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Summer/Autumn 2015: Celebrating Traditional Peoples: Otherworld Journeys
Publication date: August 3, 2015 Abstract Deadline: April 3/Paper Deadline May, 18 2015 Deadline for final version: June 15, 2015
I am a wind on sea, I am Ocean wave, I am Roar of sea… (Rees, p. 98)
The music, dance, performance and story-art, and the living philosophy of the traditions of the indigenous peoples of this earth.
Subjects under consideration but not limited to:
- Aya! The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora: Santeria, Voudoun, Candomblé
- Traditional Peoples’ of the Americas vanishing stories: reconstruction, preservation, and the issues of appropriation
- Climbing the World Tree: The matter of the Shamans of Siberia.
- Otherworld Journeys: Dreams – Hallucinations – Psychotropics
- Emerging traditions: Modern neo-shamanic work
- Influences of the shamanic traditions in popular music and art
- Amergin’s Heritage: Bard, Ollam, Ovate: the ancient Celtic peoples’ past and the late 19th & mid-20th century reemergence of the Druid traditions
Winter/Spring 2016: Faery Dreams… and, Dreaming of Faery
Publication date: March 20, 2016 Abstract Deadline: November 3, 2015/Paper Deadline January 20, 2016 Deadline for final version: February 15, 2016
“Picture yourself, for instance curled up all cozy in your blankets in the bole or the roots of a fairy tree. Or lying in a gently rocking boat sailing to Tir Nan Og. Or lazily sipping elf-wine by a warm fire. Or lying out in a meadow with the stars wheeling overhead and the fairies all around.” Dolores J. Nurse “Faery Dreaming”.
Subjects under consideration but not limited to:
- Sacred places and Doors between worlds
- The literary tradition: Shakespeare, Perrault, Yeats, to the fantasists of the 20 & 21st centuries
- A long history of faeries in the performance arts: from mummer’s plays to Opera and ballet to Led Zeppelin to indie rock band, Omnia – all of these and more are suitable for this journal.
- Dreams and Faeries and Faery dreaming: journeys and messages
- Faery Magic (open interpretation)
- Seasonal customs and rituals evoking the denizens of the Fae.
- Reclaiming a distant past in a new dress? The emerging “ecstatic culture” of blue and green men, faery music, art, spiral dances, fire art, Faery conferences and art/music festivals.
Special Publication #1: Roses and Wildflowers
Submission by invitation. PDF or POD download.
for purchase or free to subscribers
Deadline: TO BE DETERMINED
Publication: ready for purchase by the Holiday shopping Season, 2015. (Starts in earnest around October.)
A special issue presenting creative works.
- Visual artworks
- Ritual and Folk playscripts (including director’s notes and performance permission information)
- Compositions & songs- sheet music
- Poetry
- Short tales of a faery nature
- Dance… performance documentation
- Essay: what is ritual theatre?
Including relevant papers and other material from past issues.
Spring/Summer 2016: Khatrus, Dreamscapes, and Ancient Futures: Progressive Rock
Spring/Summer: 2016 Publication date: June 29, 2016 Abstract Deadline: March 1/Paper Deadline April, 18 2016 Deadline for final version: May 15, 2016
“Even in Siberia they go through the motion…” (Anderson/Howe)
An issue by and for the musicians and scholars of this musical genre focusing on the visionary nature of the works.
Fall/Winter 2016/17: A Faun Dancing: The Emerging Aesthetic/Ecstatic Community
See: Jeet Kei “Transformational festivals”
“Intention is highly co-created. The idea is that we’re all making it together. There is a core crew but the organizers pay the same amount as everybody else who attends. Everybody gets involved, helping decorate and offer their workshops, that kind of thing. We really create the space to be surprised by people’s offerings, beyond who might be programmed to present something. It’s a very beautiful, deeply connected, intimate transformational gathering.” Jeet Kei, April 19, 2013: Interview: Festival Fire. http://festivalfire.com/jeet-kei-leung/
Reclaiming a distant past in a new dress? The emerging “ecstatic culture” of blue and green men, faery music, art, spiral dances, fire art, and Faery conferences and art/music festivals.
- The music: a haven for indie artists
- Influences beyond the counter-culture
- The power of co-creation
- Spiritual crossovers: yoga, meditation, Zen, Neo-pagan traditions, “Faery” spirituality … etc. …
- Costuming and cosplay
- Counter-culture movement or passing fancy?
- Beyond the U.S.: is there a contemporary aesthetic/ ecstatic movement beyond the United states? (RE: Faerieworlds Festival/Con, Beloved Festival, Burning Man)
- Commercialism, popularity, promotions, and into the future
- Safety, children, boundaries, and other concerns…
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Special Publication # 2 (2016?): The Ars Rituale
The Art and Science of Ritual Construction, Ritual Theatre, and Sacred Performance Creation – edited collection –
Submission to “Special Publication # 2 coreopsis@gmail(dot.com)” by January 1, 2016. PDF or POD download.
for purchase or free to subscribers
Deadline: TO BE DETERMINED
Publication: ready for purchase by the Holiday shopping Season, 2016. (Starts in earnest around October.)
- The Ars Rituale: A Lifetime Discipline
- Ritual Tells a Story Using all parts of Being Human …
- The Performance Arts and Play: That Old Prefrontal Cortex Magic…
- Litanies – Liturgies – Ceremonies: Definitions, Differences and Uses in Rituals context
- Using “place” in ritual planning
- Dreams, Inspiration, Intuitive knowledge
- Praxis – all the good stuff
- Working With Children and Families
- Large Event Planning: Festivals, Weddings/Handfastings – etc.
- Sheet music for ritual use