Pagan Pride Day 2013 Kick-off Meeting

It’s time to oil up the Pagan Pride Day wheels and get things moving towards our 9th annual celebration!

Pagan Pride Day is a volunteer run, community-organized event that exists to build bridges between earth-based religions and the community at large while at the same time strengthening our own community.

Each year on this special day, our community comes together in friendship to share our knowledge, our love of the earth, and take pride in our beliefs.

It’s a day of celebration, music, dance, ritual, food, education and wonderful Pagan-friendly vendors.

But this day needs volunteers to make it run, and this time of year we turn to you, the community, to step in, roll up your sleeves and help lay down the foundation of this year’s celebration.

We have fundraisers to plan, schedules to build, registration to set up, and a myriad of other details that need to be put together over the next few months. To accomplish this goal, we need to put together a team of dedicated behind-the-scenes volunteers.

Could you be one of them?

Join us for coffee, to look back at previous Pagan Pride days and plan for this year!

What worked, what didn’t work, share your thoughts and ideas for this year.

This is your opportunity to have input!

Please join us for coffee or tea at the Tim Horton’s, Brooks Landing, Sunday, February 17th at 2 pm.

 

 

 

Press Release for Nanaimo Pagan Pride Day 2012

Pagans gather to celebrate pride for the 8th consecutive year!

This Saturday, Pagans from all over Vancouver Island, and even from the lower mainland, will descend on the Kin Park at Departure Bay to celebrate, show their pride and give back to the community.

“Pagan Pride Day is an initiative that was started to help eliminate prejudice towards earth based religions through education and openly showing the public what we do.”

Kam Abbott is the local coordinator for Pagan Pride Day and a Priest with the Circle of Hearth and Kin, an affiliate member of the International Wiccan Organization, the Aquarian Tabernacle Church.

“Over the last eight years we have built a foundation of understanding and friendship with the community at large. When Pagan Pride Day was first started in Nanaimo, we had a small gathering of local Pagans who were secure enough to be identified in public and a handful of interested people sharing a dialogue. Now the day has blossomed in to so much more.  We have rows of vendors and businesses that come to sell their wares and openly show support for the Pagan community. We also have musicians that provide wonderful entertainment and knowledgeable people from different organizations who come to share their skills and experience through the free workshops.”

Each year the Pagan community dedicates its hard work and energy towards raising funds for a charitable organization that has a positive effect in the community at large.  In previous years proceeds raised by Pagan Pride Day have been donated to organizations like Cystic Fibrosis Canada, the Nanaimo Regional Hospital Foundation, Save Mt. Benson fund, the Georgia Straight Alliance and many others. This year all funds raised by the festival will be donated to the Canadian Diabetes Association.

“We feel it’s important for us to give back to and support the organizations that provide services to all people and to help the Vancouver Island community as a whole.  Diabetes is a disease that is not segregated by spiritual beliefs and affects so many people every single day. The Canadian Diabetes Association is a wonderful organization that provides services and resources regardless of religion, age, gender and ethnicity. We are proud to lend our support to them this year.”

Nanaimo Pagan Pride Day will be held on Saturday, August 25th from 11AM to 6PM at the Kin Park on Departure Bay beach in Nanaimo.

More information, including a schedule of events is available at our website: http://www.nanaimopaganpride.org

Media inquiry’s can be directed to Kam Abbott info@nanaimopaganpride.org or call 250-739-3997

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The Nanaimo Pagan Pride Day 2012 Schedule of Events!

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Pagan Pride Day Volunteer Signup

Pagan Pride Day is almost here and all we need now are the volunteers to make it go!

All the funds raised by our hard work are being donated to the Canadian Diabetes association. Please sign up for a shift and not only help the Pagan community by raising good will and energy, but help the CDA by raising desperately needed funds for Diabetes research and support.

Many hands are needed for morning setup. We also need assistance in the concession stand, the kids’ activity area as well as other odd jobs throughout the day.

Work shifts during the event are typically 90 minutes long and no one is scheduled to work while the main ritual is in progress.

Time and energy are one of the most valuable contributions that anyone can make and please know that your contribution is much appreciated.

Please sign up to volunteer for a work shift to help make this day a success!

 

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Last Car Wash Fundraiser!

This is it! The last car wash fundraiser before Pagan Pride Day 2012!

We need your help to go out with a bang!

Dig out your belly dance and costume gear and come hold a sign!

We want to really get the attention of the passing vehicles and make our final goal for this year.

All the proceeds raised from Pagan Pride Day will be donated to the Canadian Diabetes Association, so your hard work and positive energy is being put to a very worthy cause.

As always, luch will be provided to our volunteers.

Please see our Facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/298676456892717/

The car wash will be held at the 7/11 on 2875 Departure Bay Road from 10:00am – 3:00pm. Please do not feel that you have to come for the full 5hrs,  we would be happy just to see you for an hour.  Every little bit helps!