AUG 30 - SEP 4
PORTUGAL
synesthesia
This is a carefully curated immersive journey
of extraordinary minds and hearts.
Is there a nameless renaissance within you?
The world seeks new forms of engagement.
This is our opportunity to co-create a masterpiece.Synesthesia isnβt for everyone β We curate for curiosity, courage, care, creativity, brilliance; free-thinkers who dare to reimagine reality.This event is not like others.
If you've been, you know.Let Synesthesia be the beginning.
Bring your realest self.
What should i expect?
SYNESTHESIA is a 6-day multi-sensory experience, an experiment in human potential, a ceremony. Not quite a festival, not quite a retreat.Expect a hard-to-describe week of solid humans, psychedelic renaissance, art, music, performance, depth, mischief, and magic. A group of 200 hand-picked humans will enter the cauldron and co-create a waking dream.This is a participatory event. Instead of a normal ticket, each participant joins a guild based on their sensorial imperative with an invitation to imbue the gathering with that sense (or a multi-sensory experiment).Synesthesia calls to creators, free-thinkers, and seekers. If you're an artist, innovator, or driven by personal growth and community, this journey is crafted for you. Here, your creativity finds a home, your senses awaken, and your spirit soars.
Synesthesia calls
What else?
SYNESTHESIA is the prodigal child from a lineage of uniquely-curated gatherings that began in French castles and now find their home in a permanent HQ. The program is hybrid professionally produced & co-created.π« Six days of plant-forward food included with all tickets. The event is decommodified & financially inclusive. Once you are here, your needs are met and there is no need for money.β Accommodation [rooms, cabins, glamping] offered separately or bring your own for free.π 50% of the budget for this gathering is allocated to art. Last year, we had 150 participants with 50 teams & artists.ππ© Food is central to the experience and we dine together (although there are many quiet nooks and benches in nature if you're feeling solo).πͺ Abundance is provided breakfast, lunch, dinner, as well as community-created midnight bites. Meals are plant-focused with quality ingredients, many local and/or organic.π There are invitations to volunteer, contribute, and look-out for one another, but nothing is expected.This event is designed to be enthusiastically friendly to those who choose to stay sober during the week.
Guilds
There is no wrong choice, though some may improve their fate.All paths take you to the same place: SYNESTHESIAGuilds are a low-stakes way to get involved in the shenanigans. Think of it as 'just the fun bit' [depending on your definition of fun] of joining a camp or barrio at a burn or co-created event. No cooking or admin required. You may choose your guild on the 'REQUEST TO JOIN' page.The guilds are as follows:β Taste Guild
β Touch Guild
βΎ Smell Guild
β¦ Sight Guild
β« Sound Guild
β Proprioceptive GuildGuild-members are invited to a secret guild-only chat + Notion prior to the gathering to scheme and collaborate. Involvement and creation is encouraged but voluntary. It's perfectly OK to show up the day of the event without a plan.Naturally, multi-sensory installations, immersions, and experiments are welcome.
venue
The Garden is a private 23 acre estate nestled on the mountainside in the heart of the Lima river valley in Northern Portugal.Facilities include a private lake, established forest garden and groves, pool, sauna, giant hot tub, moonboard climbing wall, villa, two grand halls & embodiment space, four kitchens, gym, yoga decks & yoga platforms, giant dance floor, cork dojo, circus arts, fitness studio, two swimming springs, jam space full of instruments & sound systems, fruit orchards, and more.There is abundant flat, shaded camping available. Late August in these woods is a tropical paradise.There is fiber optic internet on-site and a dedicated co-working terrace. Otherwise, SYNESTHESIA is phone & screen free.β 45 minutes from Porto Airport [OPO]
β 3.5 hours from Lisbon.
β Hours of forested hiking footsteps out the back gate.
β 20-25 minutes to the beach [kitesurfing & surfing]
β 20-25 minutes to the waterfall valley.
β 15 minutes to Viana do Castelo & Ponte de Lima.
β Everything on this land is buzzing with life <3
our artists
Art Collective
204.ai
Our creative technology process is our playground, where we blend the latest in technology with creativity to craft immersive experiences that resonate long after the lights dim.
MUSICIAN
Rawan Roshni
Rawan, a singer/songwriter, poet, and transformational facilitator, utilizes sound, movement, and a range of techniques to establish safe and courageous spaces for participants.
Installation
Faluja
I collect discarded, used, rejected, superfluous materials and recycle them into grandiose works of art, which can hardly be imagined by those who envision beyond what the eye has already seen.
Performance
Odelly
Odellyβs sound is a contemporary mixture of pop, trap, hip-hop and traditional instrumental music from North Africa.
architecture
Miguel Rebelo & Filipa Tojal
An architect and visual artist from Portugal collaborate to blend sustainable architecture and landscape-inspired painting, merging sharp designs with meditative, space-sensitive installations, and combining Western and Eastern techniques.
Musician
Marcus Amadeus
Portuguese musician, author & composer, born in Porto.Growing up amongst musical instruments, ballet bars, and cultural contrasts, French and Lusitan, artistic expressive forces were always present in his journey.
DANCER
Saed Mansour
Performance artist and dance teacher that focus on emotional, communal, and political processes.
Musician
Noam Enbar
A founding member of Habiluim, is a singer, composer and performance artist who creates musical-ritual works charged with a mythical local energy, somewhere on the margin between ritual theater and ecstatic public singing.
musician
Shai Peri
Exposing my heart through music.
A multi instrumental musician & violinist.
Filmmaker
Maysaloun Hamoud
Writer-director and DJ Maysaloun Hamoud is the first filmmaker to be subjected to a Fatwa in Palestine since 1948. The reason? Her feature directorial debut, In Between. By exposing Palestinian cinema to images of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, Hamoudβs motivations are indisputably a provocation.
PAINTER
Elina Zunde
Immersing in the fields of ever expanding perception and diversity of living forms and the world itself gives me perpetual joy and sense of gratitude for the existence.
digital artist
Peter Spacy
Award-winning digital artist, and electronic music producer.
His creations explore the relations between audio elements & visual aesthetics throughout technology.
Crafting frequencies that resonate across time and space.
Painter
Atis Jakabsonns
Looking for ways to reach a primal nothingness, blurring the boundaries between subject and object, impossible and mundane, human and divine, reality and idea. I create sensitive surfaces to perceive the space that lies behind.
researcher
Prof. Amit Zoran
Exploring the connections between consciousness, technology, and nature, I blend diverse experiences to enhance our interaction with the environment and promote harmony with Earth.
Performance
Dara Morgana
An author, keynote speaker, and multidisciplinary artist. She specializes in creative resilience and bringing regeneration through art. Dara's work encompasses immersive theater, performance art, and transformative workshops, all designed to inspire and empower through storytelling, creativity, and nature.