National Calendar: what’s coming up where
{WIST: Women’s Institute for Social Transformation, based at Cornwall}
- June 13: GA Registration Deadline; if you are attending the GA, the office needs your form!
- June 20-22: Sustaining Spirit, Sustaining Earth, a weekend retreat and evening lecture with Sr. Miriam Therese MacGillis, O.P., Grailville
- June 23-29: US Grail General Assembly – Monday dinner through Sunday lunch
[no July Gumbo; next Gumbo deadline: July 25 for the August edition] - July 6-26: International Spanish-Portuguese-speaking Formation meeting, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- July 25: Gumbo Deadline; submissions to NLT@grail-us.org; please subject “for Gumbo”
- July 25-27: Rites of Passage Retreat, a weekend retreat designed to support girls (and their adult mentors) in the transition from being girls to becoming women; Co-facilitated by Marlene Feder, Pauletta Hansel and Quanita Munday; Grailville
- August 1-3: Ohio Valley Permaculture Design Weekend, Permaculture principles and practices presented by Permaculture Activist Publisher Peter Bane and local Permaculture practitioners, including Mary Lu Lageman, Grailville
- August 2: Ohio Valley Permaculture Design Workshop, this half-day workshop led by Peter Bane will focus on why and how Permaculture Design principles can be applied in your life, 9:30 am – noon, Grailville.
- September 5-7: Metanoia Weekend, Cornwall
- September 12-14: What Ails Thee? Transformation and the Holy Grail, a weekend for women who would like to explore how themes and archetypes of the Grail myth apply to their lives and the life of their communities; led by Sharon Thompson, at Grailville
- September 18-21: National Grail Council Meeting, Grailville
- September 21: An Equinox Feast/ Fall Sunday Supper, an arts celebration of the bounty of the fall harvest; 3:30 pm Reception; 5:30 p.m. Dinner, Grailville
- October 10-17: Zen Retreat led by Zen Master AMA Samy, weekend and weeklong options available, Grailville
- October 29-November 7: International Council and Network Coordinators Meeting, the Netherlands
- November 2: An All Saints/All Souls Feast, Grailville’s annual potluck and All Saints/All Souls Observance, concluding with a hayride and prayer of loving remembrance at the Grailville cemetery; 5:30 p.m.
- November 7-9: The Art of Living: Women’s Multi-Arts Retreat, a weekend of writing, visual and movement arts designed to help women from all walks of life reconnect with their “hand-made lives,” at Grailville
- Dec 1-19: International Crèche Exhibit And Luncheon Series; various dates, noon-2 p.m., Grailville
December 5-7: Metanoia Weekend, Cornwall - December 7: The Coming of the Light: Crèche Exhibit Opening Program/Advent Sunday Supper, 3:30 pm Reception; 5:30 p.m. Dinner, at Grailville