The other day, I was mentally rabbitholing the connections between Sherwood Forest Faire, EarthSpirit’s Rites of Spring, and Earth Spirit People of Texas while researching the Trolls movie franchise for work and started ruminating on my own aversion to “festival” paganism. To be fair, quite a bit of that is Read more…
Next weekend, SMOFCon 37 will take place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most likely, you have no idea what that means or what it has to do with the future health of polytheism. In truth, SMOFCon doesn’t directly affect our traditions at all, but it provides a starting point for me Read more…
When I started discussing Hearthingstone, one of the first pieces of advice I received from the chair of the 2014 PLC was to charge admission. I’d been planning to, but it’s very sound advice. Conferences have costs, and I do not have money burning a hole in my pocket. Aside Read more…
One of the most important questions to answer for any conference is “where?”- not just the city, but more specifically the exact facility. As a metropolitan area with more than 2 million inhabitants, Austin has plenty of possible venues. The trick is narrowing down the list of possibilities and reaching Read more…
Hearthingstone is still nebulous- quasi-real in the way of things half-remembered, half-imagined. Part of the process of planning a convention is to more thoroughly lay out what you want it to be (or become). This is critical for scope and scale issues, such as locations and dates. For instance, if Read more…
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