🌿 “First Leaves”-Festival du Moulin d’Abondance🌿

June 5 – 8, 2025

A Celebration of Community, Creativity, and Abondance

This festival is more than just an event—it’s a gathering of friends, artists, and our extended network to co-create a space of joy, music, movement, and deep connection. Together, we build, celebrate, and share in the Abondance of creativity that makes this place so special.

📍 Where?

The festival takes place in our wonderful paradise:
Le Moulin d’Abondance
510 le Chateau, 70220 Fougerolles St.Valbert

📅 When?

• Wednesday, June 4 – Camping opens from 17:00 in the evening
• STARTING: Thursday, June 5 – Official festival start at 12:00
• CLOSING: Sunday, June 8 – closing ceremony and official departure by 16:00

🎶 Program & Activities

We offer two live concerts daily, along with a DJ or similar set each night.

Thursday 05. June
19:30 : Alexander Mercks Solo (Yatao)
20:30 : Jam d’Abondance

Friday 06. June
18:00 : Divine Mahara (SA)
20:30 : Asep Stone Solo (IN)
23:00 : DJ Atema (CH)
01:00 : DJ knventional (CH)

Saturday 07. June
18:00 : Liyom (F)
20:30 : Da Terra (CH)
23:00 : DJ Giulia Romer (CH)
01:00 : DJ Jonas (F)

Sunday 08. June
11:00 : UMANAYA

In addition, the festival features:

• Opening & Closing Ceremonies
• Workshops, performances, fireshows & spontaneous co-creations
  
• Guided tours of our property, where you hear about it’s history and our story
• Our natural pond and riverside beach to chill with your friends
• A shared ceremony on Saturday 
• Cacao Bar – Open for heartwarming cacao experiences
• Space for your gifts and crafts, bodypainting and other offerings – contact us!

And of course, the festival is as much about spontaneous magic as planned programming—so bring your instruments, your ideas, and your creative spirit!

🍽 Food 

One free shared vegetarian meal will be provided daily around lunchtime.
For other meals, you have two options:

• Collaborative Kitchen (open 17:20 – 20:20) – Cook your own food together, share food, and experience community meals
• Cuisine d’Abondance (open 9:00 – 23:00) – Offering warm meals in the mornings and eveningsFirst Leaves is an alcohol- and drug-free festival. We invite you to embrace this space with a clear mind, open heart, and full presence. Please leave substances at home and join us in co-creating a joyful, conscious, and vibrant gathering! 💛

💸 Pay-What-You-Wish – Transparency in Contribution

We believe in radical transparency. Instead of setting a fixed ticket price, you decide how much this experience is worth to you. Your contribution helps cover the essential costs of making this festival happen:

Total festival budget: ~15,500€
What your ticket supports:

• Renting the land & infrastructure – 8,000€
• Travel expenses for artists – 2,000€
• Food & kitchen costs – 1,000€
• New investments & equipment – 2,000€
• Printing & promotion – 500€
• Amortization & future improvements – 1,000€

PLEASE BRING CASH!
The following things are not included in your ticket
💸 Artist payments
(since we only cover the artists travel expenses, a hat will be passed around after each gig)
💸 Extra food & drinks from the Cuisine d’Abondance artisan market stalls
💸 Gifts and crafts from the small artisan market stalls

If you value this gathering, we invite you to contribute generously when chosing your ticket price, so we can continue creating a space of celebration, art, and community for years to come.

💡How to Participate

• Get your ticket & contribute generously to make this festival strive!
• Offer a workshop, a performance, or a ceremony—this is a co-creative space!
• Join as a volunteer and become part of the core team that brings this vision to life

Let’s gather, celebrate, and co-create an unforgettable experience. Join the First Leaves Festival and let Abondance unfold! ✨

Please read our values and read our guidelines before visiting Le Moulin d’Abondance.

🌿 Call for Festival Volunteers – Join the Magic! 🌿

Be part of the First Leaves Festival (June 5-8, 2025) and help bring this co-creative celebration to life! ✨ The more hands, the lighter the work – we build together, we celebrate together!

📅 When?

• Early volunteers: From May 25 we start gently preparing
• Build-up team: Arrival June 1, official build-up starts June 2 at 9:00 am
• Festival Volunteer: During the festivaldays 5-8.6.2025
• Breakdown: Everyone staying after June 8 helps dismantle

  💡 What you can do:

  • Build and decorate festival spaces
  • Set up the stage, sound, market area, and info point
  • Cook for the crew
  • Help with organization and guest reception
  • Keep our magical village clean and welcoming
  • Light fires, create chill-out corners, install compost toilets…

  🛏 Accommodation & 🍽 Food:

  • Free camping or outdoor dorm
  • Daily free meal for a 3-hour shift

  💫 Why volunteer?

  • Be part of a unique, joyful, and creative experience
  • Contribute to an abundant, co-created festival
  • Enjoy music, connection, and community

  Come share your energy and skills – let’s make this festival unforgettable! 🎶🔥
  Sign up now and join the adventure!