Sisters, Amazons, Lovers! Happy Lesbian Pride Week!
We are pleased to share with you that in recognition of our upcoming holy month of August, we are partnering with the sisters of Goldenrod to offer a new series of fern/pianotree/ shirts, sweatshirts, tank tops and drinkware with the text "I see the August in you" and "forever".Check out the Goldenrod site at Goldenrod.com for a full list of all the offerings.

Stay safe out there - stay fierce, and be proud!

Bay Area Sisters - this evening features two beloved michfest artists - Medusa and Skip The Needle! Let's show up on the 13th of February and show them some love and enjoy this night together!

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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival added 2 new photos — with Storme Webber and Ganessa James.

Terri Lynn and I were just having a moment appreciating the awesome handsomeness of these two sisters who grace our office walls this week -- Storme Webber and Ganessa James -- giving it to us from the 2014-2015 Michfest Calendar. Thank you November!

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's photo.
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's photo.

Our beloved Cocomama Musica is included in the Grammy's ballot in the Best Tropical Album category! You go Amazons!

The sisters from Alive! hadn't been back on the Land for awhile, but they were NOT f%cking around when they took that stage and shook it!

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's photo.

This amazon -- THE WHOLE SHOW IN THE RAIN!

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's photo.

Let's get some of that deep lez love of August on us....

Hey Amazons -- just a friendly reminder: October 1st - TOMORROW - is the last day to make your order for the Festie wear swag, thermal water bottles and travel coffee mugs sale coordinated thru our sisters at Goldenrod. Since we added them late - the ceramic coffee mugs, Peace on Earth Good Will to Womyn winter holiday card sets and Festival Photo Postcard sets will be available until October 8th. http://www.goldenrod.com/mwmf/

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Welcome to the Michigan Womyn’s Webstore, courtesy of Goldenrod Music. Pre-orders for these Michfest items will be taken until October 1st, and will be shipped as soon as possible – most likely early to mid-November! Michfest Postcards (Pack of 12) Pre-order $10.00 Ad…
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Sisters! Amazons! Lovers of Michfest Swag! The sale of 40th anniversary products through Goldenrod will last one more week! Goldenrod is taking pre-orders for 40th Anniversary and Amazon Proud tee-shirts, long sleeve shirts, MICH FEST zipper hoodie sweatshirts, the most amazing thermal water bottles and travel mugs -- and added today -- ceramic mugs, postcard packs and Peace On Earth, Good Will To Womyn Winter Holiday Cards. There is one more week to this window sisters --- and then we manufacture and ship them to your awesome and capable hands!

Pre-orders for these Michfest items will be taken until October 1st, and will be shipped as soon as possible – most likely early to mid-November!
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Sister, friends, family – Amazons!

Thank you for the most awesome 40th anniversary celebration!

Every moment – every performance, every parade, every hug, each tear, so many laughs… every walk under the August moon - was beautiful. Each of us came with our own anticipation of what would be, and together, we created something so real, so gorgeous, so deeply authentic, and so completely reflective of everything our clan has grown to be. Thank you for the love you brought to t...he Land. Thank you for the community you were part of growing. Bless you for the strength that allowed us to have a celebration of all of who we are and for manifesting a dignified, awake closure of this sacred circle. Hearts wide open – we met each other on the path.

This amazing web of community/family/art/performance/politics/sweat/feral fun that started 40 years ago has informed and changed all of our individual lives, created an international community - and changed the very vibration of the planet. Together, we unearthed a matriarchal society and we know the beauty of what this is, and what this can be. And with the closing of this circle comes the opening for a multitude of rich possibilities. Take what you love of this Land and build something beautiful… this is your calling. Whether you organize or support, whether you attend or work, whether you write a check or hand out a flyer, whether it is a festival or a circle in your home, if you network online or build a space for sisters to gather – please continue to build and support our community in all the ways you are able. It will continue to flourish if you will it to be so.

And please remember…if we do not tell the story of our people, our community, what we built together, and the life-transforming experiences and teachings we have offered to each other over these years, the true story will not be told. There are those who would burn or distort our story - this has been true for millennia. Never burn it for them sisters - the truth is in your hands. Please tell it, with all the complexity of our story – tell it. There is no doubt there are sisters among us who will take what we have done and build something that will nourish the next generations. There are sisters yet unborn who will flourish with the truth of our most amazing Amazon society.

As we close up our Walhalla office for the summer, our hearts are filled with love and pride for all that our community created together this summer. We did what we all wanted to do, and we did it all so very well down to every detail, with so much love and dignity. Yes sisters, we went out in a blaze of Amazon glory!

With all my love,

Lisa

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So many many things to be grateful for...our blessings are many. We chose 40 to bring to the Opening Celebration....but as we all know, the list is endless. We invite you to add your own to this list, the chronicle of what we have given to each other and experienced together in short form.

Thank you DART
Thank you Elders
Thank you Cooks...
Thank you Music
Thank you Teens
Thank you Twilight Zone
Thank You Safety
Thank you Kindness
Thank you Land
Thank you Goddess
Thank you Children
Thank you Helping Hands
Thank you Wisdom
Thank you Fire-builders
Thank you Workers
Thank you Campers
Thank you Artists
Thank You Gentleness
Thank You Generosity
Thank You Heart
Thank you Interpreters
Thank you Labor
Thank you Love
Thank you Tenderness
Thank you Healers
Thank you Drummers
Thank you Blueberries
Thank you Brother Sun
Thank you Nutloaf
Thank you Listening
Thank you WOC Tent
Thank you Sweatlodge
Thank you Gatekeepers
Thank you Laughter
Thank you Compassion
Thank you Witches
Thank you Dance
Thank you Craftswomyn
Thank you Land Water
Thank you Amazons

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Those Amazons at Goldenrod got the pages together for ordering Festi-wear and some choice drink containers like SNAP! The pre-order is until October 1st -- so if you want an Amazon Proud shirt, a 40th Anniversary shirt or a MICH FEST sweatshirt -- visit Michfest at Goldenrod soon!

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Welcome to the Michigan Womyn’s Webstore, courtesy of Goldenrod Music. Pre-orders for these Michfest items will be taken until October 1st, and will be shipped the last week of October. Michfest Amazon Proud Long Sleeve T-Shirt Pre-order $35.00 Select options Michfest…
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Greetings Amazons! We have a couple of things to let you know about.

Our awesome photographer Bunty Burgin has uploaded some images of our incredible 40th family reunion to add to the collection of art photos from past years on the Festival's Smug Mug Site. You can order images starting at $25 for 8x10 prints and there is every option available up to wall-size canvas prints available. They are nothing short of stunning. Bunty captures the essence of our beloved community in her images as an artist who lives and breaths the Land. http://michfest.smugmug.com/…/MIchigan-Womyns-Musi…/n-fHVL3/

Coming up soon -- we are partnering with the fine Amazons at Goldenrod to make a few 40th anniversary items available for mail order. We'll be sending you an email about all of this shortly, and want to let you know, we hear you -- we need more!

Oh sisters -- hold up the amazons still working on the land one more day. We are striking on this, our final full day of work on the land, through the 2nd day of rain. Our spirits are strong, our love for each other is tremendous, yet our bodies are weary. The rain is beautiful, cleansing.... yet it is still fucking rain.

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Staceyann Chin gives voice to our collective truth with dignity, power and vulnerability in ways that allows each of us to see ourselves more clearly and understand the deepest nature of our powerful communal experience. I emailed her to ask to post the poem she wrote for our closing circle. Her response follows, and then her poem.
Tell the women, I am honored to have been given space to speak their beauty. Tell them I exist but only for them. Tell them, without their breath,...

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