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All TRANCE DRUMMERS, are very, very cordially invited to come play at the Temple of Dionysos at this years NW Fall Equinox Festival Sept 14-17.
Join Bacchantes, Dionysians and Maenads and we promise you will be treated exceedingly well and served lovely and refreshing beverages by divinely mad Bacchantes for as long as you care to drum. In return for your service, your every desire will be met!
And please let all other trance drummers know!"
Friday :
3pm - Dancing with Dionysos* Main Hall
7pm - dedication of the Shrine to Dionysos* (Queens Cabin/ Temple Hillside Lodge)
Sat:
1pm Grape Stomp* Main Field w/ Maenads & Bacchantes
-You say you don't exactly know Who Dionysos is or how to go about trance dance? Then don?t miss our Friday afternoon workshop:
*Dancing with Dionysos- an Introduction to the God and Trance Dance:
Join us for this introduction to the main symbols and themes associated with the Greek God of Spiritual Ecstasy (and yes, Wine), Dionysos (also known as Bakchos). Learn how His ancient votaries, the Bacchants, used trance dance to connect with their God, plus modern techniques that you can use for trance dancing with Dionysos during this festival weekend.
*The Temple of Dionysos:
In honor of the God of Spiritual Ecstasy (aka Divine Madness), the Portland Dionysian community is hosting the Temple of Dionysos.
The Temple will be open for making libations to the God, meditation, and TRANCE DANCING all Festival weekend long.
Maenad priestesses and Bakchic priests will be available to paint mystic sigils on your body, tell you more about our Strange God, gift you with weird and interesting things, dance with you, or rend you as necessary.
Major trancing gets going around Sunset both Friday and Saturnday evenings.
*The Dionysian Grape Stomp:
Join us in celebrating the Mysteries of the Grape Harvest, sacred to Dionysos, the Greek God of Wine. Together, we will stem and stomp fresh grapes harvested from The Hallows Grape Arbor and make ?new wine.? This unfermented new wine (otherwise known as grape juice) will be served as part of our Saturday evening dinner. We need stemmers, stompers, people to help support the stompers (squashed grapes are a touch slippery), drummers, chanters, and other divinely mad people to join the Grape Stomp crew!
In addition, anyone heading for NWFEF Thorsday ,if you would like to help harvest the grapes (it?s really fun and kids enjoy it, too), you are invited to 'The Hallows' (home of Isidora and Adam Forrest)
at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14.
(for directions, call 503-255-7910 or email miforrest@hermeticfellowship.org )
From there, the grapes will be transported directly to the Festival site!
By the way?did you know that the ritual of grape harvesting and stomping and the making of wine remained so sacred (and so associated with Dionysos) that far into the Christian Empire?as late as 600 CE?the priests still had to forbid people from wearing Satyr masks and singing traditional Bakchic chants while they stomped the grapes? Join us and don?t miss out on this fine old Pagan tradition!
Warning:
YELLOW JACKETS LOVE GRAPES. IF YOU ARE ALERGIC TO THEIR STINGS, PLEASE GIVE THIS EVENT A MISS. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE A SCARCE YEAR AND WE WON?T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS.
Io! io!
All TRANCE DRUMMERS, are very, very cordially invited to come play at the Temple of Dionysos at this years NW Fall Equinox Festival Sept 14-17.
Join Bacchantes, Dionysians and Maenads and we promise you will be treated exceedingly well and served lovely and refreshing beverages by divinely mad Bacchantes for as long as you care to drum. In return for your service, your every desire will be met!
And please let all other trance drummers know!"
Friday :
3pm - Dancing with Dionysos* Main Hall
7pm - dedication of the Shrine to Dionysos* (Queens Cabin/ Temple Hillside Lodge)
Sat:
1pm Grape Stomp* Main Field w/ Maenads & Bacchantes
-You say you don't exactly know Who Dionysos is or how to go about trance dance? Then don?t miss our Friday afternoon workshop:
*Dancing with Dionysos- an Introduction to the God and Trance Dance:
Join us for this introduction to the main symbols and themes associated with the Greek God of Spiritual Ecstasy (and yes, Wine), Dionysos (also known as Bakchos). Learn how His ancient votaries, the Bacchants, used trance dance to connect with their God, plus modern techniques that you can use for trance dancing with Dionysos during this festival weekend.
*The Temple of Dionysos:
In honor of the God of Spiritual Ecstasy (aka Divine Madness), the Portland Dionysian community is hosting the Temple of Dionysos.
The Temple will be open for making libations to the God, meditation, and TRANCE DANCING all Festival weekend long.
Maenad priestesses and Bakchic priests will be available to paint mystic sigils on your body, tell you more about our Strange God, gift you with weird and interesting things, dance with you, or rend you as necessary.
Major trancing gets going around Sunset both Friday and Saturnday evenings.
*The Dionysian Grape Stomp:
Join us in celebrating the Mysteries of the Grape Harvest, sacred to Dionysos, the Greek God of Wine. Together, we will stem and stomp fresh grapes harvested from The Hallows Grape Arbor and make ?new wine.? This unfermented new wine (otherwise known as grape juice) will be served as part of our Saturday evening dinner. We need stemmers, stompers, people to help support the stompers (squashed grapes are a touch slippery), drummers, chanters, and other divinely mad people to join the Grape Stomp crew!
In addition, anyone heading for NWFEF Thorsday ,if you would like to help harvest the grapes (it?s really fun and kids enjoy it, too), you are invited to 'The Hallows' (home of Isidora and Adam Forrest)
at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14.
(for directions, call 503-255-7910 or email miforrest@hermeticfellowship.org )
From there, the grapes will be transported directly to the Festival site!
By the way?did you know that the ritual of grape harvesting and stomping and the making of wine remained so sacred (and so associated with Dionysos) that far into the Christian Empire?as late as 600 CE?the priests still had to forbid people from wearing Satyr masks and singing traditional Bakchic chants while they stomped the grapes? Join us and don?t miss out on this fine old Pagan tradition!
Warning:
YELLOW JACKETS LOVE GRAPES. IF YOU ARE ALERGIC TO THEIR STINGS, PLEASE GIVE THIS EVENT A MISS. HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE A SCARCE YEAR AND WE WON?T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS.
Io! io!
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"2006 Northwest Fall Equinox Festival
Registration forms available!
Registration forms are in the Lammas issue of Open Ways, which was mailed July 16, 2006. Shops and other bulk distribution points should have their copies very soon. If you can't find a copy, download the Registration Form in PDF format.
2006 Equinox Festival
The 2006 Northwest Fall Equinox Festival will be September 14 - 17 (Thorsday through Sunday) at a beautiful wooded site about 1 1/2 hours from Portland, Oregon.
Yes, this is a week before the actual Equinox.
2006 registration fees (all include meals as they did last year):
Registration:
Adult (16 and up): $100
12-15: $50
4-11: $25
0-3: $0
Program
This year's program will continue our traditional format of an Opening Ritual, Main Ritual, and Closing Ritual. Woven into this we hope many of you will give workshops, smaller rituals, rites-of-passage, and whatever else you can mainfest that is instructive, transformative, or fun.
We want to emphasize that this is your Festival, not ours. Nine Houses exists solely to serve the Community. If you see us putting on a ritual or giving a workshop, it's only because someone else didn't step forward to do it. We're plenty busy with the newsletter and the organizational side of the Festival, and would really like for any and every competent, interested person or group to share in the Festival. Community participation helps make it the Community's Festival.
Accomodations
Sleeping space: (some people have told us they actually do sleep at the Festival) Cozy cabins with 4 to 8 bunks, grouped together in several "villages", each with its own toilet facilities and running water. The cabins have screened "windows" without glass. Bring a warm sleeping bag and mattress. Regrettably, there are no bunks for two or more people to sleep side-by-side. Limited tent and RV space is available; register early and be sure to specify which you want.
Food: Our kitchen staff, Harvest Grove, will provide 8 delicious meals, Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast, at the Harvest Inn (dining hall). For the Friday evening potluck, they will provide one vegetarian and one meat dish. Please participate in the spirit of the harvest by bringing Friday dinner potluck food to share (to serve 6-8 people). Beverages, fruit, and other treats will be available throughout the festival. Please note: We're sorry but there is no option to register without the meal plan.
Hygiene: Hot showers again this year! There is one shower building, with separate men's and women's showers, for the entire Festival. Each village has its own flush toilets and running water.
Registration
Admission to the Festival is by pre-paid pre-registration only. Registration forms are in the Lammas issue only of Open Ways. You can pick up Open Ways for free at many locations around the Northwest, including the Goddess Gallery or Moonshadow in Portland, and Edge of the Circle Books in Seattle. You may also obtain a single copy by sending $1 to:
Open Ways
PO Box 14415
Portland, OR 97293-0415
(Fall Equinox registrants will receive a one-year subscription to Open Ways which begins with this year's Samhain issue.)
Please note that we do not have registration forms to mail out to you;
use the one in Open Ways. We strongly encourage you to register early!
Contact editor@9houses.org with any festival or registration questions."
