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Toil & Trouble: Winter Solstice Witchcraft
Join Dr. Alice Tarbuck and Dr. Claire Askew for an immersive workshop to celebrate the winter solstice. The shortest day can feel dark and oppressive, but it also heralds the return of the light and lengthening of days.
Join us for a day of solstice activities: learn about solstice traditions world-wide, try your hand at some traditional crafts and activities, and celebrate! Well guide you through reflective exercises, spells and Yule-tide crafts to fill the darkest day with light.
Come along and reflect on the year gone, and look forward to the year ahead.
1pm to 4pm
The Space, at the Scottish Poetry Library
Crichton's Close, Edinburgh, EH8 8DT
ACTIVITIES
Learning about Solstice lore and traditions.
Making Yuletide charms for good fortune.
Candle-carving for Yuletide candles.
Making a bath salt or scrub for ritual baths.
A spell to leave behind the old year.
Reflective writing and guided intention setting.
NB: depending on the weather, we may be outside in the Dunbar Close Garden for part of the workshop
Price: £60
(If you're on a low income and the price of the workshop prevents you from joining us, please contact claire_askew@yahoo.com to enquire about our scholarship places.)
THE TUTORS
Dr Alice Tarbuck is the author of Grid (Sad Press, 2018), and an academic working at the University of Dundee and the Centre for Poetic Innovation. Her work on witchcraft has been featured in 404 Inks Nasty Women, The Dangerous Women Project, Edinburgh Universitys Uncanny Bodies project, and the Fiction and Feeling project. She has been invited to speak on witchcraft as feminist practice by Scottish PEN and is currently planning a longer work on witchcraft and contemporary practice. Additionally, she has taught workshops for the National Library of Scotland, the Scottish Poetry Library and further afield. When she was born, a white wizard came to her house to bless her, and this, she suspects, is where the trouble started.
Dr Claire Askew is the author of This changes things (Bloodaxe, 2016) and All The Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018). Her writing on historical women accused of heresy and witchcraft have been published by The Dangerous Women Project, The Scottish Review of Books and Amelias Magazine, among others. In 2017 she was awarded the Jessie Kesson Fellowship to work on a manuscript of poems about these real-life witches and their stories. Claire is the likely-descendant of Anne Askew, the poet and scholar whose writings and activities led to her execution by burning at the stake in 1546. In addition to her PhD, Claire holds a PDA in Adult Teaching and has taught at Edinburgh College, the University of Edinburgh, Arcadia University and in a variety of community settings.
THE VENUE
The Scottish Poetry Library is a fully accessible venue with a lift to all floors, accessible bathroom and a hearing loop. If you have specific accessibility requirements and you'd like more information, please get in touch with us: claire_askew@yahoo.com
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LocationScottish Poetry Library (View)
5 Crichton's Close
Edinburgh EH8 8DT
United Kingdom
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