Once again; The Borderland opens it's gates for us to fill it with life, love, art, fire, pranks, fun, light, yoga, aliens, interactivity, sculptures, dreams, imagination and anything we can come up with to express.
It is more of a village or a community than a party or festival. It is a space where everyone participates in creating the whole. It is a place to gather a community of Burners. (It is in the process of becoming a official Burn, as in Burning Man)
We are looking in to different possible venues/areas. Do you know a great place for a burn? Let us know
More details will be posted. Also see:
http://theborderland.se/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Borde ... 5104629713
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=270909786283722 (Burning Mingle, friday 11th nov Stockholm)
Welcome to The Borderland 2012!
/Olle Bjerkås, Mathias Gullbrandsson, Isadora wronski & many more.
The Borderland follows the ten principles of Burning Man:
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical Self-reliance
Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on his or her inner resources.
Radical Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.
Pictures from The Borderland 2011:
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