Refuge Outdoor Festival is a 3-day outdoor recreation and camping experience geared toward people of color.

Schedule Of Events:

7:00 am – 10:30 am - Camp Kitchen Open Hours
Camp Kitchen
The Camp Kitchen is a communal space where guests can prepare their meals at any one of our seven cooking stations. After cooking up your feast, grab a seat at a nearby picnic table to break bread and rice with friends, old and new. Please make sure to clean up after yourself so...

7:30 am – 2:00 pm - Registration
Registration Desk
Stop by the registration desk to check in, buy tickets, find your campsite, for first aid supplies, and to learn more about the festival. We got you!

7:30 am – 10:30 am - Beats & Batter w/ DJ Peg
Camp Kitchen
Stacey Gevero Swanby, Community Advisory Board (CAB) member
Hillarie Maddox
Dj Peg
Start off your last day at Refuge Fest right with Beats from DJ Peg & Batter from our Community Advisory Board, who will be serving up complimentary pancakes for breakfast.

8:00 am – 10:00 am - Breathwork & Birding
Movement Zone
Shelby Iwatani Cramer
Using meditation and mindfulness, this hatha vinyasa practice is inspired by nature to feel grounded to earth and supported by our bodies. We will practice connection to nature through our poses and show gratitude to our bodies for how they show up for us. Follo...

8:30 am – 12:30 pm - Outpost Open Hours
Outpost
Stop by the Outpost to pick up exclusive swag or pick up the gear you reserved from the Gear Library.

8:30 am – 10:00 am - Water & Vibrational Activation: Connecting to the Waters Within
Beach
Sage Lucas
Water is life, and it carries memory, wisdom, and vibrational energy. In this workshop, we’ll explore the deep connection between water, sound, and the human body through interactive water rituals, sound healing, and mindfulness practices. Come ready to experience water in a new way—t...

9:00 am – 11:00 am - Empowerment Through Re-visioning & Re-membering
Amphitheater
Charlie Lavides
Schona Christie
An invitation to connect with nature and our relationships with land through community harmonies, ancestral wisdoms, and practices that align our rhythms to mother earths. Through guided mindfulness, movement, song, and art participants will explore healing through community.

9:30 am – 11:30 am - Write Now: A creative writing workshop for parents who want to reconnect with their writing practice
Barn
Chris Vega
Join Blue Cactus Press for a writing workshop for parents who want to reconnect with their creativity. This is a generative writing workshop meant to rekindle your imagination, get you writing, & get you thinking about what you can build at the crossroads of parenting & creative writing.<...

9:30 am – 11:30 am - Meet Your Neighbors: Guided Nature Walk
Flag Pole
Tareq Fayyad
Wanna get more familiar with the wildness that is right in your city or neighborhood? Looking to build confidence identifying and foraging berries and medicinal plants? Maybe you want to feel more comfortable being in the woods. Join us for this politicized nature walks to learn native plant iden...

9:45 am – 11:45 am - Bike Fit Basics
Gathering Space
Arthur Cheng
Jenny Iyo
In this workshop, you will learn about the basics of bike fit! We will discuss and demonstrate (with hands-on activities) adjustments you can make to your bike (or future bikes) that can help you improve your bike-riding experience.

Limit: 20 attendees

10:00 am – 12:00 pm - Reciprocity In Restoration
Barn
Michael Bailey, ENR Outreach Manager, Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
Chris Liu
Get connected to the ecologies surrounding Tolt MacDonald Park, and practice relationship building and reciprocity with the Snoqualmie Tribe's Ecological Restoration Team. Contribute to this decade old restoration project, joining the Snoqualmie Tribe in removing harmful weeds, providing space fo...

10:00 am – 11:00 am - Rooted in Flow: Give Your Brain a Massage Through Nature and Art
Meeting Circle
Suzannah Yu, Training and Leadership Development Coordinator, Washington Trails Association
Sophia Trinh
"Rooted in Flow" invites you to unwind, reconnect with the meaning nature brings to your life, and explore your creativity through mindful, flowing lines and watercolors. In this guided workshop, you will create a unique piece of neurographic art inspired by nature, while soothing your mind and n...

10:45 am – 12:15 pm - Water Protection Ceremony with Mermaid Storie the Sea Librarian
Beach
Tea Tinsley
Water Protection Ceremony with Mermiad Storie The Sea Librarian - Youth and families are invited to an interactive ancestral story time, water exploration, and collaborative water protection ceremony to honor our land, no swim experience necessary.

11:30 am – 1:30 pm - Way of Water: Intro to Paddleboarding as Therapy
Beach
Kaliko Kahoonei
Discover the calming power of water through paddleboarding. This beginner-friendly workshop introduces the basics of stand-up paddling while exploring how time on the water can support emotional balance, mindfulness, and connection with nature. No experience needed—just a willingness to f...

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm - Love Letter to Future You
Barn
Bea Yeh Ogden
Love Letter to Future You is a reflective letter-writing practice that has been engaging with the community for the past decade, inviting participants to slow down and listen to the messages of the Land. Through this practice, you will compose a love letter to yourself, filled with care and inten...

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Game Bird calling and identification w/Hunters of Color
Shelter
Malcolm Legette, [email protected], Hunters of Color
Learn how to identity and call in game birds. Learn more about Turkeys, Waterfowl and upland bird species that live in the PNW.

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm - Closing Circle
Festival Lawn
Chevon Powell, Managing Director, Founder, Golden Bricks Events/ Refuge Outdoor Festival
As the festival comes to a close, let's gather to share our gratitude and connect with one another one last time.  Don't forget there's also a raffle!

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