limiting Memberships this year. if you want one, you need to get it NOW!Contents for this week
CHAOS!! (or not)
Hello my lovelies, and welcome to the sunshine! Aren't we all glad it's back? We've got a special comms from our Edge of Chaos leader Sam today, but a couple of things here before you go... Now, because of the Health and Safety aspect to Nest on our new site we are limiting Memberships this year. And now, we only have 130 left!!! if you haven't got yours, you need to get it NOW! Starting with the Edge of Chaos team below, we are also starting to ramp up for Volunteering, so if there's something you would like to do, or want to find out more, you can via the website. And that's it from your Siren. I'll hand over to Sam! Remember if you misplace this email, you can find everything on the Nest News page of the Nest website. We also stay in touch through the Burning Nest Facebook group. Contents for this week