Programs + Presentations
Flash Foxy Climbing Festival • Bishop • March 14-16, 2025
These programs are included with your festival pass, just show up!
Select events are open to the public. See descriptions for more details.
Thursday @ 6:15PM - Pre-festival Climbing Ranger fundraiser!
NO MAN’S LAND FILM FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER
*This event is open to the public! This is a ticketed, pre-festival, event. This is NOT a Flash Foxy event. This event is put on by the Bishop Climbing Rangers.
Location: Bishop Twin Theater
Join the Bishop Climbing Rangers for a special screening of No Man’s Land Film Festival. This will be a fundraiser to support the Bishop Climbing Ranger Program, which works to protect and preserve our beloved climbing landscapes through education, conservation, and community engagement. The Bishop Climbing Ranger program is fully funded by generous grants and donations, and all the money raised will go directly into efforts to restore overused climbing areas. As the official pre-festival event for the Flash Foxy Climbing Festival, this screening sets the stage for an incredible weekend of climbing, connection, and advocacy. Come celebrate powerful stories of women and gender-diverse adventurers pushing boundaries in the outdoors—all while giving back to the places that make these adventures possible. You may even win some cool raffle prizes!
Tickets will be $15 in advance $18 at the door. Buy tickets now!
Friday 10:30AM - 5:00PM
Indigenous History Tours
Location: Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
We are excited to be partnering with the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center for the third year to offer guided tours of their museum. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about the local Bishop Paiute Tribe and the history of this valley while supporting local conservation and education efforts. Tours will be 30 minutes and will include a hands-on activity. The museum will also be open as usual for self-guided tours if you miss these time slots!
*Tours start at: 10:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 4:30pm
Friday @ 7:45PM
Cultural Dance Performance
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Sit back and enjoy a cultural dance presentation by our friends The AkaMya Culture Group from Big Pine Paiute Tribe!
Friday @ 8:30PM
Dance Party with dj Fixher
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Rhinestone Disco Cowboy themed— dress to impress!
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 Colton Johnson (he/they) to help keep your gear going longer. We will provide materials to mend, patch, beautify, and upgrade your wardrobe and equipment!
Add or upgrade pockets, patch holes in style, adjust clothing to fit better (roomier/tighter), add gear loops, cinch pant legs, fix busted crack gloves, and more!
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 @ 9:00AM
Tea Talks: guided group discussions
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Grab some breakfast and a cup of tea and let’s get sassy! Tea Talks are community led discussion groups that create dialogue about how we engage in the outdoors together. More details coming soon <3
Saturday @ 5:00PM
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Come together before dinner to collect you breath and realign your body so you’re ready for more sending on Sunday! Facilitated by local yoga instructor (and tattoo artist!), Jen Fitzwater.
Dinner will be served after the practice.
Evening Yoga
Saturday @ 7:30PM
Panel Discussion: Community Continues <3
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Join us for a Flash Foxy panel discussion about community building with Erica Vanderveer, Marian Perez, Zoey Grinstead, and Ashima Shiraishi! Our panelists will share insights about engaging with affinity spaces, how to foster inclusivity, and what it means to build community. We’ll be questioning how can our community building efforts in outdoor spaces can serve as tools of resistance in broader contexts. This panel will be moderated by Lu Gondim de Alencastro, Flash Foxy Program Assistant.
Saturday @ 8:30PM
Location: Tri-County Fairgrounds
Join us for a silly games and celebratory fun! Compete with your community members at Game Night for a chance to win free raffle tickets.
Group games aren’t your thing? Feel free to sit back and watch the chaos unfold! The Garment + Gear Glow Up Station and Sparkle Station will also be open.
GAME NIGHT
Sunday @ 8:00AM
Paiute Cultural Presentation
*This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Location: Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Cultural Center
We’ll gather together outside to enjoy a cultural dance presentation and learn about local tribal history from Bishop Paiute Tribal Elder, Charlene Redner, and her family, while celebrating the start of spring in Payahuunadu - the land of flowing waters.
Sunday @ 9:00AM
*This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Location: various, meet at Tri-County Fairgrounds
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. You must register with Bishop Climbing Rangers on Friday or Saturday.
Bishop Paiute Tribe: Restoration projects at the COSA (Conservation Open Space Area) and gardening with the FSP (Food Sovereignty Program)
Tablelands: Trail delineation, vertical mulching, and native plant restoration
Buttermilks: Trail delineation, vertical mulching, and native plant restoration
*If you are taking a SUNDAY CLINIC: Make sure you sign up for a stewardship project near your clinic location!!!
Stewardship Project
Sunday @ 8:00PM
Trans Climbers Belong Community Slideshow Presentation
*This event is FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Location: Mountain Rambler Brewery
Trans Climbers Belong formed as a grassroots response to a new USA Climbing gender policy that restricted competition access to climbing for trans women and trans youth competitors. Two of the co-founders, Lyndon Cudlitz (they/them) and Cat Runner (he/him), will share their strategies for talking about trans & intersex people in climbing and how they were able to mobilize climbers on a national scale to successfully overturn the policy, while securing spots for trans writers on the policy revision team. They will also discuss their experience as a team and how the group intentionally maintains and strengthens itself during a particularly difficult year for trans climbers.
All are welcome to listen, learn, and connect!
Flash Foxy aims to create and maintain a safe and diverse space where consent and respect are our first priorities. Harassment of any kind (homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, anti-semitism, racism, unwanted contact, verbal or physical abuse, or discrimination of any kind) will NOT be tolerated and will lead to being asked to leave.