Beltane/Spring Festival!

 

 

bernadette@bridscloset.com

(845)458-8726

Open Mon-Sat. 11am-7pm

296 Main Street

Cornwall NY 12518

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Beltane Ticket! Please use your receipt as your ticket!

$35 per person/under 12 free!

 
Donations for the Brid's Closet Beltane Festival!

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About Me

Elizabeth Muise is a visual artist and a dancer. She has been dancing for eighteen years, and bellydancing for seven of those years. She looks forward to sharing this beautiful art form with you! Check out her artwork at www.redmuise.com

Celebrating the Ancient Feminine! Tribal Fusion Bellydance Workshop I:

Basic Technique and the Challenge of Moving Slow!

In this workshop I would like to cover the basic movements of Middle Eastern Dance, while focusing on proper technique. We will drill isolations with an emphasis on keeping everything slow and controlled. There will be a short discussion on the history of bellydance and Q & A. Open to all levels of skill and experience!

Celebrating the Ancient Feminine! Tribal Fusion Bellydance Workshop II: Layering and Shimmies!

In this workshop I would like to build on what we covered in the fi rst class, and then pick up the pace! Incorporating shimmies and layering isolations for fun and an added challenge! Open to all levels of skill and experience!

 

 

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Jenny C. has been dancing for almost 27 years. She began her journey with the art of bellydance in 2002. She has studied with many other artist instructors including Master instructor Mahmoud Reda, Aszmara, Anahid Sofian, Farida Farimy, Za-Beth, Morocco, Fahtiem, Jillina (Bellydance Superstars), Rachel Brice (Indigo), Zoe Jakes, Mira Betz, Amy Sigil (Unmata), Saqra, Oreet, Suhaila Salimpour, Chadia, and Perizad (Twisted Tassels) to name a few. Currently, Jenny C. teaches and performs multiple styles of dance including Tribal Fusion bellydance and hip hop in Orange County. She is honored to introduce her student performance troupe Oasis Caravan at this wonderful event. Thank you Bernadette for the opportunity to offer what we love. Please visit Jenny C’s website for more information @ www.imagroupmembers.com/jennycohen

Some of our wonderful vendors!

Issac Bonewits

Newburgh SPCA

Cornwall Fire Dept.

Elisabeth Muise

Hudson Harmony

Zark-Photography

Heather-magickal wands

Amethyst Rose Creations

PanGia Pottery creations

The Dragon's den deli

(sandwiches, soda, salads, hot food)

Numa's massage (chair and table massage)

Divining D'Amoiselle Handmade and custom scrying mirrors

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Natural Designs by Aja Lee-jewelry

Lorraine Mark

The Moonlit sea

Shooting for the Moon

PanGia's handemade pots

Taconic Records-Peter Morrisson

Studio 101

Shari Sauberman-stainless steel jewelry

more to come!

 

 

3rd annual Beltane/Spring

Festival

sponsored by Brid's Closet at

Camp Olmsted!

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Event Details

Brid's Closet 3rd annual Beltane/Spring Festival

Sat. May 1st 2010 11.00 am til ?

Admission: $35/under 12 free

Come and celebrate spring with us! Dress in your renaissance. faire best! (fantasy, pirate, renaissance, fun)

Tarot readers, Dance the Maypole, Live entertainment, games of chance, classes, music, belly dancing, tons of shopping and food from our fine vendors, and so much more!!

Where: Camp Olmsted 114 Bayview ave. Cornwall-on-Hudson 125520http://www.campolmsted.org/

Directions: http://www.campolmsted.org/CampOlmstedDirections.htm

Sponsored by Bernadette Montana of Brid's Closet www.bridscloset.com

(845) 458-8726

Interested in vending or performing, call me at (845) 458-8726

 

This year's performers and vendors!

Brid's Closet-Janet Farrar and Gavin BoneJanet Farrar and Gavin Bone will be facilitating our ritual this year. They will also be taking appointments for tarot readings (Janet) and spiritual healings (Gavin)

brid's closet-sharon knightSharon Knight

Like the sirens of the sea she is oft campared with, Sharon's distinctive voice captivates audiences young and old, sweeping them away to otherworldly vistas of myth and magick.

Enthralled at an early age by the indomitable spirit of the Celts and the power and melancholy of their songs, she made her first foray into music singing and accompanying herself on guitar, madola, and percussion in Celtic ensembles and as a solo act throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

Equally fascinated by the myths and legends of the Celts, her music has found inspiration in such luminaries as Robin Williamson and William Butler Yeates. Finding in music the perfect vehicle for exploring these visionary landscapes, she has sought to fuse these elements together through her art. Writing in the "twilight language" that poets throughout the ages have used to traverse these mysteries, Sharon strives to craft songs that journey into the the soul's innermost landscapes, where vast and wondrous realms exist, reminding us that our lives can be epic everyday.

Sharon and her longtime collaborator, Winter, record and perform with some of the Bay Area's most accomplished musicians. They have been heard on over 300 radio stations, played in a wide range of venues from grand to modest, enjoyed "top 10 status" on MP3 and NAR charts, and have captured the attention of major labels and independent labels alike. Their music has been featured in two independed films, "Beatific Vision" and "The Commune" . They are also the founding members of the gothic/world/rock band, Pandemonaeon.

Sharon's commitment to her art remains firmly rooted in the archetypal language of myth, striving to meet her audience in the deep realms of the psyche. In so doing, she reminds us that we can all see the world through the eyes of enchantment.

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ONE OF OUR MANY VENDORS FROM LAST YEAR'S EVENT!

BRID'S CLOSET-MAYPOLE

OUR MAYPOLE FROM 2008

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Isaac Bonewits is one of North America’s leading experts on ancient and

modern Druidism, Witchcraft, magic and the occult, and the rapidly growing Earth Religions movement.

A practicing Neopagan priest, scholar, teacher, bard, and polytheologian for over thirtyfive years, he has coined much of the vocabulary and articulated many of the issues that have shaped the rapidly growing Neopagan movement in the United

States and Canada, with opinions both playful and controversial.

He is the author of Real Magic, Authentic Thaumaturgy, The Pagan Man, Bonewits's Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca (formerly Witchcraft: A Concise Guide),

and Bonewits's Essential Guide to Druidism, Neopagan Rites (formerly Rites of Worship), and (with his wife Phaedra) Real Energy (New Page March 2007) as

well as numerous articles, reviews and essays. He is a singer-songwriter with two-and-a-half albums to his credit. As a “spellbinding” speaker, he has educated, enlightened and entertained two generations of modern Goddess worshippers,

nature mystics, and followers of other minority belief systems, and has explained these movements to journalists, law enforcement officers, college students, and academic researchers.

He is the Founder and an Archdruid Emeritus of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid

Fellowship, (the best known Neopagan Druid organization based in North America)

, a 3° Druid within the United Ancient Order of Druids (the best known Mesopagan Druid order), a retired High Priest in both the Gardnerian (“British Orthodox”) and

the N.R.O.O.G.D. (“California Heterodox”) traditions of Wicca

(Neopagan Witchcraft), an initiate of Santeria (Afro-Cuban Mesopaganism)

and the “Caliphate Line” of the Ordo Templi Orientis (Aleister Crowley’s

Mesopagan magical tradition), as well as a member of other Neopagan and Mesopagan Druid orders. He has been a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (“CUUPS”) for several years. Having survived four previous spouses (and vice versa), on July 23, 2004 he was handfasted to former CUUPS

Vice President, tarot expert, writer, and Wiccan Priestess, Phaedra Bonewits

(hope springs eternal). With her he has co-authored a book called Real Energy: Systems, Spirits, and Substances to Heal, Change, and Grow.

Articulate, witty, yet reasonably scholarly, he is currently writing books on

Halloween, Understanding Magic, and Polytheology. Should your topic be outside

his expertise, he can quickly refer you to colleagues, scholars and

spokespersons for any legitimate Neopagan movement. Those interested

in having him present a workshop or seminar may contact him directly at the

address below. To find out if he is appearing in your area, check his schedule page.

Isaac wishes it officially known that he is not “A Pagan Spiritual Leader,” but

merely one of the Neopagan movement’s better-known Unindicted Co-Conspirators...

Isaac will be having talks and will be available for tarot sessions throughout the day !

 

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