The vision council at the European Gathering in Portugal has reached consensus about the 2012 European Gathering. The consensus can be summarised as follows:

• Location: Slovakia
• Official start of the gathering: new moon, 19 July 2012. Seed camp will start about 2 weeks before this date. (Exact time of the new moon: 19 July, 6.24h.)
  
• Full moon peak: 1 and 2 August. (Exact time of the full moon: 2 August 2012, 5.27h. Central European Time.)
• Official end of the gathering: new moon, 17 August 2012. (Exact time of the new moon: 17.54h. Central European Time.)

More info soon available via this page - also about other consensus decisions from the 2011 Vision Council.

European Rainbowgathering Forum

From now on, a new forum is available at this domain, Rainbowgathering.eu. The forum is meant to facilitate communication about:

• the evaluation of the 2011 European Gathering in Portugal as well as of previous European Gatherings;
• the organisation of the 2012 European Gathering in Slovakia;
• other events covered by Vision Council consensus, notably the 2012 caravan Wales - Slovakia - Greece - Israel.

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