WELCOME to Witch Camp Australia and WitchesWorkshop Calendar. This is a general calendar page where you can obtain links and find out what's happening with the Witch Camp Australia project, as well as viewing the galleries and write ups of past events. We encourage you to get in touch by contacting us.
Contact Us
In most cases please contact Tim Hartridge who will assist you with you enquires.
Tim Hartridge : info@witchesworkshop.com
m.0416 339 706
Tim's background and experience
Tori Collins : info@witchesworkshop.com
Tori's background and experience
Networking with Aussie Witches
We are actively involved in the continued development of two online networking communities. To keep up-to-date with planned events as well as news and discussion from the pagan community around Australia we strongly recommend you join these two groups. They are free, all you have to do is join.
WitchesWorkshop eGroup was established in 1999 and has more than 1800 members from across Australia. It is the largest Australian Pagan eGroup of its type. Discussion and news is focussed on information relevant to Aussie Pagans and Witches.
WitchesWorkshop on Facebook is a new online community group that is steadily growing. This newer group was set-up to help network people who want to attend workshops run in Sydney and Melbourne.
COSTS & WHO CAN ATTEND?
Cost to attend is expected to be kept at a reasonable price, but must cover accommodation, facility hire and teaching fees. Each Camp is likely to be different, using a variety of locations and different facilitators. Generally the Camps are designed to be inclusive and are for people who have a sincere desire to learn and deepen their experience in pagan and magickal practices.
TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHERS
The Witch Camp group provides the opportunity through our events for people to become Student Teachers and Teacher/Facilities of workshops. The Witch Camp group holds the expectation that a standard of practice be established for anyone wanting to teach at the Camps. This is both a competency standard and an ethical standard. It will be the business of the Witch Camps to present teachers properly accredited by the organising group.
Pics from our last WITCH MOON RETREAT, run in May 2008
The Witch Moon Retreat was designed to teach the techniques of shape-shifting, ecstatic trance-dance and circle casting used in our coven rituals. Wearing catskins, fox pelts, horned antlers and totemic masks, Witches of old have long employed the outer symbols of the inner ways of knowing - the animal powers or Familiar Spirits. Have a look through our Handbook covering the rites of Witchcraft we used initiate our journey in a 'participation mystique' of the forgotten powers.
PAST EVENTS:
REHEARSE A WITCH CAMP: 25-27 January 2008. Pics from the first Witch Camp Retreat see - pics and reports
See - Witch Camp Planning Meeting on discussion board
WITCH MOON WITCH CAMP: 9-11 May 2008. See other reports and pics from the Retreat - pics and reports
See also - the discussion board
NEXT EVENT:
Vinum Sabbati Witch Camp
Long weekend Easter 9 – 13 April 2009.
Witch Mooni Witch Camp
Weekend July 31- August 2, 2009.
Babalon's Rising Witch Camp
Long weekend October 2-5, 2009.
CONTACT: Witch Camp Team
Witch Camp Australia is a teaching and training model developed with the intention of broadening people’s experience of the many varieties of Witchcraft practices. The Witch Camps each have a central theme which forms the basis of the educational component and the ritual practicum. The camps are usually hosted at retreat centres with comfortable bedding and are fully catered. The retreats are suitable for participants at all stages of their journey who hold an interest in the ways of the Witch.
We invite you to join us for this unique experiential workshop and introduction to contemporary and traditional Witchcraft practices. The VINUM SABBATI Witch Camp will be held over the course of the Easter long weekend in April in the beautiful hills of Rainbow’s Reach Retreat on the Central Coast of NSW. Details to be announced. To register your interest, please email us: info@witchesworkshop.com
Download this double-sded DL flyer (800KB) for basic details and information about the retreat and pass it along to your friends.
This Handbook contains an introduction to Witchcraft as well as a number of rituals. By familiarising yourself with the material in the Handbook you are taking your first steps toward the work we will undertake at the Witch Camp.
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Workshops and networking.
Witches on Facebook
Keep up to date with information about workshops and events.
WitchesWorkshop egroup:
This community was especially setup to keep Australian members informed about workshops, meetings and events which occur around the country. We currently have more than 1700 members. This May 2008 we celebrate 9years of serving the Australian Pagan community.
Nuit's Veil Coven– Sydney
A training coven embracing a contemporary interpretation of traditional witchcraft using a fusion of wicca, thelema, shamanism and alchemy.
Babalon's Rising Coven – Blue Mountains
A private Coven in the Blue Mountains region providing contact and training for Pagans, Witches and Ceremonial magicians.
Tim Hartridge © 2009 Witch Camp Australia