Fox & Badge cordially invite you to “Pagan Spring” - a nocturnal journey into our hearts, & selves, & each other. Winter has come, and soon its rigours will make way for the joys of Spring. The earth reawakens, warming our soles & souls as we dance into the light. (“Winter” comes from the word “wed”, meaning wet - whilst “Spring” imagines plants dancing - “springing” from the soil, like we do from the music) After the grandeur & regalia of “Religion”, or the Wicca & witchcraft of “Night of the Spirits”, “Pagan Spring” explores our ecstatic connection to Nature - and the ancient myths with which we surround & worship it. We will converge a mere fortnight after the traditional Mayday celebration of Beltane (one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Samhain, Imbolc, and Lughnasadh) - which ushered in an early summer, as herdsmen started to move their flocks out to pasture. Villagers gathered hawthorn branches and flowers to decorate the outside of their houses, celebrating new growth and fertility. They opened the Twmpath Chwarae (or "tump for playing" - a kind of village green), and staged a mock battle between Summer & Winter. Winter carried a blackthorn stick & a shield clad with wool and threw straw & kindling at Summer, bedecked in flowers and ribbons, who lashed back (triumphantly) with birch & fern. The village whooped, & crowned a new May King and Queen, and feasted happily til dawn. People continued to gather in the evenings to dance and play sports, and sing “Carolau Mai” - bawdy, sexual songs. Singers roved between the houses with fiddlers and harpists, and all made merry - drinking beer elderberry and rhubarb wines, mead & woodruff - “a tonic for their hearts”. Our contemporary version of pagan song will be both the very best in melodic techno, purveyed in the Great Meadow by our favourite female d(j)eities (ensconced in ceremonial settings; attended by innumerable performative sprites) - and more shamanic sounds in our more intimate Glen; that fusion of masculine and feminine that distinguishes the pagan. We will continue our quest to reinvent modern ritual; enhance our connection and ecstasy; unify our community in all our various collective forms of open worship. Our offerings include: -2 dance-floors combining stunning melodic & shamanic techno, downtempo & ambient, spiritual aetherea & live music -7 amazing DJs, merging extraordinary international headliners & genius local talent + our signature all-female-goddess main-room lineup + 10 more brilliant DJs at our largest ever afterparty (using 3 spaces at the fab CELL 200, near KingsCross; link in conf. email) -a pantheon of divine performers and immersive characters, erupting at every moment; -a labyrinth of elegant spaces to discover, with covens of decadent and joyful surprises; -spectacular sets; spectacular production; spectacular sound and light; -our incredible community, divinely attired, primed to connect To worship involves the gift not only of your presence, but your manifestation. True pagans are not only open-hearted & open-minded, but connected - and creative. Unleash your own reinvention. Think natural & earthy; plant-based & extravagant. Bear blooms and branches; flowers & fur; horns and handcraftedness - all lushly packaged with straps & veils that gift generous glimpses of your divinity. Go wild - for all of us, as well as yourself. (Our starter Pinterest board is at https://www.pinterest.co.uk/foxan.../fb-202005-pagan-spring/) Dress code: Angels & Animists; Celtists & Ceremonists; Dryads & Druids; Faeries & Feraferians; Heathens & Hermits; Horned Gods and Hylozoists; Kahunas & Kemetists; Nature-worshippers & Nontheists; Nordics & Nymphs; Orgasmics & Odinists; Pagans & Neopagans; Pandeists & Pantheists; Romantics & Radical Faeries; Shamans & Sprites; Totemists & Trothians; Warriors & Wiccans; White Witches & Wizards; Ynglings & Yujists - all worshippers are welcome to come explore our wild wonderland. Spring forth! XXX F&B

A Maxwell

Event host

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