Hi everyone,
I’m often asked why I organise small festivals and the answer is always the same: I organise the kind of events I want to go to…
I like small events of no more than 130 people where everyone still makes eye contact, where no one uses their phones, where people stay sober and conscious, where everyone feels welcome regardless of what they believe or where they come from.
And where no one takes themselves too seriously :)
Here are the small festivals I’m organising in 2024, all of them in the Czech Republic where I live:
The Festival of Big Ideas 10 - 12 May
We’ll gather in a medieval castle surrounded by hills and forest for a weekend of collaborative discussions, short talks and workshops. We’ll create a non-adversarial atmosphere where curiosity is the driving force behind the conversations - come and change your own mind :)
The Festival of Songs 8 - 15 June
Singing together is one of the pure joys. We’ll be singing mantras, chants and folk songs in a church surrounded by forest, as well as making music around the fire.
We’ll have a polyphonic choir and there will be workshops on aspects of singing and music throughout the week.
The Festival of Creativity 19 - 28 July
9 days of creative workshops proposed by the participants themselves - you, too, can hold a workshop on anything from juggling to dance to painting to herb recognition :)
We meet in the forested mountains to make music around enormous fires and sing and play until the dawn. It’s like being part of some temporary tribe…
The Festival of Sensuality 17 - 24 August
Everybody’s got a body that they live inside…but we can’t really connect to other bodies until we get to know our own - our borders, our tastes, our unique style of communicating and interacting.
Held in a yurt camp by a lake, this is a week of grounded, authentic and supported exploration and enquiry into sexuality, body awareness and relating.
I hope to see some of you at some of these :)
Tom Thumb
Editor of festivalsandretreats.com
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