Samhain – Day of the Dead Festival A celebration of life & death
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A weekend of sublime music, story, enchanting workshops & delicious feasts, plus ancient tales and divine poetry
A beautiful community gathering to celebrate the ancient festival of Samhain. Long before Halloween, Samhain was the Celtic festival to honour the ancestors and the passing of autumn to winter, into the darkest time of the year.
A perfect time to come together before the long winter to celebrate and share with friends old and new. A time to dive deep into being! Beautiful ecstatic music from around the world, workshops, ritual and ceremony, feasting and a whole lot more as ever.
With either camping in super cosy bell tents, BYO tent, camper van or cosy rooms in Emerson College.
Local home grown biodynamic food is available as a whole meal package or individual meals. The food is divine vegan/veggie, healthy, tasty & organic. For individual meals, you can buy at reception on arrival.
To book food and rooms in college: https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/into-the-wild-samhain/ To book a cosy bell tent with extra warm bedding Password: Samhain24
Come and bring your wild majesty to this celebration of life!
Honey in the heart
May we all jump up and live again!
Any questions about food and accommodation at Emerson College contact them direct on [email protected] or call 01342 827 951
This is an adult only event, no kids to this one, sorry! (due to college rules)
Programme.
Friday:
Arrive from 4
Dinner 6 -7.30
7.30 onwards
Kirtan – Prayers & ecstatic music for a holy evening
Enchanted folk stories from around the world with Xanthe Graham
Skeleton bride –
Red princess –
Day of Dead
Baba Yaga and weeping woman –
Music with Butterfly Wheel
https://reiditandweep.bandcamp.com/track/call-to-shore
Saturday:
7 – 8 Chi Gung with Swami Si
8 – 9 Breakfast
9 – 10 Roaring silence. Meditation. Awareness & Enquiry
10 – 11.30
Dancing with the Ancestors – a dance ritual. With Ayla Willow
Deep into our bones, roots and ancestral landscape we will dance…
Opening our hearts in the container of this dance prayer and ritual we will give our ancestors voice through body, through dance and through the spirit realms that we will touch through the veil.
Dancing with the feet of our ancestors that have touched the earth through time.
Opening to the elemental, mineral and spirit worlds where the ancestors reside eternally.
As we come together in this dance, we say yes to life and to death. We embrace our reality as the living ancestors of tomorrow and we open to the legacy, gifts and support of the ancestors that have walked before us. Their stories are the threads that weave our lives, and these stories live and yearn to be told in our hearts, bodies and bones.
What is ours to dance this Samhain, what is being called of us for the generations that come? Let us widen the web to trace that map with the support of the seen and the unseen.
“If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment.
11.30 – 1
Drumming circle
Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny
Dive deep into presence through drumming and rhythms to find the drumbeat of the soul
With Denys
Or 🔥
Fire Workshop.
A journey through fire harnessing the power of flint and steel through the ages.
A chance to learn the primitive and modern ways to conjure up the First Element and warm our bodies and hearts for the Winter to come.
With Gary Butcher ( Gazza)
Meditation
1 – 3 lunch
3 – 4.30 – Sound bath with Leah star – sacred sound immersion diving deep into the primordial stillness
4.30 – 6.30 Diwali & Samhain fire Ceremony with Lindsey Vandita & friends
6.30 – 8
Envahted Storytelling with Charlie Kesem
Music with Bethan Lloyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOYKutUIF0&list=RDEM2onYuMUIIDvJfgiejCnPIw&start_radio=1
Music with Reid:
https://reiditandweep.bandcamp.com/album/lone-wolf
Sunday:
7 – 8 Chi Gung with Swami Si
8 – 9 Breakfast
9 – 10 Roaring silence. Meditation. Awareness & Enquiry
10 – 11.30 Singing and sacred sound workshop tbc
11.30 – 1 Lynne Ridden. Ancestral Gifts
Ignite our own inner flames. come and join us in sacred circle, journey to the drum and connect deeply with your ancestral creative, passionate, furious life force that is calling to be lived fully right here right now!
Lunch and finish
