Seasonal frame
Four seasonal Festivals per year: winter hearth, spring repair, summer commons, and autumn assembly.
Festival
Festival lets a city see itself in one civic day.
A Polis format is a constraint system for real-world contact: small enough to be human, specific enough to be memorable, and private enough to let people be honest.
Mixed-format day plan
Morning Gymnasium, noon citizen-amateur sessions, afternoon Agora and Theater rooms, evening Symposium tables, late Aleatory draws.
No-vendor / no-sponsor rule
No vendor marketplace and no sponsor placement. Invariant I5 extends here: the room is not for sale.
Citizen-amateur signup
Citizens can offer a song, repair skill, reading, walk, garden lesson, or meal without buying prominence.
Start with the directory, then choose the room.
Every format routes to the same institutional promise: no ads, no data sale, no pay-to-play matching, and no public status game.
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