What is the Triangle Area Pagan Alliance?
TAPA – Triangle Area Pagan Alliance
Networking and connecting local area circles, groves, covens, solitaries, Pagans, witches, Polytheists, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, and like-minded individuals and groups to one another and to
the larger Triangle community.
Triangle Area Pagan Alliance (TAPA) is a community network for practitioners of earth-centered and polytheistic faiths. We create opportunities for local Pagans to know more about each other and to support each other's work, and we provide a point of contact for people new to Paganism or new to the Triangle area to receive the best possible information on who we in the Triangle Pagan community are. All of our events are public and open, and we are organized by collaboration, not membership; no one “joins” TAPA, but anyone who shares our vision of a community woven together by friendship and generosity, not conformity, is welcome to participate. Inspired by the lessons of nature, we believe a healthy living system is sustainable over time, resilient in the face of change, and highly diverse, and we aspire to create a healthy living Paganism that embodies those qualities.
Our efforts are focused here in the North Carolina Piedmont region -- Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and its surrounding small towns and rural land -- so that all of our work can be rooted in whole-person relationships and direct action. Our vision is a Pagan community united by friendship and hospitality, not orthodoxy, where we are free to learn from one another and collaborate for our common benefit without sacrificing the integrity and individuality of our distinctive traditions.
What do you mean by "Pagan"?
We define "Pagan" in its broadest sense, as a "big tent" description of a family of distinct spiritual traditions and practices. We find common ground in a set of shared values, which are:
-- honoring the natural world, including its elements, its processes, and all its forms of life, as sacred and ensouled
-- respect for the wisdom traditions of pre-Christian peoples, which provide us with a vast wealth of story, symbol, and inspired knowledge that continues to nourish our contemporary traditions
-- the primacy of relationship as a moral guide, which teaches us to resolve disputes among one another in a spirit of honesty and mutual respect, and encourages us to relate to the divine/divine beings as we understand it/them in the same way
Anyone living in the Triangle area and practicing any spiritual path or tradition -- or currently practicing no defined path or tradition -- who embraces these values, regardless of the identifying labels they prefer, is entirely welcome as part of the community that TAPA seeks to serve.
What is TAPA doing?
Our mission will grow and unfold over time, but at this stage we are focused on:
-- forming connections among area Pagans, both groups and individuals, so that we can quite simply say that we know one another
-- promoting activities that foster in-person community, from purely social gatherings such as coffee hour, pub moots, and picnics, to workshops and open rituals that will allow us to offer our skills, wisdom, and experience to one another
-- providing a point of contact for people who are new to Paganism, Pagans who are new to the area, and to media, students, or other non-Pagans with an honest interest in learning more about contemporary Pagan religion.
TAPA is in favor of education and spiritual practice, but it is not primarily a teaching or a ritual group. Our primary mission is right there in the name: to be allies to one another. If you are a Triangle area Pagan, please get in touch with us to let us know where you need a community of allies, and how you are able to be an ally to others!
Would you like to know more?
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions,
or if you would like to be involved in planning or networking!
Website - http://triangleareaPaganalliance.weebly.com
Email - [email protected]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/triangleareaPagans
Twitter - http://twitter.com/FreshLocalPagan
Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/triangleareapaganalliance/
TAPA has been seen in:
TAPA – Triangle Area Pagan Alliance
Networking and connecting local area circles, groves, covens, solitaries, Pagans, witches, Polytheists, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, and like-minded individuals and groups to one another and to
the larger Triangle community.
Triangle Area Pagan Alliance (TAPA) is a community network for practitioners of earth-centered and polytheistic faiths. We create opportunities for local Pagans to know more about each other and to support each other's work, and we provide a point of contact for people new to Paganism or new to the Triangle area to receive the best possible information on who we in the Triangle Pagan community are. All of our events are public and open, and we are organized by collaboration, not membership; no one “joins” TAPA, but anyone who shares our vision of a community woven together by friendship and generosity, not conformity, is welcome to participate. Inspired by the lessons of nature, we believe a healthy living system is sustainable over time, resilient in the face of change, and highly diverse, and we aspire to create a healthy living Paganism that embodies those qualities.
Our efforts are focused here in the North Carolina Piedmont region -- Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and its surrounding small towns and rural land -- so that all of our work can be rooted in whole-person relationships and direct action. Our vision is a Pagan community united by friendship and hospitality, not orthodoxy, where we are free to learn from one another and collaborate for our common benefit without sacrificing the integrity and individuality of our distinctive traditions.
What do you mean by "Pagan"?
We define "Pagan" in its broadest sense, as a "big tent" description of a family of distinct spiritual traditions and practices. We find common ground in a set of shared values, which are:
-- honoring the natural world, including its elements, its processes, and all its forms of life, as sacred and ensouled
-- respect for the wisdom traditions of pre-Christian peoples, which provide us with a vast wealth of story, symbol, and inspired knowledge that continues to nourish our contemporary traditions
-- the primacy of relationship as a moral guide, which teaches us to resolve disputes among one another in a spirit of honesty and mutual respect, and encourages us to relate to the divine/divine beings as we understand it/them in the same way
Anyone living in the Triangle area and practicing any spiritual path or tradition -- or currently practicing no defined path or tradition -- who embraces these values, regardless of the identifying labels they prefer, is entirely welcome as part of the community that TAPA seeks to serve.
What is TAPA doing?
Our mission will grow and unfold over time, but at this stage we are focused on:
-- forming connections among area Pagans, both groups and individuals, so that we can quite simply say that we know one another
-- promoting activities that foster in-person community, from purely social gatherings such as coffee hour, pub moots, and picnics, to workshops and open rituals that will allow us to offer our skills, wisdom, and experience to one another
-- providing a point of contact for people who are new to Paganism, Pagans who are new to the area, and to media, students, or other non-Pagans with an honest interest in learning more about contemporary Pagan religion.
TAPA is in favor of education and spiritual practice, but it is not primarily a teaching or a ritual group. Our primary mission is right there in the name: to be allies to one another. If you are a Triangle area Pagan, please get in touch with us to let us know where you need a community of allies, and how you are able to be an ally to others!
Would you like to know more?
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, concerns, suggestions,
or if you would like to be involved in planning or networking!
Website - http://triangleareaPaganalliance.weebly.com
Email - [email protected]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/triangleareaPagans
Twitter - http://twitter.com/FreshLocalPagan
Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/triangleareapaganalliance/
TAPA has been seen in: