WUUNDER: A Camp for 20-40-Year-Olds & Their Families

Sunday May 12-Friday May 17

For the young-in-spirit, Rowe Camp offers something brand new: Wonderful Unitarian Universalist Network of Diverse Energetic Revolutionaries, a time to recapture an old spirit and create a new community. What happens when Rowe campers grow up? What became of the LRY youth from the 60s and 70s? Where are the people from the early days of YRUU? What is COG? Did you go to Star Island or Summer's End? This camp will be an open space in which to unite these diverse tribes, including the next generation they have spawned. We welcome the fun-loving, energetic, and spirited, as well as the tired and disillusioned. We welcome new faces, even if you've never been to Rowe or heard of Unitarian Universalism before. Come along; bring a partner; bring your children.

Come together to explore who we are, as adults. Find a playful center of laughter. Build an intergenerational community. Create new and lasting connections. Encourage and sustain our spirit and energy. Heal and strengthen ourselves spiritually. Honor the diversity of who we are. Review, reconsider, and rededicate our morals, ideals, values, and identities.

In the spirit and style of Rowe, nothing will be mandatory (except KP). Although we'll be encouraged to participate in the community, each of us will decide what that means. Workshops like massage, mask making, theater, sexuality for adults, sacred dancing, and yoga will be offered. Games like capture the flag, wink, ultimate frisbee, killer, soccer, and twister will be played. Activities like a coffee house, funkadelic dance night, a spirit fire, a drum circle, a silent meal, a grokking chapel, and a candlelight ceremony will be put forth. If you prefer a lazy vacation, you can sit on the porch and bask in the sunlight, sit by the fire and stare at the moon, take a trip to the sauna to cleanse your spirit and mind, walk in the woods or the labyrinth, invent your own workshop, offer a chapel, tend a bonfire, or give a massage. It is up to you.

This is an adult camp, though we welcome your children. We will offer some daytime child care, and we'll encourage parents to work together in mutual support in the evenings. WUUNDER Camp is still a new event, and we'll create it together. For an ongoing, online discussion, please contact wuunder@yahoogroups.com or email to Bonniemorenow@hotmail.com.

The rate for the full week of WUUNDER Camp is being determined, per-day rates are also available. Please contact Rowe C&CC at retreat@rowecenter.org for more information.
 

Bonnie Rovics is a Shiatsu bodywork professional, jazz flutist, grant writer, and festival organizer who has created and run large events. The daughter of a dream and music therapist, she grew up with an intimate knowledge of conferences and workshops. She has led Quaker non-violence trainings, went to Rowe Camp, and attended YRUU (Young Religious Unitarian Universalists) conferences throughout the 80s. Andrew Plummer lives and works in Boston as the video technician for Blue Man Group, an Off-Broadway multi-media show. He was a Rowe camper for several years in the 80s, a Spirit of 1986, and was actively involved in YRUU. Andrew has helped implement several Rowe Senior High reunions, is an artist, and spends lots of time with his pug, Beulah. He loves the magic of Rowe, which he carries with him always.