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THE HUNTER'S MOON

One Day Retreat

We are currently putting together a series of one and three day retreats for next year, aiming towards a longer retreat in Portugal in October 2026. There will be more about that as the story unfolds, but you can get a taster of our first event below.

In April we had a one day retreat in Bishop Auckland to test out and share our ideas. It was a resounding success. You can see the schedule for the day here, and as you can see from the photos, we all had such a great time!

10.00  - 11.00 | THE HUNTER’S MOON
Introductions

Our plans for the day.

Martin Shaw inspired Story. Reflections and questions.

Brand New Ancients. Myth in daily living. Reflection and questions.

Brief discussion of the poetic and the mythical in relation to The Light of The Moon, I Like How it Feels.

11.20 - 11.30 Interval

11.30  - 13.00  | MYTH, NATURE + STARTING A SONG
Workshop led by Sandy.

Demonstrating playfulness and chords, rhythm, melody ideas arising for The Hunter’s Moon.

Opening the floodgates, brainstorming a song idea with freedom: Write some words of your own about an interesting experience of your own, inspired by Nature, any myths, life.

Here’s one I prepared earlier - new song idea.

Following the path of the song.

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch and short walk

14.30  - 16.00 | THEORY AND INSPIRATION
Gillian talking about the poetic and myth in relation to her own work, and explaining the process behind the artwork for The Hunter’s Moon and the retreat itself.

16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.30  - 18.00 | WORKSHOP
Gillian leads a workshop inspired by the content of her presentation.

18.30 – 20.00 | DINNER

20.00 - 21.00 | CAMPFIRE SINGING
Playing The Hunter’s Moon together, singing, sharing of songs.

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