Rewild the Runway | Pride Fashion Show & Fundraiser
Wild Indigo Forest Farm presents
Rewild the Runway
An Annual Pride Fashion Show & Fundraiser in the Forest
The entire dam is the runway.
Nature-inspired, upcycled drag fashion in the middle of Wild Indigo's 111-acre forest. Queer artistry, chosen family, sustainability, and commUnity care all get to walk the same runway.
The Category Is
Our Annual Queer Summer Solstice Gathering
Solstice Realness
Rewild the Runway is Wild Indigo's annual Summer Solstice gathering: a place to welcome the height of summer with ritual, creativity, movement, land, food, chosen family, and whatever sacred strangeness feels true to you
LGBTQIA+ people deserve spiritual spaces where we do not have to make ourselves smaller, quieter, straighter, less mystical, or less weird to belong
Come meditate beneath the trees. Make something with your hands. Walk the labyrinth. Dance. Pull a card. Wear flowers. Sit quietly by the water. Howl at the moon if the spirit moves you. You do not have to perform spirituality correctly here. You only have to arrive as yourself
Can I get an amen from the forest?
Welcome to the Werkroom
The Werkroom Went Feral
A Day to Learn, Make & Adorn
Shantay, You Savasana
Movement, breath, embodiment, and classes shaped by queer teachers from our commUnity.
The Library Is Open... and So Is the Art Room
Hands-on art classes, creative workshops, and making beneath the trees.
Sashay Away From Fast Fashion
Sewing, visible mending, embellishment, and turning what already exists into something gloriously new.
Reading Is Fundamental... So Is Plant ID
Learn about the edible, useful, beautiful, and ecologically important plants growing around us.
Werk the Woods
A sensory forest walk followed by art-making with responsibly gathered natural materials.
Adorn, Adorn, Adorn
Build your own floral crown, lei, flower adornment, or wearable art to carry into the grand event.
Tea Is Served
Blend your own cup from fragrant herbs and flowers while learning through scent, flavor, and plant connection.
Serving Aura Realness
Step into Wild Indigo's Aura Photography experience and leave with a colorful portrait of your energetic moment.
Sun Goddess Eleganza
A communal Solstice-season installation that grows throughout the day with flowers, grasses, petals, and gathered beauty.
The Category Is: Edible
Seasonal food, edible flowers, herbs, summer produce, herbal drinks, and flavors that welcome the height of summer.
The Maxi Challenge
Sashay Away From Fast Fashion
Your assignment: create extraordinary fashion from what already exists. Think secondhand treasures from The Mustard Seed, discarded materials, seed pods, flowers, herbs, produce from the farm, and whatever else can be transformed into a LOOK
Charisma · Uniqueness · Nerve · Thrift
Good luck, and don't fern it up
Bring It to the Main Stage
Category Is...
Pollinator Extravaganza
Blooms, wings, pollen, color. Give us the whole ecosystem.
Forest Floor Fantasy
Moss, mushrooms, bark, ferns, rot, rebirth.
Trash to Treasure Eleganza
Discarded, thrifted, salvaged, repurposed. Make the forgotten fabulous.
Feral Florals
Overgrown, strange, romantic, wild. Let the garden take over.
Everybody Say Love
Every Ticket Gives Back
Rewild the Runway is not a for-profit event for Wild Indigo. It is an annual fundraiser for our LGBTQIA+ commUnity.
Ticket revenue is designed to circulate directly back into the LGBTQIA+ commUnity. Ticket funds will directly compensate the LGBTQIA+ facilitators, teachers, artists, performers, and workshop leaders who shape and lead the day, cover necessary event expenses, and support organizations doing essential hands-on work for LGBTQIA+ people in Kentuckiana. Our goal is for sponsorships to cover as much production cost as possible so even more ticket and fundraising dollars can stay with queer people and organizations.
Sweet Evening Breeze
Supporting LGBTQ+ young adults experiencing homelessness with affirming housing and direct support in Louisville.
Meet Sweet Evening BreezeLouisville Youth Group
Creating affirming, accessible programming and commUnity for LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults across Kentuckiana.
Meet Louisville Youth GroupBuy a ticket. Cheer too loudly. Help fund queer commUnity care.
And Don't Fuck It Up, Mother Nature
Pride, Rewilded
At its heart, Rewild the Runway is an annual Pride Month celebration of drag queens, kings, divas, queer artistry, chosen family, sustainability, creativity, and the LGBTQIA+ commUnity.
We want the forest full of queer art and ridiculous beauty while raising real money for the organizations doing the work every day.
The Guest Judges Have Entered the Forest
Queer Teachers in the Forest
Rewild the Runway begins long before anyone steps onto the dam
The daytime heart of this gathering is centered around queer teachers, artists, makers, growers, guides, practitioners, designers, performers, and knowledge-holders from across our Kentuckiana commUnity
Come learn from queer teachers. Stay to make something wild. Gather around the table. Adorn yourself in the forest. Then meet us at the dam
The library is open and the syllabus is written in leaves, sequins, thread, herbs, movement, and chosen family
No Queen Does It Alone
Built With commUnity
We want to build year one alongside the people already shaping queer culture in Kentuckiana.
We are especially inviting Queer Kentucky and the Le Moo drag production team into the conversation, along with local drag performers, queer artists, designers, sewists, upcyclers, stylists, photographers, DJs, queer-owned businesses, LGBTQIA+ organizations, vendors, and sponsors.
Nothing here is about parachuting into Pride. The dream is to build this with the commUnity.
Shantay, You Stay
Build Rewild With Us
We are building this with queer people from across Kentuckiana. If you have something to teach, make, perform, share, grow, feed, photograph, design, sell, or help bring to life, we want to hear from you.
Teach & Facilitate
Yoga teachers, movement guides, foragers, herbalists, artists, sewists, makers, spiritual practitioners, educators, and workshop leaders.
I Want to TeachPerform & Walk the Dam
Drag queens, kings, divas, dancers, performers, models, musicians, DJs, and glorious creatures with a look to serve.
I Want to PerformCreate & Collaborate
Queer artists, designers, stylists, photographers, florists, upcyclers, makers, producers, and creative collaborators.
I Want to CreateVend & Feed the Day
Queer-owned businesses, farms, food makers, makers, commUnity organizations, and vendors who belong in the forest with us.
I Want to VendCondragulations, You're Funding Queer Art
Sponsor Rewild the Runway
Help us pay queer teachers, artists, facilitators, and performers while sending more of the money raised directly back into LGBTQIA+ commUnity care.
We are looking for values-aligned businesses, organizations, and individuals to help underwrite production, accessibility, food, materials, artist compensation, and the practical pieces that make a day like this possible.
Who Needs to Walk This Dam?
Because sustainability does not have to arrive wearing beige.
And it certainly does not belong in a landfill.