We’re bringing you another grand listing of Pagan related events being offered in a huge variety of locations. There’s something for everyone here, so enjoy!
July 23-27, 2010 - Wonder Valley SpiritFaire
www.paganfest.ca
This year’s theme is "Breaking Bread with Our Community." A very family friendly pagan gathering in Canada.
July 31, 2010 - A Midsummer's Day Dream Festival
Peaceful Paths
7 High Street
Butler, NJ 07405
April 20-Aug. 20, 2010 - Goddess Initiative Hollywood , FL Meet-Up
Membership Invitation. Haute Finishes Studio~ 1938 McKinley St. Hollywood, FL 33020
Aug. 7-8, 2010 - Monterey Scottish Games and Celtic Festival
CelticJackalope.com will host a Vendor Booth at the43rd Annual Monterey Scottish Games and Celtic Festival.
Aug. 7-Sept 26, 2010 - NY Renaissance Faire, Tuxedo, NY
http://nyrenfaire.com/ny/
Aug. 14, 2010 - Chicago Pagan Pride 2010
This year's event will feature a raffle, silent auction, vendors, healers, children's activities and workshops for a variety of faiths.
Historic Pleasant Home on Mills Park
217 Home Avenue, Oak Park, IL
Sept. 9-12, 2010 – Goddess Festival 2010 with Z Budapest
Come sisters! Come to the Goddess Festival! Come experience women’s rituals with Z Budapest the founding mother of the Women’s spirituality Movement. There is no other High Priestess who can do what Z does in circle. She is magic! And so are you! Join us! http://goddess-festival.com
September 15-19, 2010 - UUWomenspirt Fall Institute & Gathering 2010
Embracing Gaia: Reclaiming Our Heritage of Peace
Gaia, the ancient Greek mother goddess, is one of the oldest known representatives of the Divine Feminine. Gaia symbolizes our connection to the earth and serves as a modern representation of the peaceful interrelation between the earth and all her creatures. During the Fall 2010 event, we will explore the myth of Gaia, and other ancient goddesses, to draw upon and enhance our own experience with the Divine Feminine. During the Institute portion of the event, we will study volume one of the recently-revised Cakes For the Queen of Heaven curriculum, facilitated by long-time Womenspirit member Barbara Green. This program seeks to raise awareness of the stories and symbols of the ancient world where females were respected and celebrated. Through worship services and the Gathering workshops, we will continue our exploration of Gaia and other goddesses, whose myths of strength, perseverance and peace continue to empower us today. We hope you will join us. Look for more information on: www.uuwomenspirit.org
September 18-19. 2010 - Lakewood Lions Renaissance Faire
Pine Park, Lakewood, NJ. County Line Road and Route 526
Admission $10.00 per adults
$ 1.00 kids (6-12) free kids flyers in picture page under 6 free
Free Parking!!!
Sept. 25, 2010 - NYC Pagan Pride Day 2010
Battery Park, NYC
www.nyc-ppp.org
September 25, 2010 - Louisville Pagan Pride Day 2010
Waterfront Park Brown-Forman Amphitheater
1205 River Road, Louisville, KY 40206
Join us as we celebrate the Autumn equinox with a festival of presentations, workshops, music, shopping and fellowship. Free admission with a donation to the “Dare to Care” food bank. Bring an open mind, a smile, and a friend! For more information visit our websites: www.Louisvillepaganpride.org
Oct. 1-3, 2010 - Circle of Trees Retreats Women's Weekend in the Poconos
Our first womens retreat will be located in Milford, PA on a 1400 acre mountain retreat with a beautiful lake. Come and enjoy a weekend trip filled with likeminded women. We will have workshops running all weekend on Holistic Health, Medicine wheels, Body works, yoga, Nature crafts, Henna, Herbs, Energies in food, Laws of attraction, Stress management, Tarot cards, and Spa treatments. www.circleoftreesretreat.com
Oct. 2, 2010 - Cape May, NJ Renaissance Festival
Nov. 13-14, 2010 - Gaia Festival 2010 - Santa Barbara, CA
At Gaia Festival we gather to celebrate, to send love and healing to Mother Earth, our original mother, through multicultural experiences of music, dance, art, story-telling, ritual and ceremony. We welcome all women and men who wish to re-story and re-vision the myths that have denigrate...d women, the human physical form and Gaia. Through our collective stories, we remember and heal ourselves and Gaia. www.gaiafestival.com
May 27, 2011 - Divina et Femina IV
Weekend Seminar with Z. Budapest
International conference gathering scholars, practitioners, artists and researchers in feminist spirituality, Goddess Worship and Women, and the Divine in all its aspects. The Conference will include hands-on workshops, academic presentations, video and film showings, artist exhibits and installations, performances and lectures and the best of vendors and artisans dedicated to the arts of the Goddess.
University of Ottawa professor and lecturer, Dr. Lucie DuFresne (of the Department of Classics and Religious Studies) has noted repeatedly that Z's works are read, studied and mentioned in students' Master's Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertations, not only at their university, but in universities internationally.
This year the conference will be celebrating Zsuzsanna Budapest's influence on feminist spirituality.
Z's influences transcend the communities of feminism, spirituality and gender studies. Her life's works will be remembered in American History as one of the great foremothers of the second wave of feminism, the founding mother of the Women's Spirituality Movement and an outspoken lesbian woman who fought for women's reproductive rights in Los Angeles at one of the first abortion clinics, who co-founded the Los Angeles Anti-rape Squad (the first rape crisis intervention), who established the Los Angeles Take Back the Night marches for which she received the mayor's proclamation of appreciation. And of course, she will be remembered as the last witch put on trial for her witchcraft and found guilty in the United States; meaning she also blazed a trail for the popularizing of Paganism.
The CALL FOR PAPERS has gone out. Please check:
http://www.divinaetfemina.ca
If you would like to present a paper or a workshop, show your art or installation, or anything else related to the arts of the Goddess, please contact the following:
For more information contact:
Prof. Lucie Maire-Mai DuFresne
lucieduf@ottawa.ca
tel 613 562-5714 /613 562-5714
www.divinaetfemina.ca
In the meantime….
We are preparing for our own Goddess Festival 2010 (http://goddess-festival.com) in the majestic redwoods of the California Santa Cruz northern coastal mountains. This is a women-only event unlike any other, hosted by the Goddess woman and Queen of the witches herself, Z Budapest (zbudapest.com).
The Goddess women are Gathering again! Sept. 9-12, 2010
Grandmothers, Mothers, Daughters and Queens, the Goddess Festival 2010 is a fabulous event for you to share together! Every time mothers and daughters dance and sing under the stars and honor the Goddess in each other, we see the woman-bond strengthened and female relationships celebrated. Bring your daughter to Goddess Festival 2010! We've made it more affordable to bring your daughters!
About the Goddess Festival
On your sacred journey to the Goddess Festival, you’re struck by the beauty of the journey. The rolling hills dotted with oak trees gives way to majestic views of the California coastline as you pass over the northern part of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The air smells of the ocean’s sweet salty kiss, and you know you are getting closer.
It’s exciting to take this journey. Knowing that your sisters await your arrival and loving women’s embraces will soon enfold you.
The coastline beckons you to follow the curve of her body just so she can show off her foamy white waves as she crests the rocks that provide you safety from Yamaya’s reach. Perhaps you’d like to stop along the way to outstretch your arms and receive her ancient female energies.
Then you see the marker that starts you on your inward journey. You travel inland for a short distance. The thick oak trees soon give way to the more ancient old growth redwoods; the ancient ones who welcome you home to yourself.
The air changes again and this time it is the raw elemental of Earth that imbibes you. She’s all around you, enfolding you deeply into her mamma Gaia arms. She is the primal forest and the sacred land of the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number One’s covenstead. You’ve come home sister.
Upon arrival there is the playful chaos of activities, of women nesting for their weekend’s stay. The women are already socializing and greeting each other. There are an abundance of hugs and warm smiles. Friendships begin forming from the first “hellos.”
You have arrived at the Goddess Festival, into the loving care of Z Budapest (http://zbudapest.com) who is the original producer of the modern day Goddess Festival. You have come back to your original roots of sisterhood, to your Amazon women.
And now that you stand firmly upon this sacred land, you are glad that you took my advice to “save the date” and make the journey because it’s unlike any other experience you will have in life.
On this sacred land there are women from all over the world. International flavors of ideas, concepts and woman space show themselves in sacred play and self-expression. The women wear a variety of cultural clothing. Some dress in t-shirts and jeans, while others put on elaborate dresses that speak of the Goddess within. All are welcomed. All are beautiful.
And the Festival begins!
Love and praises sing out to the Goddess. Z brings all the sisters together. She tells them about the rituals to come. She tells them their parts in the sacred circle. And the spirituality of women fills the air with voices talking and singing, sharing life experiences and spiritual ideas.
On this weekend, the women will come together in ritual several times. They will enjoy a variety of workshops and musical performances. They will share a communal dining hall enjoying excellent meals prepared by our cooks. And we will also feast on several outdoor barbeques in the warm days of California. We all find the time to play and socialize as maidens, mothers, queens and crones. Good times!
Goddess art and beautiful altars line our dining hall as the vendors proudly display their wares. And a silent auction takes place as a fundraiser for the Women’s Spirituality Forum who sponsors this event to ensure that more Goddess Festivals grace women’s lives on into the future. In fact, the whole Festival is a fundraiser to help the Women’s Spirituality Forum raise awareness for the Dianic tradition and women’s lives. Your Festival fees are tax deductible.
The rituals are powerful! Moving! Intoxicating!
We dance, we sing, we chant, we scream, we drum and we play. Mostly, we empower each other as women as we share the sacred rites of passage of the divine feminine.
And no other place can top the Gaia Bowl. This is the sunken earthen well in which hundreds of women can stand or sit comfortably. Created by the Coastal Native Americans, this is sacred space completely surrounded by towering redwoods. To step onto this land is to know the energies of deeply ancient magic.
Splashes of vibrant colors fill the eye as the maidens, mothers, queens and crones form a processional and descend into the sacred well. The fabric of the women’s ceremonial clothing tells its own spiritual tale as their gowns, robes, capes and various other clothing catch the ancestor’s breeze. In Gaia’s bowl you can dress colorfully and express your inner-goddess, or go skyclad in the spirit of the Amazons.
All acts of love and kindness are Her expression, and it is a weekend filled with the loving spirit of all that women are capable of. Join us this year! Don’t put it off. Sisters need to rejuvenate themselves and each other; it’s vital to our life-force. We need to fill our souls with the magic of ritual and renew our spirit through new friendships.
Mothers bring your daughters! There is no better way to strengthen your bond as women, as family, than to experience a women’s rite of passage together. It’s a divine moment you both will cherish forever.
The Goddess Festival is open to all women-born-women.
Let our women’s prayers be uttered in unison from the sweet melodic voices of hundreds of women. Let the Earth be healed. Let women be healed. Let us all know pure joy in celebrating all that is female.
Come sisters! Come to the Goddess Festival! Come experience women’s rituals with Z Budapest the founding mother of the Women’s spirituality Movement. There is no other High Priestess who can do what Z does in circle. She is magic! And so are you! Join us! http://goddess-festival.com
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