https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-herbie-hopkins-live-with-friends monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/4c966bb2-7e72-4592-bc3e-f9b386f5ad6b/Promotional+Image+%274.jpg what's on - Gathering: Herbie Hopkins LIVE! with Friends - Herbie Hopkins "Herbie is one of the most creative artists I've ever met" - says James Mainwaring (The Exu, Mercury Prize Nominated Roller Trio), director of Lamplight Social Records - "there's a child-like playfulness to his creativity that feels totally free and uncompromised. His work is incredibly raw". https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/a-convivial-spring-soire monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/z0udh5izxk1seawluatwb65fl4j8oo monthly 0.5 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/5a0109fb-f720-44a6-95e1-a85df8a53e27/Screenshot+2025-11-20+135624.png what's on - Gathering: An evening of myth — Invocations for longer days - Storyteller Sam Crosby is an oral storyteller, speaker, programme lead and facilitator, author of the The Re-Eldering Manifesto: REFIREMENT, Not Retirement, founder of Recalling Fire and host of Drop The Map. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-joy-as-a-radical-form-of-resistance-and-resilience monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/2aa6f000-1100-4c6a-81c4-135ef0450cdf/1000080922.jpg what's on - Evening talk: Joy as a Radical Form of Resistance and Resilience - Speaker Rada is an ocean justice activist and disability rights advocate who is also the founder of Thalassophile Project — a platform dedicated to making the Ocean accessible to all. Her name means 'Joy' in Bulgarian, her mother tongue, and she is passionate about taking care of both people and the planet through the practice of joy and pleasure activism. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-half-day-rest-restreat monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-writing-the-sensuous-world monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/be1f4213-3700-4834-99f5-5360d4a53cbd/MB4A0373.jpg what's on - Workshop: Writing the sensuous world - Facilitator Sophie Craven is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. She graduated from SOAS university in 2016 with a BA in Arabic and Social Anthropology, and a specialisation in memory, imagination and heritage sites (with fieldwork taking place in the West Bank of Palestine). https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-quiet-pen-mornings-2-xn87r monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-ostara-ritual monthly 0.5 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/1760349668737-OPGGBIGWMKQMR2WUFJ23/image0+%287%29.jpeg what's on - An Ostara ritual for Spring Equinox - Your host Andi Searle is a practising witch based in Penryn. He is also an experienced community organiser and facilitator, and co-founder of Falmouth Trans Collective. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-queering-land-and-lyonesse monthly 0.5 2026-02-24 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-the-art-of-your-heart-x-hilary-thorn monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/6ea19079-e470-409b-b754-58e418cec04c/Me.jpg what's on - Evening talk: The Art of Your Heart x Hilary Thorn - Facilitator Hilary Thorn is a passionate believer in helping people find joy and sparkle in their life again. She started life as an artist with a BA in Fine Art, then shifted towards body based healing with a BSc in Acupuncture. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/rad-ed-a-series-of-lectures-by-community-for-community monthly 0.5 2026-02-19 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/community-qi-gong-3 monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-mare-2-tentative-entanglements-with-oddkin monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/d2ba349e-0113-47a1-a895-127d21ae8223/IMG_7703.jpeg what's on - Workshop: MARE #2 - Tentative Entanglements with Oddkin - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-patterns-of-place-decoration-adornment-and-collective-place-making monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/longer-course-what-if-we-learnt-to-slow-down-together-swg-x-the-convivial monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/6eb71a42-4bd1-4ae2-9d56-12428266bc6b/MB4A0369.jpg what's on - Longer course: What if we learnt to slow down together? SWG x The Convivial Sophie is one of the co-founders of The Slow Work Garden and is the founder of The Convivial. She is an interdisciplinary facilitator, host, teacher, researcher and artist. Her work revolves around developing and strengthening a sense of deep curiosity and rich community in spaces of learning and inquiry. For Sophie, learning together is one of the most beautiful, imaginative and critical practices for our times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/828d64e5-17fd-4fef-bc8d-c3930b4b5ab4/1743872778727.jpeg what's on - Longer course: What if we learnt to slow down together? SWG x The Convivial Evelyn Hull is a facilitator and systems practitioner working at the intersections of ecology, inner development and social change. Her work centres on creating spaces that help people reconnect — with themselves, with one another, and with the living world — as a foundation for more just, imaginative and sustainable ways of organising our lives and work. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-skein-x-tom-hirons-rozi-hilton monthly 0.5 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/a120aaae-799b-4af5-81b3-05f43470c5ec/tom-with-extensive-beard.png what's on - Evening talk: skein x Tom Hirons & Rozi Hilton Tom Hirons is a writer and storyteller based on the south edge of Dartmoor. He is director of Feral Angels Press and lead editor of Clarion, the quarterly poetry magazine. His piece ‘Sometimes a Wild God’ is a subcultural poetry classic. Tom runs frequent poetry workshops as well as mentoring poets and storytellers. His latest collection is MOLOK, which came out in Summer 2025. www.tomhirons.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/dc07a213-be7a-45e8-adbf-4a803c7edc46/rozi-smiling-with-teeth.jpg what's on - Evening talk: skein x Tom Hirons & Rozi Hilton Rozi Hilton is a richly-skilled Artist mentor and staunch-believer in the power of Truth. A poet-performer for many years, her practice serves awareness and expression in all forms, and she lives to help others articulate their own experience. Rozi works creating workshops and courses in beautiful places, leading people towards authenticity, acceptance, and awe. “A wise and breathtaking storyteller, an accomplished, knowledgeable teacher; an energetic and passionate facilitator; and a spiritual inspirer.” www.believethebird.com https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-quiet-pen-mornings-2 monthly 0.5 2026-03-05 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/frankie-fleur-valentines-show monthly 0.5 2026-01-30 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/community-qi-gong-2 monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/1760701873655-ZC8BZ2FNOTH6DO236BOL/Screenshot+2025-06-10+172838.png what's on - Community qi-gong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/longer-course-poetics-of-place monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/30e1f397-4967-4dbe-bd7c-18f96e02ca2e/MB4A0373.jpg what's on - Longer course: Poetics of place - Facilitator Sophie Craven is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. She graduated from SOAS university in 2016 with a BA in Arabic and Social Anthropology, and a specialisation in memory, imagination and heritage sites (with fieldwork taking place in the West Bank of Palestine). https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/nervous-system-ecology-a-4-week-breathwork-course monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-burrow monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/bf52e725-d690-452a-a761-2593b0174e9f/IMG_8259.jpg what's on - Gathering: BURROW - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-celebrating-adult-play-as-a-remedy-for-burnout monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/c30f9c29-4620-4759-a17b-b438e673bade/WEB_M24_27.jpg what's on - Evening talk: Celebrating adult play as a remedy for burnout - Speaker Meg is founder of Journey to Play, a platform to help creatives to access play through prevention, recovery and flourishing techniques / experiences / workshops / talks and soon, coaching (1:1 & group). She is also a communication designer (research & design), whose practice focuses on adult play and burnout in the creative industry. She worked in the design industry, mainly branding and strategy, before completing her MA Communication Design at Falmouth University with a focus on play and burnout. Meg came to this work after experiences of deep burnout, and is now in the process of training to become a burnout coach in order to help creatives access play in their own work. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-an-imbolc-storytelling-circle monthly 0.5 2026-01-14 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-quiet-pen-mornings-1 monthly 0.5 2026-01-13 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/community-qi-gong-1 monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/1756903358462-5RFPD7PL6DNBGGPI01MI/Screenshot+2025-06-10+172838.png what's on - Community qi-gong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/collaborative-vocal-improvisation-an-experimental-lab-series monthly 0.5 2026-03-04 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/exhibition-mary-sue-beats-the-beatniks monthly 0.5 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/fcd5adc1-8648-4794-bf43-c296311655a8/7.jpg what's on - Exhibition: Mary Sue Beats the Beatniks Mary Sue Beats the Beatniks was created as a reflection of the artist's own feelings about the Beatniks movement and if the men who pushed the movement into the public eye should be lauded or condemned for their flaunting of domestic abuse and misogyny. The complexities of understanding how to look at historical figures simmers right below the colorful surface of the comic. The story was initially drawn out on newspaper but at some point, the newspaper drawings grew too numerous to be boiled down into a succinct story https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/gathering-quiet-pen-mornings monthly 0.5 2025-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/51125e8b-06d5-46c2-ae9a-41926ae78eb7/IMG_3227.jpeg what's on - Gathering: Quiet pen mornings - Your host Sirpa Walton is a writer and facilitator who deeply believes in the steady encouragement that rises from writing side by side – the simple comfort of quiet key tapping in good company. Sirpa loves building a supportive space where writers of all backgrounds can feel a sense of ease, focus, and companionship in their practice. Her approach is gentle and heartening, offering prompts and structure without pressure or expectation. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/becoming-limb-zines-disability-and-collective-art-making monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/20c0e714-0112-4eeb-bfe8-3059b53f95e3/presentedbyjo+profile+image.png what's on - Becoming limb: Zines, disability and collective art-making - Workshop facilitator Jo is a disabled and neurodivergent creative, using multimedia formats to explore and express their identity, foster awareness, and form meaningful connections. Living with autism, ADHD, and complex chronic illnesses, Jo uses their social media pages for awareness and advocacy, as well as exploring these parts of their identity in their artistic practices. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/the-raw-material-of-mythology-a-solstice-storytelling-circle monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/5a0109fb-f720-44a6-95e1-a85df8a53e27/Screenshot+2025-11-20+135624.png what's on - The raw material of mythology: A solstice storytelling circle - Storyteller Sam Crosby is an oral storyteller, speaker, programme lead and facilitator, author of the The Re-Eldering Manifesto: REFIREMENT, Not Retirement, founder of Recalling Fire and host of Drop The Map. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/the-poetics-of-place monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/23458c46-e9d6-438e-a177-069999ee0a0a/Screenshot+2025-06-28+132248.png what's on - The Poetics of Place - Facilitator Sophie Craven is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. She graduated from SOAS university in 2016 with a BA in Arabic and Social Anthropology, and a specialisation in memory, imagination and heritage sites (with fieldwork taking place in the West Bank of Palestine). https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-an-interspecies-creative-writing-workshop monthly 0.5 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/23458c46-e9d6-438e-a177-069999ee0a0a/Screenshot+2025-06-28+132248.png what's on - Workshop: An interspecies creative writing workshop - Facilitator Sophie is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. She graduated from SOAS university in 2016 with a BA in Arabic and Social Anthropology, and a specialisation in memory, imagination and heritage sites (with fieldwork taking place in the West Bank of Palestine). https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-spider-as-teacher monthly 0.5 2026-01-08 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-queer-ecologies monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/ede884b9-a4d8-4e04-b51b-05127d006f26/unnamed+%286%29-modified.png what's on - Evening talk: Queer ecologies Cory is a zoology student with 3 years of experience studying ecology, and 27 years of experience being queer. With an eclectic background in education, theatre, biology, and art, they enjoy exploring examples within and beyond humanity that refuse to fit our ideas of normality, blending science and experience to ignite conversations and encourage alternative perspectives on society, nature, and the status quo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/de6c83a5-df3e-4f05-9b1e-483dee9718d3/Rose+Image-modified.png what's on - Evening talk: Queer ecologies Rose is a PhD student at the University of Exeter, researching how chameleon prawns change colour, with previous degrees in zoology from Bangor University. She is also a trans woman and a lesbian, with a long history of queer and feminist activism. Over the past few years, she has combined these two sides of her life, with queer ecology and ecofeminism, bringing a bit of queerness to the academic community she’s a part of, and a bit of the natural sciences to her queer community. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/community-qi-gong-lcmf6 monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/851f87d2-351e-48aa-98d5-11301fd942f6/Screenshot+2025-06-10+172838-modified.png what's on - Community qi-gong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-encountering-water-via-the-penryn-river monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/a7747657-45c6-4c73-9abe-8a04bc0a7b20/PHOTO-2023-12-12-09-03-44.jpg what's on - Workshop: Encountering water via the Penryn River - A (fluid) structure 9.45 – Meet at The Convivial + check in 10am – Walk 1: Watery worldviews, raising water & water in ceremony 12.30pm – Lunch https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/nervous-system-ecologies-a-four-week-breathwork-course monthly 0.5 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/abcbd884-12f8-4b08-8570-ab0dcf8deea8/charlie+noisily.jpg what's on - Nervous System Ecology: A four-week breathwork course - Facilitator Charlie is a breath science practitioner (School of Breath Science) and trauma-informed Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitator based near Falmouth, Cornwall. She is the founder of Recalibrate Breath, offering coaching and workshops that explore how principles of living systems and regenerative design can inform inner practice. Her previous series reflected on breath as a mode of inner composting, while Nervous System Ecologies deepens this inquiry, exploring how we cultivate a felt sense of interdependence with the world through embodied practice. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/seeking-comfort-in-edges-pamela-colman-smith monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/9f0d0852-1946-48d2-8afc-fcede70107ef/Screenshot+2025-10-22+145914.png what's on - Evening talk: Seeking comfort in edges - Speaker Poppy is a writer, creative facilitator, life and health coach based in Cornwall. She has given talks on Pamela Colman Smith and Jean Rhys at Bude Literary Festival, rececing funding from the ‘Q’ Fund which encourages creativity in Cornish literature, for her research on Ms Rhys. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/ravens-top-surgery-exhibition-and-fundraiser monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/9adeb510-7efb-408e-b140-25f3a1975a5a/unnamed+%2813%29.jpg what's on - Raven's top surgery exhibition and fundraiser - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/mare-workshop-1-animism-in-the-contemporary-realm-re-cognition-and-co-creation monthly 0.5 2025-11-18 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-in-contact-with-stone-the-convivial-x-elizabeth-tomos monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/4ffa17fa-a434-4dee-bf6c-d1616228c3b9/20%29-modified.png what's on - Evening talk: In contact with stone - Speaker Elizabeth Tomos is an artist, arts educator and activist. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Falmouth University and has worked in Higher Education for over 15 years in various arts contexts. Her studio is currently at Krowji, Redruth, where she runs her own practice integrating performance art and printmaking to create site-specific happenings with an environmental focus. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/reflection-group-in-the-belly-of-the-whale-dkkpt monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/community-qi-gong monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/851f87d2-351e-48aa-98d5-11301fd942f6/Screenshot+2025-06-10+172838-modified.png what's on - Community qi-gong - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/reflection-group-in-the-belly-of-the-whale monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/samhain-ritual monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/49584f5b-6847-412d-8231-92b0a99b03a3/image0+%287%29.jpeg what's on - Samhain Ritual Andi is a poet, activist and community leader living and working in Penryn. He is a practising witch, and his work is inspired by Cornish landscape and folklore. He is currently researching witchcraft history and practices and shares this knowledge with community in many ways, including a recent talk at Rad Ed and by leading regular communal rituals. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/lecture-series-rad-ed monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/monthly-community-qi-gong monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/movement-and-collective-imagination-workshop-what-makes-a-village monthly 0.5 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/f3eff51c-dcd5-4385-b8c9-85c493530f84/11-SDS+Next+Workshop+Feb+24+Cheniece+Warner+Photography.jpeg what's on - Workshop: What makes a village? - About Rachel Rachel is a dance artist and systems change practitioner based in Cornwall. Their work straddles the live arts and environmental sectors, bridging both through the power of embodied experience to deepen our connections with ourselves, our communities and the more-than-human world. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/poet-laureate-of-penryn-a-penryn-fair-day-reading monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/9f6701fe-301f-42a2-97c6-79e8bc934c36/MB4A0171.jpg what's on - Poet Laureate of Penryn - A Penryn fair day reading - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/evening-talk-we-remember-ourselves-home monthly 0.5 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/e9f9ce0f-98a4-4084-894d-0a3474237fee/FB_IMG_1749140156495+%281%29-modified.png what's on - Evening talk: We remember ourselves home And so we sit. In circle. In warmth. Not to fix. Not to lead. Not to follow. But to remember. https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/fundraiser-45-palestinian-folk-tales monthly 0.5 2025-08-15 https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/workshop-the-poetics-of-place monthly 0.5 2025-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/4627ec20-6d62-4b50-9d8f-80d15fc47a6f/PHOTO-2024-11-18-12-00-02+%283%29.jpg what's on - Workshop: The poetics of place The etymology of ecology is oikos + logy, i.e., the study of house or home and family or kin. In this day-long inquiry, we will delve into what it truly means to study our home; i.e. to re-entangle ourselves within a wider web of interspecies relationships. For this we will work with the Penryn woodland as our ecological collaborator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/23458c46-e9d6-438e-a177-069999ee0a0a/Screenshot+2025-06-28+132248.png what's on - Workshop: The poetics of place - Facilitator Sophie is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. She graduated from SOAS university in 2016 with a BA in Arabic and Social Anthropology, and a specialisation in memory, imagination and heritage sites (with fieldwork taking place in the West Bank of Palestine). https://www.theconvivial.co.uk/events-1/underworlding monthly 0.5 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/31fc0533-55e8-4e81-8371-4530604aa153/Ishtar_blog.jpg what's on - Longer course: Underworlding Taking the Ancient Sumerian story of Inanna and Erishkigel as our guiding structure, we will hear the call of the underworld, enter, transform and emerge in time for Imbolc (February 1st) when the first new shoots of wild garlic begin to grow in the woods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/666740a0f1d5e37b1fb71b9e/9ca8c6a4-3da3-4a9d-bfb8-e384b35d477e/MB4A0322.jpg what's on - Longer course: Underworlding - Facilitator Sophie is a writer, artist and facilitator based in Cornwall, UK. 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