What to pack?

The things you bring will vary between people who come by car, train and coach. The former will mean that you have somewhere to store things during the day, but the latter two will need to consider the fact that day-time storage may not be at the same place as you sleeping venue and IVFDF cannot take responsibility for your belongings.

A separate bag for ‘day things’ and a larger one for storage may be a good idea.

This list is a rough guide and you may not need everything on it, or consider some ‘luxuries’ not ‘luxuries’ but ‘essentials’!

Essentials

• Sleeping bag, roll mat, thermarest, ear plugs
• Dancing shoes
• Spare T-shirt no 1, Spare T-shirt no 2 Lots of workshops and ceilidh and dancing with cool new people…
• Toiletries, Towel, Toothbrush, contact solutions, hairbrush, soap…
• Waterbottle (there will be water provided in some big containers, but a bottle is practical and you can refill it)
• Money (There are cash points at proximity but will they be sufficient…)
• IVFDF Ticket Confirmation
• Lots of Energy!

Luxuries

• Pillow, teddy, torch
• Plasters, a second set of dancing shoes
• Spare T-shirt no 3, 4, 5, 6 … (n)
• Awesome hat, IVFDF hoodie
• Musical Instrument, music
• Camera

Don’t bring

• A super-dooper giant, takes-12-men-and-17-hours-to-inflate-lilo. You may have to pack your bags away in the morning
• Those killer 5 ” heels. Not only are they nasty to dance in but the cobbles will eat you alive
• Multiple Large Instruments that need carrying around 24/7
• That really really expensive camera…
• Electrical Appliances: there will be no sources of power
• Cooking things: we don’t have any kitchen facilities

Indoor camping

You can book indoor camping with your weekend ticket in our online shop.

We have managed to secure sleeping space in a local sport centre and a church hall. Our thanks go out to the venues who have generously allowed us to use their space. We have imposed capacity limits on each of these venues beyond which we will not allow any more people. This is for your safety and comfort. We will allocate spaces at each venue when you arrive at IVFDF reception. Please stay at the same venue for both nights. Both venues are well within walking distance to all of the other venues. We hope you’ll understand and play nice.

A few things about indoor camping. All make sense and I doubt you’ll really need telling, but please read nonetheless.

1. Please don’t burn. Safety and more safety. At each sleeping venue there will be a large space for you to lay out your sleeping bag. We’ll mark out “corridors” to the fire exits in tape on the floor. Please, please keep out of these areas. Stewards will come and move you and/or your stuff if you use this space. If there’s a fire, we want to be able to get you all out quickly. If you need to smoke please go outside and away from the building.
2. Share. You’ll have access to toilets at sleeping venues (showers available at the Crags Community Sport Centre). Some venues have a better toilet:sleeping ivfdf-ers ratio than others. Be sensible; change in your sleeping bag, brush your teeth with a friend, that sort of thing.
3. Let people sleep. If you feel awake, go hang out with the stewards in the kitchen, or find yourself a wee space in a corridor or somewhere. If you want to party on, head in to town. All of our sleeping venues are in residential areas, and they have expressed concern for the beauty sleep of their neighbours. Keep it down, peeps, especially when arriving at sleeping venues late at night. If a door is shut, knock quietly. We reserve the right to refuse sleeping space to anyone who causes hassle by being too loud/drunk/obnoxious. Sorry about that. You have been warned. We’re nice really but it’s got to be said.
4. Be nice to Stewards. Be even nicer to committee. If you’ve a problem approach your steward, who will either know the answer, have it written down, or be able to get hold of a committee member who will. There will always be a committee member available by phone.
5. Live tidy. You’ll need to pack away your things in the morning and leave them in a nearby provided storage space within the same venue.
6. Enjoy. The shared living is another colourful part of the experience of IVFDF. Find the leprechaun, eat cereal out of a plastic pint glass with a fork for breakfast, look out your best jammies (and a wooly hat). It is what you make it.

Showers

Showers will be available in the Crags Community Sports Centre during the time we have booked it from 10pm to 9am. Showers during the day are still being arranged, and will be announced shortly.