I’m running a little late but meals are in the works. See the table below for what is planned so far. Email me, Sarah aka Spidr, at moonmooring@yahoo.com if you want to lead a dinner meal or help out with breakfasts. If you want to serve something in particular you will need to get a copy of recipes and amounts of ingredients for the shoppers.

I see cinnamon rolls in your future…

DAng, the chart won’t upload. Stay posted and email me if you want to lead a meal.

Spidr

After many frustrations I have re-encountered the master e-list – but still do not know if it is complete or current. So feel free to email jori@joricostello.com and ask to be put on the MWF list for updates if you did not recently receive an email about festival.

This site should be able to inform you most everything you need to know. “PLEASE bring your own toilet paper!” is what I want to remind everyone every year. And bring hand soap and towels for the cabin bathrooms. We also discussed bringing some of our own cleaning supplies since the camp’s are so overused or not available. And you already know this if you attended the community meeting which was ever so energetic and rewarding. Seriously, the meetings are community building, very organized and facilitated, and stick to the agenda. So come one come all to this year’s community meeting. The day and time will be posted on the festival schedule inside the dining hall.

Big Bad Gina plans on playing again this year Friday evening before the dance. We sure had a good time last year and have a new CD to show you. If you want to play or lead an activity, just plan on it and see what’s available and tack it to the festival schedule when we get there.

Safe travels, fun experiences, new and returning friends, and many happy memories this year to ALL!

I don’t have that wonderful cookbook. I did once but gave it away. Pretty sure Denslow has them, though!

SW

Recently I saw a longish cartoon (in the RiverfrontTimes) of people doing various weird things “in order to promote awareness of …(fill in the blank with some disease, social problem, or impending catastrophe)…

Some of you may remember or been present for an impromptu naked tuna dash at the last Midwest Wimmins Festival.

“WTF was that about?” you might ask. “To promote awareness of the oppressions and exploitations inflicted on tunafishes by those who would capture, kill, can, and eat them?”

“No!” we say. “Nay, not that.”

“Well, then,” you might say. “Was it done to draw attention to the plight of the poor dolphins, caught in the nets cast for the tasty tuna?”

“Good point!” we say. “But no, not that.”

“Perhaps the naked tuna snatcher was pointing parallels between the naked truth and the voiceless plight all of the silenced sea creatures?”

“Nay!” we, the Caucus for Due Process at Midwest Wimmins Festival now sing out jovially. “Even more farfetched and abstract than that!”

And SUDDENLY! Out of the mist hovering over the dock, a form takes shape. It’s a canoe, paddled by a beautiful, if vaguely outlined, womoon. She ties her canoe to the dock and steps up onto the dock, the waves gently rocking it. She is the Spirit of Midwest Wimmins Festival, come to clarify.

“She acted on my prodding,” intones SoMW. “As did the initiating instigators.” She smiles. “Process is at the core of community.”

“Oh bah,” mutter some. “Girls just wanna have fu-hun.”

SoMWF stretches her arms out. “A diverse egalitarian participatory community of freewimmin: ‘ok,’ I say. A festival for wimmin from city and country – a hands-on laboratory where we can eat, dance, talk, sing, swim, kiss – whatever else sounds like a good idea at the time. “Count me in,” I say and said then. “I’ll show up for that.”

So I was there as these wimmin held their meetings and talked and laughed and got mad and cried and talked some more and worked on The Issues – questions about how we wanted it to be, how we could figure out to agree to live together for two weeks and continue to feel free and happy and hang out or do stuff and generally have a gratifying great wonderful festival for everywomon who wants to be a part of it.

And times change. Blessed be. Hallelujah and ojala. Our preferences and necessities change. Seems like it’s time to talk again.”

The vibrant Spirit of Midwest Wimmins Festival bends to her boat, as the bright rainbow colors of each grow paler, fuzzier, and more transparent with each step that she takes.

“You know you might want to take a look at The Political Palate: A Feminist Vegetarian Cookbook, by The Bloodroot Collective,” she turns and calls before fading and floating away. “Susan Wiseheart’s probably got a copy.”

Ok, so that was what she said. And here’s a quote of what somebody else said: “We worship nouns (things in and of themselves) and snub verbs (process).” Seemed relevant that it just popped up in what I was reading.

And here’s what I say. I’m glad to be part of a community where a womoon can run naked into the foodline and run off with a food offering and not get locked up.

Or did she just luck out?

Also some idle speculation: is it possible that we are reflecting/carrying out some of the Big Turmoils/Dramas/Struggles of the larger food body politic?

Looking forward to whatcha have to say.

Sincerely,

Dolphin

Correspondent,

Caucus for Due Process at the Midwest Wimmins Festival

Oh, where else will I be to keep me away…? Offon the tour with Marideth Sisco and her band Blackberry Winter.

Laterz, Spidr

I like to rhyme and now’s the time

to get serioust about Midwest. (poetic license….ha)

OK, so a few wimmin have signed up for a user name to post on this site. Let us know what you’re thinking. And remember the ride share page, which is private between members only, so anyone needing or offering a ride can share personal information.

Here’s a list of things I  have found useful to bring over the years……what are the things you like to bring?

hangers, lamp or string lights, bath mat, shower shoes, tapestries or sheets to hang off bunks for a little privacy, paper, tape, and markers to make signs for your cabin, what else? Share your thoughts…..sign up for a site user name to be able to post.

Thanks everyone and hope to see you in May!

Jori