Only Eight Weeks Until Wild Goose Takes Flight

Here is a Wild Goose Update from Mike Morrell:

 

Tickets

Wild Goose four-day passes are presently $129 for adults, and $99 for students; there are family rates, group discounts, and all kinds of other permutations. Ticket prices will rise on May 15th, so now's a great time to get your passes if you're on the fence. And if you already have yours, try and get two of your friends to sign up this week! Please tweet, blog, Facebook, and otherwise let people know that tickets are on sale here.

Things to check out & share:

We got big music news yesterday: David Bazan (Pedro The Lion) will be playing the Goose! We're excited to have this thoughtful, passionate, fan-favorite singer-songwriter with us. 

 

 NPR has been running a moving series of stories about the courageous women behind the social entreprenurial initiative Thistle Farms - one of our partners who'll be present at the festival to speak and perform.  I blogged about these amazing women this week - please check it out, and share it if you're so moved. 

 

Need a ride? Have space in your vehicle? We want to facilitate people traveling to the festival, and are encouraging people to use our facebook event page to link up with others if you can provide or need a ride.

 

Goose friends Tony Jones, Jay Bakker, and Pete Rollins are good-naturedly competing with each other to win this cuddly goose, by seeing how many of their Twitter followers buy tickets using their personalized discount code.  The whole story is here; and you can tweet your support for any or all of these three as often as you want - the competition ends Saturday, with new contestants next week.

 

I hope this weekly mini-update will be helpful, whether you're a committed attendee or someone considering making the migration! Please use anything in this newsletter to help spread the word; there's no one your friends trust more than you. Let me know the ways you're sharing the Goose in your community (physical or virtual), and I'll share them in upcoming newsletters. 

 

Selah

Finally, in the midst of all the busyness I know we're all going through, we at Goose Central are increasingly aware of the value of seeking to bring people together at the intersection of justice, spirituality and art. Now more than ever, we need an open, experimental space filled with laughter and fire, voices and silence, music and conversations. Perhaps more urgently than before, we need this opportunity to renew our faith as a community that becomes more than the sum of its parts.  

The Wild Goose Festival has been a long time coming - we're nearly there, we're in it together, and these next few weeks are critical. Only we - with the Holy Wild Goose's help - can create and sustain a fresh social, aesthetic, and spiritual culture in North America - one that is authentically sourced in the living example of Jesus, and therefore spacious, welcoming, and hospitable to all.