ConVocation 2025: Explore and Build Pathways to the Divine

Sharing music is an important part of building tradition and community. In this workshop we'll learn about and discuss the past (20th century) present, and future of music within the modern Pagan movement. We will discuss the roles that music plays in our practice and in our communities, and our hopes for how these traditions will continue to evolve. Come prepared to learn, discuss, listen, sing, meet new friends, and delve into some of the deeper questions about how music speaks to our spiritual selves. Those with instruments are encouraged to bring them. No musical experience necessary!

We live in an enspirited world. This is a truth known to the witch and sorcerer alike. But are spirits something we should fear, or befriend, or avoid? How might we understand spirits better? And how can we begin to engage with, or strengthen our work with them? In this class we will discuss the nature of animism and apply it towards an understanding of the otherworld and its inhabitants. We will explore the ways in which spirits have been viewed historically as well as ways we might un-learn ideas which stand in the way of our success with spirit work.