Cahoots Fest 2017

Our fourth annual festival was held at Kennesserie Camp in Ridgetown Ontario, June 8-11, 2017. Folks from across Ontario and Canada joined together for a Thursday night to Sunday afternoon festival of DIY workshops and conversation. Highlights included our Open Mic on Friday, the sweaty and super-fun Dance Party on Saturday, and a screenprint-your-own-tee activity.

Workshops

• Alternative Leadership Structures in Church (Ages 12+)
• An Intro to Archiving for Social Justice Campaigns
• Anti-Oppression Action: You Probably Shouldn’t Come Out of this Alive (Ages 12+)
• Becoming Oppression Informed: Get Woke (Ages 12+)
• Building Your Own Kind of Resiliency (Ages 12+)
• Christianity and Anarchy
• Circus Arts (All Ages)
• Climate Justice in Action: A Creative Exploration of Creation Care, Indigenous Allyship, and Energy Policy (Ages 12+)
• Drumming Circle (All Ages)
• Equal in Dignity, Equal in Rights: Migrant Justice Organizing.
• Flag Decorating; 150 Years of Canada (Ages 12+)
• How to be Vegan in an Imperfect World
• How We Believe: Unity, Diversity, and the 123’s of Theology (Ages 12+)
• Identity
• Journey Dance
• Mapping the Ground We Stand On: Deepening our Understanding of Indigenous-Settler Relationships (Ages 12+)
• Mission and Urbanization Walk (Hang-Out)
• Moving from Social Media Likes to Social Action (Ages 12+)
• Naming Names: dialogue between faithful identities
• Needle Felting 101 (Ages 7+)
• On the Theology of Money
• Seed Bombing (All Ages)
• Spoken Word and Social Justice
• The Catholic Worker Movement Today
• The Practice of Improvisation in Music (Ages 12+)
• The Spiritual Practice of Embodiment (Ages 12+)
• Truth-telling and Growing Together: Fruits of the Spirit as Allyship with First Nations (Ages 12+)