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Traditions
1 Fire Place
A campfire is the quintessential community pattern. It supports many principles of gathering, by creating a space for sharing and storytelling. Lightweight to organise, by its nature a circle of people with a shared focus, it can be combined with other patterns such as 28 Making Music, 34 Story Sharing and 2 Feasting.
Grillstelle
Campfire
Burgess Park BBQs
East Hoathly Bonfire Society
2 Feasting
Sharing, consumption and appreciation of food and drink. Combines with other food patterns (35 Food Growing, 5 Food Cycle Festival). Can be potluck-style (i.e. peer-to-peer) or provided by a host. Embodies generosity, sharing of cultural and culinary traditions, storytelling. It can also highlight community assets or a sense of place.​
3 Revelry
Gathering to escape the everyday, in the company of others. Could be about going wild, hedonism, or contain conscious, transcendental elements. Strong element of accompaniment, identification and 'gathering the tribe' (perhaps seasonally). Relationships and community may be ephemeral and short-lived, but nonetheless strong.
Ilminster carnival
Nobody's Wood
Bimble Bandada
Heal Pray Love
4 Seasonal Festival
Marking the seasons, rich in traditions, shared symbols, implied shared values. Often have a fuzzy outer membership (anyone can watch) and a bright inner line (only initiates can participate). Call back to spirit of 'timelessness', even when the event in its current form may be modern (Kwanzaa, Burning the Clocks, Stonehenge Solstice). May contain elements of 36 Procession too, but the emphasis is on observing time and seasons.
Kwanzaa
Burning the clocks
Sechseläuten
Solstice at Stonehenge
Alpabzug
5 Food Cycle Festival
Resonates both with local-ness / place and the cycles of nature. Carries implications of tradition, even if the festival is new. Resonates with other patterns 6 Food Production, 2 Feasting and 4 Seasonal Festival.
6 Spiritual Service
Spiritual Service includes established religions, spiritual ceremonies of other kinds, and secular equivalents that are modelled on the same lines. In each case, the pattern offers rich ritual traditions, based on a web of shared symbols and stories. Often incorporates forms of accompaniment, repetition and contribution, particularly 28 Making Music and 26 Collective Cultural Experience.
Sunday Assembly
Quaker meetings
Religious service