This year we are back at Pearce Williams Camp on May 21-24, 2026.

Do you have a workshop proposal that you think would fit Cahoots? Do you know someone who has great thoughts and ideas that you would like them to share with the Cahoots Festival? Then fill out this form:

Location
We are excited to be heading back to Pearce Williams Family Camp in Fingal, ON after many a successful Cahoots. Take a look at our previous notes on accessibility, lodging, and getting to the site.

Sessions & Schedule
The 2025 Schedule is here! Take a look at this bad boy and plan your Cahootsian experience appropriately. Do not fear—just because you think you may want to maybe possibly attend a workshop doesn’t mean you’re locked in and can’t get out of it! We are flexible and gracious and want you to have the best experience possible!

Questions
Interested in the theory and principles we adhere to? Read: So…What IS Cahoots?
Other questions? See the Frequently Asked Questions.
Still more thoughts? Contact us at cahoots@scmcanada.org and someone will get back to you as soon as possible—please be patient as we are a volunteer-run festival.

Grab your tickets today, and then tell a comrade!

Bailey Eastwood (they/them) is a United Church minister and the National Coordinator of the Student Christian Movement of Canada. Their faith and ministry have been formed and shaped by summer camping ministries, a lifetime of reading, a deep appreciation for the natural world, and their undergraduate education in biochemistry. Bailey loves being in community, encountering new theologies, making things with their hands, and learning just about anything. Their life’s ambition is to be able to identify every tree.

​Chris is a singer-songwriter from Toronto, ON trying to figure life out. An original and long-running part of the Cahoots organizing team he is enjoying seeing Cahoots from a slightly different perspective. Chris is extremely eclectic with a broad range of interests and has worked lots with children and folks experiencing homelessness.

​Isaiah Ritzmann (he/him) has been part of the Cahoots “extended family” since the inception of the festival in ———–. A facilitator of community-based learning on sustainability, democracy, & degrowth in Kitchener, Ontario (Haldimand Tract), he also helped co-found a home-based hospitality network called Open Homes that serves newly arrived refugee claimants. A deep believer that God’s pedagogy includes our strategic failures, he’s excited to explore these in conversation with others.

Esther Townshend is a writer, organizer, peacemaker, disturber of the peace, Gestalt psychotherapy student, and nature lover. Since a concussion in 2018, she has been learning to live well with a finicky nervous system. Her favourite stress relief practices include yoga, singing, walks by the lake, tea and chocolate.

Jamie Gibson is a graduate student at Emmanuel College in Toronto. Jamie has worked as an activist and as a spiritual caregiver to activists, he is a songwriter and performer, he is a student-minister in the United Church of Canada. Jamie’s interests include outreach to non-religious people and developing a message of justice and hope in the midst of the decline of empire, the credibility of institutions, and ecological conditions.

Sheilagh has been involved in the Student Christian Movement of Canada since she was in high school. She found her faith identity in working for change in this world. She has worked in church settings (Youth Ministry and Campus Ministry) and in the last decade as a Psychotherapist. She loves helping people reveal their truest potential—finding their calling, expressing themselves fully, or celebrating the gifts they have to offer the world. She has found self-care through movement and playfulness and is looking to offer some of that to Cahoots participants.

Jack is a genderqueer artist and writer of many names and occupations meandering around the great lakes basin. They are deeply invested in trans community care and the relationships that keeps us alive and make that life worth living. Jack has been a rogue trans inclusivity educator for over 10 years and loves having challenging, awkward and important conversations.