Heading north

Myth & Moor will be on hiatus for the next week and a bit, because I'll be on the road again.

This time, I'm heading up to Scotland for the Symposium for Fantasy & the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow (Friday, May 10) -- where I'll be giving the Keynote address on The Power of Storytelling: Re-creating the World Through Fantasy. It's is a subject I feel rather passionate about, and if you're anywhere near Glasgow, please do come. The talk is open to all (not just Symposium partipants), and the tickets are free but you need to book them as space is limited. You'll find more information here.

On May 11th & 12th, I'll be in Dungworth, Sheffield for a Soundpost folk music gathering, where several of us from the Modern Fairies project will be giving workshops on how to use folk tales as a source of creative inspiration in music, writing, and art. In the video below, Fay Hield explains all. Please join us if you possibly can.

I'll be back in the studio (and on-line again) on Thursday, May 16. I hope you all have a good, creative week.

Remember in the midst of dire news headlines and daily chaos that seeds are stretching upwards through the soil, bluebells are nodding in the wind, a fox slips by unseen in the shadows, and the world is still a magical place.

The painting above is "The East Wind" by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)