News and Updates
June 20, 2008
I thank all of you who were here for your considerable contribution to DID 2008. For our absent Citizens, we missed you and hope you can make it here next year. The amazing nature of the event this year has caused us to reevaluate what we want this to be for us all. Starting in 2009, attendance will be by invitation only. Any new participants will need to be invited by one of the Citizenry or faculty and can apply for one of the open spots not claimed by current Citizens. I promise to be more diligent with all of my duties and will get notices out sooner. I hope to have the invitations available both electronically and in hard copy in a month or so. Anyone wishing to invite someone can contact me and we will get the information to the appropriate person. We entertained numerous good suggestions this year and will be a bit more high-tech at the Hafla for certain. There will be new lighting and sound. We will hire Chris back as chef but will be including the meal plan in the cost of the event with designations for Omnivore, Vegetarian or Vegan. We will try our best to arrange to have ice available on-site. If anyone has other suggestions at this time or at any other during the year. Thank You once again to all of you who were with us this year. I feel privileged to have experienced this with you. We certainly raised the bar for all future Celebrations!
All the Best! Sheque
May 12, 2008
As promised, here is the information on the meal plan. I have been fortunate enough to dine with Chris on several occasions and I can tell you his fare is excellent! I am glad to have him here and at what I feel is a bargain price. I wholeheartedly recommend that you take advantage of this plan as it will be excellent fuel for you all and I hope to make it profitable for Chris so we can entice him back here again next year. We will need to get some idea of how many of you plan to eat at Chris's establishment so he has a good idea of how much food to prepare. If you do not commit in advance in some way we may not be able to accommodate you should you decide to eat here. Please let us know so we can help Chris adequately prepare. Click here for the meal plan information
May1, 2008
Greetings from Spirithaven; we've updated the schedule and teacher list for you folks.
Thanks for your patience and thanks to all of the folks who have registered in the last weeks. It is nice to know we will be seeing so many more of our old friends. Please do not forget the meal plan. We'll have info up on that as soon as plans are finalized.
Let us know if you have questions or concerns- All the Best! Scott/Sheque
April 14, 2008
We'll be seeing you all soon but I sure wish you all could be here now It is really Fully Spring, with flowers, shrubs and trees blooming and all of the wildlife waking up. It is a treat to be here at this juncture on the space/time continuum. We are about 90 days away now and I just wanyed to get with you all with a few updates. First, Donovan Kokot will be back with us again, this time teaching saz. I will get a tentative schedule developed and posted soon. We also have a meal plan in the works that will nicely feed vegetarians and omnivores alike. I would greatly appreciate a response from those of you who would like to participate in a meal plan this year. A menu is in the works an meals will be provided three times on Friday and Saturday and twice on Sunday. If you all know of any friends you feel would be appropriate for this celebration, please let them know. It appears that we will have availability this year. As always, if you have questions or comments, please send them along to us.
March 11, 2008
Greetings from Darbukastan! We trust this note finds you all well and filled with joy at the awakening landscape. It is for all intents and purposes, early Spring in The Capitol and we wish you all could be with us to enjoy it. We need to inform you that our Beloved National Wizard, the One and Only Waz, has recently had some maintainence to his "power plant". He successfully endured the spells cast on him by other wizards that resulted in a four-vessel coronary bypass. I spoke with him earlier today and he sounds excellent after only four days post-op. He has done all he can do for the hospital that hosted him and he will be going home tomorrow. He asked that I send along his Best Wishes and assures me that he and some of his Healer-friends will be at the Independence Days Celebration this year. We will be posting messages from him on the www.darbukastan.com site as we get them. He also asked that you communicate with him on his MySpace site to keep up with him amd his many wizardly projects. Feel free to light a candle, burn some incense and send up some good energy for Waz as he powers back up to be the High-Energy, Good Deed-Doer he always is.