Post by Admin on May 13, 2019 7:33:31 GMT
Burner virgin? This means ’I have never been to this or similar events before’.
The term ’burner’ stems from Burning Man. The world’s largest participatory festival, gathering around 80 000 people in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
So what is a participatory event? At such an event you buy a ticket (or when hosted at Kinäs Kloster, register+make a donation or your choice). This is your admittance to the place in itself. However, at a participatory event there is no ’artist’ and no ’audience’. No one is the designated person there to amuse you. You are there to create something remarkable together. Just this fact, that people are all there to enjoy and explore what other’s are ’gifting’ makes for a wonderful shift in attitude and vibe compared to any other form of festival. It truly is magical!
For this to work, the whole thing rests on a few (10) principles, that makes the whole experience better, more memorable and genuine for everyone.
We strongly suggest that you familiarise yourself with these principles:
www.kinaskloster.se/service/10principles/
Everyone is equally important in creating the content, bringing music, hosting workshops, helping out in co-creating ideas with others or simply bringing your best and most curious self to help create a mood of trust, curiosity, and generosity of spirit.
At Kinäs Kloster this means that if no one pitches in you will find two 19th century buildings. One barn that used to house dairy cows (Ladugården) and one first used as a grain storage building (Magasinet). What will they be filled with? Nothing much. So you need to make sure that you help out co-creating the event of your dreams or perhaps of your collective unconscious.
There is no food or drinks sold. You even need to bring your own drinking water.
No money changes hands for any other purpose either. You may however give people something, or many things, without the expentancy of any quid pro quo.
You will need to sort out how to get there (car is the only option, so search for one in our ride sharing thread:
kinaskloster.boards.net/thread/6/opening-cirlce-ridesharing if you don’t have one, or offer someone a ride there if you do).
You will need to bring a tent to stay in.
You get it, right? You bring exactly what you need in order to make the experience precisely how you want it to be!
Even smaller burns/participatory event have 100+ attendees. At Kinäs Kloster, we have decided to keep things small. Between 20-60 people. But that also means that you can’t just show up and hope that someone will have thought about your ideas. You need to make sure that you have what you need to take good care of yourself.
Another important aspect of co-creating such an event is: It’s a do-ocracy! We don’t tell other people their ideas are bad because they don’t line up with what we want to do. If we have a different idea - we make that one happen as well! Live and let live! Create and create more!
MOOP - matter out of place.
A part of making the experience nice is that you are also mindful to make sure that if you bring stuff, you also bring them with you when you leave. That goes for LED-lights as well as burrito wrapping paper. Things like LED-lights etc can be left behind if you talk to Jonatan (aka father superior) about gifting it to the monastery.
One exception to this is if you’ve gotten the go ahead to make a permanent installation of some sort, then that doesn’t have to be torn down, but can live on for burners and monastery pilgrims for years to come.
Privacy and photos.
In order to make people relax and be comfortable enough to explore all good things that the events and the space has to offer, photographing others is not allowed unless you ask them and get consent. The rule of thumb is: What happens at the monastery stays at the monastery.
Even if you do get consent, make sure you know where you are allowed to post pictures or not (for instance someone may consent to having their picture taken for personal use but does not consent to publishing it in social media). Treat each other with respect and this will all be fine!
Most burns have some kind of share of the tickets allotted to ’art grants’. That is, a pot of gold from which you can get reimbursements for the costs (or part of it) for realising your workshop/art project/etc. At the monastery we have not yet done this, because of the tiny budget we already operate on, so the donations have gone to things that need upkeep. Hopefully in the future we will have both donations sufficient for upkeep and art grants.
Anything else or specific to a certain event, just look in the threads concerning that event!
We hope you will have a truly wonderous time at Kinäs Kloster!
The term ’burner’ stems from Burning Man. The world’s largest participatory festival, gathering around 80 000 people in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
So what is a participatory event? At such an event you buy a ticket (or when hosted at Kinäs Kloster, register+make a donation or your choice). This is your admittance to the place in itself. However, at a participatory event there is no ’artist’ and no ’audience’. No one is the designated person there to amuse you. You are there to create something remarkable together. Just this fact, that people are all there to enjoy and explore what other’s are ’gifting’ makes for a wonderful shift in attitude and vibe compared to any other form of festival. It truly is magical!
For this to work, the whole thing rests on a few (10) principles, that makes the whole experience better, more memorable and genuine for everyone.
We strongly suggest that you familiarise yourself with these principles:
www.kinaskloster.se/service/10principles/
Everyone is equally important in creating the content, bringing music, hosting workshops, helping out in co-creating ideas with others or simply bringing your best and most curious self to help create a mood of trust, curiosity, and generosity of spirit.
At Kinäs Kloster this means that if no one pitches in you will find two 19th century buildings. One barn that used to house dairy cows (Ladugården) and one first used as a grain storage building (Magasinet). What will they be filled with? Nothing much. So you need to make sure that you help out co-creating the event of your dreams or perhaps of your collective unconscious.
There is no food or drinks sold. You even need to bring your own drinking water.
No money changes hands for any other purpose either. You may however give people something, or many things, without the expentancy of any quid pro quo.
You will need to sort out how to get there (car is the only option, so search for one in our ride sharing thread:
kinaskloster.boards.net/thread/6/opening-cirlce-ridesharing if you don’t have one, or offer someone a ride there if you do).
You will need to bring a tent to stay in.
You get it, right? You bring exactly what you need in order to make the experience precisely how you want it to be!
Even smaller burns/participatory event have 100+ attendees. At Kinäs Kloster, we have decided to keep things small. Between 20-60 people. But that also means that you can’t just show up and hope that someone will have thought about your ideas. You need to make sure that you have what you need to take good care of yourself.
Another important aspect of co-creating such an event is: It’s a do-ocracy! We don’t tell other people their ideas are bad because they don’t line up with what we want to do. If we have a different idea - we make that one happen as well! Live and let live! Create and create more!
MOOP - matter out of place.
A part of making the experience nice is that you are also mindful to make sure that if you bring stuff, you also bring them with you when you leave. That goes for LED-lights as well as burrito wrapping paper. Things like LED-lights etc can be left behind if you talk to Jonatan (aka father superior) about gifting it to the monastery.
One exception to this is if you’ve gotten the go ahead to make a permanent installation of some sort, then that doesn’t have to be torn down, but can live on for burners and monastery pilgrims for years to come.
Privacy and photos.
In order to make people relax and be comfortable enough to explore all good things that the events and the space has to offer, photographing others is not allowed unless you ask them and get consent. The rule of thumb is: What happens at the monastery stays at the monastery.
Even if you do get consent, make sure you know where you are allowed to post pictures or not (for instance someone may consent to having their picture taken for personal use but does not consent to publishing it in social media). Treat each other with respect and this will all be fine!
Most burns have some kind of share of the tickets allotted to ’art grants’. That is, a pot of gold from which you can get reimbursements for the costs (or part of it) for realising your workshop/art project/etc. At the monastery we have not yet done this, because of the tiny budget we already operate on, so the donations have gone to things that need upkeep. Hopefully in the future we will have both donations sufficient for upkeep and art grants.
Anything else or specific to a certain event, just look in the threads concerning that event!
We hope you will have a truly wonderous time at Kinäs Kloster!