Pendulum Gathering

Calling Ourselves In -or- The Radical Recess Revival Project

Gathering  •  Fri 9/1–Mon 9/11, 2017
Great Circle  •  Fri 9/8–Sun 9/10

Please register (so we can buy groceries)

Ride Board, so faeries can get there

This Call is bit.ly/Pendulum-2017

Contact pendulum.gathering@gmail.com

The dates have changed; mark your calendars! Great Circle overlaps with the last three days.

“As queer-affiliated people of diverse identities, we come together to throw off the shackles of homophobia, sexism, gender programming, transphobia, racism, classism, lookism, and all other forms of internal and external oppression.“ —Nomenus Seeds of Unity

“We sacrifice regarding ourselves and our community as unworthy and disposable, and we actively create a culture of belonging.“—2016 Samhain Sacrifice

“Come out for the gathering, it’ll be cute.”—Stew, like yesterday

Let’s share our experiences of marginalization and privilege in ways that make our relationships and communities stronger. Let’s dismantle hierarchies of oppression and heal personal and ancestral trauma using our Faerie subject-SUBJECT superpowers of radical vulnerability and loving acceptance.

Pendulum offers a focused, intimate gathering container for this work. With Nomenus Great Circle happening at the end of the gathering, it’s an opportunity to meet in person as the kind of community we want to be.  

THERE’S A SCHEDULE!  It’s just tentative, but faeries made it by talking to each other.

 

Read the full call at the link above

 

Gathering are over for a while; things are quieter at the Sanctuary. If you plan to visit, please email caretakers@ nomenus.org or call 541 866-2678 so we know to expect you. The creek is clear and high this year (great in hot weather!) but don’t drink it (there are cattle upstream).

Once a year, we designate some time when the Sanctuary is reserved for faggots; this year, it’s July 1-20. (Vocabulary can be tricky; we mean gay/bi/queer males, cis and trans.)

During that time, the land will host two male-only events: Sex Magick July 2-9, and SGRF July 11-17. (Although Sex Magick isn’t a drop-in event, non-gathering faeries can camp in other parts of the land while it’s going on.)

Male-only gatherings started in 1981, and have happened at Wolf Creek almost every year since the faeries bought this place. If you’ve never experienced one, you may be surprised at how different the experience is!

We’ll welcome our sisters back on July 21.

Our old Website went down suddenly: hackers took over, and it became a Spam factory! Sadly, WordPress backups were on that same machine, and have been hard to retrieve. It may take some time to get all the content back onto this new site; please bear with us. Email is still good:  nomenus@nomenus.org

Mark your calendars: Naraya (land closed to visitors) 6/9-12; Sex Magick (tentative) 7/2-9; SGRF (tentative) 7/11-17. The Sanctuary will be male-only about 7/1-18. More details on these later.

Beltaine Call & Registration
Building & Repair Projects – Barn Roof and more
Financial Hearth Tending
Winter at the Sanctuary
Drought Update… and more

Note: This is a rendered version of the newsletter. Click here to view the original

Welcome Home Circle News

The process of increasing the Land and Community’s usability to everyone in our community, and especially to our olders and elders, continues quickly, steadily, and apace! In addition to the access cabins gifted to us by Nomenus three years ago (making their construction now officially Faerie Ancient History^TM) and the rail we built almost a year ago (!) into the front entrance of the Barn, we managed to add stand-up/sit-down bars in every shitter on the Land AND a rail up Patrishit’s stairs!

Our latest barrier-removal was the placement of five stumps along the main foot-path from the Parking Lot to the Garden House (the one that starts between Mary’s shrine and the welcome Tent and passes by the Garden before ending at Papa Legba’s shrine ~ thank you, Sagee, for telling me that shrine was there!). Now, Fairies who need to rest after short walks or who need assistance to rise from falling can walk that route independently!!! SSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

If your interest is in working more broadly to Welcome Home every single Fairy to this Land, please consider attending the Welcome Home Committee meetings via Zoom or phone! Email nomenus-welcome-home@googlegroups.com to join the group.

Wolf Creek has had a ‘normal’ amount of winter rainfall for the first time in several years. Much of the rain came in large storms which successfully tested the weirs placed throughout the meadow by forestry camp; slowing runoff and allowing more groundwater recharging. We hope this was the first of a series of normal or wet winters that will bring the Land back to aquifer equilibrium

We are continuing to ask all visitors to bring 3-5 gallons of water per person per day for personal use, especially for Gatherings.

Nomenus and the Wolf Creek Sanctuary stand with Black Lives Matter in dismantling systematic racism, oppression, and violence against people of color.

(Nomenus Great Circle, March 2016)

Beltaine Call 2016

Hear it & COME…
TO THE UMPTEEN ANNUAL CELEBRATORY
GATHERING OF BELTAINE!!!
at the Nomenus Wolf Creek Sanctuary for Radical Faeries
The What: Beltaine
The Turning of the Great Wheel of the Year into Spring, as
The Earth Rips into Bloom
the Air Sings With the Noise of Wild Abandon
The Water Flows Through Us & Washes Us Clean, &
The Fire Takes What We Release & Burns it All Away.

Read the Entire Call here: http://bit.ly/2016BeltaineCall
Register & Donate here: http://goo.gl/forms/DL31lJgM9D

Your advance registration & donation (full or partial) allows us to  buy supplies like food, propane, etc. & plan meals.

Help Fund A New Barn Roof

The Barn Roof at the Wolf Creek Radical Faerie Sanctuary is in Shambles! With constant leaks during the rainy season, we’re left with mold on every surface and a sacred space that is unusable for those months. This project is long overdue and needs attention immediately! Please help in any way so this landmark in Wolf Creek will be around for many more years. Thank you in advance!!

Follow the link below and make your donation of ANY amount. Our goal for materials is $5000

https://www.gofundme.com/j9w62ukk
(7% to 9% admin fee)

You can also donate to this campaign via PayPal (no fees for Nomenus!)

Tending our Financial Hearth

Winter is often a time of scarcity for the Sanctuary, since most of our income comes from gatherings. But the insurance and utilities still have to be paid; the truck drives to Grants Pass for supplies and to pick up faeries; there are buildings to heat. Come Spring, repairs are always needed before hundreds of faeries show up.

This Spring, we’re blessed with volunteers for a couple of big improvements, probably happening before Beltaine: a large, permanent tent frame so we can circle out of the rain and Summer sun; a fly-resistant replacement for Beezle, which promises to continue our progress towards healthy gatherings. (It’ll have a cement-block vault, fly-proof ventilation, and a ramp!

With donated labor, materials for the tent will cost $1900, and another $1200-1500 for the outhouse. Rather than lose the opportunity, Nomenus borrowed from our reserve funds.

Will you help us pay for those projects, and cover the bills until Beltaine? (Other important repairs aren’t even on the shopping list yet: Theresa’s porch roof and Garden House’s walls.)

You can make donations at PayPal Giving, or through eBay, as well as GoFundMe for the Barn roof.  Both PayPal & Ebay have no fees for charities; 100% of your donation comes to Nomenus!

Gathering Pavilion

The framing is in place, a fabric roof is next, for a sheltered 40 foot wide circling space on both warm and rainy days. Decking will be added as funds are available.
Thanks to Catherine T for topping this project!

Winter Happenings at Wolf Creek

This February saw the first ever Winter SGRF gathering as well as the 4th annual Queer Forestry Camp. The SGRF was an intimate gathering of communal bonding during a typical cool wet February Weekend.  Forestry Camp volunteers made more great progress on enhancing the long-term health of our local meadows & forest through groundwater recharging projects and fire-ladder suppression work.

All dates for Gatherings and Nomenus meetings are on our Google Calendar

Questions?  Planning a visit to the Sanctuary? Email nomenus@nomenus.org

The March Nom-eNews is here: http://eepurl.com/bVU1Kv with the Beltaine 2016 Call & Registration and info on what’s happening at the Sanctuary.

The Beltaine 2016 Call: http://bit.ly/2016BeltaineCall

Beltaine Registration & Donation form: http://goo.gl/forms/DL31lJgM9D

The Winter Solstice 2015 Nom-eNews is here: http://eepurl.com/bHQiyD