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SUMMARY:Midsummer Festival: Solstice Yoga
DESCRIPTION:Midsummer Yoga with Liz Vowles\nOutdoors at Pickering Castle | 10-11am | Tickets £15\n  \nWe’re delighted that Liz Vowles is leading an additional Castle Yoga session for the Summer Solstice as part of the Midsummer Festival. \nPickering Castle is a wonderful outdoors venue for these classes\, which are running monthly until September (more info here). \n  \nAbout Midsummer Yoga (from Liz’s website)\nCelebrate the longest day of the year in one of North Yorkshire’s most magical settings. As the solstice sun climbs high over the ancient walls of Pickering Castle\, join us for an outdoor yoga class that marks the turning of the year — a moment to breathe\, ground yourself\, and soak in the pure summer energy around you. \nThis is yoga as it was always meant to feel — unhurried\, connected to nature\, and completely alive. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or simply curious\, you’ll move through a mindful\, accessible sequence designed to open the body and still the mind\, all within the beautiful medieval fortress. \nThere are few better ways to honour Midsummer than this. \nWhat to bring: \n\nYour yoga mat and blanket\nComfortable layers\nWater bottle\n\nSuitable for all levels. Outdoors — dress for the weather. \n  \nAbout the Teacher\nLiz Vowles specialises in mindful yoga and pilates practices that help you return to balance and flow. \nThrough inspiring classes and soulful workshops\, you’ll rekindle your creativity\, restore your vitality\, and feel grounded\, radiant\, and alive. \nEven in difficult times\, Liz believes we can find our centre\, and reconnect to what truly matters. Together\, we can thrive with calm strength and vitality. \n  \nTickets\n£15 directly from Liz online here\n  \nDirect link to booking page here\nArrive in time for the start time of 10am. \nAt the end of the practice\, you are invited to stay and enjoy the castle grounds at no extra cost (entry to the Castle for participant only). \nThe session will be held outdoors in the grounds of Pickering Castle\, unless the weather is very poor in which case it will take place undercover.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/midsummer-yoga/
LOCATION:Pickering Castle\, Castle Road\, Pickering\, YO18 7BA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Activity,Pickering Midsummer Festival
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SUMMARY:Midsummer Festival: Old Songs
DESCRIPTION:Stories Told Through Music\, Words and Art\nPickering Book Tree | Doors from 6.30pm | Tickets £15\n \nAs the Summer Solstice twilight nears\, we welcome you to the Book Tree to travel into a selection of Britain’s folktales through a stunning artistic collaboration.  \nOld Songs is based on the book of the same name\, written by Amy and illustrated by Gwen. Natalie will lead the trio in performing beautiful renditions of the traditional ballads featured in the book\, while animated versions of Gwen’s illustrations will be projected onto a screen to accompany the songs. Giving deeper context to the stories\, Amy will share readings and historical insights throughout the evening. \n  \nOld Songs\nAn astonishing collaboration of words and images that immerses readers in a magical folkloric world . . . These remarkable stories dice with the dangers around us and within us\, and they challenge us to emerge triumphant — Juno Magazine \nOld Songs fuses short stories\, histories\, lyrics and illustrations in an enthralling reimagining of traditional folk ballads. Sunday Times Bestselling historian Amy Jeffs and Illustrator Gwen Burns combine forces to create a rich compendium\, singing of travel\, mystery\, magic and the essential urges of humanity. \nFeaturing iterations of fairy tales and sinister descendants of Greek myths and bible stories\, as well as a cast of lesser-known characters with names like Tam Lim\, Child Wynd and Maisery\, Old Songs threads a tapestry of Britain’s landscape\, history and cultures. At the base of hills we can visit to this day\, elf queens kidnap hapless poets and carry them through rivers of blood; and at the foot of a tree whose offspring still stand in the forests of Northumberland\, a girl mimes combing the hairless head of a dragon who was once her brother. \nIn spellbinding tales of brown-skinned girls who danced on their lovers’ graves\, of golden-masted ships captained by the Devil\, of fiddles that cried “Murder!”\, of men kidnapped by fairies and boys married at fourteen\, we find narrative motifs as ancient as humanity itself. \nIn the histories interconnecting the stories\, we find the fantastical rooted in the everyday\, bringing to light the real experiences of great swathes of people to whom such story-songs were not only familiar\, but a way of escaping into the extraordinary and returning gratefully home. Bringing enchantment to familiar landscapes\, ballads were created anew by each singer and passed down from fireside to fireside\, at the knees of childhood nurses\, in manuscripts and in early printed pamphlets. Now\, ten stories are gathered here\, beautifully recreated for modern readers. \nThe stories absorb you instantly . . . A treat for those captivated by the medieval\, grisly and historic — The Northern Echo \n  \nTickets\n£15 from the shop counter (currently cash only) or online at ticketsource.com\n  \nDirect link to booking page here\n \nDoors will be open from 6.30pm for a 7pm start. The event will be held in our atmospheric upstairs event space.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/old-songs/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Folk,Live Music,Meet the Author,Meet the Illustrator,Pickering Midsummer Festival,Social History,Storytelling
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