• Today is the Day! Hip, Hip, Hooray!

    August 12, 2017 Author: Lady Candy
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    This is it! It’s so exciting! We’ve been working for months, and the day is finally here.

    vippd poster 2016Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day Gives Back to the Comox Valley – On Saturday, August 12th, Lewis Park will host the 13th Annual Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day.

    Vendors, artisans, and spiritual groups from all over Vancouver Island will come together to celebrate diversity in spirituality. Pagan Pride Day is an international project that promotes tolerance and understanding between people with different belief systems through education, activism, charity and community.

    The time of year is carefully chosen to celebrate the harvest and share the fruits of our efforts with our community. Each year the Pagan Pride committee chooses charitable organizations that have a positive effect in the community and dedicates its hard work and energy towards raising donations for those organizations.  This year Pagan Pride is excited to be collecting donations and non-perishable food items for Greenways Land Trust and the Comox Valley Food Bank. Last year’s event saw $300 raised for both MARS Wildlife Rescue Society and the Comox Valley Food Bank. Vancouver Island Pride Day aims to show the public what Paganism is about through a daylong collection of workshops, rituals and demonstrations.

    It’s also a time for the Pagan community to come together and celebrate our diversity with live entertainment and vendor tables with goods and services from pagan or pagan friendly businesses and organizations. “It’s going to be challenging to top last year’s event, but we have a great team.”

    “We’re all looking forward to connecting with and contributing to the community,” says Mary Malinski, High Priestess of the Circle of the Sacred Muse and Maiden of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church of Canada.

    The 13th annual Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day will be held on Saturday, August 12th at Lewis Park from 10 am to 4 pm. The event is open to everyone and admission is free, though donations for the Food Bank and Greenways Land Trust are highly encouraged.

  • Vendor Highlight: West Coast Witch

    July 26, 2017 Author: Richard Townsend
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    One of a kind Ritual, Altar and Home Decor items.

    West Coast Witch is a local Valley business that specializes in handmade quilted and sewn pagan products. Truly Bewitching Stitching!

     

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    From cloaks and robes, to tarot bags and quilted altar runners, West Coast Witch has a large selection of items for spell work, divination, seasonal altar ware, ritual celebration and Pagan home decor. No two items are exactly alike. Custom orders are welcome.

    More information: here

  • Vendor Highlight: Studio Esoterica

    July 26, 2017 Author: Richard Townsend
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    ​Studio Esoterica is the brainchild of Cece Pitts Henderson (Gypsy Cece) of Vancouver Island, BC.  Gypsy is a disabled army veteran faced with the challenge of constantly seeking new ways to express herself artistically within the limits set by her physical capabilities.  Studio Esoterica was created to host this journey of One and to showcase Gypsy’s craftsmanship.  However, as fate would have it, Gypsy Cece met two other artists 20292950_1755237591440345_280598947848022910_n.jpgon their own artistic quests …. and soon the One became Three.  Studio Esoterica is not your typical gallery or marketplace, it’s an umbrella for Three spiritual and creative ladies to huddle together under and share their ideas and resources with one another so that each individual woman’s creative ventures shall flourish…. That, is Studio Esoterica.
    More information at: here

  • Today’s the Day! Hip, Hip, Hooray!

    August 13, 2016 Author: Lady Candy
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    This is it! It’s so exciting! We’ve been working for months, and the day is finally here.

    vippd poster 2016Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day Gives Back to the Comox Valley – On Saturday, August 13th, Lewis Park will host the 12th Annual Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day.

    Vendors, artisans, and spiritual groups from all over Vancouver Island will come together to celebrate diversity in spirituality. Pagan Pride Day is an international project that promotes tolerance and understanding between people with different belief systems through education, activism, charity and community.

    The time of year is carefully chosen to celebrate the harvest and share the fruits of our efforts with our community. Each year the Pagan Pride committee chooses charitable organizations that have a positive effect in the community and dedicates its hard work and energy towards raising donations for those organizations.  This year Pagan Pride is excited to be collecting donations and non-perishable food items for Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society and the Comox Valley Food Bank. Last year’s event saw $300 raised for both LUSH Valley Food Action Society and the Comox Valley Food Bank. Vancouver Island Pride Day aims to show the public what Paganism is about through a daylong collection of workshops, rituals and demonstrations.

    It’s also a time for the Pagan community to come together and celebrate our diversity with live entertainment and vendor tables with goods and services from pagan or pagan friendly businesses and organizations. “It’s going to be challenging to top last year’s event, but we have a great team.

    We’re all looking forward to connecting with and contributing to the community,” says Mary Malinski, High Priestess of the Circle of the Sacred Muse and Maiden of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church of Canada.

    The 12th annual Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day will be held on Saturday, August 13th at Lewis Park from 10 am to 4 pm. The event is open to everyone and admission is free, though donations for the Food Bank and MARS are highly encouraged.

  • Tea & Tarot Reader Profile: Sarah

    April 21, 2016 Author: Lady Mary
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    Sarah Clarke, Intuitive Tea Leaf Reader

    Sarah Tea CupsDown-to-earth & whimsical too, Sarah works in the Hospitality industry, living each day with intention, deeply committed to acknowledging the Divine in all things. Creativity, a willingness to learn new things and a healthy sense of humor all feature actively in daily life. For the past several years, Sarah has been reading tea leaves professionally for individuals of all ages, some just ‘having fun’ and for others seeking more intuitive guidance. She is developing her unique style of intuitive life coaching & spiritual direction to better assist those working on specific goals and reassessing their own life paths.

    Sarah will be offering tea leaf readings as part of the Tea & Tarot fundraiser on May 11th. She is also offering intuitive readings on photos throughout the month of May.

    You can find Sarah on Facebook at Sacred Space Intuitive, and at the Tea & Tarot Fundraiser May 11th at Games & Grounds in Courtenay!

  • Looking for a few good people

    March 10, 2016 Author: Lady Mary
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    volunteer for vancouver island pagan pride dayPlans for Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day 2016 are well under way (have you marked August 13th on your calendar yet?), and we are always on the lookout for people to help out. Pagan Pride is run completely by volunteers, and many hands make light work.

    We are looking for people to help out in the areas listed below. If you might be able to help in any of these areas, even if you can’t take on the entire job (for example, as part of the advertising crew, you could hand out flyers and put up posters in your local area), please let us know, either by email or on Facebook.

    Volunteer Coordinator

    • Organize volunteers
    • Promote volunteer positions in community
    • Answer volunteer questions
    • Assign volunteer jobs
    • Gather prizes/thank you gifts for volunteers and organize hand out
    • Send thank you to volunteer info to Social Media Wizard for publicity once VIPPD and debrief is complete
    • Create and send post pride day feedback questionnaire
    • Review and summarize feedback questionnaire results

     

    Workshop Coordinator

    • Source workshop presenters
    • Organize workshop times
    • Answer queries from people who want to put on workshops
    • Send workshop info and details to Social Media Wizard for publicity
    • Be onsite to help the day of VIPPD to assist with workshops as needed

     

    Music/Entertainment Coordinator

    • Find entertainment acts
    • Set stage times
    • Send details of acts to Social media wizard for publicity
    • Set up and run sound equipment or find someone to do it
    • Follow up with entertainment acts for feedback and summarize info for debrief meeting

     

    Spiritual Group Coordinator

    • Find other spiritual people to have info booths
    • Send their details and a summary to social media wizard for publicity

     

    Raffle Coordinator and Crew

    • Coordinate with Vendor Coordinator to request donations from vendors
    • Acquire donations from other businesses for raffle
    • Apply for Raffle License with BC Gaming a minimum 3 weeks prior to VIPPD (all items must be listed with values on the application)
    • Make signs for each items with description and value
    • Arrive at 7 am to set up the raffle table with items
    • Sell tickets throughout the day
    • Connect raffle winners with their raffle prize at the end of the day or after the event
    • Make final report to BC Gaming

     

    Setup crew

    • Arrive at 7am, the day of VIPPD to set up the event  and help vendors with set up

     

    Teardown crew

    • Arrive at 3:30pm, the day of VIPPD to tear down and clean up the site, also assist

     

    Advertising Coordinator & Crew

    • Advertise vendor and info booths
    • Advertise volunteer positions
    • Advertise Pagan Pride Day
    • Advertise fundraising events
    • Create fliers for each campaign
    • Hand out fliers
    • Put up posters advertising the event
    • Newspaper articles (minimum one pre VIPPD and one post VIPPD)

     

    Signage crew

    • Create direction signs
    • Create food bank donation signs
    • Arrive on site, 7am, the day of VIPPD to organize and hang signs in all directions
    • At 4pm, the day of VIPPD, head out and collect all signs that have been hung up

     

    Photographer

    • Attend fundraising events where possible to document these events photographically
    • Arrive at VIPPD at 7am to take photos of set up, stay for the event to continue taking photos: please ensure photos of crew, info booths, vendors, entertainers, and the general public are taken!
    • Turn in all photos taken at each event to Mary Malinski to be dispersed to social media wizard, poster design,  and website volunteer

     

    Ritual crew

    • Create and organize ritual
    • Submit ritual to Mary Malinski for approval
    • Send ritual teaser summary to Social Media Wizard for public viewing
    • Arrive 1 hour before ritual time to organize on site

  • Save the Date!

    February 25, 2016 Author: Lady Mary
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    Vancouver Island Pagan Pride announce 2016Mark your calendars! The 12th annual Vancouver Island Pagan Pride Day will be held on Saturday, August 13th in Lewis Park in Courtenay, BC from 10 am to 4 pm.

    We will be having an information session for anyone interested in volunteering for the event on Wednesday, March 9th at 7:30 pm at Games and Grounds in Courtenay. An event like this takes many hands to make light work! And there are quite a few jobs that don’t require a lot of time. We’d love to have you join our team.

    Vendors – we will be opening vendor registration soon. Keep your eyes open!