Submission deadline: March 1, 2026
This year’s theme is UNBOUND.
What does UNBOUND mean to you? These are not normal times. What might you offer to help us release ourselves from the prescriptive stories, identities, expectations that bind us to habitual, constricting paths; paths that resist our collective YES to the courageous journey toward the sustainable human community that wants to emerge? How might you and fellow co-creators embody, explore or encourage UNBOUND seeing and living in a talk, an experiential workshop, art project, musical journey, facilitated meditation, movement or somatic healing, learning from nature, podcast or other distinctive session? From what are we UNBOUND? For what are we UNBOUND?
What is the Wild Goose Festival Experience?
It’s notoriously hard to describe. More an experience than an event, Wild Goose Festival blends the energies of a music festival, art exhibit, and social justice and entrepreneurial incubator, spiritual retreat, and more. Maybe like an energy force-field reshaped every year by all that its diverse participants bring; their passions, wisdom, questions, experience, brokenness and creativity. At the Wild Goose Festival, participants risk being in community – opening to soul-shifting connections with people, ideas and visions of the world that is unfolding.
Whatever it is, we all build it together!
So what will you bring?
We’re looking to diversify: A few less talks in front of a crowd; more co-creative, group experiences that get lots of folks engaged.
Got an idea for a group art project?
A play ready for a stage reading?
Know how to host a Dungeons and Dragons campaign?
How about an installation? Would you facilitate a real-time art or science installation during the festival?
Host a workshop on how to be an activist in your community? How to bring hope? How to help those in the margins of society?
Curate a storytelling hour?
Are you a reiki practitioner or do other healing work you’d like to share?
Can you teach us all Carolina Shag dancing?
Have a cool science experiment you’d like to demonstrate?
The possibilities are endless. Can you think of something we haven’t mentioned?
Whatever wonderfully weird thing you’re into, we want you to share it with us!
