Regional Conferences
The Pagan Federations next Conference is at Penstowe Manor, Kilkhampton, Bude on 6th March 2004
For self catering accommodation or to take your caravan
or tent (if mad!)
ring Penstowe Manor 01288 321354, ample free parking, disabled access.
Facilities at the venue ; - sauna, jacuzzi, heated indoor swimming pool
A
very big, warm, friendly PF Devon and Cornwall welcome to everyone
attending the conference at our new venue, Penstowe Manor. Whether you are
a first-timer or an old friend, we hope that you will have a great time and
we look forward to meeting you.
Bright Blessings from the conference team.
Friday evening: There will
be two informal gatherings
7.30 pm: Meet the PF Devon and Cornwall team. Your chance to find out who
does what, discuss the PF's work in Devon and Cornwall, make suggestions
for future activities, volunteer to help, or just make new friends.
Everyone is very welcome to come along to this.
8.30 pm: An informal music session led by Damh the Bard. Singers and
musicians please bring your instruments and voices and be ready to join in;
everyone else, come and chill out and enjoy.
Saturday:
Doors open: 9.30
Opening blessing: 10.20
Damh the Bard:
10.30
Coffee:
11.30
Robert Wallis:
12.00
Lunch:
1.00
Theresa Moorey:
2.30
Tea:
3.30
Miranda Aldhouse-Green:
4.00
Raflle and competition: 5.00
Closing ritual:
5.30
Final
dance with Merv Davey (Cornish Piper)
5.45 (approx)
Conclusion of daytime programme
Evening: Music and dancing with The Session (Irish/ Celtic music).
Sponsors: The Witchcraft Seminar, Tintagel &
The Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
Damh the Bard is an OBOD Druid
and a modern Pagan Bard who takes his inspiration from the Old Ways, and the
Spirits of the Land. “There is beauty and wonder all around us, and the Bardic
tradition helps to open our eyes, to allow us to see the world through the eyes
of a poet”. His performances blend music, poetry and storytelling, and are a
return to an ancient Druidic/Bardic teaching tradition, using his own methods of
‘edutainment’.
Dr Robert J Wallis is Associate Director of the MA in Art History at
Richmond the American International University in London and Co-Director of the
'Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project'. He has taught archaeology, art
history and religious studies at a number of British universities. His research
interests, as an academic and Pagan, focus on indigenous and prehistoric art,
especially shamanistic rock art, and the re-presentation of the past in the
present, particularly by contemporary Pagans. His book 'Shamans/neo-Shamans:
Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans' (Routledge 2003) has
been short-listed for The Folklore Society 'Katharine Briggs Award' 2003.
Teresa Moorey has written thirty-eight books on witchcraft, astrology and
related subjects, including the best-selling ‘Witchcraft, A Beginner’s
Guide’ She is a practising
counsellor, hypnotherapist and astrologer, and is also an astrology
correspondence course tutor having gained the Diploma and Gold Medal of the
Faculty of Astrological Studies in 1989. For
her entire adult life she has explored the mysterious and the mystical.
As a witch she works on her own and in a Wiccan coven.
She has four children aged 6– 23 years.
Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green
is currently Professor of Archaeology and Head of the SCARAB Research Centre at
University of Wales College, Newport. She gained her first degree at Cardiff
University, her M.Litt. from the University of Oxford and her PhD. from the Open
University. Before joining UWCN, Prof. Aldhouse-Green held appointments at
Worthing and Peterborough Museums, the Open University in Wales and Cardiff
University. She contributes modules on Roman and Iron Age Britain and Art,
Ritual & Death to the Archaeology undergraduate programme at UWCN, and is
joint programme leader for the MA in Celto-Roman Studies. She is currently
engaged on research projects associated with Gallo-Roman religious iconography
at healing shrines in Gaul and with sacrificial activity in later prehistoric
Europe.
PF members & Friends of the Witchcraft Museum £12.00
All others £15.00
Stalls £25.00 (includes entrance for one stall-holder)
Please send SSAE for return of ticket(s) with your cheque payable to Pagan Federation Devon & Cornwall and no. of Member/Guest tickets required (please list membership nos. and names and addresses of all who attend) to:-
Pagan Federation Devon & Cornwall, (Regional Conference), PO BOX 314, Exeter, Devon EX4 6YR
sponsored by the Mystical Place, Boscastle & The Witchcraft Museum, Boscastle
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