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A new season for the Dark Cornwall Fête.

For personal reasons and family commitments, we made the decision to move this year’s Dark Cornwall Fête to 20th March 2027, Ostara and the Spring Equinox.

And, actually, it feels rather fitting.

A day balanced between light and dark, marking the turning of the seasons and the beginning of spring, feels like a wonderful time to bring everyone together again.

To celebrate this new chapter, we commissioned the incredible @wild.wisdom.arts to create her own rendition of Ostara, with one of our favourite symbols of transformation and growth, the adder, front and centre. Make sure you give Katy a follow if you don’t already.

We’ll be returning to the beautiful woodland surroundings of @thearboristcafe at Killiow Estate, with folklore, strange creatures, talks, spoken word, makers, workshops and plenty more throughout the day.

As evening arrives, we’ll gather around our ceremonial Ostara bonfire to add our blessings and wishes for spring, before live music carries the celebrations into the evening.

Thank you to everyone who has been so understanding about the change. I’m genuinely excited about what we can create for Ostara.

20th March 2027. The Arborist, Killiow Estate. The Dark Cornwall Fête returns.

You can book your tickets now at darkcornwall.com/fete. If you can, please book early - it is really helpful for planning purposes and creating the best possible event for everyone. 🙏🏼☺️

#DarkCornwall #DarkFolklore #Ostara #SpringEquinox #Cornwall

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Happy Equinox ☯️🍂

The earth - and our earth bodies- have been calling out for balance this summer. For us to come home to ourselves and the larger planet body through that. To balance the internal fires of needs and speeds and move with more gentleness. To use them for passion with care. To love the darkness as much as the light, and not fear the descent. To have full awareness of it all- and see where the lack of balance lives. I love this settling season as summer fades. When the day and night are balanced, rest finally comes and brings peace into the core of our beings.
To finally see the land rejuvenated with water here - and earth show its aliveness again has made this season a proper celebration. The fire spirits (see video) seem more alive when surrounded by vivid green damp grass. The Earth’s resilience is strong, as is ours.
If making art is an act of devotion, resting and play and slow-moving is part of what makes it whole. Tomorrow it’s my birthday and I’ll be hiding away with the waves - in all the water appreciation and play- with loved ones. Gifting myself a swap from yang to yin for awhile…
All I need is here already ✨ Grateful to the brim. Photos from this early equinox weekend of ceremonies, dragons, love and sea.

But I would love it if you could help my friend Muhammad and his family out right now @abumarwan227 - as things still aren’t easy… I’ve tagged a digital download where all the profits go to him. Or the fundraiser is on my bio. If you do donate and would like a download of any of the other artworks instead, tell me which you’d like and I’ll send you a link 🤍

And biggest thankyou to @victoria.quesnel_ for healing that i wont try and put into human words… if you’re in cornwall connect with her 🪽

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This is the first of several posts introducing the artists whose work will feature in our Kalan Gwav Exhibition at @nttrelissick this autumn.

Inspired by dragons, mythology and the ancient ways people once explained the workings of nature, Justin Leech’s paintings are deeply connected to the landscape of West Penwith, where he was born and raised.

Protector of the Celtic Cross draws inspiration from a dragon encountered at Basset Tower on Carn Brea. Fierce and commanding, it stands as a guardian of Cornish heritage.

Also displayed will be “Dragon Dreams”, which takes inspiration from Lanyon Quoit and a dragon imagined there early one morning. This is a gentler, more peaceful presence, approachable by those who arrive with the right intentions.

Both works are painted intuitively in acrylic on canvas.

See Justin’s work at the Kalan Gwav Exhibition at Trelissick, from 17 October to 1 November.

#DarkCornwall #KalanGwav #CornishArt #CornishFolklore #trelissick

Emma Bray – The Hurlers @betweenthetidesart

Rooted in the ancient landscape of Bodmin Moor, Emma Bray’s charcoal drawings explore memory, folklore and our enduring relationship with place.

The Hurlers draws upon one of Cornwall’s most evocative prehistoric monuments and the long shadows cast across its stone circles at sunrise. Rather than illustrating a particular legend, Emma captures the atmosphere of a place where history and myth continue to inhabit the landscape.

Developed through photography, field sketches and repeated visits to the moor, the drawing feels timeless, suspended somewhere between the past and present.

See The Hurlers at the Kalan Gwav Exhibition, Trelissick, from 17 October to 1 November.

#DarkCornwall #KalanGwav #CornishArt #CornishFolklore #trelissick

Katy Greenwood – Blackberry Wren @wild.wisdom.arts

Penryn-based artist Katy Greenwood creates work inspired by animism and the value of noticing, protecting and learning from the natural world around us.

Painted in acrylic on canvas, Blackberry Wren brings together two pieces of Cornish folklore.

The first is an old rhyme warning against harming the robin or wren, birds once held sacred in Cornwall:

“Strub a Robin or a Wr

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Hi, I'm Josh from Under the Sun - Inclusive Yoga.

I trained in traditional yoga in India before qualifying as a Special Yoga™ teacher. As a neurodivergent person myself, I understand that everyone experiences the world differently, and I believe yoga should be accessible to everyone.

I teach both children and adults, adapting every session to meet each person's individual needs. Whether you're looking to improve strength, balance and mobility, find moments of calm, support emotional regulation, reduce stress or anxiety, or simply reconnect with your body through gentle movement, my aim is to create a welcoming, non-judgemental space where you can feel safe, supported and accepted exactly as you are.

#InclusiveYoga #Neurodiversity #SpecialYoga #ADHDSupport #CornwallYoga

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Hello lovely folks ...Would mean a lot if you could please consider nominating dear Palden Jenkins for the Cornwall Heritage Trust Heritage Champion Award. ❤️

We were honoured to have @paldywankenobi
Speak for us at the Cornish Sacred Landscape event in June, and we were all captivated.

This talk was recordrd by Palden and is available to listen for free at www.Palden.co.uk/belerion.

For decades, Palden has devoted thousands of unpaid hours to researching, visiting and mapping Cornwall's ancient sites, entirely voluntarily.

His life's work is freely available through AncientPenwith.org an incredible resource that so many of us use and perhaps take for granted.
He has never charged for any of his work, including his latest book, Shining Land, because he considers it a service to the people of Kernow.

Ancient Penwith is truly his masterpiece, and he is so deserving of recognition for his dedication to Cornwall's heritage. 💛

Nominate him here:
https://www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/about-us/heritage-champions/make-a-nomination

There will shortly be a kickstarter campaign starting to support Palden to publish his book Shining Land. Be sure to check out the @darkcornwall page for updates.

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Golitha Falls
Gathering of the Elementals
⚠️Caution possible strobe effect lighting ⚠️
No effects or filter!

I returned to Golitha Falls today for a swim, hoping to reconnect with the sacredness I had felt there yesterday. I started to tune in and when I opened my eyes , I noticed this beautiful sight.

This video was taken while I was standing in the river. The mesmerising play of sunlight, water, air and movement felt like a gathering of the elementals as though they were dancing together within the living patterns of the river. It was so exquisitely beautiful it could almost bring you to tears.

When the old traditions speak of the Lordly Ones or the Shining Ones as beings of extraordinary beauty, I do not understand this as beauty in the ordinary physical sense, but something much deeper...the cosmic beauty revealed through the intricate patterns, harmony and living perfection of nature.

“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

W. B. Yeats, The Stolen Child (1889)

#faerylore #sidhe #celticmysteries #otherworld #bodminmoor

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Zero Filter !! Has anyone else ever had an ultra violet spectre turn up on their photos?

Twice now, my camera has captured what looks like an ultraviolet spectre. The first time, I talked myself out of believing there anything special about it. But today, while standing in the river at Golitha Falls, it happened again and its so striking I cant dismiss it.

There was something deeply sacred about the atmosphere today, total peace within and without, and the river was so warm and comforting. Whether this is simply an unusual photographic effect or something more, I honestly don't know.

Many traditions speak of rivers, waterfalls, and wild places as thresholds between worlds. Some modern esoteric teachings suggest that beings of the Underworld / Faery exist just beyond the limits of ordinary human perception, and can perhaps be perceived on the UV spectrum. Standing there today, it certainly felt as though the veil was thinner than usual.

What do you see? Optical phenomenon, coincidence... or something else?

#GolithaFalls #BodminMoor #faerylore #EarthMysteries #otherworld

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What a goregous bunch of humans ! Xx Its been 2 weeks since the Cornish Sacred Landscape and we still have a full heart and a huge smile , thanks again to everyone involved 🪷 .

If you would like to meet some like minded people and feel moved to get involved with the Carn Crescent Crow Art Collective in future , give us a DM 🙏🌿🌳. We are a friendly inclusive bunch and everyone is welcome.

#artistcollective #cornishartists #ancientsites #cornwallart #inclusionmatters

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The Magic Landscape of Belerion

A talk by me at The Cornish Sacred Landscape Exhibition, Penzance, 20th June 2026, about the ancient sites of West Penwith.

With lots of maps and pics in a downloadable Powerpoint slideshow. This is an audio podcast with a Powerpoint added. A few of the maps are shown here.

It is for you who missed it, or for you who live in Cornwall or for you who might be visiting soon. Or perhaps you're just vaguely interested - it's interesting stuff, as it happens.

My starting place is the observation that, every time I go to a stone circle, cliff sanctuary or quoit, I come away changed. Especially if I spend time there and let myself float off, listening, musing, meditating. There's something here to do with consciousness and other realms of reality.

There's also the matter of earth energy. My specialism is alignments (or leylines), and in this talk I explain about them, showing how they knit the many and various sites in Penwith, big and small, into one integrated system.

Penwith is one big ancient site, one big cliff sanctuary, at the southwest end of the mainland of the Isles of Britain.

Its ancient name of Belerion, recorded by Diodorus Siculus in 60 BCE, means shining, radiant, or perhaps scintillating, land. And it is, and it does. And that's what this is all about.

https://www.palden.co.uk/belerion.html

This post is for anyone who missed Palden's wonderful talk last weekend at The Cornish Sacred Landscape , or anyone who attended who wants a closer look at some of the slides from his presentation. For some reason this post uploaded without Paldens blurb!.

This post was reproduced from facebook, with kind permission from Palden @paldywankenobi.

We are so very grateful and honoured that he gave this wonderful lecture last weekend 🙏🌻 what a brilliant human and dear friend xx

Please check out his amazing website Ancient sites of Penwith. His amazing book Shining land is available online for free, however we hope to hear about a physical copy being published at some point in the future.

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Some of the lovely participants and speakers of the Cornish Sacred Landscape over the weekend.

It was a beautiful gathering of like minded, lovely people and we all left with new friends, inspiration and knowledge 🌼 Our hearts are so full 🏵

Thanks again to all the speakers and performers who so generously donated their time and energy to the event 🙏 and of course to all the amazing artists.

We look forward to working together soon 🌿

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Merry Solstice everyone.

Feeling incredbly blessed and grateful for such a beautiful weekend 🙏 filled with such warmth, friendship, laughter, creativity and such positive energy. We couldnt have asked for anything more 🌞 .

Thank you so much to everyone involved in the Cornish Sacred Landscape , and everyone who attended , thanks for making the weekend so special, what a wonderful bunch of humans 🪷. We look forward to our next adventure together ! xxx

Photos : Solstice sunset tonight at The Hurlers , Bodmin moor.

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After some beautiful yoga with @under.the.sun.inclusive.yoga we are getting ready for our first talk of the day with the brilliant Rob @darkcornwall .

Then its the lovely @ellielawrenceartist with an experimental performance .

Then a dowsing workshop with Ossain Hughes .

Tickets available on the door - donations to @c.a.s.p.n

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