This programme is subject to change. Some experiences have limited numbers and we available to those who turn up first. These will be highlighed as 'limited spaces'.

Plus check out our new 'Cafes' designed as safe and supportive spaces for you to chat with like-minded others,

For more details on Workshops acts, check the Line Up Page

Workshops Line Up

FRIDAY 31ST MAY

Embark on a journey of self-discovery with our Introduction to Mindfulness Workshop! Dive into the essence of mindfulness, understanding its profound impact on stress, anxiety, and pain. Led by a qualified and experienced facilitator, this workshop unravels the secrets of mindfulness, offering insights into its transformative benefits. Learn practical techniques and explore how to seamlessly integrate mindfulness into your daily life. Join us for an immersive experience, where you'll be guided through mindfulness practices that pave the way for inner peace and well-being.

Join artists Vivian and Tash for a Queer Crafting workshop at Out and Wild 2024. This is a space for folk to come together, make and reflect on the histories of queer crafting.Participants are invited to contribute to a communal quilt that will be worked on throughout the festival. Participants are invited to embroider and appliqué motifs and text that celebrate the festival and our queer community.

Drop in cafe at the Workshop Campsite space that will cover a variety of subjects linked to Lifestyle. This wil include gender, ethnicity, van life and neurodiversity. Come along, bring a cuppa and join others for an open discussion

The Pleasure Project is the world’s leading organisation putting the sexy into safer sex since 2004. Because sex education is rarely sexy, and erotica is rarely safe. We defined pleasure based sexual health, ensured the first global Pleasure Declaration by the World Association of Sexual Health and invented the inspiring Pleasure Principles – to put more pleasure into sexual health. Last year we published research with the World Health Organisation to prove that pleasure based sex education is more effective in improving our sexual health. Those who are research inclined read it here. Come along to explore how to mix pleasure with prevention and why that works better than the usual focus on ‘death, danger, or disease’. There will be no expectations that you will need to share any personal or intimate life details, just some fun exercises to explore what is pleasure based sexual health and why it works better than those usual types of sexual health interventions that we are more used to. Expect fun and why Food and Sex are good to talk about together.

DBT is an intensive, minimum 1.5 year program, that can save lives and give users a life worth living. It is an intensive, long-term course, often requiring 12+ hours a week commitment. As a service user, then trained up practitioner, and now advocate; this workshop gives a small taste of DBT skills that can be of benefit to everyone's lives, regardless of their mental health status. Using Mindfulness DBT skills (and the more creative activities), participants will learn a range of strategies for improving mental wellness and health. Focusing on the more creative and fun skills and activities, the session is a short introduction to this evidence based therapy. Participants will leave feeling more grounded, calmer, and with practical strategies that they can practice and master easily at home, or at times to suit them.

Street Art - Want to be the next Banksy or learn to upcycle? No artistic experience needed, you will learn how to create your own stencil and spray your first street art masterpiece on a poster to take home. Decoupage - Decoupage Craft Workshop Learn how to upcycle anything from furniture, home items and even shoes in this introduction decoupage workshop. Create your own piece to take home.

SATURDAY 1ST JUNE

Accessing the natural world can be an important way of finding peace and supporting our mental health. Our Queer Nature is a fun, inspiring, low pressure workshop for people who want to experiment with writing about nature and the environment for the first time, or who want to try new approaches to it. We will look at ways of thinking about nature in different ways, including indoors, or in a garden or urban space and how our queer selves are an asset when we explore and write about nature. Jo Lambert writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry featuring the natural world. She has been published by The New York Times, Lucent Dreaming, The Welsh Review and Gwyllion, amongst others, and won The Jem Poster Award in 2022. Her poetry focussing on queer bodies in the natural world has been used as part of the Sophia Centre Conference and The Rivers Trust AGM. She is currently working on a research project on gender and nationhood in Cambrian myths with Aberystwyth University.

How well suited are you to the job you're doing? It's not surprising to learn that more than two-thirds of people settle for work that is just not suited to them! But our work comes alive and we gain so much in life when we align our skills, interests and passions to the jobs we do. So what happens if you've gone down the wrong track, or if you really don't know what you're good at, or how this could apply to your perfect job? Life is too brief to waste on a career that isn't a great fit for you. In today's interactive workshop we'll reveal "Your top 3 transferable skills" and "What you're really interested in" and we'll discuss the Top 5 tips to finding a job you love.This workshop might mark the start of an exciting new chapter in your life!

Join Molly Zacharias for a life drawing session

Ever wanted to start your own business? Hear from the award winning couple that set up Drop Bear Beer in Wales. Theywill talk through their story of founding this alcohol free brand, including setting up the biggest AF brewery in the UK!

Join artists Vivian and Tash for a Queer Crafting workshop at Out and Wild 2024. This is a space for folk to come together, make and reflect on the histories of queer crafting.Participants are invited to contribute to a communal quilt that will be worked on throughout the festival. Participants are invited to embroider and appliqué motifs and text that celebrate the festival and our queer community.

Learn how to play the ukulele. Ukes will be provided, but feel free to bring your own!

Drop in cafe at the Workshop Campsite space that will cover a variety of subjects linked to Sex & Relationships. This will include coming out late, sex & relationship, poly vs monogomy and writing dating profiles. Pleasure . Come along, bring a cuppa and join others for an open discussion

Coaching with Vicki Wilkinson. Vicki is dedicated to understanding the root cause of your health issues and life concerns and empowering you to take charge of your own wellbeing. Through holistically looking at all the life factors that may be holding you back, Vicki will work with you to overcome these barriers to move you towards vibrant health from the inside out.

Our menstrual cycle governs our life whether we like it or not but we live in a world that is so out-of-synch with it and perfectly synched with the hormonal cycle of our male counterpart. This is not just the root to a lot of menstrual problems like PMS and menopausal symptoms but also to a lot of relationship problems (especially in lesbian relationships) and a threat to the whole wellbeing of all women. How to make it better then? I will explore the menstrual cycle from a holistic perspective and we will discover how to live our lives by it, rather than against it, how to practice menstrual cycle awarness and you will receive some lifestyle and nutrition tips to live a balanced and pain-free cyclical life.

Come and learn all about Queer Tarot with Sue Thomas Taylor

SUNDAY 2ND JUNE

Workshop by Surfers against Sewage, details TBC

Do you sometimes feel like someone else is commanding your ship, like your goals and ambitions are at odds with your emotions and unconscious activity? Do you wish you could find the controls, or perhaps talk to the pilot—that most powerful part of yourself that is directing your life when your attention is elsewhere—and agree the desired path and course of action? Join Wollie Boehm for this masterclass.

Ever wondered what it would be like to live full time in a campervan? Join Vera and Alisha as they tell their story (and answer questions any buddy campervan enthusiasts may have!) Nurses to Nomads is a humorous and truthful account of two nurses, completely burnt out during thepandemic, who quit their jobs and set out to convert a van to live in.......with no driving license, no help and no building experience!

Street Art - Want to be the next Banksy or learn to upcycle? No artistic experience needed, you will learn how to create your own stencil and spray your first street art masterpiece on a poster to take home. Decoupage - Decoupage Craft Workshop Learn how to upcycle anything from furniture, home items and even shoes in this introduction decoupage workshop. Create your own piece to take home.

You want to sing your heart out but you are worried that you are too loud, too out of tune, too shy or too afraid? At the Out & Wild Sing-Along session, every voice deserves to be heard. More than just a covers gig, the session, run by Marieke Vink, gives you the chance to sing along with everyone else, regardless of talent or experience. It's like singing in the safety of your car, but with a whole bunch of like minded people! Group singing is known to promote social cohesion as well as emotional well being. Who knows, you might find your true voice.

Join renowned author Elizabeth Chakrabarty for a creative writing workshop.

Drop in cafe at the Workshop Campsite space that will cover a variety of subjects linked to Menopause & Cycles. This wil include mensrual cycles, strength training, hot flushes and more . Come along, bring a cuppa and join others for an open discussion

Join us as we delve into the magic of weekend foster care and the enduring legacy of love and support it can foster. There will also be an opportunity to engage in discussion and ask questions about different types of fostering and how it could fit in your life from an expert in the field. Kilby is a dedicated advocate for vulnerable children, blending her expertise as a qualified teacher and social worker with her passion for fostering. As a Weekend Foster Carer, Laurie understands the profound impact that short-term care can have on a child's life. She is the Co-Founder of Now Foster, a groundbreaking charity aimed at recruiting a new demographic of caregivers willing to commit to fostering a weekend a month. Laurie's vision is to revolutionise the foster care system by engaging individuals who may not have considered fostering before, offering them the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children.

Come and hear two of their entertaining sapphic stories, with a chance to join in if you feel inclined. Or just sit back and enjoy! Performed by Jane Hoy and Helen Sandler, who enthralled us at last year’s Out & Wild as the Ladies of Llangollen. Brenhines y Llyn / Queen of the Lake Marged and Eluned, coppermine women, in their Sunday best. ‘Gentle Marged daughter of Ifan Has a big clutch and a little clutch, One to drag the dogs from the corner Another to break people's bones.’ A story from north Wales set in the mountains of Eryri around 1790. It’s all about legendary strong woman Marged ferch Ifan from Llanberis and Eluned, her coppermine girl. Alert! Includes Welsh cakes and ‘rock venison’! Storyteller: Jane Hoy 25 Minutes A Moral Amazon 2 Amy enjoying a cigar, viewed by her dog Crack The true story of the amazing and formidable Miss Amy Dillwyn, born a tomboy in Swansea, South Wales in 1845. She grew up to become a woman- loving woman and a successful novelist, suffragist and cigar-smoking industrialist. Narrator: Jane Hoy Amy Dillwyn: Helen Sandler 30 mins