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Dear All,

With the usual apologies for:(a) the impersonality of the round robin email(b) the belatedness of the notification and the usual beggings for you kindly to forward it on to: (a) the Mailing lists you have of people who might be interested in the Festival  Herewith an invitation to: 

an A1 Solstice Festival in Ruthin this w/e

WHERE SUNDAY’S COMBINATION OF ACADEMIC ARCHAEOLGISTS AND INSPIRED CDELTIC SRTORYTELLING SHOULD BE A WONDROUS DAY OUT and   

2. A  party at the Bungalow, Nant-y-Garth, Ruthin, Denbighshire LL15 2HS

 Saturday 21^st June 08 as from about 1900 till

late  

where my neighbours Pauline and Jan, ex Drummer from KISS,  are hosting a live music and barbecue gig (bring your own food/drink if you ‘re coming: bed space available by prior booking – see numbers below or 01978-790230 on Friday night, camping space for tents a plenty on the orchard/lawn with no worries) RSVP for party pls and advise me if you want directions.Hope to see you there and take good care of thyselves the while Love and blessingsRobin  

Robin Grenfell Cowan

Church House,
Burton,
Neston,
Cheshire CH64 5TQ
England

Tel: +44(0)151-336-1691

Mob: +44-(0)7855-375564

 Summer Solstice, Saturday 21^st – Sunday   22^nd June

,“Ancient sites on the Inner and the Outer landscape.” 

Wales is historically a Celtic land where many have acknowledged a strong connection with nature. Some would add that there has been a “healing response,” a rapport with nature in this land. The land of Wales seemingly invokes this response.  Our Summer Solstice festival explores the meaning of our connectedness with ancient landscape and its human stories.  This is the second part of Festival 2008: A festival of four seasons: The Chiron Centre, based in the heart of Ruthin, in the beautiful Vale of Clwyd, is offering in 2008, a four-season celebration of earth and life seen through many diverse interpretations, so that we may collectively and individually embrace, re-kindle, and re-connect with forgotten themes of life which are vital to our wellbeing. The dates for the four festival events are as follows:Spring Equinox : Friday 21^st – Saturday 22^nd March  Summer Solstice: Saturday 21^st – Sunday 22^nd JuneAutumn Equinox: Saturday 20^th – Sunday 21^st SeptemberWinter Solstice: Saturday 20^th – Sunday 21^st December Contributors at the Summer Solstice include: Chairman, Ian McGregor Brown, Leeds Trinity and All Saints College (formerly of School of Lifelong Learning, University of Wales, Bangor; Ken Brassil, keynote speaker, Senior Archaeologist/historian, Department of Learning, National Museum For Wales, Cardiff; Fiona Gale, County Archaeologist, Denbighshire C.C.; Andy Harrop, Druid and Story Teller; Representing the Chiron Centre: Conny Freidrich, Creative Art Therapist; Tanya McCormack, Taoist Practitioner; Robin Grenfell Cowan, Homeopath, Senior Practitioner; Angela Burton, Principal. Booking information: Cheques made payable to “The Chiron Centre.”

q       For Saturday: Please order your buffet lunch and / or afternoon tea when booking (see programme summary on next page).   

q       One day only: £25.00 (deposit £10.00)

q       Two days booked together: £40.00 (deposit £15.00)

Concessions: 10% off (pensioners, students, non-waged) please provide evidence.

Summer Solstice, Saturday 21^st – Sunday 22^nd June,

“Ancient sites on the Inner and the Outer landscape.” Programme Summary 

Saturday Venues: 9.30 for a 10.00 a.m. start – 4.30 p.m: The Parlour Room, Nant Clwyd y Dre, Castle Street, Ruthin. Lunch time visit to The Chiron Centre, Market Street, Ruthin, (where a “conscientious” buffet lunch at an additional £5.00 can be provided, in partnership with Crown House Café, and a thematic book stall will be available). On return there will be a conducted tour of the recently restored medieval house and garden at Nant Clwyd y Dre (included in the price). 

q       Throughout the day you are invited to explore the meaning of ancient sites on the inner landscape, i.e., Culture, language, ceremony, myth, sense of place, sense of belonging: connectedness. We will be using creative art, movement, Solstice Celebration, other inspiring presentations. Our facilitators will be Conny Freidrich, Tanya McCormack, Robin Grenfell Cowan, Angela Burton. 

q       4.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. an extra event – A “conscientious” Afternoon Tea can again be provided, in partnership with Crown House Café, in the gardens at Nant Clwyd y Dre. An additional £3.50 will be required to round off the day this way. *Crown House Café: make lovely home made bread and cakes and try to use as many organic, fairly traded and locally produced ingredients as they possibly can. Sunday Venues: 10.a.m. – lunch time at The Chiron Centre, Market Street, Ruthin. (please bring picnic lunch). Afternoon site visit to one or more of the archaeological sites on the Clwydian Range; approximate finish 4.30/5.00 p.m. 

q       PLEASE NOTE: You are advised to wear appropriate, all weather, clothing and footwear for the site visit. We will spend the morning in The Chiron Centre exploring ancient sites on the outer landscape: discussing spatial and historical evidence which archaeologists have uncovered and which informs us of our early predecessors who dwelt within the North Wales region hundreds and thousands of years ago and especially considering sites located on the nearby Clwydian Range. Our specialist guides throughout the day will be, Archaeological team, Ken Brassil and Fiona Gale. Our story teller will be Andy Harrop.

q       We will allow the weather to dictate whether we eat our picnic lunches at The Chiron Centre, or whether we eat when we arrive at our ancient site. Rumour has it, that, Merlin will join us to share with us some of his very own favourite stories.