Events
Here are my recent and upcoming events.
If you need any information that isn’t shown here, please contact me.
Leaving the Master’s house without using the Master’s tools
(part of the Festival of Revolutions)
Date: 9th May 2026
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm
Venue: Online, hosted by Rev21; https://rev21.earth/
Booking: For tickets and more information visit: https://festivalofrevolutions.org/
Description:
As part of the Composting Patriarchy stage at the online Festival of Revolutions, I will be hosting a brave conversation with two dear friends, from 11.00am to 12.30pm, entitled:
Leaving the Master’s house without using the Master’s tools.
This will be an exploration of emergent, life-affirming humanity through transcending patriarchy. Three men bring personal, psychological and mythic perspectives from their experiences of Men’s Work.
Rags to Riches and Riches to Rags
(a three-part online storytelling group)
Date: Tuesdays 19th May, 2nd June and 16th June
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Booking: Tickets are £15 per session or £40 for all three, and can be booked via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/rags-to-riches-riches-to-rags
Description: Many of the stories we know as Folk or Fairy Tales can be understood as depicting the particular problems encountered as the human psyche matures into adulthood. In this series of three storytelling events we will explore the archetypal journey of becoming a woman in a patriarchal society, through the lens of particularly European Fairy Tales, including Tattercoats, Rumplestiltskin and The Sleeping Prince.
In these events you can expect to learn more about how we can listen to and receive ancestral wisdom from such stories, as well as hearing the story herself, followed by an opportunity to explore how the symbols within that story are landing uniquely within you and what medicine you might take from this.
Sign up for all three in this series for a discounted price, or come along to just one or two.
Email me at borage@hearthhold.org for more information.
These events are for people of any gender identity.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales – May 2026
Date: 10/05/2026
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh, Devon
https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, from 7pm to 9pm.
Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed, just a small donation to help cover costs.
Email me at borage@hearthhold.org for more information.
Men’s Nation
Date: 17th to 20th September 2026
Venue: Embercombe, Devon.
Description: Our yearly gathering in brotherhood, where we co-create community through radical participation. We camp and we share food, we drum and we dance, we talk and we learn, we laugh and we cry, we come together with intention to discover the culture we know we need. Early Bird / Firestarter tickets available now.
Visit our website at https://mensnation.org/
Past Events …
The Calling
with Masculine Heart (for men only)
Date: 24th to 26th April 2026
Venue: Green Heart Space, Somerset
Booking: For tickets and more information visit: https://masculineheart.co.uk/the-calling
Description: The Calling is a two-day seasonal immersion for men to reset, reconnect and return to themselves.
Set deep in nature, we create space for men to confront the real reasons that lead to distraction and disconnection in modern life.
With guided practices, honest conversations and the holding of nature, you are invited to realign and reconnect to your own inner rhythm.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales – April 2026
Date: 12/04/2026
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh, Devon
https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, from 7pm to 9pm.
Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed, just a small donation to help cover costs.
Email me at borage@hearthhold.org for more information.
Hearth Tales at Masculine Heart (for men only)
Date: 26/02/26
Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Venue: Online via Masculine Heart. To book your ticket visit: https://masculineheart.co.uk/digital-services/hearth-tales-an-evening-of-myth-story
Description: Our third story steps into the legendary realm of the Arthurian Romances to receive the wisdom of tale known as: Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady.
The narrative features two of Arthurian canon’s most storied knights; King Arthur himself and his nephew Sir Gawain, as they work together to untangle a riddle and redeem more than just themselves. Together with their aid we will explore how the archetypes of the King and the Young Warrior operating within us can combine to repress or redeem the feminine.
Join us for this epic evening of myth, story and enchantment.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales – March 2026
Date: 15/03/2026 (move to the 3rd Sunday this month)
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh, Devon
https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, from 7pm to 9pm.
Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed.
Email me at borage@hearthhold.org for more information.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales – February 2026
Date: 08/02/2026
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh, Devon
https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, from 7pm to 9pm.
Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed.
Email me at borage@hearthhold.org for more information.
Hearth Tales at Masculine Heart (for men only)
Date: 19/01/26
Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Venue: Online via Masculine Heart. To book your ticket visit: https://masculineheart.co.uk/digital-services/hearth-tales-an-evening-of-myth-story
Description: In this second of our monthly online storytelling sessions exclusively for men, we will hear the Slavic tale ‘The Frog Princess’, which tells us of a young man’s journey to relate with and integrate the feminine in order to revivify a patriarchal kingdom that lacks it. We will then explore how the story touches and moves us, to locate ourselves within it and find the medicine that waits there for us.
Join us for this epic evening of myth, story and enchantment.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales – January 2026
Date: 11/01/2026
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, the first of 2026, from 7pm to 9pm. Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed.
Hearth Tales at Masculine Heart (for men only)
Date: 15/12/25
Time: 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Venue: Online via Masculine Heart. To book your ticket visit: https://masculineheart.co.uk/digital-services/hearth-tales-an-evening-of-myth-story
Description: The first of three, monthly, storytelling sessions exclusively for men, in which we explore how the story touches and moves us, to locate ourselves within it and find the medicine that waits there for us. We begin by delving in to the wisdom offered by a foundational myth of Japan’s Shinto tradition: Amaterasu and the Cave.
Join us for this epic evening of myth, story and enchantment.
Hatherleigh Hearth Tales
Date: 14/12/25
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our regular monthly storytelling night, from 7pm to 9pm. This time at a new venue and with special guests all the way from North Tawton. Join us for myths, folk tales, fairy stories, wonder tales, local legends and yarns. It’s our chance to leave behind our busy lives for a Once Upon Time evening together. No booking needed.
How Myths and Folktales can support us with transforming conflict
Date: 12/07/25
Venue: Land Workers Alliance: Land Skills Fair https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/events/land-skills-fair-2025/
Description: Market Gardener, Storyteller and Conflict Transformation Facilitator presents an evening of old stories from across the world, along with what we might learn from them to support us when conflict arises (as it inevitably and necessarily does). So that conflict resolves itself into the changes that were needed for growth and peace, rather than compromise, sacrifice or oppression.
How Myths and Folktales can support us with transforming conflict
Date: 09/07/25 – A Hatherleigh Festival event
Venue: Old Schools, Hatherleigh https://stjohnshatherleigh.uk/our-venues/#oldschools
Description: Our Hatherleigh resident Storyteller and Conflict Transformation Facilitator presents an evening of old stories from across the world, along with what we might learn from them to support us when conflict arises (as it inevitably and necessarily does). So that conflict resolves itself into the changes that were needed for growth and peace, rather than compromise, sacrifice or oppression.
https://www.hatherleighfestival.co.uk/event/how-myth-and-folk-tales-can-support-us-with-transforming-conflict/