The Stones Rising Giveaway 2026
Draft Schedule and Pathways of Service
~ Updated 8/18/26 – Schedule Subject to Change, updating as planning proceeds ~
Stones Rising Giveaway 2026 Program Draft PDF - To Come
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We will do our level best to ensure that all activities are conducted as scheduled. However, all Ceremonies and activities are subject to change, according to the realities of moving a Stone, the Whims of Mother Nature, or unforeseeable circumstances. We will announce any changes by posting notices around Camp in various locations, and will probably also send someone around to let folks know, too. Go with the flow, stay flexible, and keep a sense of humor! The Stones always have the last word!!
Update: Michael Stephen Feifer (Sound Baths) had to drop out of Stones Rising, due to an a family member with health issues.
Wednesday, September 2nd
3:00 pm | It Begins! |
Coffee Dragon opens/Camp set-up. Welcome to friends new and old!
~Hospitality Team, in Service
4:00 pm | Stones Rising Orientation | Coffee Dragon
A good idea for First Timers, helpful for anyone unsure of how the Pathways work, or how to get more involved.
~pam, in Service
6:00 pm | Dinner | Dining Pavilion
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
~Holly & crew, in Service
8:00 pm | Evening Ceremony | [ Location TBD ]
All roads lead to the Giveaway. – Our many paths have brought us here, to the crossroads of Stones Rising, where for a moment we meet before beginning the next leg of our journey. Where will the road take us, who will we become along the way, and what are we seeking? As we step forward together, we are invited to consider not only what we hope to find here, but what we have carried with us that we are ready to give.. ~Holland, in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Fire Circle | Upper Fire Circle
A Safe and Sacred place to ride the Spirit of the Drum. Please follow all Drum Circle Policies!
~Kurt Talking Stone, in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Bardic Circle | Bardic Circle
Join us to contribute a song, story, joke, poem, tall tales, comedy, or just to listen in. It's fun!
~Willow, in Service
Thursday, September 3rd
8:45 am | Sing to the Stones | Stone Circle
Join Four Quarters talented and untalented singers to mosey up and sing an old favorite song to the Stones. (Lyric sheets will be provided.)
~Kailin, in Service
9:00am | Brunch | Dining Pavilion
"If an event is meant to matter emotionally, symbolically, or mystically, food will be close at hand to sanctify and bind it." ~Diane Ackerman
~Holly & crew, in Service
Followed by | Announcements and Daily Planning
During Brunch, Please Attend! – This is when we figure out what we are doing with the Stone/s today! Stones! Bones! Crones!
~Stone People, in Service
10:00 am | Morning Work Session | Meet at Coffee Dragons
You never know what you could do! Pour a footer, use a diamond saw, cut commitment ribbons, build an altar, or Stand as Sacred Witness. Remember, there are no spectators at Stones Rising.
~Stone People in Service
12:00 noon | Rest (Time Permitting, )
“There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” ~ Alan Cohen
1:30 pm | Mini Ceremony (Time permitting) | At the New Stone/s
Blessing of the Tools – We collect, inspect, hone, and repair our tools in preparation for the work to be done, and ask for divine empowerment and affirmation of our work.
~Kailin Stonesinger, in Service
2:30 pm | Afternoon Work Session/Pathways Meetings | Stone Circle & Around Camp
Stones! Foundations! Ropes! Rollers! The Mighty German Come-along! Try your hand at tools new and old.
~Stone People, in Service
6:00 pm | Dinner | Dining Pavilion
"The people who give you their food give you their heart." Cesar Chavez
~Holly & crew, in Service
8:00 pm | Evening Ceremony | Gather On the Green Across From Entrance of Stone Circle.
The Pulse of Community: becoming the collective – Soaring murmurations of starlings. Swarming honeybees. Migrating herds of bison. Humans raising a stone. A collective, unified by a shared purpose into one breath, one sound, one movement. Explore what it means to lose yourself and find yourself in the pulse of the community, in the greater web of all things. Let us share in our breath, sound, and movement like countless beings through countless eons. Join in that shared pulse, to do what we are called to do. ~Willow, in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Fire Circle | Upper Fire Circle
A Safe and Sacred place to ride the Spirit of the Drum. Please follow all Drum Circle Policies!
~Kurt Talking Stone, in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Bardic Circle | Bardic Circle
Join us to contribute a song, story, joke, poem, tall tales, comedy, or just to listen in. It's fun!
~Kailin, in Service
~ 9:00 pm | Community Sweat Lodge | Riverside Sweat Lodge
All are welcome to come pray, sing, offer thanks, and be cleansed, healed, and renewed.
~ Sweat Lodge Team, in Service
Friday, September 4th
8:45 am | Sing to the Stones | Stone Circle
Join Four Quarters talented and untalented singers to mosey up and sing an old favorite song to the Stones. (Lyric sheets will be provided.)
~Aidan, in Service
9:00am | Brunch | Dining Pavilion
"People who love to eat are always the best people."
~Holly & crew, in Service
Followed by | Announcements and Daily Planning
During Brunch, Please Attend! – This is when we figure out what we are doing with the Stone/s today! Put down those phones, it’s time for Stones!!!!
~Stone People, in Service
10:00 am | Morning Work Session | Meet at Coffee Dragons
This is the day when a lot of stuff begins to really gel. You have probably been doing various things that have seemed a little…disjointed. Now all those pieces begin to come together.
~Stone People in Service
12:00 noon | Rest (Time Permitting )
“Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
1:30 pm | Mini Ceremony (Time Permitting) | Stone Circle
“United in the Blessings of the Infinite” – Join to share the Infinite Blessings of Mystery, by Whatever Name You Call It.
~Claire, in Service
2:30 pm | Afternoon Work Session/Pathways of Service Meetings | Stone Circle & Around Camp
Is today the day the concrete truck comes? Did it come yesterday? Somewhere in here the footers get poured! Help, or watch the hypnotic spinning of the concrete truck!
~Stone People, in Service
6:00 pm | Dinner | Dining Pavilion
“Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” – Samuel Pepys
~Holly & crew, in Service
7:00 pm | NIGHT PULL by Torchlight | Meet at (Location TBD)
One of our most Magickal and Beloved Traditions returns! But there’s a catch! We can ONLY accomplish this Great Work IF there are enough people to actually pull the Stone. By torchlight. You just have no idea how lovely this is until you experience it!!!
~Stone People, In Service
~8:00 pm | Evening Ceremony | Where, and When the Night Pull Ends
“The Ourobouric Rhythm and the Axis of Ananke” – Movement is a shared virtue, nothing moves alone. To raise the stones we move together, to turn night to day we move together, we move through life together. Necessity(Ananke) daughter of Aphrodite compels all that exists to turn about her spindle, the point of the Eternal Now. Join us in the infinite dance, and feel the immortal rhythm. Let blood and stone move as one.
~Maenad in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Fire Circle | Upper Fire Circle
A Safe and Sacred place to ride the Spirit of the Drum. Please follow all Drum Circle Policies!
~ [Draftee to be determined], in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Bardic Circle | Bardic Circle.
Join us to contribute a song, story, joke, poem, tall tales, comedy, or just to listen in. It's fun!
~Aidan, in Service
~ 9:00 pm | Community Sweat Lodge | Riverside Sweat Lodge
All are welcome to come pray, sing, offer thanks, and be cleansed, healed, and renewed.
~ Sweat Lodge Team, in Service.
Saturday, September 5th
8:45 am | Sing to the Stones | Stone Circle
Join Four Quarters talented and untalented singers to mosey up and sing an old favorite song to the Stones. (Lyric sheets will be provided.)
~Kurt Talking Stone, in Service
9:00am | Brunch | Dining Pavilion
"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.” – Alfred A. Montapert
~Holly & crew, in Service
Followed by | Announcements and Daily Planning
During Brunch, Please Attend! – This is when we figure out what we are doing with the Stone/s today! Not alone, with the Stones!
~Stone People, in Service
10:00 am | Morning Work Session | Meet at Coffee Dragons
The details, the details! Begin checking the ropes, find all the cribbing (what’s THAT???) Rising Day is TOMORROW!!!
~Stone People in Service
12:00 noon | Rest (Time Permitting )
“Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything.” ~ Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
1:30 pm | Mini Ceremony (Time Permitting, ) | Location to be Determined
“Let’s Go Down to the River and Pray” – Join us as we make a beautiful offering to the Mother of Sweet Waters, Oshun, and ask her special blessing on any women seeking to become Mothers soon, and everyone else, too!
~pam, Sean & Claire, In Service
2:30 pm | Afternoon Work Session/Pathways of Service Meetings | Stone Circle & Around Camp
If you have worked with the Stone/s! In the Work Sessions, you may be one of the Stone People on Rising Day! This is your last chance! Step in, step up!
~Stone People, in Service
3:30 pm | Community Sweat Lodge | Riverside Sweat Lodge
All are welcome to come pray, sing, offer thanks, and be cleansed, healed, and renewed.
~ Sweat Lodge Team, in Service.
6:00 pm | Dinner | Dining Pavilion
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
~Holly & crew, in Service
7:30 pm | Altars Shining Everywhere | Meet at Coffee Dragons
Join us for a Magical Walk (or ride) throughout Main Camp to see and interact with a series of Major installation altars that folks have been working on for a year! It’s a beautiful and uplifting experience. Rides will be available for anyone with mobility challenges.
Immediately Following Ceremony | Fire Circle | Upper Fire Circle
A Safe and Sacred place to ride the Spirit of the Drum. Please follow all Drum Circle Policies!
~Aidan, in Service
Immediately Following Ceremony | Bardic Circle | Bardic Circle.
Join us to contribute a song, story, joke, poem, tall tales, comedy, or just to listen in. It's fun!
~pam, in Service
Sunday, September 6th – The Rising!
10:00A - 5:00P | THE RISING | Greensward & Stone Circle
9:45 am | Gathering on the Green
9:50 am | Ringing of the Great Church Bell | ~ Lana Blevins, in service
10:00 am | Invocation | ~ Kailin Stonesinger, in service
10:05 am | Opening Remarks | ~ pam & Kailin, in service
10:15 am | Loaves of the Corn Mother | ~ Beth & Team, in service
10:30 am | Procession by Honor Guard Into Circle | ~ Etain & Team, with Ceremony Drum, in service
10:40 am | Ceremony of Commitments | ~ Mae & Teams, in service
11:00 am | THE RISING!
Work of many hands and many hearts. Work gloves and sturdy closed-toe shoes required to work the lines or Stones! Sacral Foods will be served throughout the Rising.
Immediately After the Stone/s are Raised | Baby Blessing | At the Mother Stone
Welcome the newest members of our Tribe on their journey from hand to hand through the Mother Stone.
~ Beth Thomas, in service.
Immediately Following the Baby Blessing | Libation | At the Mother Stone
"We give offering to the Stones as thanks for all they have given and will give to the community upon this land. The Stones stand as intercessors between the living, the land, the dead, and the unborn. We honor them and all they stand for with a sincere and simple ceremony of gratitude."
~Willow and Maenad, in Service
Time Permitting | Rest and Refresh!!!
Take SOMETHING! Take a shower! Take a Nap! Take a Swim! Take a Walk! Take a Hand! Take a Snack! Take a Chill Pill! The possibilities are nearly endless!
5:00 - 6:30pm | The Feast of the Standing Stones | Stone Circle
“Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley A Sacrifice of Love to the Community ensuring we all have sustenance after our Great Work. Volunteers are especially needed to cook, prepare, and clean up. ~Holly & Volunteers, in Service
7:30 pm | Consecration | Stone Circle
All That Which Has Gone Before – A ceremony exploring passages, growth, transformation, and the inexorability of time. Oh, and medallions, too!
~Kailin Stonesinger & ~pam, in Service
following Consecration | Fire Circle: Unity/Synthesis | Upper Fire Circle
Tonight, we are all together. Drummers, dancers, bards, singers, storytellers, all together, taking turns.Sharing our magick, our gifts!
~ Facilitated by Kurt & ~pam, in Service
Monday, September 7th, Labor Day
9:45 am | Sing to the Stones | Stone Circle
Join Four Quarters’ talented and untalented singers to mosey up and sing an old favorite song to the Stones. (Lyric sheets will be provided.)
~Rowan, in Service
10:00am | Brunch | Dining Pavilion
Please Note that Sunday Brunch is one hour later! "I'm having an eggsistential crisis!!! ~anon
~Holly & crew, in Service
Immediately after Brunch | Begin Camp/Sweat Lodge Clean-Up | throughout Camp
If you can help, report to Stone Circle or Sweat Lodge, please. Many hands make light work.
~Everyone, in Service
12:00 noon | Closing Ceremony | Gather on the Green at entrance of Stone Circle.
“A Piece of My Spirit Left Behind” – A ceremony of unity, sweet farewells, and the bright, bright promise of more to come
~pam, Kailin, and Rowan in Service
It was begun in Love, Let it be ended in Love
The Circle is Open, But unbroken,
Merry Meet, Merry Part, And Merry Meet Again
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The Pathways of Service
Stones Rising is a celebration of Service, of Vocation, of the sacred Call of the Divine to each one of us to serve the Land and the People in our own way. Here there are no passive spectators; each of us must actively participate for the People as a whole to perform the magical work of Raising Stones. We do this by following the Call of our Hearts to create the conditions for Stones Rising to happen in a good way. You are not limited to any one Pathway, nor are you required to participate in more than one. Perhaps you will see a need that isn’t even listed here or addressed.
This year we have condensed and streamlined the Pathways. Some of you have already been drafted ... stepped up into specific roles of Service.
Preparing the Loaves of the Corn Mother
– Baking hundreds of loaves of bread to share before Sunday’s Rising of the Standing Stones.
Sacral Foods
– Preparing sustenance for the Stone Crews and Witnesses during the Stone Pulls and Rising.
Stone People
– Rigging and positioning the Stones during their Rising. Prybars, rollers, rigging, and cribbing. Must attend work sessions to participate during the Rising.
The Baby Blessing
– Welcome children to the Tribe - passing them through the Mother Stone! If this is your child’s first Stones Rising, sign up to be part of this beautiful blessing.
Ceremonial & Spirit Drums
– Through rhythm, song, and chant, honoring the Stones, People, Land and Spirits. In support of the ceremonies and the Rising.
Staff Photographers/Videographers
– Providing a visual history of our Tribe and Stone Circle. If you are not a staff photographer, DO NOT take photographs during ceremonies. Arrange with office if interested.
Those Who Remember: Sacred Witnesses
Another critical role at Stones Rising – Those who watch, listen, and remember. This is not passive observation: this is a sacred calling to be mindful of the spiritual work of others, and to determine if it is being done in a good way. This service to the community is unique, the only one that is needed at every ceremonial of Stones Rising, and it draws all Stones Rising participants together in responsible attentiveness. The act of Witnessing is crucial. It is the Witness who says: “I was there. I saw. It was done in a good way.”
