Memorial weekend retreat

This campy weekend experience blends nature, community, and hands-on creativity, featuring a series of textile-based workshops ranging from screen printing and natural dyeing to block printing and sun dyeing. Meals are centered around connection, with a standout four-course dinner by Chef Amer, whose approach emphasizes seasonal ingredients and shared experiences, alongside more casual moments like a pizza party and campfire dinners. Guests can also enjoy morning yoga, a curated bar program, and a 20 person pondside sauna experience with SaunaGuus, creating a balance of activity and relaxation. With amenities like a hot tub, sauna and a thoughtfully paced schedule of workshops, meals, and downtime, the retreat is designed as an immersive, community-driven weekend in nature.

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What to Expect

Block Print Patches
Carve or use pre-made blocks to print patches, then layer and stitch them onto garments for a custom finish.

SaunaGuus
A mobile 20-person sauna set by the pond—open for everyone to enjoy throughout the weekend.

Freshly Made meals
Breakfast, lunch dinner throughout the weekend. Ranging from pizza, snadwiches, and a farm to table dinner on the second night.

Yoga
Morning Yoga Sessions

Screen Printing
Print bold, graphic designs onto tees and long sleeves—focused on layering, pattern, and strong visual impact.

Schedule

    • 9:00 AM: Pick-up & departure from Five Leaves (for those who opted for transportation)

    • 2:00 PM: Arrival + icebreakers

    • 4:00 PM: Screen Printing

    • 7:00 PM: Campfire-style dinner (hot dogs & burgers)

    • 9:30 PM: Bonfire & stargazing

    • 8:00 AM: Yoga

    • 9:00 AM: Breakfast

    • 10:00AM: Sauna session with Saunagus

    • 11:00 AM: Block Printing

    • 2:00PM : Pizza/lake Party

    • 7:00 PM: Dinner with Amer

    • 10:00 PM: Ghost stories & s’mores

    • 8:00 AM: Yoga

    • 9:00 AM: Breakfast

    • 10:00 AM: Sauna session with Saunagus

    • 12:00 PM: Workshop Wrap up

    • 1:00 PM: Departure

The location

Camp Singers is designed as a place to gather, with warm, communal spaces that invite connection and ease. The wood-paneled dining room, with its pitched ceilings and cabin-like feel, overlooks the surrounding woods, while a stocked country kitchen opens into a fireside lounge—perfect for slow mornings, long conversations, or curling up with a book. The main gathering space is expansive and lively, centered around a long communal table for shared meals and games, with an electric organ for sing-alongs and a separate seating area to unwind.

Set across 88 acres of open pastures, forested trails, and a winding creek, the property encourages both exploration and stillness. Guests can relax in a cedar hot tub tucked inside a restored maple syrup hut, take a dip in the spring-fed pond, or paddle out by rowboat or canoe. A fully stocked arts and crafts barn offers space for creativity and quiet making, while a wood-fired sauna by the pond provides a place to reset. In the summer months, guests also have access to the Camp Singers Pool Club, a private off-site oasis just 10 minutes away.

Artists and Chef

  • Tori Canning, obsessed with text and textiles, letters (the shape of) and letters (via mail), books (as object and info), writing and riding passenger, bodies in (and out of) clothing, glue and glitter (and their offspring), music and its movement, labor as dance (dance as labor), and sitting at the kitchen table. She writes, cooks, and screen prints in equal parts. She works in food & hospitality, hosts monthly open mics, and sends weekly newsletters because she loves to share. She’s from Brooklyn and she’ll probably never leave.

  • Ceci moved to NYC 7 years ago, originally from Maryland with deep affection for blue crabs. They love confessions on a dance floor (both album and action), working with their hands, and long walks on the beach. They’re excited to teach the practice of designing, carving, and printing rubber blocks. Alongside their DIY printing practice, they are also a woodworker and MFA candidate in Interior Design. 

  • Tate, a Brooklyn-based artist and screen printer from Maryland. I started making surf videos as a teenager and fell in love with shaping raw footage into something with its own rhythm and feeling.

    After studying film and sculpture, I co-founded a small clothing brand, then worked with Extra Vitamins on in-house screen printing and visual direction. In 2025, I went freelance—creating merch, album art, flyers, and videos for artists.

    I approach everything as a hands-on collaboration, grounded in intention and process.

  • Rani’s is ode to my mother Amtul, her nickname being Rani, which means princess in Urdu. I take influence from my time moving across the country from Charlotte NC to San Jose CA. I like to create dishes that give me that warm feeling of nostalgia using spices that are familiar to my Pakistani heritage. Taking those spices and implementing them into dishes that I grew up eating in my modern America-Pakistani household.

What to Bring

  • playing cards, small games, a good book, camera or binoculars

    • Towel, washcloth, pillow, toothbrush, etc

    • Sunscreen, lip balm, bug spray, hat

  • Sturdy hiking boots or trail shoes, extra socks & underwear, insulating mid-layers, bathing suit

  • Portable charger, reusable water bottle, headlamp

Accomdations and Amenities

  • BYO Tent, Rent a tent from us, or book one of the rooms in the house. There’s an option for everyone!

  • Flushable toilet

    Swimming pond

    15 person cedar Jacuzzi

    6 person Sauna

    Art House

    Dog-friendly

  • There are many ways to arrive: drive yourself or reach out to inquire about a carpool. You can also take a bus from the city to the town of Delhi, where one of our staff members will pick you up. Alternatively, you can pay a little extra to add transportation to your ticket and ride up in a passenger van, which will pick you up outside of Five Leaves in Greenpoint.

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