Posts Tagged ‘mayday’
Community Pageant Concludes Dartmoor Tors Festival
Around 50 people joined a new community pageant entitled ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ over the weekend, to perform a well dressing and celebrate May Day, the start of summer. It took place in Ashburton on Sunday the 3rd of May at 4pm, as the closing event of the Dartmoor Tors Festival, which was attended by around 1,500 people, who…
Read MoreAncient Holy Well Forms Centrepiece for New Dartmoor Community Pageant
St Gudula’s Well in Ashburton, an ancient holy well, will be the focus of a new community ritual honouring water as the source of all life, and celebrating the start of summer. ‘Gudula’s Gathering’ has been conceived by events curator and writer Kirsteen McNish, and Helen Bruce of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, as the closing…
Read MoreMayday Revels: Dartmoor Tors Festival Lineup Announced
Join us this year for the second Dartmoor Tors Festival, bringing together walkers, thinkers, creatives who are interested in natural landscapes and how we relate to them. It is a celebration of the power and beauty of places seen as wild and ancient around Britain, and an exploration of why and how they provoke an…
Read MorePlant of the Month: Oak
Approaching May Day, mature oak trees begin to flower. Both male and female flowers form on the same tree, with the male flowers spreading pollen from dangling catkins and the female flowers opening as tiny buds between the leaves and branches. These buds will be what become acorns in autumn, holding within them the potential…
Read MorePlant of the Month: Hawthorn
There are few trees with more folklore attached to them than the widespread, and easily recognisable, hawthorn. It grows on open moorland, on motorway verges, in farmland hedges and in the middle of roundabouts. Flowering between March and June, it garlands the hedgerows in white for both Beltane and the Summer Solstice. Mature trees can…
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