-----Original Message-----
From: sydneyconfesters@...
[mailto:sydneyconfesters@...] On Behalf Of Sydney Confesters
Sent: Wednesday, 4 July 2007 12:04 PM
To: sydneyconfesters@...
Subject: [sydneyconfesters] Tonight| Dinner. Meeting (& Facebook)



Hi Everyone : )



This Wednesday (tonight) we are meeting at Vi's house which
is at

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17 Sutherland Ave Paddington (Next door to
Judy's)

Meeting starts 7:30 to 9:30pm



but come early for some food,
you're welcome to bring a
plate to share, but no pressure :)

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We also have set-up 2 Confest groups on Facebook for those of you that wish
to join, all welcome.

Http://www.facebook <http://www.facebook.com> .com

Click on groups and search for facebook.



Sydney Confesters Bunnies and Hunnies






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Hi everyone : )

   Below is a message from drummer extraordinaire Lee : )  Please direct your
reply to Lee president@...

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       The next Bondi Beach Full Moon Drum Circle is on Saturday June 30 at 5pm.

   As it's the second Full Moon this month it is called a Blue Moon. Yes that old
saying, 'Once in a Blue Moon' is here!

   The Drum Circle is at the south end of Bondi Beach, below the pool.

   You get to it by going down the last southern beach ramp [on the right when
facing the surf] and turning right, walk along the sand for 10 metres until you
go along the path. Follow the path for about 20 metres until you either drum or
drown!

   It's private yet gets the full glow of the rising moon over the surf. Come
early and get moon burnt. Plenty of time to go out afterwards. There is seating
on the rock shelf but bring a seat if possible, warm clothes and water. Bring
your favourite riff as well. Plenty of room for fire twirlers and dancers. Come
early as we won't be going all night unless we do. The first BBFMDC* on June 1
was

a magic night. :)

   See you there

    – Lee

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At Judy & Michael's place

15 Sutherland Avenue (near but not Sutherland Street)
Paddington NSW (not QLD)

Bring provisions of chai and grub to share for a pre meeting fun-fiesta !
From 6.30 or 7 : )



All welcome.

0412363930






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Hey everyone,

   Does anyone have a boat we can borrow? A flat bottom is idea, a tinny would
suffice ..

   Also any winching (hand & people power) equipment is needed ??!!??

   As you'd know our site at Mangrove Mountain, Ironbark, was flooded recently.

   A posse went up to the site yesterday and well.... Nothing is where we left
it.... The containers, water tanks & tralier were moved by the water ...

   Help to begin the clean up & salvage efforts would be GREATLY appreciated.

   Weather permitting, another team of lovely people are going to Ironbark this
weekend ..

   Car access is questionble so bring your boots !!

   Please call Benny 0412 363 930 or Sophia 0422 908 097 or Viola 0428 225 584

   Love to you all!

   Sophia

   PS
   Please bring food & water for your self :) Our water tanks have been emptied
by the flood waters


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From gypsykitchen@...
and cathy.lucchini@...



Expressions of interest sought for volunteers to participate at the
Moulamein Confest site on Queens birthday Weekend 9th 10th and 11th June.

Volunteering tasks will include Clean-up & sorting, weeding, fence repair,
cooking for volunteers, collecting wood for evening fires,  etc. A volunteer
coordinator will be available and a volunteer registration book to record
attendees participation & tasks. There may also be opportunity for village
site preparation/organization pre-village set up 4 christmas.

Check active for car pooling opportunities.

This time of the year the days are shorter, so campfire time will be
extended.

Imagine toasting ones toes by the campfire under a star filled velvet sky.

Looking forward to hearing from interested persons please respond via

cathy.lucchini@...

-----Original Message-----
From: sydneyconfesters@...
[mailto:sydneyconfesters@...] On Behalf Of Yonda Smith
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2007 10:00 AM
To: sydneyconfesters@...
Subject: [sydneyconfesters] Re:Lif to Sydney Confest Sturday 9th of June -
pm



Hi
I live in Melbourne and want to go up to Confest.
Is anyone driving up or busing up that I could join.
I am able to go up and return at any time, and can
share expenses
Please let me know,
In love and light,

Marilyn 0411.433.977


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Sydney ConFesters is bumping its price up after thursday.
Please visit www.dte.org.au/sydney
to book online
I got my ticket :-)

Love and light
Benny

Hi there.. I have been a subsciber for a long time now and am wondering
why Im getting spam/junk mail from this site? Can something be done to
stop this? Last time I looked, this wasnt a dating site....  kind
Regards Anthony




Hi Anthony and group
Confest has been unmoderated for a while now.
it is now back to being moderated
Kindest regards
Benny
(moderator)

Hi, I am 25 years old United states. I am new her
I enjoy good conversation. Hiking. Outdoor activities
as well as parties and social gatherings. I am friendly and outgoing.
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I'm looking for a lift to and from the next Confest I can leave on the
Friday afternoon.



Where from lovely down town Balmain



Gear 1 large red bag, tent and medium rucksack



I can put in for fuel and share driving if needed



Come on all you working people imagine what a wonderful way to spend the
weekend and a little more...sparkling company, hot chai goodness and that
support that you need to get your elf to this wondrous event co creating a
community.



You can email me on the.spin.dr@ <mailto:the.spin.dr@...> gmail.com

or calll or text on my new number 0417 367 798

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Beloved friends, Don't be so shy and bashful. take the divine bull by the
B**** and dance , dance as if your life existed only in that embrace. And
raise your hands, wave to those twenty friends who already know where they
will be this June long weekend. And make the waving fifty, and then a
hundred.... all casting their votes for the dance, and the deliciousness of
all the tastes and the tasters.
Raise your hands friends...

(and don't forget the cut off for prepaying this 7 -11 june festival is the
31 of may)

www.dte.org.au/sydney



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Hi all ....
just letting everyone know that there is now a new Interactive ConFest
Web Site ....
                      http://confest.org.au/commons/index.php

          It's hoped that the forums ,Chat room ,etc..... will be used
by the confest community to share ideas and information about confest.

         The forum pages offer the opportunity to have your say and make
your contribution
               to our community .....
                                  please register ....

                     http://confest.org.au/commons/index.php

This is a check in. few of you might have noticed I have not been myself.

                         Im feeling articulate where  I think im @ right now.



I have been quite sad lately and Murphy has been @ full pace.

The passing of my grandmother, illness of my mother, Legal stuff, leg
injury, stolen van, broken window, ethical challenges, 2 eye injuries,
relationships, Bills etc etc.

I appreciate the sadness Im feeling, so accept it has validity in my life
right now. I appreciate contrast from the incredible joy that I journey with
in day to day life.

I feel blessed and humbled with the support that flows my way, I appreciate
this and I know that im loved.

                         I feeling over whelmed buy the challenges in my life
that I feel do not supported my walk right now.

                         So I have stepped back and inward a little (well a
lot), lately and apologize to those close in my life,

Who are feeling the ripple effect!

                         Im watering the tree so the fruit may ripen with
gratitude.

It is not my intent to get away or avoid any one. It is time for me to
understand where my space is within myself and where others overlap.

Meditating on what best brings me to that space of divine abundance:-).



I look forward to feasting with all of you.

This Wednesday Prior to the Sydney ConFesters meeting in Maroubra.

6:30 Dinner "BYO Plant based foods to share" and / or enjoy the abundance

7:30 Meeting

9:30 Close / shmooze



Please email items for discussion prior to meeting day





                         Love light and Miracles



Benny

"Light Feather"

7/111 Duncan Street

Maroubra

0412363930



             PS I will be attending the "Through the Fire" weekend from today
so will be away till Sunday night.







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Hi ConFester Groovers : )



If you're dinning tonight with the ConFester tribe please send in your RSVPs
[if you haven't already] by reply email so we can cater for your arrival!!



Its becoming a delicious night of good company, yummy food and inner city
festivities : )



Where:

Betty's Soup Kitchen

84 Oxford Street Darlinghurst


Its a nice restaurant that caters for most food allergies/preferences.  To
be sure, call them on (02) 9360 9698.



When:

Wednesday 2nd May [TONIGHT!!]

From 6.30 pm till around 9pm or 9.30pm



See you there!



xox



Sophia



www.dte.org.au/sydney



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Hi ConFester Groovers : )

   If you're dinning tonight with the ConFester tribe please send in your RSVPs
[if you haven't already] by reply email so we can cater for your arrival!!

   Its becoming a delicious night of good company, yummy food and inner city
festivities : )

   Where:
   Betty's Soup Kitchen
   84 Oxford Street Darlinghurst

Its a nice restaurant that caters for most food allergies/preferenc es.  To be
sure, call them on (02) 9360 9698.

   When:
   Wednesday 2nd May [TONIGHT!!]
   From 6.30 pm till around 9pm or 9.30pm

   See you there!

   xox

   Sophia

   www.dte.org.au/sydney


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You will get hooked up tonight! Real girls looking for chatting and
flirting online !

http://www.freewebs.com/sexyhotlovers/

Hey folks!
I've just uploaded a few photos of the natural landscape at Autumn
2007 Confest that illustrate just how much impact the 2m drop in water
level has impacted the natural beauty of the Edwards river site.

I hope you'll agree that it's just as stunning there, just in a
different way!! what do you think?

photos are here:
http://www.confesthippy.com/

Hi Benny,
Hope you're well darlin, thanks for forwarding the message, we're
always overjoyed by any kind of feedback especially curiousity, and
any opportunity to grow or strengthen the network.   Please feel free
to pass on the link to our site www.kotema.com and/or my email for
this or any similar queries from people in vic, and we'll pass on
those from the over the border folks to you.
Joy,
Kristen.

"A random act of silliness a day keeps the doctor away..."


>your welcome :-)<
Benny

Hi everyone,

   As your on this group I guess your interested in building community & having a
good time in life : )

   There is still a handful of small & big jobs needed to help Sydney ConFesters
gathering purr.
   Please let us know if you can help out !!

   The biggest task is getting the fruit & veg to the site ... Beautiful Benny
was intending to do this however he has injured himself today and is no longer
able to do so.

   So ... as a community we need to find a way to get approx 1 ton of veggies
from Pagewood to the site !

   If you have access to a van, trailer, truck, station waggon, ute or any other
way please let us know as soon as possible : )  A 2m x 3m trailer is available
if you're able to tow it.

   Please text/call Benny on 0412 363 930

   Cheers

   Sophia




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Hi Beautiful People : )

   Workshops, chai tent, hot tub, concert night, groovie people, chats, hugs,
smiles, drums, fire, delicious food ...

   Remember Sydney ConFesters gathering is commencing this Wednesday 25th April
(ANZAC Day) and continuing through to Sunday 29th April !!

   For further details, please visit www.dte.org.au/sydney

   Car pooling via sydneyconfesters@...

   Looking forward to seeing you there !!

   Cheers
   The Syd ConFesters Crew






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-----Original Message-----
From: sydneyconfesters@...
[mailto:sydneyconfesters@...] On Behalf Of Sydney Confesters
Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2007 10:30 PM
To: sydneyconfesters@...
Subject: [sydneyconfesters] Lift Offer | wednesday from maroubra area,
possible pick ups on way




Please contact Julie direct on 0404636252 if you are interested.

>Julie Gazner, is coming to her first sydney confest and has a large
>vehicle, 8 seater, and is offering rides for several people on
>wednesday. Departure time and details to be negotiated. Julie lives
>in maroubra at the beach.
>call 0404636252
>



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-----Original Message-----
From: sydneyconfesters@...
[mailto:sydneyconfesters@...] On Behalf Of Natasha Verco
Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2007 8:30 PM
To: sydneyconfesters@...
Subject: [sydneyconfesters] looking for a lift




Hey there, this is tash. My flattie and i are looking for a lift to confest
anytime from thursday afternoon :) We live in newtow, I can drive and can
chuck in for fuel. If mob is easy my number is 0407668016.

tash xoxo


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-----Original Message-----
From: kristen@... [mailto:kristen@...]
Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2007 9:22 PM
To: michael@...
Subject: Gypsy Kitchen ? Autumn ConFest ?07

Gypsy Kitchen ? Autumn ConFest ?07
An incredible and educational experience, I am struggling to find
words to describe it; the joy of watching the flows of movement
through the kitchen, each being weaving confidently through the
chaotic, playful busy-ness of the larger entity.   The Gypsy Kitchen
has undeniably become it?s own entity, there is a community now that
is strong and rich enough to share all of the roles within it
comfortably, as well as being a resource of support and assistance to
other entities within the larger ConFest community.
	 Family, Community, Culture; these words were spoken by almost
everyone I connected with in the kitchen and the Kotema lounge.   I
feel awe at the incredible privilege of witnessing a family, a
community, a culture becoming aware of itself.   I saw countless
people with, or coming to the understanding that the seemingly
intangible spirit of ConFest is not something that we go somewhere or
when to find, it is something we are.   ConFest is a vital meeting
place for us as a community and a culture.   It is also a profound
example of the abundance of skills, talents, resources we have amongst
us.   As well as the energy, magic, joy and collaborative creativity
we are capable of when we see ourselves, and act as a collective, as a
community.
This is the fifth ConFest in which I have participated in the Gypsy
Kitchen.   The first was an Autumn ConFest.   I spent most of the
festival gathering wood for the three fires in the gypsy village
communal fire circle, watching this spontaneously formed group of
people create something far more than a device for producing
sustenance. They created a place, a feeling that was home, and more,
they created a sense of an automatic invitation to consider myself at
home amongst them, and I have joyfully continued to do so.
For the five festivals since (including Folk Rhythm & Life ?05) I have
given thousands of hours of my effort and thought to the Gypsy Kitchen
and to ConFest, perhaps stretching my health a little past the point
of wisdom.   I feel that every second of this has been more than
balanced by the richness of the opportunities and challenges presented
to me, the amazing people I have met, and come to know and love, and
the sheer gorgeousness of the whole experience.
The exhilaration I feel at seeing the Gypsy Kitchen Community grow
from a small group of facilitators to a large group of collaborators
is immeasurable and certainly indescribable, as is my gratitude and
appreciation for every being who contributed to this experience.
Joy,
Kristen.

please forward to other gypsy kitchen participants ....
please notify us if you do not want further gypsy kitchen emails
thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: sydneyconfesters@...
[mailto:sydneyconfesters@...] On Behalf Of hielrick12
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2007 8:19 PM
To: sydneyconfesters@...
Subject: [sydneyconfesters] lift from Melbourne to Sydney confest



Hey dear Confester

It is very possible that I will go to confest from Melbourne to Sydney
in my car. So If you Know of anybody who may want to come with me and
share the petrol or the gas for the trip (on a one way trip), you`re
very welcome to pass my details on to them.
Hielrick 0424 819 278

Have a happy day

A bientot de vous hugger

Hielrick
,





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Hi All

There is a very important meeting coming up this Wednesday, it is the final
meeting before the magical Anzac Day Sydney Confest.

Join us:

Details:
Wed 18 April : 730pm - 930pm
Judy's house 15 Sutherland Ave, Paddington (note, Sutherland AVENUE not
Sutherland STREET - it's just off Elizabeth St, Paddo. Parking best on
Elizabeth Street).

All welcome.

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Hi everyone! How was your easter/passover/confest? I'd like to share my
experiences with
you.
After dropping the kids off at Avalon airport before dawn on Thursday so
they could fly up
to Brisbane and be with their father, I then drove up the Calder through to
Moulamein and
had a very interesting experience. I noticed on a sign that the distance
from Barham to
Moulamein was 69 kms but I only had 30 kms worth of fuel left when I had
noticed that I
was 36 kms into my trip from Barham to Moulamein. I'm talking the middle of
nowhere,
dried out creek beds, desert, large cattle stations with no visible housing,
real country if
you know what I mean. So I had decided to do a u-turn and get petrol back at
Barham
while towing the caravan weighing up that it was the lesser of distances to
a petrol pump.
I watched my petrol guage as it slowly wound down to zero and turned off the
radio and
the aircon to listen to my engine as I willed it to roll on the smell of
fumes for the next five
or six kms into the town... or how long it would get me there pulling a
caravan and all. I
then utilized my Secret manifestation powers, first I told myself I was
disgustingly lucky
and that my car would get me there, of course it would, it's an economical
Camry and the
caravan isn't THAT heavy, AND that I refused to walk in high heels from
petrol station back
to my car with jerry-can that just WASN'T going to happen, so I manifested
petrol, and it
worked, and as soon as I saw the BP sign as I entered Barham, I knew the
engine wasn't
even turning over anymore, it was just rolling forward so I let the car roll
into the service
station and stop right in front of the regular unleaded pump. YAY! for
manifesting petrol I
didn't have! I drove happily the rest of the way, to the Confest site and
drove around for a
river-front site, I was quite disappointed, the river had gone from a
healthy depth over the
summer, to dry cracked clay patches of river bed and exposed tree branches
with a few
pitiful stagnant puddles, not even what you'd call a stream, more like the
dying attempts
at a river before it completely dries up like some of the other creeks and
river beds I'd
seen on the drive there. Well I parked in front of what was the lovely
Edwards River lagoon,
between the Confest committee van and a lovely German hippie couple and
their two
beautiful indigo children, with their golden skin, blue eyes and flaxen
hair, a girl of about
3 and a boy of about 1. Actually it was remarkable just how many children
there were at
Confest, the organisers said there was about 300 that they had counted, and
it was lovely
to see that it still appealed to both the new generation and the die hard
oldies who'd been
coming there for the past 30 years.
As I had set-up and had a little siesta, a Geelong girlfriend found me and
parked her swag
and tarp next to the caravan and we went for a walk to the chai tea tent,
which really is the
purple heart of Confest. It's more than going for a cup of delicious chai
tea, it's the
connection you get there with other people, the chance to see old friends
and make new
ones, and is always one of the highlights of the experience. The rainbow
frenchies weren't
there en masse this easter, except for one, who's stayed in Melbourne since
Confest
Summer ended and now plans to head north for the winter before re-newing his
visa
overseas probably offshore for a little while then coming back as soon as he
can. It was
great seeing everyone. I was tickled to see a Sydney pagan girlfriend who I
met at last
year's AWC (Australian Wiccan Conference) and had driven 8 hours to be at
Confest, which
I was really impressed with. As usual there were old friends, too many to
mention, as well
as new ones, an expanded social circle and lots of lovely eye candy. No one
special for me,
I wasn't hunting at all, I wasn't attracing any unwanted attention either
which was lovely, I
was just happy being me, enjoying the company of strong amazing women
actually, more
than the hippy boys that were there. We had camped near gypsy village
kitchen which was
next to the fire-drumming circle, so it was the drumming which went all
night that was a
little hard to sleep through, but on the Monday morning, the morning I had
planned to go
back, a woman had lost her grip on reality and had a full screaming,
fitting, eating-the-
dirt abusive episode, either from not taking her happy pills or from taking
the wrong sort
of happy medicine for her brain chemistry or at least that was what it
seemed like. It was
hours before the right sort of ambulance and police had arrived, by then the
whole
campsite had awoken to her screams, she had tried to eat handfulls of dust,
we'd heard
every curse word under the sun and we'd all been sent to hell, so after the
second
ambulance came, which was equipped to carry psychiatric patients, we spent
the rest of
the morning healing the healers with OHMs, with singing bowls, with big
heart-felt group
hugs, with reiki and with everything we could think of, before all treating
ourselves to a
big breakfast of pancakes with ice cream and maple syrup as comfort food.
There's at
least one nutter at every confest that goes off, so those that have been
there know what I
mean. So there went my morning to leave, so I stayed for the rest of the
day, I noticed that
my neighbor the Geelong girl had left by the time I got back, but she left
me a note to say
she couldn't find me, so that was fair enough, and I stayed the Monday
night, although my
enjoyment of Confest and hunger to stay on had waned considerably and I was
looking
forward to getting back into my own comfortable farmiliar surroundings, hot
running
water and a drama-free sleep. The most wonderful things about going away
were sleeping
when I felt like it, including day-time siestas, eating when I wanted to,
the workshops, and
simply not answering to anyone, no phone clients, nothing I had to
particularly do or be
in, it was the freedom just to be, which was healing in itself. On a lighter
note, I picked up
the boys last night from Avalon, as I drove there I saw a shooting star
right in front of me,
like it was meant for me, so I wished on it.
I hope everyone else had a great time too, please share your stories here.
- Eilish



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Hey I have 2 seats left to Easter confest. Will be leaving sydnham
train station at 7am.
call or sms 0422933703

hi this list is  unmmoderated till i return so people can get a lift
sorry if this causes any inconveniance.
resta assured if people post out side of the confest guidlines  they
will be adjusted to no-future posts
love and light
see you there
Benny