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Matriarchy for Future – Festival 2.0
July 1 – 4, 2027
Kasteel de Berckt, near Venlo NL
40 km from Duisburg
gift giving …
Mother Earth gives us nourishment, growth, and abundance – and thus a model for a gift economy.
At the 2025 festival, Regina Hunschock proposed a golden chalice of gifts, and many participants helped to fill it generously. For Festival 2.0, we want to carry on this spirit of giving and are already beginning to place the chalice of gifts in our shared center and fill it. Regina has already contributed €100 and invites you to increase her gift.
Every gift becomes a building block for a vibrant community and helps create a space where encounters, inspiration, and growth are possible. This is especially true for our international matriarchal exchange, which we are reviving in Venlo and which we cannot realize without you!
We invite you to become part of this shared work. Maybe it’s 20 euros, maybe 50 or 500 – every gift fills the cup. With your support, you enable people from different cultures and continents to share their experiences and wisdom with us. At the same time, you help ensure that those whose financial resources are limited can also take part.
12,000 for the chalice…
- Travel costs for speakers from overseas, Africa and the USA: 7,000 euros
- Reduced participation fees for people with a small budget: 3,000 euros
- Medical services: 2,000 euros
The gifts from the festival are worth their weight in gold
- Impulses and visions that set an example in keeping with the pulse of our time
- Food for mind, soul and body
- Peaceful, festive and happy togetherness
- Encounters with personalities from matriarchal and sustainable movements
- Connecting experiences across generations and genders
- Reunion with long-time companions
- Meet people from other countries and make international friends
- Networking that has an impact far beyond the festival
- Inspiration, encouragement and new perspectives for your own path in life
- The experience of community, connection and lived solidarity
You can transfer via PayPal or eBanking to the Matriforum Foundation account: DE07 4306 0967 1364 2440 00, GLS Bank, GENODEM1GLS, reference “Donation for Festival MfF 2.0” (donation receipt for donations of €300 or more).
Donations from Switzerland: IBAN CH62 8080 8001 3068 6175 2, Verein Matriarchy for Future, Raiffeisenbank St.Gallen, Switzerland
Want to fill the donation box faster? Simply double your current donation and you’ll be a good deal closer to reaching your goal.
Gift Barometer
We provide ongoing updates here on the current status of the gift chalice.
As of July 30, 2026: 660 euros
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Donations of €500 or more will be listed here, if desired.
Donors:
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the association …
We founded a non-profit association under the name “Matriarchy for Future” in accordance with Art. 60 ff. ZGB with registered office in St.Gallen (Switzerland). It is politically independent and denominationally neutral. The association aims to network initiatives and groups that research, strive for and/or already live matriarchal values.
The association operates exclusively on a non-profit basis and the members work on a voluntary basis. Flyer (German). Flyer for self-printing and folding
Membership costs 108 Euros per year (9 Euros per month). A supporting membership is possible from 210 Euros per year. We would be delighted if you became a member and supported the festival and other activities. Download membership from here.
discount …?
How nice that you want to come to the festival and how much we would like to give you a discount. But we ourselves are dependent on donations to make the whole thing happen.
The fact that the festival takes place in a feudal castle might give the impression that there is a lot of money in the background. That would be nice – but unfortunately it is not. The entire festival project is based on voluntary work. What we all have in common is the great desire for change and peace in this world.
With 500 participants, it should just about work out financially. Anything above that can go into a pot from which we plan to provide financial support in May 2027. So by publicizing the festival, you can actively contribute to making a donation pot a reality.
Decide for yourself whether you want to wait until then and ask again or whether you want to secure a ticket beforehand and perhaps find other ways of financing it.
Cooperation …
We cooperate with the following associations and institutions and thank you very much for their valuable support in every respect, financial, operational or ideal.
Friends of the Academy HAGIA e.V.
Weghof 2, 94577 Winzer
Board: Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Cécile Keller, Gabriele Tscherenkov, Christina Schlatter
https://www.hagia.de/foerderverein/
MatriaVal e.V.
Association for the support of matriarchal societies and the communication of matriarchal values.
Board: Uscha Madeisky, Dagmar Lilly Margotsdotter und Hemma Ecker
https://matriacon.net/die-traegerinnen/
MatriForum, a cross-border platform founded to spread knowledge about the matriarchal social paradigm with the aim of concretely designing viable alternatives for an egalitarian, peaceful society in balance, for a #MATRIFUTURE.
https://matriforum.com/
MatriArchiv
International Library for Matriarchal Studies
Kantonsbibliothek Vadiana St.Gall/ DenkBar St.Gall
www.matriarchiv.info