Lectures. Workshops. Community-building.
Upcoming Events
Rise Up: Necromancy and Spiritual Activism
The Witches Gather: A Virtual Witchcraft & Magickal Arts Convention
August 14-16, 2026
Virtual
The strongest way to resist oppression is in community, and the strongest communities are those that remember their dead. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the practice of spiritual activism as a tool for social change, particularly when it invokes the spirits and legacies of our ancestors. Through ancestral veneration and myth-making, attendees will learn how the dead have been used as weapons, protectors, and messengers in liberation movements. Attendees will be challenged to reflect on their own relationship with spirituality for social change, and asked to imagine how they can begin to ally themselves with those who have come before us.
Frederick Pagan Pride Day
September 26, 2026
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick
White Rose Witching and Major Arqueerna, AKA Rev. Ron Padrón and Enfys J. Book, will be selling books, stickers, prayer cards, zines, queer ancestor sigil patches, and signing copies of their books: Serpents of Circe, Queer Rites, Sagittarius Witch, and Queer Qabala. (Note: Owls not available at this booth.)
Decolonizing Death
Samhainfest 2026
October 31 - November 1, 2026
Havre de Grace, MD
Mainstream Western cultures have often sought to sanitize, minimize, and even erase death. Colonialism, capitalism, and de-enchantment have separated us from our histories and community legacies, and have often made our relationships to death and the dead oversimplified, transactional, or even weaponized. In this workshop, attendees will unpack their own relationship with death in their spiritual practice and examine their biases when it comes to honoring and grieving the dead. Through this workshop, we will confront how we ignore our obligations to the dead to safeguard our own comfort, and begin the process of healing the rift between worlds.
A Lavender Path: Honoring Queer Ancestors
Bruja Power Botanica & Witch Institute
November 2-4, 2026
Online
Our queer ancestors can show up in many ways. They can be blood-relatives who were known to be queer. They can be historical figures who lived a life in open defiance of the norms of their time, or who lead a quieter existence with questions of their sexuality left to rumor and gossip. This workshop will discuss ways to incorporate Queer Ancestor veneration into a spiritual practice. Participants will learn how to find Queer Ancestors in history, ways of connecting with them ranging from shrine-tending to developing a personal pilgrimage.