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last day irreverente festival 2025

CONDUCT

CODE OF

The IRREVERENTE Code of Conduct exists to guarantee a safe, welcoming, and respectful space for everyone involved in the festival — staff, participants, guests, and the public.

 

We are committed to well-being, dialogue, empathy, and mutual respect, without any form of discrimination or oppression. Everyone is responsible for caring for the relationships and spaces we share.

 

At IRREVERENTE:

 

  • We respect all identities and expressions;

  • We care about the physical and emotional well-being of all people;

  • We practice dialogue, listening, and solidarity;

  • We value inclusive language, the correct use of pronouns, and respect for individual choices.

  • We do not tolerate hate speech, harassment, discrimination, or oppressive behavior.
     

We operate on a horizontal hierarchy, where no one is more or less important than anyone else, and care is a collective responsibility.

 

In situations of conflict or complaint, IRREVERENTE is committed to welcoming, mediating, and intervening whenever necessary, guaranteeing the protection of the affected person and applying measures appropriate to the seriousness of the situation.

 

We have a Trusted Person (to be designated at the beginning of each edition of the festival), available to welcome and support any request, respecting the limits, experience and well-being of each person.

About the use of Social Media:

  • It's polite to ask permission to photograph or film someone before doing so and posting on social media: if there are other people in your image, it doesn't just belong to you;

  • Capture images of shows and artwork only when authorized and check the identification of the names of groups and artists (it is elegant to write the names and titles correctly or as they are identified on social networks);

  • Marking the Festival is more than encouraged: @irreverenteimpro (instagram and facebook) 

Specifications regarding Training Activities:

  • We advise you to arrive at the activity spaces a little earlier so that the activity can start at the time and for the moment of meeting and fraternization that precedes it;

  • We encourage you to open a space for sharing the limitations that may pose a risk to the physical and/or emotional health (whether topics, issues, or bodily positions) of the people involved. This sharing can be private with the person responsible for the activity, with punctual partner people in the activities, and/or with the whole class;

  • Be aware of how you are on that day for that activity: respecting yourself is an act of generosity even towards other people;

  • Attend with availability and good energy, festivals are intense, the party is good and for it to continue we have to take care of ourselves.

  • The training space is not a therapy space and the teaching staff are not therapists, but we do not ignore the power of art in touching us and opening doors that might destabilize us. Ask for help to get out of the punctual situation and seek professional help: mental and emotional health are extremely important;

  • Saying "Yes, and" in improvisation does not invalidate consent;

  • Assume the best and for that very reason pronounce on something that bothers you, if you feel the need to do so;

  • Diversify the people you work with in the exercises (if that doesn't compromise the class proposal);

  • Drink water! Tip: Take your water bottle and if you see someone drinking water, use this as a reminder to drink water too.

Specifications regarding Artistic Activities:

  • Respect the arrival, start and end times of activities so that the organization can flow and other people are not harmed in their working time;

  • Check with yourself and the group, when appropriate, how they are doing that day for that activity: respecting yourself and other people is revolutionary;

  • If any discriminatory or offensive topic appears in your improvisation, take it on: it has already appeared, take responsibility and use art as a platform for transformation. We will be on your side in community if you allow yourself to do so.

Specifications regarding the Get Together Activities:

  • Lots of people, from many places in a city new to most: to be on the safe side, keep someone with your whereabouts information;

  • Nobody has to take care of anybody, but as a community we take care of ourselves, respecting each person's adult and sober decisions.

  • Drink up, people! And drink water too! And eat! Eat, because the food of Portugal is worth as much as the wine… and the beer… the ginginha… the sangria… and the orange juice from the Algarve!

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