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Wolf Milk: a Counsel of Resistance and Delight
Embercombe Higher Ashton, Exeter, Devon, United KingdomA New Intensive Weekend with Dr Martin Shaw. Myth, Rites of Passage, The Times We Are In. Martin Shaw writes: Back at the end of last year I wrote this - "For the first time in history an initiation is coming that will involve everyone on the planet. Not a rite-of-passage for a few but all of us, human and non-human alike." The plan at that moment was to create a three weekend program that directly related the worlds of myth and rites-of-passage, something that has been a core value in my work for twenty years. And then the initiation turned up. And here we are.
Beautiful Learning: Oral Thought and Culture-Making
Moorland Hotel Haytor, Newton Abbot, Devon, United KingdomDuring 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.
The Hawk & the Holly
Studio One Space, Dartington Estate, Totnes, Devon, United KingdomJoin 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...
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...