On the Winter Solstice tide we’re holding a weekend of music, medicine and making with some wonderful practitioners, musicians and makers.
The sun that nourishes us and brings life will soon be growing again from it’s deepest point of darkness. With this brings a moment rich in symbolism and power. We’re in the longest and darkest of nights - it’s endings and beginnings, gathering and reflecting, illumination and traditionally and ancestrally a time of great celebration!
We have a lift share service in place with fellow attendees due to the train strikes. to see if anyone is driving from your area and could give you a lift which would mean you can attend, email hello@apothecarygrden.co.uk
We’re starting on Friday 16th around the fire, gathered and hosting one of our favourite musicians, and incredible song carrier from the British Isles, Sam Lee, for Winter Solstice. Join us for an epic feast around our long tables and settle in to listen to the native folk music that’s woven into our very history.
Join us for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special Yule focused Medicine Making Day, working with the Mistletoe plant in discovering its’ incredible healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day!
Come and learn the ancient craft of Felt making and create your own felted medicine pouch from sheep's wool! Using the wet felting technique to shrink the wool fibers you will learn to felt around a resist to create a wonderful 3D form and make the small wool pouch. We will add simple embroidery on to the pouch while we can set our intention and prayers for what we wish it to hold.
Weather permitting, there will be an outdoor fire - you may like to bring something to sit on outside. Children are very welcome to join, children 12+ will need their own ticket. Please make sure you bring plenty of warm layers as these events are partly outside.
Collaborators ~
SAM LEE
Sam is a Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster and activist. He plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, a passionate conservationist, committed song collector and a successful creator of live events.
Alongside his organisation The Nest Collective and fellow collaborators Sam has shaken up the live music scene breaking the boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed place and way folksong is heard. He’s injected a renewed passion into this old material, helping to develop its ecosystem by not only inviting in a new listenership but also interrogating what the messages in these old songs hold for us today.
Charlotte is at the heart of things a modern-day alchemist; born into the Pulver lineage of apothecarians.
She has a background in natural healthcare, studying and practising various medical systems of healing for 20+ years and hosts ceremonies and pilgrimages for many years around the world; and helped co-found The Fellowship of the Spring, a group championing water guardianship in the British Isles.
Sarmado Sibley is known internationally as a leader in world-class, plant-based food, marrying Michelin star kitchen experience with cutting edge nutrition and a flair for flavour.
His signature approach is to combine the power of superfoods with the wisdom of natural medicine on the plate - perfectly pitched symphonies that not only taste superb, but do you the power of good, too.
