Things to bring to the Beltane gathering:
🌿Friends and family members
🌿Your best festive attire (Costumes and illumination encouraged)
🌿Food and/or drink to share (fridge available onsite to store potluck food items during the first half of the gathering)
🌿Please BYO plates and silverware
🌿Picnic blanket
Optional things you might bring:
🌿Flowers and greenery for may crown-making and to decorate the tables & altars
🌿Musical instruments to play in the procession and Green Man's dance
🌿A song or poem to share
🌿A short performance or story-telling piece you have been waiting to share with the world
5pm: Welcome
Make a may crown and enjoy tea and refreshments in the garden.
6pm: Beltane ritual & procession
Dance with the green man as we carry the may pole to the river and back.
7pm: Potluck & Salon
Community sharing of music, poetry, story and dance as we lounge and feast while watching the sun set behind the hills. We'll also unveil the new illuminated bee and butterfly puppets we've working on!
Location
Green Anchors is is at 8940 N Bradford Street, directly north of the Cathedral Park. The main gate is easily missed, but it is across the train tracks from PDX Strength.
The community Beltane gathering will be in the Green Anchors gardens. From the N Bradford entry gate, walk straight ahead until the driveway starts to go downhill to your right. Instead of going downhill, take the bark path that Vs to your left and continues towards the far SW corner of the property.
Parking
General parking is available in the neighborhood. (The Cathedral Park boat ramp parking lot is immediately next door, but is now Pay-to-Park). Accessibility parking is available within Green Anchors.
Costume ideas
Spring, the Green Man and other plant beings, horns and antlers, bees, butterflies, birds, fairies and elves, Renaissance Faire.