Re: Siriusly seeking a travel buddy

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Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on December 16, 1999 at 16:48:20:

In Reply to: Siriusly seeking a travel buddy posted by Kym on December 16, 1999 at 06:02:48:

The camping fee for Sirius Rising is, I believe, $12. 50 a day for
adults. I think children, accompanied by adult, may be free under 12,
but I don't remember. You only pay for the days you are there. If
you can only get there a few days of the week, try for the days nearer
the 16th, there are more concerts and people to play with. If you
teach a couple of classes, the fee is waived, but you'll need to
contact the webmaster at Brushwood.com (Roy) about getting the
proposal forms. If you're teaching, it will save you some $ but you
won't have as much time to play and nap.

There is a little cafe at Brushwood, which serves up a good breakfast
for under $4, and lunches and dinners too....that's a great
convenience, but most of the henna crew enjoy pooling their camp -
cooking skills and food in the "banquet glade" and we save money and
eat together that way. All monies what fall into the money pot from
hennaeing go to buy food for the dinners. Roy and I always have a
camping kitchen set up in the banquet glade with grills, cookware,
mats, and food basics, so you don't need to worry about bringing that
sort of thing. There's a good grocery store in a 15 minute drive, with
hardware store, ATM, pharmacy and that sort of thing, so getting what
you need is not difficult. You don't have to pack everything in with
you.

Hot showers, flush toilets, swimming pool, concerts are all free. You
buy firewood and ice on site. Bring regular camping equipment...tent,
sleeping bag, ground sheet, like that.

Classes tend to feature drumming (Africa, Middle Eastern), dancing
(bellydancing, Hawaiian, Polonesian, Sufi), crafts making (amulet
carving, salted silk, all sorts of stuff) , yoga, tai chi, all sorts
of vaguely pagan classes. Some of them charge a few dollars. Most
don't charge at all. I'll teach henna history, techniques and
traditions, harquus patterns, mandana and palmistry.

The one thing that's Sirius that money couldn't buy anywhere else...
hennaeing under the big apple tree every evening till midnight with a
lots of people laying all about, people drying their henna by a little
fire, drums in the distance, everyone just relaxing, talking, flipping
through pattern books, it has a very, very centuries old feel of
companionable people hennaeing each other, full of dinner, under a
warm dark summer sky.

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