FestiVets

Three ways in

Pick a door. One search box is not discovery.

241 entries is a lot to hand somebody cold — especially somebody at their first one. Come in by where you are, by what kind of thing it is, or by a shortlist.

By region

Where you'd drive from.

By what it is

A burn is not a festival, and we don't file it as one.

By the shortlist

Three we'd vouch for, for three different kinds of person.

On site

Weather and road alerts, while you're out there

National Weather Service first, then road and gate conditions. Free during an active event, for everybody, member or not — you don't paywall a lightning warning.

Sample feed · not live yetShown so you can see the shape of it

Sample · 14:20 local

Dust advisory — sustained 30 mph

Goggles and a real mask, not a bandana. Visibility on the open playa dropping fast.

Sample · 16:05 local

Gate road holding — one lane

Two-hour queue at the turn-off. Water in the car, not in the trailer.

Sample · 19:40 local

Lightning within 10 mi

Get off the art. Metal structures and scaffolding are the wrong place to be right now.

Weather sourced from the National Weather Service. FestiVets publishes safety information — never enforcement-evasion content.

The depth

Survival guides, built event by event

What a veteran of that specific gathering knows: what to pack for that ground, where the water actually is, which gate to trust, what the nights do to the temperature.

Packing delta

Not a generic checklist — what's different about this one. The thing you'd regret not bringing here specifically.

Water, shade, signal

Where the water is, whether there's shade you don't bring yourself, and the cell truth. No festival publishes the cell truth.

Gate, entry, re-entry

When to arrive, which line moves, and whether you can leave and come back — the answer that decides your whole grocery plan.

Right arm, left arm

Kandi has a rule: what's on your right arm is open to trade, what's on your left is yours. It's a good privacy model, so we took it.

Right arm · open

Shareable

Events you're happy to hand to someone else. Shareable link, visible on your profile, giftable one at a time.

Left arm · kept

Private

Events you're tracking for yourself. Never shown, never counted, never in a leaderboard. Leaderboards are the opposite of the point.

Burn guides are free. Always. Decommodification is the culture and we're not going to be the ones who sell it back.

Where the money goes

The Extras Fund

Rule eight of trading kandi is that you make extras — more than you need — so you have something for the person who turned up with nothing. That rule is the whole business model, so we named the fund after it rather than after a slogan.

Half of every subscription dollar. Gross, before costs.

Not "half of profits" — profit is a number we could define our way out of. Gross subscription revenue, before hosting, before labour, before tax. It's the only version of this promise that you can hold us to.

50%of gross subscription revenue · anticipated rate

$0.00collected into the fund to date · payments are not live yet

$0.00distributed to date

Mar 1 2027first grant round opens

Who it's for. Small, regional, volunteer-run and first-year events — the ones a directory usually ignores because they're too small to matter commercially. Sanctioned regional burns are explicitly eligible.
What it can't buy. Not salaries, not artist fees, not marketing. Materials, safety infrastructure, accessibility, and permits.
Ask for 40–60% of your budget. The fund is a co-funder, not a patron. An ask for 100% gets declined.
Paid 70% up front, 30% on completion, against receipts. You shouldn't have to float us.
Being funded never changes a listing. No badge, no boost in the sort order, no editorial favour. A grantee event that dies still gets marked dead.
Every grant is published — name, amount, region, date decided, date paid — the day it's decided, not in an annual round-up.

What we can honestly say today: the rate is a published commitment, the first round has a date, and both balances above are real — they are zero because subscriptions have not launched. We will not put an impact number on this page until there is one. If a figure here ever reads --.--, that means we don't track it, not that it's zero.

What it costs

We cut the prices, on purpose

The old ladder was built to maximise what we took. This one is built so the fund has something to give away and you can still afford to be in it. The listings stay free forever; no ads, no sponsored rows, no paid placement.

Per event

$1.11

One gathering's full survival guide. Yours permanently, including next year's edition of it.

Season · monthly

$5.55 /mo

was $11.11

Every guide, every alert, the members' wing of the Wiki. Cancel whenever — we won't make you hunt for the button.

The year

$55.55

was $111.11

Twelve months, one payment. For people who are out most weekends between April and October.

Make extras

$11.11 /mo

The same season pass — and the extra $5.56 goes to the fund at 100%, on top of the half we already send. For people who can carry a little more.

The $1,111.11 lifetime tier is retired. It was the most extractive thing on the page and it didn't belong here.

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The house rules

Four words we didn't write and don't own

Where it comes from, accurately: "Peace Love Unity" came out of Frankie Bones' Brooklyn Storm Rave scene around 1990 — his brother Adam X painted it on a train car on the Fourth of July that year, and Bones ran it for years as Peace Love Unity Movement. The fourth word, Respect, was added later by other people, largely on the early rave internet, and Bones and others still disagree about exactly who added it and when. We're telling you that because the version where one man invented a four-letter creed is tidier and less true.

Peace

Statuses are printed exactly as we found them. We don't fight with producers about it and we don't take payment to change one.

Love

Burn guides are free forever. Weather and road alerts are free during an active event, for everyone, member or not.

Unity

Small and first-year events get the same listing quality as the ones with a marketing budget — and they're the ones the fund exists for.

Respect

Dead events stay listed so nobody drives to a locked gate. Community-contributed knowledge is never resold or syndicated.

One thing we will never do

We will never trademark PLUR, or any part of it. A promoter currently has a live application in for the word at the US trademark office; we think that's the wrong instinct, and the way to disagree with it is to say out loud that we won't. It isn't ours. It isn't theirs either.

And a category note, because it matters: PLUR is an American EDM-scene term. Burns run on their own principles — decommodification, gifting, radical inclusion — and much of the underground doesn't use the word at all. We don't label a burn "PLUR", and we won't apply one scene's language to another's event.