Live The Dream

Building a Faire Family/Intentional Community: Koroneburg
2025-10-18 10:00 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Twenty-Nine Years of the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival
with Baron Henirich von Laufer
Presented by the Baron Himself, Chuck Spitler
For 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.
The buildings were real and stood all year round, creating a feeling of traveling through Time to be there.
In 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!
Is 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.
11 to 1 Poly discussion live and on zoom. Live only after that.
1 Pot Luck lunch – bring something healthy and delicious to share.
2 to 3:45 Afternoon activity: Exercises for developing intimacy – empathic communication to enhance your love life and friendships. Clothing-optional jacuzzi available.
4 to 5:45 Socializing in the shaded, clothing-optional hot tub or watch a Poly movie in the living room.
6 Pot Luck dinner – bring your favorite Halloween-themed dish to share with 10 people.
7:15 All Hallows Eve Samhain Ritual led by Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers.
8 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!

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ‒ How to Keep Your Poly Relationship(s) Joyous!
2025-11-15 11:00 - 16:00
We will discuss some ways to avoid a breakup or (perhaps) mend it.
Some breakups are permanent situations in which you will likely never see that person, couple or ? again. Unlikely in the poly community unless they live in another state. Perhaps not even then if you attend same science fiction conferences, poly conventions, Live the Dream meetings etc.
Some breakups involve seeing the other person or people frequently if you share children, grand kids, close friends/water kin and other personal or business connections.
Poly relationships are less breakable if they bend.
A transition may be better than an end.

Poly SF Sampler Discussion, Winter Solstice Ritual, Hanukkah and Winter Holiday Party
2025-12-20 11:00 - 23:00
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.

Memorial for Leslie Fish
2026-01-17 11:00 - 23:00
Live the Dream will host a memorial day for Leslie Fish, Poly anarchist and prolific filk writer/performer.
Joining us for this Memorial to speak about Leslie and share their personal experiences with her:

Oberon Zell, founder of Church of All Worlds, the first officially recognized Neopagan religion in the US.

Paul Gibbons, Political Activist/Libertarian/Anarchist and Water Brother to Leslie Fish.

Elaine Anderson, Deputy Lady in Waiting to the Queen of Caid in the SCA for 2025.

Terry Brussel-Rogers, Founder of Live the Dream and Leslie’s Water Brother will share her knowledge of some of Leslie’s Poly experiences.

Additional speakers may be announced in the future.
The day includes a potluck lunch and a potluck dinner. There is afternoon time for discussion, socializing, etc.
In the evening, Live the Dream will host the monthly LAFA (Los Angeles Filkers Anonymous) filksing, focusing on Leslie and her music.
The Live the Dream meeting will be Live and On Zoom 11am – 1 pm PT.
The LAFA filk will be Live and On Zoom 6 – 11 pm PT; the first hour will be a live and virtual dinner, with music commencing at 7 pm PT.

Happy Valentine's Day Poly Style!
2026-02-14 11:00 - 16:00
2nd Saturday this month only due to Conscious Life Expo falling on the 3rd Saturday with Terry presenting that day (+ Terry being a 4th generation matchmaker).
Whether you are a single looking for a primary partner or partners, or a couple looking for a single or another couple, etc, there are MANY ways to get into the relationship you desire. We will talk about some of those ways as well as how to maintain and bring more Joy to ongoing romantic relationship… help them evolve into a live in situation if they haven’t gotten there yet and that is what you want.
If it is marriage you seek, that may look like an open committed legal marriage between two people or a plural marriage by contract with similar rights and responsibilities to a legal marriage. Whatever it is you want, it can be accomplished by knowing how to make it happen.
Terry wrote Choosing, Finding and Attracting Your Lifemate in 1992. Its most recent edition was introduced at Conscious Life Expo in February of 2020. That edition (with a newly updated Poly Supplement included) will be e-mailed as a gift to whoever attends this event on Zoom with a hard copy autographed edition given to whoever attends in person. A guided meditation for Attracting Your Special Someone(s) will climax the Zoom portion of this event.
Want some help with finding your Right One(s)? Call Terry Brussel-Rogers at 800-Life Mates. That’s 800-543-5628.

Fifty Years of Polyamory in America Made the Bold Authors Curated Reading List
2026-03-21 10:00 - 16:00
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement, by Glen W. Olsen and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, made the Bold Authors curated reading list Listicle #2, titled Looking Ahead to 2026: Cultural & Social Perspectives That Matter. Glen Olsen will join us for our March 21, 2026, Live The Dream meeting to tell us all about it.

Poly Intersection: Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Society for Creative Anachronism, and Dungeons & Dragons.
2026-04-18 11:00 - 16:00
Led by Elaine Anderson.
Elaine has been a member of Queen’s Court in SCA several times, participated in Renaissance Pleasure Faire, and been active in Dungeons & Dragon activities for many years.
The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California was founded by Phyllis and Ron Patterson in 1963. In 1966, a group of friends (including the writers Diaba Paxson, Marion
Zimmer Bradley, Poul Anderson, and Karen Kruse Anderson) interested in historical reenactment and science fiction/fantasy founded the Society for Creative Anachronism at an
event now known as First Tournament in Berkeley, California.
Between that time and this couples have met at Faire or SCA, married in the Faire Wedding Garden and brought their children back to enjoy it. Some of them have been in Guilds which
feature role play Families which can become very real for the 6-12 weekends of Faire and preparing for Faire each year..perhaps for decades. This is even more true with SCA events
which occur several times a year and can involve staying on site for whole weekends or more for the Wars.

Spider Robinson's Poly Primers
2026-05-16 11:00 - 13:00
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon introduces a group of people who support each other in handling their problems and celebrating their joys. In this and later books they go beyond this to actual group telepathic communication. In Callahan’s Keys they show their commitment to each other by all moving out-of- state together when local laws and the abuse of them prevented them from meeting together where they were.
According to Spider’s biographical material, many of the metaphysical as well as the group related experiences come from his real-life ones with his expanded family and close friends during the ‘60s in Haight-Ashbury.
For more details, see the full article in the April-May Live the Dream Newsletter.
