FreezerBurn Texas is a Central Texas winter regional arts event and community experiment. FreezerBurn 2027: Whimsymaximalist Mayhem will be held on Jan. 15-18 at Valkyrie Ranch in Paige.
September 29th Update: Dates, Theme, Tickets 📆❤️🔥🎟️
Let’s do this thing! 🤸
We’re gearing up for FreezerBurn 2027! 🧑🔧🧰
Where: Valkyrie Ranch, Paige, TX.
When: It will end on Monday, Jan 18th. It could start on Thursday, Jan 14th, giving us another night to camp with our friends. Read on for details.
This year, we want to open the gates on Thursday (Jan 14th) at 2 PM. More fun for all! However, it is not a done deal. Accomplishing this will require volunteers to step up earlier, volunteers to fill shifts earlier, volunteers to fill shifts later in the event, etc. So talk to your leads or snag volunteer shifts ASAP if you want to help make this happen. More updates to follow.
Another change this year is that we all have to GTFO by 2 PM on Monday. Yep, that’s earlier in the day. Site Ops people, you know, your friends who are volunteering in these roles, need to get home too, and they can’t go until the last of us are gone. So we all need to be sure to be gone by the new deadline.
Hypothermia for this cycle will be Dec 4th through 6th ☃️🦺
Mark your calendars: this is a valuable and fun event. You can even sign up to attend and/or present here.
What’s Hypothermia, you ask? It’s a place to get to know fellow FreezerBurners. It’s a place to get new skills. It’s how you can up your volunteering game. It’s a place to have fun in the evening, camping with friends, new and old.
If that’s not enough to whet your appetite, there’s more! Wally’s Cowboy Kitchen will be cooking for us. If you’ve had Wally’s cooking, you already know how good it is; if you haven’t, you’ll learn. 😋
Head start on Art, including Culinary Art 🧑🎨🧑🎤🧑🍳
The Art Intake Form is open! You’ve always wanted to build the effigy for a Burn? Your idea is super cool but of a different scale or would work best back in the woods? It all starts with submitting a proposal for consideration, so take that first step! Don’t sleep on this; all proposals must be submitted by Nov 7th!
We have a theme for the year! It is: Whimsymaximalist Mayhem 🥇
In a world where minimalism runs rampant and expression is stymied by the fear of being “cringe,” a new wave of Whimsy has taken over the frosty playa! Playfully poking fun at the serious nature of suits and ties, Whimsymaximalist Mayhem breaks out at FreezerBurn 2027!
The opportunities to lampoon seriousness are seriously unlimited!
Tickets! Tickets! Step right up, one and all! Get yer tickets here! 🎪
(Y’all, a new law came into effect; we have to list prices this way. 🫣)
Available NOW:
Art tickets:
$154.78 ($125 ticket + $25 art fund donation + $4.78 processing fees)
$206.28 ($125 ticket + $75 art fund donation + $6.28 processing fees)
$309.26 ($125 ticket + $175 art fund donation + $9.26 processing fees)
RV Pass: $26.05 ($25 + $1.05 processing fees)
Tickets for minors ($62.04; ages 5-17) and children (free; ages 0-4) are available; see ticketing page for details on how to get them.
On sale Oct 7th:
Economy: $77.54 ($75 + $2.54 processing fees)
General: $129.04 ($125 + $4.04 processing fees)
For more information and a link to the purchasing website, go to FreezerBurn Tickets.
September 23rd Update: New Location! (for the Town Hall) 🚐
If there is one constant in burning, it is change and we have one for you!
The pavilion we have used for Town Hall for years has been damaged, so we are moving locations to the Pavillion in Patterson Neighborhood Park.
Link for those who like GPS navigation.
The rest remains the same.…
When: Sunday, September 27, noon to 3pm
Where: In the Pavilion in Patterson Neighborhood Park
FreezerBurn Leadership will be there, ready to chat. You come ready to chat and full of ideas.
Things to cover:
- 🎟️ ticket info
- 🗓️ pre-event dates
- 🎡 help pick a theme
- 🙋🏼 volunteering!
On the day, this happens:
- Start at noon
- Talking on a microphone 📣 around 1pm
- Off-site by 3pm
- All times are tentative and subject to change (Burner time, man!)
How can I participate?
- Present a theme! Suggest a theme here to help us plan. Or just show up with a pitch; it can be as simple or involved as you like. The assembled, in-person group will vote on their favorite options. Yep, you gotta haul your carcass there and stick through the presentations to vote.
- Theme Camps and Art Projects: If you want to table for your group, feel free! BYO table and anything else.
July 12th update: We’re BAAAAACKKKK! Town Hall save-the-date 📆
Since this is FreezerBurn, and we’re talking about the Town Hall it seems there should be a “freezing our halls off” joke to be had but it just hasn’t come to me yet. If you have a good one hit me back, and it’ll go in the next newsletter.
With *that* important business out of the way, on to the show…
Amazingly enough, it will soon be time to kick off this cycle of FreezerBurn and the very first spark happens at the Town Hall.
When: Sunday, September 27, noon to 3pm
Where: In the pavilion in Roy Guerrero Metropolitan Park
Yep, put it on your calendar. 🏃 No, not tomorrow, now, ‘cause something else will come along and demand your attention tomorrow.
FreezerBurn Leadership will be there, ready to chat. You come ready to chat and full of ideas.
Things to cover:
- 🎟️ ticket info
- 🗓️ pre-event dates
- 🎡 help pick a theme
- 🙋🏼 volunteering!
There’ll be an open bar! Ha,ha no. Got you! Really, BYO whatever you want. NO: glass, smoking, fundraising, sales of any sort.
On the day, this happens:
- Start at noon
- Talking on a microphone 📣 around 1pm
- Off-site by 3pm
- All times are tentative and subject to change (Burner time, man!)
Where:
The pavilion in Roy Guerrero Metropolitan Park(This has changed, see the September 23rd post).Exact location: https://goo.gl/maps/fdTyrNrsmaph6cSj9
How can I participate?
- Present a theme! Suggest a theme here to help us plan. Or just show up with a pitch; it can be as simple or involved as you like. The assembled, in-person group will vote on their favorite options. Yep, you gotta haul your carcass there and stick through the presentations to vote.
- Theme Camps and Art Projects: If you want to table for your group, feel free! BYO table and anything else.
Contact us: board@fzbtx.com
Facebook page: FreezerBurn Texas
Key Dates Calendar: FreezerBurn Calendar page
Oh, and if you happen to be looking for the FreezerBurn Alberta, a Canadian Regional Burn: Their website is at http://www.freezerburn.org. We are not associated with that event, but we have common values and names. It’s a small world, after all.