Chapter 1.1 - Overview & Basics
Nothing you entirely expected.
Art, dance, music, participative performance, healing, challenges, gifts, spaces, games, parades, stories, song, mutant vehicles, collaborations, relaxation and old and new friends.
Whether you're coming for the first time or the latest of many times no sight or sound or experience will be entirely the same from year to year.
You'll find traditions. Watching the sunset and sunrise from Cave Rock, our Temple and Effigy Burns, our Welcome Home from our Greeters and hundreds of others small and large traditions that started on a whimsy and continue with affection.
You'll find art works. If you post photos of the art in Social Media please take the time to acknowledge the artist's name - you can find their details in the WTF Guide.
Unless you are invited to do so by the Artist, don't touch, climb on, decorate or remove any part of their Artwork.
The largest piece of Art - the Blazing Swan Effigy - is traditionally burnt on the Saturday evening following a spectacular fire twirling performance and fireworks display.
Blazing Swan volunteers and the Fire Brigade will maintain a strict boundary around the fire and let people know when it is safe to approach.
You'll find the Temple. It's a quiet and beautiful space for reflection and remembering. Everyone is welcome to leave a message or a memento that will, with the Temple, be burned to ash on the Sunday evening during a silent ceremony.
Blazing Swan volunteers and the Fire Brigade will maintain a strict boundary around the fire and let people know when it is safe to approach.
You'll meet Theme Camps, or even be part of one - groups of participants with a common vision who have joined together in the spirit of COMMUNAL EFFORT to bring their gift to the Event.
You'll meet our volunteers, and you may become one, who give their time to make many of the things around you possible. Most of all you'll meet people like and unlike you you've never met before. Some - we know - will become life-long friends.
You will find extremes of weather - hot and cold, dust and flooding, gale force winds, iron-hard ground and mud. It's a rare Event that we don't have them all.
You'll find a beautiful country and vistas. You can climb the rocks within the Event site, but please keep to the existing paths and don't disturb any vegetation or rocks or collect any firewood off the ground. Even the seemingly bare rock surfaces are home to a rich micro-flora and fauna that is unique to these outcrops.
Driving and camping in any of the bushland adjacent to the Event site is absolutely forbidden.
Tread softly on this ground, it's a special place.
