Submission deadline: March 1, 2027. The earlier you apply, the better your chances of being accepted.
This year’s theme is BELONG.
In a time when division, isolation, and uncertainty can make us feel increasingly disconnected, BELONG is an invitation to come together.
To belong is more than being welcomed. It is being seen, heard, valued, and knowing there is a place for you—without having to become someone else first.
At Wild Goose, we’ll explore what it means to belong to one another, to our communities, to the earth, and to something larger than ourselves. BELONG calls us beyond simply finding our place toward creating a world where there is room for everyone.
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!
