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.
Day Passes
We do not offer day passes for this event. Singing Alive is a ceremonial space and container meant to be held together for the duration. Although people are free to come and go as they please, we encourage people to come and stay.
Participants are free to come and go as they please from noon Thursday through Monday evening. We leave it open to each individual how much time they can set aside to be present. Our price is intended to be generous for those staying the duration, yet still reasonable for those just passing through.
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 Singing Alive LLC.
Please respect 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.
Singing Alive or Plants enChant may publish images and recordings online for learning and entertainment purposes. Please do not share songs with licensing conflicts.
Entry
Bring your ticket and matching photo ID.
Everyone needs their own ticket in their own name, and photo ID to match.
Teens using the teen ticket will also need age verification and to arrive with their parent
The ‘Us vs Them’ Mind-set
The ‘us vs them’ mind-set is pervasive in mainstream culture and media. We are all to degrees conditioned by its tendencies to blame, shame, and guilt trip, to turn the endless drama-triangles of perpetrator, victim, and rescuer.
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 creates resistance. We become empowered by owning our co-creative role in the world as we experience it.
This event is alive with songs that soften the heart, that can help resolve this mind-set in the crucible of compassion for ourselves and others. If you are feeling phlegmy with ‘us vs themy’, seek out song remedies, and voice them with harmonies. We strive to keep the event well stocked with the appropriate song supplies.
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! 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 Holy Smoker’s Temple
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, you agree to do so. If for any reason you are asked by designated ‘peace tenders’ or administrators of this event to leave the premises, you agree to do so.
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 Singing Alive
We consider Singing Alive 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.