You and your family are Invited to our
community Yule celebration up in the mist of Springbrook
Mountain, Gold Coast Hinterland. Be with family and community
while we celebrate the winter solstice together.
When:
From 3pm Friday, 19th-21st June Where:
Springbrook Mountain ~ Gold Coast Hinterland. Cost:
Adult $120, Concession & Uni
$110, School age $90, Under school age free.
All meals included
Markets on Sunday ~ Handi crafters
~
Herbs ~
Accommodation, dorm style.
Activities and prizes
Story Tellers
Pantomime skit.
Family friendly activities
Warlocks Brew, Egg Nog and Yule Log!
Anyone holding a stall should include
your stall information with the
registration form.
Send the words "Holly Frost rego form" in an email to Belinda at:
Paganhearth@gmail.com
Congratulations and thanks to the 35 or so people who turned up to the
Edinburgh Gardens in Melbourne on Sunday February 15th to help raise
funds for bushfire victims. PAN has raised $528 to be matched by a
participating business and donated to the Red Cross, and a further $420
to be donated to the Kingbilli Wildlife Sanctuary in Taggerty, North
East Victoria, on the front line of the fires. This is in addition to
previous fund-raising activities.
Many participants were touched by the emotion generated during the
ritual - thanks to Seline and Hawthorn from the Euphoria tribe for
facilitating an intense and moving experience. And thanks to the
fantastic drummers: clearly something good was happening when others in
the park were touched by the energy and wandered over to see what was
happening and have a bit of a dance themselves.
Seline and Hawthorn will be organising subsequent events to raise money
for people and wildlife affected by this disaster, including Ebay
auctions of rare occult
items and another picnic day. Please consider lending your support as
the need for donations will not be over quickly.
Below are some of the prayers expressed during the ritual.
May all those hurt in the fires
find
healing.
May
all those who died be at peace.
May
all those who are homeless find shelter, food, and hope for the
future. May they have a hearth in the coming winter.
May
the brave men and women fighting on the containment lines be given
the strength of the Gods of War. May they know our gratitude.
May
all the animals caught in the fire find safety, and food, and
water. May the ones that are in agony, beyond hope or healing, be
touched by the mild shafts of Artemis and given peace.
May
those who deliberately or recklessly started this firestorm have
their hearts weighed on the scales of Ma'at and receive swift justice.
May
those who have given money, or food, or clothes, or their time and
energy, be themselves rewarded in due measure for their generosity.
The Annual
General Meeting of the Pagan Awareness Network Incorporated will be
held on Sunday the 8th of February 2009 at 12noon. The venue is the
Sicilian Restaurant (rear area) 292 Church StPARRAMATTA
2150 NSW Phone: 0296332299
You must
be a current financial member to participate.
At this meeting
we will elect the new committee for 2009. We will discuss the financial
standing of the association and what our income and expenditure have
been till June 30th 2008. We also hope
to raise ideas that we would like the organisation to look at doing for
the year ahead. If you would like anything raised in the meeting can
you please hand it to the secretary on the day at sign in.
The back area
of the restaurant will be open from 11:30am so please arrive a little
early so we can start as close as possible to 12pm.
Late admissions
may be granted entry but may not have voting rights.
All positions
are declared vacant at the meeting and any member can run for the
committee in accordance with the rules. At the end of the AGM these
positions will be final until resignation/removal or the end of the AGM
in 2010.
If you are
interested in running for the committee please contact the
Secretary for the required paperwork.
The Pagan Awareness Network
Incorporated (PAN Inc), an association
that represents witches, Pagans, and followers of other nature-based
faiths, is writing to Victoria’s Department of Justice this
week urging
them to maintain an extended supervision order against convicted
sex-offender Robin Angus Fletcher.
“This is not a man we want
walking the
streets,” PAN Inc president David Garland said today.
Fletcher was sentenced in 1997 to ten
years jail for raping two
fifteen year-old girls under the pretext of a ‘Pagan
initiation.’
“What Fletcher did has
nothing to do
with the legitimate beliefs and
practices of Pagans,” Mr Garland said. “Trying to
claim a religious
motive for his actions is abhorrent. It demonstrates he is still not
rehabilitated, and that’s why he needs to remain under
intensive
supervision.”
“Robin Fletcher should
remain behind
the walls of Ararat Prison
until he can admit that what he did was wrong by the standards of any
religion,” Mr Garland added. “Unfortunately it
appears from his
behaviour while in prison that he is far from rehabilitated.”
In 2005 Fletcher was found to be
‘grooming’ potential victims via correspondence
with individuals in
Ghana .
“The bottom line is that the
community
needs to be protected from
predators like Fletcher,” Mr Garland said. “His
supposed religion
doesn’t make any difference to that.”
Our Media Officer Gavin Andrew has
been busy putting together a Media/Information guide to help get the
right info out there. We are open to feedback from the community as
this will be an ongoing growing document. If you have any feedback on
it please email us by clicking
here.
P.A.N's news,
views, and issues will be reaching over 20,000 people each quarter with
topical information useful to the larger pagan community. This has been
made possible by P.A.N. being given a regular dedicated column in the
new "Spellcraft Magazine" called "The P.A.N. Pages." Best of all the
editorial content of this column will be decided by PAN Inc. Check it
out on
http://www.spellcraft.com.au
Spellcraft is a new publication to hit the shelves in Australia. As
well as regular columns like the P.A.N. Pages, Spellcraft offers a
regularly updated list of Pagan meets and gatherings and an exhaustive
almanac of astronomical information linked with Pagan celebration days,
which is a very useful little reference guide. Spellcraft aims to
include articles of interest to newbies, as well as those who are more
advanced along their spiritual path. Spellcraft is eager to make this
magazine better and of more use to the larger pagan community and is
keen to receive feedback and suggestions. Spellcraft is also welcoming
submissions of articles. Articles must be under 2000 words and be on
appropriate topics for the Pagan community. Therefore, this is your
chance to make this magazine your own. Have your say to 20,000 people
in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and soon the UK too!
Please send any
articles submitted for consideration as well as feedback and
suggestions to: -
she@spellcraft.com.au
In line with
the mission of PAN Ind we are happy to announce the release of 4 new
pamphlets that we will be distributing to continue to inform and
educate the community and the general public. Each is available as a
PDF to be downloaded.
