The Wellspring Festival is the longest-running festival for Stone Creed Grove’s parent organization Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship. Since its start in the 1990’s, it has served as a regular gathering for druid teaching, organizing, and connecting. With ritual, music, formal workshops, and lots of informal chatting, we seek to deepen our religious practices and leave renewed and energized for the work of Our Own Druidry and other pagan paths.
Held at Tredara Hearth, 2451 Bennett Rd Madison, Ohio, 44057
Tredara is a 22-acre facility owned and operated by druids of Stone Creed Grove. It features multiple nemetons, an Ancestor Mound, a shrine to the Nature Spirits, and many other sacred spots. Overnight camping on-site is common, but there are also hotels 10 minutes away. A farm stand, grocery and fast-food options are also nearby.
There are typically 1-2 vendors on-site with pagan-focused wares.
Every year, we build a Community Shrine, where attendees can add an altar piece to celebrate our shared but separate religious practices.
Highlights of this event include:
- 3 full days of classes, workshops, and rituals
- The Wellspring Bardic Chair Competition
- The annual Wellspring Artisan’s Guild gallery showing
- Interest group gatherings for People of the Purple Feather (LGBTQIA+) and Chenile Canopy (women and female-presenting people)
- Special musical performance by Blackout Rose, as well as by ADF’s bards
- ADF Annual Meeting
Presenters
Our presenters this year at Wellspring include:
Diana Paxson
Diana Paxson is a leading figure in modern Norse paganism, and played a critical role in the founding of both ADF and The Troth. She has written a wide variety of feminist fantasy fiction in addition to her books on Norse paganism, including Essential Ásatrú, Taking Up the Runes, and Odin: Ecstasy, Runes and Norse Magic. She is pursuing an interest in establishing a pantheon drawing on the mythological figures and icons of modern American society such as Lady Liberty. Among her side projects, she is a co-founder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, where she is known as Diana the Listmaker.
BJ Swain
BJ Swain is the author of Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits, Luminarium: A Grimoire of Cunning Conjuration, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions. He was a contributing editor for Heaven and Hell 2018: The Grimoire Issue, and has had essays published in the devotional anthology for Persephone, Queen of the Sacred Way, and the short story collection, Tales of the Darkening Year. He runs the website, The Unveiled Sky, and the blog Glory of the Stars, and hosted the podcast, In the Company of Stars. He has been practicing magic for over 30 years.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
Patricia Robin Woodruff is a philosopher of Metaphysical Theology and a scholar of Slavic and Carpatho-Rusyn magic and pagan religious practice. Her books include Roots of Slavic Magic Book 1: Deities and Their Worship, Woodruff’s Guide to Slavic Deities, and Slavic Magic Moon Meditations. Her continuing research draws on archaeological discoveries as well as living shamanic traditions. Woodruff is an ordained minister and Priestess of Stone Circle Wicca, and holds a Masters of Divinity and PhD in Metaphysical Theology from the University of Metaphysical Sciences.
Additional Information
Stone Creed Grove, ADF welcomes and affirms people of all ages, races, ethnicities, ancestries, genders, identities, orientations, as well as those with ailments and disabilities both mental and physical, and expect all attendees to do likewise. We expect all people to adhere to principles of consent at our events. Stone Creed Grove reserves the right to take appropriate action, including removal from the event without refund, if there are violations of those principles. For further details, consult the ADF Code of Conduct.
There is a long tradition at Stone Creed Grove and Tredara of sharing food together. While you are not required to take part, most meals will have the community meeting up in the center of the site to share. Please plan on bringing food to contribute if you want to partake that so there is enough to go around.
Registration
Tickets are available online below, or can be purchased on-site. For those planning on attending in person, purchasing in advance online speeds up the on-site welcoming process, and helps us to better estimate facilities requirements.
The proceeds of tickets go to making this event happen, as well as maintaining and improving the facility where it is held. If the cost of admission to Wellspring would make it difficult for you to attend, please contact the Stone Creed Grove Senior Druid to see if we can arrange other ways for you to help out and contribute to its ongoing success.
Children are welcome free of charge.