WitchcraftCon
WitchcraftCon
The Vision · MMXXVII
Portland's Singular Pagan & Esoteric Festival
Magic is afoot in Portland.
April 30 – May 2, 2027
WitchcraftCon is Portland's singular curated festival for ancient traditions, pagan culture, and world mythology, built for all paths and practices: the lineage keepers who have walked this path for decades, and the person who picked up their first book last month. It runs across a full weekend, with day and night programming spread across multiple spaces at once.
The festival moves through four pillars: magic, makers, music, and mystery. A curated vendor market sits alongside author panels and scholarly programming, hands-on workshops, a dedicated reader and practitioner lounge, an occult cinema program, and evening performances featuring live music, ritual theater, and performance art. It begins on Hexennacht and runs through Beltane weekend, three nights this community has marked as sacred for longer than any calendar has existed to record it.
Many gatherings celebrate one tradition, one aesthetic, and call it the whole community. WitchcraftCon starts from a different premise: this community was never just one thing. Wiccans, kitchen witches, ceremonial magicians, folk healers, chaos magicians, hoodoo practitioners, diasporic and closed-practice traditions represented by their own educators, left hand path followers, dark academia and witchcore fans, and those who are simply curious. All of it belongs in the same room.
The vision is to build something wide enough to make room for our differences as much as our similarities.
All traditions welcome. All are welcome.
Every tradition gathered under this roof carries some version of the same law. WitchcraftCon was built on it before a single vendor was booked or a single ticket went on sale. A portion of every ticket sold goes directly to Oregon Food Bank and Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette, no minimum, no asterisks, starting with ticket one. Giving back isn't a line item here. It's the foundation the rest of the festival sits on.
Come for a workshop, stay for a night of live music. Learn something in a panel, then dance to a headliner two hours later. This is a weekend built to teach, to entertain, and to feel like the place you're supposed to be, together with the rest of this community.
Richard Fox
Founder & Producer
I was born in Corvallis, Oregon, which isn't exactly known as a hotbed of witchcraft. Almost forty years ago I picked up the books everyone in this community started with back then: Starhawk, Cunningham, Valiente. They were what was on the shelf, and they were enough to hook me for life.
What's kept me interested all these years was never just the ritual. It's the anthropology of it: how practices differ and overlap across cultures and geography, where traditions actually came from, how communities form around belief. Decades of digging into that changed my own practice more than any single book did. What I practice today is mine, built out of all of it.
Seven cities. Seattle, San Francisco, New York, LA, Austin, and now Portland for round three. Different career in almost every one: producer, performer, artist, and — don't ask — a trade show exec.
I'd love to say that was strategy. It wasn't. ADHD and staying put are not good bedfellows. That restlessness led to maker fairs here in PDX, drag performance in Seattle and San Francisco, producing and performing cabaret & burlesque in New York, and somehow I ended up running events for Licensing Expo, a global consumer licensing trade show in LA, still the least on-brand thing I've ever done.
Put it all together and WitchcraftCon isn't my first ritual, my first stage, or my first market. It's just the first time I've gotten to build all three into one weekend.
Olivia Medina
Marketing Director
I'm a graphic designer, brand manager, and social media expert with a decade of marketing experience. I've worked across a wide range of industries with all kinds of clients, helping them build and strengthen their brand presence. Over the years I've pretty much done it all: branding and design, email marketing, event planning, and everything in between. I like wearing a lot of hats, and I'm always looking to pick up new ones.
I recently left the corporate marketing world to help local small businesses build their brand presence with marketing services that don't break the bank.
Beyond the marketing chops, my own interests make me a natural fit for the WitchcraftCon team. I'm new to pagan practice, but I've been part of the alternative scene my whole life, and I love all things witchy.
