WEIRDOS IN THE WOODS

A REAL Upstate Art-Life Adventure

Weirdos in the Woods is a three-day, artist-driven festival happening across the Hudson Valley, from Mohonk to Woodstock, over Labor Day Weekend, September, 4-6, 2026. Organized by The Tavern and Three Phase Center (Stone Ridge, NY) in collaboration with Rosekill Performance Art Farm (Rosendale, NY), Weirdos in the Woods is a roaming celebration of performance, sound, self-directed creative practice, electronic arts, and community imagination.

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At the heart of the festival is a living map, guiding visitors through studios, venues, and unexpected encounters with art in the woods, fields, barns, stages, and gathering places of the Hudson Valley. Over the course of the weekend, artists open their studios to the public, while three host venues present exhibitions, performances, installations, lectures, situations, and collective experiences. 

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• Friday September 4, 2026 at The Tavern for music and performance

• Saturday September 5, 2026 at Three Phase Center for large-scale installations, demonstrations, and exhibitions

• Sunday September 6, 2026 at Rosekill Performance Art Farm for a closing ritual of performance, food, fire, swimming, and camping

 

Weirdos in the Woods is more than a festival, it’s an experiment. Many of the artists we feature balance deep creative practices with day jobs in trades, tech, care work, education, and labor. We ask a simple but urgent question: How can artists build real, sustainable lives in the places they live? In a time when institutional and government funding continues to fall short, Weirdos in the Woods is building a community-funded alternative platform grounded in fun, shared responsibility, and collective joy. We raise money the way we gather, through wild fundraisers like arm wrestling tournaments, mud wrestling showdowns, live performances, and hand screen-printed thrifted t-shirts. Every dollar goes toward paying artists. Our action-packed fundraisers are:

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• Friday April 3, 2026 at Three Phase Center- Aries Headbash is our kick-off party with cake and potluck

• Saturday July 4, 2026 at Three Phase Center- arm wrestling tournament and other high-spirited mischievous behavior

• Sunday August 29, 2026 - Anatomy Avant Garde at The Tavern

• Saturday July 25, 2026 - Mud Wrestling at Rosekill Art Farm

 

Weirdos in the Woods is a celebration of art as a way of life, a social-sculpture of people acting on the idea that artists and creative-behaving people can participate in building new economic systems. Together, we’re working to come up with living, local mode that can support artists as whole people and to demonstrate why behaving creatively matters.