Stone Circle Council LLC upcoming events

Stoneside Chat with the Officers: Lammas (Wednesday, July 29, 2026)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Join the Stone Circle Council Officers for an informal hangout and chat! Ask questions, tell us your thoughts, or just join for some parallel play/work/crafts.

Stoneside Chats will now be held on a date aligned near the wheel of the year! Spend time with us from 7-8pm EST on Zoom in the Workshop.

https://tinyurl.com/Workshopscc

Lughnasad 2026 (Friday, July 31, 2026)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Join us for our Annual Lughnasad Celebration

In Celtic mythology the god Lugh established the festival as a feast, with games commemorating his foster-mother Tailtiu. We will be celebrating as a tribute to Lugh, and a celebration of first fruits of the harvest.

Wait, Games?

Lugh is all-virtual, letting us take advantage of all the games that an online platform has to offer! Party games, Jackbox games, Zoom charades, Gartic phone, pictionary, quiz games, and more!

This year we're also be featuring the SCC Chopped Challenge (bring our your inner chef!), a Raccoon Competition (how good are you at picking up trash?), and building our SCC Song & Story Archive with recorded sessions.

We'll also have a variety of our favorite online activities, include crafting together, socializing time, bardic, and other good opportunities to connect with each other.

Event Details

The event will run virtually from Friday July 31 at 7pm to Sunday August 2 at 3pm. All times are EST.

Registration for the event is free, though we are accepting donations to the Sunshine Fund for other events and general donations!

Materials

Items to gather for the weekend:

Your own zoom-capable computer or device for playing games and participating in activities
Standard ritual supplies
Your own craft or project for social craft time
Poems, songs, or stories for the SCC Archive
A project for Body Doubling
For the SCC Chopped Challenge, you will be tasked with using the following 3 ingredients:
- Corn (fresh, canned, frozen)
- Milk (milk alternatives welcome!)
- Basil
(optional) Supplies for another edition of Embroider a Trilithon
- 6” embroidery hoop
- Embroidery floss/thread (black, gray, yellow/golden, orange and green recommended, but whatever colors you feel inspired by are great!)
- A square of cross stitch cloth

Downloads

Program PDF (tbd)
Lughnasad trilithon design (tbd)
Gartic Phone
Codenames

Schedule

Friday	Activity	Description
7:00-8:00 PM	Welcome Chat and Crafting Together	Ease into the event by greeting your friends! Bring a craft, a beverage, and wind down from the week to get into the headspace of the weekend.
8:00-9:00 PM	Opening Ritual	Join us for our opening ritual themed around Lugh.
9:00-10:30 PM	Codenames	Two teams compete to try and guess the clues from their Spymaster! This is a light word game that's easy to drop in and out of.
10:30 PM	Late Night Youtube Exchange	Connect with your virtual community and share the videos you love! Bring your favorite links and lets enjoy them together.


Saturday	Activity	Description
9:00-10:00 AM	Morning Coffee and Crafting	Start off the morning with a hot beverage and a craft! Bring the materials for a craft that you would like to work on.
10:00-11:30 AM	Gartic Phone	Have you ever played telephone? Have you ever played telephone where you drew what you heard one round, then the next player had to guess the text based on the image, and on and on into Chaos? Let's do it online!
11:30 AM-1:00 PM	Meal Break	Offline break for lunch
1:00-2:30 PM	Body Doubling	Body doubling is having another person around when you need to do something you’re having difficulty getting started or focusing on. Bring what whatever task you're having trouble getting started on, and we can each work on our own tasks with company, even if you're just house cleaning, doing homework or making dinner!
2:30-4:00 PM	Building an SCC Songs & Stories Archive	A little Bardic in the afternoon! We're creating an SCC Archive of our songs and stories, for use by the community for years to come. Come share the songs you love that we sing, poems from Bardic, ritual music from past events, or something new and meaningful that you think should be included.
4:00-5:30 PM	SCC Chopped Challenge	Novices, chefs, kitchen disasters- all are welcome to compete! Make a masterpiece with shared ingredients a la Chopped, and we'll all admire the wide variety of dishes we produce.
5:30-7:00 PM	Meal Discussion: Topic TBD	We love chatting over a good meal! Grab some food and join us for a discussion, topic to be announced.
7:00-8:00 PM	Main Ritual	Our main ritual themed around Lughnasad.
8:00 PM	Movie Night!	A watchalong of a classic movie themed around game and contest.


Sunday	Activity	Description
9:00-10:00 AM	Morning Coffee and Crafting	Start off the morning with a hot beverage and a craft! Bring the materials for a craft that you would like to work on.
10:00-11:30 AM	Raccoon Competition	Bring out your inner raccoon! We'll meet up briefly to explain, then everyone should go walk your neighborhood to pick up trash! There will be PRIZES.
11:30 AM-1:00 PM	Meal Activity: Lugh as Matchmaker	Did you know Lughnasad is a matchmaking holiday? Come get randomly matched by the will of Lugh, share and learn some fun things about your fellow ateendees, and come out of the activity with new friends!
1:00-2:30 PM	Zoom Pictionary	Our final group game for the week is a silly one and a classic- pictionary!
2:30 PM	Closing Ritual, Goodbyes, and Weekend Wind down	We draw our weekend to a close in ceremony and reflection. After ritual, we will say our goodbyes to the weekend- and then wind down by talking about how it went! What did you like, what would you like to see more of? What new ideas would you like to share for future events?

SFG 2026 Intensive (Monday, August 31, 2026)

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

SFG 2026 Intensive

Activities:

Digging footers
Pouring Concrete
Setting up canopy tents
Strapping stones onto sleds
Placing signage and lights
Stacking & splitting firewood
Last-Minute Shopping Trips
S'mores with Friends

FAQ:

What is the Intensive?

Raising stones takes a lot of work! More work, in fact, than we can fit into a long weekend. So some brave volunteers venture out to the site early, to get things ready for the rest of us. We call this prep work the "Intensive".

How much does it cost to attend?

There is no charge to attend! The Intensive is not an "event" like the Stones Family Gathering proper, and we are not going to make you pay to volunteer for us. If you want an accommodation other than what SCC has booked, you will need to pay for that yourself, but tenting on the Island is included in your registration.

Where will I sleep?

SCC has booked The Island group campsite for us. Bring your usual camping gear, and we'll set up a little village together.

If you would prefer indoor space in one of Buffalo Gap's cabins, there be space in the Slane's Knob and Sandy Ridge shared dorms for an additional fee per night.

How will I eat?

Typically one (or a few) members of the group will cook for the rest, and/or we will setup a potluck-style meal plan. If you have food allergies, be sure to note them on your registration so the cook(s) know how to keep you safe. Two meals will be provided each day, breakfast and dinner, so bring along any snacks or additional food you will need for in between.

Stoneside Chat with the Officers: Mabon (Wednesday, September 16, 2026)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Join the Stone Circle Council Officers for an informal hangout and chat! Ask questions, tell us your thoughts, or just join for some parallel play/work/crafts.

Stoneside Chats will now be held on a date aligned near the wheel of the year! Spend time with us from 7-8pm EST on Zoom in the Workshop.

https://tinyurl.com/Workshopscc

Stoneside Chat with the Officers: Samhain (Wednesday, October 28, 2026)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 23:00:00 GMT

Join the Stone Circle Council Officers for an informal hangout and chat! Ask questions, tell us your thoughts, or just join for some parallel play/work/crafts.

Stoneside Chats will now be held on a date aligned near the wheel of the year! Spend time with us from 7-8pm EST on Zoom in the Workshop.

https://tinyurl.com/Workshopscc

Stoneside Chat with the Officers: Yule (Wednesday, December 16, 2026)

Thu, 17 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Join the Stone Circle Council Officers for an informal hangout and chat! Ask questions, tell us your thoughts, or just join for some parallel play/work/crafts.

Stoneside Chats will now be held on a date aligned near the wheel of the year! Spend time with us from 7-8pm EST on Zoom in the Workshop.

https://tinyurl.com/Workshopscc