Hello!
It rained this morning! It felt strange after what has been the hottest summer we’ve ever seen here in Cornwall, the plants are certainly very grateful. We’ve had a strange week, Lally was in Cambridge at the weekend and returned home to find her internet cable had been cut by a chap doing the rounds cutting people’s internet - what an odd hobby! So everything has been a little delayed whilst she waited for the bt man to come and fix it. Anyway we are now back in the realm of the digital.
So what’s on?
We’re having a little break in August - mainly because everyone else is and in our past experience it’s very tricky indeed to get anyone to commit to attending anything in August!
That being said Lally will be at Ludlow History Fest on August 27th will be in conversation with friend, illustrator and all round folky fan Desdemona Mccannon about The Lost Folk, you can find tickets for that here.
Then on September the 4th Lally will be at Moseley Folk Festival again in conversation about The Lost Folk this time with The Heath Bookshop, you can find tickets for the festival here.
Then she’s hot footing it over to the brilliant Wyrd Folk Festival at the world’s best pub The Fleece Inn in Bretforton, Worcestershire. You can find tickets for that here.
In September you’ll mainly find us at screenings of the excellent The Land Remains. You can find more about the film and the various screening dates here.
and then a very exciting annoucement!
On October 17th we will be hosting Welsh legend Mari Mathias as part of Lowender Festival in Redruth, Cornwall, this is going to be such a wonderful evening in the Wesleyan Chapel. We’ll also have music from Isaac. I. Ockenden and a selection of films!
You can find tickets for the night here
(or if you fancy a ticket for the whole Saturday festival programme you can find them here)
Our cooperation with Heresy is now online, consisting of a packable showerproof printed jacket, two pigment dyed t-shirts and a pair of socks.
Badges and sticker packs ahoy! We’ve new stickers n new badges.
You can find badge packs here and sticker packs here.
Quite a bit of members new this month firstly!
Our friend and Stone Clubber the artist John Abell has just launched a kickstarter so he can bring his frankly MAGNIFICENT Tarot pack into the world. It’s going to be a thing of absolute wonder, please do check it out and consider buying one…. find it here
Here’s John outside the best place in the world Swedenborg Hall (just after we’d seen the Tarot exhibition at the Warburg Institute last year)
This talk was sent to us by Amy Corcoran, she’s suggested if any other Stone Club members fancy meeting up beforehand to get in touch - so please do email me if you fancy it and I can put you in touch!
The British Folklore of Stone Circles - 1st September
Explore the secrets, wonder and mystery of Britain’s stone circles with folklorist Jon Norman Mason. Followed by Q&A.
Stone circles are among the most iconic, and mysterious, monuments in the British landscape: weathered witnesses to ancient times, they captivate our curiosity and our imaginations. And past generations were just as drawn to their evocative presence -leaving us stories as they tried to explain these sites. While most know about the iconic neolithic Stonehenge, the UK is home to hundreds of other ancient stone circles built thousands of years ago for mysterious ceremonial and astronomical purposes.
Join folklorist, historian and storyteller Jon Norman Mason to explore the tales, dreams, wild guesses and old beliefs that have gathered around the stones over the centuries - from lost kings to petrified sinners, mischievous fairies to ancient giants. And beneath it all, the archaeology that offers us a modern take on what the stones mean!
Doors open at 7pm, talk starts at 7:30pm - come down early to grab a good seat!
All Things Fungi Festival- 18th-20th September, East Sussex
All Things Fungi is three day festival in the beautiful Sussex countryside that brings together some of the world’s leading mycologists, plus music, art, workshops, wellness and foraging walks. The Saturday highlight is a woodland Psychedelic Masquerade Ball. Details here.
Hidden Notes - 19th-20th September, Stroud
Founded by local independent arts magazine Good On Paper, Hidden Notes Festival which takes place in multiple venues in the centre of Stroud, Gloucestershire (including churches, galleries, art centres, and independent record shops) focuses on presenting the works of contemporary classical, folk, electronic and avant-garde composers rarely seen together on the same stage whilst also providing the artists with a platform to perform new music and collaborations in intimate spaces. It also features film screenings, book talks, exhibitions, late night DJ sessions, installations and more resulting in a packed and varied programme of art, music, literature and film…
This month’s film of the month is Land Maker by Margaret Tait
“The 'Land Makar' of the title is 'a poet of the land'. Margaret Tait described this film as 'A landscape study of an Orkney croft, with the figure of the crofter, Mary Graham Sinclair, very much in the picture, and enriched throughout by her vivid comments.”
This month we have the first ever double book of the month!
Two interconnected new books from Little Toller Books
Future Rural which is a wonderful compilation of essays and poetry focusing on what the countryside is today and what it can and could be. Published in collaboration with @cpre it is a celebration of their 100 year anniversary and a call into the future of where the countryside can go. We are absolutely loving this book, it’s so expansive and inspiring. The countryside should be an inclusive and open space for us all to explore and enjoy, and this book is completely fascinating in its exploration of how that is possible with contributions from Mary-Ann Ochota and Zaffar Kunial amongst many many others. It’s a book of hope!
Secondly Protecting the Countryside: The First Century of CPRE. This is exactly what it describes itself as: a history of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. From its earliest days this tells the journey of who, what and why this campaign is important. A real must read for anyone interested in land access and the countryside.
We wholeheartedly recommend both!
This month an article from Gloucestershire Earth Mysteries issue 18 published Summer 1994.
You can find more issues of GEM and 3rd Stone (as it became) over at The Megalithic Portal
Also do check out the brilliant new book that Strange Attractor have just published… a compendium of articles from 3rd Stone; The Megalithic Imperative: A 3rd Stone Anthology
That’s it! That’s your lot! I’m sure as ever there’s many things we shall remember after sending this but for now hopefully this keeps you up to date enough!
Lally & Matthew x
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