PantheaCon 2017: Full Schedule

Join our huge and varied Pagan, Heathen, Wiccan, Reconstructionist, Indigenous, spiritual and magical groups in education and celebration February 2016 in San Jose, CA. More information can be found about the conference at www.pantheacon.com

The schedule is complete as of October 23, 2016 - changes/cancellations will be entered as often as possible. If you sync a personal schedule with your phone it will auto update the next time you open the application.

Presenters: If you have a major change to your bio that you want reflected here please email programming@pantheacon.com after you have entered it in the database. Changes do not automatically from from there to here. Your changes, of course, will be reflected in the program book.

9:00pm PST

A Night Of Oshun's Honey

Come for a night of Oshun Sweetness! Leni Hester is an Devotee of Oshun in the Cuban (Lukumi) tradition and Luna Pantera is a Devotee of Oshun in the Ifa/Nigerian Tradition. Oshun is the Orisha of: Healing, Dance, Song, and Joy. Join us in songs and stories from our different traditions and allow yourself to absorb her love and healing. Know that all of her Children are Loved, and her Magik is to allow you to Know that Love Lives Inside of Each and Every one of You! Please wear white or bright colors.

Speakers

Luna Pantera & Leni Hester

Luna Pantera is a Priestess and Witch whose path includes opening up the line of communications with the Ancestors to all who are willing and ready to listen. Luna's personal work with her Ancestors has rekindled her magikal gifts and started healing of deep family wounds. She is... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
Oak

African-Diaspora, Workshop

Tags How-To, Introductory

11:00pm PST

Kontomble Community Voice Divination Ritual

In this ritual, West Coast Village members introduce kontomble medicine. Who are the kontomble? The little people of course! Kontomble are elemental beings that brought culture to the Dagara of Burkina Faso. They wake us up to remembering purpose and gifts, bringing wisdom from Otherworlds. There'll be a short talk on kontomble- who they are in Dagara cosmology, how we experience them in the West, and how we work with them. Those gathered will then have an opportunity to speak with kontomble during a community voice divination ritual, bringing questions for which guidance is desired. Doors close after divination begins.

Speakers

West Coast Village

The West Coast Village is a community that is inspired by West African Dagara tradition that is rooted in the West coast of California. Malidoma Some, elder, teacher and representative of his people in Burkina Faso, has shared indigenous African spiritual technologies with Westerners... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 11:00pm - Saturday February 18, 2017 12:30am PST
San Martin/ San Simeon

African-Diaspora, Ritual

Tags Divination, Introductory

1:30pm PST

Anansi’s Tales & Wisdom time 2

The oral traditions of telling Tales in Africa is a timeless honored practice. Tales are for all ages. For the tales are also a way of teaching Wisdom. Simple or complex, we all can learn from a tale. So come share, learn, and enjoy a tale.

Speakers

Unkle Blacktalon Destiny

Uncle Blacktalon Destiny is a member of American Umbanda House (AMUH), and has been practing with them for the last 4 years in the Orisha Faith (African-Diaspora). Uncle Destiny has also studied Hoodoo, Eccletic spirituality, Spiritualism, and Wicca. A devotee of Anansi, and the Power... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
San Martin

African-Diaspora, Discussion

Tags All-ages

9:00pm PST

Libations for Justice: An Affirmation of Black Lives

Come join us for a beautiful ritual filled with community song, old world spirituals, remembrance for the slain, and a celebration of life. Gather among your peers in a safe space to experience empathy, understanding and love like no other. Entrance restricted to persons having any self-identified Black and/or indigenous African ancestry.

Speakers

Sisters of The Diaspora

Four women with four different lineages in the Diaspora come together. Each alike in their love of community, and desire for kinship. They are independent scholars, healers, activists, community builders, writers, and wise women. Ngo Áine, Tanisia Greer, Luna Pantera, Beverley... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
Silicon Valley

African-Diaspora, Ritual

Tags Counseling-Psychology, Divination

11:00am PST

A Black Woman Speaks

This piece was first performed as a monologue by Beah Richards in 1950 in front of a group of upper class white women. The message is as important today as it was back then. It is a plea for our white sisters to see the lies in “white supremacy and to join us to create a society of equality.” This play is a ritual where all of the actors are aspecting their characters and will be working with their chosen Orisha to help guide them in the work. This is a powerful piece that has been performed before at PantheaCon.

Speakers

Luna Pantera & Leni Hester

Sunday February 19, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
Pine

African-Diaspora, Performance

Tags Social-Justice

9:00pm PST

Inanna and Dumuzi Procession and Devotional

Inanna and Dumuzi are among civilization's earliest Deities that we have writing about. They are Deities of civilization, agriculture, herding, and sex. Some of their ancient worshippers were gender-benders. Come, celebrate and worship with us as we lead a procession around the hotel in Their honor and conclude with a devotional to these magnificent Deities. Queer and trans folk specifically invited, all welcome.

Speakers

Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi

The Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi is a semi-reconstructionist, Mesopotamian temple dedicated to the ancient Sumerian Goddess Inanna (known to the Babylonians as Ishtar) and God Dumuzi (known to the Babylonians as Tammuz). The rituals are based on the ancient Mesopotamian (primarily... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
San Martin/ San Simeon

African-Diaspora, Ritual

Tags Female-deity-focused, Male-deity-focused