With the theme We are Collective for its 2025 edition, Noisily Festival has announced its wider events program for its return to Barkestone Woods, just outside Grantham, Leicestershire from 10 to 13 July 2025.
Headlining the Mind Body Soul programme is a festival exclusive, pioneering collaboration with acclaimed futurist Adah Parris, who brings The Presence Lab to the woods this summer. Parris will co-create this immersive experience with Noisily MBS programme curators Hely Cameron and Heather Gordon Athie for a festival-long takeover of the main Mind Stage, that will take you on a journey.
The Presence Lab, Parris’ playfully rigorous approach to navigating complexity and paradoxes through presence and collective intelligence, explores the profound question: “What type of ancestor do you want to be?”. Already sparking transformation in corporate environments and leadership spaces, The Presence Lab creates containers for pause in our increasingly fractured times.
Aligning with the We Are Collective theme, The Presence Lab unfolds as a mythic elemental journey honouring ancient wisdom while embracing technological innovation. The exclusive festival adaptation draws on Parris’ work with organisations worldwide, featuring contributions from diverse practitioners with a dedicated commitment to showcasing Othered voices.
PapaLoko is the first event to bring meditation, Kirtan, and sacred sound ceremonies to the queer and allies rave spaces. It will present a Divinely (or trans-dimensional) disruptive offering consisting of Othon ◯ Vaun’s electronic Kirtan and opening ceremony, transformative movement workshops by Haus of Somatica & Amaleya Osei, and a transcendental DJ-set experience by PapaLoko founder Othon.
Techno singing explores the intersection between two of music’s greatest jewels, Techno and medicine song, by singing improvised songs to techno beats, reaching natural ecstasy as a collective. A mud bathing workshop will allow you to get messy and feral and totally immerse in a sensual bath of the earth.
Making up the rest of the extensive and varied Mind Body Soul programme Fox&Badge will return with a bigger space and a more expansive offering; the Hello Sunshine Sauna where you can enjoy a sauna, steam room, cold plunging, the Wim Hof Method, breathwork, fire walking, sauna ceremonies, Auffgass, and naked yoga; while Once in a Blue Moon Café will provide a 24-hour chill-out and chai space with clowning, poetry slams, spoken word performances, craft, interactive workshops, live music, and DJs.
The Craft Village is also offering festival goers the chance to make their own jewellery, try some bushcraft, and even have a go at potion making, and learn about herbs, tinctures, and medicinal mushrooms.
Heather Gordon Athié, curator of Mind Body Soul, commented: “I am beyond thrilled to welcome you into this wild, wonderful space of movement, magic, and deep connection. Noisily isn’t just a festival—it’s an invitation to step outside your comfort zone, into brave spaces where real transformation happens. Here, we celebrate inclusivity, honour the messy beauty of growth, and dance with the unknown. Come as you are, leave a little more expansive.”
Noisily is a family forged in a holistic environment which feeds the mind, body and soul. Each year thousands of attendees gather in the woods to dance, create, learn and connect. Guided by the environment and grounded in nature, Noisily celebrates the individual and cultivates understanding in the collective.
