An eclectic and growing selection of small, alternative festivals (including a couple we organise: the Festival of Creativity in the Czech Republic 19-29 June, 2020, and the Sahara yoga, meditation & dance retreats in Morocco 12-18 January & 2-8 February, 2020)

January

• The Road Junky Sahara Retreat 20-26 January, Morocco

February

• Winter Warmer Festival 1-3 February, Emerson College, Forest Row, England
• Skiing on Skin 10-16 February, Kisakeskus, Finland
• Road Junky Sahara Meditation and Contact Improvisation Retreat 17-23 February, Morocco

March

• Fuerteventura Contact Festival 2-8 March, Lajares, Canary Islands, Spain

April

• OsterImproFestival 18-22 April, Göttingen, Germany
• Valencia Contact Impro Festival 18-22 April , Valencia, Spain
• Spiritual Dance Festival – Conscious Easter 18-22 April, Barcelona, Spain
• Ibiza Spirit Festival 28 April, Ibiza, Spain

May

• Space to Emerge 3-6 May, Lake District, England
• Beltane Fire Festival 3-6 May, East Sussex, England
• Tribal Talisman Festival 10-12 May, Budapest, Hungary
• Transition Festival 14-21 May, Donana, Spain
• Deep Water Dance Festival 15-19 May, Padova, Italy
• Wood Festival 15-18 May, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK
• AllFestival 17-19 May, Litomerice, Czech Republic
• AlgoMech Festival 17-19 May, Sheffield, England
• Kokopelli World Festival 18-19 May, Gullegem, Belgium
• Burning Nest 20-27 May, Exeter, England
• Heartbeat Women 20 May-2 June, Bad Kohlgrub, Germany
• Gaia Family Tribe Summer Camp 24-29 May, Grosmont, England
• Roma Tribal Meeting 24-26 May, Rome, Italy
• Green Vibrations 30-31 May, Enschede, Netherlands
• Earth Garden 30 May-2 June, Attard, Malta
• Something to Smile About 31 May-2 June, Hatfield, South Yorkshire, England

June

• Space of Love 31 May-9 June, Böda Sand, Öland, Sweden
• Italy Festival of Contact Improvisation 2-8 June, Umbria, Italy
• Portugal Tantra Festival 3-8 June, South Portugal
• MidBurn 4 – 9 June, Negev Desert, Israel
• Meadows in the Mountains 6-9 June, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
• Wurzel Festival 6-9 June, Niedergörsdorf, Germany
• Seedcamp Festival 7-9 June, Kautzen, Austria
• Vurige Tongen 9-10 June, Ruigoord, Netherlands
• Tantra Spirit Festival 10-15 June, by the Adriatic Sea, Croatia
• Rumble Festival 14-16 June, Chesham, England
• High On Life Ecstatic Dance Festival 14-17 June, Alentejo, Portugal
• Earthsong Camps 14 June – 28 July, County Clare, Ireland
• Stonehenge Summer Solstice Gathering 18-21 June, Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
• Art-Labyrinth Festival 18-23 June, Moldova
• Sacred Dance Gathering 19-23 June, Czech Republic
• The Living Village Festival 19-23 June, Dalfsen, Netherlands
• The Road Junky Festival of Creativity 21 June-1 July, in the hills of the Czech Republic 100 people gathering for a week of creative workshops and music around the fire in a forest setting. A gathering free from alcohol and electricity, and we take care of all the food, tea and coffee, as we eat together in a circle every day. Read more
• Oceanfest 21-23 June, Devon, England
• Agni Yoga Festival 21-24 June, Baldellou, Spain
• Irish Aerial Dance Fest 22 June-7 July, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland
• Own Spirit Festival 24-29 June, Baldellou, Spain
• Sexsibility Festival 25-30 June, Ängsbacka Kursgård, Sweden
• Drienok Festival 27-30 June, Mošovce, Slovakia
• Mandala Festival 27-30 June, Wanroij, Netherlands
• VII International Festival of Tantra Consciousness 28 June – 7 July, Here and Now Centre, Poland
• Nomads Festival 29 June, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Warsaw Flow Contact Improvisation Festival, 30 June-7 July, Poland
  A week of contact improvisation in one of Europe’s leading CI festivals.

July

• Mystic Mountain Festival 1- 7 July, Velebit Nature Park, Croatia
• Wake Up! Experiment 2-7 July, Bulgaria
• Hieros Gamos Festival 3-7 July, Zeewolde, Netherlands
• Timber Festival 3-5 July, Feanedock, UK
• Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival 4-7 July, Fontainebleau, France
• Natural High Healing Festival 4-7 July, Narvilinna, Uusikaupunki, Finland
• The International Forest Festival 5-7 July, Feanedock, the National Forest, Moira, England
• Mantra Sommer Festival 7 – 12 July, Oberlahr, Germany
• The Thousand and One 8-14 July, Grenoble area, France
• Slot Art Festival 9-13 July, Lubiąż, Poland
• Nowhere Festival 9-14 July, in Castejón de Monegros, Spain
• Funny Moon Festival 10-14 July, Valeč, Czech Republic
• G! Festival 11-13 July, Gøta, Faroe Islands
• Bodypainting Festival 11-13 July, Klagenfurt, Austria
• Noisily Festival 11-15 July, Leicestershire, England
• Feel Festival 11-15 July, Bergheider See, Germany
• Waha Festival 11-15 July, Bățanii Mari, Romania
• Festival Harmonic 12-14 July, Trigance, France
• Brainchild Festival 12-14 July, East Sussex, England
• Harmonic Festival 12-14 July, Trigance, France
• Sommerlejr 15-21 July, Thylejren, Denmark
• Buddhafield Festival 17-21 July, Taunton, Somerset, England
• Pachamama Festival 17-21 July, Switzerland
• Awake Dance Celebration 18-21 July, Portimão, Portugal
• Shrewsbury International Comedy Festival 18-21 July, Shrewsbury, England
• Stainsby Festival 19-21 July, Stainsby, Derbyshire, England
• Nation of Gondwana-Pyonen 19-21 July, Brandenburg, Germany
• Valley of the Arts 19-28 July, Kapolcs, Hungary
• Partycipation Festival 21-28 July, Austria
• Ripollesdansa Dance Festival 22-27 July, Ripoll, Spain
• Borderland 22-28 July, Boesdal Kalkbrud, Denmark
• Biodanza Tribal Gathering, 24-28 July, Winterswijk, Netherlands
• Gaia Gathering 25-28 July, Dzūkija, Lithuania
• Camp Bestival 25-28 July, Lulworth Estate, Dorset, England
• Zelenkovac Jazz Festival  25-28 July, Podrašnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Fanø Free Folk Festival 26-28 July, Fanø, Denmark
• Faces Festival 26-28 July, Karis, Finland
• Sadhaka Yoga Festival 27 July – 3 August, Orsennes, France
• Yiddish Summer Weimar 27 July – 3 August, Weimar, Germany
• Dance Camp East 27 July – 4 August, Suffolk, England
• Contact Meets Contemporary 29 July-4 August, Göttingen, Germany
• Ozora 29 July – 4 August, Dádpuszta, Hungary
• Tantra Festival 30 July – 4 August, Ängsbacka, Sweden
• The Spirit of Awen  31 July – 4 August, Arlingham, Gloucestershire, England

August

• Wilderness Festival 1-4 August, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, England
• The Green Gathering 1-4 August, Piercefield Park, Chepstow, UK
• Samsara Festival 3-11 August, Siófok, Hungary
• European Juggling Convention 3-11 August, Nottingham, England
• Andancas Dance Festival 4-10 August, Castelo de Vide, Portugal
• Spiritual Dance Festival 5-13 August, Clariana de Cardener, Spain
• Punk Rock Holiday 6-9 August, Tolmin, Slovenia
• Boomtown 7-11 August, Winchester, Hampshire, England
• Ancient Trance Festival 8-11 August, Taucha, Germany
• Guca Trumpet Festival 8-11 August, Guča, Serbia
• Impulse Festival 8-12 August, Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France
• Freiburg Contact Festival 8-14 August, Freiburg, Germany
• Finki Krautrock Festival 9-10 August, Hessen, Germany
• Sadhaka Tantra Festival 11-18 August, Orsennes, France
• New Healing Festival 12-19 August, Prignitz, Germany
• Beglika Festival 14-18 August, Golyam Beglik, Bulgaria
• Heart Culture Festival 15-18 August, Austria
• Green Man 15-18 August, Wales, UK
• Yaga Open-Air Gathering 15-19 August, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Ecstatic Dance Fest 15-22 August, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine
• Ezera Skanas 17 August, Kāla Ezers, Latvia
• Northern Permaculture Gathering  17-18 August, Oxford Island, Northern Ireland
• Wild Heart Gathering 17-21 August, Sussex, England
• ZNA Gathering 19-26 August, Montargil Lake, Portugal
• Heartbeat Festival 21-25 August, Osthessen, Germany
• Sexolution – the Sex-Positive Festival, near Vienna, Austria
• Slovenian Hula Hoop Convention 22-25 August, ​Dvor, Žužemberk, Slovenia
• Shambala Festival 22-25 August, Northamptonshire, England
• Roztoc Circus Festival 22-25 August, Prague, Czech Republic
• Small World Summer Festival 22-26 August, Headcorn, Kent, England
• Into The Wild 23-26 August, West Hoathly, Sussex, England
• Tantra 4 Gay Men – Tantra Love Festival 24-28 August, Glastonbury, England
• Floating Castle Festival 26 August – 1 September, Istria, Koper & Castle Snežnik, Slovenia
• Psy-Fi Festival 28 August-1 September, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• Phoenix Fire Convention 29 August-1 September, Hildburghausen, Germany

September

• Outlook Festival 4-9 September, Pula, Croatia
• Spiral Knights Eco-Fest 6-15 September, Evia Island, Greece
• Sound and Silence Festival 8-15 August, Portimão, Portugal
• Become Love Festival 13-15 September, Pommritz, Germany
• The Old Saw Mill Garden Party 13-16 September, Northallerton, England
• Bubble Festival 16-22 September, Malta
• Connection Festival 17-24 September, La Codosera, Spain
• J-Fest Juggling Convention 23-29 September, Antalya, Turkey

October

• Seekult Festival 11-12 October, Friedrichshafen, Germany
• Scottish Storytelling Festival 18-31 October, Edinburgh, Scotland
• European Biodanza Congress TBA, Punta Umbría, Huelva, Spain (2019 dates to be confirmed) 
• Contact Festival Austria TBA, Austria (2019 dates to be confirmed)

November

• Tantra Festival Mexico 10-14 November (yes, not in  Europe but a great escape option when the weather turns bad and it’s held in the Riviera Maya, ‘a luscious Carribean Paradise’..

December

• Israeli Contact Festival 24-29 December, Galilee and Tel Aviv, Israel

January 2020

• Road Junky Yoga and Creative Voice Sahara Retreat 12-18 January, Morocco – a week in the sand dunes of the Sahara with 20 other interesting travellers as we dance and sing under the full moon..

February

• Road Junky Sahara Meditation & Contact Improv Retreat 2-8 February,, Morocco – couldn’t make it in January? Join us a heart-opening week in the Sahara Desert with meditation in the mornings and contact improvisation dance in the afternoons.