| 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 