Outside

Playful warm-ups and games, partner balances and tricks, group balances.

Build connection and trust, work on courage and motor skills and concentration.

Mostly importantly, have fun with your children in a physical happy space.

Facilitator: Rowan

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Gather by main fire at 8pm with drums, instruments, fiery costumes, chairs to sit on and anything else you need.

We begin with music and dance as people gather, then we cast a ritual circle and honour the elements, the folk and the land. We will be led in together honouring fire: inner, personal, interpersonal and planetary. We will honour (and if we wish to, experience) its cleansing properties. We will honour fire as bringer of life: sun, warmth, heat. We will honour its creative and its destructive manifestations and ask that we be part of the solution for restoring balance on the earth.

Those that wish may offer themselves in service to the earth's renewal. There will be some periods of quiet reflection and some of noise and movement. The circle will be opened and the energy grounded at the end, so please stay til the end or practice your own separation and grounding.

Any called may stay and sit with the quiet of the fire afterwards.  

Facilitators: Al Head & QSF Energy Circle

Location: Outside - Fire Circle

On this walk, we will explore the abundant wild edible plants that cover our islands.

We will look at the stories and common names that tell of the rich cultural history between humans and plants on these Isles. The plants will share their stories and help us to read the landscape, find food, medicine and materials and belonging in our wounded world.

Using my experience, I will help you to relearn ways of connecting to the Land and how to start rescuing our bountiful biodiverse home.

Facilitator: Mackerel Sky

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Movement & Voice Ritual, with easy elements of Tai chi, Qi gong, Arab, Egyptian, chakras and Native American inspired creation 'love song to creation'.

Facilitator: Sky Chapman

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

An introduction to some of the trees used in the ancient Ogham alphabet. We will identify them while discussing their herbal and magical properties.

Facilitator: George Kestell

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Placebo Apothecary is a walkabout micro-workshop based out of a suitcase.

It is an ongoing collaborative art-experiment with the technology of the placebo effect. Through playful psyche-hacking, we explore the rituals of intoxication without imbibing any psychoactive chemicals.

Utilising a combination of inert and edible components, we create together a symbolic piece of pill-art - a fully ingestible spell bottle - a placebo drug that is a physical weaving of intention to invoke one’s desired state.

Facilitator: Scribe Nexus

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

We'll be connecting with our creative spirits and unleashing them on the page.

After a brief discussion of the impact poetry can have, we'll meditate on connecting to our throat chakra, the seat of speaking forth our truth.

Participants will then be guided through a series of quick prompts which will culminate in a session of writing.

Facilitator: Sam Patterson

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

This creative writing workshop will draw upon our natural surroundings, namely any lichen we can find, to inspire our writing.

We will use a series of exercises and group generated prompts to create both group and individual pieces.

All writers are welcome, regardless of experience, and sharing work is entirely optional.

Facilitator: Sal Fothergill

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Poetry has connected us to the spiritual for as long as we've had language.

Through song, prayer, and mantra, we have attempted to commune with the divineness outside us, and prompt out the divineness within us. With rhythm, thyme, alliteration, and syntax we have woven sacred lessons into stories, fables, and recipes which have been passed down through generations.

What lessons can we impart to our queer ancestors in the future? What queer utopias can we manifest for ourselves with repeated incantation? How can we turn a poem into a tool for transformation? How can we sustain ourselves through text? What Queer entity we might pray to, what deity might we imagine for ourselves and then, through lyric, conjure?

Facilitator: Day Mattar

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Come with me on a journey through the infinitely diverse relationships that make our universe tick.

Will will be using our queer perspectives to challenge and question preconceived ideas about our wild world and, by meeting the non-human beings around us at the festival, we will see examples of non-binary fineries that demonstrate the Queerness of our planet home/Lover Earth.

Facilitator: Mackerel Sky

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Meet the land through movement (kids welcome)

Dress up if you fancy and join Scarlet to go greet the land and spirits of Bridwell Park!

Facilitator: Scarlet Sumagr

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Singing group with focus on sacred chants and songs and improvised free expression.

Facilitator: Delrae Rix

Location: Outdoors - Fire Circle

A casual singing session, proving that singing is for everyone - no experience needed.

Expect fun vocal and body warmups, making a human sound bath, sonic meditations, easy folk songs from around the world, rounds and sea shanties. I am also very open to people bringing their own songs to share, if they are easily teachable.

There will be no gendered parts or sheet music. Just voices and bodies vibrating together, affirming that every sound that comes out of you is valid.

Facilitator: Scarlet Lasoff

Location, first session:Workshop dome
Location, second session: Outside - Meet at village hall

A calming forest journeying session to wind down and immerse yourself in nature.

Connect with the forest, meet your spirit guide or spirit animal and be able to ask them important questions to access part of you that has hidden. Find knowledge and a deeper understanding of your path in life.

Open to all aged 12+, but this workshop is especially for neurodivergents and chronic illness queers.  If you have something in your life that is a problem, dilemma or is niggling away, please come and connect with yourself to gain clarity and insight. Please see http://www.earthcoaching.net for more information.

Facilitator: Bex Harper

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall

Can’t tell an ash from an oak or a beech from a hazel? Or maybe you’ve started getting to know a few trees but want to gain more confidence.

During this workshop, we’ll take a walk to look at the distinguishing features of common native trees, so that you can confidentially identify a handful of species. We’ll also share methods for deepening this knowledge back home.

One of the first questions we ask each other is ‘what is your name?’. Knowing the names of the plants around us is essential to deepening our understanding of the natural world. It helps us get to know them as individuals, learn their needs, and build lifelong relationships.

Facilitator: Nick Jarvis

Location: Outside - Meet at village hall