Festivals and Sacred Gatherings
Join Makom Shalom as we gather for critical moments throughout the year, redefining our relationship to time.
Sukkot Celebration
Sunday, September 27, 2026, at 4:00 pm
Celebrate the autumn harvest with a joyful afternoon of food, friendship, swimming, and gathering beneath the sheltering branches of the sukkah.
Ravayah Hoshanah Raba Rain Dance
Join the Makom Shalom-sponsored Hoshanah Raba (Great Pleading) Rain Dance.
Shabbanukah -Kabbalat Shabbat and Hanukkah Celebration
Welcome Shabbat and kindle the first lights of Hanukkah with prayer, music, candle lighting, delicious food, and a celebration of courage, resilience, and sacred illumination.
Kabbalat Shabbat and Tu B’Shvat Celebration
Welcome Shabbat and celebrate the New Year of the Trees with a special Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a soulful four-worlds celebration seder of fruits, elixirs, and attuning to the hidden awakenings.
Community Purim Celebration
Welcome Shabbat and celebrate the New Year of the Trees with a special Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a soulful four-worlds celebration seder of fruits, elixirs, and attuning to the hidden awakenings.
Second-Night Community Passover Seder
Thursday evening, April 22, 2027
Journey from narrowness toward liberation through a traditionally rooted seder and celebration filled with story, ritual, song, delicious food, and meaningful conversation.
Kabbalat Shabbat, Shavuot Tikkun, and Revelation Fire
Friday, June 11, 2027
Shavuot arrives as a threshold—fifty days after Passover, we come to receive again the medicine of Matan Torah, receiving ancestral wisdom. Gather for Kabbalat followed by an evening learning journey with esteemed community teachers, culminating with a revelation ritual around the sacred fire.
Tisha B’Av Community Grief Fire
Sunday, August 15, 2027
Gather around the sacred fire to face personal, ancestral, and collective grief. Through ritual, prayer, song, silence, and communal witnessing, we honor loss and make space for healing, renewal, and the seeds of redemption.
Kabbalat Shabbat- 1st of Elul 5788 Opening Night
Friday, September 3, 2027
Welcome Shabbat, the new moon of Elul, and Makom Shalom’s third year with joyful prayer, soulful music, sacred teaching, shared food, and a celebration of our growing community.