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Event Cancellation

Dear community, it is with the heaviest hearts we announce that Origins Of Entropy 2023 is cancelled.

We worked relentlessly during the past years, including throughout the Covid lockdown periods, to prepare the event council application. We want to be transparent about everything we have been going through that has led to this point.

We started working on this event prior to April 2022, and we initiated getting the event application ready to submit to Shoalhaven Council. We communicated with the council for many months to understand what they required from us to submit a successful event application. After months of work and spending between $30,000 to $40,000 to prepare the application with the council's guidance, our DA was eventually denied due to the adverse effect that additional traffic would create on the surrounding community. There was no amount of additional procedures we could implement to overcome this hurdle.

This set us back the majority of 2022.

In late 2022 we initiated organising the event to be legally set up in the ACT, but due to time restrictions and other hurdles, we were unable to get the event approved in time.

We are moved by the love of this community and the space and opportunity for growth it provides, so we decided to go ahead with the beautiful private property that was available to us to bring everyone together for this event.

But today, police have stated that the event can not go ahead under any circumstances, and if we did, there would be heavy repercussions for the property owner, the crew and attendees. We were prepared to deal with any personal outcomes, but we are now left with no choice but to cancel the event.

We are shattered to have to make this announcement, and we understand how disappointing this is for everyone.

Refunds will be offered; please allow us some time to physically and emotionally cope. The last thing we want you to know is that we did all we could and are sorry.