The Community Forward Circus
A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization currently based out of Grants Pass, Oregon
with a mission to EMPOWER, EDUCATE and ENTERTAIN.
We aim to put on two Weeklong Celebrations for Community Resilience, two Fundraising Galas and 100+ Micro Events per year.
Our next 9-Day Celebration for Community Resilience will take place across difference city blocks nominated for their commitment to community resilience in Downtown Grants Pass August 15th-23rd.
With the support of True Juice our local Health and Arts Hub, we helped curate 100+ Micro Events,
serving 7,000+ community members, all within the first three months of 2026! Click the link below to see our schedule of regularly occurring events at our community hub True Medicine.
We provide the container (the events) for the community to come together, pursue their passions and follow their dreams, in the hopes that these events and the magic that occurs within them, will leave the community stronger than ever.
The Medicine Show Revival is a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower, educate and entertain and an aim to put on two weeklong celebrations for community resilience and 100+ microevents a year. We provide the container (the event) for the community to come together, pursue their passions and follow their dreams, in the hopes that these events, and the magic that occurs within them, will leave the community stronger than ever.
This Medicine Show Revival in Downtown Grants Pass Summer 2026 will span across the city over the course of nine days, starting Saturday, August 15th with a Mobile Bike Party and ending with a chill day at Riverside Park August 23rd. The days in between will take place at different selected city blocks throughout downtown Grants Pass. We have hand selected each of these city blocks, in recognition of their commitment in making Grants Pass more resilient.
Each day has a theme, a color (suggested wardrobe theme) and a different location in the downtown Grants Pass area!
Below are the details, which will adjust as slots are filled and permits are approved.
Please reach out if you are interested in leading a workshop, performing, or presenting a speech, and/or more!
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Saturday, August 15th
Theme: Ride for Resilience - Shedding Light on Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Suicide
Color: Black, White and Yellow
-Decorating Party starts at 2pm outside of True Juice. Come decorate your bikes and your cars as we prepare to take off for a ride around town and shed light upon some of the darkest aspects of the city and within ourselves.
-Mobile Party leaves True Juice at 3:00pm and returns around 7pm.
Sunday, August 16th
Theme: Grounding, Growth and Foundation
Color: Red
*Opening Ceremony*
Location: RSVP - message Medicine Show Revival on Facebook for invitation
Time: 6-9pm
Monday, August 17th
Theme: Creativity, Joy and Expression
Color: Orange
Location: Square City Block between 5th and 6th & H and I Streets.
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
11:00am-5:00pm Educational Workshops
Evening's Entertainment will be at the Stage outside of Chilly Goose and Nada Noodles
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music with Gong 1:11
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk on Joy and the 5 Elements with Sang
7:30-10:00pm Talent Show with The Wandering Stool
Tuesday, August 18th
Theme: Power, Action and Confidence
Color: Yellow
Location: Square City Block between L & K, 5th & 6th
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
11:00am-5:00pm Educational Workshops
*Evening's Entertainment hosted by Dwell Makerie*
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music w/TBD
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk on Enlifted Mindset with Jeff Nemeth
7:30-10:00pm Story Time with Plaedo
Wednesday, August 19th
Theme: Love, Connection and Community
Color: Green
Location: TBD
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
11:00am-5:00pm Educational Workshops
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music with Banjo Youngblood
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk with Eric Jessup
7:30-10:00pm Movie Night w/ The Goonies
Thursday, August 20th
Theme: Voice, Truth and Communication
Color: Blue
Location: Square City Block between 6th and 7th & G and H
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
11:00am-5:00pm Educational Workshops
*Evening's Entertainment hosted by G Street Bar & Grill
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music with Hana Joy
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk with Kamo Youngblood
7:30-10:00pm Comedy Improv with Goldfish
Friday, August 21st
Theme: Vision, Insight and Imagination
Color: Indigo
Location: Square City Block between 4th and 5th & G and H
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
11:00am-5:00pm Educational Workshops
*Evening's Entertainment hosted by Body Alchemy
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music with Ancient Baby
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk with Captain LoveScream
7:30-9:00pm Banjo Youngblood and the Long Story Shorts Variety Show
Saturday, August 22nd
Theme: Unity, Celebration and Purpose
Color: Violet
Location: Square City Block between 5th and 6th & C and D
9:00 - Run/Walk for Resilience (12 laps around said block with Positive Fitness crew)
2:00-5:00pm Educational Workshops
5:00-7:00pm Community Meal (Shabbat with Marino) & Potluck
5:30-7:00pm Live Music with Female Hip Hop artists
7:00-7:20pm MedTalk on Purpose with Chris Walker
7:30-10:00pm Banjo Youngblood and the Long Story Shorts Variety Show
Sunday, August 23rd
Theme: New beginnings, Openness and Higher Consciousness
Color: White
Location: Riverside Park Event Pavillion East Side
The Co-Creation School circus tent will be set up with games, crafts, activities and bunnies this entire day for children to be entertained! 🐇🐇🐇🐇
Medicine Show Closing Ceremony: 10:00am-11:00am
Educational Workshops and Live Entertainment: 11:00am-6:00pm
🤱11-12pm:
The Building Blocks of Conscious Conception by Andelynn Pendragon with Crowning Doula:
Bringing children into the world is a blessing and a great responsibility. Come learn how all parties involved can thoroughly create an environment where the child they steward will be fully supported throughout the 7 foundational aspects of life. You're highly encouraged to bring a notebook. 5$ suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
🪙12pm: We offering this adventurous game for children at noon that helps support local businesses!
It's just like an Easter Egg Hunt, with prizes all over the park!
💞1-2:30pm: Village-Based Leadership: Reimagining Community for the Next Seven Generations
What if education, wellness, food, culture, and leadership were woven together into a thriving village?
In this interactive workshop, Amy Ma, M.Ed. invites participants into an inspiring and practical exploration of living and learning villages in which communities - children, youth, adults, and elders learn, contribute, and grow together through meaningful relationships, shared leadership, and connection with the natural world.
Drawing from more than 25 years of experience in Montessori education, wilderness mentoring, regenerative community design, and rites of passage, Amy will guide participants through a process of inquiry and visioning to explore how villages can become living ecosystems of belonging, stewardship, lifelong learning, and purpose.
Together, participants will discover practical frameworks for cultivating communities through:
- Living and learning across generations
- Nature connection and regenerative leadership
- Food sovereignty and land stewardship
- Meaningful work and shared responsibility
- Multicultural wisdom and traditions
- Authentic relationships and resilient community
Whether you are an educator, parent, land steward, community organizer, entrepreneur, or simply dreaming of a different way of living together, this workshop offers practical inspiration and a pathway toward creating communities where every person's gifts strengthen the whole.
Facilitator:
Amy Ma, M.Ed.
Naturalist • Village Builder • Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide • Grief Tending Ritual Facilitator & Mentor • Founder, SOL Gratitude Village
Instagram: @amymacatalyst
Facebook: AmyMaHK
🤹♂️2:30-3:30pm: Circus Pandemonium: Cirkus Pandemonium is a fantasy band featuring original music, accordion and a full band. This Cirkus Rock band sings about Fairies on trapeze, Goblins in the dark woods, light vs dark and even Pandas! The fantasies are brought to life with flow dancers spinning fans, glow toys in their costumes with mesmerizing moves.
🌳3-4pm: Buddhist Permaculture by Knowa Dusseldorf: Discussions about climate change (for adults ) and hands on activities and art (for children).
💃🕺4-5pm: Clown-tact Improv with Monday from the Glad Wagon. This is a fresh take on partner dancing! Connect with people in a safe, silly, and playful way and explore how we can deepen our connection to childlike wonder and play through respect, trust, curiosity, and listening. All skills welcome! No need to bring a partner (we'll be mixing and matching)
🎭5-6pm: The Glad Wagon Variety Show!
Sign up for a spot on the Glad Wagon stage or come support our talented community members as they share their art!
6:00-7:00pm: Community Potluck w/ Food Not Bombs
7:00-7:20pm: MedTalk- DO YOU! Banjo Youngblood will give an empowering talk about the founding principles of the Medicine Show Revival. The biggest gift you can contribute to your community is your authentic expression delivered through purposeful action in service. YOU are the medicine this community has needed all along.
7:30pm-9pm: FAMILY MYSTIC
Family Mystic is a rising force in the west coast music scene led by rich four-part vocal harmonies & ecstatic grooves. Their passion for music weaves classic funk/soul, 70’s psychedelic rock, modern americana, disco, & jazz fusion into a tapestry of sound that provides an undeniably good time on the dance floor. Through storytelling, nostalgic yet innovative songcrafting, and curation of impactful gatherings, they’ve established themselves as a standout live experience on the west coast festival & venue circuit, bridging an array of communities together while they’re at it.
***All locations, timing and events are subject to change as we get more participation and collaboration from local businesses.
Weekly True Medicine Events
Located at 124 NW D St. Grants Pass, Oregon (unless otherwise posted)
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Positive Fitness (free workout) M/W/F 6:15-7:15pm
Improv Comedy - Open Practice with Goldfish Every Tuesday 2-3pm
Music Lessons and Jam with Banjo Youngblood Every Tuesday 4-6pm
Zumba with Ale Every Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm
Men's Group Every Tuesday 6-8pm
Co-Creation School Family Adventure Day Every Friday 11am-4pm
Upcoming True Medicine Events
The Medicine Show Revival is The Community Forward Circus. We travel from town to town with our three mobile stages aiming to empower, educate and entertain and to bring awareness to the medicine that is community. After two weeklong celebrations for community resilience in the Grants Pass, Oregon area, in April and October of 2025, we have found our desired launchpad for our traveling caravan. We have decided to not only stick around for another weeklong celebration for community resilience in downtown Grants Pass, this Summer August 15th-23rd, 2026, but we also now have a 5-year plan here in the area, as we aim to make Grants Pass the healthiest city in Oregon.
We are joining efforts with True Juice in Grants Pass to create a community hub for health, arts, empowerment and education.
Click the True Medicine tab for more information.
Are you interested in becoming a Revolujah? I'll tell you what, you already are! What would solidify that is by making a mission statement! You can make your own by answering the questions on our Get Involved tab!
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(The Medicine Show Revival teamed up with Co-Creation School to do chalk art for Art Along the Rogue 2025, during our Fall Mobile Party.)
(Left to Right) The Revolujah's Stage of Completion: an 18-foot camper trailer turned mobile stage est. 2021. Kushmanda's Mobile Stage of Mayhem and Wonder: When parked, the stage drops down from the side of the late and great Doctor of Divinity's Mobile Sound Healing Studio box truck, soon to be painted with Ganesha on the hood and the Flower of Life on the side. Est. 2023. Mommy's Stage: Built atop The Flying PinKamoflauge Banjo and won the 2022 Music Award in the Houston Art Car Parade.
(From top, left to right) The Flying Kamoflauge Banjo RIP. The Flying PinKamoflauge Banjo owned by the Youngbloods. The Santa Car, previously owned by the late Reverend Bryan Taylor, first President of the Houston Art Car Klub, currently owned by the Youngbloods. The Connected Teens van, owned by Elated Family Medicine and Connected Teens school in Grants Pass, Oregon. Honey Badger, the bus, home to the Youngblood Family.
We come to get our hands dirty, in the name of service to community. How can we help you? We aim to support people and properties in the pursuit of their passions. Do you have a property with a dream, but need helping hands? Call on the Level-ujahs, the construction crew of The Medicine Show Revival.
(Left to Right) The Revolujah's Stage of Completion: an 18-foot camper trailer turned mobile stage est. 2021. Kushmanda's Mobile Stage of Mayhem and Wonder: When parked, the stage drops down from the side of the late and great Doctor of Divinity's Mobile Sound Healing Studio box truck, soon to be painted with Ganesha on the hood and the Flower of Life on the side. Est. 2023. Mommy's Stage: Built atop The Flying PinKamoflauge Banjo and won the 2022 Music Award in the Houston Art Car Parade.
ABOUT
MEDICINE SHOW REVIVAL
EMPOWERING, EDUCATING, AND ENTERTAINING SINCE 2011
The Medicine Show Revival is a 7 day celebration brought to small towns and rural areas that resources and delivers the medicine that is community and the pursuit of passion. With a mission statement of "Empower, Educate, Entertain" we hold a firm belief that community resilience starts with personal resilience.
What you would expect to find at the Medicine Show Revival are micro events that engage the whole community, including fun flash mob antics, educational workshops ranging from primitive skills to self-care, music, building, communication and much, much more, to shows from talent showcases to variety shows, movie night, etc;
The Medicine Show Revival truly has something for everyone. Delivered as a modern take on the uniquely American tradition of the prohibition era's Medicine Show movement, by the time we mosey onto the next town, yours will be tighter than ever. The Medicine Show Revival; Empower, Educate, Entertain.
EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES AWAIT
Never More Than a Day's Travel Network
The Medicine Show Revival is building a network of properties around the country where one can never find themselves more than a day's travel from somewhere they can genuinely feel at home.
Reach out by email or phone for more information on how to participate as a landowner or a traveler.
Events/The Show
Like the old Medicine Shows, we travel from small town to small town, bringing empowerment, education and entertainment with our caravan of do-gooders.
The Medicine Show Revival puts on events nationwide, and we aim to go global, by the year 2030!
Bringing educational workshops by day and entertainment by night to your small town! Or maybe even your backyard?!
Each year, the MSR aims to put on 100 micro events, two fundraising galas and two weeklong celebrations for community resilience.
Contact us today to help put on events in your area!
Performers &
Vendors
The Medicine Shows from the prohibition era brought their health care elixirs from afar, calling for the locals to gather, with the advertisement of
FREE SHO 2NITE!
In this revival of the medicine shows, instead of a miracle Snake Oil, the medicine we have come to sell is COMMUNITY!
We encourage you to bring your passions to the table. Whether you are offering your knowledge in workshops, selling or bartering your goods and services, or performing with our variety shows, or our dance and flash mob crew, or you just want to volunteer your helping hands in any of these areas... please see the bottom of our website for contact information and reach out to us today!
Sponsorship
The Medicine Show Revival is a nonprofit organization, and we are currently seeking tax-deductible donations and sponsorships.
We are currently raising funds for our upcoming weeklong celebration for community resilience in the Grants Pass, Oregon area. As well as our partnership with local health and arts hub True Juice, to purchase a local property/building to combine forces and become True Medicine.
We look forward to putting on a damned good show in the Rogue Valley and when we move on from this area, we look forward to positively impacting communities around the country.
Your financial support, sponsorships and donations make the difference in the difference we aim to make. Thank you!