A three-night castle experience in France
KASTLEVEO
The Kin Edition
We are gathering 150 souls. Not an audience. Not a crowd. A circle.
A living experiment in art, intimacy and human connection.
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The circle opens to those who carry the word.
A three-night castle experience in France
The Kin Edition
We are gathering 150 souls. Not an audience. Not a crowd. A circle.
A living experiment in art, intimacy and human connection.
The Invitation
For three nights, a French castle opens its doors and becomes something more than stone. A threshold space, where art becomes ritual, where strangers become kin, where the boundary between performer and witness dissolves.
This is an invitation into a weekend woven from performance and dance, floral installations reclaiming the halls, curated food shared at long tables, elegant gala dinners by candlelight, and surprises threaded through the days and nights, for those willing to be moved.
This is not something you attend.
It is something you help conjure.
“Where art becomes ritual, and strangers become kin.”
The World
KASTLEVEO is an artistic, participatory, sex-positive gathering. Four worlds live here at once, and none of them asks more of you than your curiosity.
Living performance, dance, botanical installations, costume and spontaneous happenings. Artists appear where you don’t expect them, and the line between artist and audience dissolves.
Movement, sensuality, touch, beauty and radical self-expression. A space where bodies aren’t something to hide or judge, but something to inhabit fully.
Sex-positive workshops and consent-led play spaces hosted by Akasha Society: candlelit explorations of intimacy and touch, a sensual masquerade, tender workshops on desire, boundaries and connection. Curiosity is enough. Participation is never required.
Artists, dreamers, lovers, patrons, wanderers and the gloriously curious. You don’t already have to belong to this world, you only have to be drawn to it.
Nothing is expected of you. Consent includes the freedom not to participate. Here, curiosity is enough.
Your Ticket
Every ticket includes the heart of the experience.
❀ All meals are fully vegetarian, and 80% vegan.
Some experiences have limited capacity and may require advance booking.
The Manifesto
A letter found inside the walls of Kastleveo.
Those bound not by blood, but by wonder. A gathering of the curious, the artists and the free, who come to live a story together rather than watch it. You are Kin.
There are places you visit.
There are places you remember.
And there are places that remember you.
Kastleveo is one of them.
When the gates open, the castle wakes.
Its halls breathe. Its gardens whisper. Its fires call.
Its stories search for new keepers.
For one fleeting moment, we gather.
Not as strangers. But as Kin.
Who are the Kin?
Kin are the curious.
The artists, and the ones who collect their work.
The performers, and the ones who keep the stage alive.
The lovers and the curious.
The beautifully dressed, and the barely dressed.
Those who make things. Those who make things possible.
Those at home outside convention, and those curious enough to step beyond it.
Kin believe that the greatest experiences are not watched…
They are lived.
If your heart has ever chased wonder…
You are Kin.
Find your Kin
A smile is a spell.
A shared drink is a ritual.
A dance is an introduction.
A conversation may become a lifelong friendship.
Follow the music. Follow the candles. Follow your curiosity.
The castle always rewards those who wander.
The First Law
Participation is the magic.
Do not stand outside the story.
Wear the costume. Join the feast. Answer the invitation.
Dance when the musicians appear.
Follow the actor through the hidden doorway.
Become the missing character.
Without you… the story cannot exist.
The Second Law
Be Kin. Be Kind.
Every soul is welcome. Every body is welcome. Every identity is welcome.
Love has no dress code. Magic has no gender.
Respect is not requested. It is woven into these walls.
There is no room here for hatred.
No racism. No homophobia. No transphobia. No misogyny. No violence.
Cruelty is the only costume forbidden at Kastleveo.
The Third Law
Leave no trace.
The castle has carried centuries of stories before ours.
It will carry centuries more.
Walk gently. Protect the forest. Protect the stone. Protect the magic.
Leave nothing behind except laughter echoing through the halls.
The Fourth Law
Say Yes.
Taste something unexpected. Meet someone unknown.
Take the long path. Open the mysterious door.
Accept the impossible quest.
Some of the greatest moments at Kastleveo are never announced.
They simply happen… to those willing to discover them.
The Invitation
This is not a festival. It is a living story.
This is not an audience. It is a gathering.
This is not an escape. It is a return.
Return to wonder. Return to play. Return to Kin.
Are you one of Kin?
Or… will you find your Kin at Kastleveo?
Everykin Is Possible!
The Weave
A weekend woven from art, movement, food and quiet wonder.
Bodies in dialogue with stone and sky, movement, theatre and living performance threaded through the halls.
Nature reclaiming the rooms, botanical works that turn every corridor into something alive.
Offerings shared at long tables, food as ceremony, made to be passed hand to hand. Fully vegetarian, and 80% vegan.
Candlelight and ceremony, evenings dressed in their finest, held with intention.
Moments threaded through the days and nights, revealed only to those willing to be moved.
Where & How
Deep in south-west France, between Bordeaux and the Atlantic — wild pine forest, big skies, and a château that has kept its secrets for centuries.
More on rooms, camping, food, what to pack, and consent & care lives in the questions & answers.
The healing village, where the circle rests.
Co-authorship
Every artist, dreamer and creator who joins us is asked to bring more than their presence. Bring your gift, your art, your offering.
You are a co-author of what this becomes. This is a space held by respect, freedom and inclusion, and it takes shape only through the people who choose to help conjure it.
Our Community Values
Every body, identity and orientation is welcome and celebrated. Sensuality, curiosity and self-expression are at home here, grounded in consent and without expectation, with sex-positive workshops and consent-led play spaces by Akasha Society. Curiosity is enough; participation is never required.
No transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, or discrimination of any kind, ever.
Personal boundaries are honoured. Consent is the ground we all stand on.
We invite you to step away from screens and be fully present. Less scrolling, more wonder, real presence with the people and the moment around you.
We gather in cyclical, low-impact ways, so we leave the earth as whole as we found it, or more so.
We leave the earth as whole as we found it, or more so.
Ways to Enter
Every option below already includes your full festival entry ticket — admission and the three dinners included (the Gala Dinner and two curated food experiences). What changes is only where you sleep. Prices rise as each wave fills.
Only seven private rooms exist — five in the château and two in the hunting lodge — plus a shared château dormitory (4 single beds). Once these are taken, camping and glamping remain. The current base admission is €500 and rises to €550 as the final wave fills; the accommodation add-on stays the same. The exact location is revealed as the circle takes shape.
Bring Your Gift
Artists, performers, volunteers, makers and boutiques, this gathering is co-authored. Come as a creator, not a guest.
Whatever your gift, a performance, an artwork, music, a workshop, a ritual, an offering to the world, there is a place for it here.
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A way for us to sense who this experience is calling to. Tell us how you'd like to enter, we'll reach out as the circle forms.