You may have heard the term “safer spaces” in relation to the music industry, but what are ‘Protective” Spaces? Protective Spaces are venues and teams within the industry that recognize that safety requires ongoing action. Spaces that work to protect the people inside them -patrons, artists, and others working in music don’t happen by accident!

This session is one part lesson, one part trivia and one part “Ask Me Anything,” facilitated by Good Night Out, local leaders in nightlife safety and skill building in the area of harm reduction and sexual misconduct prevention.

Good Night Out (GNO) is a BC- Based non-profit society that works directly with the hospitality and music sectors to prevent and respond to sexual harassment and create safer experiences for workers and customers. Good Night Out’s roots are on the occupied and unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skxwú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ people. GNO’s work in the area of safer music spaces , has lead to partnerships with venues of all sizes, The City of Victoria, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, EDM artists Griz and GJones, and many other stakeholders in the hospitality and entertainment sector. Read more about the work of Good Night Out in Flare, Vice and on the CBC.

GNO has recently opened a Victoria satellite office to better support establishments and venues on Vancouver Island.

This session will be facilitated by Stacey Forrester and Megan Hopkins of Good Night Out.