Registration & Costs

We are aware that it is a privilege to be able to afford events like this, and try to keep all costs as low as we can while still staying loyal to our needs and what we consider necessary to make it a great event.
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 covers your sleeping spot, food, and our other house costs like the seminar rooms, team rooms etc.
It is to be paid as soon as we confirm your registration.
Sleeping options are (total amount per person):

Room of 4 - 334 €
(most rooms are of 4, so please consider this option)
Room of 6 - 334 €
Seminar room (bringing your own blanket/sleeping bag & sheets, putting away your stuff during daytime as the room will be used, shared with up to 10 people) - 274 €
Your bus/car (remember, it’s winter) - 274 €
Your tent (remember, it’s winter) - 274 €
Outside the venue in a different place of your own choice (still have to pay) - 274 €

YOUR EVENT FEE

Covers all other costs like material, team travel costs, prints, sauna rental, insurance etc. as well as the main orga team's work + other team members' compensations.

It is to be paid when you arrive at the event.

Our range for your event fee is

300 - 110 €

depending on how much you want to and can afford.

You may consider these 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,...
→ 260-330 €

2. middle:
keeping an eye on my cash but also able to breath, I can go out to eat, have holiday trips that cost money, buy stuff here and there, I have savings,...
→ 190-250 €

3. low:
strict calculations on what I can afford each month, empty bank account, cheap everyday life, coming to such an event is quite a luxury,...
→ 110-180 €

DISCOUNTS

We cannot offer discounts on the house fees, but we are somewhat flexible on our event fee.

We especially consider discounts for Black, Indigenous & People of Colour (BiPoC), and also other marginalized or disadvantaged people like trans people, queers, single parents, people with disabilities or chronic illnesses etc.

If the lower end of our event fee range is still too much for you, please let us now in your registration or contact us directly, and we will see what we can do and 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.

PANDORA is open for all ethnic groups, nationalities, skin colours, all genders and sexual orientations, all abilities.
You can come as single, couple, polycule or any other constellation.

In our past events, many participants came through our team members’ friends & acquaintances, or people that have been attending our events before and liked it, many from Cologne or Leipzig.

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... -

also in many cases we don’t know what people’s “real life” looks like as we don’t ask much about it and it often happens that you would be dancing, talking, laughing, crying with people at our events and not even ever know any hard facts about them.

BIPOC
(Black, Indigenous,
and People of Color)

We especially invite BIPoC, as we would love to increase their presence!

Recognizing the societal disadvantages that BIPoC are facing compared to white people, due to systemic racism, we are offering discounts for them.

Please mention it in your registration or contact us, if this is relevant for you.

If you experience any incidents of racism or face challenges related to race or migration history (even if unintended), our team is there to support you. We are not specifically trained in anti-racism etc., but self-educated (to different degrees) and aware of the issue. We will take you seriously and are willing to learn & support.

We are in research on what else could help for more diversity in our crowds - send us your critiques, thoughts & ideas, and invite all BiPoC people that you can think of!
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QUEERS

LGBTG+ yey!!

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

We are striving towards a non-hetero- & cis-normative guidance of all elements of the event,

and we love to get feedback and learn more.

If you experience any incidents of queer-/transphobia or face challenges related to gender (even if unintended), our team is there to support you. We are not specifically trained about this, but self-educated (to different degrees) and aware of the issue. We will take you seriously and we are very willing to support.

AGE

You need to be at least 18.

In the last years at our events, the majority of people was about 20-45 years old, with a big part somewhere in the 30s, and a few people usually around 50 and 60 years old.

In a few cases in the past, some people who were significantly above the average age have found it difficult to connect or find partners for intimate exercises.
Age may not have been the reason they had these difficulties connecting - there are all kinds of aspecs that influence how easy or hard we get into 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.

By that we admit that we are not open to all people and opinions -

we hope that with this attitude we can increase acceptance and equality of discriminated people, if that makes sense.