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CURRENTLY All events in the next couple of months, are either postponed or soon to be, due to CoVid-19 precautions. I will be watching to get updates and new gathering dates as they are available. Please note that these festivals are fragile financially, many won’t make it through this storm …. you, their loyal community, can help them make it through this – hold onto your ticket while they regroup and set a new date, don’t ask for a refund unless you really need to, and make a donation if you can. Donations may be the difference of surviving or not – stand by them, help them out – they need you now! Thank you so much, you are the lifeblood of this community.
Be well, be safe, and cherish your people, life is precious! <3 Saphir
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Welcome to our main Transformational Village Festival Calendar, showing events in the North & Central American region. We’ve had to divide the calendar because the movement is growing so rapidly. See our other calendars for more events – International, Flow Arts, Burning Man Regionals and more.
Please send me your dates! Use the contact link above.
If you know of fests I am missing – let me know! <3 Saphir
Transformational Village Festival or Visionary Village Festival, refers to temporary collaborative villages devoted to cultural transformation or the re-invention of humanity on earth. These events are not your ordinary music concerts. We are building a culture of caring – for each other, ourselves, our neighbors, our planet. These gatherings are collaborative open-sourced villages, devoted to experimentation and inspired co-creation of the world we want to live in. And we believe that YOU, that everyone, has gifts to bring to the table!
“In order to live in a world that we may make possible, a world that is thriving, balanced, peaceful, and just, we all have to engage in the endeavor to become that possibility. We are reaching out to you, because we recognize you as a Social Architect of the Now, offering a particular gift to the collective feast that is laid before us. As we all bring our individual experiences to the table, we each partake in the nourishment of being the co-authors of the greatest story ever told.”
~ Jamaica Stevens
There is so much to experience in these villages now!
Check out our article 35 Ways Transformational Festivals Are More Fun!
FESTIVAL APPLICATIONS – Most festivals open applications about 6 months in advance of the event. If you are interested in applying as a performer, volunteer, crew, media, workshop presenter or something else, click through to the festival’s website and look for their applications there.
The 2020 Transformational Village Festivals
CANTANDO LA VIDA (Singing Alive)
February 6-9, 2020 Finca Amrta, Costa Rica
A sharing and teaching gathering for ceremonial/devotional singing circles. We change the world as we transform ourselves with songs of light, love, peace on earth, and goodwill to all beings! Cantando la Vida is a member of the family of Singing Alive events (also happening in Cascadia, Appalachia and Hawaii) and exists to encourage the remembrance of this deep desire to sing from the heart. It provides resources in the form of 1) songs, 2) the community to sing them, and 3) support for those of us who want to live the teachings, the sadhana, of the songs. We therefore invite all who wish to activate and nurture their spiritual life in this way.
http://singingalive.org/costa-rica/
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ENVISION MUSIC, ART & SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL
Feb. 17-24, 2020 Uvita, Costa Rica
Come to a magical place where time slows down and the outside world drops away….come dance, play, celebrate, love , learn, teach, co-create, co-inspire and transform our consciousness and our world. With the collaboration of myriad talented allies, both local and international, we aim to co-create an event inspired by and inspiring the positive collective consciousness of all who are involved for the betterment of ourselves and of the planet.
http://envisionfestival.com
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TRIBAL GATHERING (aka GEOPARADISE)
February 29 – March 15, 2020 Panama
Tribal Gathering is more than a festival, it is a place for the world to come together, where time is transcended, ancient and modern converge in symbiotic harmony, shaman manifest spirits of plants as musicians call on the ethos of imagination. Interfaith dialogue blends with a rich heritage of esoteric wellness, creativity, alternative cultures, active participation and love. Ultimately it is where we welcome the divine spirt of dance. Tribal Gathering is a meeting point for indigenous communities from all over the world. It is a gathering of tribes, from the past and present, the global transformational tribe and whoever feels the call to join in the celebrations. It takes place every year over the full moon of February on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
https://www.tribalgathering.com/
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March 14-18, 2020 Montes De Oro, Costa Rica
Forest Dance is a profound sacred ceremonial gathering where we dance and experiment with creativity in service, around a sacred fire, for three full nights until dawn. This model is designed to cultivate our energy together. It is designed to be in service together and to create an atmosphere for deep listening, where the musicians, which can include all of us, are swept up together in the energy that moves through the circle. Through the timeless action of circling the fire, in part from the pulsing of moving closer to music and away, and closer and away, there is a breaking away of the armor. The pieces we sensitive people need to cope day to day, come down and we begin to expand and open.
https://forestdance.org
April 3-5, 2020 Orlando, Florida
Zen Awakening is a transformational, music and arts festival. Featuring Celebrity DJ’s, Bands, Yoga, Meditation, Spiritual Teachers, Holistic Teachers, Cirque Performers, Flow Dancers, Drum Circle, Group Chants, Fire Performers, Central Fire, Healing Sanctuary, Workshops, Theme Campsites, Permaculture, Kirtan, Camping, Organic Food Vendors and Art Installations.
http://www.zenawakeningfestival.com/
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OMETEOTL – 10th Anniversary
April 3-15, 2020 Tepoztlan, Morelos. Mexico
These beautiful folks attended our producers alliance in August and produce the first transformational festival we know of in Mexico. They have a beautiful vision of conscious community in collaborative celebration of life, and we encourage your support as they begin the journey of gathering. You will also meet them at Envision and Tribal Alliance; they are family.
https://www.facebook.com/events/382884505941654/
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LUCIDITY FESTIVAL
April 10-12, 2020 Live Oak Campground, Santa Ynez, California
Moon’s Eye View – From Moon’s unique vantage point, she sees all that transpires on our pale blue dot — all our joys and all our pain, all of our creating and all of our destruction. She insists that we must be willing to fearlessly journey into the great unknown if we wish to share such an expanded perspective! Join us in our Kindred Quest to build the world we know is possible!
http://lucidityfestival.com/
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SERENITY GATHERING TBA … news anyone?
April Woodward Reservoir, Oakdale, CA
Celebrating the spring equinox as our planet enjoys another bountiful year and we grow stronger and more connected with each cycle completed. Our vision is a shared goal toward a cleaner, healthier, more organic existence. Serenity is a conscious gathering focused on art and music, experience an array of workshops, activities, and art installations. The body germinates, the mind sprouts, the soul nourishes, and the spirit blooms. We encourage sound and theme camps of all different kinds!
https://serenitygathering.net/
http://www.OpenmindFestival.com
April 23-27, 2020 Los Coyotes Indian Reservation, CA
This isn’t just another meaningless party. This is about finding a new kind of freedom. A point where you reach your mental breaking point and come to your specific realization that is meaningful at exactly the right place, exactly the right time, and exactly the stage of life that you are currently in. Desert Hearts is about coming together in love, collectively, individually, and supernaturally. This is about the healing of land and souls. This is about touching heaven, even if only just for a few days. What we are doing is real. It’s more real and more true than anything we’ve ever been privileged enough to be a part of. It’s time to wake up, into a dream world where real life is mystically blissful–to a place where we won’t ever want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than our wildest dreams. This is what Desert Hearts is all about. We Are All Desert Hearts.
http://www.deserthearts.us/
LEAF FESTIVAL – Lake Eden Arts Festival
May 14-17, 2020 Black Mountain, North Carolina
For 24 years, each May & October an inter-generational family of 12,000 people join together upon the beautiful Lake Eden grounds to experience the power music, art and culture has to transform lives, strengthen community, and foster unity. LEAF Festival takes place on the site of the old Historic Black Mountain College with a stunning array of rolling hills, lakes, streams, and mountain beauty on hundreds of acres of comfortable camping grounds. LEAF scours the globe for artists, musicians, performers and facilitators that are not only masters of their craft, but who also care deeply for the power of arts education and family engagement.
http://www.theleaf.com
SHAKTI FEST
May 14-18, 2020 Joshua Tree, California
Bhakti Fest is the premier yoga, sacred music, and personal growth festival in the United States. Bhakti Fest celebrates the devotional paths of yoga, Kirtan (sacred music), and meditation. Our festival is drug and alcohol free for the evolution of human consciousness through a heart-centered revolution. Bring your yoga mats to idyllic Joshua Tree, located in the beautiful desert region east of Los Angeles. Practice with the best yoga teachers in the world, dance to sacred music by world-renown Kirtan artists, and take workshops with leaders in the field of personal growth. Camp out beneath the stars or stay at one of our many accommodations on and offsite; enjoy the swimming pool and free filtered drinking water; stop in at The Bhakti Family Village and expose your children to other enlightened youth and families; enjoy the best vegetarian food at any festival. We are building community—please join us!
http://bhaktifest.com
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JOSHUA TREE ROOTS SPRING MUSIC FEST
May 14-17, 2020 Joshua Tree, California
The Joshua Tree Music Festivals are produced by a family of friends and funsters convinced that music is the soul of life, and that art enriches and saves lives.
That experience is enhanced when embraced in the great outdoors amongst fellow music lovers. Better still in an intimate setting, where the distinction between artist and audience is blurred, and a passionate performance can be truly relished in close proximity to the stage. Add FREE water to patrons, no service charges on reasonably priced tickets, and well … let the games begin.
http://www.joshuatreemusicfestival.com/
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LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
May 20-25, 2020 Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA
A celebration of art, music, performance, yoga, sustainability and life, LIB goes beyond any ordinary music festival. LIB is one of the United State’s premier award winning events and has earned national recognition as a pioneer in the West Coast’s conscious festival movement. With its world-class fusion of electronic music, performance art, spiritual lectures and hands-on workshops, the festival’s overarching embodiment of cultural and environmental consciousness creates an atmosphere where attendees from all walks of life can find a way to connect with others as well as themselves.
http://lightninginabottle.org
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FIREFLY GATHERING
June 3-7, 2020 North Carolina
Skills for Living with the Earth. Each day is full of workshops spanning wilderness survival skills to permaculture, plant identification to cooking over fire, cow milking to bowl carving, basket weaving to blacksmithing. Through our time together at Firefly, we not only share skills to connect to the land, we connect also with ourselves, one another, our ancestors, and our future generations.
https://fireflygathering.org/
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SOULPLAY FESTIVAL
June 11-14, 2020 Cobb, California
Are you ready to Love? SoulPlay is 4 full days of workshops and activities, including heart-opening connection, invigorating yoga, deep inner reflection and healing, blissful dance, and much more. We will have dozens of workshops to choose from, so you can choose how to explore your edge at your own pace and flavor.
www.SoulPlayFestival.com
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HANUMAN FESTIVAL 10th Anniversary
June 11-14, 2020 Boulder, Colorado
Our 2020 line-up brings together world renowned yoga teachers including Seane Corn, Gurmukh, Jai Uttal, Tiffany Cruikshank, Yogrishi Vishvketu, Amy Ippoliti, Saul David Raye, Sianna Sherman, Kia Miller, Tommy Rosen, David Newman, Amber Ryan, Katie Wise & Bhakti Explosion, and many more presenters to be announced. Hanuman Festival proudly offers a wide variety of yoga styles including vinyasa, kundalini, Bhakti, yoga nidra, as well as immersions and community workshops, hiking, rock climbing, acro and slacklining, inspirational talks, and evening music.
Love happens. Hearts open. We return home.
www.hanumanfestival.com/
OM REUNION presents SOLSTICE GATHERING
June 15-21. 2020 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Solstice is a week-long intentional gathering in the forest of Southern Ontario. Drawn by the summer sun, we camp, laugh, eat and dance at our temporary home in the woods. Sweetly anticipated by its community for the opportunity to gather, journey, love, stargaze, sunbathe, and more. https://solsticegathering.ca/
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SONIC BLOOM
June 18-21, 2020 Rye, Colorado
Sonic Bloom is a 4-day camping festival that brings live and electronic music, dance, art and human performance together in an atmosphere that inspires open channels of creativity for everyone involved, especially the audience…Together, we will create a resonant field in which to unify all forms of human creative expression. Come participate in our 10th annual festival with some of the highest quality live electronic artists and most cutting-edge producers to create what is an incredibly intimate boutique festival experience… a unified field.
http://sonicbloomfestival.com/
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PROJECT EARTH
June 18-20, 2020 Geneva, Minnesota
Project Earth has a different mission: To slow it all down and open space for the family to discover more of each other. We have been told by you, that the more intimate setting in the forest is just the right medicine for the Tribal convergence. Its our belief that our community has a lot of powerful connections to make and soul contracts to fulfill. The Planet and all life on her need conscious people now more than ever! We are the ones we have been waiting for… and the time has come for us to rise up. Trust me, no one loves to get their party on more than we do (it’s an Irish thing) however… it’s our hope to be more sober and clear at this crucial family gathering. No doubt we will be celebrating together and more than a few brews will be shared …let’s just ask ourselves to commit to less and trust that it will be so much MORE !!! Respect and Love… see you on the playground soon! xoxo
http://www.projectearthfest.com
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UNIFIER FESTIVAL
June 18-21, 2020 Tolland, Massachusetts
Honoring and bringing together different sub-cultures this gathering is a yoga festival, it is a tribal belly dance festival. It is a world and sacred music festival, and dance party, a live art show, a place for ceremony, for permaculture, for sculptural works and circus arts. It is a place to care for the land and to eat organic food, and to be inspired and inspire our kids and our elders.
http://www.UnifierFestival.com
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FAIRY & HUMAN RELATIONS CONGRESS – 20th Anniversary
June 25-29, 2020 Twisp, Washington
Fairy Congress is devoted to promoting communication and co-creation with nature spirits, devas and the faery realms. Are you one of the enchanted ones who speaks, plays and works with the fairy realm, the fae, nature spirits, angels or even dragons? Or are you simply curious and wanting to learn more? People from all walks of life, who want to learn to, set this June weekend aside as their very favorite. Profound teachings affect deep personal change as we work with friends across the veil, to bring LOVE into the planet, all shared with like minded friends who soon become family.
http://www.fairycongress.com
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MYSTIC RISING TBA
June Ashland, Oregon
By sharing our gifts, supporting one another, and learning with more of the tools that can empower us, we can integrate these new lifestyle choices while enjoying ecstatic music & Edutainment! “It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community – a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.”
http://www.mysticrisingfestival.org/index.php
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RAINBOW GATHERING
July 1-7, 2020 Location TBA the week before [SINCE 1972]
The Rainbow Family gathers every year in the National Forests of North America, always during the week of July 1-7. The peak of the Gathering on July 4 begins with morning silence, broken by a community prayer for world peace and followed by a full day of (acoustic) music, dancing, feasting, and celebration. The event runs on the principle of communal collaboration with everyone bringing and giving what they have. Food is donated to the many kitchens that are responsible for feeding the Gathering, free of charge. The use of money is taboo, and prohibited items include alcohol, firearms, and sound amplifiers.
When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow — Old Native American Prophecy
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/
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NOMADICO
July 3-5, 2020 Gore, VIrginia
For three wild and wondrous days, Meso Creso invites you to exchange stories, express creative visions, explore rich cultural traditions, and experience deep connection. Nomadico is the unlikely fairy tale we all create and animate, bringing together wayfarers and visionaries, artists and alchemists, dancers and dreamers. Expect the global beats Meso Creso is known for, and so much more: immersive experiences and participatory art; vibrant cultural exchange and exploratory workshops; all-night dancing and live performances; yoga and healing activities; nature walks and camping under the stars; diverse theme camps; close-knit community and collaboration; and creativity without boundaries.
https://nomadicofestival.com/
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BASS COAST MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
July 10-13, 2020 Merritt, BC, Canada
The rich culture that surrounds our music is a creative community of artists, scientists, designers, yogi’s, environmentalists, freedom fighters, business minds, intellectuals, party-goers, poets and dancers. We believe the Bass Coast community is a supportive environment where we hope to inspire each participant to find deeper layers of themselves.
http://basscoast.ca
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OREGON COUNTRY FAIR
July 10-12, 2020 Veneta, Oregon [Since 1969]
The Oregon Country Fair has 17 stages featuring hundreds of world class entertainers and performers, hand craft artisans and gourmet food creators lining up to provide, once again, an experience unequaled in the festival world. Dress up and come ready to participate in a time-of-your-life cultural immersion that nourishes the spirit. Explore living artfully and authentically on Earth, and transform culture in magical, joyous and healthy ways. The Oregon Country Fair creates a world unlike any other in a magical wooded setting.
http://www.oregoncountryfair.org
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LUMINOSITY GATHERING
July 14-17, 2020 Sunshine Coast, BC, Canada
Luminosity Gathering is a weekend of music, art, learning, and community based on the ideals of conscious learning, radical self expression, and the experience of transformation. The festival brings cutting edge musicians, visionary artists, and teachers from around the globe to the beautiful temperate rainforest of British Columbia to provide a truly immersive experience.
http://www.luminositygathering.com
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NORTHERN NIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 17-19, 2020 Piercy, CA
Northern Nights is a one-of-a-kind festival located in Cook’s Valley campground in the red woods of Northern California. It is a transformative music festival with yoga, workshops, three stages and a silent disco, art, fashion, hammock lounges, a very special cannabis expo, and so much more!
https://www.northernnights.org/
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PLANTS enCHANT
July 17-20, 2020 Salem Oregon
In devotion to song, ceremony & heart felt communion with the healing plant Kin-dom. This gathering is intended to develop and strengthen ‘medicine culture’ thru the healing arts of holistic education, song-sharing, life-as-ceremony, and supportive community. It recognizes ‘medicines’ as the force of nature that cures dis-ease, that takes us from being sick to being free. This event aligns more with ‘deep herbalism‘, which cultivates a relationship thru plants to the healing presence of Nature, a pro-active approach to health, and less with the ‘shallow herbalism’ of ‘take the tincture and make the symptoms go away’, a greener version of the pharmaceutical model. It acknowledges plants as elders in the society of nature as it exists on planet earth, and therefore teachers to the adolescent human species. As such, they can keep us aligned with the healthy functioning of the planetary metabolism, mirrored in our own inner and social ecologies. Plants enChant is intended to honor and give space for their wisdom, to activate our abilities to receive it, and put this guidance into practice.
http://singingalive.org/plants-enchant/
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EVOLVE MUSIC & AWARENESS FESTIVAL TBA
July Moncton, NB, Canada
“This festival has decided to say from its inception, ‘How can we get as many people turned on to living in a way that’s connected with the planet, as much as we possibly can?” —Michael Franti
Evolve is an annual 3-day summer celebration of music, culture, and social awareness. From its start in 2000 as a grassroots music and awareness festival featuring local bands, the festival has grown to showcase world-class performers from around the globe. Evolve also plays host to workshops that inform spectators about social issues such as personal wellbeing and environmental awareness.
http://www.evolvefestival.com
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BIG DUB FESTIVAL
July 21-26, 2020 Artemas, Pennsylvania
Big Dub Festival is the crossroads where great music & festivities meets human interaction. There are multiple stages of music with entertainment throughout each night until 6am, daily workshops, drum circles, bonfires, yoga, and more.
http://www.bigdubfestival.com
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CASCADIA NW Arts and Music Festival
July 23-26, 2020 Granite Falls, Washington State
Extraordinary Possibilities : Explorations in Art, Music & Nature. In true NW style, we create our festival together and are seeking diverse participation from our region and beyond. Three days of camping with music, art, workshops, performances & artisan vending at the beautiful Masonic Family Campgrounds in Granite Falls Washington! One hour NE of Seattle.
http://www.CascadiaNW.com
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SHAMBALA MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 24-27, 2020 Salmo, BC, Canada
Shambhala Music Festival was born from a vision as grassroots as it gets. On a sunny Labour Day weekend back 1998, some 500 people gathered at the Salmo River Ranch for a party that showcased local art and music. Since those early, heady days, Shambhala grew with enthusiasm by word of mouth, quickly becoming a staple event for the West Coast underground electronic music scene. Today it attracts world renowned DJs and artists and some of the most eclectic, energetic fans in the universe. Shambhala is built on Shambhalove which shines bright to this day.
http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com
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OPEN MIND FESTIVAL
July 27 – Aug 2, 2020 La Patrie, Quebec, Canada
The OpenMind festival is a transformational gathering, a celebration of life in balance, a co-creation focused on visionary arts, well-being and intentional, community, music and festivities, free expression and dance , the realization of dreams, the learning of a lifestyle in harmony as well as the experience of deep and magical moments!
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ELEMENTS GATHERING
August 6-12, 2020 Springville, California
Join Elements third annual tribal consciousness gathering! If you’ve ever felt that SOMETHING is missing in your life, you could be missing your TRIBE! Elements brings together top instructors in Ancestral skills to awaken your instincts. 3,000 year-old sequoia trees create a truly magical setting as we come together at a 5,000 year-old traditional gathering place of native peoples. Make a basket, start a fire by rubbing sticks together, sing and dance, camp and connect with your community. Live music around the campfire every evening. Fantastic kids program, too!
http://www.elementsgathering.com
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ARISE FESTIVAL TBA
August Loveland, Colorado
The multi-genre music festival offers 7 stages of world class performances ranging from funk, reggae, bluegrass, jam, hip-hop, rock, electronic, folk to conscious roots music. Other primary attractions include all day offerings of yoga, workshops, art, film, activism, a renowned Children’s Village, and all the fun and co-creative excitement that can be packed into a 3-day camping festival. All told, ARISE will feature well over 200 scheduled performances and presentations throughout.
http://arisefestival.com
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BELOVED SACRED ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL TBA
August Tidewater, Oregon
Beloved is a model for a culture that understands the depth of our connection with each other, to the planet, and to our souls. We respectfully present sacred music from diverse global traditions; and see conscious dance music as fitting into the broader context of sacred and healing music. We also host interactive art installations, live painting, local organic cuisine, and workshops on yoga, healing, relationships, social and environmental justice, and the music and wisdom of ancient cultures. Our goal is to dissolve the boundaries that isolate us through music, dance, and play. We demand of ourselves that we deepen our own connection to, and respect for, the earth and that we educate and inspire participants to do the same.
http://www.belovedfestival.com
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INSHALA FESTIVAL
August 7-10, 2020 Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Join us for this transformational festival, as we step into a new cycle of Creation & Celebration. Experience an extensive lineage of inspired Conference workshops; Connect and dance with a variety of local and international music performers. Enjoy the family friendly activities for all ages and interests. Inshala 8 – “Rebirth”
http://www.inshala.ca
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MOTION NOTION FESTIVAL TBA
August Golden, BC, Canada
Come be part of an exploration of electronic music, art, nature, and the infinite in the heart of Rocky Mountains near Golden BC, Canada. Motion Notion has always been something off the beaten path and a thing of discovery and amazement for all. Welcome to freedom and growth!
http://www.motionnotion.com
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FAERIEWORLDS
August 21-23, 2020 Hornings Hideout, North Plains, Oregon
We believe that the revitalizing, healing and transforming spirit of faerie is alive and moving actively in our lives: faerie inspires and provokes, heals and reveals, illuminates and transcends. At Faerieworlds, we invite you to enter the Realm as your magical self and release the beautiful, magical faerie spirit that’s inside you! Array yourself in your best faerie finery! Join us and find new friends and discover wonderful enchantments of art, music and dance. Surrender to the glamour of faerie and let your heart and spirit soar in the woodland and under the stars!
http://www.faerieworlds.com
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TRAVELING SHAMANS CAMP
August 21-23, 2020 Hotchkiss, Colorado
Traveling Shamans Camp is an annual gathering of shamans, visionary artists, healers and wisdom teachers featuring performances, dances, storytelling, sweat lodges, ceremonies, and workshops. Our mission is to preserve shamanic practices by facilitating the public experience of those practices by elders in the field.
http://.ShamansCamp.com
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BURNING MAN
August 30-Sept 7, 2020 Black Rock City, Nevada
Once a year, tens of thousands of participants gather to create Black Rock City in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. They depart one week later, having created unbelievable artistic experiences, and having left no trace whatsoever.
Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society. We believe that the experience of Burning Man can produce positive spiritual change in the world. The touchstone of value in our culture will always be immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, embodied ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship. And we will always burn the Man.
http://www.burningman.com
BHAKTI FEST WEST TBA
September Joshua Tree, California
Bhakti Fest is a four day music festival celebrating devotion through chanting, yoga, meditation and community. The Center for Spiritual Studies Inc, Bhakti and Shaktifest’s Non-Profit Organization is a social enterprise dedicated to supporting collective evolution, and has raised funds for several causes and charities over the past 44 years. All of our presenters embody the spirit of Bhakti – deep devotion. We gather on 450 acres of inspiring desert land to express our love and devotion as one community through an enchanting array of activities.
http://bhaktifest.com
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IMAGINE MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
September 10-13, 2020 Orcas Island, Washington
In this age of immense change our entire culture is being reevaluated. In this unprecedented time of intellectual and spiritual freedom we have the opportunity to create a brand new way of thinking and feeling. One day at a time we are discovering a new language for interacting. One moment at a time we are inventing new ways to celebrate.
http://imagineorcasisland.com
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EARTHDANCE FLORIDA TBA
September Lake Wales, Florida
2016 is a landmark year for deep peace-making and true environmental stewardship: a Global Shift is underway. Our international, cross-generational tribe of evolutionaries transcends national borders and divisions through the universal language of music, as we empower people and catalyze institutions. Together we are building a peaceful and sustainable world. Come Celebrate Earthdance Global’s 20th Year Anniversary of Giving Peace a Dance.
https://www.facebook.com/earthdanceflorida/
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EMERGENCE EXPERIENCE 3DL 2020 Vision
October 1-5, 2020 TBA
The Three Days of Light Gathering is a space to learn about Sustainable Living, Natural Health & Wellness, Personal/Spiritual Development, Community/Culture & Activism, and experience new things. Yoga, Movement, Ecstatic Dance, Team Building, and much, much more! All there to help elevate and inspire you!
www.EmergenceCreativeSpace.com
DESERT HEARTS TBA
October Los Coyotes, CA
This isn’t just another meaningless party. This is about finding a new kind of freedom. A point where you reach your mental breaking point and come to your specific realization that is meaningful at exactly the right place, exactly the right time, and exactly the stage of life that you are currently in. Desert Hearts is about coming together in love, collectively, individually, and supernaturally. This is about the healing of land and souls. This is about touching heaven, even if only just for a few days. What we are doing is real. It’s more real and more true than anything we’ve ever been privileged enough to be a part of. It’s time to wake up, into a dream world where real life is mystically blissful–to a place where we won’t ever want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than our wildest dreams. This is what Desert Hearts is all about. We Are All Desert Hearts.
https://festival.deserthearts.us/
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LEAF FESTIVAL – Lake Eden Arts Festival
October 22-25, 2020 Black Mountain, North Carolina
LEAF Festival celebrates 20 years of connecting cultures and creating community through music and arts. This kid-friendly setting (with childcare available) is perfect for family and friends to be a part of something greater, as the twice-year festival funds arts education programs for youth locally in Asheville, NC and globally in 10 countries. Enjoy a dynamic array of arts across 5 stages and 7 interactive villages that includes music, dance, healing art, visionary art, folk art, handcrafts, fire-spinning, poetry, puppetry and so much more. Let the energy flow as you align your body, mind and spirit with more than 50 healing arts workshops, hiking, biking, swimming and canoeing. The powerful setting of this intimate festival is the original site of Black Mountain College, where the first geodesic dome was constructed. Feel the connectivity at this family-friendly lake setting, nestled against the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains with plenty of room to explore your surroundings…or yourself.
http://www.theleaf.org
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GLOBAL ECLIPSE has moved to Patagonia (by Sumbiosis Events)
December 10-16, 2020 Patagonia
Global Eclipse is comprised of event producers, artists, and creators from all over the world. The core of the group is Symbiosis who have produced Symbiosis Gathering in California since 2005, an annular eclipse gathering in Nevada in 2012, co-produced the Total Solar Eclipse in north Queensland, Australia in 2012, and Oregon Eclipse in 2017. The 2017 event brought together 12 festivals from around the world in a collaboration to celebrate a solar eclipse. The 2020 event will change the game again. https://globaleclipse.com/
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COSMIC CONVERGENCE
New Years Eve Dec 30, 2020 – Jan 2, 2021 Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Ready for an amazing adventure? Spend New Year’s in Guatemala, gather on the shores of Lake Atitlan, under the watchful protection of a living volcano, dance to your favorite beats, study permaculture, make new friends with indigenous locals, and take home memories to last a lifetime. A convergence of past, present, and future, the objective is to expose the attendees to ancestral and post-industrial ways of living to provoke a shift in consciousness to rethink what lifestyles are possible in post-2012 reality. Including Psy Family Guatemala, with the primordial objective of the expansion of our consciousness until we reach levels of cosmic meditation in movement, influenced by the most high rhythm frequencies of primitive sounds, ultrasonic and psychedelic. The gathering forms part of an ongoing international tribal revival.
http://www.cosmicconvergencefestival.org/
