Womanspirit Summer Solstice Faire
Long Beach Womanspirit put on their Summer Solstice Faire at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach on Saturday, June 6, 2009.
This is a biannual event occuring at the solstices that has been serving to bring the Orange County pagan community together since 1987.
Jo and I were lucky enough to sit with our friends Gwen and Lon from Starlytes Dream who were vending their wares.
As always, the Faire was a fun day but we couldn’t help noticing that the numbers of vendors and attendees were down compared to last year. The primary contributing factors were the weather (which wasn’t exactly wonderful) and the state of the economy, which is causing most people to hurt financially.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the founders of the various pagan events that we are lucky enough to have worked very hard to make them a reality. Unless we all support these events, they will come to an end, and we won’t have anyone to blame but ourselves.