Workshop space

Step into a sacred portal of queer connection and divine remembrance.

Guided by the medicine of ceremonial cacao, we will drop from head to heart—journeying through meditation to encounter the Goddess, then weaving our voices in sacred chant to honor the divine spirit that flows within and around us. 

• Facilitator: Kivare
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

As a practising witch I will share with you some of my thoughts and experiences around undertaking spell work.

You can ask questions and explore how this looks for you with some ideas and improved confidence to take into your own practice. 

• Facilitator: Pinkwitch
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

The workshop will be a space for folk to talk and share openly about death and dying, with a particular focus on the experience of queer folk in this space.

It will be a sharing circle and a number of small group discussions where I will guide with questions and encourage people to talk opening about their thoughts around death.

Topics include: Chosen family Death and religion/spirituality Assisted dying What makes a good death Planning for a good death Death rituals. 

• Facilitator: Joe Phillips
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

Time to reclaim our queer sacred roles!  Dagara wisdom teacher Malidoma Some called the religious persecution of queer people, “a terrible harm done to an energy that could save the world.”  

Throughout time and across the planet, same sex oriented and gender-variant people have a history of association with the spiritual realms. The Two-Spirits of Native American tribes are today reclaiming their roles as healers, ritual workers, spirit channels and are an example for queers from every culture.

Dig into the history and we are there – as shamans, goddess priests, witches. The Dagara people of West Africa called us Gatekeepers to Spirit.

Shokti will share examples of our queer magical past and the story of the modern exploration of our queer cosmic nature in the global Radical Faerie community. 

• Facilitator: Shokti
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When:  tbc

We will create space together learn about tarot and oracle cards, with a guided meditation we will then have a go at using them with a message for you that day.

We will then consider how you can use them moving forward. 

• Facilitator: Pinkwitch
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

Sound is very important in ritual whether it be toning, incantation, rhythmic rattling or drumming.

This is an opportunity to discuss sound in ritual and to experience some different forms.

There will also be the opportunity to swap & learn chants.  Bring a notebook & pen or a phone recorder!

• Facilitator: Lou Hart
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

'Wing Chun' is a Chinese martial art based on angular technique. Any fights you've seen in The Matrix/Buffy is broadly based on it.

Bruce Lees original style, it is instantly accessible and practical.

3 main forms plus exciting drills, punches, defences, upper/lower body techniques.

Real world self defence skills + increased fitness and confidence! 

• Facilitator: Faye Patton
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

Find your inner beast with Bwyan the Non-Binawy Lion who can't pwonounce their 'R's pwoperly, as they help you unlock your cowage and help you perform with PWIDE!

Brook will lead a musical theatre workshop for those with or without any experience, sharing a story of Bwyan the Lion and Debra the Zebra.

Big movements, big voices, big feels. Think the Lion King...but queerer...

• Facilitator: Brook Tate
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

A welcoming space especially for first-timers and those who have come on their own.

Arriving and orientating yourself in a gathering like Queer Spirit can be a bit daunting, so this event early in the weekend is to help newcomers and singles get the most out of your festival experience.

Some information, some thoughts, some discussion, and some games and exercises to help you feel included, informed, safe, and raring to go.

• Facilitator: John Button
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

Queer Spirit launched in 2016 in Wiltshire, 400 people came along. 

We've grown slowly, holding six festivals over 10 years, at Bridwell Park since 2023, where we also held our first Community Camp in 2025.

What do you foresee, what would you like to see, during the next ten years of Queer Spirit?

• Facilitator: Festival organisers
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

We bring our critical, inclusive, pagan, queer, and loving activism to the myth-space to address 'mother' as an idea, an ideal, a lived reality and a falsity through shared words, and acts of mutual spiritual recognition.

We consider these myths as self-fulfilling prophecies, as aspirational goals, as forms of representation and, in some cases, as impossibilities.

But most of all we aim to explore these myths, fables and archetypes from an insider/outsider perspective in relation to the reclamation of the relationship with the Mother Goddess through Queer spirituality. 

• Facilitator: Cadernwydd Alys
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When: Friday tbc

Let's put spirituality and science together as we explore eight wellbeing practices that have empirical scientific backing behind them to make us happier.

Blending theory and activity, we'll also explore the ways in which aspects of spiritual practice can be validated by science.

Consider bringing a notepad and pen. 

• Facilitator: Felix
• Location: Workshop space
• Suitability: 
• When:  tbc