Burning Seed 2022(23)

The 10 Principles of Burning Man

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Burning Man co-founder Larry Harvey wrote the 10 Principles in 2004 as guidelines for the newly-formed Regional Network. They were crafted not as a dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the community’s ethos and culture as it had organically developed since the event’s inception.

Radical Inclusion

Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.

Gifting

Burning Man is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.

Decommodification

In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation. We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.

Radical Self-reliance Burning Man encourages the individual to discover, exercise and rely on their inner resources.

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Radical Self-expression

Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.

Communal Effort

Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.

Civic Responsibility

We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They must also assume responsibility for conducting events in accordance with local, state and federal laws.

Leaving No Trace

Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.

Participation

Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.

Immediacy

Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

Burning SeedTERMS & CONDITIONSTICKET PURCHASE & ENTRY

This ticket is sold subject to Red Earth City Pty Ltd – ABN 72 141 969 226 (Burning Seed, Us, We) and any third party vendor’s ‘Terms and Conditions’ of sale which are available for review at the time of purchase.

By purchasing a ticket, including using the ticket transfer process, or attending the Burn, you agree to abide by these ‘Terms and Conditions’ and all Burning Seed policies.

The ‘Terms and Conditions’ of sale, entry and participants’ presence at Burning Seed (the “Burn”) include but are not limited to the following:

1) PolicyCode of ConductFire and safety policyKids policyLeave No Trace policyPhotography, film, and media policy.

2) Tickets and RefundsEvery participant in attendance at the Burn is required to hold a valid ticket, who are understood to be a Ticket Holder.As a participant, a change in your personal circumstances meaning you cannot, or choose not to attend, does not entitle you to a refund. Our Covid policy, see below, is an exception to this.In the event of a mass outbreak of covid, medical emergency, epidemiological or environmental situation of risk or any other force majeure (uncontrollable events), Burning Seed reserves the right to cancel the Burn event during the Burn or at any time prior to the start of the Burn.Notwithstanding the above, Burning Seed will provide a refund to participants in the event of cancellation, subject to conditions. If a refund is able to be made to participants in the event of a cancellation, the timing of such a refund will be after all necessary processes have been followed, which may take several months. Burning Seed makes no guarantee on the timing of any refund.Fees are non refundable.By purchasing a ticket to the Burn, you agree and acknowledge that you can afford to purchase that ticket and such a purchase will not cause a financial hardship to you or your family, whether the Burn proceeds or not.Participants will be asked to show photo identification along with their ticket upon entry to the Burn. The name on the ticket must match the photo ID of the person attending the Burn.Tickets may not be resold above face value. If a ticket is resold then ownership must be transferred to the purchaser using the ticket transfer system provided by our ticketing vendor, Quicket. Once the transfer is complete the original ticket will not be valid for entry to the Burn. Burning Seed reserves the right to cancel any ticket which has been sold above face value.On arrival at the Burn, participants will be given a wristband which must be worn for the duration of the event. A person at the Burn without a wristband will be presumed not to hold a valid ticket and may be asked to leave.Lost, stolen, or damaged tickets will not be replaced.Tickets are revocable licences that may be revoked by Burning Seed for any reason including, without limitation, resale for above face value, purchasing more than stated limits, assisting others with unauthorised or un-ticketed entry to the Burn, breach of these Terms and Conditions, or conduct deemed by Burning Seed to be unacceptable or likely to cause harm to any other individual.Burning Seed reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute any elements of the program or vary the advertised Burn’s ticket prices or patron capacity.

3) Access to areasTickets only provide access to areas which are indicated by signage at the Burn.Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied to the Burn by a ticket-holding parent or legal guardian.Parents and/or legal guardians of children under the age of 16 are responsible for those children and must provide adequate supervision at all times.Participants must observe Burning Seed’s arrival and departure times from the site. General Admission will be no earlier than midday Wednesday 22nd March 2023 and must be vacated by midday Tuesday 28th March 2023. Check online closer to the Burn date for any updates or changes to these times.Participants must follow the direction of all Rangers and lead community organisers at all times.Community standards of behaviour are expected and persons deemed to be behaving in a manner that is dangerous or unacceptable will be refused admission and/or removed from the site.Participants must not enter the perimeter established around any of the burns. Persons who cross the perimeter may be subject to civil and/or criminal prosecution and could be forcefully removed for their own safety.Participants must not swim, bathe in, or enter any dams, creeks, or waterways in, or in the vicinity of, the Burn site.The following items are prohibited on the Burn site: illegal substances, firearms, dogs or pets (assistance animals excepted).

4) Carers and Assistance AnimalsIn keeping with the principle of Radical Inclusion, participants at the Burn who require the assistance of an approved carer (being a person who provides personal care, support, and assistance to another individual who needs it because that other individual is a person with disability, who holds a NSW Companion Card or equivalent) or an assistance animal (as defined by the Companion Animals Act 1998 (NSW)) may be accompanied by their bona fide carer or assistance animal as required.Every person at the Burn is required to hold a valid ticket and comply with all terms and conditions and policies, whether they are a volunteer, carer, or otherwise. If you require the assistance of an approved carer in order to attend the Burn, please contact [email protected] to make enquiries about carer tickets.Because pets are not permitted, if you require your assistance animal with you in order to attend the Burn, we ask that you register your assistance animal by sending an email to [email protected] so that we can plan with you for your arrival and notify gate staff of your attendance with an assistance animal.We warn all participants that a Burn often incorporates unforgiving physical environments for humans and animals alike. Inclement weather, fire, loud noises, crowds, and flashing lights are all common. If any of these would be too uncomfortable or pose a risk to either you or your service animal we ask that you carefully consider that as you decide whether to participate, with or without your assistance animal.If you bring an assistance animal to the Burn, you are required to ensure:a) the animal does not pose a risk or threat to any other person at the Burn;b) the health and safety of that animal at all times;c) the animal is in your control, or the control of a person known to you, at all times, which generally requires that the animal be on a leash or harness, or in an appropriate enclosure.

5) Acceptance of risk and waiver of liabilityPurchase of a ticket and/or entrance to the Burn indicates acceptance of the following warning and waiver of liability: The property you will enter is a place where recreational services and activities are provided, where you are further warned and advised that Burning Seed and/or the land it is staged on is an inherently dangerous place that may contain all manner of obstacles, risks, and dangers, both known and unknown, natural and man made which may result in loss or damage to your property, personal injury, or even death. Knowing this to be the case you voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death, or damage to property, if you choose to come onto the property and do so at your own risk, waiving and foregoing any rights to make claims for losses and injuries.YOU KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL RISK OF PROPERTY LOSS, PERSONAL INJURY, SERIOUS INJURY, OR DEATH, WHICH MAY OCCUR BY ATTENDING THE BURN AND HEREBY FOREVER RELEASE, DISCHARGE, AND HOLD HARMLESS RED EARTH CITY PTY LTD, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, VOLUNTEERS, AGENTS, AND ASSIGNEES FROM ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM SUCH RISK, EVEN IF IT ARISES FROM THE NEGLIGENCE OF RED EARTH CITY PTY LTD, OR BY THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.You understand that during the Burn, art installations, theme camps, vehicles (including but not limited to ‘mutant vehicles’ and ‘art cars’), events, and performances will be held and/or on display and you understand that most of these activities are not owned or operated by Red Earth City Pty Ltd, and YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS OF LOSS, INJURY, OR DEATH ARISING FROM THEIR OPERATION AND FROM PARTICIPATION IN ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES, AND THE RELEASE IN PART 5) Acceptance of risk and waiver of liability - Paragraph 2 APPLIES TO ANY LOSS OR INJURY YOU MIGHT SUSTAIN RELATING TO YOUR PARTICIPATION IN ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES.You understand that some participants at the Burn may engage in expressive activity and dress, which may include partial nudity or nudity, and other types of expressive activity. You agree that such expressive activity and dress is not indecent nor offensive to you, and that you have decided to attend the Burn with full knowledge that such expressive activity and dress may occur. If you are accompanied by minors at the Burn, you acknowledge that you have made a choice that the minors may be exposed to the expressive activities and dress that take place at the Burn, and that you have exercised parental responsibility and control in bringing the minors to the Burn. Should you find that any activity at the Burn is offensive to you, or to any minors accompanying you, then you acknowledge that you can avoid such activity by, among other things, leaving the vicinity of the activity or leaving the Burn.You understand and acknowledge that people are using film, video, and photographic cameras at the Burn, and that your image may be captured on film, video, or photographs that may subsequently be displayed or disseminated without your consent or payment of compensation to you, and you release Red Earth City Pty Ltd from any liability due to such capturing, display, or dissemination.

6) Unacceptable conductIf your conduct is deemed by the Red Earth City Pty Ltd Board, its Burning Seed Town Council, and/or its Site Co-ordinator(s) (organisers) to be unacceptable or dangerous and you are refused access or asked to leave the Burn, you must leave the site immediately.The laws of New South Wales and Australia apply at all times, and Police have access to the site at their own discretion. The Police may be called by organisers or Rangers if it is deemed necessary to deal with any participant whose conduct is dangerous or unacceptable.Burning Seed reserves the right to take whatever measures it considers reasonable and necessary to protect its interests and the safety of participants in the Burn, including but not limited to keeping written, photographed, and/or videographed records relating to individuals being refused access or asked to leave the Burn. You consent to being photographed and/or videographed in the event that you are asked to leave the Burn.

7) COVID-19If you have any symptoms generally associated with Covid, or test positive for Covid within 7 days of the event, you may not attend the event. Those symptoms are listed here. We retain the right to refuse entry to people who do show symptoms.In the event you do not attend because you have Covid or any other communicable disease, your ticket will be refunded if you show appropriate evidence. Appropriate evidence includes a letter/certificate from a doctor or chemist or registration of a positive rapid antigen test. Other forms of evidence may be accepted at our discretion.In relation to Covid, Burning Seed will act in accordance with health regulations issued by New South Wales Health at all times. These may change over time. While vaccinations and/or masks are not currently required, this may change and if it does, we will comply.Burning Seed may choose to implement Covid related health measures over and above those required by law.Individual Theme Camps or other venues within Burning Seed may choose to do so also.Participants must follow the Covid rules in place at the time in any particular venue or location including the use of common spaces and hygiene, prevention and control protocols generally.We will make rapid antigen tests available at the event and any participant with symptoms of Covid should obtain and administer a test.If a participant tests positive for Covid at the venue they must tell us. That person will be offered a safe and professional place for isolation and quarantine until they can leave the Burn venue.If they do not wish to utilise that space for isolation and quarantine, they must leave the Burn venue.The “acceptance of risk and waiver of liability” set out above applies to all matters relating to Covid.

8) GeneralReading the Survival Guide is mandatory for all first time attendees, and furthermore being familiar with the Survival Guide is required for all participants at the Burn.I understand that these Terms and Conditions may be changed by Burning Seed prior to the Burn, and if so, the revised Terms and Conditions will apply to me. The most current version can be found on the Burning Seed website at: https://www.burningseed.com/ticket-terms-and-conditions. My use of a ticket or other entry credential for entry to the Burn signifies my binding agreement to the Terms and Conditions in effect at the time of my entry to the Burn.

Unconditional refund of ticket purchasing price should the event be cancelled for any reason whatsoever!

Burning Seed has contingencies in place to endeavour to provide a refund to ticket holders in the event of cancellation, subject to conditions.

If a refund is able to be made to ticket holders in the event of a cancellation, the timing of such a refund will be after all necessary processes have been followed, which may take several months. Burning Seed makes no guarantee on the timing of any refund.