SAMHAIN 2009

October 15-18

Here you can see what we did for Samhain 2009. Our next event will be Beltane in April 2010. This page will change again as Samhain 2010 approaches. Check the Beltane page for 2010 information. Updates will occur there regularly until the Beltane 2010 event.

View the event t-shirt (printable pdf)

View the final draft of the event schedule (printable pdf)

View the workshop descriptions (printable pdf)

Festival Guide: Booklet or Non-Booklet (Booklet form for those who have duplex printers, and non-booklet for those who don't. Pages are designed to be printed with Landscape orientation.)

Not sure what the Community Service options are? Take a look at our new Community Service Descriptions page for more information.

See list of Workshops, Rituals, Events and Muscians from Samhain 2009.

SAMHAIN 2009 WORKSHOPS/RITUALS/EVENTS

  • Stone Soup Potluck - Shadow and Co are putting on a Thursday evening potluck at CMA1. Come on down and bring a dessert or ingredient to contribute (menu to be posted online shortly).
  • Open Mic Night (Pagan's Got Talent!) - Bring your poem, bring your guitar, bring that really...creative performance art you've been practicing at home. Pagans have got talent and we want to see it! Thursday night before revel fire!
  • Lighting of Merchant's Row - Thursday evening, Vendors Row hosts a grand opening. Come on down for snacks, decorations and general activities.
  • Rainbow Camp GLBT & Friends Altar Dedication - A celebration of our differences and unity. All are welcome and offering for the weekend or the altar are welcome.
  • Safety Ritual - Join the Healers and Guardians as they affirm their commitment to the well-being of our community.
  • Ancestral Web - Weaving a Web to honor our Ancestors. The web will be raised off the ground and held up all weekend for those who wish to come by and add their energy and mementos to remember those who have made the journey to the Summerlands.
  • Ride the Chaos Dragon - This is a guided meditation linking the participants to a powerful source of cleansing and transformational energy to rid them of a specific undesirable trait, habit, thought pattern, etc.
  • Soul Retrieval Workshop - Soul Retrieval is one of the oldest shamanic practices, performed all over the world for tens of thousands of years. This is a guided meditation, from a position of strength, to reclaim the best of what we have buried, and resolve the rest.
  • Magic of Menstruation - A workshop and discussion group regarding the cycles of a woman's life and how we as women can use that feminine energy in magickal workings.
  • Embracing Your Darkness Through Poetry - Guest Poet Larissa will demonstrate how poetry can help us to connect with our shadow selves, our Dark Hearts, and how the expression of the ugliest and harshest moments in our lives can become some of the most beautiful art.
  • Changing Your Past to Change Your Future - While you cannot change past events, you can alter the way you perceive events, and therefore your emotional reaction to them. This workshop teaches simple techniques to alter our reactions to our history so that our future can be enriched.
  • Faery Mound Harvest Festival - Fun, food and games at the Faery Mound. A family friendly event open to everyone who would like to join in the fun! Bobbing for Apples, Costume contests, pinatas and more!
  • Danse Macabre Mascarade Ball - Put on your finest and join us at CMA1 for a night to remember! Don't forget your masks!
  • Back to Basics w/Circle of the Midnight Rose - CotMR's premiere main ritual at CMA.
  • Make Your Own Hula Hoop - Hula master Rowan will be showing you how to make your own custom hoop and maybe teach you a few tricks to boot.
  • Crystal 101 - A basic introduction to crystals. After this class, you will be able to identify major crystals and their properties, cleanse them, and charge them with intention.
  • Chakra Toning Meditations - Mix light and sound to tone the chakra and explore its characteristics.
  • Through the Looking Glass: Combinations - Khandroma, Houston's Premiere Gothic Fusion Belly Dance Troupe, presents Through The Looking Glass: Four Combinations for Gothic Fusion Belly Dance. Using archetypes from Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through The Looking-Glass, we will teach four combinations suitable for intro through intermediate belly dance.
  • Hafla - Basically Twisted: A Circus Side Show - the Dancers are putting on a fantastic show at the CMA-1 Big Top!
  • The Howling - an intense grieving ritual where you are opened to the core in a spiritually and physically safe space for healing past emotional trauma and pain.
  • Ceili - A Celtic music sharing. Come down to share a story, a joke or a song with your community!
  • OTO Lesser Mass - More info to come soon.

BANDS:

  • Wyrdgirl and Friends - Wyrdgrl is a rich tapestry of tales between myth and perception woven by singer-songwriter Dana Davis.
  • Ghost of a Rose - An eclectic duo from Houston and veterans of the Ren Fair/Pagan/Celtic circuit .
  • KatsüK is a mesmerizing emotive musical experience that can silence a room, turn it upside down, and make it sweat. From Folk to Rock to Reggae to Funk to Country to Psychedelia to Tribal Drums and Flutes to a style like no other, KatsüK is a genre chameleon and truly a unique and deeply impact-full musical anomaly.