2007
Northwest Fall Equinox Festival

Registration is Closed!

Any registrations not postmarked by Friday, September 8th AND confirmed by phone or email will be returned. Check with us first via email: nwfef@9houses.org.

2007 Equinox Festival

The 2007 Northwest Fall Equinox Festival will be September 27 - 30 (Thorsday through Sunday) at a beautiful wooded site about 1 1/2 hours from Portland, Oregon. Yes, this is a week after the actual Equinox.

Program

This year's program will continue our traditional format of an Opening Ritual, Main Ritual, and Closing Ritual. Woven into this we hope many of you will give workshops, smaller rituals, rites-of-passage, and whatever else you can mainfest that is instructive, transformative, or fun.

We want to emphasize that this is your Festival, not ours. Nine Houses exists solely to serve the Community. If you see us putting on a ritual or giving a workshop, it's only because someone else didn't step forward to do it. We're plenty busy with the newsletter and the organizational side of the Festival, and would really like for any and every competent, interested person or group to share in the Festival. Community participation helps make it the Community's Festival.

Accomodations

Sleeping space: (some people have told us they actually do sleep at the Festival) Cozy cabins with 4 to 8 bunks, grouped together in several "villages", each with its own toilet facilities and running water. The cabins have screened "windows" without glass. Bring a warm sleeping bag and mattress. Regrettably, there are no bunks for two or more people to sleep side-by-side. Limited tent and RV space is available; register early and be sure to specify which you want.

Food: Our kitchen staff, Harvest Grove, will provide 8 delicious meals, Thursday dinner through Sunday breakfast, at the Harvest Inn (dining hall). For the Friday evening potluck, they will provide one vegetarian and one meat dish. Please participate in the spirit of the harvest by bringing Friday dinner potluck food to share (to serve 6-8 people). Beverages, fruit, and other treats will be available throughout the festival. Please note: We're sorry but there is no option to register without the meal plan.

Hygiene: Hot showers again this year! There is one shower building, with separate men's and women's showers, for the entire Festival. Each village has its own flush toilets and running water.

Registration

Admission to the Festival is by pre-paid pre-registration only. Registration forms are in the Lammas issue only of Open Ways. You can pick up Open Ways for free at many locations around the Northwest, including the Goddess Gallery or Moonshadow in Portland, and Edge of the Circle Books in Seattle. You may also obtain a single copy by sending $1 to:

Open Ways
PO Box 14415
Portland, OR 97293-0415

(Fall Equinox registrants will receive a one-year subscription to Open Ways which begins with this year's Samhain issue.)

Please note that we do not have registration forms to mail out to you; use the one in Open Ways. We strongly encourage you to register early!

Contact nwfef@9houses.org with any festival or registration questions.