Join us in celebrating the Summer Solstice in community! Come to the forest and experience songs, music, poetry, Breton Dancing and storytelling beside the fire. We gather to honour the sun reaching it's zenith at the festival of the Summer Solstice. This season heralds the time of maximum solar energy within ourselves and upon the land about us. Many ancient monuments, such as Stonehenge, Callanish and the Ring of Brodgar, were aligned to the first solar rays of this festival.
Planning to be with us: We invite you to arrive in the space from 6pm ready for the ceremony to promptly start at 6.30pm; we ask you to be comfortable in your seat by 6:30pm so we can start on time. There will be no admittance from 6:45pm as the ceremonial space will have been opened and in progress, so please allow enough time to walk the short woodland path from the car park - details and directions:
https://thewoodland.co/directions/
Logistics: This event is held within the Woodland Glade of the Dartington Estate. We have versatile indoor and outdoor spaces, refreshments and the warmth of the hearth-fire to cheer us. We suggest dressing with layers for warmth or coolness - outside may be cold and the log burner in the Nest can create a very warm space. (Please note dogs are not permitted at this venue)
A sober event suitable for ages 12+. Pre-booking is required. Tickets are offered on a sliding scale of £16 and £22 per person depending on your means. We also have a few £11 concessionary tickets available if these prices are out of reach for you at this time.
We hope to see you there and we look forward to welcoming you.
The Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective
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Performer bios
Selena Mara
I’m a Celtic Indie Folk Singer, Songwriter and Singing Facilitator. I love to bring people together through singing songs that honour and celebrate our connection to the land, nature, the seasonal cycles and festivals, and heartful community. I draw on my experiences from 20 years of living on the land including 7 years travelling on foot across the Westcountry with a tribe of eco-activists and musicians.
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Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective bios
Madeleine Honor
Madeleine is a mother, singer, performer, sound & energy facilitator, kundalini yoga teacher, and creative practitioner. Madeleine has spent years as a performer and running drama and singing workshops with groups of women, children and refugees.
https://www.instagram.com/madeleinehonor3/
In her performances she often includes song, movement and mantra. Her deep connection to the natural world and shamanic practices are woven into a mesmerising landscape to create a sacred ceremonial experience.
Michelle Cadby
As an experienced space holder, breathwork facilitator, ceremonialist, grief tender and artist, Michelle loves creating rituals and holding ceremonies with ritual, song and poetry woven throughout, in reverence to this one wild and precious life, and as an invitation to come together in community like our ancestors did; whether that be to grieve, to breathe, to dance, to share in circle, or to mark the change of seasons and the turn of the wheel.
Michelle holds 121 and group breathwork ceremonies, Grief and gratitude ceremonies, Womben Nature Dances in Dartmoor and is the host and ceremonialist of the Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective, and sometimes performer, sharing her poetry and musical offerings at such gatherings as these seasonal ceremonies.
To gather in person or online, and find out more, visit: michellecadby.com
https://www.instagram.com/michellecadby/
Adam Powell
Adam is a multi instrumentalist storyteller with a passion for bringing the indigenous British Isles to life. He has read a degree in Medieval History, is a member of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, is a menswork facilitator in the Mankind Project and an interfaith world pilgrim.
Youtube @adamwjpowell
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Totnes Wheel of the Year Collective host events focused on the 8 festivals of the Celtic calendar.
To date we have brought together over 300 people in ceremony and enabled 28 artists to perform and be remunerated for the work they do.
If you would like to help us in organising these events then please get in touch. We started two years ago as a group of volunteers and appreciate assistance.
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