2024 Vermont Fall Summit

You can find answers to frequently asked questions about this year’s Summit here: https://www.weareoutintheopen.org/vt-summit-details-24

You can register for either just the Sunday Summit or for a Saturday Field Trip & Sunday Summit! Sunday is sliding scale $0-30. Field trips have a variety of costs, $0-52. Coupon codes are below. Let us know if you have questions. After you click “Add to cart,” the registration form will pop up for you to complete! Thanks in advance for taking the time to complete the form. After you complete the form, look for the shopping cart icon in the lower right and click or tap to check out.

SATURDAY FIELD TRIP DESCRIPTIONS

• Hike with Hunter (4 hrs, $0) - Join long-time OITO community member, Hunter, as he leads a hike with the Harris Center at the Kulish Ledges in Nelson, NH from 10:00am-2:00pm.

• They Keep Bees (4 hrs, $38-52) - In this class you will learn how bees make beeswax and how humans have worked with beeswax over millennia. Then you will learn how to render beeswax for candle making over a fire, and hand dip candles from beeswax. You’ll take home a set of two hand dipped candles for your own ritual needs. All skill levels welcome, no candle making experience is necessary. All TKB class fees in 2024 will go towards leadership development for their emergent Northeast LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC Beekeeping Alliance network project with Island Bee Project in NYC. The Alliance supports LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Beekeeper professional development in innovative, collaborative and supportive learning environments. Because of the way the store works on the website, payment for this Field Trip is a little clunky! To accommodate two sliding scales within one “product” we made some TKB-specific coupon codes you will find below. Let us know if you have questions.

• Intentional Peer Support overview (7 hrs, $20) - Join Calvin Moen for a day-long, queer-centric overview of IPS, which is a practice of co-creating supportive relationships and, ultimately, stronger communities. Peers come together around shared experiences and often a desire to change lives. But without a new framework to build upon, people frequently re-enact “help” based on what was done to them. IPS offers a foundation for doing something different. We come from a history of grassroots alternatives that focus on building relationships that are mutual, explorative, and conscious of power. In this one-day overview, participants will learn about the shared history of LGBTQ+ and Mad struggles for liberation as well as the tasks and principles of Intentional Peer Support. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and have interactive discussions. 

• Giant Journey Farm (4 hrs, $0-10) - Spend some time grounding on the land in small ritual, walking, talking, and doing some light work as we feel moved. This will be a lightly structured but co-created space, to consider what stewardship and cultivation of the land can be, what farming is and could be, and the benefits of queering the reproductive work of food production. There is a large forest playscape for kids and a very family friendly atmosphere. Because of the way the store works on the website, payment for this Field Trip is a little clunky! To accommodate two sliding scales within one “product” we made some Giant Journey-specific coupon codes you will find below. Let us know if you have questions.
  
  Also of note: parking will be at Kindle Farm (next to the NewBrook Fire House on rt 30) and we'll walk up through the forest to the farm. Folks with mobility (or other relevant) concerns are welcome to park at the farm to avoid the hike but Giant Journey’s space is unfortunately not ADA compliant.

SUNDAY SUMMIT SESSIONS: Full descriptions are available here. As always, Summit sessions are evolving as we get closer to the event. More detailed descriptions are on the way, and more sessions will be added (including those that you want to host!) AND so far we have:

• Correspondence Course - a space dedicated to analog writing, card-making, stationary creation and more

• Session with VT/NH Jewish Voice for Peace organizers

• Queer Community Singing

• Community Safety Strategy Session

• Rope 101

• Mini-Stone Session

• Art Play Lab (materials provided)

• Childhood Games

• Open Topics with…you!

Registration for Sunday is sliding scale $0 - $30, which is determined by access rather than a “pay what you want” model. Please consider contributing more if you have benefited from systemic privileges like race or gender, which you can do by adding a “Pay it Forward” Summit Registration. No one turned away for lack of funds. We want to see you there!

To pay the full cost ticket, no need to enter a code. To pay on the sliding scale, enter one of these coupon codes at check out, after you add a ticket to the cart and complete the pop-up form:

SUNDAY SUMMIT ONLY COUPON CODES

$20 Sunday Summit = VTSUMMIT20

$10 Sunday Summit = VTSUMMIT10

$0 Sunday Summit = VTSUMMITZERO

THEY KEEP BEES FIELD TRIP COUPONS

$0 Sunday Summit, $38 They Keep Bees Field Trip - TKB38

$0 Sunday Summit, $45 They Keep Bees Field Trip - TKB45

$0 Sunday Summit, $52 They Keep Bees Field Trip - TKB52

GIANT JOURNEY FARM FIELD TRIP COUPONS

$0 Sunday Summit, $0 Giant Journey Field Trip - GJZERO

$0 Sunday Summit, $5 Giant Journey Field Trip - GJFIVE

Get in touch with any questions or if you want to pay by cash or check! If you have any trouble registering, get in touch with us at info@weareoutintheopen.org.