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Need help now?

  • Call 1800 424 017 for the NSW Sexual Violence Helpline.
  • Call 000 for fire services, an ambulance, or the police.
  • Speak to a volunteer wearing a yellow volunteer badge at the event.
  • Speak to someone at our registration table at the event.

Report an Incident

Need help?
Injured?
Require medical attention?
Feel threatened?
Want to make us aware of inappropriate behaviour?

Don’t hesitate. Speak to us. Your safety is our priority.

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What happens when you make a report?

  1. We make sure you're ok.
  2. We act to ensure the safety of everyone at our event.
  3. These actions could include:
    • Checking for fires or other immediate dangers
    • Calling 000 immediately to report a fire
    • Warning a reported person
    • Asking a reported person to leave the event
    • Calling the police to have the reported person removed
    • Notifying the police after the event
    • Banning a reported person from future events
  4. We make a report for our own records.

What are you reporting?

Emergencies or unsafe situations, such as fires, accidents, or injuries.

Breaches of our Code of Conduct.
This code outlines our position on sexual harassment, racism and homophobia, and alcohol and drug abuse at our events.

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Tell me more about reports

  • We can accept a report in person, or by email.
  • You can report something you see happening to someone else.
  • You can have a friend make the report for you.
  • We keep copies of reports confidential (we don't tell people what's in a report).
  • We keep reports anonymous (we don't tell anyone the names of the person who made the report, or the people involved in the report).
  • We keep records of reports and incidents so that we can improve our events and processes.

Staying Safe while making reports

Anonymity

  • Anonymity is often very important to people making reports. We will not share your identity when dealing with your report.
  • We can work with a third party who won’t name you, but will act on your behalf (a trusted friend or someone you might not know, but who you trust is also ok).
  • We discourage you from naming (in emails, letters, text messages, social media messages or posts, or letters) people who’ve hurt or frightened you. You or your friend can contact us at first using these methods, and then we can discuss a way forward.
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Protecting our staff

We will protect our staff by keeping them anonymous in the reporting process.

We will choose a time and place to work on reports for our own mental and physial wellbeing.

We will not discuss reports with people who have been reported or accused of a particular action.

Our actions and policies are guided by professional legal advice.

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Our Values

We believe in jazz music and dance.

We believe in the best throw-down, heart-stopping lindy hop, and that every song should be a solid sender that makes you leap to your feet.

We believe that every dancer and musician has a right to working and playing safely.
We believe that happiness is a right.

We do not believe in doing things ‘for the scene’. We are the scene.

We believe in making dance events socially sustainable. That means we can pay our bills, our workplaces are safe, and we don’t burn out.

We plan for the future by remembering the past and caring for each other now.

Jazz music and dance are, and always have been, revolutionary.
We are anti-racist. It’s not enough to just ‘not be racist’.
We are feminist.
We are queer.
We are young and old.

We are community, and we have each other’s back.

You are with us in this. In joining us on the dance floor, or working with us (as a teacher, DJ, musician, sound engineer, volunteer, or staff), you agree to treat all participants with care and respect, and to abide by our Code of Conduct and Safety policy.

More about our values & safety policy