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An open call · 2026 — For producers, retreat leaders & experience designers

Create your dream experience in the Sierra foothills. Your vision. Our support.

Stone House Lodge is opening the property to a small group of independent experience designers to program alongside us: retreats, dinners, concerts, conversations, and celebrations.

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We host gatherings with a point of view, not as rentals but as culture we help make. We are hand-curating experience designers who share that instinct to bring their work here and shape it with us.

This is not a booking form. It's the start of a conversation about what you'd make if you had the house, the team, and the kitchen behind you.

People who have made something the room remembered.

Event producers

Dinner series, concerts, salons. You build evenings people travel for and talk about afterward.

Retreat leaders

You hold a group's attention for days, not hours, and you know that the setting is half the work.

Experience designers

You sweat the arrival, the light, the last course. The details most people never notice and always feel.

Working land in the Sierra foothills, built for the occasion.

Room to gather, wander, and stay a while with everything a memorable experience needs, held on one property.

The farm and gardens at Stone House Lodge

The farm

Open land, gardens, and gathering spaces that hold an intimate dinner and a full-house evening with equal grace.

Scott's Flat Lake near Stone House Lodge

The lake

Swimming, paddling, and slow mornings on the water. The kind of setting a multi-day retreat is built around.

Madrone Studios at Stone House Lodge

The music studio

A proper studio for concerts, sessions, and recording. Sound that carries the evening, and it can be captured to keep.

Farm-to-table dining at Stone House Lodge

The catering team

An in-house culinary and service team that cooks for the occasion, not a turnover. Built around your menu.

You bring the vision. We bring the container.

We produce with you rather than rent to you, which means our standards are in the work as much as yours. Financial terms follow the fit; we shape them together once we know what you want to make.

What Stone House provides

The house, the grounds, and a name that already means something
A full-time retreat manager and marketing support
Culinary and service team, built around your occasion
Production, staffing, and day-of operations

What you bring

Your program and creative direction
An audience that trusts your taste
Standards that match the room
The story only you can tell

Quality comes first. The numbers follow from it, never the other way around.

How we run the house
The timber pavilion and long table at Stone House Lodge

Tell us what you'd make.

A few questions to start the conversation. There are no wrong answers. We're reading for taste and fit, not credentials. It takes about five minutes, and we respond within 7 days.

Step 1 of 4 You

Let's start with you.

Your name, how you're credited, and where you're based.

Check all that apply.

A clear photo of you. It travels with your application. JPG, PNG, or WebP.

A few sentences on who you are and what you make or practice, written the way you'd want us to introduce you.

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What you do.

Your practice, how you'd contribute, and a look at your work.

Pick the closest fit. Crossovers welcome, and you can tell us more below.

Check all that apply. This is how we place the right people in each room.

Links + credits: a portfolio, a Spotify, a class schedule, retreats or events you've led, notable work.

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What you'd bring to the room.

Be specific. A small team reads every application.

A retreat you'd design end-to-end, a session or experience you'd plug into one of ours, or a working role you'd take (engineering the sessions, cooking a dinner, leading a morning practice). Even a rough idea is fine.

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What draws you to a peer-led, experience-first room, and your point of view as a practitioner right now.

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Fit & logistics.

How you'd want to show up, and a couple of last things.

A day or weekend rate for engineering, cooking, bodywork, guiding, or other specialist work. Session-leads can skip this.

Anyone in the Madrone orbit or the wider industry who'd vouch for how you are in a room.

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