January 2025 Long Weekend Gathering – celebrate Summer with your Tribe!
Sydney ConFesters gatherings are a living community of accepting people who gather together to celebrate life in nature and creativity, and to invent new ways of being in community that are healthy, safe, free and inclusive. Our gatherings are clothing-optional and respectful of personal choice. Come and celebrate with your tribe!
WHEN
9am Friday, January 24th 2025 until
3pm Monday, January 27th 2025
WHERE
The Outdoor Adventure Camps – Castle Mountain Site
Address: 256 Webbs Creek Rd, Webbs Creek NSW 2775
IMPORTANT: Set your GPS to accept Ferry Crossings otherwise you may be taken the long way around on unpaved backroads
TICKETS
The GOOD NEWS is that even though our insurance cost has quadrupled compared with the previous January event, Sydney Confesters is subsidising this event from our financial reserves and has only increased ticket prices by $10 compared with last year.
- Online ticket $175 (per adult) – for 3 days & 3 nights with community lunch/dinner most days
- $10 per child between 6 to 15 years old
- $1 per child 5 years old or younger
- $190 per adult at-the-front-gate ticket for all ticket purchases made after 7pm 22nd January 2025 (cash only)
- $60 for a day visitor - purchase online and come for any one day, must leave site by 8pm that same day.
REFUND Policy - Entry ticket refundable minus $10 admin fee if you can’t attend, provided we receive your request by 1st January 2025.
NOTE: Trybooking processing fees of 2.5% plus $0.50 ticket fee added to the above for online bookings.
FOOD DONATION
To make yummy, vegetarian lunch & dinner meals together for the community – we rely on you to bring food to donate to our kitchen, particularly Fruit, Salad Ingredients and Vegetables.
VOLUNTEERS
- A condition of your ticket is to donate 2 hours to volunteering
- No discounts or free tickets for volunteering, even our hard-working committee pays for their ticket
- Without kitchen volunteers – there can’t be communal meals, so please lend a hand!
It would be great if you could assist us with the pack-up on Monday mid-morning.
SO WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS? Here’s some examples of what’s been co-created in the past:-
• Welcome Circles
• Communal lunch & dinner meals created together from food we bring & share
• Communal Chai Tea
• Interesting, engaging conversations
• Drumming & dancing
• Nightly warm fires at the Fire Pit
• Soaking in the Hot Tub under the stars
• Dress up or down as you please, this is a clothing optional event.
• Workshops are created by you & me, some usual examples are;
• Art – Life drawing or dot painting
• Writing – journaling, morning pages, poetry
• Dancing or movement or hugging
• Yoga, acro and laughter yoga
• Self defence
• Music – Singing or Drumming
• Breathing, nutrition & wellness
CONDITIONS
- NO PUBLIC ACCESS, this is a private event on a private property – ticket holders only
- No Glass or Bottles (Site Owner hire condition except for kitchen/meals)
- This is an ALCOHOL & DRUG FREE EVENT – Be high on life, we want to meet the real you!
- No pets permitted
- No nuts (Children with severe allergic reaction camp at this site)
- No individual camp fires – use fire pit only
- DO NOT access site’s buildings or outdoor adventure activity equipment
- Take your rubbish & kitchen surplus home with you
- If you get COVID symptoms and/or test positive you must leave immediately to keep the community safe
- No cars to move across site after dark, to keep everyone safe, especially children
- Any noise or fume generating equipment to be operated within designated area, see Site Map
- If you go outside our gathering mapped area e.g bushwalking / swimming etc. you do so at your own risk
- Be completely packed up and leave the site before 3pm on Monday 27th January 2025
- Abide by our Code Of Conduct and Waiver. These documents will also be sent in a Welcome Email and available at the Front Gate.
ESSENTIALS TO BRING
- Camping/sleeping gear, torch, chair, water bottle,
- Food for communal kitchen & meals e.g. Vegetable, Salad Ingredients, Fruit mostly needed.
- Your own breakfast (no communal facilities) plus snacks and whatever else you want to eat or drink,
- Plate/Bowl, Cup & Cutlery,
- Hat and Sunscreen,
- Insect Repellent,
- Positive expectation of connecting with others in a welcoming community
PARTICIPATION
Thinking of running a workshop?
Post it on Facebook – it is a lovely, intimate way to share your knowledge and skills. Bring musical instruments – most nights we have drumming/music circle.
As a community we all participate in making them happen as we each offer a valuable and unique contribution towards the end result. Sydney ConFesters gatherings are about freedom of expression, responsibility and self-respect.
Although the organisers are endeavouring to make the environment as safe as practical, the bottom line is that everyone needs to take full responsibility for their own health and take their own precautions at all times to keep themselves safe
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Sydney Confesters is committed to LEAVING NO TRACE – please bring rubbish bags to remove your own rubbish, and help dispose of non-composable community garbage at the end of the gathering.
If you have questions please contact us on our email at
sydneyconfesters2@gmail.com
Look forward to seeing you there and thank you for your participation in making this a fantastic gathering 😀
DIRECTIONS:
Make sure your GPS navigation software includes Ferry Crossings!
- At the bottom of hill just as you enter Wiseman’s Ferry (before hotel) – TURN LEFT to Webbs Creek Car Ferry (runs 24/7 free).
- After crossing the Hawkesbury River drive 100m. Take FIRST LEFT past signpost The Outdoor Adventure Company.
- Drive 200m to an intersection – take RIGHT side onto dirt road – this is Webbs Creek Road.
- Drive another 3km and you will see the Castle Mountain Log Entrance.
- 500m further on you cross a suspension bridge and the Castle Mountain campsite is another 400m from there – WELCOME HOME SYDNEY CONFESTERS.
