Seventh Annual Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride Day
When: Sunday September 27th from Noon - 6:00 PM
Where: Peace Park, University of Missouri - Columbia
Fun for the whole family!
Pangan Pride is once again hosting our great annual event. We are currently looking for Vendors, Entertainers and workshop presentors. We are also looking for volunteers to help set up, plan, and run a childrens area.
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Pagan Pride Day 2008 was a complete success! Vendors met or exceeded their expectations, our attendance met that of the competing venue a few blocks away, fun was had by all (including the local constabulary/peace keepers) and our community efforts yielded over FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS of food and clothing for those in need!
The event was covered, not only in the Digital Missourian and the Maneater, but also in a Tangled Macrame's Blog as well as the Digital Missourian's Faith In Focus blog
Our local event is one of many Pagan Pride events that will be held nation- and worldwide during the month of September. This day long celebration of religious tolerance and education about Earth-Centered and Pagan Religions is co-sponsored by Hearthfires of Mid-Missouri, Ozark Avalon Church of Nature and the UMC Multicultural Center as well as local businesses and groups. In past years as many of 1,000 persons have attended this free event.
Every year Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride volunteers its time to help educate the community by co-hosting forums on Pagan belief structures, granting media interviews and editorial articles as well as quietly helping out in a more hands-on approach. You can see a great slide show of last year’s Pagan Pride Day from the Missourian at
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/multimedia/slideshow/2008/09/29/slideshow-pagan-pride-day/. The year Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern part of the United States, Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride raised and donated over 1,000 dollars to the Red Cross as well as gathered food and other necessities for local shelters. This past year, 2008, we gathered and donated over 500 lbs of food and clothing to the local shelters. This year we would like to do even more.
Most of our fundraising comes from booth rentals and private donations. We could not put this day together without your support.
Although admission is free, we are urging that all those attending share the Blessings you’ve received this Harvest by donating a non-perishable food item for the local homeless shelter or pet food for Second Chance No-Kill Shelter.
On the 'Tube!
Get Involved by volunteering, sponsoring or vending! Or you can:
- join our list at MidMOPaganPride@yahoogroups.com
- mail us at
Mid-Missouri Pagan Pride
1409 West Broadway
Columbia MO 65203
- Contact Taz at tazmma@yahoo.com, (573) 489-3805
- Contact Rose at ozarkavalon@hughes.net, (573) 289-3657
- Visit us on the web at http://www.midmopaganpride.org
What is Pagan Pride?
The Pagan Pride Project is a non-profit organization. The primary purposes of this corporation shall be the advancement of religion and elimination of prejudice and discrimination based on religious beliefs.
A Pagan or NeoPagan is someone who self-identifies as a Pagan, and whose spiritual or religious practice or belief fits into one or more of the following categories:
- Honoring, revering, or worshipping a Deity or Deities found in pre-Christian, classical, aboriginal, or tribal mythology; and/or
- Practicing religion or spirituality based upon shamanism, shamanic, or magickal practices; and/or
- Creating new religion based on past Pagan religions and/or futuristic views of society, community, and/or ecology;
- Focusing religious or spiritual attention primarily on the Divine Feminine; and/or
- Practicing religion that focuses on earth-based spirituality.
Cool Links
Here are some cool links that will inform and help to educate:
- Join the e-List and get Involved! And check out our MySpace!
- Ozark Avalon
- Hearthfires
- WitchVox
- Pagan Education Network
- Pagan Pride
