Wisdom is knowledge in action.

Free Activist Witchcamp is a fiery community made up of activists in every sense of the word ­ street protestors and holistic health practitioners, permaculturists and musicians, radical faeries and mothers with babes in arms. We represent a smattering of priestesses from many different magical communities around the world. We come together to make magic and music, cook up visions and nourish ourselves, and to heal one another and the earth.

Elements of the Elements

Jason Scarecrow raises children in the farm fields of Indiana.  Raised by Earth-honoring parents, he began his shamanic path as a teenager.  This past year he moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he teaches community classes and facilitates public rituals.  He has taught at Winter Witchcamp, Free Activist Witchcamp, and Witchlets in the Woods.  At Teen Earth Magic, where he organized and taught, he became deeply inspired to explore the act of becoming indigenous.  He can be found facing down riot cops, singing back the Salmon, or drumming and dancing a new world into being.

Priestessing

Captain is a witch and radical faerie of the Canadian (Vancouver Island) variety, He is a poet, sexologist,pleasure and social activist  and avid sidewalk chalker. He lives in deep gratitude for both his birth family and his family of choice. Some of his many loves are the ocean, activism, his dog Abbadabado, his peeps, running, swimming, yoga, climbing, jumping and fire.  He has worked and played to queer the world for many years.  His life was changed by FAWC in 2008 and is honored to be asked to be back this year. Some of his current interests are sigils, working with the elements, body memory thru dance and messin with binaries.

Jude Elf - I am addicted to ecstatic transformative ritual and deep personal magic, and rejoice in sharing my passion for connecting to the divine through music, dance, and song. A life long activist, I am honored to work with Bread and Puppet, Mugwort, the Wild Turtles, and Shut it (VT Yankee) Down Now, and facilitate non-violent direct action prep. sessions with the New England Non-Violence Educators Collective. With Kidsfest, I help create large public rituals that gather the community to turn the wheel and honor the seasons. A song catcher, fire spinner, green witch and moon dancer, I am a member of a newly forming West African Dance and Culture Troupe. I teach magic, Hebrew, English, and kids of all ages in my local community and have taught at, and help organize, Vermont and Free Activist Witch Camps. I am bicoastal, living in the Bay Area of California and with my family on an organic farm in Vermont where she delights in the fireflies, fey, and elements of nature. I look forward to gathering with you around the fire; asking questions, telling stories, and creating a place where the impossible becomes possible.

Crystaline - Crystalline Ruby Muse is a musician & composer, performance artist, bodyworker, nature lover, doula, & woman of Celtic heritage. Crystalline has been teaching ritual & ecstatic arts since 1996, which she currently does through Brighid's Mantle Sacred Arts, in the mountains of North Carolina. She has been a leader & creative collaborator in several spiritual and arts communities, & she co-founded The Tree & the Well Institute for Deep Cultural Studies, in Minneapolis, MN (treeandthewell.com). Crystalline is a student of the Faery Faith of Ireland & of her ancestors, a Scorpio, & a devotee of the Goddess Brighid & her Four Fires. Her mission in life is to draw forth the Radiant Essence in each of us through soulful-ecstatic expression, divine connection, cultural celebration, & deep physical well-being. When not teaching, she loves to experiment liberally with cooking & fermentation, to gather & prepare medicinal herbs & wild greens, to make beauty & joy with her beloved husband, & to sing & dance ecstatically with the spirit realm as well as other human folk. You can see her playing fiddle on myspace/fireseedmusic.com

Singing Path

Brook - For me, practicing together the Craft of the Wise is a gift that we, the participants in a class, give to each other. Working group inter-personal process makes my heart sing. I find deep magic in the unfolding miracle of life. I'm a devotee to the Feri Black Heart of Innocence. www.magicbrook.com/teaching.htm.

My name is Peti. I'm a Witch, I'm a Singer, I'm a Traveler, and live in the Northern Part of Germany in the woods; enjoy very much the cycle of life in nature and in my own one. I am mother and grandmother, this circle is perfect in my life and I love it. One fine day I found this sentence in a flyer: "Maybe this camp will change your life" - I couldn't resist and joined in my first 'Hexencamp', the European Loreley Reclaiming Witchcamp in the Netherlands. Since that time I attended many Camps - Spanish Wintercamp, Dreamroads, Free Activist Witchcamp - as participant, organizer and supporter. I see myself as a webspinner, love to support and to hold the web, to be a part of our lovely community wherever I am. And yes, I love to sing, to share songs and magic, to bring people together, to instigate and to manifest. Some people call me 'song collector' - and I am looking forward to sing and share with you and you and you, very soon. I'm so excited and grateful!

Co-Created Path

amara sings the songs of the wild and the moon. walking bridges, actively transforming and healing,  dancing with decolonization and tending the creations of cultures of balance... my spell is held deep in my body, and moves outward into my family, close ones, community, and the earth... I live in a small queer community in the forest, where we live in close relation with the earth, harvesting wild medicines and food, building, making crafts, and holding non-opressive space for learning, teaching and sharing the skills of the earth we are seeking to remember.. dedicated to priestessing in every moment, i practice contact-improv dance, yoga, singing, dream work, non-violent communication, massage, fibre arts, food fementing, I am a doula, herbalist, reiki therapist, and am currently training in somatic experiencing trauma therapy.

brush learned witchcraft on the streets and in the convergence centers of the global justice movement. rooted in radical organizing and movement-growing of all kinds, brush is part of multiple collectives that tend community relations and experiment with co-creative practice.

Seneca, Rebecca, and Rain bios coming soon

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