Samhain at Bridge Farm

An event held at Bridge Farm on Saturday 2nd November. The event starts at 13:00 and finishes at 22:00. The event has been tagged in the world, folk, experimental, workshops & classes and food & drink categories.

 

All are welcome in to celebrate the arrival of the dark with us…

Expect the unexpected

Delve into a one day, all day event celebrating nature, creation and wonder

Witness performance, music, and ritual

Participate in Workshops, readings and play

Revel with food, drink, and disguise

 

From 1pm – 10pm

 

little Devils Welcome

Larger Spell makers enticed

Costume Strongly encouraged

 

Samhain means “End of Summer” in Celtic. This time will mark the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter, and the darker months. The halfway point between autumn and winter equinoxes, one of the four seasonal Celtic festivals of the year

 

Programme:

1pm – Doors open, Food and drink available, Children’s activities begin

 

2pm – 3pm

Drawing Workshop in the Greenhouse with Holly

 

2pm-4pm

Samhain Playfight Workshop in the Front Garden – Welcoming your primal power – donation based

 

2- 4pm Tarot readings in the Farmhouse with Ruth

 

2:45pm – 4pm

Eulogy of the Fool: a Samhuinn clown ritual with Robyn of the Bristol Clown School (Gather in the woodland area, 16+, no entry after 3pm – Free but places limited, book your place robynhambrook@gmail.com)

 

3pm – 3:45 Samhain Movement Medicine Dance Workshop with Malena – in the fire sculpture area

 

3pm – The Wild Greens Live Set in the Long Barn

‘Offer up close harmonies from a singing collective that love folk music. Cosy up for songs of autumn, woodland creatures, witches eerie chills and rising darkness’

 

4pm- Procession, Fire Ceremony and ushaway ritual – Gather in main street

5pm – The Island Folk Choir Candle-lit performance in the woodland area

5pm – 8pm Tarot Readings with Jupiter Oak Tarot in B1 Barn

6pm – Black Crow Zodiac Live Set in the Long Barn

7pm – Silky Disturbance Live Set in the Long Barn

8pm – DJ set with Three Thirty Three

9pm – The Stone Jars

10pm – Event Ends

 

Historically, it is a time when the world of gods and spirits are revealed to humans, when the barrier between our worlds thins. At this time, the gods were believed to play many tricks on humans, with spooky and unexplainable occurrences happening. We strengthen our connection to them through music, fire, dance, and offer food and drink to celebrate.

 

Come dressed as your finest self that shines a light on all that crawls, creeps, floats and tweets. Powerful folk, humble folk, another living thing, or those that are not…To cast your spells upon the land and set your winter intentions. To burn, move through, and usher away all that you do not wish to work with as we shed and head into this new season together…

 

With special surprises from local artists, and the wider community here in Bristol to keep these ancient traditions alive and to add our own…

 

Entry requirements: no age restrictions

 

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