The Delaware Valley Pagan Network (DVPN) was founded in 1999 as a secular organization that would help support the Pagan community of the Delaware Valley. DVPN's primary goal is to help Pagans in the area find each other and share resources. If a local coven is sponsoring an open gathering, we help to promote it through our online network and newsletter. If a bookstore is having a special author event, we would also help them promote that. We hold public gatherings designed not just to bring Pagans together, but to allow members of the public to see what we do. Along those lines, DVPN recently launched the Pagan Arts Initiative (PAI). This sister organization to DVPN is focused on promoting Pagan-themed arts, whether or not they're created by Pagan artists. The PAI is sponsoring two events in 2005: Electra, an adapatation of the play by Euripides, which is part of the Philadephia Fringe Festival in September (see press release in this packet); and our annual Winter Solstice Celebration, a ritual in song and story performed by the Solstice Singers. Another aspect of our mission is charitable work. We hold a food drive in conjunction with Pagan Pride Day, and have also sponsored blood drives and winter blanket collections for the poor. We've also hosted teams in the AIDS and MS walks, and are constantly on the lookout for other opportunities to reach out to the broader community of the Delaware Valley. DVPN's ultimate goal is to buy or build a Pagan community center in the Philadelphia area that local Pagans of all paths can use as a meeting space, a place to do ritual, a classroom, and generally as a focal point for community activity and support. DVPN is a federally recognized 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. Our area of operation is Philadelphia and the surrounding counties (Montgomery, Bucks, Chester, and Delaware), central and southern New Jersey (Mercer-Ocean Counties and south), and the state of Delaware. We also cooperate with groups outside the region, particularly in the Washington D.C., Baltimore, and New York metropolitan areas.

We have two goals.

1. We plan to establish a physical location that all pagans in the region can look to as a focal point for community activity and support. This newsletter is our primary method of outreach. We have a presence on the Internet, but recognize that many people are not yet connected or may never be connected to the virtual world.
2. We plan to present a unified face to the public at large, initially by way of a public event (workshops, seminars, etc.), but eventually on an ongoing basis by participating in high profile community activities such as the AIDS Walk, service to the needy (Meals on Wheels, etc.), and as partners to other religious and secular organizations. Our intent is to establish a secular structure that may be shared by the full gamut of the pagan religious spectrum. We will create an organization that is all-inclusive and that does not engage in self-serving rhetoric. We will invite and include all individuals and groups within the Delaware Valley as equitably as possible.

Delaware Valley Pagan Gardening Meetup

The time is now, good-hearted pagans, to pitch in and help contribute our share to the DVPN/Phactory Community Center!

The Phactory is located at 1828 E. Somerset Street. That's less than a block from the Somerset station on the Frankford El. By auto, it is about one mile from either the Girard Avenue or Allegheny Avenue exits from I-95. Precise directions available if you need them.

We are restoring the courtyard of this historical industrial space for use as a community garden, ritual space, and performance space. As the Phactory restoration project continues, we will continue to be involved in helping to open this center to the Delaware Valley Pagan community.

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

Sunday, May 18, 10:00 AM

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

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Saturday, May 31, 10:00 AM

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

Saturday, Jun 7, 10:00 AM

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

Saturday, Jun 14, 10:00 AM

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

Saturday, Jul 12, 10:00 AM

Pagan gardening workday for the community center Meetup

The Phactory Philadelphia, PA, 19134
39.99071,-75.121925

"For this work date, we need at least two sets of workers.

GARDENERS must study this walled courtyard and develop a harmonious plan to tend it, using available urns and other tools. They need to form..."

Sunday, Jul 27, 10:00 AM
http://pagan.meetup.com/1276/calendar/list/

Denise Montgomery At-Large Director
Franklin J. Evans President, Artistic Director
Bob Bruhin Development Director
Nancy Lebovitz At-Large Director
Three-Blade Jaguar At-Large Director