North American Gorsedd Association
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The North American Gorsedd Association will encompass six regions in North America and the Caribbean. Member Druids, Bards, and Ovates serve in civic rituals and ceremonies at various Celtic events and festivals.
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA, North America
Members: 11
Latest Activity: Jan 20
Organization of the Gorsedd Association and Member Gorseddau. Western North American Gorsedd, Mid-North American Gorsedd, Northeastern North American Gorsedd, Southern North American Gorsedd, Latin American North American Gorsedd, Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic Gorsedd. This new association will grow to encompass North America, the North Atlantic Islands, and the Caribbean Islands with regional, area, and local gorseddau. As with its sister associations in Europe, it is composed of Druids, Bards, and Ovates who serve in civic rituals and ceremonies at various Celtic events and festivals in North America and associated islands. The North American Gorsedd Association is a voluntary-informal network of Celtic-cultural revivalists, groups, and events. Six regional Gorsedds coordinate civic and cultural activities as custodians of a Celtic impulse for events they are invited to assist with. Each of these member Gorseddau is a social association of Druids, Ovates, and Bards who serve various Celtic Festivals and Gatherings by helping to manage ceremonial functions at and for events such as announcing an upcoming event and awarding of prizes and tokens to contest winners. The first such cooperative event will be the 2010 (second) Left Coast Eisteddfod in Portland, Oregon, in early October. We look forward to expanding our Gorseddau throughout the six regions in North America and the Caribbean and to cooperating with our European counterparts in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Brittany, the Channel Islands, England, Wales, the Celtic revival movements in old Cymbria, Iberia, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia Minor. Member Gorseddau of the North American Gorsedd Association will be composed of three grades, in ascending order, and similar to those in Britain and Brittany, Ovates who wear green, Bards who wear blue, and Druids who wear white. However, each constitutes a distinct and separate grade with specialties drawn from ancient practice, but adapted to contemporary needs of Civic Druidry in the twenty-first century. The Six Regional Gorseddau. A regional gorsedd, will itself have two or more sub-gorseddau to focus and promote Celtic events within their areas. While not required, local gorseddau may be formed to promote local activities and competitions, but only when these may be sustained over time. When the members of a regional, area, or local Gorsedd determine they want to establish bardic or other positions of honor for meritorious contributions to the bardic arts, they may elect to do so, providing each such competition is announced no less than a year and a day prior to holding the event.. Note: This tradition of announcing a competition a year and a day shall also be the rule for all competitions. |
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Area and Regional Gorseddau, etc.
Started by Dean Edwards. Last reply by Dean Edwards Oct 11, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Some questions have been raised about the difference between the various Gorseddau of NAGA and my work with North American Druidry and its subgroups, and also what the differences are between an area…Read more →
Southern North American Gorsedd--Region4
Started by Dean Edwards. Last reply by Astralnaut Jan 27, 2010. 3 Replies 0 Likes
We will begin organizing the Southern North American Gorsedd, Region 4 of NAGA, in a couple of months. It has three Area Gorseddau. Principal city: Atlanta, Georgia.Area J. Mason-Dixon Gorsedd.…Read more →
Celtic Consciousness & Civic Druidry
Started by Dean Edwards. Last reply by Dean Edwards Jan 8, 2010. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Civic Druidry draws on the archeological, historical, and cultural legacy of Celtic peoples of Europe and…Read more →
Celtic Cultural Revival and NAGA Gorseddau
Started by Dean Edwards. Last reply by Dean Edwards Dec 28, 2009. 2 Replies 0 Likes
In North America, a review of various Celtic festivals portray an image of Celtic games as distinctly Scottish and of Irish music as disproportionately dominant in the Celtic music scene, and as the…Read more →
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Comment by Matthew D. Reese on January 20, 2012 at 10:34am -
Hello:
I just joined the group and was reading over the materials, I have a couple questions.
1) I live in Extreme Western Nebraska. Is there any participation in the Wyo-braska area?
2)Which Region does that fit into? I would guess the Great Plains? (Geographically, this is the High Plains, for whatever that is worth)
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Comment by Dean Edwards on October 25, 2011 at 11:37pm -
We also post info in Civic Druidry in Facebook. However, the most detailed info is always here in Americymru!
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Comment by Dean Edwards on October 25, 2011 at 11:29pm
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The member gorseddau of the North American Gorsedd Association are seeking volunteers to assist in laying the foundation for including Welsh eisteddfodau, cultural festivals with bardic events, as part of existing Celtic festivals in North America or as separate festivals. Please post interest here or message me. Other info available at:
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Comment by Dean Edwards on February 1, 2010 at 11:34am
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This group in Americymru is the official homepage for the NAGA. In addition, we have sponsored a general discussion in facebook, Civic Druidry. After only eight days, it already has over 500 members.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=266...
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Comment by Dean Edwards on January 28, 2010 at 7:20am
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In addition to the English, Druid, Bard, and Ovate, we will also use the Cymraeg, Derwydd, Bardd, and Ofydd as titles for the three grades in NAGA.
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Comment by Price Worrell on January 22, 2010 at 3:21am
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Again, Dean, thank you for all the hard work you are comitting to the organization. If there are any tasks I can help with,, please let me know.
As a sideline, I am hosting a "Welsh Poetry Night" here in Pocatello, Idaho next month (date yet to be decided). I will announce further details when I have them.
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Comment by Dean Edwards on January 21, 2010 at 4:37am
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I omitted a language that continues to have large numbers of speakers in the Pacific Northwest, Russian. Perhaps in 2011 we may provide a special place for Russian poetry? And, just possibly in 2012 we may be able to promote some French poetry by our local speakers, especially those in Alberta and British Columbia? After all, our Canadian members are officially bilingual. We can only hope in Quebec, English will have similar opportunities from time to time?
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Comment by Dean Edwards on January 21, 2010 at 4:29am
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As we develop our presence throughout North America, our gorseddau will work primarily in the local language of the people, but will also support events for other languages of historical significance that continue to have significant numbers of speakers: English, French, Spanish, and in the Northeast, Danish and Icelandic and Inuit, plus special recognition of First Nations and Native Americans as appropriate. Still, the main goals are to establish a network of bardic chairs over the next five years. Stay tuned for a major announcement about Spanish poetry.
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Comment by Dean Edwards on January 8, 2010 at 3:47am
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A quick comment on our emeritus and emerita positions. We will announce these in the spring. We now have two very experienced people for the Druid Grade and two for the Bardic Grade. Of these four, coincidently, they are distributed one each among our four regions. Ah, symmetry!
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Dean,
I appreciate all the hard work you are doing! Keep it up! (and shoot me an email if you need help with anything!)
Croeso
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