At the heart of the Revels tradition are themes of community, family, human experience, and old wisdom...
Latest news
Pardon the works in progress
Due to the recent Flipcause debacle, our website was impacted. We’re rebuilding this website now. Stay tuned!
For the latest news, follow us on social media
Video of the 2025 Midwinter Revels
It is no joke to edit the video for “The Feast of Fools”, but it is very nearly finished! In fact, the 2025 cast members did catch a glimpse of it just this past Saturday, and it is being tweaked for audio and visual perfection. Stay tuned!
❊ Our Mission
Wheel of the Year
Throughout the year, California Revels presents a series of community-based performances that celebrate the seasons and showcase our professional actors and musicians in more intimate settings.
These events invite audience participation, bring together multiple generations, and honor the diverse cultural traditions represented in our community.
Upcoming events
Past event photos and media
Every December, California Revels produces “The Christmas Revels,” a joyous production welcoming the return of the light back from the darkness of winter.
Each Revels focuses on a culture and era—medieval England, Appalachian Kentucky, a Russian village, the far North—transporting audiences through time. Wherever it may take place, decorating homes with lights for midwinter, for example, is an ancient ritual for “calling back the light” that predates Christmas by centuries. “Across the centuries, people have chosen this time to acknowledge and celebrate the cycle of light and darkness, good and evil, life and death, that governs all our lives.”
Revels welcomes people of all ages, religions, and ethnicities into a shared celebration. Using seasonal rituals and traditional forms—carols, work songs, communal dances, processions, masks, costumes, and folk drama—Revels invites participation and renewal. The result is a magical celebration that honors tradition while welcoming contemporary voices, helping strangers become neighbors and communities remember and renew shared rhythms.
Latest show videos, programs
Show archive
Musings on Revels traditions
Touchstones of Revels
California Revels seeks to create a joyful, transcendent experience of belonging and human connection through meaningful, participatory engagement with tradition and cultural diversity, in recognition of our deep alignment with the rhythms of Nature, universally held values, and collective future.
This vision is crafted artistically, through the production of theatrical, musical, educational and social events that draw upon powerful histories, stories, rituals and traditions of diverse peoples and cultures, to reveal timeless human values and bring them into the present with renewed relevance to be shared by all.
Revels Lore
Midwinter Revels
❊ Love Letters
Over the years, we’ve been fortunate to hear from our community members what California Revels means to them
“
— Name, role
What does Revels mean to you?
Send us a message
“
“
Living Traditions. Every Generation. Across Cultures.
