Get in touch Contact the relevant team if you can't find your answer in the FAQ or if you're looking for a collaboration Music & booking musik@elgenkommer.dk Public Relations pr@elgenkommer.dk Safety sikkerhed@elgenkommer.dk Food, events and design event@elgenkommer.dk Human relations hr@elgenkommer.dk Chairmanship formandskabet@elgenkommer.dk Volunteers hand@elgenkommer.dk Orange guards orangevagtleder@elgenkommer.dk For general inquiries or in doubt info@elgenkommer.dk

Better together We want the Annual Party to be a safe space for everyone. This means, amongst other things, that all attendants must follow the Code of Conduct presented below Code of Conduct Devised by the The Annual Party Commitee, Kamarillaen Access to the Annual Party You are only allowed to access the festival area if you have the following access giving elements or by other means can legitimize your stay: Valid ticket and identification (for students at RUC: student ID) Illegal objects, body search etc. The following objects is examples of objects that is not allowed on the premises of The Annual Party: Weapons or weapon-like objects Beverages except water Illegal drugs Objects that can pose a fire hazard (fireworks, laser pens, grill or similar) Dogs or other animals (this does not apply to service animals) *The list is not exhaustive The Annual Party’s safety personnel have the right to check guests to see if they pose a safety hazard and have the right to deny access to The Annual Party. Smoking It is not allowed to smoke in the tents or the indoor buildings. Behaviour We strive to make sure that there is a place for everyone at The Annual Party. To make this possible the following behaviours are not tolerated: Racism, sexism, homophobia and other oppressive behavior Public urination Behavior that annoy or harm other guests Careless behavior Wearing marks or symbols of discriminating nature Discriminating utterances or behavior Unsuitable behavior in crowds (Crowd surfing, moshing, stagediving etc.) *The list is not exhaustive. VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT CAN ENTAIL SUSPENSION FROM THE EVENT AREA AND A POLICE REPORT

Kamarillaen, Elgen kommer & Årsfesten? Are you confused? Check out the different pages about Kamarillaen! A short overview Årsfesten is the biggest event held at Roskilde University each year. We invite all RUC students and their friends to join us for a night filled with music, food, events and good vibes. Kamarillaen is the name for the group planning the annual party at RUC. The group always consists of a group of volunteers from Roskilde University. Each year, you can apply to be a part of Kamarillaen, so remember to keep an eye on social media if you want to join. Elgen kommer , or "the moose is coming" is the annual partys slogan becouse our logo looks like a moose. The moose works as a metaphor for the annual party.

Work at Årsfesten? Work as an orange guard and help our safety crew or join the stage crew as a stagehand. Both jobs is during Årsfesten and will be payed Work as an Orange guard Each year we need people to help as orange guards from the festival site opens around 4:00pm untill it closes, usually around 2:00am. The amount of hours you work depends on which task or area you get during the festival. WHAT DO I DO AS AN ORANGE GUARD? Our orange guards is responsible for various tasks during the evening. As an orange guard your tasks could be: Gate supervision Be the safety personels eyes and ears Manage our wardrobe To check tickets at the entrance Manage our Return booths And more... During the festival you'll also function as a living information pillar and answer questions from our festival guests. You will always work together with at least one other orange guard and have the opportunity to wish to be assigned the same spot as your friend. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that this is possible but promise to try our best to make it happen. WHO ARE YOU? You are maybe - maybe not - a student at Roskilde University. The most important thing for us is that you want to make sure our festival guests get an amazing and safe experience at Årsfesten. You are pro-active, positive and you meet our guests with a smile. OUR EXPECTATIONS We expect you to be sober and that you want to make Årsfesten a safe and fun experience for all our guests. We also expect you to attend an info meeting. Here, we'll give you a tour of the festival site, a review of the different tasks and prepare you for the roll as an orange guard. This meeting is obligatory to attend. HOW DO I APPLY? To apply, send an e-mail to orangevagt@elgenkommer.dk and include the following information: Name Age Previous experience Wishes regarding tasks, areas, the length of your shift and/or buddy Food considerations or allergies Phone number Not convinced - become a Stagehand Are you interested in sound equipment, and do you like working with big projects? Then maybe you are the person we are looking for. The Annual Party is looking for stagehands to assist with changeovers between the concerts at our two main stages. As stagehand, it is important that you are available via phone during the entire evening, be ready for swift changes (e.g. in case of changes in the program), and prepared for physical labour. You are required to be sober as a stagehand. As a stagehand, you will be treated with a meal during the evening, the best concert spots at Årsfesten as well as access to the legendary ‘Sjatfest’ two weeks after Årsfesten, which is a party arranged exclusively for all the nice people who help create Årsfesten. HOW DO I APPLY? Write your application to musik@elgenkommer.dk. Describe why you want to join and include any previous experience.

Pictures from Årsfesten Check out pictures from Årsfesten 2023. Without our talented, volunteer photographers we wouldn't be able to look back on all the great memories we made at Årsfesten 2023! If you want to volunteer as a photographer - read about it here . TIMMO BAYLESS HALIM MINAI RAHMAN EIKHWAN KIM

Parking week 38 We strongly encourage students and employees to take the train to RUC in the week leading up to the annual party (week 38), so that those who need a car the most have the opportunity to do so. We are slowly starting to block more parking spaces during the week. Closure of car parks: Week 38 The parking lot behind building 03 (P3) has 5 parking strips. Strip 1 is closest to building 03, strip 5 is closest to the football field. Monday 16/09: P4 will be closed. Tuesday 17/09: Parking strip 5, on P3 is closed. Wednesday 18/09: Parking strips 2 and 4 will be closed and half of strip 1, on P3. In addition, the entire parking lot behind building 46 will also be closed off. Thursday & Friday 19/09-20/09 : The entire parking area will be closed off. See where the different parking sections is located at the images below. Thank you for your understanding! Write to Info@elgenkommer.dk for any further questions.

Pictures from Årsfesten 2024 Check out all the cool photos from Årsfesten 2024 TIMMO BAYLESS RASMUS APOLLO ELGAARD HALIM MINAI RAHMAN EIKHWAN KIM

Get to know the people behind Årsfesten 2024 ... and read about their favourite Årsfest hacks Nickolai Vesti Isø PR & KÆP Join the pre-party hosted by Queer Culture Club. Here, you can get ready before the festival site opens by enjoying cheep drinks and eat food Christine Natalie Nielsen Bar & HR Bring a lot of friends and show them how great RUC is! William Horn Chairperson & Safety Bring your biggest small-talker game and use Årsfesten to meet all your fellow RUC students Veronica Torp Bar & HR Remember to put your computer and a warm jacket in the wardrobe! Erin McDermott KÆP & HR Bring your old friend group or your new best RUC-friends. It's a great way to get to know each other even better! Kirstine Vinther Christensen Bar & KÆP Join the day-events. In that way you'll definetely get a great start of the evening! Emily Haslund Chairperson & Safety Remember practical clothes Emil L. Kragelund Bar & HR If someone offers rum and coke - say yes.. unless it's a stranger Julie Ortved Gang Music & Safety Remember to eat and drink so that you'll be able to stay out all night and keep the energy high... and no - beer doesn't count! Bertram Kabell Music & Safety As long as you don't get so drunk that you have to leave early and then suddenly find yourself being at Humlebæk station... Then you're guaranteed a great evening! Mathias Klink Hede Safety & KÆP Make sure to stretch. Your body have to be limber!!! Nanna Bank Petterson Music & HR Listen to ALL the music Trine Bekner PR & KÆP Look at it as a marathon - not a sprint Anna Eckersberg Bar & PR Practice your best pick-up line. Bodegaen is a great place to meet your new best friend ;-) Sarah Quintana Safety & Music Just join - it'll be fun as f Also, meet our skilled Orange Guard Leaders Orange guard leaders are employed by Kamarillaen and have the over all responsibility for our orange guards both before, during and after Årsfesten Micky Winther Ronnenberg Orang Guard Leader Remeber to eat during the night and make sure your hangover cure is ready for the day after Oliver Holst Orange Guard Leader If you don't know the music - give them a quick listen beforehand. The concert experience always highens if you know a few songs

Kamarillaen in a year Does it seem like your friends from Kamarillaen are planning and plotting for the next Årsfest all year? Maybe we are... Årsfest planning during the year During the year we have common meetings and weekends where we get together to work and enjoy each others company. It all culminates in a 10 day "power week" where we live on campus and work from 8-22 every day setting up for the festival. We cap the year off with a party to celebrate our volunteers, and then a weekend where we evaluate the previous year of planning together with the execution of Årsfesten. Not show on the chart below, is that we also have 1-2 meetings for 1-2 hours with our sub-group every month, to work on our specific area. What it's really like to make an Årsfest It takes a lot more work to organize a festival than what our guests might realize. Besides all of the big discussions at our meetings, we also have to get first-aid courses, fire fighting courses, conflict management and crowd safety courses as well as a terror and evacuation briefing. We are responsible for 5.000 guests, and we want to make sure that the festival is as safe as possible. During the weekends where we eat, sleep, live and work together, we make sure that communication between all of the sub-groups is smooth and up-to-date. Above all we make sure to have fun together, and the result is that we become a super tight knit little family, who also goes to concerts together, attend pub-quiz nights, goes climbing and does a lot of other fun stuff between the meetings. It is important for us that there are space for everyone, also those who don't drink, have allergies or other special needs. Each year we divide ourselves into sub-groups, this assures that we all get to work on the areas that we find interesteing. You can read more about the sub groups below.

ÅRSFESTEN 2025 Årsfesten på RUC is a one-day festival for all students at RUC and their friends. Campus sets the scene for the biggest event at RUC with music stages, fun events, delicious food trucks, festive bars and approximately 5.000 students! Join Kamarillaen 2025 If you would like to join Kamarillaen and make Årsfesten 2025 with us, you can send us your application by clicking on the button below. Deadline for submitting applications is the 3rd of January. We will be looking though the applications and calling relevant applicants on the 18th of January. CLICK HERE TO SEND YOUR APPLICATION

Posters from Årsfesten Check out posters from Årsfesten 2014-2024. In 2020, Årsfesten was cancelled due to Corona restrictions which explains the missing poster

The history of Årsfesten When and how was Årsfesten established? Why are members of Kamarillaen wearing Moose costumes like cracy people? Find out below! Established 1976 1978 Terrible weather, but great vibes! In 78 driving plates was not a thing and the fields of RUC was one big swamp. Thorsen told us that this year a gold shoe belonging to woman - official from the ministry of education - got stuck in the mud. The current University director who were her host had to go out in the mud to get her shoe. Despite the terrible weather the vibes were good! 1976 The principal held an official ceremoni. Lector Henrik Thorsen was a part of Årsfesten from the beginning with the ambition to make the greatest RUC celebration 1980 From house parties to a revue! In the beginning of the 80's Årsfesten changed. In the evenings a revue made by both students and staff played circling around current political topics. One of the revues had a sketch were Thorsen played Bertel Haarder - He ''Bertelman'' called RUC from his Bat-mobile and yelled in the phone ''Clean up your mess and align yourself". 1984 From this year Årsfesten got a coordinator: Henrik Thorsen. Parts of the responsibility that earlier was the economic office at RUC, became his with a smaller amount of money for music. He planned Årsfesten together with a group of students, sitting in the wee-known RUC-circle. 1989 A theme! John Mogensen was celebrated in one of the houseparties. The succes was huge and therefore the theme of Årsfesten 1990 became John Mogensen.The principal of the time, Henrik Toft approved! 1993 In 93' Årsfesten divided into two parts: the official part with the principal's speech as well as invited important guest moved inside RUC, in the newly build building 00. The students part "Årsfesten" as we know it today with music and festive events stayed outside at the rest of campus. 1990 Årsfesten grow fast in all numbers which meant the establishment of the Kamarilla. A studentdriven volunteering organization that still today is responsible for everything in regards of planning, execution and evaluation of Årsfesten. In 1990 the Kamarilla helped Thorsen with the creative part as well as practical need to tasks. The Kamarilla was an important force which is why we today know the Kamarilla as the group of happy hardworking people behind the biggest studentdriven one-day-festival in Denmark in the honor of all RUC students, staff and friends of RUC. 1997 Safety first! In the year of 97' the principal asked for improved safety because of the popularity. This meant meetings between Kamarillaen and the authorities regarding the execution of Årsfesten. From this year Orange Guards has been a very important part of making Årsfesten safe. 2002 From this year you could turn on the radio and hear Årsfesten announced as a public party that you wouldn't miss! With the massive influx of guests and the growing popularity the authorities worried for peoples safety, and would only allow Årsfesten to continue if safety was improved! 2006 The logo of the Kamarilla was made! By turning RUC's coral logo 90 degrees to the left a moose appeared. From this day Mr. Moose was born and so was ''Elgen kommer'' (Mr. moose arrives) 2003 The Basis area is born! With more safety restrictions follows the era of Årsfesten as we know it today: a closed party for all RUC-people and friends of RUC. With fences all around the party area, a real entrance and houseparties with a closingtime you would think of a smaller party, but instead more music, beer tents and the newborn Basis area kept the interest growing! Basis area has its name from the bachelor educations that earlier was named ''basis educations''. In the beginning both NAT, HUM and SAM had a tent each - later on everyone basis houses applied with creative and innovative themes and events to get win a tent. For a short period of time there were even a challenge trophy for the most creative tent! 2011 For the first time Kamarillaen tried to communicate by a German land line throughout the week of preparations. In busy situations one KAM-person could lift the receiver in one room and call another KAM-person in another room, by winding up the telephones handle. The rooms could not be further than 20 meters apart... The landline was made of two fixed line phones connected by a wire. Today the Kamarilla uses radios. 2013 The basis area moves from the lawn behind building 14 to the football courts. This your the number of guests also grows and we could welcome students from Absalon as well! 2017 This year was the year with most rain falling since the year of 78'. 2019 Kamarillaen decided to change the music set-up. From this year the two smaller scenes in different tents were history. Instead the ''Avalon" tent from Roskilde Festival covers Thorsens Arena as the only music scene at Årsfesten which made it possible to invite more famous artists with bigger stage set-ups! 2021 Årsfesten is back! This September is the first month in since 14. March 2020 without any Covid-restrictions. Due to the past two years of insecurity with on-going changes of restrictions the Kamarilla decides to reduce the size of Årsfesten with only 5.000 tickets available. Because of campus renovation Kamarillaen decides to change the festival site completely. Therefore the basis area is closed and instead the site is made bigger and more open. 2018 With a storm as wild that threes were falling and tents with damages Årsfesten was in serious trouble just before the opening of the festival site. However, with some last minute great solutions we managed to open the site only one hour late. 2018 is also the year with the biggest concert so far: Suspekt played at Thorsens Arena! 2020 Due to the pandemic Covid-19 the Kamarilla was forced to cancel this years Årsfest.