Californian Dates 2011

TO CONTACT MARTIN SHAW FOR BOOKINGS AND GENERAL INFORMATION PLEASE E-MAIL

stalkingtherebelsoul@tiscali.co.uk

or ring UK 01364 653723

To read his weekly blog please go to

http://www.theschoolofmyth.blogspot.com/

EVENTS 2011

'A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness' expanded version available to pre-order at bargain price over at

www.whitecloudpress.com

today!

keep an eye out for Martin's blogspot as these tend to be the tip of the iceberg re his appearances - he is a neglectful, wicked and bad man regarding his keeping of schedule.

MAY

Tues 3rdd

Tagorefest, Dartington Hall, Devon

Chairing lecture/Q+A on Sufism with Dr. L. Lewisohn,

Barn Theatre, Dartington, 2.30-3.30

an evening of Rumi and Story with Martin Shaw, Chloe Goodchild and others. Wider event featuring Deepak Chopra, Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, Simon Armitage and many more. Martin and Chris Salisbury will also give a talk/workshop on the westcountry school of myth.

www.tagorefestival.com

Thurs 26th

Book launch - stories told and ideas explored, book signing.

Oakland, Bay Area, California, 8:00 pm onwards

e-mail Maurice at ozalien@gmail.com

Fri 27th

Book launch, Point Reyes, California - stories told and ideas explored, book signing. Contact lisa at below e-mail.

Sat/Sun 28th- 29th

'The Epic of Parzival', weekend gathering, PR, California

contact Lisa Doron on Ldoron87@gmail.com

JUNE

30th May - 5th June

The Great Mother Conference, Maine, New England

Martin will be teaching for the week alongside John Densmore, Gioia Timpanelli, Caroline Casey,Tony Hoagland, Tim Frantzich and many more.

www.greatmotherconference.com

Mon 6th June

Day on rite-of-passage and myth, Vermont, event full.

Sat/ Sun 25-26th June

The Festival of Silence, Norway

Martin will be teaching with Coleman Barks and Lisa Starr.

27-29th June

with Barks and Starr, teaching myth, poetry and openings to wild nature on the fjords.

For both above events e-mail kristin@stillscape.no

JULY

Wens July 6th

Ecology, Myth and Soul

with bestselling author Alistair McIntosh and storyteller Martin Shaw. A day on the bardic roots of all three areas - not to be missed. Totnes area, 60 pounds, 10-5.

Email Tina Burchill at tina.schoolofmyth@yahoo.com

Fri 8th - Sun 10th.

'The Hope of the West' School of Myth weekend, Dartmoor. E-mail

tina.schoolofmyth@yahoo.com

Tues 12th.

A workshop and performance at the Eden Project - opening for Martin Carthy, Robyn Hitchcock and more that evening, as part of the projects 'session' festivals - Fleet Foxes, Brandon Flowers, etc.

http://www.edenproject.com/ (details to go up on their website soon)

Wens 13th.

Stories on the Moor

evening of myth and wild commentary,

Mortonhampstead, Devon

juliabrightwell@btinternet.com for details.

AUGUST

Wens - Sat 17-20th

'Entering the Bardic Secret'

School of Myth Summer school.

A very dynamic intensive for those really wishing to deepen their experience of myth, nature and fellowship. We will have a variety of guest teachers but the core will be led by Martin.

In it he will be laying out some highly experiential foundation stones for you to build on and develop the practice of being a story-carrier. Please note this will involve working at night, solo vigils in a wild place and the memorising of ancient verse. Preparation work will be required. Places strictly limited.

This will be a camping event in very beautiful surroundings. We especially encourage those that have attended School events before. This will be a deepening of work already begun. Arrive wens leave late saturday. 340 pounds. More on this exciting event soon.

e-mail tina.schoolofmyth@yahoo.com

SEPTEMBER

First week: Desmond Tutu Leadership Program, Oxford University.

closed group.

Tues Sep 13th to Sun 18th

Minnesota Men's Conference

John Lee, Malidoma Some, Ed Ticks, Daniel Deardorff, Robert Bly, Miguel Rivera and many more.

E-mail hiddenwine@gmail.com

www.hiddenwine.com

Fri Sep 23-25th

Point Reyes, California

'The Hope of the West' weekend gathering on myth and rites-of-passage.

E-mail Lisa Doron at Ldoron87@gmail.com

Come late Sept/early Oct UK Year program begins again - HERE ARE DATES: Wildwise indicates camping, Blytheswood residential.

Oct 15-16th Wildwise

Dec 2-4 Blytheswood

Feb 3-5 Blytheswood

April 27-29 Wildwise

June 27-29th Wildwise

Although you can join programme at any point, deposit for the whole year - 250 pounds is required. This way you could say join in February, and complete course by attending first two weekends of next year. For more details ring 01364 653723 or schoolofmyth@yahoo.co.uk

NOVEMBER

Tues 15th, Evening of Finn Mac Coll stories, with Chris Salisbury, Cardiff.

details to follow.

Wens 23rd. Evening of Myth, storytelling and commentary, Bridport Art Centre, 8-10, Dorset.

THE SCHOOL 'RATTLE' BAG

• Wolfram Von Eschenbach 'Parsival', Penguin Classics, 1980
• Daniel Deardorff ‘The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche’ White Cloud Press, 2004,
• Chretien De Troyes 'Arthurian Romances', Penguin Classics, 1991
• Erich Neumann 'The Origins and History of Consciousness', Bollingen Series, 1954
• Keith Thomas ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic’ Penguin University 1971,
• Homer 'The Odyssey' Penguin Classics 1946
• 'The Mabinogion', Charlotte Guest translation, Dover Thift Publications, 1906
• Marie-Louise von Franz 'The Feminine in Fairy Tales', Shambhala, (this iss) 2001.
• Hafez 'The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door', Trans Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn, Harper Collins 2008
• W.B. Yeats 'Yeat's Poems', Edit. A. Norman Jeffares, Papermac,1989
• Joseph Campbell 'The Way of the Animal Powers/Seeded Earth Vols, Harper and Row, 1980's
• Thomas R.Smith 'Keeping the Star', New Rivers Press, 1988 (visionary, rock'n'roll and edgy -poetry needed as much in 2008 as 88.)
• Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson 'Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciouness' Shambahla, 1996
• Robert Moore 'Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity' Chiron Publications, 2003
• Mahdi, Foster and Little 'Betwixt and Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation', Open Court, 1987 (anything with Steven Foster and Meredith Little is worth reading)
• Lewis Hyde 'Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1996
• Robert Bly 'My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy' Harper Collins 2005
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes 'Women who Run with the Wolves' Rider 1992
• Paul Tillich 'The Courage To Be' Yale University Press 1952
• Giles Deleauze and Felix Guattari 'A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia' University of Minnesota Press 1987
• Ted Hughes 'The Hawk in the Rain' Faber 1957,
• Marie Heaney ‘Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends’ Faber and Faber 1994,
• Gary Snyder ‘The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979,
• Gary Snyder 'Back on the Fire: Essays' Shoemaker Hoard 2007,
• Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo ‘Selected Poems’ trans. Robert Bly, John Knoepfle, and James Wright, Beacon Press 1971,
• Sean Kane ‘Wisdom of the Mythtellers’ Broadview Press 1994,
• Robert Graves ‘The White Goddess’ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1966
• Jay Leeming ‘Dynamite on a China Plate’ Backwaters Press 2006,
• Fredrico de Laguna and Dale DeArmond ‘Tales From the Dena: Indian Stories From the Tanana, Koyukuk, and Yukon Rivers’ University of Washington Press 1995,
• Timothy Young ‘Building in Deeper Water’ Ally Press 2003,
• Michael Taussig ‘Shamanism, Colonialism, and The Wild Man’ University of Chicago Press 1987,
• Robert Bly ‘Talking All Morning’ University of Michegan Press 1980, (essential reading)
• Robert Bly ‘American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity’ Harper Perennial 1990,
• Jeremiah Curtin ‘Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland’ Weathervane Books 1889,
• Steven Foster 'We Who Have Gone Before: Memory and an Old Wilderness Midwife' Lost Borders Press 2002
• Steven Foster and Meredith Little'The Four Shields: The Initiatory Seasons of Human Nature' Lost Borders Press 1998
• Jim Lenfestey ‘Han Shan Is The Cure For Warts’ Red Dragonfly Press 2006,
• Fran Quinn ‘A Horse of Blue Ink’ Blue Sofa Press 2005,
• Thomas R. Smith ‘The Dark Indigo Current’ Holy Cow Press 2000,
• Joan Halifax ‘The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth’ Harper San Francisco 1993,
• Robin Williamson ‘The Wise and Foolish Toungue’ Chronicle Books 1989.

Tip of the iceberg, but plenty of leads. Look out especially for the poets Jay Leeming, Thomas R. Smith and Timothy Young amongst the above- all visiting teachers at the school. They represent a new opening of poets in the US with a great feel for the mythic that informs their work in subtle not overt strokes. Deardorff's 'The Other Within' is be reissued through Random House this Autumn with new introduction. Helluva read-he makes you work for your rapture thats for sure. I love these books, it makes me happy just to type their names out.