Carodeni is a gathering inspired by the Burning Man community and its principles.
Use them as a starting point. When in doubt, trust your judgment and do what feels right.
Radical Inclusion
Anyone may be a part of Carodeni. We welcome and respect the stranger.
No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
Gifting
Carodení is devoted to acts of gift giving. The value of a gift is unconditional. Gifting does not contemplate a return or an exchange for something of equal value.
Decommodification
In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising. We stand ready to protect our culture from such exploitation.
We resist the substitution of consumption for participatory experience.
Radical
Self-reliance
Carodeni encourages the individual
to discover, exercise and rely on their inner resources.
Radical
Self-expression
Radical self-expression arises from the unique gifts of the individual. No one other than the individual or a collaborating group can determine its content. It is offered as a gift to others. In this spirit, the giver should respect the rights and liberties of the recipient.
Communal Effort
Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. We strive to produce, promote and protect social networks, public spaces, works of art, and methods of communication that support such interaction.
Civic Responsibility
We value civil society. Community members who organize events should assume responsibility for public welfare and endeavor to communicate civic responsibilities to participants. They are encouraged to take local, state and federal laws into account when planning events.
Leaving No Trace
Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.
Participation
Our community is committed to a radically participatory ethic. We believe that transformative change, whether in the individual or in society, can occur only through the medium of deeply personal participation. We achieve being through doing. Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play. We make the world real through actions that open the heart.
Immediacy
Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience. We are here and now.
Consent
Consent is essential to how we connect and coexist. Always ask first and respect the answer. Consent must be clear, informed, and can be withdrawn at any time. This applies to touch, intimacy, gifts, food, and photography.
Past consent does not equal future consent. Taking a photo is not permission to share it. When in doubt, ask.
Each One Teach One
As a self-reliant community, we believe the responsibility of spreading our culture lies with each and every one of us. All of us are custodians of our culture — when the opportunity presents itself, we pass knowledge on.