FIBER Festival 2024
Code of Conduct

Within all our festivals and events we try to create a safe, welcoming, diverse and inclusive space for everyone. We want to offer a festival where we bring together people of diverse identities, backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We consistently work towards making our festival and events as inclusive and safe for everyone, including our programme. We expect an open attitude, regardless of origin, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and age. We urge everyone to be considerate of others. We reserve the right to remove people from the festival who do not adhere to the Code of Conduct. We are following the Berlin Code of Conduct, with additional focus on specific areas.

Educating ourselves is crucial for being inclusive and safe. We are therefore always open for new suggestions to promote improvement and to ensure that our artists and visitors feel safe and welcome. We try our best to make sure we learn from any feedback, incidents or mistakes.  

We follow a zero tolerance policy: no racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, cissexist, ableist or otherwise oppressive behaviour is allowed, casual or explicit. This includes any harmful language, behaviour, or action toward anyone. We take extra care of creating a safe and accommodating space for the needs of people of colour, trans folks and people in need of more physical or cognitive support. We won't tolerate any harassment.

Harassment includes:

  • Physical contact without consent or after a request to stop

  • Threats of violence

  • Deliberate intimidation

  • Stalking or following

  • Unwanted photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes

  • Deliberate misgendering

  • Unwelcome sexual attention

  • Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others

  • Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease

In case of unsafe feelings, spiteful behaviour or violence (both verbal and physical), please contact our staff or volunteers. We will act accordingly. If you see a violation or have any other concerns, please contact the staff at the info counters of our location. At Garage Noord, incidents will be handled by the team of Garage Noord.

In case the violator is on the festival team (crew or volunteers), they will recuse themselves from handling your incident and will be investigated further by the rest of the team. We will respond as promptly as we can.

If you have any suggestions on how we could improve, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via press@fiber-space.nl