Safer spaces — Zoë Beery

In addition to my writing, I have spent six years as a nightlife awareness/safer spaces organizer. I am available to consult with music event producers, particularly in electronic music, about creating and implementing harm reduction programs, and to speak on these topics for panels, podcasts and the press.

I was a core member of the awareness team at Nowadays from 2019-2024 and am the co-creator and producer of the awareness programs at Sustain-Release, Return to the Source/No Way Back and Horst Arts & Music Festival. In 2022, I co-developed and facilitated the Horst Music Lab, a four-day workshop on harm reduction, bystander intervention, assault prevention and related skills for the next generation of European nightlife professionals.

Through my awareness work, I created the community events program at Nowadays in 2019 and managed it until 2023, producing over 40 workshops, panels, screenings, trainings and other off-dancefloor gatherings. One of these events, a 2022 literary reading called Writing on Raving, has grown into an ongoing series spanning three cities, with an anthology from O/R Books published in May 2025.