Thank you to everyone for creating a wonderful space for all! Big Top
Acrobalance for all
A simple, informal acrobalance session. Enjoy some gentle stretching and full body warm up. Try some partner balances and leans, and some group balances and shape making. Open to all abilities and fitness levels.
A safe space to play a little, try something new, and get the endorphins flowing!
Facilitator: Rowan
Location: Big Top
Active meditation
Just sitting in silence won’t always help – real meditation starts only when you are truly at rest. Osho active meditations involve a beginning stage of activity, sometimes intense and physical, followed by a period of silence.
Clothing optional.
Facilitator: Bamboo Albert
Location: Big Top
Black Annis ritual for the outcast, the queer, the judged...
Pilloried as a hag, a child-eater, unnatural, ugly, vicious, Black Annis is Outcast - found in marginal places, in the tales from Gloucestershire and Shropshire alongside their blue-faced counterpart in Leicestershire.Keeping themselves apart from humanity, they are the scapegoat for the imbalances, dissatisfactions and dissensions of local communities.
In this ritual we will call the Outcast – the spirit of Black Annis to be with us – and we will release the judgements of others (including those we may have internalised) to allow full transformation and acceptance to occur. The ritual involves a chant which can be used as an ongoing practise for working with the Outsider being – Black Annis.
Please note that this ritual could be upsetting for some – as we will revisit external misunderstandings and past judgements and rejections that may have created heartbreak, damaged our self-esteem or be holding us back. Please make sure you are able to do this.
Facilitator: Lou Hart and Woody Fox
Location: Big Top
Connection games
Want to have fun, meet people with authenticity and depth, connect to your own desires and boundaries, communicate your truth, be heard and move on?
Brief meetings don’t have to be shallow! Join us as we build community and connection.
Facilitator: Daniel Morrison
Location: Big Top
Contact trust play
A safe interactive trust play workshop introducing contact improvisation, moving with ease with others, in and out of contact.
At your own safe speed you will explore giving yourself and receiving others, supporting and being supported, feeling what’s right for you.
Facilitator: Sky Chapman
Location: Big Top
Drum circles
Exploring world rhythms, building technique, confidence, group playing and improvisation skill daily practice sessions.
Facilitator: Andy Fowler
Location: Big Top
Ecstatic dance
We begin with a gentle movement warm up followed by freestyle dancing to a mixed genre DJ set.
The musical rhythms are designed to stimulate the subconscious rhythm, with participants often reaching points of ecstasy during the experience.
The dance is followed by a relaxing sound bath.
Facilitator: Charlotte Donachie
Location: Big Top
Gender bender ‘movement & meditation’
A guided meditation – painting with the canvas of our imagination and inner archetypes, playing with gender, using environmentally friendly makeup and a drag bag to experiment with costumes and props.
A sharing circle – to share thoughts and feelings.
Facilitator: Moon
Location: Big Top
Herd Of Cats
Herd Of Cats'
Herd Of Cats ceilidh band, bringing you the banginest folky tunes in Bristol, so get your dancing shoes on, and come spin your partners and strip your willows with us.
Location: Big top
Opening ceremony
Please come gather in the big top at 8pm for the Opening & Welcoming ceremony.
After some introductions and orientation we will process to the Central Fire to make invocations and start the celebrations!
Facilitator: Queer Spirit
Location: Big Top
The love god Antinous
A presentation about the Roman pagan god Antinous, the lover of Emperor Hadrian, who became deified after drowning in the Nile, and whose worship was a major rival to Christianity in the 2nd to 4th centuries.
Facilitator: Martin Campbell
Location: Big Top
