Registration Guidelines

You must be at least 18 years of age to attend SuspenDC.

In order to register you must provide us with your legal name, a physical home address, phone number and email. Please use an email address that you check often, as we will be sending you information about the event through email. At the time of check-in, you will be required to produce a valid government issued photo ID that matches the name under which you have registered.

One registration per person, please. Gift registrations become the property and responsibility of the registrant in whose name it is purchased. (The same way that airline tickets work). If you are uncomfortable with this policy, we strongly suggest that each individual purchase their own registration.

Place holder registrations will be deleted. You must know the full name and contact information for anyone who is being registered.

Payments

Payments will be accepted online only via credit card and ECheck, using Paypal. Payment by check must be received by the organizers of SuspenDC no later than March 15.

Payments at the door the day of the event will be accepted in cash only.

Privacy Policy

Any and all information provided within this system will be kept confidential.

At no time will any personal information be disseminated to any third party for any reason. We will not sell, share or trade your name, email or mailing address with any other individual, organization or companies.

Cancellation Policy

The last day to cancel and receive a refund from the March 18, 2012 SuspenDC is Thursday, March 15. NO refunds will be granted after that time. All cancellations and refunds are subject to a $5 per person handling fee. The following procedure must be completed in order to cancel registration and obtain a refund:.

A written request for refund must be sent to whittney@suspendc.com by March 15, 2012.
Your legal registered name must be present on your request.
A confirmation email will be sent upon our receipt of the cancellation request.
If registration fees were paid with credit card, refunds will only be issued to the card used in the original transaction. If payment was not made by credit card, Kindlers of the Sacred Rhythm will issue a check in the name of the registrant requesting the refund and send it to the contact address indicated in the registration.

If you have any questions regarding this or any other registration policy, please email us with the phrase "SuspenDC Cancellation Policy" in your message.

Liability Waiver

All participants will be asked to sign a Liability Agreement and Waiver before entering the event - (view example from previous event). Please take a moment and review the document online to help us speed up the on-site registration process.

Registration Open

Online pre-registration for the March 18 , 2012 SuspenDC is now open through Friday March 16th.

Below are registration costs based on the number of hooks you would like, using standard 9 gauge hooks. If you would like to do a suspension using larger/specialy hooks or special rigging/equipment, ask us as soon as you arrive at the event, and we'll do our best to make that happen for you. *Note - we have added a participation level - Ball Dance which is not a suspension and does not use hooks.

Registration Cost Per Number of Hooks
# of Hooks	Ball Dance	Energy Pull (2)	4	6	8	10	12
Pre-Reg Price	$50	$100	$160	$200	$240	$280	$320
At-Door Price	$70	$120	$180	$220	$260	$300	$340
Spectators/Supporters - $20

Below are some more popular types of suspensions and links to more details and examples:

Vertical Suspension - Hooks are placed across your back, chest and sometimes arms - attached to rigging to lift you off the ground in a relatively vertical postition. Minimum of 4 hooks for folks under 250# unless you ask for specialty hooks/pricing. If you are over 250#, please select a minimum of 6 hooks.
Horizontal Suspension - Hooks are placed down the length of your body, attached to rigging so you can fly in a horizontal position, Minimum of 8 hooks.
Energy Pull - 2 Hooks are set in your skin and attached to ropes so you can tug against the hooks. This is good if you're new to this. If you want more piercings, you can negotiate that at the event. This is not a suspension and will not lift your full weight.
Ball Dance - Piercings with much smaller needles are used to set loops of monofilament in your skin from which pieces of either bells or fruit ("balls") are hung. Default is 4 piercings/"balls". If you decide you gotta have more balls than that (smirk), you can negotiate that at the event - $10 for each additional piercing/"ball". This is not a suspension and will not lift your full weight.
Spectator/Supporter - You can use the space, eat, drum and watch (or lend moral support) as your friends get hooked.

Photography Policy

One of our photographers caught taking a photo of a participant getting pierced Any participant may bring in cameras, camera-phones etc.. to take pictures for personal use.

After spending the first years being a clearing house for the images taken at the event, we realize that we do not have the human power to accomplish this in a timely way. Rather than asking folks to continue waiting for us to complete our edits, we are opening the event up to allow folks to take pictures for their own private use. This means that the organizers cannot guarantee to any participant that they absolutely will not appear in any images taken at the event.

Everyone with a camera will be asked to honor the color coded wrist band system we have been using at the event:

Red bands for people ok with being photographed
White bands for people who do not want to be in pictures

As we have no control over participants who bring in cameras, we cannot guarantee their adherence to this request. For Flyers who do not want to be photographed, we can and will, upon request, ask the crowd to refrain from taking pictures during a specific suspension. We have no way to guarantee that a particular participant will not be caught in the background of some other shot , though.

Staff Photographers with professional equipment will be taking photos that may appear on the SuspenDC website and/or advertising materials for the event as they always have. And as always, only those folks who give us permission to use their image will appear on the event web site or advertising materials. If our staff photographers accidentally get someone in a shot who has not given permission, their likeness will be obscured/removed from the shot or the shot will simply be discarded.

If you feel that you will be endangering your job, livelihood, security, etc. by showing up in the background of someone's suspension or in a general gallery shot, this may not be the event for you. Please consider your needs before attending.

Before entering the event, everyone will be asked to have their photo taken with their ID so our photo-editors can have a visual record to match up names and faces of who's "cool" and also know who needs to be removed from any stray shots.

If you really don't want to be photographed...

don't stand in the middle of an obvious shoot - (duh!)
don't wear bright white or fluorescent colors - (duh! again)
keep your no-photograph bracelet/marker on and visible during the event
introduce yourself to folks with cameras and ask them to note what you look like and please do their best to avoid photographing you

Please take responsibility for your level of comfort around the camera lens. We cannot police that for you - nor can we guarantee that someone at the event won't get you in a photo and put it all over MySpace.

Also, if you are the one with the camera and someone asks you to not take their photo, please do your best to honor that request. Two-way street...

Get Hooked & Fly with Us!