Unless specified otherwise, please meet outside the village hall for all 'Outdoor' workshops.
The distinct blend of martial art and movement that forms Capoeira provides a unique opportunity to develop musicality, flexibility and bodily expression.
During this workshop, explore foundational movements, learn about the history and discover the music that help define this vibrant Afro-Brazilian art-form.
Bring your drums for Capoeira drum rhythms or just come and add to the axé.
Edward guides participants through the poetic process, beginning with emotional immersion and intuitive exploration.
As feelings surface, creative techniques help shape them into verse.
Everyone will write their own poems and is invited to share in a supportive, safe space for learning, reflection, and self-expression.
Embody our unique beauties and oneness with creation, let joy arise.
Shake shimmy out, journey inhabit end to end, delight, release, sound, extend to stars and deep earth, move with creation, stroke light, air, leaves, sing thanxgiving, meet eye to eye and hug.
Foraging is fascinating, useful, edible and sometimes medicinal.
Nature doesn't judge, and it is a place where we can learn to reconnect with ourselves and our place in the world.
Through our senses we will take a deeper dive into what a nature connection is, and when it happens.
Join us for a slow-paced guided walk to meet the medicinal plants growing on site.
We'll stop every few paces to talk about the traditional and modern uses of these herbs as medicine.
We'll share information on correct identification and simple, safe ways to work with these plants at home.
This guided sensory herb walk offers festival-goers an immersive and educational journey through the world of herbs, blending science, traditional knowledge, and a touch of magic.
Participants will learn to identify herbs in their natural environment, explore their medicinal, culinary, and ritual uses, and engage their senses by touching, smelling, and tasting plants along the way.
Through storytelling, hands-on exercises, and simple ritual practices, the walk reveals the hidden energies and folklore of herbs, fostering a sense of wonder, connection, and practical understanding. It's a transformative experience where education, sensory discovery, and enchantment meet.
Through a guided despacho ritual, we release what no longer serves and clarify intention.
Participants will envision their dreams, anchor them with affirmations, and commit to aligned action.
Gentle spell casting and reflection support transformation, manifestation, and grounded integration into daily life.
An embodied nature & inner connection workshop: We sensorily & imaginatively meet our tree kin to shed, nourish and grow our needs, strengths, resources, dreams, losses and community.
We root our tree in the present through drawing or journalling.
Optional invitation to create a queer community forest at the end.
Cernunnos is a European antlered Deity of the Wild.
He exists in nature, particularly in the untamed places like moorland, mountains and deep forests.
This ritual is intended to introduce people to him, to connect with the wildness outside and the wildness within.
Activate your curiosity in a game of sens-ational bingo before channelling your discoveries into story-telling.
Guided by prompts we enter into a more intimate understanding of nature's experiences, needs and dreams.
By learning how we can nurture nature, we learn how it nurtures us and how we can nurture our own.
We will learn how to make your shrine at home and consecrate it to Pachamama, Mother Earth, to protect you, your house and hour loved ones.
We will open a Huaca together, share our wishes, cleanse our souls, renew our energy and dance Andean music.
We open so the way to the Hanac Pacha, otherwise known as Heaven.
We will worship together. We sit in silence, finding the Queer Spirit within each of us.
If Spirit moves you to speak, stand and speak to the Meeting.
If you would like to know more please chat to Abigail or Kate.
Taking a step is one of the most complex and powerful actions we can take: It allows us to explore, experience and travel through space and time, move through emotion and memory, it is a tool for connection and disconnection - with the world around and within us.
Based on my experience as a lifelong dancer, complex trauma, occupational therapist and practicer of various spiritual body based practices and somatic practices.
And what I have learned from people with learning disabilities and neurodivergence that I have had the privilege of working with.
There will be a short talk/discussion - what are sensory needs and what are the sensory preferences we have. An intro to sensory integration and body/movement based sensory integration strategies.
I welcome and I invite any neurodivergence or otherwise folks to share their wisdom.
We work as a group releasing sound from our bodies through relaxation, eradicating tension, exploring resonance through vocal exercises and techniques.
Moving on to layering harmonies, firstly in two parts, then three and maybe more as confidence grows.
Come release endorphins and bask in joyful harmony singing.
In this singing circle, we reclaim our place in the circle of life as queer beings.
Through song, we call to the elements, to ancestors, to guiding spirits, to the heart, and to the cosmos.
Together we awaken belonging, courage, and the unique vision we carry for the world.
A workshop that invites us all to explore how we share stories in order to connect, build community and combat capitalism.
Come alone if you want to make new friends, come with friends if you want to explore anti capitalist movements.
Come as you are and explore ideas around story, the land and community together
A walk through the woods onsite to meet the trees, observing their key identifying features, and how they grow and interact in the ecosystem.
We will discuss the needs and wants of different species, what challenges they might be facing, and whether we can help.
Bring a notebook and pencil if possible.
Capella will guide you along our starry night skies bringing to life their shapes in the sky through observational astronomy, magic and mythology.
Discover an animate cosmos awakened by learning the names of the stars and their stories.
We explore the voice as a living guide back to the body and a tool for nervous system regulation, self-inquiry, and connection.
Through breath, gentle movement, intuitive sound, and shared listening, we weave a conscious relationship with our voice in a supportive and embodied circle.
FyahDrawn to the flow state of movement and dancing with fire, they bring a captivating fire performance rooted in rhythm, presence, and play. [Outdoors]
On another night at Queer Spirit, they'll take to the decks with hypnotic beats, tribal grooves, ambient textures, and ecstatic rhythms.
Henry EverettHenry tells stories for all ages across the country and loves telling traditional tales of enchantment and wonder, particularly of the Faerie realms.
His book ‘Pixie Folk Tales’ (2025, History Press) explores the traditional tales of the trickster spirits from Britain's South West.
Squirm the WormSquirm the Worm – an un(der)earthly education.
Squirm the Worm is a little creature with a big mission: experience their un(der)earthly life and powers, queerness and essential entanglement in the ecosystem, and learn how humans dismiss yet exploit them.
Squirming hilariously, they deliver a message of beneficial and intrinsic possibility for all to thrive naturally.
The Tail of Debra the Zebra - Brook TateBrook is a musical-theatre maker and part time tap dancing zebra who has a deep and passionate passion for maths.
He encourages people find their confidence in performing with his character Bwyan the Non-Binawy Lion, and helps people see the beauty of mathematics through an exploding zebra called Debra.
