Tag: VA Pentacle Quest

Celia in Concert Saturday

What could Twin Cities Pagans do to pass the time while their Christian friends get raptured on Saturday? They could go looting, offer to care for pets left behind, or they could listen to Celia at the Sacred Paths Center.

Celia: In Concert
Sacred Paths Center
Saturday, May 21
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Tickets – $12

Celia Farran is perhaps best known and beloved in the Pagan community for her song The Symbol, which helped galvanize the grass roots movement that forced the Veterans Administration to act justly and allow for the Pentagram to be engraved on the burial markers of veterans.

Celia Farran, photo from the video shoot for "Walking the Labyrinth"

Celia has been touring the upper Midwest while filming a video for her song The Labyrinth and stopping in the studios of Simply Folk on Wisconsin Public Radio.  To judge by facebook comments, she has been blowing away audiences with her mix of powerful lyrics and smooth vocals – especially on her remix of Everyday Goddess.  Celia also throws in a bit of improv comedy, which shouldn’t work during the same performance as the serious and many times sacred nature of her lyrics, but somehow does.  Perhaps it is for this, her ability to manifest “mirth and reverence” on stage, that cause some of her fans to call her a Goddess.

UMPA Celebrates 4 Years of Social Activism

The Upper Midwest Pagan Alliance (UMPA) reached its fourth anniversary and invites the community to help celebrate it.  The event takes place at Sacred Paths Center on Saturday starting at 4pm.   Organizers of the celebration say all community members are welcome for this free evening of fun activities.

From the March 3rd issues of the Minneapolis Star Tribune

UMPA is not only celebrating an anniversary milestone, the group is celebrating the accomplishments of the past four years.  Started during what has become known in the Pagan community as “The Quest,” the struggle to gain approval for a Wiccan symbol to be placed on fallen Wiccan military members headstones, UMPA hosted the Veteran’s Pentacle Rights Ritual. This ritual took place on the state capitol grounds and garnered national news coverage for the issue.

(See Pagan+politics coverage of UMPA formation and project, the Pentacle quest, and links to national press coverage, here)

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