Priceless Values & Expectations

Mission

Priceless is a celebration of community. We aim to enrich our lives, the lives of our friends, and the bonds within our community. This is the original core and central aim of Priceless.

Priceless is created by the volunteer Priceless planners, who are members of this community and a team of friends who share ownership and responsibility.

Values are Based on Friendship

Stemming from the goal of celebrating & strengthening community via our shared effort, Priceless has core values based on friendship which have been there since the beginning:

  • Friends don’t boss each other around
  • Friends try to be inclusive
  • Friends do it for the love
  • Friends do their best to follow through

Friends don’t boss each other around
We come together as a community and a group of friends to throw Priceless. We believe that it feels better for friends to come together as equals to collaborate on a shared vision than for one person to tell another what to do. We believe that it feels bad between friends to formalize unequal power dynamics and/or privilege. Between friends, we never want anyone to feel “bossed around.”

Friends try to be inclusive
No one likes to feel left out, and people like to be consulted about decisions that affect them and their community. Our community includes ever-changing people with a wide variety of needs and abilities, in a variety of life stages, from a variety of lived experiences and backgrounds. We seek input from a diversity of voices to make sure our event programming is inclusive for all our attendees, and we work hard to ensure our events provide a welcoming, considerate, and enjoyable experience for everyone.

Friends do it for the love
In a community of friends, you bring the gifts you are able to share with the trust that your friends will reciprocate. Covering costs is one thing (“hey, let’s all chip in for dinner”), but turning it into a transaction with a profit is not as friendly (“I picked up the order, here’s my delivery fee”).

Friends do their best to follow through
We do our best to honor the commitments to Planner friends, and communicate with our friends when Life Events affect those commitments, and the situation needs to be re-assessed.

Frameworks: Consent & Accountability

Everyone who participates in Priceless at any level agrees to abide by our definition of consent and our accountability framework.

Consent
Consent is defined as permission for something to happen or agreement to do something. This is the baseline; that there was a clear agreement before an action took place. Communication, Agreement, Action. This is our definition of consent.

  • Consent means that all people involved must meaningfully agree to the action.
  • Establish consent for each aspect of your interaction. Explicit consent is best.
  • Consenting to one thing does not obligate you to consent to any other thing.
  • Consent can be withdrawn at any time, verbally or nonverbally, even after the activity has started.
  • Current consent does not imply future consent.
  • Consider proactively expressing your boundaries as part of establishing consent with others. Share how you might respond if a boundary is near to, or being, crossed.
  • Disclose your level of intoxication and carefully consider someone else’s level of sobriety when establishing consent with them. If they are too intoxicated, consent may not be possible.
  • Do not base your consent practices on observations of others who might have pre-negotiated consent in ways you have not seen.
  • Create your own rapport with others. If you observe others engaging in an activity, don’t assume that you can join them or that they will do it with you.
  • If you sense a person is uncomfortable: stop to check-in and re-establish consent, or stop entirely if you’re unable to clearly re-establish consent.

Accountability
This accountability framework assumes a shared value in restorative resolution rather than solely punitive retribution.

Priceless participants agree to our consent and accountability framework and understand that consent violations will result in being held accountable in the community, which might include:

  • Feedback or coaching with the intent of helping be a better community participant.
  • Being asked to leave the event, up to and including being temporarily or permanently banned from future or related events.
  • Participating in mediation or restorative justice but only as agreed upon by all involved parties.
  • Allowing event organizers to share any information about the incident and involved parties with other organizers or community members, however they decide is best, in order to help prevent future issues.
  • Event organizers cooperating with law enforcement with the investigation of any allegations of sexual assault and other severe consent violations.

Individual Consent Practices and Accountability Agreement adapted from http://consentframework.org

Legal: Participant Waiver, Release of Liability, and Assumption of Risk

I acknowledge and fully understand that as a participant, I will be engaging in activities that involve risk of serious injury, including permanent disability and death, property loss and severe social and economic losses. These risks include, but are not limited to, those caused by: (a) the actions, inactions, or negligence of the organizers of the Priceless Event, i.e., False Profit Inc and its officers, representatives, volunteers, contractors, and/or affiliates (collectively, “Priceless Festival and FP Inc”) and/or participants in the Event; (b) conditions of the premises or equipment used; (c) rules and regulations regarding the activities; (d) temperature; (e) weather; (f) condition of participants; and (h) vehicular traffic. I further acknowledge and fully understand that there may also be other risks that are not known or foreseeable at this time. I KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL RISK OF PROPERTY LOSS, PERSONAL INJURY, SERIOUS INJURY, OR DEATH, WHICH MAY OCCUR BY ATTENDING THE PRICELESS FESTIVAL EVENT, AND HEREBY FOREVER RELEASE, DISCHARGE, AND HOLD PRICELESS and FP INC HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM SUCH RISK, EVEN IF ARISING FROM THE NEGLIGENCE OF False Profit Inc and Priceless Festival, OR FROM THIRD PARTIES, AND I ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR MY PARTICIPATION.

1. I understand that during the Priceless Festival, art installations, events, and performances will be held and/or on display, and I understand that most of these activities are not owned or operated by Priceless and FP Inc. I ASSUME ALL RISK OF INJURY OR DEATH ARISING FROM THE OPERATION OF AND/OR MY PARTICIPATION IN ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES, AND THE RELEASE IN SECTION 2 APPLIES TO ANY RELATED INJURY I MIGHT SUSTAIN.

2. I, on behalf of myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, hereby waive, release, discharge, and agree not to sue Priceless and FP Inc and other participants, sponsors, and if applicable, owners and lessors of equipment, art installations, and premises used to conduct the Priceless Festival (collectively the “Releasees”), from any and all claims for damages, injuries, losses, liabilities, and expenses that I may have or that may subsequently accrue to me relating to, resulting from, or arising out of my participation in the Priceless Festival, including in any programs, events, art installations, or activities at the Festival, and including any injury or damage to my person or property, or to that of any other person or property. If False Profit Inc and the Priceless Festival Org files a claim against me prior to my filing a claim against them, however, I may file a counterclaim related to the same facts and circumstances. I agree to indemnify, defend, and hold the Releasees harmless from and against any and all claims by third parties for damages, injuries, losses, liabilities, and expenses relating to, resulting from, or arising out of my participation in the Priceless Festival, including in any programs, events, art installations, or activities at the Festival. I intend that the waiver and release of liability contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be construed broadly to provide a release and waiver to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law.

I understand that children under 18 years of age may attend the Event only accompanied by a parent or guardian, and if I bring a minor to the Event, I agree to the contractual terms contained in these Terms and Conditions on behalf of the minor.

I understand that I may be refused entry or evicted from a Priceless Event for public health reasons.