Featured Workshop Presenter
Keynote Presentation: Our Holy Book Has Always Been Our Female Flesh and Blood: Embodied Feminist Spirituality, Gender-ism, and Women’s Mysteries.
Ruth Barrett is an award winning fretted dulcimer recording artist, singer, and songwriter with numerous releases to her credit. She is also an author of Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creations (Llewllyn, 2007) and co-founder of the Temple of Diana, a national Dianic Wiccan tax-exempt religious organization.
Ruth’s compositions are counted among the pioneering musical works in the Goddess Spirituality Movement. For almost three decades she has shared traditional folk music and her original and traditional Goddess songs with audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain.
Ruth is also an ordained Dianic High Priestess, ritualist, and author of Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Llewellyn 2007). Her writings on women and ritual are included in Daughters of the Goddess, (Wendy Griffin, editor), Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community (Ramona Faith Oswald, editor), and Creating Circles and Ceremonies (Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart).