Announcements
The Society for Ritual Arts’ Roses & Wildflowers Magazine and The Historic Drift Inn team up to present:
Fabulist Retreat
Yachats, Oregon, November 12-16, 2023
Join us for magical creativity and community on the beautiful Oregon Coast in the seaside village of Yachats (pronounced Ya-hots – “when you’re hots ya hots”).
Register here: https://societyforritualarts.com/mercantile/product/fabulist-writers-artists-retreat
Society for Ritual Arts Members: $150.00
For non-members: $180.00
To help sponsor a writer or artist who could not otherwise attend: https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=8CY285RTZFV3L
Then reserve your room at the Historic Drift Inn:
Talk to Bev at (541) 961-3121 or call the hotel directly at (541) 547-4477 and select option 2.
You will want to review the lodging options at: https://driftinnlodging.com/. There is a 10% room discount for this retreat.
The Particulars
For Writers and Poets: Submit a Story for Critique &/or for performance on our Tuesday Afternoon “Club Night.” Please follow the instructions on the forms.
For Artists: Contact Helena Domenic at helena@artofhelenadomenic.com.
Are you a Musician? Would you like to accompany a writer in an improvisational performance/reading? Drop us a note here: ritualartsofficial@gmail.com.
The Fine Print: The Society for Ritual Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and all donations are tax deductible under the laws and statutes of the United States.
Classes
The Writers Grotto, San Francisco:
Saturdays, Sept. 16th – Oct. 14th, from 1 – 3pm
with T.K. Rex
Dragons and spaceships are more popular than ever, but how do you break into so-called “commercial fiction” as a writer? And does it actually pay anything? Come find out in this five-week course where we’ll polish a short story, learn about the current market, and smash that submit button.
https://www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-events/write-sell-sci-fi-fantasy-stories-with-t-k-rex
Welcome to Poetry Witch!
Annie Finch
Poetry Witch is a private international online community offered free of charge to all women and gender – nonconforming people who love magic and/or poetry. Community members have access to our beautiful Five Directions discussion area and are eligible to join our central learning space, Meter Magic Spiral, where our founder Annie Finch guides a transformative journey through the powers of a different poetic meter each month.
“Meter,” “moon,” “mother,” and “magic” all come from the same root. Based on Annie’s lifetime of experience, Meter Magic Spiral is meter as it is meant to be learned!
To join PWC, if you are a woman or gender-nonconforming, follow the link above and click “Request to Join.”
You will automatically be added to the free Five Directions discussion areas. To join Meter Magic Spiral, just click in the menu at left.
Hope to Spiral with you soon!
Love, Annie
Yachats Celtic Music Festival
Annual Yachats Celtic Music Festival Veterans Day weekend.
Schedule and tickets: https://yachatscelticmusicfestival.org/
ISARS Conference 2024
Sapienza University of Rome (5-8 June 2024)
Call for papers
https://www.isars.org/conferences/rome2024/
Tracing Shamanism: Presence, Absence, Transformations, Possibilities
We invite scholars to reflect on the notion of traces (Ginzburg 2006) in relation to shamanism and other animistic/ecstatic practices. In doing so, we take into account the idea of traces as a methodological tool to explore, map, and analyze materials, narratives, and practices residing “at the intersection of the seen and the unseen, sound and silence, the coming of being into the social and its recession” (Napolitano 2015: 46). Traces are in fact critical knots in a fabric where presence and absence are equally relevant.
Submitting papers and session proposals:
We hope to see many of you in Rome. We now invite you to submit a paper title and abstract (max 250 words) or a session/panel proposal on the main theme of the conference before the 10th of October, 2023. Please send it to the following address: isarsconference2024@gmail.com
The selected papers and sessions will be announced in December 2023. The official language of the conference will be English.