The Dance Pavilion is a venue designed to host a variety of dance and movement styles ranging from African to Eastern European, Salsa to Contra. Promoting healthy, active lifestyles, the Dance Pavilion features programming that appeals to all ages and abilities, with some performances that dazzle the senses of viewers while others encourage audience participation and learning. 

Xavanadu features interactive installation art and workshops and performances that highlight our interest in sustainability, land stewardship and the Fair’s philanthropic activities year-round.

We seek art that is creative, inspiring, meaningful, fun, beautiful, interactive, celebrates nature, and creates places and spaces. The deadline to apply is March 15th, 2025. 

We are looking for entertaining acts, interactive exhibits, games, and art projects that celebrate OCF’s efforts to live authentically on the Earth while practicing reverence for the land. The deadline to apply is March 15th, 2025.

Ambiance Entertainment is looking for unique, colorful, interactive performers to wander the paths and create brief experiences of magic and wonder for fair goers. Stiltwalkers, dancers, clowns, acrobats, living art installations, improvisational actors, acoustic musicians, jugglers, magicians, and all manner of performance artists are encouraged to apply.

This groovy acoustic space is nestled up with our KOCF booth inside of Xavanadu. This is an acoustic instruments only stage that plays facing the path around the lovely meadow.

For the Monkey Palace Stage we like upbeat, engaging music that can fill the meadow, and the Odditorium is more intimate, like a theater.  We like music, comedy, juggling, but mostly music—quirky, fun and with a beat.

Community Village is often called ‘the heart of the Fair.’  Come play to a joyous community at this sweet spot of the Fair.

Kesey Stage is located in Energy Park, near the middle of the Fair.  This stage welcomes a variety of performers including musicians, lecturers, panel discussion and more.

The WorkIt Shop area offers a fun, safe, empowering space to explore, move and create with our bodies. Highlighting the movement arts, this participatory venue utilizes various modalities including contact improv, yoga, post modern dance, hip-hop, belly dance, African dance, Latin dance, Polynesian dance, embodied consent workshops, and more. We would like to expand our offerings to include more age groups this year and offer more culturally diverse workshops.

The Caravan stage offers a mix of belly dancing and music from around the world. Please submit this application if that is your kind of performance.

Includes Blue Moon and Hoarse Chorale, acoustic and electric stages. These stages present a wide variety of musical genres, your creativity is the only limit!

Spoken Word brings us thought provoking speakers, authors, panel discussions, and spoken word artists (including poets and hip hop acts). The Fair’s Spoken Word Crew is looking to bring diverse voices and new perspectives to the four stages we program throughout Oregon Country Fair.

Jugglers, clowns, acrobats, comedy and circus troupes – this one’s for you.

For youths of all ages! If your performance celebrates life in creative, whimsical and wonderous ways, the Youth Stage is your showcase. Performers big and small: musicians, puppets, magicians, story-tellers – bring smiles and joyous energy to everyone.

Our all-volunteer booking and production teams are simplifying our processes as much as possible; therefore, we are not soliciting applications for Main Stage. We appreciate your interest and we thank you for your understanding.