Eve & Rave
Eve & Rave are/were non-profit registered associations in the German cities Berlin, Kassel, Cologne and Münster as well as in Switzerland. The name of these associations is a composition of the words "eve" like some sort of ecstasy-pills and "rave" like the correspondent electronic music events.
The objectives of Eve & Rave were advancements in party- and techno-culture and the harm reduction of using drugs. Therefore, Eve & Rave offers information about low-risk use of legal and illegalized drugs. Eve & Rave advocates for the decriminalization of drug users, drug maturity and drug checking, which today is supported by a lot of criminal lawyers, parts of the police, notable economists and a growing number of people.
History
The roots of the eve&rave-idea are located in Berlin. At 12 October 1994 the registered association Eve & Rave e.V. Berlin was founded. The objectives of Eve & Rave were advancements in party- and techno-culture to improve night life and make it more safe. Amongst others, a major objective was the harm reduction of using drugs. In 1996 the idea spread to the cities Münster and Solothurn and so the registered association Eve & Rave and the project Eve & Rave Münster, which in 2003 became a registered association, were founded. Additionally, the associations Eve & Rave e.V. NRW and later Eve & Rave Kassel were founded. In comparison to the associations in Berlin, Münster and Switzerland, the associations in Cologne and Kassel persist only a short time. From the beginning all Eve & Rave associations worked in a drug accepting manner. The use of drugs was admitted as a social reality and the abstinence paradigm was classified as out of touch with reality. Therefore, in the year 2000 a team of authors called techno-netzwerk berlin developed the Drug-Checking-Konzept für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland addressed to the German Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, co-authored to a large degree by Eve & Rave Berlin. After Eve & Rave Berlin, NRW and Kassel had stopped their activities, only Eve & Rave Münster and Eve & Rave remained active.Eve & Rave Berlin
Eve & Rave e.V. Berlin was founded at 12 October 1994 and persisted until 21 March 2011. From February 1995 to September 1996, Eve & Rave Berlin organized "drug-checking-desks" at techno parties, where people could check the mixture and the amount of active ingredients of their drugs. Eve & Rave Berlin published several booklets and flyers, and had a web page.Eve & Rave Kassel
Eve & Rave Kassel and its homepage persisted only a short time. Because of loss of members, the activities were stopped in November 2003. Since May 2015 the former internet domain of Eve & Rave Kassel eve-rave.org is now used by Eve & Rave Münster.Eve & Rave Münster
Eve & Rave Münster was founded in 1996 as a project of the AIDS-Hilfe Münster e.V., taking a leaf out of Eve & Rave Berlin’s book. Since 5 June 2003 Eve & Rave Münster is a non-profit registered association. From the beginning there was a close cooperation between Eve & Rave Münster and the governmental authorities of the City of Münster. Eve & Rave Münster’s focus of work was/is the club scene of Greater Münster and lectures for teachers, scholars, students and parents. Soon the association expands its activities beyond the borders of Münster. Amongst others, Eve & Rave Münster is supporting the major techno events Mayday since 1998, Nature One since 2002, Ruhr-in-Love since 2003, Syndicate since 2013 and RadioNation and Toxicator since 2015 with drug-information-desks. Since 2001 Eve & Rave Münster has a consultant function for the German Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung and later the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG). From 2003 to 2006 Eve & Rave Münster was member of the Arbeitskreis Healthy Nightlife created by the BZgA. This committee was planning the German Weltdrogentag 2004, in which Eve & Rave Münster was significantly involved. In addition, this committee was creating the Leitfaden "Nachts Leben" – Gesundheitsförderliche Maßnahmen im Nachtleben, which is available as print- and PDF-version since September 2005. Since 2011 Eve & Rave Münster offers lectures in driving schools and was founder member of the community of interest PEER-Projekt an Fahrschulen in April 2014. Because of the increasing abuse of cognitive doping drugs by scholars, students and the working world, Eve & Rave Münster expands its service to the topic neuro-enhancement in 2014.For organisational reasons, Eve & rave Münster shifted its homepage to a new internet domain at 17 May 2015.