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Registration
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Tickets are for two days and include lunch and refreshments.
Full Price £90
Concession £30
Programme
| Day 1 Saturday | 9th March 2024 Art House, Castle Street, Worcester | ||
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Registration and welcome Arts for Health Research Group John Cussans Folk Cultures group Desdemona McCannon AHG006A | ||
| 9.30- 11.00 AHG006A | Session 1 Folklore is good for you Lucy WRIGHT Tradition is good for you: towards an inclusive ‘hedge’ folklore for all Sonia OVERALL Walking, Wassailing and Wellbeing: creative explorations of place and custom Nar Bahadur SAUD Nepali Déuda Folklore: An Embodied Practice for Emotional Well-being AHG006A | ||
| 11.00- 12.30 | Session 2A Practice based therapies Isabella JOHNSTON Using plant lore and foraging to create collective learning paradigms Sarah SCAIFE and Emma CAPPER Walking within and beyond spells of illness KateGATHERCOLE Hedge Singing AHG006A | Session 2B Psychological Landscapes Becky DODMAN Premonitions of this Place Emily WILKINSON Kinship & Crows: An A/r/tographic Journey into the Mythology of Dinas Brân Katie FORRESTER Illustrating Human Relationships to Nature through Reinterpreting Folktales (River Severn) AHG001C | Session 2C (sign up) Workshops Chris TAYLOR Nature Constellations Outside. ‘Charms, sigils & spells for ecological regeneration’ AHG001A MA space |
| 12.30- 1.30 | Lunch | ||
| 1.30- 3.00 | Session 3 Enclosures Melanie ROSE Eradicated Landscapes Ben COX Creating a solution tangential to the problem: When does wellness culture get in the way of real healing? Jojo TULLOH Land Makar AHG006A | ||
| 3.00- 4.30 | Session 4 A Venerating the Ancestors Emily O KELLY Decolonising Death, Digitizing lost rites & Archival Paganism SK MARLEY Our Transcapes : a pilgrimage of queer prehistory Janine MARRIOT “People of a Like-minded Philosophy”: Secular and sacred pilgrimages to UK burial grounds Daniel SOMERVILLE A Year of Observance : The Pagan Wheel of the Queer AHG006A | Session 4 B Dreamscapes Sarah BELLASARIO The Transformative potential of ritualising creativity Jacqui EDWARDS Maiden, Mother, Crone: Exploring the Witch as an Embodiment of Female Identity in Virtual Worlds. Maija LIEPINS The Art of Listening In The Dark (performance lecture) AHG001C | Session 4C Workshops (sign up) Ralph NEL Meditation Rune Drawing (circle space) AHG001A (MA area) Eleanor MULHEARN & Desdemona MCCANNON Dream Votives (clay workshop) AHG001A (making space) |
| 4.30-5.00 | BREAK | ||
| 5.00- 6.00 | KEYNOTE: Dr Azadeh FATEHRAD Nature-based integration: connecting communities with/in nature AHG006A | ||
| Day 2 Sunday | 10th March 2024 | ||
| 9.00- 10.30 | Session 5 A Intentional Material Practice STAINES Rima Artist as Amulet maker ? PATEL Rajni Old Skills, New Ways: Being with trees, making with wood and it’s contribution to emotional health and wellbeing ROLLINGS Hannah Broomsquires of Devils punch bowl AHG006 | ||
| 10.30- 11.30 | KEYNOTE Dr Guy Hayward British Pilgrimage Trust AHG006 | ||
| 11.30- 1.00 | Session 6 A Storied landscapes PENNELL Ethan The Dartmoor Folklore Project TRILLO Sara exploring lost landscape features and vanished settlements KALANTERY Dunya Becoming like lichen AHG006 A | Session 6C Waterways Emily UNSWORTH WHITE and Ruth SIDGWICK Save our Avon Pilgrimage Patricia BRIEN and Su FAHY A River Haunting AHG001C screening area | |
| 1.00- 2.00 | Lunch | ||
| 2.00- 3.30 | Session 7A Belonging Courtenay CRAWFORD Landscapes of liberation: socially engaged meditation and the cultivation of radical wellbeing Tim HUTTON The Return MORTON SOURCE MATERIAL: a local history of water AHG006 A | Session 7B Thin Places REYNOLDS Ffion+ EVANS Angharad Heritage, ritual & the land: public archaeology at Bryn Celli Ddu, Ynys Môn Sharron KRAUS Stepping into a Still Place: Annwfn and the Birds of Rhiannon STONE CLUB Revisiting Ancient Sites in a Modern World (film) AHG006 B | |
| 3.30- 4.00 | Plenary and next steps. John Cussans and Des McCannon AHG006 A 4.00 close | ||
Therapeutic Landscapes: Ritual, Folklore and Wellbeing
The call for papers is now closed. Full details of the programme will be published soon.
This event, jointly organised by the Arts for Health research group and the Folk Cultures group at the University of Worcester and will be held at the Art House, Castle Street, WR1 3ZQ on Saturday 9th March 2024
We invite artists, health practitioners, academics and historians who, both formally and informally, are investigating the intersections of ritual, folklore, magic and landscape and their implications for emotional health and wellbeing to present their work around (but not limited to) the following themes-
• Convivial participatory art practices
• Ritual and therapeutic practice
• Emotional distress and embodied practice
• Meditation and prayer
• Modern pilgrimage
• Communal creative interventions in the landscape
• Mayhem and mischief and the carnivalesque
• Rave and festival culture
• Right to Roam
• Unsafe safe spaces
• Modern Druidry and alchemical practices for mental health
• Mortality, ancestors and commemoration
• Places of healing
• Caves, grottos, hidden places
• Stones and megaliths
• The psychogeography of post- industrial landscapes
• The feminine sublime
• Vision quests, dream mysteries and trauma healing
• Critiques of wellness culture
• Art Historical precedents to the above
Please send a short 300 word proposal and up to 8 images for a 20 minute presentation as one PDF document to [therapeutic_landscapes@worc.ac.uk] by 1st December 2023
There will be a publication associated with the event and an exhibition alongside.
Proposals for short performances, screenings and workshops are also welcome.
Website : https://therapeuticlandscapes.wordpress.com
Organising committee
Desdemona McCannon [d.mccannon@worc.ac.uk]
John Cussans [j.cussans@worc.ac.uk]
Therapeutic Landscapes 