NYC Pagan Pride Day

Our Annual Festival with vendors, workshops, speakers, open ritual, performers! We are very excited to announce our key note speaker for this years event is the one and only Jeff Mach!! An Amazing day filled with amazing people! PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 2015 WHAT: NY PAGAN PRIDE HARVEST FESTIVAL 2015 FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR CITY HARVEST WHERE: WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM COST: ***FREE*** RITUALS, WORKSHOPS, AND ENTERTAINMENT FESTIVITIES .....NYC-PPD is proud to present their 15th annual NY Pagan Pride Harvest Festival, a communal celebration of all things Pagan! Join us on 9/26/15 in Washington Square Park to meet Pagans, Wiccans, Druids, Voodoo practitioners, Thelemics, and others as we participate in multi-denominational rituals and workshops. Browse vendor booths and buy marvelous magical merchandise of all kinds (jewelry, ritual items and tools, clothes, books, etc.), experience tarot and other readings, join in a drum circle, and visit information tables to learn about the variety of Pagan groups that meet in our city. All Pagan-friendly open-minded folk are welcome! GOT BOOKS?.....The NY Pagan Pride Harvest Festival will accept cash and credit/debit donations for City Harvest, and also invites attendees to bring and donate books for our Pay-What-You-Want Book Sale with the profits also going to City Harvest RITUALS.....This year’s NY Pagan Pride Harvest Festival will begin at 11:00 AM with a Harvest Ritual facilitated by Jonathan Sousa of Stars of Elysium, and will close with a ritual by Lady Rhea and her coven. Lady Rhea is a High Priestess of the Gardnerian tradition, owner of Magickal Realms in the Bronx, author, and teacher. KEYNOTE SPEAKER.....Our keynote speaker will be Jeff Mach, member of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF). Jeff Mach is the founder and organizer of creative events such as the Steampunk World’s Faire and Wicked Faire, and will speak about building community. FREE WORKSHOPS!....Join “The Kitchen Witch” Dawn Hunt of Cucina Aurora in “Food for Thought: Finding your Food Totem and using food for divination”..... Learn about “The Real World of Voodoo” from practitioner and author Lilith Dorsey....Work with Courtney Weber, High Priestess and founder of Novices of the Old Ways, in exploring the Celtic Goddess Brigid, focus of her recently published book "Brigid: History, Mystery, & Magick of the Celtic Goddess"......Explore Thelema with eric blitz......”Tune In” to the Spirit World with the author/writer/teacher/Wizard Qumran Taj.... Participate in a “Meditation and Ritual Lab: Secret Identity” with instructor Freddy Yee..... Hear Alex Kanka-Graves of the Network for the Realization of the Goddess discuss “Mapping the Journey From Caterpillar to Butterfly”.... Lady Rhea on “Botanicas and Saints”..... Jonathan Sousa on “Witchcraft and Goddess Diana”...... Debbie Chapnick on Tarot MAINSTAGE ENTERTAINMENT – FREE! .....Come see Veronica, a classically trained belly dancer and aerialist.......... Enjoy Indigo and Gypsycurves of Witchmaste as they display their Tribal/modern blend of flamenco, Bollywood, Egyptian cabaret, and belly dance.......... Celebrate with the Lalitha Dance Company as they joyfully show off their Kalbelia Dance.....Be inspired by singer-songwriter-guitarist Judith Zweiman of The Folk Goddesses and other groups, whose repertoire includes folk, jazz, sea shanties, and classical guitar. BRING YOUR DRUM..... and any other percussion or other instruments, and join Adam and Athena in playing with Earth Drum Circle.