STICKS & STONES is Europe’s largest job and career festival for LGBTIQ+ and all straight people, who celebrate diversity. A space for the community where diversity and inclusion are the most important values. The festival aims to be a mindful and safe(r) space for all visitors. Awareness is an attitude and therefore a shared responsibility of each and everyone! This includes respectfully maintaining everyone’s boundaries and critically questioning and reflecting on our own behavior.
Discrimination, devaluation, aggressive and transgressive behavior have absolutely no place at STICKS & STONES, because: All festival participants should be able to feel safe and comfortable with us, regardless of age, ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and worldview, sexual orientation and social background.
If you observe or experience an inappropriate situation and would like professional support in dealing with it, please contact the Awareness Team, which you will recognize by the red vests. You can visit the team at any time at the awareness stand in the entrance area of the Palladium.
You can also contact people from the STICKS & STONES crew, who you will recognize by their STICKS & STONES T-shirts. We will be happy to support you.
Cät (she/no pronouns) and Claudia (she/no pronouns) make up the awareness team at STICKS & STONES Cologne 2025. Cät and Claudia are part of the core team of the Köllektive Awareness association, which was founded in 2024 by people with years of awareness experience in various event areas. For more information about the work of Köllektive Awareness, please visit the association’s website or Instagram.
We are always working on our concept and trying to get a little better every year. If you would like to give us feedback on what your experience was like in terms of awareness or if you notice areas that are not yet inclusive enough, please let us know in our feedback questionnaire for awareness at STICKS & STONES! You will find the feedback questionnaire as a QR code at the awareness stand.
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Since 2009, we have been dedicating ourselves wholeheartedly every day to fostering diversity in the workplace. To achieve this, as LGBTIQ+ diversity experts, we collaborate closely with companies and organizations to collectively bring about sustainable and positive changes in corporate cultures and work environments. Empowering LGBTIQ+ individuals lies at the heart of our work. And it is precisely this dedication that makes us the leading LGBTIQ+ social business.
