BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Live The Dream - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Live The Dream
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://livethedream.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Live The Dream
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251220T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T015655
CREATED:20251024T222211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T222211Z
UID:2588-1766228400-1766271600@livethedream.org
SUMMARY:Poly SF Sampler Discussion\, Winter Solstice Ritual\, Hanukkah and Winter Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Discuss the Poly content in stories by Robert A Heinlein\, Spider Robinson\, S. M. Stirling\, and others. Enjoy a potluck lunch. Laze about in the hot tub\, discussing polyamory\, science fiction\, and other topics. Enjoy a potluck dinner. Celebrate the winter solstice in a ritual lead by High Priestess Lilith. Exchange gifts. Play and listen to music. Sing a bit. Have a good time.
URL:https://livethedream.org/event/poly-sf-sampler-discussion-winter-solstice-ritual-hanukkah-and-winter-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Live and on Zoom\, 8515 Penfield Ave\, Winnetka\, CA\, 91306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday Themed,Live Music,Live The Dream 3rd Saturday,Pagan Ritual,Pot Luck
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251018T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T015656
CREATED:20250904T024922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T024922Z
UID:2527-1760781600-1760828400@livethedream.org
SUMMARY:Building a Faire Family/Intentional Community: Koroneburg
DESCRIPTION:Twenty-Nine Years of the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival \nwith Baron Henirich von Laufer \nPresented by the Baron Himself\, Chuck Spitler \nFor 29 years\, Chuck Spitler has been the Baron. Played him as an actor? Maybe at first\, but after a generation or two of children have grown up spending 6 weekends of summer with this Uncle by choice and are now bringing their children to see the Faire\, be in jousts for the Baron’s entertainment\, and just EXPERIENCE it\, the Baron in many ways is the Reality. This is not like the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California\, where the Queen is just an actress playing a role. I have seen the owners of this Faire wisely taking council with the Baron on many things\, from promotion to the activities being offered to who should be in them. \nThe buildings were real and stood all year round\, creating a feeling of traveling through Time to be there.  \nIn August of 2025\, dark news came that Koroneburg was to be closed down after Riverside County Parks decided not to offer the Festival a renewed lease. All those beloved buildings\, knocked down and gone! \nIs there a way that Koroneburg could be brought back to Life? Perhaps. Chuck is in the process of writing a book about the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival – its history and how to build something like this wherever you are. That will keep it alive for those who come after. \n11 to 1 Poly discussion live and on zoom. Live only after that. \n1 Pot Luck lunch – bring something healthy and delicious to share. \n2 to 3:45 Afternoon activity: Exercises for developing intimacy – empathic communication to enhance your love life and friendships. Clothing-optional jacuzzi available. \n4 to 5:45 Socializing in the shaded\, clothing-optional hot tub or watch a Poly movie in the living room. \n6 Pot Luck dinner – bring your favorite Halloween-themed dish to share with 10 people. \n7:15 All Hallows Eve Samhain Ritual led by Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers. \n8 to 11 Halloween Party. If you want to present anything perhaps relating to the costume (or body paint) you choose to wear\, do let us know. We may play the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s traditional\, after all!
URL:https://livethedream.org/event/building-a-faire-family-intentional-community-koroneburg/
LOCATION:Live and on Zoom\, 8515 Penfield Ave\, Winnetka\, CA\, 91306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday Themed,Live The Dream 3rd Saturday,Pagan Ritual,Pot Luck
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241221T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T015656
CREATED:20241220T051533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T051658Z
UID:2307-1734804000-1734822000@livethedream.org
SUMMARY:Winter Solstice Ritual and Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:6 PM: Pot Luck Dinner7:30 PM: Winter Solstice Ritual led by High Priestess Lillith \nLatkes (provided by Live the Dream\, along with Apple Sauce and Sour Cream)\, songs about the Maccabees\, dreidels\, lighted up Christmas miniature houses\, and a Winter Solstice ritual. Although Hanukkah doesn’t start until December 25th this year\, we will still light a candle in a menorah in celebration. \nDid we forget a ritual important to you? Tell us and we’ll add it. Bring stories/songs/poetry to share. There will be live and recorded music of various holiday flavors… and Karaoke! \nBring: Your favorite holiday dish for pot luck supper—(big enough for 10 to share). There will be a GIFT EXCHANGE at 7 PM: Bring a wrapped science fiction\, erotic (tasteful please!)\, fantasy\, or magikal gift item ($10-$15) if you want to participate. \nSharing our holidays is part of what weaves the bonds of Family in a group like ours. Understanding what is important to each of us during this festive season and how we celebrate it is a way to grow closer and delight in our diversity. \nClothing optional Jacuzzi (with holiday music playing inside it!) available all afternoon and evening–bring sandals and towels. \n(Crash space available by arrangement when you RSVP.) \nGood Yule!
URL:https://livethedream.org/event/winter-solstice-ritual-and-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Live the Dream Center\, 8515 Penfield Ave.\, Winnetka\, CA\, 91306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday Themed,Live Music,Pagan Ritual,Pot Luck,Special Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231216T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T015656
CREATED:20231205T000924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T000924Z
UID:1806-1702749600-1702767600@livethedream.org
SUMMARY:LTD's 2023 WINTER HOLIDAY PARTY!
DESCRIPTION:2-4pm | Socializing in the clothing-optional Jacuzzi. Bring sandals and a towel.\n4pm+ |We will watch a holiday or poly movie after that—group’s choice.\n\n\n\nLTD’s Winter Holiday Party 6pm – 11pm\nCrash space is available by arrangement when you RSVP by calling (818) 886-0069 \nSharing our holidays is part of what weaves the bonds of Family in a group like ours. Understanding what is important to each of us during this festive season and how we celebrate it is a way to grow closer and delight in our diversity.\n\n\n6-7pm | Potluck Dinner and Holiday Party – Bring your favorite holiday dishes for supper (Big enough for 10 to share!)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFOOD \n♦ Your favorite holiday dish for potluck supper— (big enough for 10 to share.) \n♦ Latkes (provided by Live the Dream\, along with applesauce and sour cream) \nENTERTAINMENT \n♦ Songs about the Maccabees     ♦ Dreidel games \n♦ Clothing optional Jacuzzi (with holiday music playing inside it!) available all afternoon and evening–bring sandals and towels. \nOTHER TRADITIONS \n♦ Lighted-up Christmas miniature houses \n♦ Lighting the Hannuka menorah\, even though that holiday goes from December 7th to the 15th\, we will still light all the candles one night late! \n♦ A Winter Solstice ritual     ♦ Followed by optional Gift Exchange \nDid we forget a ritual important to you? Tell us and we’ll add it. Bring stories/songs/poetry to share.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7pm | Twas Night Before Christmas read by Linda Fitak\, actress and voice-over professional\n\n\n\n\n\nClement Clarke Moore wrote the famous poem “Night Before Christmas” in 1822 when living in his house in Elmhurst\, Queens\, New York City. Here’s a photo of the house before it was demolished in 1932. Our \nHigh Priestess\, Ealswythe (Linda) grew up in Elmhurst and frequently played at the Clement C. Moore Park as a child. It was only about 3 blocks from where she lived. Every year\, her elementary school class would go to the park and sing Christmas carols and recite the poem “Night Before Christmas.” She will read the poem for us at the Yule holiday party and lead the Yuletide (Winter Solstice) ritual. \nThe Moore Homestead in Elmhurst. The homestead was torn down in 1932 and is today Clement Clarke Moore Park bordered by Broadway\, 78th Street\, and 45th Avenue in Elmhurst.\n\n\n\n\n\n8pm Winter Solstice Ritual led by our High Priestess Elysweith with Terry and Craig assisting.\n\n\n\n\n\nWant to call a Quarter?\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter Solstice Ritual\n\n\n\n\n\nGIFT EXCHANGE: If you wish to participate\, bring a wrapped science fiction\, erotic (tasteful please!)\, fantasy\, or magikal gift ($10-$15)\n\n\n\n  \nIf you haven’t already done so\, make sure to check out this month’s LTD newsletter.\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\n https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3175971626?pwd=NWVjU3A2M0I2Q29IUkI4L1lMRzd2QT09 \nMeeting ID: 317 597 1626  Passcode: Heinlein \nFind us Always here on the 3rd Saturday from 11AM-  1PM Pacific Time. This will be our Zoom ID from now on.\n\nSuggested donation for attending one or both events (live only)\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nLTD Paid Members\nNon-Members\n\n\n\nMeeting only \n\n$5\n\n$10 \n\n\n\n\nMeeting & Party (with potluck dishes for both events) \n\n$8\n\n$15\, or $10 for only one event \n\n\n\nMeeting & Party (without potluck dishes)\n$12\n\n$20
URL:https://livethedream.org/event/ltds-2023-winter-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Live the Dream Center\, 8515 Penfield Ave.\, Winnetka\, CA\, 91306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday Themed,Live Music,Live The Dream 3rd Saturday,Pagan Ritual,Pot Luck,Special Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://livethedream.org/wp-content/uploads/square-LTD-Holiday-Party-2022-Images.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T015656
CREATED:20230314T184740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T191953Z
UID:1366-1679137200-1679155200@livethedream.org
SUMMARY:Dragon Riders of (Poly) Pern by Anne McCaffery + St. Patrick’s Day Celebration!
DESCRIPTION:Dragon Riders of (Poly) Pern by Anne McCaffery\nZoom 11 am to 1 pm | Live 11 am to 4 pm\nLed by Mark Merlino and Rod O’Reilley\, founders of “Furry Fandom” and of The Prancing Skiltare\, a group house spanning decades!\nThey have been in an open committed relationship (which has often included long-term lovers/ housemates) for 34 years. \nWhile Science Fiction inspires this meeting\, the intent of presenting it is to learn how to use it in our own poly lives. \nYES\, you can attend and enjoy the meeting without having read the books! \nAnne’s original stories were poly oriented simply by featuring characters bonded emotionally for life to sentient telepathic dragons. Many of these Dragon Riders were also bonded to human mates with whom they shared romantic and physically sexual connections. Anne’s son and daughter have written their own books in that universe which could actually be considered Poly Primers describing different ways of creating and maintaining multiple committed relationships with human partners. \nIn a world protected from life-destroying spores by genetically engineered fire-breathing dragons bonded at their hatching to empathic human dragon riders\, the social structure is an unusual one. Queen dragons are ridden by women\, Browns and Bronzes by males. However\, males\, as well as females\, can bond with and ride female fire-breathing green dragons. When a rider’s dragon makes her mating flight\, the passions of their dragons cause the riders to mate in their own way. In the Weyr caves which house dragons and their riders\, sexual mores are different from those on the rest of the planet of Pern since dragons may not honor the current romantic commitments of their riders when mating. Since the Weyrs are group living arrangements in any case\, children resulting from such liaisons are raised by the “village” with a foster mother and/or father doing the primary parenting. \nHappy St. Patrick’s Day! \n\n1pm | Potluck Lunch – Corn beef and cabbage provided by your host and hostess. Bring something healthy and delicious to share\, please.  \n2pm |Spring Equinox ritual. Flowers\, joy… gratitude for the beauty and abundant fertility of Mother nature.\n3-4pm |Hot tubbing and/or listening to Pern-inspired music—tends to be pretty Celtic. Schooling on Pern is done by Harpers from the Harper’s Hall where musically inclined lads and lassies are apprenticed as early teens to become storytellers\, singers\, composers\, and musicians. More classic St. Patrick’s Day music such as Irish Rovers also available. Note\, if interested in socializing in the clothing-optional hot tub\, bring sandals and a towel.\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\n https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3175971626?pwd=NWVjU3A2M0I2Q29IUkI4L1lMRzd2QT09 \nMeeting ID: 317 597 1626  Passcode: Heinlein \nFind us Always here on the 3rd Saturday from 11AM-  1PM Pacific Time. This will be our Zoom ID from now on.\n\nSuggested Donation (live only)\n\nNon-Members: $10/person.\n\nAttendance is included if you join Live the Dream the day of the meeting (annual membership is $25 for singles and $40 for couples or groups at the same address).\n\n\nPaid Members: $5/person.\n\nGentlemen (potluck dish appreciated). \nLadies\, free with a potluck dish to share\, otherwise same donation as gentlemen otherwise.
URL:https://livethedream.org/event/dragon-riders-of-poly-pern-by-anne-mccaffery-st-patricks-day-celebration/
LOCATION:Live and on Zoom\, 8515 Penfield Ave\, Winnetka\, CA\, 91306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Holiday Themed,Live Music,Live The Dream 3rd Saturday,Pagan Ritual,Pot Luck
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR