F.A.Q.’s

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  Part tongue-in-cheek performance art, part social experiment, part essential party service, part trust-game - Coat Check is a fun way we interact with as many people as possible around a festival. We engage event-goers in a way that stage performances can’t. Offering them an opportunity to participate in the performance and trusting us with their belongings in a way we are encouraged not to do in our day-to-day lives. Generally we find people have a moment of confusion as they understand what a coat check is, they can't comprehend what one is doing in a random location.

Dressing for an event, especially outdoors, can be tricky. Dancing & crowds generate heat. More often than not this results in dozens, if not hundreds, of people removing layers and stashing coats/costumes/props all over the place that may be difficult to locate or forgotten. Roving Coat Check aims to solve that problem!

Actually we boast a 100% return rate (*some items still in the process of being returned) and go to strenuous lengths to return left-behind articles, even if the owner lives in another country.

Sometimes we play a trust/memory game with our patrons, with their consent & direction, wherein we negotiate an alternative way of returning their belongings. This can look like an agreed upon meeting location/time, both specific or general. Eg. “We’ll be at ‘location X’ at midnight onward. Come find us there!”

We are very explicitly a FREE SERVICE.

Worldwide. Coat Check has been to several countries, existing in new iterations in each location. This presents an opportunity to make design changes that are more appropriate to the specific event and event-site.