Visit the sculpture park at the site of a former quarry for a day of family fun, visual installations, wearable sculptures, live performances, live music, bonfires, festive food and drink, 3-10pm.

This year’s theme is “Roots and Wings”. The festival celebrates the deep-rooted connections that shape us, while simultaneously embracing the soaring possibilities of the future. You always need roots to be grounded and wings to be able to fly when it’s time!

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A Dance With Dragons
Following their successful Vietnamese water puppet workshop at the 2024 TurnPark Summer Festival, Tommy Nguyen and Doug Fitch return to TurnPark with an updated puppet character! This year, they will present a huge movable dragon carrying an entire Vietnamese village on its back. The Dragon will find its peace in a quarry lake but…. shhh! It’s a secret!

ReConnection
​​NCDA Lab Theater Group from Washington DC will be presenting an interactive performance that combines dance, physical theater, object theater, puppetry and poetry to tell the story of the peoples’ connection to each other through their roots and through our planet.

Songbird Saga
Songbird Saga – is a unique performance weaving storytelling, shamanic experience, ethnic, and electronic music. Talented multi-instrumentalists and frequent TurnPark collaborators Dima Klim and Sasha Drey join forces with the dynamic duo Uyanga Bold and Bansara. Featuring Uyanga’s otherworldly, chameleonic vocals and Bansara’s virtuosic world flutes, their lush downtempo grooves take audiences on a sonic journey that moves the body and elevates the spirit.

A Berklee College of Music and LA Recording School alumna, Mongolian born Uyanga Bold is featured in Mulan, The Marvels, Spider-Man and other feature and animated movies. She toured arenas, performed with symphony orchestras worldwide, and reached over 50 million views. An accomplished musician, Bansara (Josh Geisler) has released numerous solo albums and toured globally as flutist, guitarist, and bandleader of Cirque du Soleil’s TOTEM. A Berklee College of Music graduate, he also studied North Indian classical music for 15 years with the legendary Pandit Raghunath Seth.

Visa to Dreamland
In this humorous interactive quest game visitors are invited to apply to get their Visa to Dreamland. To do this, they must gather four stamps on their official visa paper from the whimsical and humorous characters of Slavic fairy tales brought to life by Luna Go.

The Living Landscape by OR Dance
A site-specific contemporary dance performance, where dancers, integrated with natural elements like tree branches, stones, and mud, blend seamlessly with the park landscape. The dancers embody the intimate connection between human bodies and trees – branches echoing bones, and bones mirroring branches – highlighting the similarity in structure of nature and flesh.

La Playa by OR Dance
At its core, La Playa explores humanity’s relationship with nature, the forces that shape us, and the systems—both internal and external—that govern our lives. La Playa is an abstract, movement-driven celebration of the body, spirituality, and resilience, underscored by a shift from recorded to live music

Roots
Through movement, poetry, and traditional Georgian singing, Uta Bekaia, a Georgian-American artist, embodies the Chokha, traditional Georgian male garment, reinterpreting it through a queer lens. Inspired by ancient Caucasian rituals, the performance challenges the rigid masculinity often tied to the Chokha, seeking liberation from its constraints.

Soul Dance
Join a guided program with Volga Bo, to celebrate life, honoring our ancestors, and shaping our own bright future. Let’s find balance and strength together through ancient wisdom and modern practices.

Rooted Red
Using a reclaimed tree root as the foundation of the sculpture, Inna Zhukovsky-Zilber will invite the participants to thread the delicate red strands through this organic form, honoring the natural forms that anchor us – both physically and emotionally. The root, once hidden underground, now emerges into view, symbolizing our own buried histories and the often-invisible forces that shape identity and our sense of place.

Take part in a Masks and Wings Making workshop organized by Berkshire Art Center.