Midday til late.
From the depths of the Peak District, Well Dressed return for another Dark Peak // White Peak, exploring folklore, customs and curiosities through music, art, film and performance.
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An evening of magik and the occult with Hellebore Zine. Featuring a special screening of Night Of The Eagle, followed by a deep dive into this cult classic movie.
From the folks at The National Folklore Survey, we’ll have a live podcast recording of ‘Folklore Matters’ with very special guest ‘The Archivist’ Doc Rowe.
Stone Club will be in the house, picking the unique brain of John Billingsley, the mind behind the legendary ‘Northern Earth’ publication.
The Folk Archive and Land Shrines are blowing the dust off their personal folklore collections for an incredibly unique and entertaining ‘Show And Tell’ presentation, hosted by Lally Macbeth and Nikki Millar.
Mike Hankin of The Folk Union and Off Beat Folk Film Club, will be hosting a folkmoot, which is an old Anglo-Saxon term for a community assembly that meets to discuss shared ideas and traditions.
Libby Bove will be driving her Museum Of Roadside Magic up to the front of QUAD, a multimedia travelling archive documenting roadside magic in its many forms.
Geet will traverse the Peaks to bring us his harmonium-driven dark folk.
Wirksworth’s own T’Owd Man Morris will be bashing sticks and jangling bells outside QUAD
Filmmaker Boris Thompson-Roylance presents ‘The Land Remains’, documenting journeys through Britain’s pre-Christian ceremonies, rituals and practices, exploring the relationship between myth, landscape, migration and national identity.
We think of Derby as the middle. In the centre of the Midlands. Yet, for centuries this wasn’t the case. Derby has always been a borderland. Derby At The Edge Of The Map is a guided walk by Peakrill Walks, exploring the strange things that can happen in an in-between place.
PLUS!
Workshops with Vic Jay and Folk Club.
DJ sets from Weird Derbyshire, Psychic Dancehall, Witch Cult Now, Callanish A.V.R & DJ YrPriceless
Stalls by Hellebore zine, Black Lodge Press, T And The Creatures, Bearded Badger Books, Jesse Giant, Heath And Mud, Occultaria Of Albion, Happy Bellyman, Tamsin Wilson, Temporal Boundary, Occulture Magazine, Callanish A.V.R, Wyldlief, Grimoire Silvanus Zine, Danse Macabre, Unquiet Press & Hand Of Gloria
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The Listening Stone // visuals and projections by Sian Morrell // Merch drop by Ganitt
