Participate
There is no audience here. You are expected to contribute something: labour, craft, food, music, help, hospitality, or your full attention to someone else's work.
Document 002 · published before anything was asked of anyone
The City Code
Boundaries are not the point of the city. They are the walls that let it hold something. This is the whole of it, in public, before we have taken a dollar, a sculpture, or a year of anyone's life.
Part I · Conduct
What is prohibited, everywhere in the city, without exception.
No public nudity and no sexual activity
Clothing is required in public space. No sexual activity in public or semi-public space. No sexualized interactive programming, camp offerings, workshops, or performances — including work presented as art. Costume, body paint, spectacle and strangeness are welcome within the published standard; "it's art" is not a route around this line.
No illegal drugs
No possession, use, sale, or distribution of illegal drugs anywhere in the city, including inside private camps and vehicles. Prescription medication for the person prescribed it is, obviously, fine. A camp that hosts drug use loses its placement and its grant.
No dangerous intoxication
Alcohol is permitted only where it is lawful, age-controlled, and served responsibly, and only by camps that have agreed to the serving rules in advance. Intoxication that endangers you or anyone else ends your week. This is a safety standard, not a temperance test.
No harassment, coercion, or unwanted contact
No unwanted touching. No pressure, persistence, or "one more question" after someone has disengaged. No obstructing a person who wants to leave a space, a conversation, or a camp. Consent is not a mood in this city; it is the operating condition.
No proselytizing at people who did not ask
From any direction. The founders are Christians and will tell you so if you ask. Nobody — Christian, atheist, or otherwise — gets to corner a stranger and work on them. Conversations about faith are among the best things that happen in places like this, and they happen because both people chose to have them.
No weapons, and no unsafe fire or rigging
No firearms. Fire art, pyrotechnics, aerial rigging, heavy machinery and electrical installations run under a published safety review with named, qualified people signing for them.
Everything you bring, you take
Nothing is left on the ground, including the ground under your camp. This one is enforced with a checklist, an inspection, and a deposit.
Part II · Obligation
What is required of you, which is the more interesting half.
Be a host
If you hold space, you are responsible for what happens inside it and for the safety of whoever wanders in. Hospitality to strangers is the civic virtue of this city.
Tell the truth about what you are
Characters may lie beautifully inside the story. Organizers, camps, and crew do not lie about safety, capacity, risk, or what a person is walking into.
Look after each other
Water, shade, heat, cold, exhaustion. You are expected to notice the person having a bad time and do something about it.
Disagree like an adult
Argument, satire, and offense are part of any real culture. Intimidation, mobbing, and threats are not. The line is conduct, not opinion.
Leave it better
The land, the town nearby, the people who worked the gate at four in the morning. All of it better than you found it.
Part III · How it is actually enforced
Without a morality patrol.
We are not going to inspect your tent, police your relationships, or assign anyone to walk around looking for sin. That would ruin the city faster than anything it prevented.
Who enforcesCamp leads first, trained city crew second, and law enforcement only where the law requires it.
What triggers itConduct that is witnessed or reported — not rumor, belief, appearance, or who you arrived with.
What happensA conversation, then a warning, then removal. Violence, coercion, and sexual misconduct skip straight to removal.
AppealsA named person reviews removals, and camps can appeal grant and placement decisions in writing.
Published afterAn annual account of how many removals happened and why, with no names.
Still open
This document is not finished, and pretending otherwise would be the first violation of it.
Transmission 002 publishes the complete Code with the camp agreement, the serving rules, the safety review process, and the appeals procedure attached.
If you think something here is wrong, unenforceable, or unfair — especially if you have run events and know why — we want that in writing before it is set.
Every rule above costs us something. Some very good artists will not come because of them. We decided we would rather lose those people than lose the thing the rules protect.