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…
Read MoreDr Martin Shaw is returning to Ireland with the Medicine House Tour. Using stories as a kind of medicine, each night Martin will decide which remedy to administer. Over an evening, he will move through electrifying renditions of fairy tales, Irish myths and accounts of his own life, including four years living in a tent…
Read MoreA special invitation to join Dr Martin Shaw for a weekend telling of Homer’s The Odyssey in celebration of 20 years of the School of Myth.
Read MoreJoin us for the launch of Bardskull where Martin will be in conversation with the great John Mitchinson of Unbound Publishing. Expect an evening of conviviality, wild imagination and story.
Read MoreApocalyptic story in the face of uncertainty, a day with Dr Martin Shaw exploring how to re-find our relationship with the earth.
Read MoreJoin 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…
Read MoreThis event with Martin Shaw and writer Paul Kingsnorth will explore a Christian way in an age of radical technological change, and cultural and ecological disruption. This day of talks, stories, conversations and explorations will seek to chart a path for the times ahead. It is being hosted by Benburb Priory, Northern Ireland. For more…
Read MoreThe House of Beasts & Vines is a special gathering taking place at an old manor house on the edge of Dartmoor this autumn. In this magical setting, Dr Martin Shaw will be teaching on the subjects most alive for him. From Caucasus myth to Christian wonder tales, from Arthurian mysticism to Siberian folklore, these…
Read MoreA 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.
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