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! $25 per person/under 12 free! Our flyer!
About Me Performance Description:
Boom Boom Shake A collaboration of Sarah Jezebel Wood, Elizabeth Muise and Shane Chikeles Beguiling bellydancers sweep your hearts and minds away as pulsating rhythms of the doumbek played by Shane mesmerize. Sure to entrance, these sassy ladies and classy gent bring a good time in hips, heels and hands. Blending the ancient with the contemporary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Shane bring you a timeless encounter that is sure to entertain and inspire! These gypsy's make a living, living art. Savoring the ephemeral and celebrating that which is soulful and passionate as they deliver a show that is mysterious, powerful and intelligent. Mixing modern sensibilities with archaic visions, they bring you an experience that plays the wide range of human emotions from the silly to the heartfelt, the dark to the light.
Relevant Biographical Information:
Elizabeth's Biography:
As a graduate of Alfred University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and minor in dance, Elizabeth is now pursuing a life as a dancer and yoga instructor. With nineteen years of dance experience, Elizabeth has explored many styles such as Modern, Ballet, Hip Hop, Butoh, and African. Middle Eastern Dance, her true passion, has been an area of focus in most recent years. Fusing traditional middle eastern dance movements with modern sensibilities, as well as drawing from her training in art, Elizabeth has a unique brand of Tribal Fusion Bellydance. She has been described as playful, elegant, graceful, powerful, and passionate, as she accesses this sensual art form with sophistication and class. She has taught at the Starwood Festival and performed at the New York Renaissance Faire, Wicked Faire, RenCon, Steampunk Worlds Fair, and Alex Grey’s CoSM to name a few! Hailing from the Hudson Valley NY, Elizabeth is looking forward to teaching and performing around the world as she travels to share this important art form! She likes to keep it classy and sassy and shake it ancient!!  Shanes Biography:
Shane Chikeles is a professional musician that has been playing around the world with local and national acts since 1995.
Shane is known for his previous work with the well known rock band The Ataris which he did extensive touring with worldwide as well as performing with on the Craig Ferguson show (CBS Late Nite). He also played with the progressive indie band Joshua and is currently playing drums for the New York based indie rock band Park Ranger.
Always trying to stay musically diverse in his playing, he’s played many different styles of music from metal to country and even polka in the studio and live.
Continuing on with that thirst for diversity and learning more about different types of music he has recently discovered a new passion- Middle Eastern hand drumming.
He’d Like to see just how far he can take playing the doumbek and above all to have a lot of fun doing it!
 Sarah's Biography:
Sarah frequently and infrequently performs alongside musical talent Incus, HuDost, and Copal. She is available for performance, workshops and private lessons. Please use the contact portion of this website to obtain further information.
Heather Killen Bio: On top of being a mom of two very active boys, she is an ordained Wiccan Clergy Woman in the State of Ohio and actively practicing witch of over 15 years. Heather is a High Priestess for Circle of Solitaries-Central Ohio. She is a member of Black Thorne Temple and does Clergy work for the Ohio Prison system); the organizer and director of the Earth Warriors Festival and owner of Violet Flame Gifts. Heather is a no-nonsense, down to earth witch who is frequently called an irrepressible force of nature. Class description: * Faces of the Morrigu: workshop and discussion on the Triple Irish Goddess of Sovereignty and War. Queen of shapeshifting, and how Her energies and blessings can aid us in Modern times.
Some of our wonderful vendors! Palaia vineyards-Their own brand of Wine & Mead Elisabeth Muise PanGia Pottery creations Divining D'Amoiselle Handmade and custom scrying mirrors Brid's Closet Hudson Street Cafe Shooting for the Moon Akasha Star-handmade crafts-altar cloths & more Jennifer Fletcher-Handmade & custom jewelry Blooming Grove Animal Shelter Fiddlestix resturant Lou Pizz0-cystals-handmade cards-stones Spiritual Journeys-tarot readings Mike Engenito-handmade Brass & Silver Pagan jewelry Altar Egos-Handmade altar cloths Lailani Martinez-Tarot Therapy Desthamone The Fairy Apothacary The Cystal & Stone Experience A touch of Glass and... Handmade stanined glass items Rebecca Gordon-astrology
www.facebook.com/PaulFKorker.photographer
http://www.diviningdamoiselle.com/ more to come!
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4 th annual Beltane/Spring Festival sponsored by Brid's Closet at Palaia Vineyards |
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845-458-8726 Event Details Brid's Closet 4th annual Beltane/Spring Festival Sat. April 30, 2011 - 11.00 am til ? Admission: $25/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: Palaia Vineyards Directions:http://www.palaiavineyards.com/directions.html 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 & vendors!
Raquy and the Cavemen! Raquy and the Cavemen - Biography Middle-Eastern drumming sensation Raquy and the Cavemen are a duo of virtuoso drummers / multi-instrumentalists who bring hard rock energy to the mystical rhythms of the Middle East. and master classes in Middle-Eastern drumming.
Kellianna is an American pagan artist internationally performing song and
A most love book reading and signing by Carolyn Turgeon!
Carolyn will be reading exerpts from her newest book called "Mermaid"! Come by to meet Carolyn at her table! She will be selling her book "Mermaid" and some wonderful items related to anything "Mermaid"!
Our Sponsors!
http://www.upstateblacknblue.com/
http://www.palaiavineyards.com/
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ONE OF OUR MANY VENDORS FROM LAST YEAR'S EVENT!
OUR MAYPOLE
Readings by Raven Gramassi and Stephanie Taylor!
Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor will be giving readings! Please call to RSVP
Raven and Stephanie do all their readings together
Stephanie Grimassi (aka Rasenna Elvenstar) is dedicated to guiding and teaching those who seek the Old Ways. She is a 3rd degree initiate of a Celtic Traditionalist system of Wicca, and a 3rd degree initiate of Italian Arician Tradition Witchcraft. She is a legally ordained clergy of Witchcraft. Stephanie is also the co-author and co-creator of The Well Worn Path Divination kit and The Hidden Path Divination kit. She has studied, taught, and used the arts as a transformation tool throughout her life. Stephanie is also a Tarot reader and teacher with many years of experience. She is co-founder and co-director, alongside her husband Raven Grimassi, of The College of the Crossroads, an e-correspondence Mystery Tradition School and owns and operate Raven’s Loft, an online store. Visit them at www.collegeofthecrossroads.org.
Raven Grimassi is an award-winning author of twelve books on Witchcraft and Wicca. He is also co-director of the College of the Crossroads, a modern Mystery School devoted to the preservation and continuation of pre-Christian European religion and spirituality. Raven is a practitioner and teacher of the Craft with over 35 years of experience. He is an initiate of several traditions, including Brittic Wicca, the Pictish-Gaelic Tradition, and Italian Witchcraft. Raven's most recent projects are The Well Worn Path and The Hidden Path oracle systems, which he co-created with wife Stephanie Taylor. Having been born on the festival day of the goddess Ceres, Patroness of the Mysteries, Raven is devoted to preserving and teaching the Mystery Tradition of pre-Christian Europe. The oracle decks are designed to capture and transmit the foundational and mystical components of these ancient mysteries. Visit Raven’s author site at www.ravengrimassi.net.
This is a workshop on how to create ones own spiritual purifications in the form of baths and house-cleansings. These are rituals that can be performed by anyone regardless their spirituality or faith, using simple ingredients. I will share how to banish negativity and attract the positive both from your life and your home by creating personalized herbal bags and washes.
Lisa Vazquez
My Bio
Lisa Vazquez comes from a diverse spiritual background. She was baptized by the Catholic Church, raised in Espiritismo using traditional Puerto Rican folk magic and began studying Wicca in her early teens. A native New Yorker she has also lived in Puerto Rico and California. Lisa has been a member of Novices of the Old Ways since Samhain, 2008 and is currently a priestess in training dedicated to the Goddess Hekate. In keeping with her multifaceted spirituality she also works very closely with Yemaya the Yoruba Mother Goddess of the Ocean and the protector Saint Michael the Archangel. Lisa is bilingual and presently lives in Harlem, New York.
Baños Y Limpiezas
(Baths and Cleansings)
*A bit about me and my background
Baño – Bathing to wash away or invite emotions and situations to your life
Limpieza – Cleansing a space or area to clear or welcome emotions and situations to it.
Why do baños and Limpiezas?
How to prepare each
Ingredients such as herbs/crystals/oils/amulets etc.
• Bring some herbs, mortar and pestle, measuring spoons
• Rose water, agua Florida, holy water
• Boil ingredients (can strain out herbs before use)
~ To bathe, mop the floor, mist bottles
How to use each
Wash away/rinse off negativity (always a shower)
• Use on your body / on a sponge ~ to lift and pull away negativity from your skin
• Use in a sachet (also for your body) ~ to rinse off, in an outward motion, away from your body
• Use to mop your floor from furthest point in your home towards the front door and out (mop then sweep out herbs)
• Place under pillow or under bed or at entrances to rooms/home
Welcome/invoke positive influences
• Shower with sponge or herbal sachet with upward motion to pull into you
• Bath ~ to stay on your skin and encircle you, seep into pores
• Floor washes/air mists
• Place under pillow or under bed or at entrances to rooms/home
Making rituals one’s own
Words/Prayers/Invocations
Music
Candles
Incense
Sage
*Tell stories / examples
“Not wetting hair”.
Lorraine’s job