Fifth Annual Pagan Festival and Parade,Evolving Spirits,Poetry,Authors,Altars,Double Rising,Sub-Rosa Belly Dance,Mahal,Vessel,Brook May 6, 2006

With this event, we bring together brothers and sisters of ALL indigenous, Earth-based, and nature centered polytheistic beliefs in pride and celebration, as well as those who support arts, music, ceremony, theater and dance within the Interfaith Pagan Community. In doing so, we unite in our message to the world that we must live together in love and tolerance, as opposed to fear and misunderstanding, as voices in the great choir of Spirit.

Procession (parade), Interfaith Ritual, Traditional Dance, Music, Poetry, Crafts, Authors Circle, Vendors, Information Booths, Food, Altars, Children's Area

http://thepaganalliance.org/pagan-parade-festival-2006.asp

Formerly: Interfaith Pagan Pride Parade and Celebration

We encourage diversity, tolerance, safety, and respect for all participants and audience members. This is a family-friendly event, and children are encouraged to participate.

Performers include:

Double Rising: Singing & Music -- Double Rising is a recently formed loose-knit group of Bay Area women who have come together to sing magickal traditional and modern sacred music in celebration, to honor the Earth, and promote peace and unity. - doublerising_at_gmail.com
Eileen Hazel: Singing & Music -- Berkeley-based singer songwriter rooted firmly in the garden-variety pagan tradition. Her songs mix folk, country, and rock to soothe and inspire you. - www.eileenhazel.com

Fontain's M.U.S.E.: Music -- Fontain's M.U.S.E. pursues the art of celebrating diversity, spirituality, culture, world peace, freedom of speech, expression and humor. We perform Electronic Dance Grooves, Eastern Instrumentation, Indian Percussion with Vocals in English, Persian, Hindi, French, and Spanish. - www.fontainsmuse.com

Mahal: Dance & Drumming -- EthnoFusion music is rooted in indigenous music from the Philippines, blending voices, lutes, gongs, and bamboo percussion with modern and other world music instruments. Powerful and inspiring messages of peace, environmental protection, as well as women's and children's issues. - AumMahal_at_aol.com

Moh Alileche and Danse Maghreb: Music / Street performance -- Promoting Amazigh (Berber) culture of North Africa. The Berbers or Imazighen who speak Tamazight, are the first inhabitants of North Africa. They are the majority in Morocco and Algeria, where they conintue to struggle to maintain their identity. - www.flagoffreedom.com - www.dansemaghreb.org

Sub-Rosa Belly Dance: Music -- Sub-Rosa Belly Dance is a Middle Eastern dance duo that infuses a timeless art with modern flavor. Paying tribute to their ethnicity, Suzan Reuah of Turkish descent and Ariellah Aflalo of Moroccan descent, have performed throughout the Bay Area for the past 4 years. - ariellahk_at_hotmail.com

Tansy Brooks: Belly Dance with Snakes -- Snakes have special roles in many traditions and myths, and they have a special place in Tansy's heart. She adopted her first snake many years ago, and learned bellydancing so she could dance with him. - tansy_at_sonic.net

Temple of the Hebrew Goddess: Singing / Music -- Jamie Isman is a singer songwriter, Hebrew/Jewish priestess, and founder of Temple of the Hebrew Goddess. She writes and performs music as devotion and prayer to the Hebrew and Middle Eastern Goddesses, the goddesses of her ancestors. - www.jamieisman.com

Vessel: Dance -- Zachary is a Butoh Student who has studied under Shinichi Moma Koga (SF), Yuko Kaseki (Berklin) and Paige Sorvillo (SF). - www.vesselstudio.com

Walter Thompson III: Dance -- Walter Thompson III is a dancer poet and recording artist who has recorded Pagan spoken word LPs internationally. He is a Witch and is of the Wiccan Tradition. - www.thunderstormwitch.com

BEMBE YA: Music - This group presents music honoring Earth spirits known as Orishas in the Santeria tradition. It is sung in the Lukumi language of the Yoruba people who came to Cuba as slaves from West Africa. Bembe Ya is led by Carolyn Brandy who is joined by some of her students.

Brook: Drumming and music, Reclaiming and Feri tradition - www.magicbrook.com

Dandelian Dance Theater: Dance - princessnpea_at_homtail.com

Sam Webster, M.Div., Chief Adept, OSOGD - www.osogd.org