Burning Seed Postponement

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the postponement of Burning Seed 2022.

The short version is that, as we’ve always known, Gate Road would need some heavy machinery repairs to be passable by 2WDs if the wet weather of the past months continued and the constant rain over the last months has made those repairs impossible to do to date.

This has been closely monitored for months, including many site visits. Last Friday, Forestry and the road contractor met on site and formed the view that it would be at least 2 weeks of dry conditions before road maintenance could occur.

This still gives us a small window in which they could be conducted, but that is basically a bet on no further rain and the Bureau of Meteorology doesn’t like that bet.

We don’t want to encounter the access problems seen at other events recently, or for the site to be damaged. Equally, we don’t want to keep people hanging, hoping for a weather miracle, and then have to postpone the event at the last moment.

After hearing the latest news on road improvement works on Friday, we have taken the weekend to discuss amongst Town Council and the Coordinators team, explore alternative options, and understand the implications of our decision. We make this announcement today to give the earliest possible notice to all of Burning Seed’s participants.

We will set a new date for Burning Seed, which is currently looking to be around March or April 2023. In doing this we will take into account other events, particularly other burns, and will do our best not to overlap them. We will also take into account community and ecological aspects of the event and its impact on the forest.

We hope to be able to set this new date within 2 weeks.

The exact process for tickets going forward will be finalised within the week and we expect ticket holders will have the choice of rolling their tickets to the new dates or obtaining a refund. While we finalise that process, STEP will not open this week as originally planned.

We are all sorry it has come to this but believe that it is the best decision with the current conditions.

To all of you who have put so much effort, commitment and love into this, including our coordination team, artists, and hundreds of volunteers, none of this effort has been wasted; we’ll all just enjoy the fruits of it a little later.

Keep burning bright,

Burning Seed Town Council.

Mon 15th Aug 2022