UNBOUND COMMUNITY & CONDUCT GUIDELINES
We believe in the creation and value of raw cultural and community space: places held together less by laws and bureaucracy than by culture, reputation, mutual obligation, shared norms, and people willing to step in. We also acknowledge that if organizers alone are responsible for the safety of a space, the space is significantly less safe.
Strong communities are not conflict-free. People fuck up, hurt each other, repair, fail to repair, and sometimes become incompatible. We ask everyone to wrestle honestly with the difference between conflict, discomfort, and being unsafe.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
Unbound is our cultural art project. We run events and vibes, not accountability processes. Unbound is a mutually held community space, not dissimilar to a club or bar.
Our job is to keep our spaces functional, safe, and fun.
We will:
• Take concerns about safety seriously.
• Support clearly stated boundaries inside our events.
• Investigate incidents that happen inside our spaces.
• Honor applicable restraining orders.
• Step in when behavior becomes threatening, harassing, disruptive, or unsafe.
• Establish behavioral restrictions.
• Ask people to stay away from one another.
• Remove people from roles or events.
• Refuse future participation.
We do not judge interpersonal conflicts, investigate private relationships, or promise perfect outcomes.
Interpersonal harm often happens outside the view of others and becomes a matter of they-said/they-said. If something happens outside our spaces, we probably will not investigate it. You can still tell us about dangerous or concerning behavior. We may use that information to keep an eye out, establish boundaries, or make participation decisions.
We believe a realistic statement of what we can actually do is more valuable than a statement of ideals we cannot achieve.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
We are all responsible for the safety of ourselves and each other at Unbound. Act accordingly, and know that you will be supported when you do.
That means:
• Respect people's boundaries, on and off the dance floor.
• Don't harass, threaten, intimidate, stalk, or repeatedly approach someone who has asked you not to.
• Don't drag escalating interpersonal conflict into our events.
• If you need distance from someone, tell us.
• If we tell you not to approach someone, don't approach them.
• If you see something concerning, say something.
• Don't be a jerk.
We don't decide who was right in your conflict.
If you need help enforcing a boundary inside our event, ask us. If either person violates a boundary we have established, they may be removed. If both people continue engaging in public conflict, we may remove both of you.
The same kind of behavior that gets you bounced from a bar can get you bounced from Unbound.
As of 2027, Unbound is primarily 21+. Anyone under 21 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian unless otherwise stated.
GETTING BOUNCED
We reserve the right to bounce people and refuse service.
Removal and behavioral requirements are case-by-case. You may be:
• Warned.
• Given non-negotiable behavioral requirements.
• Removed from a role.
• Sent home for the night.
• Removed from the event.
• Banned from future events.
How you handle those requests matters.
Turning a request from an Unbound organizer into a prolonged shitshow is a good way to get asked to leave or permanently banned.
STAFF AREN'T EXEMPT
Teachers, volunteers, DJs, performers, contractors, organizers, and staff follow the same rules.
We may remove someone from a role, restrict their participation, send them home, or stop working with them.
WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO GO
You can disagree with us. Tell us what you think we got wrong, give us new information, and tell us what outcome you want. We'll consider it. We will not satisfy everyone. Sometimes conflict is not resolvable. Sometimes people can't share a space.
We exist in a culture where people hurt each other, and we believe learning how to move with that pain and beyond it is valuable. We're aspirational and resilient. Resilience requires friction. We envision a future where we don't avoid conflict, but face it, allowing conflict to show us who we are now and the possibilities of where we want to go.
We believe in the creation and value of raw cultural and community space: places held together less by laws and bureaucracy than by culture, reputation, mutual obligation, shared norms, and people willing to step in. We also acknowledge that if organizers alone are responsible for the safety of a space, the space is significantly less safe.
Strong communities are not conflict-free. People fuck up, hurt each other, repair, fail to repair, and sometimes become incompatible. We ask everyone to wrestle honestly with the difference between conflict, discomfort, and being unsafe.
OUR RESPONSIBILITY
Unbound is our cultural art project. We run events and vibes, not accountability processes. Unbound is a mutually held community space, not dissimilar to a club or bar.
Our job is to keep our spaces functional, safe, and fun.
We will:
• Take concerns about safety seriously.
• Support clearly stated boundaries inside our events.
• Investigate incidents that happen inside our spaces.
• Honor applicable restraining orders.
• Step in when behavior becomes threatening, harassing, disruptive, or unsafe.
• Establish behavioral restrictions.
• Ask people to stay away from one another.
• Remove people from roles or events.
• Refuse future participation.
We do not judge interpersonal conflicts, investigate private relationships, or promise perfect outcomes.
Interpersonal harm often happens outside the view of others and becomes a matter of they-said/they-said. If something happens outside our spaces, we probably will not investigate it. You can still tell us about dangerous or concerning behavior. We may use that information to keep an eye out, establish boundaries, or make participation decisions.
We believe a realistic statement of what we can actually do is more valuable than a statement of ideals we cannot achieve.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
We are all responsible for the safety of ourselves and each other at Unbound. Act accordingly, and know that you will be supported when you do.
That means:
• Respect people's boundaries, on and off the dance floor.
• Don't harass, threaten, intimidate, stalk, or repeatedly approach someone who has asked you not to.
• Don't drag escalating interpersonal conflict into our events.
• If you need distance from someone, tell us.
• If we tell you not to approach someone, don't approach them.
• If you see something concerning, say something.
• Don't be a jerk.
We don't decide who was right in your conflict.
If you need help enforcing a boundary inside our event, ask us. If either person violates a boundary we have established, they may be removed. If both people continue engaging in public conflict, we may remove both of you.
The same kind of behavior that gets you bounced from a bar can get you bounced from Unbound.
As of 2027, Unbound is primarily 21+. Anyone under 21 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian unless otherwise stated.
GETTING BOUNCED
We reserve the right to bounce people and refuse service.
Removal and behavioral requirements are case-by-case. You may be:
• Warned.
• Given non-negotiable behavioral requirements.
• Removed from a role.
• Sent home for the night.
• Removed from the event.
• Banned from future events.
How you handle those requests matters.
Turning a request from an Unbound organizer into a prolonged shitshow is a good way to get asked to leave or permanently banned.
STAFF AREN'T EXEMPT
Teachers, volunteers, DJs, performers, contractors, organizers, and staff follow the same rules.
We may remove someone from a role, restrict their participation, send them home, or stop working with them.
WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO GO
You can disagree with us. Tell us what you think we got wrong, give us new information, and tell us what outcome you want. We'll consider it. We will not satisfy everyone. Sometimes conflict is not resolvable. Sometimes people can't share a space.
We exist in a culture where people hurt each other, and we believe learning how to move with that pain and beyond it is valuable. We're aspirational and resilient. Resilience requires friction. We envision a future where we don't avoid conflict, but face it, allowing conflict to show us who we are now and the possibilities of where we want to go.