Pete Jennings was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England in 1953. He had his own folk show on BBC Radio Suffolk until 2/8/03, and used to play in various folk and rock bands, making 3 albums himself. He is still active on the entertainment scene, singing, storytelling and compeering. He is a member of Ormsgard Dark Ages Theatre. He is the ex-President of Europe’s largest Pagan organisation, The Pagan Federation. He is of the Heathen /Northern Tradition of Paganism (Norse/ Anglo-Saxon) and holds the position of High Gothi and Honorary Life Member of the Odinshof organisation. He has had several books published and lives just over the Essex border from Suffolk with his partner Sue.

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British Folk Traditions workshop

The last person to be initiated by Alex Sanders

High Priestess of the Hearth of Arianrhod and author of 27 books on Paganism, the Craft, fairy lore and magic.

Harmonia Saille is an English writer and researcher with a BA degree in Imaginative Writing, and Literature and further postgraduate study in writing, literature and research. A practicing Hedge Witch, she is a lecturer of Modern Pagan Witchcraft and holds workshops in the runes and other subjects both locally and at international spiritual events. She
is a mother and grandmother and lives in the Netherlands. Harmonia's book "The Spiritual Runes, a Guide to the Ancestral Wisdom" will be published by O Books in June 2009 followed by "Walking the Faery Pathway" in November 2009.

How to Read the Spiritual Runes

This workshop is an introduction to reading the runes, and will provide an essential base on which to build further. First Harmonia will introduce you to the runes. For once we know how they came to be, and their traditions, we can start to form a bond with them just as we do when we become familiar with that trusted friend. Mythology is very important when studying the runes, to understand the mystical and magical aspects of them. The runes came from mythology and studying them in that context helps us gain an all important spiritual connection. We will look at such things as Odin and the runes, Norse Cosmology, The Norns, and Orlog and Wyrd. The attendees will take part in a visualisation exercise which will assist them in making the all important spiritual connection. Everyone will receive a personal rune for this exercise and a dictionary of rune meanings.

A Voudou priest trained in Haiti.

Talk tba

Survival and living with nature.

Kim is a Pagan, Tarot reader, writer, and PhD student in Cardiff, Wales, currently working on her dissertation (Voodoo dolls in Graeco-Roman magic) and editing her book (companion book to Pistis Sophia: The Goddess Tarot). She spends a lot of my time helping to run Cardiff University Pagan Society, and visiting sacred sites around the UK. She is an Eclectic Pagan because she serves many Gods from different pantheons, mostly Oya, Odin, Baron Samedi, and Brighid. She has been studying Tarot since the age of 9, and has created "Sol Invictus: The God Tarot" with Nic Phillips. The deck is designed to explore the Divine Masculine through world mythology, and was published by Schiffer Books in October 2007. They are busy creating a second deck together, "Pistis Sophia: The Goddess Tarot". You can see the entire God Tarot deck at www.godtarot.com  

Tarot Reading workshop
Improve your reading techniques, style of delivery, ability to understand the cards in a reading, and learn some tips of the trade! Great for beginners: we will look at creating spreads on the spot and how to link cards together in a reading, and how to read the cards without any knowledge or books. For the advanced readers there will also be tips for reading professionally, tricks to get the most out of a reading, and methods of engaging the querent. Tarot decks will be available to borrow/buy if people do not have their own.


Tarot talk: Tarot, the Mythological Journey.
To some, the tarot is a pack of 78 separate cards that each have distinct meanings. But the Tarot is also a single unit that tells a story – several stories in fact. Hundreds upon thousands of stories. This talk will explore the Tarot as a myth and as a journey, relating the cards to mythological concepts from around the world: descent into the underworld, yearning for the Beloved, lost souls, the Fool’s journey of initiation, and more. We will also look at individual cards and their relation to stories and mythical figures, and look for the myth that pervades the Tarot: the myth of the Journey.

Professional belly dance teacher

Dancing to the heartbeat of the Earth and writhing with the world serpent.

Plus workshop on natural products for the home and body

Karl has over 24 years experience in archaeology as a field archaeologist, teacher and certified contractual archaeologist working in GB, Cyprus and Spain and a general archaeology lecturer but with a big difference - his students love his classes! He brings prehistory alive with folk stories.

He is also the author of Romans in the Vale of Glamorgan, and Celtic Way, has had a number of papers and articles published, and has worked on radio and TV.
 
He is a practising Angelic Witch and is engaged in preparing a book entitled An Angelic Witch Grimoire with Karen Saunders and is writing a fictional and factual story entitled The Rise and Fall of the Toad Empire.

The main focus of Karl's life is his partner Lisa and his five children.

Graham Joyce

Graham grew up in the mining village of Keresley, near Coventry. He gained a Masters Degree in modern English and American literature from Leicester University and then, while living in Greece, he wrote his first novel Dreamside, sent it off and it was published. Since then he has written a number of acclaimed and award winning novels and teaches part time at Nottingham Trent University. He also writes as William Heaney.

Laura currently lives on the border of Leicestershire and Warwickshire and has been teaching yoga since 2006. She teaches a variety of yoga classes and her students range from 6 months to 80 years old (and maybe older)! As you can tell, she firmly believes there's a style of yoga for everyone.

Yoga has been part of her life for 10 years now, bringing numerous benefits, and Laura enjoys the chance of sharing that with others. She is currently studying for my British Wheel of Yoga Diploma so that she can deepen my knowledge of yoga, and of teaching itself.

In addition to her yoga teaching qualifications, Laura also has a Diploma in Anatomy & Physiology and a BSc Honours degree in Music. She holds a Paediatric First Aid certificate, covering babies, children and adults, and has taken additional Child Protection Training with the Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB).

She runs her own Yoga classes, in addition to running classes for local schools, colleges, children's centres, leisure centres, companies, organisations, health and fitness events and community projects.

Laura is also qualified in several complementary therapies and treats both adults and children.

She has teaching insurance and a full CRB-check.

Kid's yoga session

Adult Hoopdance

Jean Dark

Jean runs the Libra Aries bookshop in Cambridge.

Make a magical diary to use during the weekend [small charge for materials].

Tim Goodwin

Tim runs the Libra Aries bookshop in Cambridge.

Learn the secrets of the ancient I Ching.

Ayn Saywood

Ayn runs the Leicester Pagan Alliance and is a Pagan Federation representative.

John lives in the Fens, a place steeped in its own magical traditions. He used to run Paganlink, and dances with the Witchmen Morris side.

Bob is an author and publisher, with a special interest in folklore and local history.

The Wise Woman Roving Apocathary Shop

Jayne Milner is an Historical Demonstrator and Interpreter who gives talks and lectures on the History of Medicine and herbs.  She has an amazing tent well stocked tent which is full of interesting items for 'Show and Tell'.  She talks on healing herbs, surgery, midwifery and the  witchcraft persecutions. She is also a clinical herbalist and can actually deal with the general public's health issues.

Jayne's talks were so popular last year there was standing room only!

Astrologer for BBC TV and Heart FM radio.

Alison writes for several magazines and has a big web site www.midlandsschoolofastrology.co.uk

What We Should Know As We Walk Toward 2012. 

The Elements of Air, Water, Fire and Earth in Multiverse Astrology. 

 Alison examines the relationship between the opposing elements of Earth and Fire; and then Water and Air taking into account the Dark Matter and Energy of recent multiverse scientific theory.  96% of the Universe is `missing` according to science, but the spiritual model knows that this is where the elements of Water and Fire reside.  To learn about all the Elements in the Cosmos we know about…….. and the one that we don`t…..Don`t miss this talk!  Easy to understand with no complex jargon.

Deborah Sless is a UKCP and BACP accredited psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis and in Integrative psychotherapy.  She has been in private practice in London, England for more than 16 years.

She is the author of Beyond Our Illusions which explores and defines the workings of the Master Law of Cause and Effect and its sub-laws, the Laws of Nature, the Laws of Self and the Law of Transformation.  It describes how the reader’s psychological make-up can actually prevent these Laws from working in the ways that they expect.  The author uses her extensive psychotherapeutic training and experience to help the reader enter their psyche and gain an insight into their inner world that influences the outcome of the Universal Laws.

Elaine Mein is an heredity witch and natural healer, with thirteen years experience as a practicing witch & priestess. She is also a professional rune reader

She spends most of her time making and selling cloaks, table games and jewellery for her business 'House of Freyja'.

Over the last few years she has been persuaded to share her knowledge by giving lectures on a variety of subjects, including runes, symbols, spell casting and most recently, curses. The latter was a result of being asked many times by non-Pagans if she could, “curse people”.

Elaine Mein lives in North Derbyshire in a two broomstick household with her husband and teenage son and is owned by two cats.

Curses –foiled again!

Discover how the people in the past got their revenge, including Roman, Viking and Medieval curses.

Where does the “three- fold return” law come from? How old is it? Should we bother with it? These and other ethical dilemmas to ponder and discuss.

You may know Troll as our hearth-keeper, but he is also an expert in Huna healing and magic.

Friday- Fire building workshop- help make the camp's sacred hearth fire.

of the Rynild Rabble morris side

with his dressed Native American Tipis

Talk on Understanding the Animals

Talk by Jim tba

One of our favourite bards!

Ron is high priest of the Hearth of Arianrhod

Sunday ritual workshop- help plan and celebrate the Sunday closing ritual.

Saturday- Spiral music- using dreams, trance and memory to create music for rituals, improvisations and everyday playing.

Sunday- bringing it all together and a chance to use the music in a performance

This is one of the charities we support.

Harmony is a qualified hypnotherapist.

Debra Parfrey

Nick is always a popular speaker at the Gathering, entertaining and informative..

Kate Fletcher (vocals, double reeds, strings) and Corwen ap Broch (pipes, whistles, bowed instruments, percussion).

Rigantona's music is rooted in the British folk tradition, though a strong Nordic influence and an attraction to the ancient past adds a darker edge. Never afraid to sing all the verses of a long ballad, or play newly composed material on long forgotten instruments, their music has been described as 'hypno folk'. Kate and Corwen aim to make music that their ancestors would understand and appreciate.

Damh the Bard

Damh is a modern-day Bard whose spirituality and love of folk tradition is expressed through his music, storytelling and poetry. Drawing on the Bardic traditions his performances are both entertaining and educational, weaving a tapestry of myth, peace, and anthems that speak directly to the heart, but never without a good splash of humour. Damh is a musical storyteller who works within the world of myth that cannot be proved; where the Faerie really do dance on Midsummer's Eve, where the trees talk, and the Hollow Hills take you into the realms of Annwn. Where the Goddess rides her horse, guiding you to magic, and the Horned God of old calls us from the shadows of the Greenwood. So relax, and let the music take you there.

Combat displays and Viking Village

Pagan Morris side, known for their fierce dances and black and yellow tatters.

A mix of reggae, ska, folk, rock and world music sounds.MARC - Didgeridoos, whistles, harmonica, percussion and vocals ALEX - Guitar and vocals BAZ - Keyboards TERRY - Fiddle GLEN - Drums JOHNNY - Bass

‘Endless Knot make their own unique blend of Celtic rock/ reggae. I can’t say that I’m normally in to the kind of music that gets hummed around the camp fire, waiting for the sun to come up, but, if such people make music like Endless Knot, I’m not going to argue with their philosophy on life! Perfect songs and a perfect night’ Pauline Black- The Selector

Laienda - also back by popular demand! Everybody loved them in 2008.

Fabulous gypsy band: Nina Bambrey - Vocals, Ross Bambrey - Guitar / Fiddle,  Vivienne Weller - Mandolin / Guitar, Rhiannon Buck - Fiddle / Guitar,  Edd Keene - Flute, Rick Hamilton - Percussion.

Influences: English Folk, Gypsy, Flamenco, East European Folk, Balkan, Russian, Arabic, Klezemer, Warsaw Village Band, Shantel & Bucovvina Orchastra, Yasmin Levy, Eliza Carthy, In Taberna, Balkan Beat Box, Gogol Bordello

The Northstow Mummers with Nigel Pennick

The Old Tup Play and music

Music in the cafe, Friday night.