WEDNESDAY, JULY 28TH
2:00pm - Planning committee sets up
9:00am - Tourmobile Tour of Washington D.C. (on your own)
- Please RSVP to iris@fireflyhouse.org by 6pm Tuesday, July 27th, if you wish to attend.
- Cost is $27 per person plus $4 metro fare to and from tour start.
- Ride around the monuments and attractions of D.C. all day, being able to get on and get off the tour at any time with no extra cost.
- Group will return at 3:00pm, but you are free to ride all day and rejoin the group on your own.
- Tour stops include the Arlington Cemetery, White House, Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and much more!
- For tour route: http://www.tourmobile...
3:00pm - Hotel Check In
3:00pm - Conference Registration begins
5:00pm - Group Dinner
- All are welcome to attend
- We will meet at Summers Restaurant on the corner of Clarendon Blvd and Courthouse Road.
7:00pm - Opening Ritual
- Lead by Lady Corbee Willow.
8:00pm to 10:00pm - Firefly Social
- Make new friends and chat with old ones! Location TBA.
THURSDAY, JULY 29TH
8:00am - 30 Minute Yoga with Mahayogi Das
8:00am - Breakfast (on your own)
9:00am - Morning Meeting
- Performance by Lady LaVada Niamba Damara
- Performance by Lady Iris Firemoon
10:00am - Class Block #1 (90 minutes)
- Class - Passing through the Veil: Pagan traditions past, present, and future with Lady Corbee Willow
10:15am - Field Trip - George Washington National Masonic Memorial
- Sign up at registration desk, meet in hotel lobby at 10:15am
- It is way more Pagan that you think (hint)
- Guided tour at 11:30am
- Free admission
- $5 (approx.) round trip metro fare
- Will return to base by 2:00pm
- Coordinated by Crystal Lotus Flower and Richard DelConte
12:00pm - Class Block #2 (90 minutes)
- Class - Archaeological Sites of Pagan Interest in Germany with Flatlander
1:30pm - Lunch (on your own)
2:30pm - Class Block #3 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Wicca 1, Part 1 with Willow
- Class #2 - Leadership Workshop #1 with Lady Iris Firemoon
4:30pm - Class Block #4 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Wicca 1, Part 2 with Willow
- Class #2 - Leadership Workshop #2 with Lady Iris Firemoon
6:00pm - Dinner (on your own)
8:00pm - Pagan Jeopardy and Casino Night
- Featuring Pagan Jeopardy (Organized by Crystal Flower)
- Card games, Apples to Apples, Clue, and other games.
- Travel around the room, winning paper money as you play games. The person with the most paper money at the end of the night wins a prize!
FRIDAY, JULY 30TH
8:00am - 30 Minute Yoga with Mahayogi Das
8:00am - Breakfast (on your own)
9:00am - Morning Meeting
- Performance by Patrick
- Performance by Willow
10:00am - Class Block #1 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Transformation Tarot (Part 1) with Charles Butler
10:30am - Lunch Cruise on the Potomac River
- Sign up at registration table, purchase tickets ahead of time online (if you can), meet in lobby at 10:30am
- Will cost $39.90 per ticket.
- Does not include Metro fare to dock (maybe $4 roundtrip).
- Will return to base by 3:00pm
- Walk-up tickets are available, but not guaranteed, so it is recommeded that you purchase tickets prior to the event.
- Purchase tickets and make sure to search for the July 30th cruises, Spirit Cruise at 11:30am for $39.90.
- http://spiritofwashington.com/Washington-DC/booknow
12:00pm - Class Block #2 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Developing Intuition with Mahayogi Das
1:30pm - Lunch (on your own)
2:30pm - Class Block #3 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Transformation Tarot (Part 2) with Charles Butler
- Class #2 - Spiritual Steel with Frank Stormcatcher
4:30pm - Class Block #4 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Japanese Tea Ceremony with Sir-Kyo-Loti
- Maximum 6 people
- First-come, first-serve sign up at registration
- Class #2 - Wicca 2 with Willow (2 hours)
- Open to all, Wicca 1 not required
6:00pm - Dinner (on your own)
7:00pm - Ritual Rehearsal
- All persons with designated speaking roles will gather in the conference room for a quick run through.
8:00pm - Lughnassadh Faerie Ritual
9:00pm - Bardic Drum Circle
- Bring a (two minute or less) reading, poem, song, story, performance, etc. to share with the group.
- Some light drumming, so bring your instruments!
SATURDAY JULY 31ST
8:00am - 30 Minute Yoga with Mahayogi Das
8:00am - Breakfast (on your own)
9:00am - Morning Meeting
10:00am - Dedication Ritual
- All are welcome to participate, even if not dedicating to something at this time.
- If you would like to participate in the actual dedication (and not just support the circle), please sign up at the registration table.
- Group version of a self-dedication to one's own path, to a new name, to continue a study, to start a new study, to make a change in one's life, etc.
- This is not a dedication to study with Firefly or requires that person to practice the Firefly tradition.
12:00pm - Class Block #2 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Potion Making with David Salisbury
1:30pm - Lunch (on your own)
2:30pm - Class Block #3 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Spiritual Steel: The Gathering with Frank Stormcatcher
4:30pm - Class Block #4 (90 minutes)
- Class #1 - Archetpyes of Pagan Men with Lord Rath
7:00pm - "Hidden Council" Annual Costume Ball and Murder Mystery Party
- Cost $50 per ticket
- Located in the same hotel as conference
- Includes hors d'oeurves, turkey carving station, desert, and cash bar
- Wear any costume
- Can opt to be a character in the murder mystery
- Everyone tries to figure out who the murder is
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1ST
8:00am - Breakfast (on your own)
9:00am - Solar Event at Dark Star Park
- Must sign up at the registration table, meeting in lobby at 9am.
- Free
- The artist, Nancy Holt, built large spheres and poles with iron shadows on the ground. On Lughnassadh, the shadows of the objects align exactly with the iron cast shadows. An Arlington Stonehenge of sorts.
- We are walking to the event and back.
- Will return by 11:00am for closing ritual
9:00am - Class Block #1 (90 minutes)
- Class #1: Book of Shadows with Lavada Niamba Damara
- Maximum of 10 people
- Sign up at registration
11:00am - Closing Ritual
11:00am - Check Out
12:00pm - Lunch, clean up, meeting, and dinner for planning committee.
