Northwest Lammas Festival 2023
We are excited to welcome everyone back for another Lammas Festival!
Lammas is the first harvest festival of the year and is celebrated by much feasting on all things made of grain. It is also a time of much merry-making as the first grains of the season are collected from the fields.
We’ll start out Friday evening with a land blessing, the lovely Giving is doing the women’s ritual in the evening, and we'll be holding Embracing Darkness afterwards. This year for Lammas 2024 our main ritual ‘Stardiving with the Ancestors’ is being put together by Chele. It will be a little different this year as we will be having our bread and beer feast before the ritual. We will have crafts and workshops for everyone to participate in. And what would Lammas be without the games? The games will consist of martial skills with ax throwing and archery, strength skills with the stone put, track skills with the Turtle Island sprint and River Farm run and more. There will also be the building of the Bread Goddess, lounging in the river, sauna, and maybe some drumming.
| Tentative Schedule | ||
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Show up and hang | Games 9am-Noon | Community Breakfast 10am-11am |
| Practice for the Games | Workshops Noon-3pm | Packup and Cleanup |
| Town Meeting 5:30pm | Bread Goddess 4pm | Head home by 2pm |
| Blessing of the Land 6pm | Bread and Beer Feast 6pm | |
| Friday Night Women's Ritual 7pm | Main Ritual 8:30pm | |
| Embracing Darkness 8:30pm | Drum Circle | |
| Drum Circle |
The suggested donation per adult is $25 for Friday, $35 for Saturday, or $50 for the whole weekend. Kids 17 and under are free. Give your donation to Elaine when you arrive.
Bring bread for the Bread Goddess, a side or dish that goes with bread, beer or your other favorite drink, athletic attire for the games, swim suit, drum, sunscreen, and camping gear.
This is a primitive campsite with tent camping and car camping only. You will need to bring all of your camping supplies, food, water, clothes, cooking, sleeping, etc. Pack it in, pack it out.
Leave your pets at home, please.