Category Archives: 2017Blog

Graham Butcher will be holding Stav training sessions each morning, as in previous years. Stav means ‘knowledge of the rune staves’. If you don’t know of Stav, it is a martial art based upon the Runes and uses a staff and runic stances as a part of a physical and mental workout. Further workshops with GrahamContinue reading “Graham Butcher’s Stav”

Gordon MacLennan, “the Toad”, will be speaking on Friday evening. His subject, in keeping with this year’s theme of ‘animal spirit’ is called “Fur, Feather and Places: meeting the animal people of historic landscapes”. Drawing on recent work with Buxton Museum and ongoing inspirations from Orkney, Gordon will take us on a poetic and storyContinue reading “Gordon “the Toad” MacLellan”

The Re-Wilding of Druidry In 1990, most people’s idea of Druids was of groups of people (mostly men) standing around in stone circles wearing pristine white robes and performing staid and scripted ceremonies. They were seen as patriarchal, monotheistic sun-worshippers and deemed incomplete if they didn’t have a beard. Since then, the idea of DruidsContinue reading “Philip Shallcrass (Greywolf of the BDO)”

Last year we introduced a mead workshop to the programme and unsurprisingly it was very popular! Starting with a tasting session where many different varieties, flavours and recipes were compared and sampled. Recipes were exchanged, more mead was drunk to the pleasure of a welcoming audience. There was a demonstration on how to make meadContinue reading “Jay’s Mead Workshop”