A fortnight beside the course
Two weeks of workshops, talks, and guided conversations — arts, culture, and time on the water. Daycare runs beside the whole festival, so you can be in the room.
Airfare, accommodation, and daycare included when you invest in 3 modules.
What the fortnight holds
Make something with your hands
Music, painting, and architecture, taught as workshops. The point is a practice you can carry home, not a portfolio.
Talks and guided conversations
Philosophy, politics, meditation, space, and the question of other minds. Serious rooms. No one is performing expertise they do not have.
Outside, on purpose
The fortnight includes the machines and the quiet. Instruction first, then the optional faster group.
Festival calendar
Care sits next to the program from morning through late afternoon. Evenings are for adults who want them.
Week one
Week two
Day 1 · Mon
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Songs, shade, and a nap after lunch
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Learn a song as a room, not as a recital
Afternoon
Talk · Culture
What philosophy is for after the job ends
Evening
Activity · Activities
Campfire. No agenda, no slides
Day 2 · Tue
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Paint that is allowed to make a mess
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Painting from the coast, not from a photograph
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
Politics without the performance
Late
Activity · Activities
Electric dirt bikes on the back roads
Day 3 · Wed
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Blocks, forts, and a quiet hour
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Architecture walk: what a building owes the people in it
Afternoon
Workshop · Culture
Meditation — sitting still on purpose
Late
Activity · Activities
Hike to the ridge, back before dark
Day 4 · Thu
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Stories about the moon, then rest
Morning
Talk · Culture
Space: distance, silence, and why the sky is a liberal art
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
Aliens, seriously — what we would recognize as a mind
Late
Activity · Activities
Surf if the sets are kind. Swim if they are not
Day 5 · Fri
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Tide pools with a grown-up who knows the rocks
Dawn
Activity · Activities
Fishing. The point is the waiting
Afternoon
Activity · Activities
Jet skis for whoever wants the speed
Late
Workshop · Activities
Kitesurfing when the wind shows up
Day 6 · Sat
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Open studio next door, their own table
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Music and paint in the same room
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
Taste: what you keep, what you drop
Evening
Activity · Activities
Campfire readings. Short. Then quiet
Day 7 · Sun
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Stories in the shade. Pickup whenever you are back
Morning
Activity · Activities
Long walk. Nothing to summit
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
What you would study if no one were grading it
Evening
Talk · Arts
Early night. One piece of music, then done
Day 8 · Mon
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Rhythm games, then a nap
Morning
Workshop · Arts
One instrument, one hour, no performance at the end
Afternoon
Talk · Culture
Meditation traditions, without the costume
Late
Activity · Activities
A shorter hike for anyone who wants the trail again
Day 9 · Tue
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Build a cardboard room and live in it until snack
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Draw a room you would live in for a year
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
The politics of a small place
Dusk
Activity · Activities
Fishing as the light goes
Day 10 · Wed
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Constellation pictures, lights out early
Morning
Talk · Culture
Cosmology for people who do not need a textbook
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
If we are not alone, what changes about a Tuesday
Late
Activity · Activities
Surfing, second try, less pride
Day 11 · Thu
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Yard games and a long rest
Morning
Activity · Activities
Electric dirt bikes, slower group first
Afternoon
Activity · Activities
Jet skis, then a swim to come down
Evening
Conversation · Culture
Campfire: what the body still wants to learn
Day 12 · Fri
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Kites on the grass, far from the water
Morning
Workshop · Activities
Kitesurfing clinic. Standing up is enough
Afternoon
Workshop · Arts
Paint the weather you actually have
Evening
Talk · Culture
Luck, skill, and the wind
Day 13 · Sat
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
Their own long table, same hour as lunch
Morning
Workshop · Arts
Music that turns into the evening without a set break
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
Culture you inherited, culture you chose
Evening
Activity · Activities
Campfire. The good seats go to whoever arrives early
Day 14 · Sun
Daycare · 8:30–4:30
A last story. Collection is unhurried
Morning
Activity · Activities
Closing hike. Easy pace, full view
Afternoon
Conversation · Culture
Each person names one practice they will keep
Evening
Workshop · Arts
One song, sung once, then the cars
Small, hands-on, and finished in the sitting. You leave with a song, a painting, a drawing, or a skill on the water — not a certificate for its own sake.
One speaker, one idea, time for questions. Philosophy, politics, meditation, space. The room is adults who have already had a career.
A host, a question, and a fire or a table. No panel. The work is saying what you actually think, then hearing someone else.
It is not a side arrangement you book yourself. Care runs 8:30 to 4:30 on all fourteen days: play, art, stories, and rest, a short walk from the workshops.
The secret menu is the fortnight above. Email gets you the dates, the daycare note, and how it sits next to the course.