CNY Pagan Pride Day
Central New York Pagan Pride Day (CNY PPD) is a celebration of Pagan and Earth-based spirituality. The event features a public midday ritual and a closing drum circle. There are speakers, workshops, and performances throughout the day, over 80 vendors and readers, and community tables for area covens and spiritual organizations. The entrance food and donation drive benefits the Food Bank of CNY.
Details will be added as they become available.
CNY PPD was established in 2000 as part of the larger Pagan Pride Project. Church of the Greenwood has hosted the annual event since 2002 and has built the festival to be one of the largest in the northeastern United States.
Debbie will be presenting Wild Community: Practices to cultivate connection with Earth’s biodiversity, at this year’s CNY PPD.
Climate and extinction crises threaten our beloved Earth community and, ultimately, us, but there is hope to be found in care for nature inspired by Paganism. With inspiration from new animism, deep ecology, and shamanism; ideas from authors such as Stephan Harding, Deborah Bird Rose, David Abram, and Starhawk; and anecdotes from Debbie’s work as a wildlife rehabilitator, this workshop addresses why saving the Earth’s biodiversity should be an imperative for all Pagans. Debbie invites support and protection of wild beings with practical how-tos for tending life-affirming ecosystems large and small, and shares some ecospiritual practices and rituals that invoke the magic and mysticism of nature and ground us in an expanded sense of belonging in the wild world. The workshop will include a meditation practice and a community-created eco-grief ritual.
