Tending Roots Summer Solstice Gathering

Tending Roots Summer Solstice Gathering

Saturday 20 June 2026 · 10:30am – 7pm

Victoria Park, Glasgow · Free · Ticketed · All-ages

Come as you are. Bring what you have. Stay as long as it feels right.

For six months, a community has been meeting and moving together, following the waxing moon, tending the roots of connection, creativity, and collective care.

On Saturday 20 June the day before the sun reaches its longest peak we close that chapter the most natural way we know: by coming outside, coming together, and celebrating what has grown.

The moon, on this evening will be full, or as close to full as makes no difference to the body and the bones.

We stand at a threshold.

The waxing journey complete, the solstice at our doorstep.

It feels like exactly the right moment to gather.

Who This Gathering Is For

This is a free, all-day outdoor gathering centred in and for BPOC and BPOCQT communities.

We warmly and wholeheartedly welcome all allies, friends, partners, colleagues, and family who genuinely understand and honour that center.

This space is rooted in decolonial practice. We come to centre equity and to walk, together, toward collective liberation. Safety here is not about comfort alone it is about integrity and care.

If harm or distress arises, it will be named and addressed with respect, always keeping the

wellbeing of the whole community at heart. We will share some collective guides on the day to help hold this as an accountable, restful, and genuinely welcoming space, one where we acknowledge our lived experiences, the intersectionalities we carry, and the conscious effort we are each making to be here well.

You are welcome here. Wholly and warmly.

Your Ticket

Tickets are free but required. We ask everyone to register so we can hold a sense of numbers and welcome you well.

Families: one ticket per adult is all we ask. There is no need to register children separately.

Once you have your ticket, we will send you an email with the specific meeting point within the park, full details of what the day holds, and information about what we will do in case of wet or changeable weather.

If you have any questions before the day, please reach out to us at

[email protected]

we are glad to hear from you.

Finding Us

We will share in an email ; when you have your ticket.

What's Happening on the Day

This is a day of joy. Of rest. Of togetherness. Of remembering.

Throughout the day there will be a flowing, unhurried offering of sessions and creative

expression painting, yoga, music and song, storytelling, dreaming and meditation.

Nothing is a performance. Every person offering something on the day is simply sharing a piece of themselves, and you are warmly invited to follow your curiosity toward whatever calls you.

We will have a Red Tent a sacred and sheltered space for the feminine, for storytelling, ritual, and ceremony. A space to soften, to speak, and to be witnessed.

There will also be a space for crafts: weaving, spinning, knitting, crochet, and more. Bring your own work with you. This is the day to do it in community. Bring your instruments too. Bring whatever you are making. The space is for creating, sharing, and simply being.

And there will be a space for rest and quiet for soft conversation, for stillness, for those who simply need to be.

Sessions are short and unhurried some just ten or twenty minutes, others a little longer.

There is no schedule to keep. Drift in. Follow what calls you. Drift away again.

The Wider Park

Our gathering space is where the crafts, conversation, stories, rest, and fire will be centred. But the wider park is fully there for everyone.

If you are coming with children and you'd like to play ball games, ride bikes, use a skateboard, or play tennis or basketball Victoria Park has it all. There are tennis courts you can book, a basketball court, open fields nearby for ball games, lanes for little bikes, and several play areas for children. We lovingly ask that balls, bikes, skateboards, and larger play happens in those spaces, so that the gathering space can remain a sacred, gentle retreat for all.

We encourage everyone to let this event be a sanctuary a reminder that we all deserve these kinds of retreat spaces to be part of our human experience.

Victoria Park has accessible toilets including wheelchair-accessible facilities, a children's play area, good public transport links, and free parking nearby.

The Fire

We will have a fire space, safely contained and raised from the ground. Parents and carers are warmly asked to hold awareness of children around the fire and any spaces that call for gentle attention.

Children and Community Care

We believe in both freedom and radical responsibility. All parents and carers are responsible for their own children and we also want to invite a conversation about what it means to be in community together.

On the day, we will offer some collective care guidelines as a group space to ask and answer: are you comfortable with another community member offering gentle guidance to your child if you're in a workshop? Are you at ease with someone stepping in if they see a child close to something that needs attention?

We want everyone, children and adults to feel free and safe. We encourage us all to think

ahead about what that means for your family, and to come ready to hold your own radical responsibility while also trusting the care of this community.

We will speak to this together at the start of the day.

Food and Sharing

We will have a shared table and a potluck in the truest sense of the word.

If you'd like to bring something to share, please do. It can be a loaf of bread, some juice or water, a dish you love to cook, a bag of crisps, some olives, some fruit whatever you feel called to offer. Nothing is expected, and everything brought with love is welcome. Bring food and drinks for yourself too, as you would for a full day out with your family.

A Sober and Grounded Space

This is a fully sober event. We ask that there is no alcohol and no smoking of any kind. We hope this is something you can honour and respect.

We also gently and warmly ask that everyone puts their phones away for the day.

Only a small number of organisers will have their phones on standby, to direct and support people as needed. Phones won't be banned, only lovingly asked to rest.

Connection, community, and collective creativity are the heartbeat of this gathering. Let us turn toward each other.

What to Bring

Bring what you'd bring for a full day in the park with your family blankets, a chair if you like, layers, drinks and food for yourself, sunscreen, anything you know you need.

Bring your crafts, your instruments, your creative work.

Bring an open heart.

You know yourself best.

Want to Offer Something?

If you feel called to share something on the day, a skill, a session, a song, something you make we would love to hear from you.

Write to us at [email protected]

We cannot wait to be with you.

Tending Roots Summer Solstice Gathering

Saturday 20 June 2026 Victoria Park, Glasgow 10:30am – 7pm · Free

A free, all-day outdoor gathering for BPOC/BPOCQT communities and aligned allies marking the solstice with fire, story, song, craft, rest, and collective care.

Workshops · Red Tent · Music · Yoga · Potluck · Crafts · Dreaming

Scan to register — tickets are free but required

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