🌱First Leaves Festival 2025 🌱

THANK YOU!

This festival was more than just an event—it was a gathering of friends, artists, and our extended network where we co-created a space of magic, joy, music, movement, and deep connection. Together, we let our inner plants grow their first leaves, we reflected on what parts of ourselves we want to show to the world, what makes our first leaves vulnerable and what our plants need to be nourished and grow stronger.

From the depths of our hearts, THANK YOU for co-creating and attending this magical festival with us. 🌱

Your presence, your laughter, your creativity – every bit of time and energy you shared – turned our gathering into something truly special and unforgettable. ✨

If you didn’t have the chance to donate and would still like to support us, visit our crowdfunding. Eery contribution – no matter the size – helps keep the magic alive. 🙏 

🌿 Save the date: 4.6 – 7.6.2026 – Moulin Festival 2026!

We plan to gather once more and keep growing together!
Mark your calendars, tell your friends, and let’s make the next edition even more magical together. ☀️

🌱 »First Leaves »-Festival du Moulin d’Abondance 🌱

June 5 – 8 June 2025

A Celebration of Community, Creativity, and Abondance

📍 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.