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✨ A little update from Camp Kindred ✨

We’re taking a fallow year in 2026.

What we created together in 2025 was something truly magical, and we want to honour that by taking a moment to reflect and care for what we’ve built.

Like many small, independent festivals, the financial realities of running CampKindred mean we need to take a step back in 2026 and focus on sustainability.

This pause gives us the space to explore new funding options, strengthen our foundations, and grow our team so that Camp Kindred can return in 2027 and continue for forever more.

✨ What’s next ✨
While the festival takes a breather, we’ll be bringing the Kindred spirit into the city with smaller, bite-size events, and opening up opportunities for people who’d like to get involved behind the scenes.

The Kindred flame is very much still burning 🔥🧡

Thank you for being part of this community! Keep an eye on us as we’ll be releasing more later this year.

Collage credit: @wibblyworkshops by @camp_kindred

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The beautiful opening ceremony of 2025, a moment to connect, to ground, and to call in the community we would become.
Led by @lew.klein93 , weaving poetry and ritual, held within the spirit of Kindred. A structure designed by @oddfabrication

Photo credit @alonglines by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

Camp Kindred, 2025
The most incredible gathering of queer creatives and community ✨💛
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#lgbtq #lgbtqpride #lgbtcommunity #queerpride #pridemonth #lgbtlove #transpride #streets_storytelling #BrightonPhotographer #QueerPhotographer #TranslsBeautiful #QueerJoy #transrights #localmusic #thisisbrighton #brightonlife #alliseemag #streetdreamsmag by @camp_kindred

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We had the most incredible time at Camp Kindred back in July, running our Community Zine collage workshop!

All the collages in this post were created at the inaugural Camp Kindred gathering in July 2025. Participants were encouraged to let their inner child run free - cutting and sticking to their heart’s content - creating something that reflected their experiences of queerness and community, incorporating the event’s theme: The Elements—Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air.

We attended Grace Goslin (@areola_grande_latte) and Liv Wynter’s (@livwynter) talk on Abolition in the Queer Archive, where they shared pieces of queer history from the archives which really highlighted to us the importance of creating art as a community, and documenting queer joy. In the spirit of this, this zine serves as a record of the joy experienced at Camp Kindred this year.

There was an incredible range of talent and creativity on show over the weekend, and we would love to expand the zine next year to incorporate works from other sessions and in other mediums.

Huge thanks to everyone who participated and to @camp_kindred for having us! 🔥 by @camp_kindred

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9 months ago

Looking back on 2025 one of our proudest projects was designing and dressing our many installations @camp_kindred 🔥
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It was a massive undertaking for us, but with the help of our incredible team of volunteers we made it happen! Thankyou to @camp_kindred for having us on board it was truly an honour! Here is a round up of everything we created:
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👁️👄👁️ THE CAMP KINDRED SPIRIT: a huge installation which was the meeting point in the centre of the festival. In which the opening ceremony was held and a host of workshops and gatherings happened across the weekend.
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🔥🌊🌿💨 THE ELEMENTALS : dance tent which we dressed with elemental god heads, each designed by the 4 elements. This space was so much fun to create, and hosted a ton of incredible DJs and events including the elementals pageant to end the festival.
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🪩🪩 TITS UP BAR : a saucy secret bar hidden up in the tree house boardwalk. We loved creating this little hidden surprise for people to find whilst they explored the site.
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🌲✨HAUS OF TREES: the acoustic main stage, this was the setting for a ton of amazing gigs at evening time, with @anadellor opening as the first act of the festival. And a calming fun space for morning yoga and dance classes in the daytime!
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🎭✂️ we also hosted our FIRST ever workshop! At the Forge tent, where festival friends came along and created their own element inspired crowns and masks!
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@camp_kindred was a JOYFUL, CREATIVE PLAYGROUND of UNRESTRICTED EXPRESSION. A QUEER UTOPIA that we are eternally proud to have played a part in creating!
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Massive thankyou to our small but mighty team of helpers, could not have realised our big plans for this project without your hard work @orange_ashleigh @dr_rattus_rattus @theopenpresshastings @joshanapem @_jessicaamd ❤️‍🔥 by @camp_kindred

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9 months ago

@camp_kindred looked a little like this. Hard to capture in one short reel, but the weekend was something truly special. Four founders came together to create the kind of festival we always dreamed of; pure, meaningful, and full of heart.

A huge thank you to everyone who performed, ran a workshop, volunteered, or donated. Couldn’t be prouder of what we created together. 🧡 by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

Sunday daytime pt 2.

Photo credit: @chloesnlphotos by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

Sunday brought its own vibe to the camp.

A soft, serene energy as people leaned into the truest form of their queer selves.

Here’s a glimpse of the daytime magic.

Photo credit: @chloesnlphotos by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

Nighttime on Camp brings it own kind of magic.

Featuring: the wonderful queer joy you all felt, the amazing @anadellor and the stone circle from @kateshieldsv2

Photo credit: @alonglines by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

SATURDAY
So many incredible workshops it might be easier to say what didn't happen!
To list a few:
Daneclasses, yoga, cyanotype printing, poetry, screen-printing, walking performers, sports-gay and a whole lot more!

Photo credit to @chloesnlphotos by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

See you in 2026!

We can confirm that Camp Kindred is going ahead next year!!

How could it not? The queer utopia we built together was too magical not to return.

Hold tight over the next few months, we’ll be sharing more info soon.
We already can’t wait to be back in that field with all of you 🫶

With love, gratitude and radical queer joy,
The Camp Kindred Crew
xx by @camp_kindred

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a year ago

I've never been to a festival quite like @camp_kindred before. I've never been to one so small and DIY but with so much passion, heart and creativity. It felt more like pride than pride does. It was a very special weekend and so much respect and thanks to the organisers because you could see how hard you worked and how much you cared about it!

I loved @oddfabrication 's creations and I've loved getting the chance to put some of the colours down on paper this weekend because the decoration of the site was one of my favourite things about it 😍 taken in Lewes, East Sussex by @camp_kindred

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