Let’s talk about something that rarely appears in festival communications, yet has an enormous impact on the way we all experience a gathering.
One of the reasons this subject is so rarely addressed is because our scene has always been privileged to grow within a community with a deep sense of social and environmental awareness, a community that naturally understood its boundaries.
These boundaries are not limitations. They are the values that define how we coexist: caring for the land that hosts us, respecting nature, looking after our own hygiene and sanitation, and understanding that the respect we show one another is what allows us to truly feel connected as one.
Times change. People change. Priorities change.
Some values that once felt self-evident can no longer be taken for granted. As organisers, we believe it is our responsibility to lead by example and to remind ourselves of the principles that have always made gatherings like ZNA so special.
Our role will always be to do everything we can to create the safest, most comfortable and most meaningful experience possible in the beautiful, yet demanding, environment we choose to call home.
But in the end, each one of us has the greatest power to shape the experience we all share.
Every action creates a chain reaction.
Sometimes it’s something as simple as choosing to use the toilets instead of nature, using water consciously, respecting the people who work to make this gathering possible, understanding that consent is essential in every human interaction, or simply recognising that not everyone shares the same beliefs, opinions or way of experiencing life. These small individual choices become the collective experience we all take home.
The way we behave can elevate our journey into something truly magical or diminish it for everyone around us.
A gathering like ZNA is built upon mutual respect, care and awareness. Freedom, joy and celebration can only exist when we understand that our freedom ends where another person’s begins.
The wellbeing of our community is something we take very seriously. We continuously observe, learn and evolve not only from what happens within ZNA Land, but also from the experiences of other gatherings around the world.
For this reason, we believe it is important to reaffirm the values and guidelines that continue to make ZNA the unique experience it has always been.
We kindly invite every one of you to carefully read the Useful Information and Policy & Conditions sections on our website before arriving.
Sharing ZNA means understanding that, when we come together, we become something greater than ourselves. We become an ecosystem.
And every ecosystem depends on the care, respect and responsibility of every individual within it.
Thank you for taking the time to read our guidelines and, above all, for helping us protect the spirit, the people and the land that make ZNA Gathering possible.