About Us

About Reading Pagans & Witches

Reading Pagans & Witches is a Non Profit Organization serving the Berks County (Pennsylvania) and Greater Reading Area with a focus on celebrating Pagans & Witches as well as other nature-based and alternative faiths. We are founded for education and community outreach purposes. We achieve this by providing a place that is open to all, regardless of their individual beliefs, and as a growing haven to advance pagan ideals non-invasively to the wider world, but with the principles that Pagans can be, and truly are, a viable, vital, and valuable force.

We began in October, 2004, as a discussion group and a face to face social gathering for the local community. From our meager beginning with only one person at our first meeting to having almost four dozen people attending our meetings less than a year later, our group has grown and evolved. In January 2009 we incorporated as a Non Profit organization in the state of Pennsylvania.

There are many places to find us. Our online forum complements our twice-monthly group meetings. In addition, we hold once-monthly youth group meetings.

We also hold four events each year. Our three festivals and expos include a mixture of music, entertainment, ritual, discussions & lectures, children's activities, healers, readers, and vendors with spiritual wares. In late January we hold the Imbolc Gathering & Expo. Early May will find us hosting the PA May Faire. In the autumn we have the Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival. We end the year each December with the Yule Ball , where guests dress in everything from cocktail to full formal wear to Renaissance gear and come out for a great evening with music, dancing, food, and friends.

We also are currently involved in community service projects, including Pennsylvania’s Adopt-A-Highway project and working with Berks Women in Crisis and the Berks AIDS Network.

This site was last updated 01/02/10