Guidelines:

To help Peace in the Park be a positive experience for everyone, we ask that all exhibitors agree to certain ground rules. Please read and agree to the following principles and expectations. By submitting an application, you agree to follow the guidelines of Peace in the Park.

Principles

• The organizers of Peace in the Park are committed to creating a safe and family-friendly environment that welcomes all who come to explore peace, justice, and community.
• Exhibitors are welcome to teach others about their organization or their faith and explain how it contributes to a culture of peace.
• Participants of Peace in the Park will not use the Festival to condemn other movements, ideas, beliefs, political positions, nor any religious or cultural practices.

Expectations

• Exhibitors and vendors may display information about the positive activities and benefits of their organization, especially those activities which support peace and enlarge understanding and cooperation in the community
• Exhibitors may display materials that state and explain their organization’s position on topical issues, provided these materials aim solely to educate and inform people about why the organization believes as it does and that the materials are otherwise in accordance with the principles of Peace in the Park.
• Exhibitors may have a sign-up sheet through which interested people can request further information about their group, and Exhibitors may publicize events where people can learn more about their organization, though the Festival committee does ask that such publicity respect the spirit of the guidelines.
• Participants may not ask people to sign petitions
• Participants may not display or circulate materials directly requesting people to vote for or against specific laws, constitutional amendments, political programs, politicians or political parties
• Participants may not display or circulate materials disparaging the beliefs or practices of any other persons or groups.

Peace in the Park reserves the right to ask participants to leave if they disrupt the peaceful environment and /or attempts to sell or display items inconsistent with Festival Guidelines.