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Item 4. Reclaiming Benefit: 20 years of Craft in the Bay area. [San Rafael, CA :] [M. Macha NightMare], 1990/ (approximately 53 min., 30 sec.). VHS, 1990

 Item — Box: 1, video_cassette: 4
Collection number: Box 1

Content Description

From the Collection:

Obsolete Media: Cassettes, VHS tapes; name badges (lanyards) from various festivals

Dates

  • Event: 1990

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet

Language

From the Collection: English

From the Collection: Portuguese

Overview

"California Traditions: 20 Years of Craft and Neo-Paganism. An overview and panel discussion, with highlights on film, video and slides. ... The film was "A Dance for the Goddess," a tapestry of rituals by Feraferia (founded by Fred Adams), by Jo Carson. The video by Greg Harder, "Between the Worlds", included various Northern Californian Craft and Pagan rituals, events, performances and performers, and excerpts from Goddess Television Productions (Z Budapest's show). "Rituals" was a collection of slides of various Southern Californian Pagan groups in '70s."--M. Macha NightMare website

Contents

A panel of religious leaders discuss Craft topics after viewing two films, A Dance for the Goddess, and Between the Worlds, and viewing slides of rituals taken in the 1970s. 1). The first question from the audience was directed towards Jo Carson specifically regarding the origins of the rituals, their translations, and interpretations in the first film. 2). This is followed by a complex question from the moderator, Do we see Witchcraft in California differently from witchcraft as it is practiced elsewhere, and Why if so? If it's regionally distinct from one or the other, and have we experienced change as it has been practiced over the first 20 years, or perceived by the public over the last 20 years. Has your personal spiritual practice been affected by these changes and if it was a positive or negative change. Do you feel the various Craft Traditions that have emerged have influenced each other? Audience questions followed: 3). What are the differences in transformational psychological practices that go on in covens in other parts of the country, for example group rituals or initiations? 4). What is the leadership of the Craft doing to challenge sexism, discrimination of people of color, LGBT practitioners, and, from the panel, heterosexism? 5). The last question asks if there has been too much emphasis on the Goddess at the expense of the God.

Panelists

Greg Harder, Prudence Priest, John P. McClimans, Alison Harlow, Jo Carson, Kalyn "Aunty Gravity" Tranquil'son, Diana Paxson, Pandora Minora O'Mallory, Andraste

Date/Time and Place of an Event

Recorded: Unitarian-Universalist Berkeley Fellowship, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley, CA November 10, 1990

Repository Details

Part of the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections Repository

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