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"Sell out warning! Proper pagan fun from the alternative community at Bridge Farm (like the Wicker Man with a PG rating). Delve into the true meaning of Halloween with storytelling, clown ritual, fire ceremony, tarot reading and esoteric folk music."
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A event on Saturday 2nd November. The event starts at 13:00.
All are welcome in to celebrate the arrival of the dark with us...
Expect the unexpected
Delve into a one day, all day event celebrating nature, creation and wonder
Witness performance, music, and ritual
Participate in Workshops, readings and play
Revel with food, drink, and disguise
From 1pm - 10pm
little Devils Welcome
Larger Spell makers enticed
Costume Strongly encouraged
Samhain means “End of Summer” in Celtic. This time will mark the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter, and the darker months. The halfway point between autumn and winter equinoxes, one of the four seasonal Celtic festivals of the year
Programme:
1pm - Doors open, Food and drink available, Children’s activities begin
2pm - 3pm
Drawing Workshop in the Greenhouse with Holly
2pm-4pm
Samhain Playfight Workshop in the Front Garden – Welcoming your primal power - donation based
2- 4pm Tarot readings in the Farmhouse with Ruth
2:45pm - 4pm
Eulogy of the Fool: a Samhuinn clown ritual with Robyn of the Bristol Clown School (Gather in the woodland area, 16+, no entry after 3pm - Free but places limited, book your place [email protected])
3pm - 3:45 Samhain Movement Medicine Dance Workshop with Malena - in the fire sculpture area
3pm - The Wild Greens Live Set in the Long Barn
‘Offer up close harmonies from a singing collective that love folk music. Cosy up for songs of autumn, woodland creatures, witches eerie chills and rising darkness’
4pm- Procession, Fire Ceremony and ushaway ritual – Gather in main street
5pm – The Island Folk Choir Candle-lit performance in the woodland area
5pm – 8pm Tarot Readings with Jupiter Oak Tarot in B1 Barn
6pm – Black Crow Zodiac Live Set in the Long Barn
7pm – Silky Disturbance Live Set in the Long Barn
8pm – DJ set with Three Thirty Three
9pm – The Stone Jars
10pm – Event Ends
Historically, it is a time when the world of gods and spirits are revealed to humans, when the barrier between our worlds thins. At this time, the gods were believed to play many tricks on humans, with spooky and unexplainable occurrences happening. We strengthen our connection to them through music, fire, dance, and offer food and drink to celebrate.
Come dressed as your finest self that shines a light on all that crawls, creeps, floats and tweets. Powerful folk, humble folk, another living thing, or those that are not...To cast your spells upon the land and set your winter intentions. To burn, move through, and usher away all that you do not wish to work with as we shed and head into this new season together...
With special surprises from local artists, and the wider community here in Bristol to keep these ancient traditions alive and to add our own...
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Expect the unexpected
Delve into a one day, all day event celebrating nature, creation and wonder
Witness performance, music, and ritual
Participate in Workshops, readings and play
Revel with food, drink, and disguise
From 1pm - 10pm
little Devils Welcome
Larger Spell makers enticed
Costume Strongly encouraged
Samhain means “End of Summer” in Celtic. This time will mark the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter, and the darker months. The halfway point between autumn and winter equinoxes, one of the four seasonal Celtic festivals of the year
Programme:
1pm - Doors open, Food and drink available, Children’s activities begin
2pm - 3pm
Drawing Workshop in the Greenhouse with Holly
2pm-4pm
Samhain Playfight Workshop in the Front Garden – Welcoming your primal power - donation based
2- 4pm Tarot readings in the Farmhouse with Ruth
2:45pm - 4pm
Eulogy of the Fool: a Samhuinn clown ritual with Robyn of the Bristol Clown School (Gather in the woodland area, 16+, no entry after 3pm - Free but places limited, book your place [email protected])
3pm - 3:45 Samhain Movement Medicine Dance Workshop with Malena - in the fire sculpture area
3pm - The Wild Greens Live Set in the Long Barn
‘Offer up close harmonies from a singing collective that love folk music. Cosy up for songs of autumn, woodland creatures, witches eerie chills and rising darkness’
4pm- Procession, Fire Ceremony and ushaway ritual – Gather in main street
5pm – The Island Folk Choir Candle-lit performance in the woodland area
5pm – 8pm Tarot Readings with Jupiter Oak Tarot in B1 Barn
6pm – Black Crow Zodiac Live Set in the Long Barn
7pm – Silky Disturbance Live Set in the Long Barn
8pm – DJ set with Three Thirty Three
9pm – The Stone Jars
10pm – Event Ends
Historically, it is a time when the world of gods and spirits are revealed to humans, when the barrier between our worlds thins. At this time, the gods were believed to play many tricks on humans, with spooky and unexplainable occurrences happening. We strengthen our connection to them through music, fire, dance, and offer food and drink to celebrate.
Come dressed as your finest self that shines a light on all that crawls, creeps, floats and tweets. Powerful folk, humble folk, another living thing, or those that are not...To cast your spells upon the land and set your winter intentions. To burn, move through, and usher away all that you do not wish to work with as we shed and head into this new season together...
With special surprises from local artists, and the wider community here in Bristol to keep these ancient traditions alive and to add our own...
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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