Happy Beltane, wherever you are!

Hello dear denziens of the MGF blog!

We wish you a dewy, flowery, fertile and firey Beltane 2012! May your bonfires be bright, and your maypoles phallic, and may all the abundance of the season pour into your heart and spirit.

For those travellers and tumbleweeds out there, perhaps you’d fancy a May Day in Scotland next year at the Beltane Fire Festival?

The Crone’s Cabaret

Come and join us this Mother’s Day May 13th at 7 pm at the fabulous Gas Station Theatre for the Crone’s Cabaret. Hosted by the amazing Deb Patterson and Steve McIntyre featuring an entire evening brimming and bountiful with spinners, singers, dancers, aerialists, poets and even a marching band.

We have some incredible creative abundance arriving this year for our second annual cabaret fundraiser, featuring the likes of Martha Brooks and Dennis Chan, Chandra Mayor, The Au Set Bellydance Imporium, Bacca, Gaia Pente, The Flaming Trolleys, Liz Cooper, Beth Martens and the Kirtan Calling Band and a whole cauldron full of amazing circus performers, singers and dancers.

Tickets are ten dollars and available now. You can purchase them in advance at the Gas Station Theatre or contact us directly at manitobagoddessfestival@gmail.com. Come and celebrate a jubilant juicy joyful Mother’s Day Night with us and set your Wild Crone Energy alight!!

Baba Yaga Tutorial

Francesca of Child of Bones has generously offered to share her amazing Baba Yaga Tutorials. Please find the first episode below:

[ Part Two ] [ Part Three ] [ Part Four ] [ Part Five ]

Beautiful Artwork

We discovered a strange and beautiful little site, tucked away in the far corner of the interweb, and just had to share it with you. Amazing artist Yelena Yampolsky has created something gorgeous. Go, enjoy! It’s divine!

http://www.babayagada.com/

We love Lisa Iris

Kali by Lisa Iris

"Kali" by Lisa Iris

Festival-supporter, incredible artist, and beautiful soul Lisa Iris does it again. Once again, she has donated an incredible print which will be auctioned off at our Spring Fundraiser. Stay tuned for details on that one! And in the meantime, why don’t you head over to Crystal Wind and show some good, old, Manitoba Goddess Fest love?

Manitoba Goddess Festival Page

For access to the Manitoba Goddess Festival community and to keep up to date on all the latest Baba Yaga information and events, like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/#!/manitobagoddessfestival. Thanks!

Greetings!

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to contribute a post to say I’m very excited about this year’s goddess.

Baba Yaga seems by all accounts a mystery and maze of contradictions ~ reminding us that everything is relative, and that there is something important about learning to traverse a spectrum of meaning. Working to appreciate and experience (rather than label or shut down to) landscapes of darkness and light, life and death, interiors and exteriors, endings and beginnings, in as fluid and attentive a way as possible is great for sharpening instinct and intuition. Learning how to handle intuition in time leads to the kind of action that taps into your own unlimited potential. And then the fun begins! Baba Yaga has the strong femininity and wisdom of a crone goddess. She is stern, and requires respect, but also presents you with the importance of your own healing and being true to yourself.

I hope to discover more to do with my own creativity ~ a longstanding subject of interest ~ and find that preparing for this kind of discovery leads to hearing about the journeys of others, and to plenty of meaningful coincidence. Please visit us here, and on Facebook, and share your stories!

Janine from the festival recommends looking into Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run With the Wolves for information on Baba Yaga – a great idea. There’s also a helpful meditation on http://www.orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/babayaga/BabaYaga.html for an encounter with the goddess. Make sure to bring her a question and a gift!

All the Best,

Margaret-Eve ~ MGFI Organizer

Manitoba Goddess Festival, the third

So, here we are, a few weeks shy of our sophomore edition, and we are all starting to set our sights on the 2012 Festival. Perhaps that optimism helps us keep motivated as the hectic pace increases to insanely manic. Perhaps we just like multi-tasking. Whatever the truth may be, we’ve set up this quick teaser website, to help whet your appetite for next year’s edition.

See you in September!
MGF