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Festival 2023 Lineup

Inaugural Festival · September 22–24 · “What Do You Wish to Awaken?”

The first-ever Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening. Nearly a thousand souls came together across a September weekend, drawn to events celebrating a shared journey toward Awakening. Body workers, social activists, mystics, yogis, savants, sound healers, ecologists, musicians, artists and poets—the magic we are together. Read the Festival story →

Full 2023 Lineup

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Friday, September 22

Opening: “What Do You Wish to Awaken?”

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4:00 – 5:15 PM (pre-Festival)
Sparrow on the Green
Woodstock Village Green
Sparrow will manage information about the Festival & its environs, including advice on paths to the Opening Ceremony, evening events & the rest of your life. Walk with Sparrow up Rock City Road to the Opening!
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Opening Ceremony: What Do You Wish to Awaken?
Woodstock Community Center
Hosted by Joan Apter.
  • Peter Blum on drum
  • Evan Pritchard’s Medicine Wheel
  • Wishing Bell with Shauna Cummins
  • Dictums & Blessings from Juliet Rania, Corrine Gervai, Khenpo Tenkong, Dave Holden, Nidhi Huba, Mikhail Horowitz, Julian Lines, Rabbi Moishe, Laurie Osmond, Violet Snow, Linda Winnick & Rev. Matthew Wright
6:30 – 8:00 PM
Community Meal
Woodstock Community Center
Hosted by Urana Kinlen. Stone Soup model: soups, breads, salads.
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Ecstatic Dance with DJ Avinash
Woodstock Community Center
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Fireside Jam
ESKFF Nest
With Peter Blum, Bob Vetter & Stefanie Frank.
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Kundalini Cosmic Sound Bath & Light Immersion
Mountainview Studio
With Jennifer Drue.

Saturday, September 23 (Fall Equinox)

Bearsville Day of Awakening · Colony Concert

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Sunrise (~6:45 AM)
Sunrise Chanting & Singing within Sacred Sound Chamber
Lenny’s Bee Happy Farm, 395 Wittenberg Road
Chanting and drumming to welcome the sun and mark the changing of the seasons on the fall equinox.
10:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Morning Sessions
ESKFF Nest & Mothership Gallery
  • Forest Bath with Stefanie Frank (ESKFF Nest)
  • Osho Active Meditation with Michael Raphael (Mothership)
  • Breath & Presence with Kim Jaye & Sam Truitt (Mothership)
  • MA (Music Meditation) with Linda Mary Montano & Paul McMahon (Mothership)
1:00 – 6:00 PM
Sacred Chant / Kirtan Festival hosted by Avinash
Bearsville Park
  • 1:00 PM — Radharani
  • 2:00 PM — Arundhati
  • 3:00 PM — Mirabai Moon
  • 4:00 PM — Spirit Brothers (Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash)
  • 5:00 PM — Serve Love Ashram with Ned Leavitt, Joseph Jastrab, Steve Gorn, Avinash & Malini Taneja
1:00 – 5:00 PM
Movement by the Stream, hosted by Michael Raphael
Bearsville Park
  • Sufi Movement with Matthew Wright
  • Qi Gong with Corrinne Mol
  • Yoga with Corrine Gervai
  • Sacred Songways & Voice Empowerment with Michael O’Connell
  • Rapid Resolutions (Limpias & Trancework) with Peter Blum & Bob Vetter
1:00 – 5:30 PM
Awakening Talks, hosted by Sam Truitt
Bearsville Lounge
  • 1:00 PM — Chris Bob: “You Are What You Eat & What Is Eating You”
  • 2:00 PM — Charles Stein: “Parmenides & Why Everything That Seems Must Seem To Be”
  • 3:00 PM — Ira Schepetin: “Foundations of Nonduality”
  • 4:00 – 5:30 PM — Panel: “What is Woodstock & How Do You Get There?” with Michael Esposito, Peter Blum, Robin “The Hammer” Ludwig, Susan Tamara Darrow, Sue Wilens & Tad Wise
1:00 – 5:30 PM
Healing Garden Market, hosted by Urana Kinlen
Bearsville Park
Everyday Magic Intentional Goods, GratefulGemHead, Woodstock Microgreens, Hemp & Humanity, Sustainable Sorcerers, Tischler Acupuncture, Joan Apter Aromatherapy, Integrative Healing & Massage, School of Oracles, My Reiki Healer, Lorry Salluzzi Sensei, The Shamanatrix, The Modern Mystic, SoulCollage & Creative Art Expression.
1:00 – 6:00 PM
Children’s Garden, hosted by Emma Leigh & Christina Varga
Bearsville Park
  • Magical Woods Walk
  • Wand Making
  • Mandala art with Christina Varga
  • Giggles & Ganesha with Emma Leigh
  • Meditation
  • Community Circle & Collective Prayer
1:00 & 3:00 PM
Awakening Walks
Bearsville Nature Trail
Walking Meditations in the tradition of Thích Nhât Hành, hosted by the Catskill Mountain Sangha Group.
2:00 – 6:00 PM
Siddhanatha Yoga Sangh Kriya Yoga
Euphoria Yoga
Introduction to the Sacred Science of Kriya Yoga with Mary Ellen & Andrew Burkamp.
5:00 – 8:00+ PM
Woodstock Community Awakening Concert
Colony Woodstock · hosted by Paul McMahon
Fifteen years in the making—McMahon’s salute to Woodstock musicians & the spirit of “honk if you love to honk.”
  • Joey Eppard
  • Jimmy Eppard
  • Flash
  • Ras T Asheber Posse
  • Frank McGinnis
  • Sandy Bell
  • Bruce Milner
  • The Bluegrass Clubhouse
  • Charleston Wave
  • Venture Lift
  • Gilles Malkine
  • Paul McMahon
  • Gayle Two Eagles & more

Sunday, September 24

Closing: Poetry & Drum Circle on the Green

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Morning
Meditation at the Mothership
The Mothership Gallery
Afternoon
Poetry Garden Party at Shivastan
Shivastan Poetry Ashram
Hosted by Shiv Mirabito with poets, mystics, sages and artists from across the Hudson Valley & beyond. The Ashram contains a trove of literary and artistic treasures. All attendees invited to perform.
Late Afternoon
Closing Ceremony & Drum Circle
Woodstock Village Green
Reading of community responses to “What do you wish to awaken?” followed by the Woodstock Community Drum Circle on the Green.
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