Soulshine Festival 2021
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Please Note: Will Be Cold At Night!
A tad unusual for this time of year but expect the temperature to be low at night! Bring a jacket, and a couple of warm sweaters! Be sure you are warmly bundled up while sleeping too!!
Ticket Sales Ending at 4 PM On September 2nd!
For a variety of planning reasons we must end ticket sales 24 hours before the start of the Festival. Thank you for your understanding.
Mission: Soulshine is building community, creating bonds, celebrating humanity and exploring ways to live more harmoniously with each other and the earth while honouring individual freedom of choice with a focus on learning & teaching how to choose wisely with awareness, care & compassion for all.
Community
Community is paramount to a happy, healthy, fulfilling personal life experience and to the overall wellness of humanity. Soulshine holds a focus on creating community as a way to instill a stronger sense of unity, oneness and love into the world.
Empowerment
To acknowledge and embrace who we are is to step into our power with a conscious awareness of our creative abilities. We are far more incredible than any of us yet realize and Soulshine aims to empower people to be the greatest version of themselves they can be.
Freedom
One’s own way, preference or choice. This is the foundation of what Soulshine stands for. The new world we are co-creating is one where people have the proper tools, information & support to make wise, conscious decisions. Because freedom of choice matters.
Health
Health is the real wealth, be it mind, body or soul and a happy, healthy population is the goal. The world we are co-creating carries a strong focus on holistic approaches to health and wellness as we explore and discover how to more wisely care for ourselves and our environment.
Art
Soulshine recognizes a magnificent creator in every individual and encourages artistic expression in its many forms. When we are creating, a deep, almost forgotten part of our essence comes out to play and reconnects us with us to our truest selves.
Spirit
The energy that connects us with each other, with the earth and with all that is, comes with many different words and titles. Soulshine welcomes people from all religious or spiritual beliefs. We recognize that ultimately, we really are just one big cosmic earth family.
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Enrich Yourself And Create Community
Enjoy four days and three nights of soul empowering activity on a stunning private festival campground only an hour’s drive north east of Toronto.
Come and witness the awesomeness of an intentionally heart-centric and community powered gathering. With plenty to do and scheduled downtime, we shall tap into whatever it is that makes us human, as individuals and as a community.
Soulshine is an experience, with a start, middle and an end. We ask everyone to come and enjoy the full festival experience with us!
It’s time to tune in to humanity.
What To Expect
Music
Enjoy a soul enriching soundtrack from amazing musicians on two stages. Expect lots of live music and dance music but also more quite experiences in the forest or around the singing bowls.
Artists will begin to be featured soon.
Ceremony
Soulshine is being created with intention to celebrate and empower the individual and the community through a thought provoking festival experience. A critical part of this experience is conducting ceremonies that help set intention and guide flow. Expect an opening and closing ceremony, sound healing and other meditative ceremonies and community-centered meals.
Workshops
Learn and create in a wide variety of workshops on Saturday and Sunday. Expect to learn about drumming, lotion making, food, breath awareness and even plant identification on instructional walks through the forest.
Workshops will begin to be featured soon.
Community Kitchen
At the core of Soulshine is the empowerment of community and what better way to do that than with food.
Some wise cooks and their helpers will be cooking beautiful meals in a commercial kitchen. While you are able to bring your own food you can enjoy a large variety of whole-food plant based meals all weekend long. Starting with Dinner on Friday and ending with lunch on Monday… Just bring your plate 
Kids Activties
Community means family, and family means children. Soulshine is coming into form as a family friendly event to enable for deeper integration and community building. Expect many engaging and uplifting experiences for kids and families.
We have planned to enable comfortable family experiences while maintaining a festive spirit throughout the weekend.
Art
Engage with sculpture and visual art and enjoy the creations that will be made at the festival too.
Connect with us if you are interested in showcasing your art or interested in creating it on site!
2021 Festival Passes
All-inclusive 4 day, 3 night camping weekend!
Festival activity starts at 4pm on Friday. The opening ceremony will be at 7:30pm that evening.
The closing ceremony is on Monday at 12pm. All festival programming will end Monday late afternoon.
This is a weekend long experience. Ins-and-outs are discouraged but possible between 10am-10pm.
Note: Ticket sales will end at 4PM on September 2nd
There will be no tickets available at the gate.
*All sales are final.*
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Frequently Asked Questions
So where is it going to be exactly?
Soulshine will be held approximately 45 min drive north east of Toronto. Just north of Oshawa in Blackstock, Soulshine is utilizing two properties including Souls Path Retreat and Purple Hill.
Guests will be entering from Purple Hill at:
2731 Shirley Rd, Blackstock, ON L0B 1B0
When will you open your doors? How early can I come on Friday?
Festival gates will open between 4pm-9pm on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday entrance gate is open between 9am-12pm.
If you are unable to enter between these two times we would have to process your entry differently and likley much slower. Work with us and try and arrive at the requested times.
No one is able to enter past 10pm on any day without advanced permission.
Yes, there are plenty of flushing toilets, sinks and some outdoor showers.
You can bring whatever you feel you need but the community Kitchen will be cooking and serving delicious plant-based meals all weekend, included in your ticket price.
Check “Community Kitchen”.
Please Note: If you are looking to cook additional food for yourself we ask that you do not bring full size B.B.Q. or large gas canisters. You are however permitted to bring a hibachi or a small camping stove.
The answer is yes, but we are starting to fill most of the needed departments.
We envision 2 tiers of volunteers. One that simply signs up for a short 2 hour shift (at the event) and the other commits to a three 6 hour shifts (or more) and an orientation session. Those committing to significant volunteer hours receive a free all-inclusive pass to enjoy the weekend.
We are still filling positions in the community kitchen, parking/reception and gate.
Please e-mail hello@soulshinefestival.ca if you are interested in volunteering. Please excuse any delay in getting back to you.
- Proof of ticket (email on your phone or printed)
- Tent
- Sleeping bag
- Plate + cup + utensils
- Tea or Coffee Cup/Mug
- Clothes for 4 days
- Personal hygiene products
- Extra socks
- Towel
- A sweater / jacket
- Festival Chair
- Yoga Mat/Something to lay on
- Festival Blanket
- Cellphone Battery
- Washcloth
- A journal (optional)
- A cool expressive outfit(optional)
- Flashlight (optional)
- Small backpack or fanny pack (optional)
- Frisbee, bubbles and hula hoops (optional)
- A positive attitude 🙂
- Don’t bring so many things… in general 😉
- No glass bottles
- No gas powered generators
- No personal fires
Can I bring my dog or other pets?
As this is the first edition of this large undertaking we are unable to say yes to our furry friends. We may look into including them for the following year.
Soulshine is primarily a weekend long ceremonial experience, full of intention and building of flow.
Please try and make it for the full experience, hand in hand with the rest of the family.
If you are unable to make it for Friday, you are able to enter on Saturday. Likewise if you are unable to stay for Monday, you can leave on Sunday.
See “When will you open your doors” Above.
Ultimately, this is a camping-centric gathering in a grounding and comfortable environment for those on foot.
We are unable to accept any more trailers/RVs than what we already accommodated.
Note About Alcohol
This gathering is intentionally subtle, flowy and soul enriching. While you can bring your own food (and drink), we will not be serving any Alcohol.
We actually discourage excessive drinking entirely. We anticipate most attendees will be responsible, with many not consuming any alcohol at all. This is just not that kind of get together though we certainly will be celebrating and letting loose. – Lets keep this Vibe in mind when on the festival grounds for the best experience possible.
Note about Garbage
Please leave no trace. Bring only what you need, and leave with as much as you can. We will certainly have bins and compost on site but are encouraging everyone to simply be kind to the land, and to help make the new volunteer team’s lives easier –
Thank you.
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It’s all coming together. Come back soon for more updates.
Flyer artwork by Gaia Orion
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Website still being worked on. Tune in soon for more updates.
Contact us: hello@soulshinefestival.ca