Press Release For immediate release

Ogden’s First Pagan Pride Day

OGDEN – Local Pagan
groups invite the public to join them in their first Pagan Pride Day
celebration, scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 2008 in Monroe Park
(3000 South Monroe Ave., Ogden).

Ogden Pagan Pride Day is
designed to educate people about modern Paganism, so that prejudice
and discrimination against Pagans will diminish.

This first festival
focuses on the late-summer harvest season, featuring rituals that
celebrate the annual solar cycle – stirrings, growth, gathering,
and repose. It will also hold a food drive, for sharing the bounty of
harvest with those in need.

Everyone is welcome to:

• Join in the public
  rituals

• Learn about local
  Pagan organizations

• Participate in
  workshops covering everything from pagan crafts to dream
  interpretation

• Visit Altarscapes,
  a new exhibit of altars used for ancestral worship

• Enjoy the all-day
  entertainment, on-stage and off, featuring music, dancing and comedy

• Bring the kids along,
  to have fun in their own supervised activities

The only admission to
Pagan Pride Day is one non-perishable food item per person, to go to
Your Community Connection in Ogden.

Ogden Pagan Pride Day was
initiated in March 2008. This is the second of two Pagan Pride Days
in Utah, the first having run in Salt Lake City for the last several
years.

Contacts:

Bernadine Whitten,
Co-coordinator

(801)695-1238
ursea@ogdenppd.org

Karen DePolito, Media
Supervisor

(801)546-1860
arachne@ogdenppd.org

Website:
http://www.ogdenppd.org/