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Things to be Aware of

Dog Policy
There will be a few dogs onsite. This is pre-arranged staff support.

Do not bring a pet. Attendees with pets will exited from the event without refund.

ADA service animals actively assisting a disabled participant may be present. Service animals may not interact with other event participants or cause a nuisance, danger, or distraction. Service animals behaving unprofessionally are not permitted at the Gathering and must be removed. Do not interact with service animals, this is a safety issue for the person they are assisting. 

Plant Based 
This is a vegetarian event. No meat in the shared space. If you bring your own meats keep them, and eat them, in your car or tent. Eggs or dairy included with meals will be on the side.

Soy Free
This is a low-soy/soy-free event. Please do not add soy to the kitchen. If you carry your own personal-use soy please keep it labeled, off the tables, and out of the shared food.

Participant Recording
Participants may photo, audio, and video record only in the main meadow and sky lodges. Do not record children, ceremonies, rituals, nudity, or vulnerable personal shares of any kind. Recordings may not be used in the promotion of another event, business, or for-profit project. Do no publicize recordings without written permission from Plants enChant.

Please honor staff requests to cease recording. Failure to cease recording will immediately void the tickets of all associated parties. No refund, credit, or reimbursement of any kind will be issued for voided tickets.

Event Recording
Photography, audio, and video recording by Singing Alive may occur anywhere within the Gathering time and location. Presence at the Gathering implies consent to be recorded, and for those recordings to be used to promote future events, the organization, and related projects.

Plants enChant/Singing Alive may publish images and recordings online for learning and entertainment purposes. Please do not share songs with licensing conflicts.

The ‘Us vs Them’ Mind-set
The ‘us vs them’ mind-set, with its attendant blaming, shaming, and guilting, is pervasive in mainstream culture and media, and we are all to degrees conditioned with it.  However, as the universe eternally and inexorably seeks wholeness, any judgment of others keeps us in a creation-loop with them, gives energy to what we seek to separate from.   When we do not try to change those who do not wish to change, educate those who do not wish to be educated, or ‘pop anyone’s bubble’ that does not want their bubble popped, we are free to put our energies into being the ‘change we wish to see in the world’.  We then become an example to others that invites participation, rather than a disturbance that invites resistance.  This event is alive with songs that soften the heart, that can help resolve this mind-set, with the vibration of compassion for ourselves, and by extension others.   If you are feeling especially phlegmy with ‘us vs themy’, seek remedy with such songs, and seek out such circles.  We strive to keep the event well stocked with them.

States of Undress
Expressions of nudity are not necessarily equated with a loosening of sexual boundaries.   Be conscious with regards to consent.  Please help people feel safe with their personal boundaries.

Profanity
This event is NOT a place to use profanity and engage in abusive language.

Please wash your hands before eating.
On to breakfast / lunch / dinner we go
For the plants are our relations
Here to feed all nations
And when we come to yum yum yum yum
I tell your truly our meal will come
So open up your mouth and receive
The manna from the Almighty
Clean hands and a heart so pure . .

Smoking
Please only smoke in the designated smoking areas.

If asked to cease and desist
If you are told by designated ‘peace tenders’ or administrators of this event to desist from actions that are considered to be disturbing the peace, do so or you may be exited from the event entirely.   If for any reason you are asked by designated ‘peace tenders’ or administrators of this event to leave the premises, do so immediately.

Trash
Pack in, pack out. Leave nothing behind, carry out your own trash rather than depositing it in the kitchen receptacles. Thank you.

The ethos of Plants enChant
We consider Plants enChant as part of a larger culture of Peace.  We hold that Peace in the world can only come thru cultivating Peace within.   We offer this event as a retreat, where one can do the work of self-reflection, of self-understanding, in a supportive community of song enthusiasts.