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There are many ways to participate at Kiwiburn. If you are not creating your own theme camp or building an art structure, perhaps you will consider volunteering. Kiwiburn always needs volunteers. If you'd like to volunteer either before, during, or after Kiwiburn please email volunteer@kiwiburn.com with your availability details and areas of interest.

Please note that this is a participant created festival. Everyone contributes, everyone pays.

Unfortunately, Kiwiburn cannot subsidise entry fees in exchange for volunteer work.

Volunteer for the MPW!

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS (MPW)

The Kiwiburn Ministry of Public Works (KB MPW) is the group that plans, surveys, builds, and takes down the basic infrastructure of our temporary community. This will be the first year that the MPW will be in service to the Kiwiburn Community. It will work hand-in-hand with other departments to ensure the site for Kiwiburn 07 is prepared and ready to recieve the participants on arrival.

This includes:

* Marking and maintaining acess roads and walk ways
* Creating and placing signage
* Establishing the gate
* Building and placing spires and community lighting
* Maintaining approved potable water systems
* Building functional/safe shade structures
* Building the Man, Center Camp, the lantern spires, the Gate and entrance to the community
* Surveying road alignments and camp site boundaries, theme camp and artwork locations, signage and border fencing
* Interfacing with staff and outside agency facilities
* Directing potty placement
* Providing portable and stationary electrical power
* Assisting with major art projects
* Provide dust control on the roads via squirty bottles


The MPW Schedule (subject to change at any time)

Pre-Event: We are usually on-site anywhere from 3-4 days before the event to start the setup process. This includes: setting up base and securing venue, supervising mowing of heavily grassed areas, supervising the preparation of the burn site, positioning portable toilets, establish greeters gate, surveying Theme Camp sites and Art Installation positions, and assisting in installing The Man, The Temple and Centre Camp.

During Event: We help ensure the smooth running of the event by having a high visibility to assist participants at all times including security issues in conjunction with the Rangers

Post-Event: We are usually on-site 1-2 days post event to assist with complete pull down of Centre Camp and other installations, supervising the exit of participants in a safe and orderly way, and completing an entire site sweep in compliance with our Leave No Trace environmental principles.

The MPW are heroic, determined, hardworking, responsible, creative, interesting, dedicated, unusual, individuals, working together for extended periods, in dangerous and hostile conditions, toward a common and vital goal.

If you have questions about the building and maintenance of structures onsite, please contact kiwiburn@googlegroups.com. If you'd like to volunteer to do any shifts with the MPW on site either before, during, or after Kiwiburn, or to offer any other volunteer services, please email volunteer@kiwiburn.com with your availability details and areas of interest. Please note that Kiwiburn does not subsidise entry fee tickets in exchange for volunteer work. This is a participant created festival. Everyone contributes, everyone pays.

If you are interested in helping don't hesitate as he who hesitates is lost!

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