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Latest Past Events
The Tent of Seven Doors
This summer school with Dr Martin Shaw invites you to walk through seven doors, just as the old stories tell us. Not six, not eight, seven. In deeply troubled times, this is a moment to enter the magic of place, story, language; to study with a master storyteller in the landscape he lives and creates...
The Hawk & the Holly
Studio One Space, Dartington Estate, TotnesJoin Dr Martin Shaw for an electrifying evening featuring a brand new telling of Gawain & the Green Knight. Martin has brooded on this magnificent story for over 20 years and is now finally ready to tell it. While feasting, King Arthur calls out for a new adventure, a door flies open and a knight...
Beautiful Learning: Oral Thought and Culture-Making
Moorland Hotel Haytor, Newton AbbotDuring this enforced hiatus of the everyday, what, amongst all that fell away, are the threads you want to deepen into? What has value? Over the gathering, we will move between mythic and personal narratives, and the teeming creel of associations we have with that big word Storyteller. Martin will be working into Celtic stories and philosophy, to include a rare telling of the Invasion Tales of Erin and the Arrival of the Tuatha De Danann.