Safe space policies and guidelines for Festivals

Safe space policies and guidelines for Festivals

In 2023, we facilitated the establishment of a Safe Zone at Volkano Festival in Rwanda, as part of a broader effort to promote safer, more inclusive, and more responsible cultural spaces. The initiative emerged from a simple but urgent observation: festivals and nightlife venues are spaces of freedom, celebration, and creativity, but they can also reproduce forms of harassment, discrimination, and gender-based violence that too often remain minimized, normalized, or unaddressed.