celtic festivals
CELEBRATING THE CELTIC FESTIVALS
Celebrating the Celtic Festivals at Kingley Vale and Butser Ancient Farm, an event for all the family.
You are invited to join us in the most impressive and largest Yew forest in Europe, if not the world, and also in the round house of a recreation of an iron-age settlement. Here we will mark the changing seasons and celebrate the unique beauty of the British Countryside in the heart of her ancient lands.
This event is based on the indigenous culture of Britain. The evening starts with a fire created using a bow-drill, an ancient method of lighting a fire used by indigenous tribes all over the world and referred to in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Once the fire is lit the atmosphere builds as we acknowledge our ancestral heritage and Jonathon will then share a story from the British culture bringing it alive with poetry, song, humour and drum.
This is usually followed by uplifting singing and a sip of tree tea collected and made from local berries, bark or leaves.
This quarterly event is often very popular and children are always welcome to take part, a truly magical evening in a magical place.