Santa Fe Magazine Festival 2026

For years, Santa Fe Magazine has interviewed the artists, mystics, scientists, outliers, and visionaries who make Santa Fe the Creative Capital of the US. Now, we are hosting a Festival to bring these stories to life by gathering together our community of dreamers, doers and disrupters for intimate discussions, charged debates, immersive art, live performances, and interactive encounters.
For three days, the Santa Fe Festival creates a setting for powerful dialogues that expand imagination and curiosity. It is an opportunity to experience the community and conversations that connect us, the art and ideas that provoke us, and the music and food that fill us. 

*Speakers and times subject to change. Sessions are first-come, first-serve. A one-year subscription, per household, to Santa Fe Magazine (valued at $39.00) is included with the purchase of your ticket. If you are already a subscriber, an additional year of the magazine will be added to your current term.

Info: Henry Shukman is a beloved meditation teacher, poet and author, and Zen master at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe.

Info: Hampton Sides is known for his best-selling, gripping non-fiction adventure stories about war and epic expeditions ("Ghost Soldiers," "Blood and Thunder.")

Info: Virgil Ortiz comes from a family of legendary Pueblo potters. His new immersive experience merges ancient clay work with apocalyptic sci-fi.

Info: Ellen Petry Leanse is a neuroscientist, Stanford instructor, author, entrepreneur, and creative innovator exploring consciousness and human potential.

Eli Goodman, an actor turned entrepreneur, is redefining wellness through his Santa Fe cannabis brand, Best Daze.

Info: Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist and co-founder of The Museum of Walking, where art meets ritual.

Nocona Burgess is a Comanche painter whose contemporary portraits of Indigenous men and women radiate power and history.

Nicholas Herrera is an outsider folk artist and metal sculptor channeling the sacred and subversive.

Info: Juliana Ciano is giving a tour of Reunity Resources, where she is reimagining regenerative living.

Info: Maggie Fine, Santa Fe Magazine’s roving editor, is the co-founder of The Canyon Road Summer Walk, and an actress who has appeared in Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire.

Rashaan Ahmad is a globetrotting hip-hop artist and community catalyst uniting rhythm and purpose.

Info: Joan Jiko Halifax, Zen priest, anthropologist, and founder of the Upaya Zen Center, blends mindfulness with activism.

Info: Jen Sincero, the powerhouse author of the best-selling "You Are a Badass" series, comes to talk confidence, creativity, and cash flow.

Info: Peter Zandan is the executive chairman of Quantified Communications, an advanced analytics and communications software company.

Julie Ferman is the matchmaker extraordinaire behind 1,400 love stories — and counting.

Info: Cassidy Freeman, the star actor of Longmire and The Righteous Gemstones, shares tales from both sides of the camera.

Kya Brickhouse is an actor with the bold, experimental Exodus Ensemble.

Info: Lori Paras is Executive Director of the Santa Fe Raptor Center, which rehabilitates injured and orphaned birds.

Info: Lisa Law is a photographer and filmmaker who famously documented 1960s counterculture, including Woodstock.

David Michael Kennedy’s career spans 50 years and includes photography for Muddy Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie and Bob Dylan.

Info: Sound Bath in the historic MEA Sunmount Chapel

Info: J.P. Granillo is a renowned Chicano artist who, after a decade of incarceration, co-founded the Alas de Agua Art Collective, supporting underprivileged youth.

Info: Ellen Petry Leanse is a neuroscientist, Stanford instructor, author, entrepreneur, and consultant for Apple, Google, and Facebook.

Info: Mark Miller is the founder of Coyote Café and widely considered to be the father of modern Southwestern cooking.

Info: Andrew Weil, M.D., the father of integrative medicine, shares insights on how to heal the whole human.

Chip Conley founded Joie de Vivre Hotels and was Airbnb’s Head of Global Strategy. He is a best-selling author and co-founded MEA, a midlife wisdom school in Santa Fe and Baja CA.

Info: Jessica Matten is a Canadian Métis-Cree actress, model and producer blazing a trail in Hollywood — best known for her roles in Dark Winds and Frontier.

Info: Anna Sofaer, a researcher on the archaeoastronomy of the Ancestral Puebloans of the Southwest, famously rediscovered the Sun Dagger marker site in Chaco National Park.

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