🌸 Take Your Time Code of Conduct

💖 Respect & Inclusivity

• Treat all guests, performers, and staff with respect, dignity, and kindness.
• No discrimination, harassment, bullying, or hate of any kind (religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability, appearance, etc.).
• Unwelcome attention, unwanted touching, intimidation, stalking, or harassing photography are not okay.

🎶 Event Integrity

• Don’t disrupt performances or interfere with events unless invited.
• Not everyone wants to dance or mosh — be aware of your surrounding and other people.
• Don’t block aisles, stand on seats, or obstruct others’ views.

🚫 Behaviors We Do Not Tolerate

• Engaging in discrimination, bullying, or hate that harasses, victimizes, degrades, or intimidates an individual or group of individuals based on religion, race, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, ability, physical appearance, or other.
• Engaging in fighting, throwing objects, or other behavior that could endanger others.
• Irresponsible alcohol or cannabis use (no underage possession or use).
• Smoking inside the venue.
• Inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces, communication with another attendee, email, text, or social media.
• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following.
• Harassing photography.
• Unwelcome and uninvited attention or contact.
• Physical assault (including unwelcome touch).
• Real or implied threat of physical harm.
• Real or implied threat of professional or financial damage or harm.

🚷 Denied Entry/Removal

For the safety of our guests, you may be denied entry or removed if you are:

• Intoxicated, or impaired by alcohol or cannabis.
• In possession of or impaired due to illegal substances.
• In possession of alcoholic beverages, recording devices, laser pointers, weapons, unauthorized signs or banners, noise makers, or any other prohibited item as deemed inappropriate by staff.
• Unwanted sexual attention/interactions will not be tolerated.
• Engaged in conduct deemed by our staff to be inappropriate to the good order of events or that may be unsafe.

🌱 Substance Use & Harm Reduction

• If you choose to use, please do so safely: don’t use alone or in bathrooms, start with small amounts, and look out for each other.
• Staff are trained in naloxone and first aid — naloxone kits are available.
• Alert staff immediately if you or a friend show signs of overdose.

📋 Compliance with Rules

• Follow directions from staff.
• Keep clothing, signs, and banners respectful.
• Be aware of your surroundings and considerate of others.

🗣 Reporting and Awareness

• Be aware of your surroundings.
• Report any dangerous situations or violations of the code of conduct to staff or security.
• Contact us at takeurtimeback@gmail.com

A note from Take your time:

Here we like to say, Principles not Rules. Meaning, while we hope not to have to police people's behavior, we are all making a commitment to pursue a very specific mission together.

A mission that absolutely requires that we share a certain set of priorities and intentions. We also know that we need pre-prepared guidelines that allow us to react quickly, and in line with our communities values.

Below are many of the decisions we have already made amongst ourselves, which we encourage you to read. However, what is most important is that you understand why we are here. Which is: to hold a space that is as helpful as possible, for as long as possible.

This mission naturally creates certain common sense priorities.

Some are very straightforward: such as not getting evicted, keeping the space clean and usable, respecting everyone’s boundaries, etc. while others require more active involvement: such as actively combating racism, classism, transphobia, misogyny and all other anti-human ideologies, especially within ourselves.

If you find any of these principles difficult to commit to, we may ask you to reconsider if this is where you want to be. Additionally, if you find that these principles are not reflected in the decisions we have already made, we encourage you to become involved to help us make new ones.