YOUtopia Fall 2023 ~ October 18-22
Make magic with us
As the days grow chilly and the stars glitter in the darkling sky, you are invited to cast a spell in a space of limitless possibility.
Date: October 18-22
Location: Jacumba, CA at the De Anza Springs Resort
Theme: Materia Magica
Ancient alchemists sought to transform base lead to pure gold. So too does our community create beauty and beguilement from seeming thin air. We start with wild ideas—electricity zinging along neurons—and manifest them into the physical realm via intention and willpower, crafted with compounds of light, wood, metal, sound and fire.
This is YOUtopia, an enchantment conjured into existence through grit, sweat and blood, toil and ingenuity, catalyzed by duct tape, bungees, and zip ties rather than herbs, crystals, and potions.
The most important component of YOUtopia is YOU
Your creativity, invoked and embodied with language; your curation of raw materials into works of art; the opportunities you provide for fun and learning; and the generosity of spirit that impels you to share your passions with others. The incandescence of your spirit, burning like the Orionid meteors that will illuminate our darkling YOUtopian sky.
Look Up at the Falling Stars
Don’t miss this celestial lightshow! Just in time for YOUtopia, the Orionid Meteor Showers will be peaking during our Event, with clear sky rates of 20 meteors per hour. The moon will be setting around midnight. Be sure to recline and watch this astral event in the wee hours after midnight and before dawn.
Explore the deep well of your imagination to make our autumnal YOUtopia utterly bewitching. Cast magic at YOUtopia by:
- Organizing and orchestrating your coven of co-conspirators, whether a formal Theme Camp or a looser conglomeration of like minds
- Adorning your Art, your Camp, and even your body with prismatic lights and hues to manifest moods with color
- Constructing ephemeral, yet meaningful, spaces from nothing, and then leaving the land better than you found it
- Preparing delicious food and drink according to secret recipes, perhaps even gifting your knowledge to other culinary artists
- Compelling us to revel under the starry skies with skillfully sculpted soundscapes
Explore how you can participate below
Follow a manual added link
Bring Your Theme Camp
Follow a manual added link
Apply for Art Grants
Link to: Playshops and Performances
