caulicamp

Fri 2 Feb 4pm - Mon 5 Feb 4pm

Camp Wombaroo, New South Wales, Australia

What's caulicamp!?

caulicamp is:

• a multi-day event near Sydney for terminally online Australians, guests from across the ocean, and their friends, to get together and go outside
• a "regional vibe", which is to say, heavily inspired by vibecamp
• a place filled with a wide variety of people in tpot ("This Part of Twitter") or who probably would be in tpot if they had an active Twitter account, such as EAs, mystical types (meditators, authentic relators, tarot-deck users), tech bros (gender neutral), rationalists, post-rationalists, critical-rationalists, meta-rationalists, and many others!

OK, but really, what is it???

Ultimately it's what you make it! It's a space for this extended community to come together, meet each other, form deep connections, bring our own activities, gifts, and vibes to share with everyone else.

It's also part of a mission to build a larger tpot-ish community a bit closer to home for Australians and New Zealanders. The Americans have vibecamp, the Europeans have jesscamp, it's time for Australasia to get its own camp.

Who's hosting?

caulicamp will be hosted by cauliflower (@cauliflwr_human), with help from Eliot (@Eliot__Red), Chris (@chriswaterguy), and many other volunteers.

Location

caulicamp is at Camp Wombaroo, in the beautiful Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

It's less than a 2-hour drive from most parts of Sydney, and a 1h30m drive from the airport. It's also a 20-min drive from Bowral train station, which takes around 2h10m to get to from Sydney Central station and the airport stations by train.

We will be ferrying people from the train station if necessary, but if you have a car and will be driving to caulicamp, please help other attendees by offering to carpool in the discord server. We will have a discord server to help coordinate this, as well as pre/post-camp couch-surfing and AirBnBs.

Inclusions

Your ticket includes:

• 3 nights accomodation
• Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner (9 meals total)
• Snacks, soft drinks, tea, coffee
• Budget to help pay for equipment and other things for entertainment, events, and activities

Food

The food will be predominantly vegetarian or vegan. Some side dishes will have meat as an ingredient. The venue also has a no-nuts policy, so everything we serve will be nut-free.

Eliot and Chris will be leading the food preparation efforts, but we need volunteers to help out, so please be prepared to help with cooking at least one meal.

Yes, there will be cauliflower.

Accommodation and tickets

The accommodation will be dormitory-style cabins of 6-8 bunk beds.

There is one room of 4 bunk beds and five two-bed share rooms with ensuites. These will be set-aside for people with special needs, families, and volunteers, before being offered to others.

Please contact me directly if you have an accessibility need, or are planning to bring your children along, so that we can accomodate you.

The site has a dining hall, two meeting room spaces (one which is partitioned off from the dining hall), multiple campfire areas, and shared shower/toilet blocks in each cabin area and near the dining hall.

Towels and bed linen will not be provided by the venue (except for the two-bed share rooms which have linen provided). We will make towel and linen hire available closer to the event.

Please coordinate which people you'd like to be in a cabin with before cabin ticket sales close as we will be confirming allocations shortly after.

Ticket prices

Cabin tickets

Super Early Bird x 10 - SOLD OUT!
Early Bird x 25 - $350 -- Available before the 12th of December (closes midnight Sydney time, UTC+11)
Regular Ticket x 60 - $420.69
Contributor x 20 - $550
Low Income x 8 - $300

Cabin ticket sales will close after the 7th of January (midnight Sydney time, UTC+11).

Exchanges are OK for cabin tickets before sales close. Please contact me if you need to exchange.

Tent tickets

From the 13th of December we will release tent/camper tickets with the following prices:

Tent x 30 - $350
Tent (low income) x 10 - $230

Tent ticket sales will close after the 22nd of January.

Exchanges and refunds are OK for tent tickets before sales close. Please contact me if you need to exchange.

Low income and supporter tickets

If your budget is a bit tight but still want to come, you can self-select to buy a low-income ticket at a reduce price. There are 8 cabin tickets available at a reduced price, and once we start selling them, 10 tent tickets at a reduced price.

Contributor tickets are for those who would like to help cover the costs of the volunteer, early bird, and low income tickets. You contribution means a lot!

Vouchers for children and tpot organisers

We can give 5 vouchers for a 40% discount off the regular ticket price for children under 16 accompanied by parent(s) or guardian(s), and 5 vouchers for a 70% discount for organisers of other tpot community events.

Running events

If you're planning to run an event, please let us know so we can add it to the event schedule, and please let us know if you would like us to allocate budget towards your event for things like equipment hire and consumables.

Rules

Like other tpot camps, we prefer to be light on rules, but there are always a few things we can be clear that we have zero tolerance for:

1. Physical and sexual assault will not be tolerated
2. No doxxing (i.e. no publicly revealing the name or personal details of someone without their consent)
3. No photography of any attendee without their consent

Identifying other forms of misconduct is at the discretion of the organizing team. We will ask you to leave without a refund if we deem it appropriate.

The venue itself also has some rules:

Alcohol

The venue requires us to have someone with a responsible service of alcohol (RSA) certificate serving alcohol, and alcohol is only permitted in the dining hall and near the campfire.

We need a volunteer to help us with this if we want there to be alcohol present at all, so please let us know if you hold an RSA certificate valid in New South Wales and would be keen to volunteer.

Assuming we have a volunteer, you will be free to bring your own alcohol, but it must be kept with us until the evenings. Expect us only to allow pre-mixed drinks, so that our volunteer does not have to do as much work pouring and mixing drinks.

If someone expresses interest in running a cocktail-bar event, we can accommodate that as long as they have an RSA certificate.

Campfire and fire-related activities

Lighting fires (including for firespinning and similar activities) is subject to restrictions from the state government. Some days, the Illawarra/Shoalhaven region may be subject to a total fire ban, meaning we cannot light the campfire or allow any fire jam events to proceed.

There are forecasts for these bans, but they are not confirmed until the afternoon before, so we encourage anyone considering running events involving fire to be prepared for this, whether running the event on a different day or providing alternatives to fire.

Additionally, note that venue's policy is that smoking is only permitted at the camp fire area adjacent to the dining hall.

Noise restrictions

Amplified music is allowed outdoors until 11pm, and within the dining hall area until midnight. Any dance parties during the evenings will be held in the dining hall area, and doors and windows will be closed at 11pm. All noise needs to be kept to a minimum after midnight.

Contact

If there's anything you need from us, don't hesitate to contact us at team@cauli.camp

Looking forward to seeing you all there! 😊