To ensure everyone’s safety, all YNY participants, faculty, and staff are required to follow the guidelines listed below and support each other in creating a community of care for all. Remember, your needs around safety may not be the same as the person next to you.
VACCINATION
- All participants, faculty, and staff are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated with the latest COVID-19 and flu vaccinations.
TESTING
- All daytime program participants, faculty, and staff are required to take a COVID test no more than 24 hours before arrival. You must test negative and be symptom-free to attend events. We will ask to see proof upon your arrival at the YNY Check-In Table, so please take a time-stamped photo of your negative test.
- If you have had a known exposure to someone with COVID-19 within a week of the festival, test multiple times (and continue to test each day) before coming onsite to the festival. If you are symptomatic or test positive for COVID-19, do not come to YNY events on-site.
- We recommend that all participants, faculty, and staff do rapid self-tests daily to help ensure the safety of all YNY attendees.
- Please bring your own supply of rapid self-tests.
MASKING
- Masking is recommended. YNY reserves the right to increase masking requirements based on reporting up to a week before the festival.
- Please note that certain instructors may require participants to remain masked for the duration of their sessions. These mask-required sessions will be noted in the schedule and/or with a sign on the classroom door.
As a non-residential event, attendees are subject to the risks of usual New York commuting– use extra precautions to limit exposure including masking in public transportation and other settings.
