The 2010 Green Goddess Conference has come and gone (alas) but it has left us with wonderful memories and connections.
More than 80 of us met in the mountains of Pennsylvania for three very busy, very productive days. The program was packed full, including both academic presentations and experiential workshops. The conference was a great success, according to our measures—the “hive” was full of energy and ideas, many new friendships and collaborations took place, and we enjoyed diverse and stimulating presentations and performances. Furthermore, all of the organizers are still good friends (not always a given in event planning)!
Your president/web reporter will offer follow up articles and pictures of the event soon. At present I am re-learning to sit still with a cat on my lap and to listen to the violets bloom.
Watch this site for conference reports and announcements of upcoming events. We are already planning for regional symposia in 2011 (WI and PA) and a conference in Chicago in 2012!
I am so sorry to have missed this. I am an artist (didnt know about this wonderful organization) and have over 500 images of the goddess as a painter, digital artists that I have created, linking the cosmos and the earth through the femine spirit goddess. I would like to show them somewhere. does anyone have any ideas?
The ASWM conference was truly a life-weaving web–and a life-changing one for me. I have rarely (never?!!) read for an audience that “got” my goddess poems so profoundly–it was humbling. Overall, the quality of so many presentations was so high–and the content so amazing, so rich, so nourishing. I especially remember performances by Elizabeth Cunningham in her bawdy bodice, reciting a Magdalen prologue from memory prefaced and concluded by songs (what novelist ever does that??!); Cristina Eisenberg’s superb keynote presentation on women and wolves; the remarkable world premiere of the film Pink Smoke Over the Vatican; untangling patriarchy over lunch with Oloye Aina Olomo; dancing a raucous Sicilian dance and participating in Betz King’s superb womb-healing ceremony; being inundated, filled, by fantastic presentations exploring images of the Goddess in the form of bee, butterfly, deer, snake, wolf. . . and meeting so many new and established (Margo Adler! Diane Wolkstein!)
brave scholars, writers, and artists, who give so much, care so much, do so much to further this much-needed herstory. I wish ASWM a long and flourishing life, since I know that will mean many more astounding conferences!
Is this conference just for scholars? Can women who just enjoy learning about goddesses come?
Yes, Kate! We are delighted for women who enjoy learning to come. This is our chance to hear women who have studied long and hard in their fields, and to take what we learn back into our daily lives. There will be lots of other women there who just want to listen, watch, and learn!
I hope to see you there.