Come join me and many other speakers, artists and performers for this wonderful festival in Battle, East Sussex celebrating all things Folk & Fable! There will be food stalls, local delightful boozes, story tents, local crafts — and lots of fun and fabulous people coming together to share a great long August bank holiday weekend flirting with the weird side.
Yours truly will be giving a talk at 3pm on the Saturday of the festival, no need to prebook, just come on down and enjoy the descent into madness…
In some parts of Northern England it was thought that sleeping in moonlight could make you blind, cause birth defects or alter mental health. Many thatched cottages have extra thatch extensions projecting over upstairs windows to protect moonshine from falling on sleeping inhabitants. 🌚🌜
They Walked in Moonlight is an audio walking experience through St George’s Gardens in London, next to the Foundling Museum, taking a journey around the gardens and graves, listening to tales of the moon as told through folklore, legends, and nursery rhymes. The narrative of the walk explores how myth and oral tradition help us process difficult themes in an accessible way. The focus is on the moon, in particular, as representative of the feminine and as a light through personal moments of darkness.
Blackthorn & Stone 