Event Schedule

Venture into a vibrant, otherworldly garden where nature meets the unknown. Alien life forms will invite you to question and explore. By night, these creatures come to life under UV light, revealing their true colours.

Soul Portal is an interactive art installation designed to explore themes of identity, perception, and interconnectedness.

Come experience and explore your many hidden faces at our self-reflection station. A fun visual experience using light to paint your face from various angles.

This mirrored veil invites you to release your thoughts, intentions, or message into the YOUniverse. Write what's on your heart and let your truth be heard & held by the cosmos.

What colour is “E”, or “5”, or “Tuesday”? If you associate colours to numbers or letters, you have synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon that involves a mixing of the senses. Come compare your colour associations with your SideBurn peers (yes, there is data!)

Launch an expedition to find The Grove nestled deep in the forest of carnivalesque colours. Let it draw you into a world within a world (within a world) with its puzzles and enigmas and interactive, immersive art experiences. Find gifts that reflect your true colours; play with light and sound; marvel in the mystery!

Feeling under-saturated? Drop by the Gift Shop to find some gently used threads and swag to adorn yourself with! Bonus activity: drop off your meaningless, single-use plastic playa trinkets in our recycletron and ponder what makes a playa gift truly special.

Ring, ring, ring, it’s the Dramaphone! Discover the endless joys of the Dramaphone, not your run-of-the-mill boring old office phone at all. Take-a-secret, leave-a-secret?! A drum machine?! What else is hidden in there?!

Explorer, hear my call! Come find me, and I shall grant you the grace of expressing your true colour. Do you recognize the four elements? Mix them to your heart’s desire, and perhaps you shall receive a gift.

Although I am a cosmic traveler, I now assume the humble form of a car. For eons, I have ferried inquisitive minds across the vastness of space - but on this Earth, I am broken, stranded. Oh, explorer! Will you find me? Can you fix me?

In the spirit of our camp’s name, we’re excited to host this playful crafting session where you can create your very own creature! Browse through a collection of stuffed animals, choose the perfect parts, and reassemble them to bring your one-of-a-kind Frankenstein-style stuffie to life. Children must be supervised, as sharp and hot tools will be in use. Come for the creativity, leave with a creature that’s uniquely yours.

Skip to our button-making station to punch out your mood, your name, your inside joke - whatever’s bubbling up. We’ve got supplies, prompts, and choreographed chaos. Open daily at 11:11 for 1 hour.

Join us to learn how to melt and cast aluminum and bronze. If you have a small item that can be imprinted in sand to be cast in metal – we will guide you through the entire process. Come sand-cast with us! Every day in front of DejaBrew.

Come drop in to make yourself a whimsical tutu under the guidance of the Tavern Tailor. All materials required will be avilable, just bring your waist, enthusiasm, and creativity.

Step into the Pronoun Palace! This interactive display offers pronoun advocacy information and vital resources on how to cultivate safe and affirming spaces for transgender and nonbinary individuals. Learn crucial facts about the discrimination they face, engage in open conversation, create a personalized pronoun bracelet, and take away a sticker. Let's build understanding and allyship together.

Spend some intimate time with art as you create your baby!

Swing by and have some fun in the sun making your own unique keepsake friendship bracelet! Grab a seat at the table and make a new friend, or a few. Plenty of platonic love and good vibes to be had!

The fruit of your entrails is... an Exquisite corpse. Corpse : Inanimate Body. Exquisite: Taste good This installation invites you to literally and/or figuratively put your guts on the table to create an everlong collective art (aka an Exquisite corpse). A beheaded body lies, chocolate squirting from its neck, fruits coming out of its entrails. Feed your creativity, inspire others, let the art flow welcome to the revolution.

You've experienced the terror of a viking raid ... now prepare yourself for the Children's Pa-Raid! In conjunction with Creature Kids Camp, Valhalla 3001 will be arming the next generation of raiders with bubble guns and foam swords and leading them on a path of destruction up 6 O'Clock Road. Then we're headed back to Creature Kids to paint wooden raider boats.

Step right up, dear friends, to a world of whimsy and wonder. Join us in a kaleidoscope of colours and fantasies. Let your imagination soar as you transform into fierce tigers, graceful fairies, or even intergalactic explorers. Come with an open heart and imagination!

Create art to commemorate your Chromatic Carnival experience at the Cloak & Stagger Taverne! Artist Kina Forney will bring new & previously loved canvases from her studio ranging from 5x7 to 16x20 for you to create on. Use paints, mixed media, collage, or embroidery. Upcycle fabric, wrappers, or keepsakes, or bring your own small items to contribute. Kina provides acrylic paint, brushes, gel medium, collage material, and embroidery supplies. Supervised Children are welcome. 20 spots available.

A vibrant, hypnotic experience blending psychedelic visuals, shifting colors, and melodic soundscapes. Enter the portal and lie back in this immersive art installation, dissolving into its comforting energy and dreamlike sense of connection.

After the effigy burn, AfterGlow reignites the night! Return from the flames and step into a glowing world of renewal, bursting with fresh energy. Dance beneath cascades of AI art augmentation sipping coloured drink, leave your mark on the ever-evolving canvas, and toast to the fire within us all with color-infused cocktails. It’s a rebirth of creativity, connection, and celebration, and it starts the moment you cross into AfterGlow.

AfterGlow reaches its full radiance deep into Saturday night. The dancefloor ignites with powerful beats, the air shimmers with UV-painted art, and AI visuals twist and breathe with every movement. Paint explodes across the canvas, bodies move in a shared rhythm, and the night folds into a kaleidoscope of color, sound, and collective joy. This is AfterGlow unleashed — a final wild offering to the Chromatic Carnival