Rest Fest is our annual collective gathering for QTBIPOC+, disabled, and neurodivergent folks to discuss, experience, and indulge in different forms/practices of rest.

Thank you to everyone who made this year’s Rest Fest incredible and deeply healing!

 
Schedule for Daylong QTPoC Meditation, a virtual Rest Fest event on June 29, 2023, hosted by Julian Xeer. Full schedule on Eventbrite.
Schedule for Mad Pride, a virtual Rest Fest event on Friday June 30 2023. The day included workshops like Queer Self-Love by Ande, Reiki with Persephone, and a panel discussion. Full schedule on Eventbrite.
Schedule for QTBIPOC Community Showcase, a virtual Rest Fest event on July 1 2023. The day featured workshops like Herbs for Rest with Sadies "Sun" Yanes, Decolonization and Social Impact with Michelle Ma, and astrology readings with Tai Chou Kudu.
Schedule for Rest Fest in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on Sunday, July 30, 2023. The day includes low-energy activities like meditation as well as high-energy activities like dance, theatre, and self-defense class. Full schedule on Eventbrite.
 
 
 

Big thanks to our Patreon members and partner organizations for their support!

 
 
I trust and support trans leadership. Trans Justice Funding Project. transjusticefundingproject.org. Illustration of a colorful map of the US, with people on either side.
 
Anti-Violence Project: All places are safe spaces! Pride 2023
 
 
 

Accessibility

Rest Fest aims to collectively channel healing energy for QTBIPOC+ by creating events for those living at the intersection of queerness, racialization, and pathologization to be cared for.

Within Rest Fest, do not judge anyone who is talking to themself, non-verbal, stimming, or expressing themself in atypical ways. Tone policing, and otherwise demanding specific behaviors of other attendees, will not be tolerated.

If you feel disrespected or uncomfortable with another attendee, contact the care and/or safety teams.

Our event space includes first aid, a harm reduction area, a changing and chest-feeding tent, and crisis and decompression spaces that allow multiple options to rest in privacy.

An ASL interpreter will be present to support Deaf and hard of hearing community members.

We will also provide a pedicab from the Prospect Park B/Q/S subway station to our event space. Meet the driver Alex at the Lincoln Rd. and Ocean Ave. entrance.