The Pagan Pride Project is a national non-profit organization that aims to advance religion and eliminate prejudice and discrimination based on religion. Their mission is to foster pride in Pagan identity through education, activism, charity and community. The project promotes tolerance and understanding between people with different belief systems. Under the Pagan Pride Project's umbrella, events have been hosted in all 50 states and several countries around the world since 1997. Although events are locally organized, each has the common thread of educating the community and ending discrimination based on spiritual beliefs. Each event must organize a donation drive that benefits a local charity in need.
WHAT IS PAGAN PRIDE DAY?
The Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Project was formed in 2012 by a group of local Pagans who wanted to share their faith, meet other practitioners of Pagan faiths, and reduce religious discrimination in New Orleans. As the spiritual environment in New Orleans is truly eclectic, the Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Project includes syncretic traditions like Voodoo & Hoodoo, and anyone who self-identifies as Pagan. Our first festival was held in 2013, and has grown annually.
We are excited to announce that 2022 marks the 8th Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Day event!
WHAT ABOUT THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS PAGAN PRIDE PROJECT?
Jeremy Joy
Jeremy studies the properties of minerals and plants. [Insert More]
Ulix VanBeber
Ulix is the president of the Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Project. He is a professional diviner and ritual artist. Ulix founded Academie Gnostique in 2016, where they teach divination, occult philosophy, and advanced runology.
Michael Eckhard
Michael is the Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride Project's treasurer. He has studied ceremonial magick, the Theugry of Iamblichus, Chaos Magick and other traditions, as well as religion and the meditative techniques of the enlightenment traditions.
Jasmine Schumaker
Jasmine is vice-president of the Greater New Orleans Pagan Pride. She's an instrumental part of event planning & implementation. Jasmine has been a magical practitioner for over 35 years. She dabbles in Shamanism, Chaos Magic, Luciferianisim, Satanism and has a vast knowledge of herbalism.
Emily Schumacher
Emily Schumacher is a New Orleans native, educator, writer, and ritualist. She is an initiate of multiple traditions, is an officer of Alombrados OTO, and oversees curriculum at Académie Gnostique, a school of magic and esotericism in New Orleans. Emily is also an artist working in textile and paper mediums creating tarot, book bindings, and talismanic art.
Jeremy Joy
Michael
Emily
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ulix
Jasmine
