Overview

• Organizers expect several thousand participants over three days from about 80 countries.
• Programming spans music, food trucks and tutorials from makeup techniques to skin cancer prevention.
• Sunday’s traditional group photo is reserved for natural redheads despite the event being open to everyone.
• Attendees describe a family-like community that draws them back annually, with some recalling earlier bullying for their hair.
• The gathering began as Bart Rouwenhorst’s art project and reached a 2013 Guinness record with 1,672 natural redheads.