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Heathenry is about community, gathering as a people, shaking a man or woman's hand, looking them in the eye, hearing their voice, telling stories, getting to know each other. Its letting your kids play together. Letting your spouses get to know each other. Its about laughing at dumb jokes, and telling stories from your life. Its about mingling Wyrd...and taking the measure of another person, and finding them of worth.

On September 26-29, 2013, heathen tribes, strong families, and solid heathen individuals from around the Heartland will gather at Gaea Retreat, a campground about 40 minutes outside of the Kansas City Area. There were 260 heathens at LATP in 2013, with 78 children in attendance.  This makes Lightning Across the Plains one of the largest heathen gatherings in the world...and 2013 marks the 5th Anniversary of this event.

Our registration/information packet for LATP 2013 contains a full schedule for the event, information on both tent-camping and reserving a spot in a cabin, plus details on the meals, workshops, faining, symbels, childrens activities, viking games, what you'll need to bring with you, and everything else you could possibly want to know about the event.  It also has a registration form for those that wish to register by snail-mail.

CLICK HERE FOR THE PACKET

This webite also contains much of the information in the Packet.  You can register as a "full-registration" for Sept 26-29 or a "weekend-only registration" for Sept 27-29. Full-registration is $50 for an individual and $70 for a family of up to five. Weekend-only registration is $40 for an individual and $60 for a family up to five. Both registration choices include all camping fees and your dinners. Cabins are available for $5 per bed per night.  These prices have not gone up one dime since we started this event in 2009.

You can also register by filling out the registration form at the back of the Registration / Information Packet, and send it with the appropriate registration fees to Jotun's Bane Kindred, P.O. Box 618, Liberty, MO, 64069. If you have questions about Lightning Across the Plains, please contact mark@heathengods.com.

Jotun's Bane Kindred - Temple of Our Heathen Gods

Want to Help Promote Lightning Across the Plains?

Lightning Across the Plains is a grassroots event.  It is organized by a local kindred, with help and assistance from other strong kindreds here in our region.  It depends on word-of-mouth and grassroots efforts to get the word out among the greater Heathen Community.  So, if you support the concept of face-to-face heathenry and the goal of building bonds of friendship between kindreds and individual Heathens in our region, please consider helping us spread the word about Lightning Across the Plains 2013.

First of all, the best way to support Lightning Across the Plains 2013, is to attend the event!  The event is nothing without the motivated heathens of worth that spend the time and resources to participate.  Bring your family and encourage fellow-kindred members and heathens you know to attend as well.  Organize a car-pool or caravan to travel to the event from your local area, and twist arms, pester, and motivate heathens in your local community to attend the event with you.

You can also help spread the word by posting a link to this event website on kindred or heathen websites, Yahoo Groups you belong to, and on Social Networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Google+, Twitter) to which you belong.  If you've attended Lightning Across the Plains in the past and enjoyed yourself, feel free to post about that and let other folks know exactly what it meant to you.

Event Website:  http://www.latp2013.com

Facebook Event Page:  https://www.facebook.com/events/198622360270749

You can also spread the word in your local community.  Below you will find two advertisements that are easy to download and print out.  It helps get the word out if you hand these advertisements out at your kindred's open events, leave a stack of them at your local book store or coffee shop, or hang them up on community bulletin boards where Heathens might see them.

Even if you try just one or two of these ideas you will be helping us immensely, and we want to thank you in advance.

Click here to download a PDF of the color advertisement for Lightning Across the Plains 2013. The color version is formatted specifically to print on color printers.
     
Click here to download a PDF of the black & white advertisement for Lightning Across the Plains 2013. The black & white version is formatted specifically to be easy to photo-copy.