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the call

Registration for our gatherings happens by regular mail only. However, you may receive a copy of The Call (some might call it a "registration form", except sometimes some Queens separate them as two forms) one of two ways:

get the call by mail (la méthode traditionnelle)

Thanks to the efforts of justplainBill, Quercus, Faun, and now Dancing Bear, we maintain a database of a thousand-plus faeries to whom printed versions of The Call to the Northwest Radical Faerie Gatherings at Breitenbush are mailed twice each year (at no small expense or effort). The database is maintained securely, and is used only to send information about radical faerie events and activities. You are welcome to have your name and address added, or removed, at any time.

To add yourself to the Northwest Faerie Database, update your contact information, or have yourself removed, please send an email to Dancing Bear, our current Guardian of the Northwest Faerie Database. His email address is westrick at mac dot com (yes, his address is written in "longhand" for spam protection reasons ... faeries may be cheap, but we're not easy ... ).

download the call (la méthode nouvelle)

To save on postage, many recent Queens Registrar have chosen to make The Call to their gathering available as a printable download. If The Call to the current gathering is available for download, you may click below to get your copy. You'll know it's probably available here when your friends get their copy in the mail. Efforts are underway to begin tracking who prefers to get The Call online, and save us postage and printing costs. Please bear with us as this transition occurs over time. We're all volunteers here.

Please click the following link to open the Call and Registration Form. Print the registration form, fill it out, and send it to the address in the Registration Form. No, there is no online registration form, much to the joy and/or frustration of various folk.

The Call to the Summer 2010 Gathering of Radical Faeries at Breitenbush

(The Adobe Reader software, or some other PDF reading tool, must be installed on your computer to view these files. It probably already is. If not, click here to get it.)

While there are no guarantees in life, many believe it's fair and equitable that people with internet access get The Call at the same time as those without internet access. So, it is likely that The Call will only be available here once the print version has been sent by regular mail to those who choose to receive it that way.

"noractaflof" tradition

We maintain a tradition that no one registered and confirmed will be turned away for lack of funds ("NORACTAFLOF"). This tradition is critical to sustaining our community and ensuring our diversity, regardless of age, income, or ability.

This tradition requires confirmed registration, because Breitenbush Hot Springs has less capacity than we generally have registrations (especially in Winter). This tradition is also expensive to maintain for our community, relative to some radical faerie gatherings, because Breitenbush Hot Springs provides a level of physical support sufficient for most elderly, health-challenged, and other-abled faeries to safely and comfortably participate. This support includes heated cabins, organic vegetarian meals served on-time three times daily from a health department certified and professionally staffed kitchen, refrigeration for meds, wheelchair access, smooth'ish semi-lighted trails (bring a flashlight), and 24 hour trained emergency medical assistance, all maintained by an egalitarian community of about 50 sensitive, respectful resident workers paid fair sustainable wages, plus benefits including housing and quality medical coverage. We get what we pay for. We feel good about the 25+ years of mutual support between our communities, and feel wealthy for the diversity our attention to supporting physical needs brings our gatherings. Frankly, many actually find our gatherings inexpensive, cheap in fact, relative to all we share and receive.

Your generosity, in whatever amount you can afford to share - hopefully the full basic cost as shown in The Call to each gathering, and maybe a bit more by donation or the auction we often hold - is vital to sustaining our gatherings. A thoughtful balance between everyone offering generously from all we have - time, labor, art, money, skill, compassion, talent - and everyone asking only for what we truly need, and not simply desire, allows our gatherings to thrive.

Thank you for joining us in the spirit of this vital tradition.