Registration & Costs

Registration for 2027 open since November 4th :)

🫶🏾 30% of our tickets are reserved for BIPoC, until 4 weeks before the event
(BIPoC = Black, Indigenous, Asian & People of Colour - umbrella term for the non-white global majority)

We consider it quite a privilege to be able to afford events like ours, and we try to keep all costs as low as possible, while staying loyal to our values and what we consider necessary to make this event amazing.
Further down you can see a financial insight overview on what your money is spent on.
THE COSTS per person are divided into a house fee & an event fee:

Your HOUSE FEE

Depends on your sleeping option
and is to be paid to the house as soon as we confirm your registration. It covers your sleeping spot, food, and some additional costs like the seminar rooms, team rooms etc.

Sleeping options (total amount per person):

Room of 4 (one of the 4 beds is a mattress on the floor - you can decide with your roommates who sleeps where) - 358 €
Shared double bed in a room of 4 - 358 €
Room of 6 - 358 €
Seminar room with max. 12 people (includes only a mattress - bring your blanket/sleeping bag & sheets, put away your stuff during daytime as the room will be used for workshops) - 289 €
Your car or van (remember, it’s winter) - 289 €
Your caravan (using more than 1 parking space) - 319 €
Your tent (remember, it’s winter) - 289 €
Outside the venue somewhere else (yes, still need to pay this house fee) - 289 €

YOUR EVENT FEE

Is to be paid upon arrival at the event and covers our team's work compensations, team travel costs, material, prints, sauna rental, insurance...

Our range for your event fee is

360 - 100 €

depending on how much you want to and can afford.

You may consider the following categories that we made up:
(things may be different for you than in these examples!)

1. easy:
I usually don't worry about money, I can easily afford several events like this per year with little or no compromising,...
→ 280-360 €

2. middle:
keeping an eye on the cash flow but also able to breath, I can go out to eat, pay things like holidays or buying non-essential stuff here and there, I have savings,...
→ 190-270 €

3. low:
limited in what I can afford each month, empty bank account, cheap everyday life, coming to such an event is quite a luxury,...
→ 100-180 €

SOLIDARITY DISCOUNTS

We cannot offer discounts on the house fees, but we can reduce your event fee.

We especially consider discounts for who face additional barriers in society, for example Black, Indigenous, Asian & People of Colour (BiPoC), trans people, queers, people with disablities or chronic illnesses, single parents, people in poverty, ...

If the lower end of our event fee range is still difficult for you, please feel free to request a discount in your registration or contact us directly, and we will hopefully be able to reduce or skip your event fee.

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PANDORA
CANCELLATION POLICY

If you need to cancel your spot:

I. You can only cancel with us, not through the venue Leuther Mühle
(even though you pay your house fee to them).

II. If we can fill up your spot by our waiting list, we will refund you a part of your house fee (which you paid to Leuther Mühle).
100€ of it will be kept as a cancellation fee.

III. If we can NOT fill up your spot, your full house fee will be kept.
The cancellation policy of Leuther Mühle does not apply to our event.

IV. After the event has started, we can not give you any refunds on the fees.

WHO IS COMING

We will be about 120 people including the team.

We welcome all ethnic groups, nationalities, skin colours, all genders & sexual orientations, all abilities, every kind of body.
You can join as single, couple, polycule, friends or any other constellation.

Usually, many participants are loyal fans who have attended our events before, often many from Cologne or Leipzig, and of course we always have friends & acquaintances of our team members joining.

We would say that we tend to attract open-minded people, some bring a bit of a hippie vibe, some are politically interested, queer activists, massage professionals, musicians, kinky people, vanilla people, people with unusual life styles, people with normal or boring jobs and warm hearts, people who want to break out of inner boxes...

BIPOC
(Black, Indigenous, Asian & People of Color)

umbrella term for all non-white people - the global majority!

BIPoC are warmly welcome!
We recognise that spaces like ours have not always been equally accessible to people from all racial and cultural backgrounds - and we would love to see your presence at our events growing!

To support more participation on a practical level, we reserve 30% of our places for BIPoC.
If these are not filled 4 weeks before the event,
we will release them to the waiting list.
We can not guarantee how many BIPoC will join.

Recognizing the (often unintentional, yet harmful) racism that BIPoC are facing, we also offer solidarity discounts for BIPoC. Request it in your registration.

Good intentions do not prevent harm, and many people bring unconscious assumptions or biases into shared spaces.

If something happens that feels racist, culturally insensitive or otherwise harmful (even if unintended), we want you to feel able to raise this with our team and be heard. While we are not professionally trained, we are self-educated (to different degrees). We are continuing to learn about racism, cultural differences and our own potential blind spots.

We don’t claim to have all the answers, but we are committed to listening (rather than becoming defensive), learning and responding thoughtfully to feedback.

Please feel free to contact us about anything before, during or after the event.

We are interested in your criticsm, thoughts & ideas on what else might interest and comfort more BIPoC to join us - and please invite your BIPoC friends!
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QUEERS

LGBTG+ yey!!

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We are queer-enthusiastic, have a pretty queer team, and explicitly welcome trans, nonbinary, inter, agender, aro/ace, homo and all people in-between.

We're straight-friendly, but avoid hetero- & cis-normative guidance.

And we love to get feedback & learn.

If you experience queer-/transphobia or any challenges related to gender (even if unintended) at our event, our team is there to support you.

We are aware and self-educated about it (to different degrees), and also bring our own experience background.

We will take you seriously and are willing to support (and learn).
Please feel free to contact us about anything before, during or after the event.

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AGE

You need to be at least 18.

Usually, the majority of people is about 25-50 years old, with a big part somewhere in the 30s.

In a few cases in the past, some people who were significantly above the average age have found it difficult to connect.
Age may not have been the reason they had these difficulties - there are many aspects that influence whether and how we get in touch with others, and how welcoming others treat us. (Looks, stereotypes, language, social skills, social rank, aura...)

It is a complex topic - We just want to name this, so that people can decide if they want to be in this space.

POLITICAL
VIEWS

We are not open to political opinions or messages that support racist, sexist, homophobic, violent, ableist or other discriminatory attitudes.
We do not want people at our events who support right-wing ideas.

And yes, that means (we admit) we are not open to all world views and opinions - we prioritise social justice, equality, anti-discrimination, solidarity and many other important qualities, by which we see ourselves in a left political mindset.