Episode 20: 2025 Underland Pop! Review (Dylan, Jenny, Lydea, & Sacha)
This episode we review the 2025 Underland Pop! event with a panel of burners from varied experiences. The conversation features host Stevan speaking with four guests - Dylan, Jenny, Sacha, and Lydea - who share their experiences from different roles at the event. The discussion covers Dylan's journey as a first-time burner who designed and built the serpent effigy, Jenny's role leading the Artery art grants program, Sacha's work at Center Camp and civic infrastructure, and Lydea's involvement with gate, sanctuary, and the Toad Hall theme camp. Key themes include the importance of participation and volunteering, the inclusive family-friendly atmosphere with 10% children attendance, the powerful ritual of the temple burn, the growth of theme camps and art installations, and the community's values around consent, radical expression, play, and creative collaboration. The podcast also explores topics like onboarding new burners, future planning considerations including an extra event day, photography etiquette, AI's role in artistic expression, and concludes with gratitude for the volunteers and community members who made the event possible.
Host: Stevan ‘Silent Disco’ Lay
Guests: Dylan Brady, Jenny ‘Red’ Davidson, Lydea ‘Lady Greythorne’, & Sacha ‘Snugfuzz’ Fawkes
Produced by PY Wong & Stevan Lay
Theme music by Will & Kate
2025 Underland: Pop! | 25-29 September | Paradise, Victoria, Australia
Photo: David Chiodo
USEFUL Links:
The Third Degree: https://the3rddegree.org/
Sunburnt Arts: https://sunburntarts.org.au/
Burning Seed: https://www.burningseed.com/
Blazing Swan: https://blazingswan.com.au/
Capital Incendiary Authority: https://capitalincendiaryauthority.org.au/
Modifyre: https://www.modifyre.org/
Aurora Burn: https://auroraburn.org.au/
Common Arts Victoria: https://commonarts.org.au/
Underland: https://underland.au/
Afrikaburn: https://www.afrikaburn.org/
Interstellar Groove: https://www.interstellargroovefestival.com.au/
Timestamps:
[00:00:00] Theme music intro
[00:00:30] Panel intros
[00:04:08] Thoughts on Underland 2025
[00:07:42] Artery
[00:10:49] Effigy build
[00:17:32] Snugfuzz’s origin story
[00:21:16] Urban planning
[00:26:56] Burner voice messages
[00:32:12] Sound camps
[00:35:52] Theme camps
[00:39:59] Naked hippie fire run
[00:44:39] Contrast of effigy and temple
[00:51:03] Burnable art
[00:56:24] Food camps
[00:59:07] New burners
[01:05:39] Burner voice messages
[01:09:59] Onboarding
[01:14:12] Participation
[01:21:44] Civic infrastructure
[01:25:45] Snake effigy
[01:29:24] Extended day
[01:38:42] Burner voice messages
[01:44:03] Future thoughts
[01:53:15] A.I. art
[01:56:52] Shoutouts
[02:00:57] Burner voice messages
[02:09:23] Theme music outro
The information presented in the following audio program is for informational, educational, entertainment, and archival purposes only. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed on the Bonzaar Podcast are solely those of the hosts and the guests and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the entire burner community. Bonzaar Podcast is an independently-produced, volunteer-led, and community-funded project and is not associated or affiliated with the burning man organisation or it's world-wide subsidiaries.
This episode was recorded on 15 January, 2026
