• Welcome to Rainbow Family Australia


    Hello Family.  A number of years ago cameras were frowned upon at gatherings in Australia. Over recent years however cameras are becoming apart of life. Permission is sought and notices are given that this resource exist and photographers are asked to add to the collection. What results is a growing collection of memories of our past and inspirations for our future.

    The Next Australian Rainbow Gathering

    Will be in Tasmania with the following dates

    • Seed camp from 10th Jan
    • Main Gathering 22nd Jam till 22nd Feb
    • Full moon 8th Feb
    • Pack down till 28th Feb

     

    A Site has been found in Tasmania… The site is called Tulunpunga, it is on the river Mersey, the same river of the last Tassie gathering.  This is platypus habitat, we are blessed to be welcome on this land. Map link is here

    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