(2020 dates to be confirmed) There are a number of trance festivals around Europe, but no other besides Aequinoctium Vernum ever mentioned the presence of farm animals. Dazzled by the mental images of psychedelic sheep, we didn’t hesitate to add it to our list. However, according to arrangers there will be also be yoga, sauna […] » read more
Transylvaliens Festival
Dates To Be Announced By the looks of it there will be plenty of music, plenty of fresh air, promising light shows and an opportunity to set up hammocks. What’s not to like? Organisers say: “Transylvaliens Festival is a transformational psychedelic arts gathering in the wild Transylvanian nature focused on celebrating diversity through music, arts […] » read more
ZNA Gathering
(2020 dates to be confirmed) A week of trance, love and unity at a beautiful lakeside in Portugal – that’s what ZNA Gatherings are aiming for according to their impressively psychedelic website. As the organisers put it: “Some of us have been exposed to huge amounts of psychedelic emotions back in the nineties, many of […] » read more
Connection Festival
(2020 dates to be confirmed) Connection Festival offers a week filled with Goa trance and a limited number of participants (1500, to be precise). Their AfterMovie from 2018 probably gives the best introduction about what to expect: The organisers say : “This year we go a little later in September: September 17 to 24: Right […] » read more
Irish Decompression (Burning Man)
Dates To Be Announced From what we can make out, this is an Irish version of Burning Man with the chance for artists and performers to come as participants and infused with Celtic spirit. The organisers say: ‘Ladies and gentiles, boys and girls, people and persons, lads and lassies. We are go for launch! We […] » read more
Summer of Eros Festival
(2018 dates to be confirmed) The Summer of Eros is a summer long festival with workshops and circles exploring sacred sexuality in the Valle de Sensaciones (Valley of Sensations) in Andalucia, Spain. The organisers say: ‘This summer, for the first time, Valle de Sensaciones is producing a sensational immersion into the lands of Eros. Together […] » read more
Being Gathering
(2018 dates to be confirmed) The Being Gathering (formerly known as the Be-In Gathering, perhaps a throwback to the 1967 San Francisco Be-In for the hippie historians among you) is organised by the same team that makes the Boom Festival every two years, and is held in the same location by a lake in central […] » read more
Ancient Trance Festival
Ancient Trance Festival is a celebration of ancient music fused with electronic music. The festival organisers say: “For us, “Ancient Trance” means inviting cultural diversity and preserving music as a handmade cultural technique. The sound of the Jaw Harp, as one of the oldest instruments of humanity, becomes the mediator between the most diverse styles […] » read more
Buddhafield Festival
With 4000 people, Buddhafield hits a sweet spot between a small, cosy festival and an event big enough to have a lot going on. Infused with the philosophy of Buddhism, this is a very conscious festival without alcohol or drugs. The festival organizers say: “Buddhafield Festival is a joyful gathering of around 4,000 people, celebrating […] » read more
Travel Storytelling Getaway
(2019 dates to be confirmed) Following their Travel Storytelling Festival last year, there’s now going to be a Travel Storytelling Getaway in February. We guess that’s like a more intimate version of the previous event with talks, jams, films, music and plenty of travellers, voyagers, vagabonds, new age nomads and maybe the odd tourist. The […] » read more
Free Tree Open Air Festival
Free Tree Open Air Festival is a bit more mainstream culture (alcohol, bands on stage) than many of the small festivals that we include on our calendar but hey, each to their own.. A friend described the festival as: “A Green Event with lots of different Music Acts of all genres, poetry Slam, Travel Stories, […] » read more
The Old Saw Mill Garden Party
(2020 dates to be confirmed) The Old Saw Mill Garden Party is held in a secret location and there are only 500 places available. Details of what the festival is about are few and far between but isn’t it nice to be surprised? The festival organisers say: “This Is Not Your Average Garden Party! ‘As […] » read more
Small is Beautiful Festival
(2019 dates to be confirmed) Read the book? Small is Beautiful from E.F Schumacher? We’ve looked at the back cover blurb a number of times and made plans to read it one day when intelligence upgrades can be downloaded at will, but if you were a thinking person and are looking for a festival where […] » read more
Snow Surf Contact Jam Festival
We love this one. Contact improv in the Carpathian Mountains of the Ukraine. Looks like a really cosy, intimate, special CI festival at a time of year when not much else is going on! The organisers say: ‘Seven days of contact impro jams and laboratories, snowboarding, skiing, music, bodywork, sauna singing, tea ceremonies, art and […] » read more
Nomads Festival
(2020 dates to be confirmed) Whereas many travellers are anxious to distinguish themselves from tourists, ‘nomads’ have gone one better and are earnestly trying to create an identity as dumpster-diving, hitchhiking, couchsurfing, telecommuting wanderers who come together every now and then to share tips and stories of living on next to nothing in the First […] » read more
What Is Music? Arts Gathering
If you’re a musician and you’re free in July you should be in the What is Music Gathering in the north of Spain. Imagine being with a whole troupe of creative people from musicians to artists to dancers doing workshops on flamenco rhythms, clowning, creating music with the voice, Indian melodies and more. Looks like […] » read more
Spark Liberosis
For many of us the original Burning Man in the US is just a bit too far away and perhaps there’s a feeling that we wish we’d gone 20 years ago… Much of the founder Burning spirit might be found however in the regional Burns which now reach as far even as Austria where the […] » read more
Space of Love Festival
Space of Love Festival is held on the Swedish isle of Oland and so is a great place to meet some Scandinavian hippies running workshops from family constellation to yoga to African dance. “There we celebrate and create, meet new and old friends, and try new paths to discover more about ourselves, one another and […] » read more
Es Amor Festival
The Es Amor Festival (You Are Love Festival) has the motto Explore Explain Express and is unusual as most festivals go in that the only tickets are moneyfree – you register and you get a ticket but no money changes hands. Set outside an ongoing community project in Portugal, it’s the usual mix of yoga, […] » read more
Tantra 4 Gay Men – Tantra Love Festival
Tantra (Sanskrit: तन्त्र) is an ancient Indian tradition of beliefs and meditation and ritual practices that seeks to channel the divine energy of the macrocosm or godhead into the human microcosm. Here we have a festival for gay and bisexual men keen to go deeper into themselves, to delve into becoming something new, and to push their […] » read more