Our home, in progress
A third place with heart
One roof over a gift shop, a members lounge, and a sanctuary. Here is what we are envisioning.
What We Are Building
We do not have the keys yet. This is the hall we are raising money to open: one roof over a gift shop, a members lounge, and a sanctuary, in Louisville, with the door unlocked to anyone curious enough to walk through it.
Open by default
Programs, ceremonies, the Sanctuary, and pastoral care stay free of any membership requirement.
Funded by all of us
Shop revenue, Hearth-Keeper shares, donations, and rental income all go back into keeping the doors open.
The Gift Shop
The first room you meet. Handmade goods and vetted partner products from across the Celtic world, chosen the way you would choose a gift for someone you know well.
The Druid’s Hearth
The members lounge, entered through a round door. Somewhere to read, work, argue about the Ulster Cycle, or sit with a cup of tea and say nothing at all.
The Sanctuary
A room set aside for ceremony and meditation. Anyone who comes in open-hearted peace is welcome here, member or not, on ceremony days and on ordinary ones.
What is waiting past the round door
Tea and coffee
A hospitality station kept stocked, in a hall run by a tea master.
Research library
Shelves you can pull from: myth, folklore, language, history.
Tables & couches
Built for lingering, not for turning over a table.
The forum
Hearth-Keepers also get the private online forum, open between visits.
Borrow the hall for your own gathering
When the hall is not in programming, it is available to rent: workshops, rehearsals, memorials, handfastings, meetings, small concerts. Rental income goes straight back into the building.
Rates and availability follow once we have the keys. Tell us what you are planning and we will hold the conversation until then.
News from the Hall
THE HALLOWS HERALD
Our free quarterly newsletter. Programs, events, and news from the Hall, four times a year.
