• Strengthen and grow the spaces that allow the experience of a tender and intimate relationship with the sacred, whilst welcoming a growing community that wish to participate in the magic.
• Expand family-friendly areas and touch points to make the overall experience far more accessible and rewarding for those with children
• Add more water points and upgrade boutique/live-in camping access and shuttles.
• Tighten workshop and session logistics with stage managers, timekeeping, and clear capacity limits, alongside some larger venues for increased capacity.
• Ensure consistent scheduling across all formats – online, printed, and onsite boards.
• Manage capacity to preserve intimacy and avoid overcrowding, with improved site layout and attendee flow.
• Better capacity management at smaller workshop venues and stages.
• Improve sanitation across toilets, showers, and water access with better placement and cleaning schedules.
• Curate food and market offerings with more wholesome, affordable, local, and plant-based options.
• Enhance accessibility with better signage, and mobility support.
• Publish impact data and annual accounts for transparency and accountability.
• Bring sharper focus to sustainability and footprint reduction through measurable actions.
• Diversifying donations, and better assessment, impact reporting and follow up.
• Deepen partnerships with aligned organisations, cultural groups, and community networks.
• Reinforce the festival’s soul through ceremony, inclusivity, diversity, and harm-reduction visibility.
• Continue to create a feedback loop inviting community participation in shaping future editions.
• Even smoother and swifter ingress and accreditation.
Medicine Festival returns in 2026, and with it, a new rhythm.
From now on, Medicine will gather every two years. A biennial cycle gives us the space to create with depth, honour the scale this work now carries, and sustain a healthier balance for our team and community.
There will be no festival in 2027. These in-between years are for tending the roots, nurturing partnerships, developing new offerings, and keeping the flame alive through intimate gatherings. Voices of Medicine will continue, alongside additional events throughout the year.
At the same time, we’re widening the ways Medicine shows up beyond one week in summer. The festival has always been an entry point into a much larger prayer. Now we’re giving real attention to that wider work, growing our impact across culture, community, land, creativity, ceremony, and service, so the spirit of Medicine continues far beyond the festival field.
As part of this we will be launching our own charity platform ‘Medicine in Action’ in April, which is a new donations based initiative to engage our community to create greater impact in the world.
Looking ahead, we’re gradually extending the festival into a longer, eventually week-long experience. This begins in 2026, opening with an extra day to honour the eclipse through ceremony. The expanded timeline and increased production sit behind the higher ticket price, and we’re committed to ensuring that added depth is felt in every part of the journey.
THANK YOU FOR THE CARE, PATIENCE, AND PRESENCE YOU BRING. THIS COMMUNITY CARRIES THE PRAYER FORWARD.