2022 Events
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All ceremonies are planned in outdoor settings. Occasionally, a potluck meal may follow. Please see our Health and Safety page for guidelines on gatherings.
Visitors may attend our moots and public ceremonies; please email us for details of the location. A moot is a meeting of grove members to perform a group practice, or just to have social time. Moots are often online, as it seems more convenient for many people's schedules. We welcome input on themes or activities to do during moots!
Private ceremonies may be attended only by people who've met with us at any three public events.
Drawing Down the Moon in a Mystical Landscape
We will hike a few miles in a beautiful rocky terrain in Castle Rock to perform a Drawing Down the Moon ceremony. Moonrise at 2:55 pm, two days before full; sunset at 5:00 pm.
2:30 pm ~ 4:30 pm
A member's home in Boulder
Brighid's Flame: Transformation, Healing, Rebirth
Friend of the grove and Brighid's Flamekeeper Edie Stone is guiding the creation of this year's Imbolc ceremony.
Please note time change to the afternoon 
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
11 am ~ 1 pm
A public park in Arvada
Spring Equinox – Ostara
Grove member Anne Parker is guiding the creation of this year's Alban Eilir ceremony.
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
5 pm ~ 7 pm
A member's home in Boulder
Beltane, with the two traditional fires in the bright early evening
Mid-Atlantic Gathering, US
Four days with camping. This festival began approximately six years ago, and was postponed in 2020 and 2021.
A new pagan festival to resume the celebrations of Beltania.
This festival's debut was postponed in 2020 and 2021.
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
11 am ~ 1 pm
A public park in Arvada
Summer Solstice – Litha
Colorado Renaissance Festival
Held each weekend, for 8 weeks from June till August.
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
Time TBD
Location TBD
The feast of Lugh – Lammas
The first of the three harvests of the year
We are reviewing whether we can plan a special Lughnasadh event this year.
Colorado Dragonfest
A beloved pagan festival since 1985, Dragonfest was held online in 2020 and 2021. They expect to return to the land in 2022.
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Highlands Festival
11 am ~ 1 pm
A secluded grove in Boulder
Autumn Equinox – Mabon
The second of the three harvests of the year
OBOD member-only retreat (this festival replaces OBOD's long-running East Coast Gathering that ended in 2017)
The Story of Taliesin and Other Transformational Tales is this year's theme.
Special Guests: OBOD Chief Eimear Burke, and Kristoffer Hughes of the Anglesey Druid Order.
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Topic is TBD.
Depending on the topic chosen, we may change the location to meet outdoors in person, and/or the time of the moot.
5 pm ~ 8 pm
A member's home in Boulder
Ceremony of the ancestors, the final harvest, and the completion of the pagan wheel of the year.
This Samhain will mark the beginning of our grove's eighth year
4 pm ~ 5:30 pm
Online
Planning for 2023
11 am ~ 1 pm
A public park in Arvada
Winter Solstice – Yule
A yearly tradition with no official organizer.
Hundreds of people come to Red Rocks at dawn on Winter Solstice to drum up the sun for the coming year!
For more information, send us an email at [email protected]
Location
Our grove serves members along the Colorado Front Range (US) including the Denver and Boulder metropolitan areas. We hold most of our public ceremonies in Arvada, and private events at member's homes from south of Denver, up to Boulder, and into the foothills.