Check out these great community events in 2024!
Going to events helps you meet new people and get better at community skills. We’ve got a mix of 30+ real-life and online events that will excite you.
This list doesn’t have everything, so feel free to share more events you know about in the comments below. We’ll keep updating this article throughout the year as more events are announced.
Can’t wait to meet up with you all!
2024 Intentional Community Gatherings
In order of calendar dates…
January 15-19, 2024 | Online
Conference of the International Communal Studies Association: Building communities for global social change
This conference will look at experiments from the past, experiments that are happening today and into the future, and find solutions to our present predicament. Sample topics to covered include: LGBT Voices in the Kibbutz; Findhorn: Past, Present, & Future; Community as an exemplary response for healing and recovery from trauma, crisis and war; Interviews with Kristen R. Ghodsee and Akash Kapur; The Farm; Kerista; ISKCON Communities; Camphill, and more. The conference will be held on three days at different times to accommodate international participation. Recordings of the sessions will be available to conference registrants.
https://www.icsacommunity.org/icsa-2024-conference
Jan 13-21 + Jan 23-31, 2024 | Costa Rica
Ecovillage Tour: Costa Rica
Join Cynthia exploring Costa Rican ecovillages, off-grid homesteads, eco-retreat centers, permaculture farms, and more.
https://www.ecovillagetours.com/costa-rica
Feb 10-14, 2024 | Virtual
Cry From the Future
An online 5 day gathering that will weave compelling through-leaders and edge-walkers from diverse fields to remember our ancient roots as we strive for a visionary future.
https://thevillageoflovers.com/summit?affiliate=communityfinders
March 5-8, 2024 | Atlanta Georgia, US
South and Appalachian Creative Placemaking Summit
With over 50 sessions, experiences, tours and performances throughout the three-day Summit, attendees will come away with innovative and effective approaches to placemaking, with an emphasis on arts and culture ecosystems. Both urban and rural projects throughout the Southeast will be represented through peer-to-peer panel discussions and workshops.
https://www.cpcommunities.org/
March 15-19, 2024 | Lake Arenal, Costa Rica
Protopian Convergence
This is a space for open dialogue, learning and collaboration to envision a future where technology, nature, and the individual are all in a symbiotic balance.
https://www.protopianconvergence.org/
March 15, 2024 – March 14, 2025 | Online, Germany and Portugal
BUILDING COMMUNITY – THE 96: YEAR-LONG COURSE (in German)
This year-long program (in German) focuses on relearning community as a way of life – a key to our collective survival. Together, participants will explore and practice how they can live together in trust, lastingly cooperate, listen to, empathize with and support each other, to drop their masks and reveal to one another what they deeply desire and love, and collaborate for a future without war and violence.
https://www.tamera.org/learn/building-community-the-96/
March 16-17, 2024 | Del Mar California, US
TinyFest California 2024
Come and meet tiny home builders and van conversion specialist, talk with homeowners who have “gone tiny”, enjoy the expert speaker presentations, vendor interactions, live music, entertainment, and awesome vibe at TinyFest California.
https://www.tinyfest.events/explore-tinyfest-california-san-diego-2024/
March 21-28, 2024 | Tulum, Mexico
RegenWeek
A week-long gathering of regenerative vision leadership events designed for connection, co-creation and regeneration.
March 28-30, 2024 | Berkeley CA, US
Bioneers Conference
As Bioneers celebrates its 35th-anniversary conference, the urgency of transformative change is starkly evident. It is more important now than ever that we connect and scale brilliant social movements to enact the kinds of breakthrough solutions that this earth needs. Connect with the Bioneers community of leadership at this time when we’re all called upon to be leaders. The best way to predict the future is to create it.
https://conference.bioneers.org/
April 6-7, 2024 | Chiltern Victoria, Australia
Off-Grid Living Festival
By combining education and entertainment this event appeals to people from all-walks of life. Empowering people of all-ages to take energy needs into their own hands, transition to sustainable lifestyles, build self-sufficiency skills, face climate action head-on, and discover a new way of living and connecting.
https://www.victoriashighcountry.com.au/listing/off-grid-living-festival-2024-chiltern/
April 18-21, 2024 | Agaete Gran Canaria, Spain
Coliving Gathering
This gathering is designed exclusively for the brilliant minds shaping the future of coliving spaces.
https://www.colivinghub.co/events-1/coliving-gathering
April 20-21, 2024 | Online
Gaiarcadia Summit
BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL CIVILIZATION. Join a selected group of outstanding world leaders active in projects related to the Gaiaself, a new collective transpersonal ecological identity.
https://gaiarcadia.org/summit/
April 25-27, 2024 | Oakland California, US
Othering and Belonging Conference
The Othering & Belonging Conferences are dynamic and uniquely-curated gatherings that advance scholarship, narratives, movements, policies, and practices that support a more fully inclusive “we.”
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/conference
May 1-2, 2024 | Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Australian Placemaking Summit
The 2-day summit will provide a leading platform for urban planners, placemakers, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, engineers, policy-makers, developers, contractors and building managers from across government and private sectors to network and discuss opportunities as well
as solutions for challenges encountered in the process of placemaking across Australian cities and towns.
However you fit into the placemaking/urban development puzzle, the summit is designed to provide a holistic understanding of the concept, helping you develop that tricky blend of people-focused practice & commercial acumen critical for successful placemaking work.
https://www.placemakingsummit.com.au/
May 16-20, 2024 | Online & In-person (Bastrop Texas, US)
Exit and Build Land Summit IV
Join Live Free Academy for another hard-hitting Exit and Build Land. The ONLY event gathering dozens of experts in parallel systems, community-building, rural real estate, permaculture, and more revealing the best ways to live free in the country.
http://exitandbuildlandsummit.com
May 16-19, 2024 | Missouri, US
Awaken & Transform: Women’s Retreat at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
For those identifying as women, here’s a retreat for you located at one of the better known ecovillages in the United States.
Ready to awaken your inner goddess and journey to a new and empowered you? Do you hunger to connect with the wisdom within you, the women around you, and the power of nature? Are you ready to come alive? Then this retreat is for you!
https://www.dancingrabbit.org/womens-retreat/
May 27 – May 31, 2024 | North Carolina, US
Ecovillage Action Week at Earthaven Ecovillage
Get your hands dirty while learning about ecovillage living through this immersive experience. work side-by-side with residents, making meaningful contributions while exploring new skills and expanding your ideas of alternative living. You’ll learn by doing and getting to know the community.
https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/ecovillage-action-week/
June 5-8, 2024 | Baltimore Maryland, US
Placemaking Week
Join public space leaders from around the world for a week of experiential learning, networking, and inspiration. Placemaking Week is a multi-day, global gathering of over 400 public space leaders that emphasizes hands-on learning, off-site exploration, and innovative social events, all while leaving behind a public space legacy in host cities.
https://www.placemakingweek.org/
June 15-22, 2024 | Portland Oregon, US
Village Building Convergence
An annual community building event, bringing activists, community members, and organizations together for a summer of grassroots placemaking and sustainable community building throughout Portland, Oregon.
https://villagebuildingconvergence.com/
June 19-24, 2024 | Crato, Portugal
Waking Life
A midsummer festival and a year-round playground for creation and experimentation. Waking Life is an act of eco-communitarian resilience and an experiment in circular world-building.
Summer Camp West – June 21-30, 2024 | Summer Camp East, July 12-21, 2024
Network for a New Culture
For those looking to experience a radically new culture, and are interested in co-creating the transformation of our Culture into Universal Love in the deepest sense, these summer camp experiences are for you.
July 3-7, 2024 | Devon, UK
Enchanted
Enchanted is an event that will invite you to look at old problems with new perspectives.
July 16-21, 2024 | Mills River North Carolina, US
Firefly Gathering
Each summer hundreds of people come together in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina for the Annual Firefly Gathering, the largest earthskills gathering in the country. Skilled instructors, artists, musicians, speakers and thinkers co-create this experience to expand our capacity to live well with one another and our beloved Earth. With over 300 classes to choose from, onsite camping, youth programs, and live evening entertainment, Firefly Gathering has something for everyone!
https://www.fireflygathering.org/annual
July 18-21, 2024 | On-line and Oxfordshire, UK
UK Communities Conference/Intentional Communities Symposium (online)
Annual weekend gathering which explores and celebrates intentional community in Britain, promoting collaboration between communities and seeking to build a stronger communities movement.
https://ukcomcon.braziers.org.uk/
https://intentionalcommunities8.wordpress.com/intentional-communities-symposium-18th-20th-july-2024/
July 24-28, 2024 | Lebensgarten, Steyerberg Germany
CAIA Tribe Gathering at Lebensgarten Steyerberg Ecovillage
Celebrate life, nature and the joy of being together, playfully and easily rediscover life in a new – and at the same time ancient – way.
https://caia-academy.de/gathering/
August 1-4, 2024 | Piercefield Park, UK
Green Gathering
The UK’s original off-grid, grassroots festival, The Green Gathering is a showcase of low-impact living filled with music, arts, activism, spoken word, crafts and so much more. Built from the ground up with green principles embedded at its core, this festival offers four days of exploration, imagination and self-discovery, combined with unforgettable acts and opportunities to learn life-long skills.
https://www.greengathering.org.uk/ (use code G13CMF for special affinity discount)
August 2-4, 2024 | Denver Colorado, US
National Cohousing Conference
A gathering of community builders, seekers and cohousing professionals who are committed to a more connected, sustainable and democratic future.
https://www.cohousing.org/conference/
August 5 – September 1, 2024 | Monte Do Cerro, Portugal
Building Community as a Key to Peace Work
Learn by experience how we build a community based on cooperation and trust, as a pathway to a peaceful future made up of decentralized, autonomous bioregions (based on the Healing Biotopes Plan).
https://www.tamera.org/learn/building-community-as-a-key-to-peace-work/
August 20-25, 2024 | ÄNGSBACKA, SWEDEN
European Ecovillage Gathering
Hosted every year at a different community, this is the best event to experience the ecovillage movement in Europe. In 2024 the European Ecovillage Gathering returns to Angsbacka, a community and retreat centre deep in the forests of Sweden. With its stunning forest location, magical spaces for workshops, dancing, yoga and ceremonies, and years of experience hosting transformational events, Ängsbacka is the perfect place to gather in community!
This year’s GEN Europe’s annual celebration of all things ecovillage and regeneration will focus on the radical act of slowing down. Participants are invited to discover the profound sense of community that emerges when we cultivate slowness, spaciousness, and patience, and to draw inspiration from ecovillages and conscious communities around Europe and the world. As with every Gathering, highlights will include inspiring speakers, hands-on workshops, a Meet the Ecovillages day to connect with community members and learn more about their projects, and much more. All are welcome!
https://ecovillagegathering.org/
August 30 – September 2, 2024 | Louisa, Virginia
Communities Conference at Twin Oaks
Annual Conference bringing together people seeking intentional communities with folks who are already living in them. The conference focuses on Intentional Communities, including models such as Ecovillages, Cohousing, and Housing Cooperatives, and the larger cooperative movement, including all kinds of cooperative and collective organizations. The current themes for this years event are: How can communities network more effectively? How can our communities be more equitable and diverse?
https://communitiesconference.org/
September 11-15, 2024 | Portugal
Gathering of Tribes
The Gathering brings together companies, villages, communities and DAOs – the tribes of the regenerative ecosystem – to be, to share, to inspire, to learn and to connect for action. People gather together in nature to celebrate and grow the regenerative movement.
https://gatheringoftribes.earth/
September 25-26, 2024 | Online and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coliving Conference
Connect with coliving and shared living enthusiasts, forward-thinking entrepreneurs, seasoned investors, and esteemed industry leaders as we continue to shape the future of shared living. Gain exclusive insights, forge valuable connections and ignite your passion for shared living in a collaborative environment. Immerse yourself in interactive sessions, product showcase.
https://www.colivingconference.com/
September 26-29, 2024 | EarthHaven Ecovillage, Black Mountain North Carolina, US
Re-membering Retreat
An intimate four-day journey in a supportive community container, exploring what it means to Belong: to Belong to Oneself, to Each Other, to a Lineage, to a Place, to this Life. This retreat is designed to enliven your sense of connection and provide you with time to access nature’s candid mirror that informs the truth of how you want to live.
https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/re-membering-retreat/
September 21-29, 2024 | Slovenia
Ecovillage Tour in Slovenia
Journey with Cynthia to experience ecovillage living on a tour through the unique European country of Slovenia.
https://www.ecovillagetours.com/slovenia
October 11-14, 2024 | Camp Loucon Kentucky, US
Nurturing Communities Network Annual Gathering
Annual gathering for Christ-centered intentional communities.
https://www.nurturingcommunities.org/gatherings
October 20-22, 2024 | Online and Aveiro, Portugal
Planetiers World Gathering
The biggest international event for sustainable innovation, allowing every changemaker to share and learn about the best solutions from around the world, to give stage and visibility to talents, entrepreneurs, companies, cities and projects that are on the same path towards the 2030 GOALS.
https://worldgathering.planetiers.com/
Know of more intentional community gatherings coming up?
Share about them in the comments below!
The Legacy Project 7-Generation Bioregional Earth Summit takes place February 5-10, 2024. I tried to add the link but got a message that my comment was forbidden, it seemed to be spam. Google it!
Thanks Nicole. I only just heard about this event today, I will add it. Are you one of the organizers?
Brave Earth (Tierra Valiente) in Costa has an event coming up:
Vision In Times of Transition in May
The Regeneration Will Be Funded (interview series)
And they also are promoting:
Permaculture Design Cert in April via Tierramor, Rio Montaña in Nosara
Hi M.J. do you have more information on these (including links) so we can add them to the blog?
Yeah ! We organise every year a gathering for the intentional communities of the west-south of France in the ecovillage of Pourgues. And there is another big gathering every year with the intentional communities of everywhere in France organise by “The Coopérative Oasis” ❤️
Thanks Pourgues, do you have more information on these so we can add them to the blog?