Shediac, New Brunswick · 1 to 3 October 2027
Buy a ticket or come through the gate and these are the rules you’re agreeing to. They exist so that the rest of it can be as loose as it looks.
1. Getting in
- We can refuse entry to anyone, or ask anyone who breaks these rules to leave, and there’s no refund in it.
- Tickets aren’t for resale. We honour tickets bought from us, or transferred by us.
- Your tag stays on and intact, and it isn’t shared.
- One name each, the one you’ll answer to. Nobody at any gate, fire, or rite asks for a real one, checks one, or writes one down.
2. How we treat each other
- Courtesy to everyone: guests, crews, traders, and performers. The world ended; manners didn’t.
- A costume isn’t consent. Ask before you touch anyone or photograph them close up, and take a no the first time.
- Harassment, threats, and discrimination end a weekend early.
- Anyone too intoxicated to be safe gets walked out, and looked after while it happens.
- Faction play stays play. In-character menace is theatre, and any guest can step out of a scene and have it stop.
- To report anything, find any crew member, or come to the blue tent beside the gate.
3. What to wear
Anything from any ending. Nothing with rude, vulgar, political, or otherwise offensive language or imagery, and no costume that poses as police, fire, paramedics, or security. Full-face masks are welcome and come off once at the ID check, and again if a crew member needs to see who they’re speaking to.
4. Props and gear
- It should look like it survived something and do nothing at all. Masks, goggles, respirators, armour, welded and wired pieces, and anything that glows are all welcome.
- Everything is safed at the Salvage Check: checked, tied or taped, and tagged.
- No working blades of any kind.
- No firearms, and no replica convincing enough to be mistaken for one across a dark field.
- No fuel, no pyrotechnics, no live flame in a guest’s hands. Fire at Afterland is lit and kept by our crews.
- No chainsaws, running or otherwise, and nothing with a motor that leaves the ground.
- A prop used dangerously is confiscated, and its owner may be asked to leave.
5. Not permitted
- Outside food and drink, except baby food, formula, breast milk, and anything needed for medical reasons
- Alcohol, cannabis, and illegal drugs
- Glass containers, except small baby food jars
- Pets, though service animals are welcome
- Drones and remote-controlled toys
- Bicycles, skateboards, kick scooters, rollerblades, and wheeled shoes. Strollers, wagons, wheelchairs, and mobility scooters are welcome.
- Suitcases and oversized bags
- Anything our crews consider harmful, disruptive, or dangerous
6. Bags
We may check any person, bag, or item, at the gate or in the camp. Anything not permitted can go back to your vehicle; we don’t hold things, and anything left unattended is dealt with as we see fit.
7. Drink, smoking, and vaping
- Alcohol is served only to guests 19 and over wearing the tag, and stays in the licensed areas.
- Smoking and vaping are permitted in the designated area only. Near the fires, ask a crew member first.
- Cannabis isn’t permitted anywhere on site.
8. Vehicles and machines
Rat rods, hot rods, and anything else that still turns over are displayed by arrangement, in marked areas, engines off unless a crew member says otherwise. No burnouts, no revving after the sound curfew, and nothing moves while the public is walking through.
9. Weather and closures
Afterland runs in whatever October sends. We may pause a program, or close part or all of the site, in electrical storms, high winds, heavy rain, or other dangerous conditions.
Pauses and closures aren’t refunded. If we cancel the whole festival, we refund the ticket price.
10. Photography and filming
Afterland is photographed and filmed, and we may use images of you to promote our festivals. If you’d rather not appear, tell our photographer. Personal photos are welcome; commercial filming needs our written permission.
11. Risk
The site includes fire performance, open fires, engines and vehicles, combat leagues, loud amplified music, flashing light, smoke, uneven ground, and a great deal of darkness. You attend at your own risk. Stay behind the barriers, keep to the lit routes after dark, and do what the crews ask.
12. The beach, and what we leave
Parlee Beach is a provincial park and we are guests in it. Fires are ours to light and ours to put out, quiet hours are kept, and everything we bring leaves with us. Nothing goes into the dunes, and nothing comes out of them.
13. First aid and lost things
For first aid, or if you’ve lost something or someone, find any crew member or come to the blue tent beside the gate. After the festival, write to us about anything left behind.