Accessible Pyrkon

ACCREDITATION for people with disabilities and their assistants or caregivers

For people with disabilities, an easy-access checkout, the so-called priority checkout as well as priority entrance upon receipt of ID badges will be available. A person with disabilities can also visit the Convention with an assistant or guardian. Below you will find information on who can become an assistant or caregiver to such a person and what facilities apply to assistants or caregivers.

To start with, we would like to point out that an assistant or caregiver of a person with disabilities is entitled to a free ID badge. They will have the opportunity to pick it up at the ticket desk in the presence of the person they will be supervising or assisting during the Convention. In order for an assistant or caregiver to receive an ID badge, the person they are caring for must have purchased a ticket entitling them to enter the Convention grounds. 

Remember to make sure to always carry your ID on you during the convention

What should I do to get a badge for an assistant or caregiver?

You will find the information you need in the table below. There, you will find the step-by-step procedures for obtaining an ID for an assistant or caregiver. Be sure to read through it!

We would also like to inform you that the ID badge of a person with a disability who has acquired a free ID badge for an assistant or caregiver may be marked to prevent them from acquiring another ID badge for an assistant or caregiver or illegally reselling it to third parties.

It is also possible to introduce a separate design of badges for assistants or caregivers of people with disabilities. 

We would also like to point out that documents related to health are provided only for inspection to confirm eligibility for the discount. The Pyrkon Fan Convention does not collect or process information about the health of its participants.

• priority checkout – people with disabilities that impede their mobility will be directed to the priority ticket office, where they will purchase a ticket without queuing, and security will allow them to pass the turnstile gate. Disability statements will not be required. The checkout will also be available for pregnant women and honorary blood donors;
• free admission for an assistant or caregiver of a person with disabilities – the assistant or caregiver is one person who is designated by the person with disabilities (you will find more details later in the text). Written depositions will not be required;
• access for assistance dogs – it will be possible to enter the grounds of Pyrkon Fan Convention with an assistance dog. However, it is worth remembering to carry with you the relevant documents and certificates. We, if necessary, will provide water for the canine helpers at the Convention Office. All you have to do is ask any of the volunteers for some water. You will also receive dog poop bags there. However, just to be safe, we would like to point out that only assistance dogs are allowed to enter the convention grounds;

• induction loops – at each of the entrances to the Convention site, one of the priority checkouts will be equipped with an induction loop. This checkout will be marked accordingly with the induction loop symbol.

Closer to the date of Pyrkon, we will post detailed information on www.pyrkon.pl , along with maps showing the location of entrances, elevators and specially adapted restrooms. And if you want to get an idea of the facilities for people with disabilities during Pyrkon, just visit any Convention Information Desk or the Convention Office.

• There are toilets (marked on the event map) with access for people with disabilities on the Convention grounds. They are located in: halls 3A, 5, 6A, 6B, 7A, 8, 8A, as well as in the PCC and at the northern entrance;
• The ability to reach each hall (elevators in each hall) and each program room on a wheelchair;
• a map for the blind (produced by Braille Media, a company that supports us in adapting Pyrkon for people with special needs) will be installed in front of the Convention Office (Hall 10). The map for the blind has an informational function for the sighted, visually impaired and blind, and has also been adapted to the needs of persons with short stature and those who cannot read. It will be installed in accordance with the guidelines of the Law on Ensuring Accessibility for Persons with Special Needs.
• In front of the stairs there will be warnings in the form of a swing sign (they will be located in the PCC, by the stairs leading to the mezzanine in hall 5 and by the stairs in the so-called “cross” – the space between halls 7, 7A, 8 and 8A.

Closer to the date of Pyrkon, we will post detailed information on www.pyrkon.pl , along with maps showing the location of entrances, elevators and specially adapted restrooms. And if you want to get an idea of the facilities for people with disabilities during Pyrkon, just visit any Convention Information Desk or the Convention Office.

• The Earth Hall, the Arena,  the Cinema, the Cosplay Stage and Outdoor Stage will be designated as places where there are sound and visual effects that may cause discomfort or an epileptic attack with a visual basis;
• some of the program events will be translated into Polish Sign Language, however, specific information will be provided closer to the date of the event;
• during Pyrkon 2024, the following lectures were interpreted into Polish sign language:

• “A lecture by Prof. Dragan” – prof. Andrzej Dragan,
• “The sewerage of the city of Warsaw as a tool of Judaism and charlatanery in order to … exterminate the Slavic population on the Vistula river banks – or the stupidest anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” – Nikolai Kolyszko,
• “Death and Medicine” – Maciej Antkiewicz,
• [Panel] Thank you, Mr. Toriyama, or on the Dragon Ball series” – Paweł Dybała,

Lectures

Persons with disabilities who wish to take advantage of the opportunity to enter the hall outside the queue of non-accredited persons are required to inform the hall staff at least 10 minutes before the start of the lecture. A person with disabilities queues with the pre-accredited people and enters the room right after them, before the non-preaccredited queue. In the event that the room does not require pre-registration, a person with disabilities shall notify the hall staff of their desire to enter the hall no less than 10 minutes before the start of the program item.

Wheelchair users can take a seat in the passageway, but an assistant or caregiver must take a standard seat, near the disabled person, or wait for them near the room.

In the event that the hall is completely full, it is not possible to provide additional seats for people with disabilities. In the case of program events where all seats are pre-booked, people with disabilities are required to obtain pre-accreditation for a program event on a general basis in order to enter the hall.

In case of disputes, the organizer responsible for the area (accreditation or hall) will decide. Decisions of the organizer are irrevocable, while failure to respect them is considered a violation of the rules and may result in removal from the event.