At Queer Spirit Festival this summer, around 600 people will be gathering to celebrate the creative, magical, spiritual and healing gifts of LGBTQ+ people.
Queer Spirit is a camping festival at the beautiful Bridwell Park in Devon (home to Lord Ivar Mountbatten and his husband, James Coyle) from Thursday, 17 August, to Monday, 21 August. It will feature performances, DJs, dozens of workshops, a healing area, meditations, group ceremonies, ancestor remembrance, activism, fire circles, a Sacred Sexuality Temple and much more: full details and ticket information at queerspirit.net. Videos from previous festivals are online on Queer Spirit Festival YouTube Channel.
You can find out more, or just come and enjoy an evening of inspirational cabaret at The Two Brewers on Wednesday, 26 April, where there is a chance to meet some of the festival organisers, performers, facilitators and volunteers. The Queer Spirit Cabaret is a unique free-entry community event inspired by Queer Spirit festival and hosted by Astro @astroaxolotlz. The evening features performances from @mizindulgencedrag @shoktilovestar @carnelianseville @clarecordell @baba_yagga_official @theydyamelia @bo_radfae and @talisman_circus.
The Queer Spirit Cabaret is a FREE ENTRY evening and starts at 7.30 pm in the back bar, Wed 26 April, Two Brewers, 114 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UJ, United Kingdom.
Queer Spirit Festival has been called:
“An illuminating haven of heart-healing, earth-grounding, fire-gazing, beautiful surprises and a return to our spirit home.”
“The most beautiful and nourishing space I have ever experienced!”
“Wonderful, glorious, fantastic, ecstatic, deep, personal, inimitable experience!”
“An eclectic and diverse representation of the LGBTIQ community” that “melted barriers and dissolved misperceptions that often exist with different groups in the LGBTIQ community.”
“Most amazing event of my life .”
“Amazing: the range and quality of workshops, the performances, the emphasis on consent and heartfelt connection, the gorgeous and friendly volunteers, the love and care put into the set-up, decoration of the site and beautiful spaces created, the food…”
“A true celebration of our luckiness and uniqueness within this universe we live, as queer life forces.”
“An unparalleled sense of community and belonging”.
“An amazing and enlightening experience. I learnt so much about our wonderful community as well as about myself. It has been a perfect gift of friendship and love.”
“I experienced more love and acceptance than I have in my entire life, and I felt like a flower slowly opening.”
Testimonials (queerspirit.net)
“Queer Spirit Festival is a celebration of creative, loving, embodied spirituality – opening our hearts, expanding our minds and celebrating our bodies through a rich and diverse programme featuring performers and facilitators from the UK and abroad. We honour the differences and celebrate the common ground between trans people, lesbians, bisexuals, gay men and others who cannot be defined by or confined to any such category. Meeting in nature, we affirm the naturalness of Queer sexualities and identities in a magically held atmosphere that encourages engagement, open-heartedness, communication, and compassion. Queer Spirit Festival is a liberating realm of self-expression, exploration, and community creation, of soul expansion and of finding the inner peace that comes from communing with nature and honouring our inner divine light, from being free to be ourselves. Maybe see you there?!?” Festival organiser Shokti.
