Theme Camp

Open Camping

Even if you're camping outside a theme camp at Sideburn, there's still plenty of opportunity to dive into the fun—events can happen in open camping too! While open camping is first-come, first-served, it’s not just a spot to pitch your tent—it’s a chance to create community.


Events Hosted by Open Camping

Day Time Details Type
Thu, May 15
Noon (8hrs)

Pronoun Palace

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Diversity & Inclusion,
For Kids,
Miscellaneous
Thu, May 15
1pm (20hrs)

The Giving Tree

An interactive art event that is part experience part structure. Inert art structure by day, it allows participants to sit, stand, just be and reflect in a diary (inside a old timey briefcase) on their relationship with trees. At night the tree comes alive on its own and presents its colours, then wow! Time is not a concept to the Giving Tree. Once it grows it will be, until it is taken down. Witness it, appreciate it, take it for granted. The Giving Tree will continue to be.
Miscellaneous,
Sustainability/Green Initiatives,
Other
Fri, May 16
Noon (4hrs)

Pronoun Palace

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Diversity & Inclusion,
For Kids,
Miscellaneous
Fri, May 16
1pm (2hrs)

Spice & Smoke

Step into a mirage made real — welcome to Mystic Wonder, a Moroccan-inspired sanctuary nestled in the haya. We invite wanderers and dreamers to enter a realm where time slows and the soul unfurls. Gather with us for a communal offering of vegan Moroccan stew, hot tea, shisha, delicious drinks and an afternoon soundscape of deep, melodic music. Relax in our shaded sanctuary or test your skills at backgammon. Recharge, reconnect, and set your intentions.
Food & Drink
Fri, May 16
4pm (21hrs)

Open Camp Community Kitchen!

A community kitchen in the Open Camp area. This is a leave no trace community kitchen. Making and sharing food is a long tradition of meeting new friends, having conversations, laughing and building community!

Bring your ingredients, use the propane stove, pots and flat top griddle to cook your food and hopefully share some with others. If you use it, wash/clean it at your camp site and return it immediately so others can use it after.
Diversity & Inclusion,
Food & Drink,
For Kids,
Miscellaneous
Fri, May 16
4pm (2hrs)

Open Camp Community Kitchen Friday Night Family Potluck from 4pm-6pm

Come let's make and share food. Bring your ingredients to cook or your cooked dish to share with others at this family friendly community kitchen potluck around 4pm - 6pm on Friday. It's an opportunity to share food and meet others. Bring a chair to sit on if you like. Remember to leave no trace, so clean up your dishes back at your camp site.
Diversity & Inclusion,
Food & Drink,
For Kids,
Sustainability/Green Initiatives
Fri, May 16
7:30pm (3hrs)

Rock the Kasbah

Mystic Wonder is an oasis of sensory enchantment, and communal magic which evokes the timeless elegance and mysticism of Moroccan design: richly woven carpets and pillows line the floor, forming intricate paths through shaded canopies of vibrant silk drapery. Lanterns flicker, casting mesmerizing geometric patterns across the space. As the sun sets, we open our bar and invite you to lounge with us to the sounds of sexy world and melodic beats and indulge in a delicious drink.
Gathering/Party
Fri, May 16
10:07pm (4hrs)

Las Monkeys Tiki Bar & Casino

PowderMonkeys presents: Casino Los Monkeys
Welcome, ladies ’n gents.
Ya baby, full blown Tiki Bar & Casino Black Jack n Roulette, bring your swag, things n stuff, lay it out n double down.
Got swag you’re itchin’ to ditch, bring it!
Casino Los Monkeys will be open 10pm-2am daily, likely other times but that’s hit n miss.
Come look for us, wherever we are…
Food & Drink,
Gathering/Party,
Miscellaneous
Sat, May 17
Noon (4hrs)

Pronoun Palace

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.
Arts & Crafts,
Diversity & Inclusion,
For Kids
Sat, May 17
1:09pm (4hrs)

BaconODD, Tiki Bar & Casino

PowderMonkeys presents: The BaconOdd, Tiki Bar n Casino
The PowderMonkeys are rollin’ in hot for Sideburn.
We’re servin’ up the goods:
A full-blown Tiki Bar, Bacon, Pineapple, Black Jack n Roulette.
Enough to warm your bellies, fuel your emotions n empty your pockets. Got swag you’re itchin’ to ditch, rubber ducky, brass monkey, pocket knife?
Maybe you trade up, maybe strike gold.
Come look for us, we’re easy to find…
Food & Drink,
Gathering/Party,
Miscellaneous,
Other
Sat, May 17
10:06pm (5hrs)

Las Monkeys Tiki Bar & Casino

PowderMonkeys presents: Casino Los Monkeys
Welcome, ladies ’n gents.
Ya baby, full blown Tiki Bar & Casino Black Jack n Roulette, bring your swag, things n stuff, lay it out n double down.
Got swag you’re itchin’ to ditch, bring it!
Casino Los Monkeys will be open 10pm-2am daily, likely other times but that’s hit n miss.
Come look for us, wherever we are…
Food & Drink,
Miscellaneous
Sun, May 18
11:01am (2hrs)

Open Camp Community Kitchen Sunday Family Brunch from 11am - 1pm

Let's make a yummy family friendly potluck brunch on Sunday from 11am - 1pm. I love cooking for friends and community! I'll be making some pancakes to share. Bring your ingredients or a pack of pancake mix and I will happily make them for you to share. Remember, leave no trace. Wash your dishes back at your camp site.
Diversity & Inclusion,
Food & Drink,
For Kids
Sun, May 18
10:03pm (5hrs)

Las Monkeys Casino

PowderMonkeys presents: Casino Los Monkeys
Welcome, ladies ’n gents.
Ya baby, full blown Tiki Bar & Casino Black Jack n Roulette, bring your swag, things n stuff, lay it out n double down.
Got swag you’re itchin’ to ditch, bring it!
Casino Los Monkeys will be open 10pm-2am daily, likely other times but that’s hit n miss.
Come look for us, wherever we are…
Food & Drink,
Gathering/Party
Sun, May 18
10:09pm (4hrs)

Las Monkeys Tiki Bar & CasinoPowder

PowderMonkeys presents: Casino Los Monkeys
Welcome, ladies ’n gents.
Ya baby, full blown Tiki Bar & Casino Black Jack n Roulette, bring your swag, things n stuff, lay it out n double down.
Got swag you’re itchin’ to ditch, bring it!
Casino Los Monkeys will be open 10pm-2am daily, likely other times but that’s hit n miss.
Come look for us, wherever we are…
Gathering/Party,
Miscellaneous,
Performance,
Other

Music Hosted by Open Camping

No music events found for this camp.

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.