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There will be indoor camping available at the festival, however, this year the indoor camping will be limited to those people who are "members of a university". Just bring a sleeping bag and a roll mat, and sleep in a hall with other festival-goers! This is a small extra cost (£2 for the weekend) on top of tickets.
Sadly our indoor camping venue is a little bit away from campus this year. The indoor camping is at the St Sampsons Centre in the city centre - this is a 40 minute walk or 20 minute bus ride (buses running through the night) from the main venues. We apologise that the indoor camping is not as convenient as normal.
On the positive news there is the option of breakfast at the indoor camping on Saturday morning - please buy the "indoor camping with breakfast" ticket to get tea or coffee with a pastry or bacon sandwich.
The camping venue will have a place to store bags during the day on Saturday and a baggage store room will be available near the main festival venues on Sunday.
For people staying at the indoor camping it will be possible to drop off bags at the venue between 8pm and 9pm to save lugging bags around.
For anyone wanting more luxurious accommodation York has a wealth of hostels, hotels and B&Bs. See the Visit York website or your favourite travel companies to find them. The festival is being held on Campus West, so search for places close to postcode YO10 5DD.
There will be showers available over the weekend. There are lots of showers available at York Sport Centre which will be available on Friday until 10pm and Saturday & Sunday 9am to 7pm, a fee of £2 will be charged by the centre. There are also a few showers around James College near the workshop venues. Remember to bring your own toiletries and towels.
York has regular train services to lots of places around the country. From the railway station there are buses up to every 10 minutes on Routes U1 and U2 until 11:24pm each day (every 20 minutes on Sunday), with night bus UN1 running a similar route overnight until 3:30am. Get off at the University Library bus stop. From the city centre there is also the hourly U3 bus on Friday and Saturday - get off at the Student Centre stop. See the route maps and timetables for more information.
There is car parking around the campus, see the the university information page or the campus map for locations of the car parks. The pay and display car parks are free on evenings and weekends.
The festival is being held in several locations around the Campus West site of the University of York. A full interactive map of the campus can be found here.
The ticket desk and reception is in Vanbrugh College (room V/N/044) and will be open from 6pm until 11pm Friday night (pre-booked tickets can be collected after this from Vanbrugh Dining stewards), 8:30am until midnight on Saturday and 8:30am until 2:30pm on Sunday. The room is in Vanbrugh College's Nucleus on the Ground Floor. This room is accessed via the foyer area next to the food court and vending machines. through the glass door.
York has an elegant naming scheme for the public rooms which can be helpful in working out where a room is.
For instance our ticket desk and reception is in room V/N/044 - the V stands for Vanbrugh College, N means it is in the Nucleus part of college and 044 is the room number.
Some naming is obvious - D is Derwent college, V is Vanbrugh college, AEW is Alcuin East Wing and RKC is the Roger Kirk Centre. Some names are less obvious E is the Music department, G is James College (parts of James College are also J).
The first event will start at 7pm with the first dance starting at 9pm on Friday night and will continue until 5pm on Sunday evening.
The ticket desk in Vanbrugh College (room V/N/044) will be open from 6pm until 11pm Friday night (pre-booked tickets can be collected after this from Vanbrugh Dining stewards), 8:30am until midnight on Saturday and 8:30am until 2:30pm on Sunday.
The bars near the three main venues will be open and serving drinks over the weekend.
The festival is aimed at university students, but is open to anyone who feels young at heart and who has a spring in their step.
There will be something for everyone, whether you have never danced before or you have cupboards full of previous IVFDF t-shirts. There will be workshops for beginners, "experts" and everyone in between, and there will be lots of friendly faces if you look lost.
We are a welcoming festival which aims to be inclusive and accessible to everyone.
We aim to make the festival inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you have any questions about accessibility please ask us and we will try our hardest to answer and provide solutions.
(what the people telling you how to dance will refer to you as)
All calling over the festival will be gender free, this has been fairly standard for IVFDFs in recent years.
Sadly Covid-19 is still with us. Please take the sensible precautions that you have been taking for the last few years, hand sanitizer stations will be provided around the festival for you to use and feel free to wear masks if you feel more comfortable doing so.
See our Covid-19 policy.
As required we have a number of policies, some of them are summarised in the information above, but for the full details please see our policy page.
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