The Season of the Witch
On 25 June 2025 by Deej_Fabyc1Tickets
Must be the Season of the Witch 🧙
Witchcraft and the post truth era.
CALL OUT DEADLINE 02/06/2025
Dates: Beginning on June 26th. There will be a workshop 28th, 29th & 30th of June with a residency from 26th June to 17th of July.
A Three-Day Workshop of Movement, Magic & Dreamwork
28, 29, 30 June 2025 — Milford House, Tipperary
Over three days at Milford House – a layered, resonant site now dedicated to the development of live art – we invite you into a shared exploration of ritual, gesture, deep listening and spell-making. Rooted in the shifting energies of dusk and dawn, this workshop holds space for both quiet reflection and playful experimentation, drawing on practices of embodied movement, group dreamwork, elemental ritual and improvisation.
You’ll be invited to carry out your own small rituals: burning something you’ve held onto for too long, offering something to a collective cauldron, or simply sitting in silence beside others. We’ll turn inwards during dreamwork sessions with guided meditation and journaling, and move outwards again with spells, performance fragments, and shared meals.
This is a workshop for those drawn to dusk and dawn, to movement and magic, to being-with rather than doing-for. It’s open to artists, performers, movers, witches, dreamers, and anyone curious to explore collective creativity in a space of slowness and attention.
What to bring:
- An object of personal significance
- Something to make sound with — this could be your voice, a found object, or an instrument
- A book that connects you to your craft — this could be a book of spells, poetry, folklore, something passed down, or a text you return to often
- Comfortable clothing for moving, resting, and being in for long periods indoors
- Wet gear and boots for moving outdoors in the environment
- Layers to stay warm and a blanket or mat to lie on
- A notebook or sketchbook
- One item you’ve had for over a year that you feel ready to let go of – must be natural/not plastic – something which can be sustainably burnt.
This is a queer-hearted, all-genders-welcome space. In a time of rising hostility toward gender non-conforming bodies, this workshop offers a space to reclaim and reimagine magic. We welcome all those interested in queering witchcraft, expanding ritual practices, and shaping new forms of spellwork rooted in resistance, tenderness, and transformation.
/ Frances Mezzetti
I am a full time visual artist living and working in Dublin, and a graduate from the National College of Art & Design. Over the last twenty seven years I have continued my visual art and movement practice in performance art, site specific installations, film and vocal soundings. Mine is a socially engaged practice creating works around individuals’ lived experiences. Ritual storytelling combined with a love of moving in nature is an ongoing research and practice. Working in collaboration with diverse artists and communities continues to have an expansive impact on my approach to artistic expression with exciting outcomes.
/ Beth Greenhalge
Her works often take the form of spontaneous experiments with body, movement, sound, and installation. The work is site-responsive, delving into place, ritual, history, and folklore. Inner landscapes and intuitive explorations merge with physical places. Conscious and unconscious thoughts become patterns for vibrant investigation and play. Nothing is ever definite, but everything here happens with reason. Transformed material unfolds a scene inhabiting body and environment.
/ Tess Wood
Multidisciplinary artist, Tess Wood, is currently immersed in research focusing on the production and delivery of live art within an installation setting. Their research has led to developing ways in which language exists within the performance art context, unpicking the complexities of dyslexic ways of speaking and writing with help from AI transcription tools. Wood is currently undergoing an R&D grant with Arts Council Wales, developing group performance works with collective SCORE and working within archives and library services at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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