Event Schedule

Explore the magic of Side Burn with our full event schedule. From sunrise yoga and fiery performances to immersive workshops and late-night music, each day is packed with unique experiences hosted by camps across the event.


Sunday, May 18 | Filter: Arts & Crafts

Time Details Camp/Location Type
Midnight (24hrs)

The Sensory Garden

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.
Arts & Crafts
Midnight (24hrs)

Soul Portal

Soul Portal is an interactive art installation designed to explore themes of identity, perception, and interconnectedness.
Arts & Crafts
12:01am (24hrs)

Self Reflections

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Other
12:01am (24hrs)

Mirror to the You-niverse

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Self-care
10am (8hrs)

Synesthesia

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!)
Arts & Crafts
10am (8hrs)

Interactive Art

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!
Arts & Crafts
10am (8hrs)

Gift Shop

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.
Arts & Crafts
10am (8hrs)

Dramaphone

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?!
Arts & Crafts
10am (8hrs)

Chromatic Cave

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.
Arts & Crafts
10am (8hrs)

Check Engine

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?
Arts & Crafts
11:11am (1hr)

Press My Button

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.
Arts & Crafts,
For Kids
11:30am (4hrs)

Metal Casting

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.
Arts & Crafts
Noon (12hrs)

Make a Baby

Spend some intimate time with art as you create your baby!
Arts & Crafts
Noon (2hrs)

Garden of Eden Face Painting

Need a little Sunday pick me up? Come by our Face Painting Booth and DIY some art or consult with our on-call face painter.
Arts & Crafts,
For Kids
3pm (2hrs)

Kush and Colouring

Relax, have a toke and do some colouring with friends to soft tranquil music. Colouring materials and joints will be provided.
Arts & Crafts
6pm (6hrs)

Lie Back And Let The World Dissolve Around You

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Miscellaneous
Photo credit: Header image by Captured by Caro, used with permission.
Land Acknowledgement
We gather for SideBurn on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, the Huron-Wendat, the Mississaugas, and other Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work and build community on this land.