Reflections on Medicine Festival where we guided more than 500 people through four ritualistic journeys exploring touch, intimacy, surrender and connection. Across two nights at the Haven, guests moved from dance and shibari into blindfolded chanting, sensory play and increasingly wild collective movement. 

On Saturday I had the pleasure of visiting Wasteland Summerfest in Amsterdam as the guest of my wonderful friends, the Budapest-based performance collective Pop My Ego. I expected extraordinary costumes, spectacular performances and beautifully crafted post-apocalyptic worlds. I wasn't expecting to encounter such warmth…