9-11th Oct Blytheswood (All residential centers on Dartmoor)
27-29th Nov Blytheswood
8-10th Jan Heathercombe
12-14th March Heathercombe
7-9th May Wildwood
All Weekends £165 (some concessions available) Please ring 01364 653723 to sign up.
www.schoolofmyth.com
2009
JANUARY-
Fri Jan 9th to Sun 11th: Second gathering of Westcountry School
'COYOTE MAN AND THE FOX WOMAN'
please refer to http://www.schoolofmyth.com/ for all gathering details.
Fri 16th to Sun 18th-
'METAPHOR AS KEY TO THE IMAGINATION: HOW MYTH OPENS THE WRITTEN WORD'
Creative writing weekend, Geneva, Switzerland.
Fri 30th/Sat 31st: WINTER STORYTELLING FESTIVAL, Steiner School, Devon.
Performances and workshop.
FEBRUARY
Fri 27th/Sat 28th : The Westcountry School of Myth and story presents:
'TALES OF THE TUATHA DE DANANN', Day and evening masterclass in Myth and poetry with ROBIN WILLIAMSON, Chief Bard of the Order of Bards, Ovates and druids. Devon £75. To book please ring 01364 653723.
MARCH
Fri 6th to Sun 8th: Third gathering of the Westcountry School year programme
'ROAD OF SOLITUDE, ROAD OF VOICE' http://www.schoolofmyth.com/
Sat 21st.
Benefit event for The Westcountry Storytelling Festival.
Afternoon workshop on 'Ivan and the Grey Wolf , poetry and storytelling, plus evening bonaza-dancing, music, pirates, all kinds of things. Totnes Methodist Church Hall, 10am-10pm. Ticket price TBC
Fri 27th to Sun 29thFOREST HILL FESTIVAL: A celebration of the Arts and Nature
Martin will be telling the old Russian story ' Ivan and the Grey Wolf' , leading work out in nature and talking about the ideas in his new book: 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness'. For programme and booking, e-mail
rhonakirkwood@blueyonder.co.uk
APRIL
Research and writing
MAY
Fri 8th to Sun 10th
'THE FIERY HORSES OF THE TONGUE'
Part Four of the year programme: 'Parzival', the world of the Archetypes, making the Celtic Sweat House at the crane-skin edge of the world.
Sat 23rd. 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree' US .Book launch Martin will be reading from the book and telling myths and exploring ideas from it. Guests Daniel Deardorff and Judith Kate-Friedman. Port Townsend, Washington State. venue to be confimed. E-mail daniel@mythsinger.org for ticket details.
Sun 24th. 'THE WYRD AND THE WYLD: The Path of Destiny and the Soul of the World' A day workshop on myth, initiation and the inspired soul with Martin and mythologist Daniel Deardorff. Port Townsend, Washington State. e-mail daniel@mythsinger.org for ticket details.
Sat 30th to Sunday June 7th.
THE GREAT MOTHER CONFERENCE, Camp Kieve, Nobleboro, Maine, USA
Martin is teaching alongside James Hillman, Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Gioia Timpanelli and many others at this seminal festival of the Arts.
Tues June 23rd
UK Book launch for 'A Branch from The Lightning Tree'
The Rill Centre, Nr. Buckfastleigh, Devon, 7.30 pm FREE
www.rillcentre.co.uk for directions
Fri June 26th
Storytelling on Dartmoor for youth-wilderness camp.With author Caspar Walsh and associated crew.
JULY
Fri 10th to Sun 12th
THE HOPE OF THE WEST
Gathering five of the year programme.
Sat 8th to Sat August 15th
THE KING AND QUEEN MUST WED THE LAND
Vision Quest, facilitated by Martin. Dartmoor, UK. £500
Please ring 01364 653723 for details.
SEPTEMBER
Sept 5th, THE MYTHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP
Desmond Tutu Leadership Programme, Templeton College, Oxford.
US Trip-mid-west and coasts. venues TBC. Martin will be leading workshops and lectures based around his new book; 'A BRANCH FROM THE LIGHTNING TREE: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness'
Sep 8-13th MINNESOTA MENS CONFERENCE
Martin, Daniel Deardorff and Robert Bly himself will be collaborating on the story of IRON JOHN. This story-Bly's book of which sold several million copies- spawned a worldiwde movement and hasn't been told for at least 15 years by Bly. Join us for a very rare event. Details of other teachers to come.
www.hiddenwine.com
September 22nd. AUTUMN EQUINOX EVENING
with Caroline Casey, New York (venue to be confirmed)
September 30th
STORYTELLING IN LEADERSHIP: A NIGHT WITH MARTIN SHAW
Newton Abbott Public Speakers Club, Devon, UK
OCTOBER
9-11th Oct -First weekend of the year programme;
LEAVING THE VILLAGE, FINDING THE FOREST
Blytheswood hostel, Dartmoor, £165
Friday 16th to Sat 18th Oct, FINDING THE BONES OF THE GREEN MAN:Myth and Rites-of-Passage, Eschwege Institute, Germany.
Tues 27th and Tues 3rd Nov, Ashridge Conference centre, outside London.
THE MYTHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP, with theatre Director Matthew Burton.
NOVEMBER
Friday 7th November, THE CREAKY AUTUMN HOUSE OF SMOKY MYTH AND LAMPLIT POETICS
A night of poetry and myth with award winning New York Poet Jay Leeming and Martin Shaw, held at the School's HQ, Tregonning House, in Ashburton, Devon. Recommended donation £5. Ring 01364 653723 to ensure a place, seating limited.
27th -29th November , second weekend of the year programme,
COYOTE MAN AND THE FOX WOMAN, Blytheswood Hostel, Dartmoor, £165
www.schoolofmyth.com
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