Please stop asking the same question that has been answered. The National Gathering is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALwAYS the week of July 4. LOCATION: announced in June, though many of the posts in here will have reasonable speculation. Local and region info is available through a variety of networks, one of the good starting places is www.welcomehere.org. also, some background can be had at www.welcomehome.org. here is Welcome Homes.org's link page: http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/events/regional.html some regional sites: http://www.phillyrainbowfamily.org/ http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/1349/ (ill) http://www.geocities.com/scottiebou812/NWORF.html (NW Ohio) http://www.nyrainbow.org/ http://members.fortunecity.com/fbush2/rainbow.html (guy in Hawaii) http://www.greatlakesrainbow.info/ http://home.earthlink.net/~scrollinfo/ (so cal, posting National will be Tex/Okla/Ark in 2007) \http://www.infolation.com/calm/ (CALM) http://groups.msn.com/OntarioRainbowFamily Outside North America? http://australia.rainbowinfo.ch/ http://www.rainbow.israel.net/ http://www.polski-krag.prv.pl/ (poland... seems like a glitchy site on Firefox) http://www.rainbow.net.ru/english.html (russia) http://frenchrainbow.free.fr/ (French Rainbow english we love you chants)