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20th Annual

Elderflower

Womenspirit Festival

August 14 - 17, 2008

Mendocino, California


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Our Purpose

To create a festival for women and girls with a focus on earth-based spirituality and honoring the feminine through the Goddess. We celebrate our spirituality by sharing knowledge, music, arts and ritual. Elderflower is committed to providing a welcoming and empowering environment for all women, including older women, women of all colors, from all cultures, women of all sexual orientations, differently-abled women, women in recovery, and limited income women.

Elderflower is ...

  • a Women's Spirituality Festival,
  • August 14 - 17, 2008,
  • in the Mendocino Woodlands of northern California,
  • celebrating her 19th year,
  • activities to empower women and celebrate our diversity,
  • ritual celebrating the Goddess, and the sacredness of nature,
  • a grass roots volunteer effort,
  • an experiment in consensus planning,
  • a participatory spiritual experience,
  • a time and place for healing and growth,
  • and a burgeoning community.
At Elderflower workshops you might learn ...
    natural healing       drumming         movement and dance          
     singing        tarot               magic      divination     
         astrology              psychic skills         arts & crafts  
       goddess lore       herbs   crystals      
   
At Elderflower you might participate in ...
    rituals  an open air market    songs & chants
    12-Step meetings        hiking      campfires   
  discussions    massages   meditation           talent night


At Elderflower you can ...

relax and enjoy cabin or tent camping in a redwood forest by a creek at Mendocino Woodlands - Camp Two while savoring gourmet catered vegetarian-friendly meals and hot showers. The camp features clean and sober, quiet, and unrestricted areas as well as a a girls' cabin and a cabin for women with mobility challenges.

Elderflower welcomes all women and girls age 11 and older. Girls aged 11-18 must be accompanied by an adult and have the option of staying in a girls' cabin.

At Elderflower each participant is encouraged to bring her unique talents and express her diversity to the festival by leading and participating in rituals and workshops.

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Under the umbrella of Association for the Integration of the Whole Person (AIWP), festival attendees and benefactors of the festival may make tax-deductible donations. Elderflower is congregation of the AIWP. This umbrella relationship makes Elderflower a non-profit, public benefit, religious organization, IRS designation 501(c)(3).

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How to Contact Elderflower
P.O. Box 410236
San Francisco, CA 94141-0236
(510) 848-1460
infoatelderflower.org*

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