• Welcome to Rainbow Family Australia

     

    Hello Family. Permission and notices are given that this resource exist. What results is a growing collection of memories of our past and inspirations for our future. Please note photography is now once again banned at Rainbow Gatherings in Australia…

    The Next Australian Rainbow Gathering

    Will be in Nth NSW with the following dates

    • Seed camp from 14th May
    • Main Gathering 21st May till 20th June
    • Full moon Sat  4th June
      Pack down till 27th June
    This will be a Healing Gathering 
    With a focus on Heart Connection

    A site has been found… See here for the map

    A Google  group has been created to aid in connecting and unifying the Australian rainbow family
    Please visit www.wiki.rainbow.lickorish.net for more information.

     

    What Happens at Rainbow Gatherings

    Besides the work that goes on to help the gathering happen, there’s also lots of acoustical music, drumming, dancing, workshops, council circles, sister circles, brother circles, gender circles, people hanging out, people enjoying nature, people meditating, chanting, and praying, people talking politics, people talking spiritual and personal growth, people visioning the future, people doing bodywork and other healing work.

    There is no authoritarian hierarchy. We have a tribal anarchy where we take care of each other, because we recognise that we are all One. The Gathering works because each of us takes the responsibility for doing what needs to be done, and for teaching others what we know.

     

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

    Rainbow Gatherings are temporary intentional communities, typically held in outdoor settings, and espousing and practising ideals of peace, love, harmony, freedom and community, as a consciously expressed alternative to mainstream popular culture, consumerism, capitalism and mass media.

    Rainbow Gatherings and the Rainbow Family of Living Light (usually abbreviated to “Rainbow Family”) are an expression of a Utopian impulse, combined with bohemianism, freethought and hippie culture, with roots clearly traceable to the 1960s counterculture.

    Aside from taking up collections (the “Magic Hat” in Rainbow parlance) for essential items purchased from the local community, there is little or no exchange of currency internally at a Gathering.

    Talking circles are also a feature of rainbow gatherings. Each participant in the circle talks in turn while all others present listen in silence. A stick or feather is passed from person to person around the circle to mark his role as the speaker. If one doesn’t wish to speak, s/he may hold or pass the stick in silence

    A video of the an American gathering called “We Love You” documents the 2008 Rainbow Gathering in Wyoming and can be seen here