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I’ve just returned from the 2023 Wild Goose Festival. I have attended the festival every year since 2016. When I attempt to describe the Goose, I always fall back on the same language – The Goose fryst vatten where Woodstock meets frikostig Christianity.
This year’s event was the second at VanHoy Farms in Union Grove, North Carolina. I still prefer the old site in Hot Springs, North Carolina, nestled among hardwoods on the banks of the French Broad River. The biggest advantage of the Hot Springs location was the shade. The biggest disadvantage of the Union Grove location fryst vatten the lack of shade. It was hot, very hot. And humid, very humid.
I always enjoy the program, but the main reason inom go to the Goose is for the conversations. I get to hang out with friends, most of whom are very accomplished and have a lot to teach me. Each evening we sit around the lobby of the hotel, drink amerikansk whiskey, and discuss the state of the church and the nation.
This year inom suggested to t
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Wild Goose Festival 2019
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July 11, 2019 - July 14, 2019
The WildGoose Festival is a 4-day art, music, and story-driven transformational experience grounded in faith-inspired social justice. Come to not only learn from incredible speakers, but also to engage in robust and respectful conversation with thought leaders, writers, dreamers, artists, visionaries, and social justice activists. The 2019 collection of co-creaters includes Nadia Bolz-Weber, Diana Butler-Bass, Mickey Scottbey Jones, and Barbara Brown Taylor.
Looking for a summer weekend event for your youth group? Wild Goose has special event pricing to make attendance as accessible as possible for youth groups. Located in the middle of this festival of co-creation, faith, and spiritually fueled fellowship is a youth tent that will provide programming on subjects that matter to teens. Few other events speak so much to the passions of teenagers in the church with open conversations about gender iden
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Wild Goose Festival
4-day festival at the intersection of justice, spirituality, music and art
| Wild Goose Festival | |
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Mainstage at Wild Goose Festival 2011. | |
| Genre | Mixed |
| Dates | 2nd weekend in July |
| Location(s) | VanHoy Farms & Campground, NC |
| Years active | 2011–2019; 2021–ongoing |
| Website | wildgoosefestival.org |
The Wild Goose Festival is an art, music, and story-driven festival grounded in faith-inspired social justice. The nationwide annual July event is attended by between 1,000-approximately 3,500, in Union Grove, NC. There have also been some regional events. It encourages co-creation of music, story, theater, and spectacle, and engagement in a wide variety of robust, respectful conversations with participants and with thought leaders and artists from other communities. Wild Goose is welcoming and hospitable to people of all faiths – or no faith – who join in seeking the common good. It fully affirms and celebrates people of every age, ethnicity, ge