WHAT'S ON AT QUEER SPIRIT FESTIVAL 2023 - First peek...

The Festival Team is busy preparing a programme of delights for the 4th Queer Spirit, featuring ceremonies, workshops, performance, dance parties, healing area, fire circles and much more. Here is a selection of what we have lined up with more to follow in the coming weeks & months.

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Tomkinascious - DJ sets featuring techno/melodic/progressive tracks with tribal dance and unity in mind

King Frankie Sinatra - Stand up and singing from top drag king

Shamanic Spice - Genre-bending drag show with live singing and fabulous costumes

Hunting Hearts -  4 piece alt rock band with catchy hooks, raucous energy and singable anthems

Baba Yagga - Funny, absurd drag character

Rites of Hadda - Anarcho, pagan, gothic, psychedelic Witchpunk band from London.

Astro - Electro-pop super nova and performer of fag-pop classics

 CEREMONIES

NEW MOON FIRE CEREMONY opens the Festival on Thursday evening

ANCESTOR RITUAL led by Anna Hoffman, Followed later by the Ancestral GetDown in the Big Top

BREATH CEREMONY Facilitated by Lisa Li

BROTHERHOOD OF CERNUNNOS RITUAL led by Mark Black

FIRE CERMONY with Jo Atiase honouring ancestors and elementals

SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE facilitated by Shokti Lovestar

WORKSHOPS

There will be a packed and diverse programme of workshops, discussions and activities, taking place around the festival site in the Big Top, Workshop Dome, Sacred Sexuality Temple, Healing Area, Campaigns Tent and of course outside in the enchanted nature of Bridwell Park. Examples include:

The Prism - a journey through 7 different spaces that represent different aspects of queer life including The Masquerade, The Hall of Mirrors, The Place of Queer Ancestors, The Mountain...

Trans*mission – Shamanic Voice Dialogue: Spiritual Awakening and Gender Transcendence: ''It’s time to celebrate our differences and see beyond them. By embodying the divine masc and femme energies we will open up to the magical gifts they have to offer. As we sacredly unite these so called polarities we will passionately give birth to our own inner Goddexx prodigy." 

Queerness in Nature - A walk on the land exploring examples of how nature is queer and bring belonging and connection with Earth back to our queer souls.

Playfight Ritual - "A safe ritual for lustful lovers, wild warriors and dirty dancers, for cuddle-puddlers, inner children and wild beasts to meet each other protected by a circle of compassionate witnesses. In a playfight you are allowed to find your strength as well as your vulnerability." 

Shamanic Journeys. Drum Circles

Ancestral Movement. Shamanic Vogueing! 

Astrology/Tarot/Hypnosis Meet Ups

The Queer Joy of Food

Creative Writing: Poetry, Queer Zine

Plus Yoga, QI Gong, Meditations, Sharing circles, Discussions and more!

 

Feedback from the 2019 Festival...

“An illuminating haven of heart-healing, earth-grounding, fire-gazing, beautiful surprises and a return to our spirit-home”

“I experienced more love and acceptance than I have in my entire life and i felt like a flower slowly opening”

“Wonderful, glorious, fantastic, ecstatic, deep, personal, inimitable experience!”

“The most beautiful and nourishing space i have ever experienced!”

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