Faerieworlds moves to larger venue: Mt Pisgah in Eugene, OR

For all those who plan to attend Faerieworlds 2009:

UPDATE: Faerieworlds has sold so many tickets that they had to moved to another, larger venue: Mt Pisgah in Eugene. Please see their website for new site, hotel information. You can buy tickets here or at the event.

Updated information has just been posted re 2009 performers and vendors. Photos and video are also posted at the site.

Most of the pre-festival Faerie Academy workshops are sold out but a few still have spaces. Please see website for details.

Festival Last for 3 Days: July 31st - August 2nd - Friday: Good Faeries Day - Saturday: Bad Faeries Day - Sunday: Family Day

Celebrating Music, Art & Imagination
Inspired by the Realm of Faerie

For the last several years we have been nurturing the vision of Faerieworlds as a gathering place for musicians, artists, authors and craftspeople to come together and celebrate the realm of Faerie.

This years festival once again takes place at (NEW LOCATION) Mt Pisgah in Eugene, Oregon.

Over the last four years we saw 12 foot tall dancing Satyrs, pixies, goddesses from every tradition, gnomes, dragons and all other imaginable otherworldly characters. This year we again invite everyone to come out and celebrate your true spirit at the delicious feast of the senses that is the Faerieworlds Festival.

Each year the festival has benefited organizations who are working for exceptional causes. Events have benefited Waldorf Education Charter Schools in Arizona, the Historic Aero Theatre in Los Angeles, Nature Conservancy in New Mexico, Julia Butterfly Hill and her organization Circle of Life, and this past year the Family School in Eugene, Oregon.

Faerieworlds continues to grow and expand as a concept, and we are currently working on several new themed events to occur over the next two years. Stay tuned to www.faerieworlds.com for more details.

Video: Spiral Dance at Faerieworlds

Related Articles:

Photos and Eco-news from past Faerieworlds events

Hern Song by Cat Chapin Bishop

Over the Hill, Into Faerie by Hecate

Links:

Yet more Faerieworlds photos at flickr

Over the hill, into Faerie

Don't you just love it when good writing transports you into another world?

Excerpt:

It rained and the leaves blew and the wind tossed the branches and it was, well, it was wonderful weather for a witch. It's the kind of wind and rain that comes when the weather's changing, when the cold front of winter is rushing in to push the warm front of Samhein off to sea, the liminal space at Hecate's crossroads, the point when things bubble and change and are transmorphed in Cerridwen's cauldron....The forest was so full of such amazing, incandescent, burning, living color, and the air and the sky were so grey and the river was so covered in that mist that happens when the water from the sky is making love to the water in the river....just-like-that, you realize: "One extra step, and I'm over the hill into Faerie."

Speaking of faerie worlds, our friend Pixie has been very busy of late - check it out.

Sia

Related articles:

Hern Song

Fairyworld Photos

Of Pixies and Burning Man

Photos from Faerieworlds in Oregon by Pixi of Pixi Vision Productions. Used here with permission.

Faerieworlds Photos

I went to the Faerieworlds Festival in Eugene last Saturday with some friends. People in our group came from different parts of Oregon, and some drove up from Northern California for the weekend. We all had a great time (1). I'll write more about that later. In the meantime, here are links to one friend's batch of photos from that Festival.

WitsEnd Photos of Faerieworlds Festival 2007

Slideshow

Individual Photos


Sia


Photo: Yellow & Plum Faerie by WitsEnd

(1) ....and then we all went home and finished reading the last Harry Potter book. Most of us got through it without hearing any $%#@! spoilers.

Faerie Worlds

Faerieworlds Festival - Eugene, Oregon - July 21st - 22nd

Faerie Magazine

Other Faerie Festivals in the U.S.

World of Froud

See you there.
Brian Froud and the Witches' Ball

I've been a fan of Brian Froud's work since the late 70's, when I picked up a copy of All the Giants Are Dead? at A Change of Hobbit bookstore in Southern California. (Thank you, Sherry).

In 2001 he was scheduled to be a surprise guest at our charity Witches' Ball. The theme that year was Fairies, and we used his images (with permission) when building the website. But the towers fell a month before our October date for the ball, travel became extremely difficult, and Brian and Wendy Froud were forced to cancel their U.S. tour. Even so, he sent us a number of signed prints via his print agent, and we put these into our Silent Auction, which helped to raise money for special needs cases over at our local animal shelter.

The 2001 Witches' Ball was one of our best balls ever. Despite the awful events only a month before, over 600 people came, many of them non-Pagans who wanted to support our charity work. (1) Full Circle paid thousands of dollars to rent a 3 level ballroom, and vendor space at the Scottish Rite Center. After 9/11 we thought no one would come, and we'd loose our shirts and disappoint our good friends at the animal shelter. Instead, we got all our money back, raised over $2,500 for the Silicon Valley Humane Society and gave out the Gaia's Guardian Award to a wonderful woman. It remains my favorite of all our Witches' Ball, in part because of the theme and Brian's kindness, and in part because so many good people came out in a time of great fear and deep sorrow to support a life affirming, charity event.

My thanks to our attendees, and all those talented, hardworking folks who made the Witches Balls possible.

Sia

(1) Our Witches Ball took 8 months to plan & execute. We had 15 Vendors in our Vendor room, Tribal Belly dancers as entertainment, gorgeous decorations that turned a dull space into a Faerie Wood, a professional photographer (who took keepsake photos of our guests in costume, and printed them right on the spot) a fabulous Dj, full Operations & Security Teams,
Theater Techs (all donating their time and expertise) and a small but mighty circle of dedicated (unpaid) Senior Staff who led our group of generous, responsible volunteers.