Flow Arts Regionals
Flow Arts Regionals
These FLOW ARTS REGIONALS are small training camps where you can learn to spin fire & poi, hoop, juggle, do acro-yoga, slack line or aerial silks…they are camp out gatherings over a weekend that allow you to start anew or improve your skill and learn the latest cool tricks. There have been at times, over 40 in the springtime, everyone wants to get tuned up before they appear at the big festivals. These events are loads of fun, the food and company are awesome and you gain a bit of skill while you’re having a great time.
Updated – February 2023, Flow Arts events are typical very small and produced a few months before. This often means that they don’t set dates until close to the event, so I’ve kept them up with last years dates for now. There is a new Facebook Group page for the Flow Arts Community with lots of info about whats going on across the country, and it is active! Check it out HERE.
Read our inspiring interview with Zan Moore, founder of Pacific Fire, and co-creator of many Flow Arts gatherings across the USA.
Flow Arts Events 2022
Flow Arts Events 2023
FLORIDA FLOW FEST
January 15, 2023 Ft. Lauderdale, FLA
Flow arts are forms of movement and dance that utilize props to enter a state of flow, described by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as an exhilarating transcendent way of being in which effortless control and peak skill seem to erase a sense of time. Flow arts props include poi, staff and hoops; dancers manipulate props to add to the expressive qualities of their dance. The result is an awe-inspiring visual spectacle of improvised movement that inspires an audience to reconsider kinetic possibilities.
FROSTBITE FLOW ARTS CAMP
February Cancelled 2023 East Troy, WI
Wisconsin’s first ever Flow Arts Camp, started in 2017. It’s a place for Flow Artists to gather and share their love for Flow Arts. A Flow Arts Camp is where people who manipulate a variety of circus props and create body movement can learn and grow as an artist. Circus props can include: Hoops, poi, staff, aerial silks, lyra, juggling, fans and many more. Body movement can include: dance, yoga, meditation and more.
TUSCON JUGGLING FESTIVAL
March 2-5, 2023 Tuscon, Arizona
This event will be our 14th festival! It’s an informal 3-day event held at Catalina State Park on the north side of Tucson. Accommodations will be camping primarily, although there are some hotels relatively close by. The festival operates entirely by donation, however the park requires a small camping fee. Plenty of time to juggle, hike, juggle, eat, and juggle some more.
MONDO JUGGLING & UNICYCLE FESTIVAL
March 2-5, 2023 St. Paul, Minnesota
MONDO is the largest, annual gathering of jugglers, unicyclers and yo-yo enthusiasts in the Midwest, averaging 500-700 participants each year. We are fortunate to have some of the most talented people in each discipline attend MONDO on a regular basis. The highlight of the weekend is our public show, which traditionally features some awesome talent from a variety of disciplines.
FLOWMOTION SYMPOSIUM
March 11-13 2022 (2023 TBA) Bloomington IN
Imagine a place where you have the freedom to reinvent your way of learning, an environment that celebrates joyous, intentional play. A space designed for growth, connection and fellowship. FlowMotion Symposium “Invention” is a metropolitan cirque and movement arts conference and performance weekend curated for those who seek an educational yet fun-filled learning environment.
FLOWSTORM REVIVAL
March 30 – April 2, 2023 Austin, Texas
Flowstorm, the world’s first Flow Arts & Sustainability festival. Held on a sustainable farm and eco-village on the outskirts of Austin, TX, this magical weekend of camping and learning includes flow workshops and performances by some of the world’s best flow artists, workshops on permaculture, organic gardening, and natural building, live music and art, and much more. Our goal is to cross-pollinate regenerative disciplines and create a truly sustainable flow culture!
https://www.facebook.com/FlowstormTx
FLAME FESTIVAL
April 13-16, 2023 LaFayette, Georgia
Flame Festival is the Southeast’s regional gathering of Flow Artists to share knowledge and play together. It is part of an emerging network of festivals that feature Flow Arts workshops all day (around 100 over the weekend), and a large fire-dancing circle with music into the night. The Flow Arts include fire-dancing, poi, staff, hula-hoop, juggling, dance, fans, whips, and whatever else you can imagine that gets you into a state of flow. Festival participants consistently leave full inspiration and new ideas for deepening their own practice of Flow, and connected to new friends in the community. Light the fires of passion, connectivity, and expression!
http://flamefestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/flamefestival/
IGNIGHT FESTIVAL
May (2023 dates TBA) Joshua Tree, California
Joining the amazing 2016 event schedule at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, the IgNight Fire Flow Conference returns to this unique high desert venue. Flow, for the uninitiated, is an exhilarating transcendent way of being, in which effortless control and peak skill seems to erase a sense of time. IgNight helps attendees enter the flow state by offering over 190 classes in what are referred to as the “Flow Arts” – including Poi (aka fire dancing), juggling, circus arts, warrior arts, fan and wand movement, hooping, movement, yoga and more.
http://www.ignightconference.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ignightflow
SPINSANITY FLOW DOWN
May 17-21, 2023 Charlotte, MI
To produce a gathering of shamans, visionary artists, healers, & wisdom teachers whose goal is to preserve cultural earth-based practices such as sweat lodges, shamanic journeying, drum circles and other shamanic practices.Traveling Shamans Camp was designed to accommodate as many multi-cultural events, vendors and performers as possible and to be as inclusive as possible while staying with our goal of supporting earth-based practices.
KINETIC FIRE
May 18-21, 2023 College Corner, Ohio
Kinetic Fire is a Midwest regional gathering of Flow Artists to share knowledge and play together. It is part of an emerging network of festivals that feature Flow Arts workshops all day (around 100 over the weekend), and a large fire-dancing circle with music into the night. The Flow Arts include fire-dancing, poi, staff, hula-hoop, juggling, dance, fans, whips, and whatever else you can imagine that gets you into a state of flow. Festival participants consistently leave full inspiration and new ideas for deepening their own practice of Flow, and connected to new friends in the community. Light the fires of passion, connectivity, and expression!
WILDFIRE RETREAT
May 26-29, 2023 Ashford, Conn.
WildFire is the East Coast’s premier spinning and fire arts training camp. Our core missions are to spread the spinning arts and build community connections among spinning artists. Each of our events offers a diverse selection of over 100 classes on poi, hoop, dance, teaching, safety, business, performance, drumming… and so much more. It is a “camping” style retreat, where all meals and hot showers are provided. WildFire is the perfect spot for you to share, grow, discover, and learn with our spinning and fire arts community. This event is not open to the public or non-spinning artist (beginners are very welcome).
https://www.wildfireretreat.org/
https://www.facebook.com/WildFireRetreat/
FIREDRUMS ~ 20th Anniversary
June 1-4, 2023 Lassen National Forest, CA
FireDrums is a California regional gathering of Flow Artists to share knowledge and play together. It is the hub event of the emerging network of festivals that feature Flow Arts workshops all day (around 100 over the weekend), and a large fire-dancing circle with music into the night. The Flow Arts include fire-dancing, poi, staff, hula-hoop, juggling, dance, fans, whips, and whatever else you can imagine that gets you into a state of flow. Dancers from around the world and instructors from overseas converge to create the longest-standing Flow event in the country. Festival participants consistently leave full inspiration and new ideas for deepening their own practice of Flow, and connected to new friends in the community. Light the fires of passion, connectivity, and expression!
photo by Violet Visions
PLAY THINK MOVEMENT & FLOW ARTS FESTIVAL
June 14-18, 2023 Harrodsburg, Kentucky
PlayThink is a family friendly celebration of Art, Sustainability, Music, Performance, FLOW, and Life itself. The PlayThink Movement is an inclusive, participatory, community oriented culture of vitality, fun, and well-being, rooted in the belief that each of us has the power to re-shape our own experience mentally and physically to live life to the fullest. We co-create a space to explore and express ourselves through movement, skill-prop manipulation, and art.The PlayThink Festival offers an atmosphere of magic, letting you experience dance parties, circus camp, and four full days of play just for you and yours. Inspiring playshops, presentations, and discussions will be led by some of the best known flow arts regional instructors. Musicians, Dancers, Artists, and Lovers of Life will converge in Berea, Kentucky with their full range of unique talents offering a wide range of life enhancing skills and thoughts.
NORTHWEST FLOW FEST
June 30- July 2, 2023 Seattle, WA
Spontaneous Dance Parties! Unique & Magical Vendors! Mind-Blowing Performance! Expansive Workshops! Northwest Flow Fest is a FREE multi-day flow arts festival in the heart of Seattle featuring a community fire jam, a full day of workshops, play and performance! Workshops from flow arts, circus arts, dance & yoga instructors from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, Northwest Flow Fest represents a special partnership between FLOW FESTS and SEATTLE FLOW ARTS COLLECTIVE, one of the only 501(C)(3) organizations supporting flow arts in the nation. These events are FREE to attend, but to get the most out of the workshops on festival day you’ll need a full-day workshop pass: $30 early bird, $60 at event. Find all that, and more during the full festival day on Saturday, July 1st in Volunteer Park. Instructor applications open here: http://flowfests.com/applications
GREAT LAKES FLOW FESTIVAL
July 27-30, 2023 Thousand Suns, Lapeer, Michigan
Michigan’s premier, multi-disciplinary fire and flow arts festival centered around workshops and a learning environment. With nightly stage performances, live music, and much more. It is our mission to help facilitate the growth and sharing nature of the fire and flow arts community while maintaining a safe, supportive, and inspirational environment.
WILDFIRE RETREAT
August 15-18, 2023 Ashford, Conn.
WildFire is the East Coast’s premier spinning and fire arts training camp. Our core missions are to spread the spinning arts and build community connections among spinning artists. Each of our events offers a diverse selection of over 100 classes on poi, hoop, dance, teaching, safety, business, performance, drumming… and so much more. It is a “camping” style retreat, where all meals and hot showers are provided. WildFire is the perfect spot for you to share, grow, discover, and learn with our spinning and fire arts community. This event is not open to the public or non-spinning artist (beginners are very welcome).
https://www.wildfireretreat.org/
https://www.facebook.com/WildFireRetreat/
photo by Zach Hagy
BOULDER JUGGLING FEST
September 2-4, 2022 (no dates yet) Boulder, Colorado
Welcome to Boulder Juggling Festival 2018! We’ll have workshop, games, a show, and more! We’re back at the Casey Middle School gym this year on Friday and Saturday, and we will be hosting the show at the beautiful Boulder Circus Center.
MIDWEST FLOW FEST
September 16, 2023 Chicago, Ill.
Spontaneous Dance Parties! Unique & Magical Vendors! Mind-Blowing Performance! Expansive Workshops! Midwest Flow Fest is a FREE single day flow arts festival in the heart of Chicago’s ChinaTown, at Ping Tom Memorial Park. Midwest Flow Fest features workshops from flow arts, circus arts, dance & yoga instructors from the Midwest region and beyond. Flow Fests events are FREE to attend, but to get the most out of the workshops you’ll need a full-day workshop pass: $30 early bird, $60 at event. Flow Fests events are produced by Monkey Dust Productions and are non profit projects, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501c3 organization. Instructor applications open here: http://flowfests.com/applications
PORTLAND JUGGLING FESTIVAL
September (no 2023 dates yet) Portland, Oregon
The Portland Juggling Festival is produced by The Portland Jugglers, an all volunteer non-profit organization. Members meet Wednesday evenings on the Reed College Sports Center to juggle together, often joined by some of the best amateur and professional juggling talent in Portland. It’s a mini festival every week!
SOUTHWEST FLOW FEST
October 14-16, 2022 Flagstaff, Arizona
Master Ong, is a representation of our inner self. Many of us of this era are in search of the path or the direction towards the glorious sunset. But it lays within us, the direction, the answer, its the process not the product, the journey not the destination. The master in each of us lays within us, we are masters of our own time, our art. We have the power and the strength to summon as long as we know it exists within us. Love the plateau. Love thy practice. This is a NON ALCOHOL NON DRUG event.
FLORIDA FLOW FEST – Tampa Bay
November, 2023 (Date TBA) Tampa, Florida
Spontaneous Dance Parties! Unique & Magical Vendors! Mind-Blowing Performance! Expansive Workshops! Florida Flow Fest is FINALLY COMING TO the TAMPA BAY AREA! Florida Flow Fest is a FREE single day flow arts festival featuring workshops from flow arts, circus arts, dance & yoga instructors from the Southeast region and beyond. Flow Fests events are FREE to attend, but to get the most out of the workshops you’ll need a full-day workshop pass: $30 early bird, $60 at event. Flow Fests events are produced by Monkey Dust Productions and are non profit projects, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501c3 organization. Instructor applications open here: http://flowfests.com/applications
FLORIDA FLOW FEST – Ft Lauderdale
January 14, 2024 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Spontaneous Dance Parties! Unique & Magical Vendors! Mind-Blowing Performance! Expansive Workshops! Florida Flow Fest established in 2011 as the first flow arts festival in the state of Florida, returns to Ft Lauderdale to kick off our 14th year of Flow Fests! Florida Flow Fest is a FREE single day flow arts festival featuring workshops from flow arts, circus arts, dance & yoga instructors from the Southeast region and beyond. Flow Fests events are FREE to attend, but to get the most out of the workshops you’ll need a full-day workshop pass: $30 early bird, $60 at event. Flow Fests events are produced by Monkey Dust Productions and are non profit projects, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501c3 organization. Instructor applications open here after July 2023: http://flowfests.com/applications
photo by Kyer Wiltshire