Affinity Belonging Camp

2025 Registration Coming Soon!

August 5th-11th 2025, On the Kitsap Peninsula (near Seattle)

This is an official Network for a New Culture event, sponsored by the New Culture Institute, which is the nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that sponsors Summer Camp West.

The goal of Affinity Belonging Camp is to create a welcoming and healing space for people who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ and their allies. In order to create the camp we envision, we intend for our camp to be composed of at least:

  • 35 percent People of the Global Majority (PGM, aka BIPOC— Black, Indigenous, People of Color), and...

  • 35 percent LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, non-binary, gender nonconforming, and so many more amazing humans who identify beyond societal Hetero or Cis-gendered norms), and...

  • not more than 30 percent people who don't primarily identify with these groups and who are drawn towards this liberatory work.

We encourage all campers to join us in the weeks leading up to camp for an online training, How to be an Effective Ally, which will be led by Hema.

For those who've attended past NFNC camps, more sensitivity around full nudity is appreciated, especially by those privileged enough to feel fully comfortable in their nude bodies.

For any sensual/sexual program offerings, we'll move much more gradually and with greater care to set the container than has been the norm at other NFNC camps

If you are new to NFNC (Network for New Culture) events:

We are excited to welcome you to camp! Make sure that you have read the FAQs before registering.

(Registration Opening Soon)