Programs + Presentations
Flash Foxy Climbing Festival • Bishop • March 13-15, 2026
These programs are included with your festival pass, just show up!
Select events are open to the public. See descriptions for more details.
*Schedule is always subject to change. Details will be added as programming is confirmed!
FRIDAY
with Jean Redle (she/her)
*This event is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Location: C5 Community Arts Center
Start your Friday with Yoga for Climbers, an energizing and restorative practice led by Jean “Tucky.” This class blends creative flow sequences with mindful messages, supporting a wide range of abilities. Jean fosters a fun and welcoming space where students can explore their practice, regardless of experience level. Designed to enhance climbing movement, this class focuses on breath, body awareness, and mobility. Expect to stretch your shoulders, neck, hips, lower back, hamstrings, and quads—perfect for kickstarting your weekend on the rock. Please bring a mat!
This community class is donation-based, with a suggested donation of $10–25 (cash or Venmo @jean-tucky). Your donations support C5 Studios Community Arts Center, a non-profit creative hub in Bishop, California that aims to be an inspirational home for creative practice and culture! There is also a fabulous gift shop with local art, cards and gifts that you can come back to check out after Climber Coffee.
Pre-fest yoga
Friday @ 8:00AM
Friday @ 10:30AM
Location: various, meet at Eastside Student Center
Come to Climber Coffee (starts at 9AM) for the caffeine, stay to join a Community Partner Meetup! We will organize carpools at approximately 10:30AM. Click here for details!
Meetups
Friday @ 11:00AM-6:00PM
Location: Mystery Switch Tattoo Collective
Make permanent memories at our local community-owned tattoo shop, Mystery Switch Tattoo Collective!! Choose from flash designs like a fox face, the Peabody Boulders, and a carabiner! Check out the artists:
Jen Fitzwater (she/they)
Dan Weise (he/him)
Flash (Foxy) Tattoos
with Abigail Hamilton (they/them) and Lyssa Ichikawa (they/them) from Bootleg
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Meet us on the dance floor, and we will guide you through the steps to 4-5 popular line dancing songs! We will come equipped with beginner to intermediate songs, and will adjust to what the group is feeling after stepping through a few beginner classics. We will be teaching you popular steps that are common throughout the line dancing world such as the vine, coaster step, shuffle step, and box step, which will leave you well equipped to keep dancing at line dancing venues even after our time together.
Line Dancing Workshop
Friday @ 7:45PM
with DJ MJ
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
It’s Friday the 13th- who says we can’t have Halloween in March? Bring your spooky vibes and dress to impress! Let’s dance the night away to groovy tunes by the fabulous DJ MJ!
friday the 13th dance Party
Friday @ 8:45PM
Friday + Saturday
GARMENT + GEAR GLOW UP STATION
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Bring your torn, worn, tired, drab, and dysfunctional clothing + gear for a Flash Foxy glow up! Stop by the station to get tips and hands-on DIY expertise from expert mender Elisabeth Barker (she/her) to help keep your gear going longer. We will provide materials to mend, patch, beautify, and upgrade your wardrobe and equipment!
Friday + Saturday
Foxy Friends Gear Swap!
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Out with the old, and in with the new to you ;). Whether you don’t like the color, it no longer fits, or you just don’t have use a for it anymore— bring your gear that’s still kicking and swap with your Foxy Friends for new favorites.
*Any gear left over at the end of the gear swap will be donated to a local gear library!
Saturday
Saturday @ 9:00AM
INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PRESENTATION
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Our friends from Akamya Culture Group in Big Pine will present traditional Indigenous cultural dances and songs from local and national Tribes to help us start our day in a good way.
Saturday @ 10:00AM
Tea Talk: Queer Ecology of the eastern sierra
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Which wildflowers that you see climbing in Bishop are Perfect Bisexuals, like so many of us? Do deer have a secret third gender in deer society? Can plants be transsexual? Spoiler, yes, and you can meet them at Flash Foxy! Queer ecology celebrates the beauty in biodiversity and the many many many ways to have a flawless form upon this Earth, all of which are changing all the time, interconnectedly. Let's devote some loving attention together to our oldest teachers, the innumerably diverse beings of the more than human world.
Saturday @ 10:00AM
Tea Talk: ASL for the Outdoors
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Learn some basic ASL and discuss other non-verbal communication strategies for an inclusive outdoor experience that benefits everyone! Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Hearing are all invited. Let's ASLize the outdoors!
Saturday @ 10:00AM
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
AcroYoga is a creative practice that fuses together the elements of yoga and strength of acrobatics with a partner. Learn how to better communicate and gain a deeper sense of trust in others. In this class, you work in groups to base, fly, and spot to find balance and stability in various foundational AcroYoga shapes and transitions. This is a fun, light-hearted collaborative class! All levels are welcomed, no experience or partner is required.
Tea Talk: Acro Yoga
Saturday @ 10:00AM & 11:00AM & 4:00PM & 5:0PM
with Eastern Sierra Aerial Arts
Location: Eastern Sierra Aerial Arts (1-mile from festival venue)
Learn a new form of creative movement with our partners at Eastern Sierra Aerial Arts! Registration (+$35) is available directly through Eastern Sierra Aerial Arts here. Classes will take place inside Eastern Sierra Aerial Arts new studio on Main Street!
10:00AM = Intro to Lyra with Lo MacLeod (she/her)
11:00AM = Intro to Silks with Lo MacLeod (she/her)
4:00PM = Intro to Lyra with Hannah Gern (she/her)
5:00PM = Intro to Silks with Hannah Gern (she/her)
Registrants may also use code FLASHYBABE for $15 off when they register for two workshops.
Intro to Aerial Arts Workshops
Saturday @ 11:00AM + 11:30AM
Location: various, meet at Tri-County Fairgrounds
We’ll gather for a group photo at 10:45AM, then we’ll announce where to go to find clinic and meetup groups. Clinics will meet at 11AM. Meetups will meet at 11:30AM. Click here for details!
Clinics + Meetups
Saturday @ 7:30PM
Panel Discussion: Scholarship Recipients Then & Now
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Grab your dinner and a drink before joining us for a panel discussion with Jess Pleyel (she/her), Jay Louie (they/them), Sam Bragg (she/they), and Genevive Walker (she/her) all folks have been supported by opportunities through Flash Foxy scholarships. For this year’s panel, we will discuss giving back through climbing and community organizing. Moderated by a previous festival scholarship recipient and Flash Foxy Event Assistant, Indigo Amarys (she/her), we will talk about how receiving support can change one's journey, what reciprocity means when it comes to climbing spaces, and relationality as a practice.
Raffle Fundraiser #1 Small Prize winners announced after the panel!
*ASL Interpretation will be provided.
Saturday @ 9:00PM
Film Screenings
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Sit back, relax, and get inspired by these films featuring badass women and genderqueer climbers exploring themes of self-acceptance, identity, and belonging. We’ll be joined by the featured athletes for a Q&A after the film screenings!
Hello Beautiful featuring Alannah Yip (she/her) presented by Arc’teryx
(Sneak Peak!!) Sharp Edges featuring Shara Zaia (she/her) presented by SCARPA and Arc’teryx
May, They, She featuring Marian May Perez (they/them)
Raffle Fundraiser #1 BIG PRIZE winners announced after the Q&A!
*All films will have captions in English. ASL Interpretation will be provided for Q&A and raffle.
Sunday
Sunday @ 7:30PM
Indigenous History Tours
Location: Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
Explore the Cultural Center Museum, ask questions, and learn local traditions from the Bishop Paiute Tribe! We are honored to have the opportunity to learn from Tara Frank (she/her), Director of the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center, alongside generous Tribal members.
Breakfast + coffee will be served from 7:30AM-8:30AM.
Sunday @ 9:00AM
Stewardship Project
presented by Arc’teryx
*This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Location: various, meet atOwens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
Join us for one of our fav parts of the weekend, our MASSIVE Stewardship Project! We think it's necessary and important to give back and take care of the lands on which we recreate. We hope that you will join us in blowing away our community partners with how many of our attendees care about taking care of these lands. There will be multiple projects to choose from including:
Gardening with the Bishop Paiute Tribe’s Food Sovereignty Program
Prescribed Burn Prep & Removing Invasive Vegetation on the Bishop Paiute COSA (Conservation Open Space Area) with the Bishop Paiute Tribe’s Environmental Management Office
Gardening with Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
Stewardship at the Buttermilks with the Bishop Climbing Rangers & Friends of the Inyo & Corps THAT & Bishop Area Climbers Coalition
A big thank you to all of our Stewardship Partners: the Bishop Climbing Rangers, Friends of the Inyo, Bishop Paiute Tribe’s Environmental Management Office, Bishop Paiute Tribe’s Food Sovereignty Program, Bishop Area Climbers Coalition, Corps THAT, Bureau of Land Management, and United States Forest Service.
*If you are taking a SUNDAY CLINIC: Make sure you sign up for a stewardship project near your clinic location!!!
Saturday @ 12:30PM
Location: various, meet at TBD location
Clinics will meet after the Stewardship Project at 12:30PM. Specific meeting instuctions will be sent to participants via email. Click here for details!
Clinics
Sunday @ 8:00PM
Climbers as an indicator Species presentation & trivia!!!
with the Access Fund
*This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Location: Mountain Rambler Brewery
We’ll start the night off learning from Andrea Hassler (she/her), Access Fund Stewardship & Education Director, in her presentation Climbers as an Indicator Species: Tackling Challenges and Opportunities on Public Lands. This presentation will take us through Andrea’s observations about 5 key character traits of climbers, and how they make us well suited to address threats in climbing areas (and public lands in general) from a stewardship, conservation, and land protection angle.
Then, we’ll wrap up the night with a round of TRIVIA!!!!! Trivia will be facilitated by Kara Flowers (she/her), Bishop Climbing Ranger, and Marian May Perez (they/them), Flash Foxy New York Event Coordinator. Questions will focus on climbing and stewardship. Play games, win prizes!!!
Raffle Fundraiser #2 winners announced after Trivia!
*ASL Interpretation will be provided.
Venues
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All primary festival event venues (opening party, open air market, film screenings, panels) will be held at wheelchair accessible venues and will have accessible bathrooms. The Opening Party and Foxy Fair take place outside in a flat grassy field with paved paths. Film screenings, panel, dinner and other activities will take place in the Heritage Arts Building at the Tri-County Fairgrounds - this building is ground-level. The Community Slideshow will take place at Mountain Rambler Brewery - this building is ground-level. Seating will be available during all events.
All films will have captions in English. ASL interpreters can be coordinated upon request. Please email events@flashfoxy.com to discuss your needs.
Approaches differ by climbing area. Details about approaches can be found below, or can be found on Mountain Project.
Have an accessibility concern? Reach out to events@flashfoxy.com and we’ll see how we can help!
We are always working to make the Flash Foxy Climbing Festival a more inclusive and welcoming space, please let us know what we can do to make our event more accessible for you. Unfortunately, we are not always able to arrange accommodations, but we will do our best and will provide honest answers about the our event spaces, staff capabilities and the activities that take place at our festivals. Thank you for learning and growing with us!
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Google Maps: Tri-County Fairgrounds
About the venue: All of our Saturday programming, with the exception of clinics, and our Sunday morning programming will take place at the Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fairgrounds. The Open Air Market and Workshops will take place in a grassy field, other outdoor programming takes place in parking lots. Film screenings, panel, dinner and other activities will take place in the Heritage Arts Building - this building is ground-level and has accessible bathrooms.
Directions: Turn west on to Sierra Street from US 395 in Downtown Bishop, drive 2 blocks and turn right into the Fairgrounds under the front gate arch. There is a large parking lot with marked accessible parking spaces available.
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Google Maps: Eastside Student Center
About the venue: Friday Climber Coffee will take place at The Eastside Student Center. This building is ground-level. Bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. Eastside Student Center is about 1 mile away from the Tri-County Fairgrounds.
Directions: Eastside is located on W Line St, just past the traffic light.. The entrance is on W Line St., facing the sidewalk.
Parking: There are multiple parking lots and street parking.
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Google Maps: Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
About the venue: All Sunday morning programming will take place at The Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center. This building is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible bathrooms. Programming will take place indoors with outdoor space available. The Cultural Center is 1.7 miles away from the Tri-County Fairgrounds.
Directions: The Cultural Center is located on W Line St. about a mile outside of town. It will be located on the right hand side of the road as you’re headed to the Buttermilks.
Parking: Accessible parking is available in the parking lot.
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Google Maps: Mountain Rambler Brewery
About the venue: Friday Climber Coffee and our Sunday Community Slideshow will take place at Mountain Rambler Brewery. This building is ground-level and has accessible bathrooms. The venue is often dark, loud, and crowded. Seating is available both indoors and outdoors.
Directions: Located on Main Street near the traffic light at the intersection of E/W Line Street. The brewery is located in a small parking lot which can be accessed via Short Street.
Parking: Accessible parking is available in the parking lot. All other Flash Foxy participants should use street parking. The parking lot is very small and needs to be shared with local patrons of all businesses in the parking lot. Thank you for your cooperation!
EVENT PERMITS
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In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible State or local Agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information is also available in languages other than English.
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