Participation in the NEFFA Festival includes risk of exposure to and illness from infectious diseases including but not limited to COVID-19. Attendance is at your own risk.
For the 2025 NEFFA Festival, vaccination and masking are optional. We strongly believe that the COVID vaccines are highly effective at preventing disease and for making the disease milder, and we recommend that everyone who can get a vaccine before NEFFA do so. The evidence indicates that masking works very well in mitigating the transmission of airborne disease. It has proven to be one of the best tools for preventing the spread of COVID.
Please respect everyone’s personal choice to mask or not mask.
NEFFA reserves the right to revise this policy depending upon any significant changes in the public health situation as we approach the Festival.
Symptoms or Testing Positive: If you feel unwell at all, have a positive COVID test result, or have had COVID very recently (with a positive test or symptoms beginning less than 10 days ago), please do not attend NEFFA. We’ll have another Festival next year and would love to see you then! We will refund tickets purchased in advance, if you are unable to attend due to illness.
NEFFA will provide Cori-Rosenthal air purifiers, as well as some quieter, commercially-made air purifiers, in all Program rooms of the Hotel as well as in some of the smaller Hotel rooms used by the Festival. Please leave the air cleaners on to minimize the risk of virus transmission in the rooms. NEFFA aso encourages all attendees to engage in normal measures to minimize the risk of spreading illness, including washing hands with soap, staying home when ill, and refraining from comment when people choose to wear high-quality face masks.