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Starwood provides [[child care]] and children's classes and programs in a playground area called "Kids' Village"<ref name="krassner"/>.Some specific groups whose members regularly appear at and attend Starwood include the [[Church of All Worlds]].<ref name="krassner"/> |
Starwood provides [[child care]] and children's classes and programs in a playground area called "Kids' Village"<ref name="krassner"/>.Some specific groups whose members regularly appear at and attend Starwood include the [[Church of All Worlds]].<ref name="krassner"/> |
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[[Big Brother & the Holding Company]] have performed. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbhc.com/bbbase.html |title=Big Brother and the Holding Company: BBBase |publisher=Bbhc.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref> |
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=== Featured speakers === |
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Some past featured speakers include: |
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* [[Gavin Bone]] |
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* [[Isaac Bonewits]] |
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* [[Raymond Buckland]] |
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* [[Baba Raul Canizares]] |
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* [[Dagmar Braun Celeste]] |
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* [[Miriam Chamani]] |
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* [[Phyllis Curott]] |
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* [[Lon Milo Duquette]] |
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* [[Janet Farrar]] |
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* [[Stewart Farrar]] |
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* [[LaSara Firefox]] |
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* [[Bob Fitrakis]] |
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* [[Selena Fox]] |
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* [[Gavin Frost]] |
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* [[Yvonne Frost]] |
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* [[Stephen Gaskin]] |
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* [[Ina May Gaskin]] |
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* [[Michael T. Gilbert]] |
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* [[Jesse Wolf Hardin]] |
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* [[Ellen Evert Hopman]] |
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* [[Anodea Judith]] |
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* [[Amber K]] |
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* [[Donald Michael Kraig]] |
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* [[Paul Krassner]] |
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* [[Stanley Krippner]] |
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* [[Timothy Leary]] |
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* [[Sidian M.S. Jones]] |
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* [[Martin A. Lee]] |
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* [[Deborah Lipp]] |
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* [[Louis Martinie']] |
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* [[Terence McKenna]] |
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* [[Ralph Metzner]] |
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* [[Patricia Monaghan]] |
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* [[Christopher Moore (author)|Christopher Moore]] |
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* [[Nema (occultist)|Nema]] |
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* [[M. Macha Nightmare]] |
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* [[Jonathan Ott]] |
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* [[Diana L. Paxson]] |
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* [[Harvey Pekar]] |
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* [[Christopher Penczak]] |
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* [[Lauren Raine]] |
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* [[Silver RavenWolf]] |
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* [[Nicki Scully]] |
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* [[Robert Shea]] |
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* [[R. U. Sirius]] |
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* [[Ivan Stang]] |
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* [[Jay Stevens]] |
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* [[Patricia Telesco]] |
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* [[Harvey Wasserman]] |
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* [[Robert Anton Wilson]] |
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* [[Fred Alan Wolf]] |
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* [[Oberon Zell-Ravenheart]] |
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* [[Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart]] |
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=== Featured entertainers === |
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Some past featured entertainers, many of whom also offered classes, include: |
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* [[Matthew Abelson]] |
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* [[Sikiru Adepoju]] |
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* [[Amampondo]] |
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* [[Babatunde Olatunji|Babatunde Olatunji & Drums of Passion]] |
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* [[Baka Beyond]] |
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* [[John Bassette]] |
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* [[Big Brother & the Holding Company]] <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbhc.com/bbbase.html |title=Big Brother and the Holding Company: BBBase |publisher=Bbhc.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref> |
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* [[Muruga Booker]] |
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* [[Brian Auger|Brian Auger's Oblivion Express]] |
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* [[Chicago AfroBeat Project]] |
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* [[Cyro Baptista|Cyro Baptista & Beat the Donkey]] |
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* [[Yaya Diallo]] |
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* [[Jim Donovan (musician)|Jim Donovan]] |
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* [[Halim El-Dabh]] |
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* [[Gaelic Storm]] |
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* [[Michael Hinton (guitarist)|Michael Hinton]] |
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* [[JiMiller Band]] |
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* [[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]] |
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* [[Kenny Klein|Kenny & Tziporah Klein]] |
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* [[Lehto and Wright]] |
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* [[Jeff Magnus McBride]] |
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* [[Airto Moreira]] |
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* [[Owain Phyfe]] |
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* [[The Prodigals]] |
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* [[Raq]] |
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* [[Rainforest Band]] |
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* [[Perry Robinson]] |
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* [[Badal Roy]] |
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* [[Merl Saunders]] |
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* [[Tony Saunders (bassist)|Tony Saunders]] |
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* [[Jim Scott (musician)|Jim Scott]] |
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* [[Gilli Smyth]] ([[Gong (band)|Gong]]) |
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* [[Stratospheerius|Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius]] |
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* [[Telesma]] |
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* [[Trance Mission]] |
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The Starwood Festival is a seven-day Neo-Pagan, New Age, multi-cultural and world music festival presented in July. Approximately 1,500 people attend including staff, speakers and entertainers. The Starwood Festival is a camping event which holds workshops on a variety of subjects. There are also live musical performances, rituals, bonfires, multimedia presentations and social activities.
History
The Starwood Festival was founded in 1981 by the Chameleon Club, a recognized student organization at Case Western Reserve University, which later founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration. It has been operated by ACE since 1983. It featured entertainment, public ceremonies, and classes on subjects such as sensory isolation, Kirlian photography, Neopaganism, shamanism, Wicca, holistic health, tarot divination, Thelema, and past life regression. Among the first guest speakers and entertainers were Jim Alan and Selena Fox (founders of Circle Sanctuary), Raymond Buckland, Lee Bryan Grotte (Foundation for Research in Medical Botany), and music by Chameleon and The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria.[1]
The first Starwood was held July 24–26, 1981 at Coopers Lake Campground, the same site as the Society for Creative Anachronism's Pennsic War, in Slippery Rock, PA. From 1982 through 1985 it was held at Devil's Den Park in New Philadelphia, OH, a former state park run by Whispering Winds Nudist Camp. In 1986 and 1987 it was held at Bear Creek Amphitheatre (part of Bear Creek Resort Ranch KOA) in East Sparta, OH, and at Echo Hills Ski Resort in Logan, OH (on the Buckeye Trail) in 1988 and 1989. The event moved to Brushwood Folklore Center, a private campground in Sherman, New York from 1990 through 2009. Starwood 2010, 2011 and 2012 were held at Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio[2].
The event began as a weekend festival, and grew over the years to a seven-day event. Attendance has grown from 185 in the first year to peak at around 1800 people in 2002, and has stayed between 1300 and 1600 until its move to Wisteria, when the attendance dropped to between 600 and 800. Since 1982, Starwood has been a clothing optional event, and skyclad attendance is common.[3]
Activities
Starwood offers approximately 150 workshops, on topics including alternative lifestyles, political & spiritual activism, spiritual traditions, consciousness-altering technologies and substances (such as biofeedback, sensory-isolation, mind machines, and entheogenic substances), martial arts & movement systems, history, magic, folklore, art & music, healing, metaphysics and environmental issues.[4] [5]
Starwood provides child care and children's classes and programs in a playground area called "Kids' Village"[3].Some specific groups whose members regularly appear at and attend Starwood include the Church of All Worlds.[3]
Big Brother & the Holding Company have performed. [6]
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Notes
- ^ "Changeling Times issue #3" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ Pagan/Magickal Festival Returns to Meigs This Week by David DeWitt, The Athens News. July 11, 2012
- ^ a b c Krassner, Paul (2005). Life Among the Neopagans in The Nation, August 24, 2005 (web only).
- ^ "''Circle of Ash'' feature article by Michael Gill in ''Cleveland Free Times'', July 7th, 2005". Rosencomet.com. 2005-07-07. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "''Modern Pagans: An Investigation of Contemporary Ritual'' by John Sulak and V. Vale". Researchpubs.com. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
- ^ "Big Brother and the Holding Company: BBBase". Bbhc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-11.