Welcome to the home of AFoST - A Festival of Storytelling
Harken, ye seekers of tale and flame! Welcome to the hearth of AFoST, the Festival of Storytelling, where the ancient songs of the Northern-European kin rise anew. This year’s grand moot calls forth sagas, myths, and folktales from the shadowed veils of time, bearing wisdom to light our path in these latter days.
Why, ye ask?
In this world of 26/9 connection, swift as the wind-whipped waves, where the clamor of duties gnaws at our bones and souls, few among us can sit by the crackling fires of yore. Few can gaze into the flames and hear the voices of worlds long sunken beneath the tides of time, worlds lost, yet alive in story.
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This day, we bid thee draw nigh! Pull a log to the fire’s edge, rest thy weary limbs, and let thy ears and heart drink deep of the old tales. In their telling, we bind ourselves to the past - our past - and call forth the memory of who we are. These are the very stories our forebears heard, huddled round the hearth on winter nights, when the frost bit deep, and the winds howled like wolves at the door.
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Our first festival summons the ancient voices of the Germanic tribes and their sister-folk, weaving one mighty tale: the birth of all things, the story of creation itself.
From many tongues and many lands these threads are spun, each a mirror to our ancestors’ hearts. Through them, we touch the souls of those who came before and find wisdom to know ourselves anew.
Why stories blaze bright in these dark days?
In this age of glowing screens and Runes that lie cold and untouched, the old art of storytelling shines like a beacon. Tales, myths and folklore are the sinew that ties us - kin to kin, age to age, land to land. They sing of our shared blood and bone, unveiling truths that echo through the generations. In the sagas of the Germanic world and her sisters, we honour the many-colored weave of our past, and within it, we find lessons that thunder through our lives even now.
A Moot of tales beyond time and tide
Here, we gather tales from the deepths of time:
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from the Stone Age’s shadowed whispers;
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the Norse Gods’ roaring laughter;
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the Celts’ lilting dreams;
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the Slavs’ earthen chants;
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and the sharp gleam of the Enlightenment’s Western lore.
This festival is a hoard of stories, each a spark to set the mind ablaze. Whether born in the ancient dark or the nearer past, these tales leap o’er borders of land and time, threading the vibrant tapestry of the Germanic folk and their kin.
Join Us for a Day Wrought of Wonder and Word-Weaving
When the sun dips low, we call thee to a grand reckoning, a Q&A with our skalds, scribes, and lore-keepers. Here, tellers of tales, crafters of books, and seekers of old ways will share their craft, unravel riddles, and speak of storytelling’s might in a world ever-shifting.
Be ye a seasoned bard or a listener with eager ears, this fire is lit for thee. Come, sit by the blaze of our shared blood-tale, and let the stories of the 'Old World' breathe once more.
A Summons to the First Annual Festival of Storytelling
Behold the dawn of our Annual Festival of Storytelling, born of the Germanic soul and its far-flung kin! This year, the voices of Bronze-Age wanderers, Welsh poets, Norse skalds, Slavic sages, Finnish rune-singers, and Northern Enlightenment dreamers will rise anew, chanting forgotten myths of creation. For those yearning to plunge into the well of myth and hear the forging of the Northern way, this day shall be a marvel beyond reckoning.
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The fire is stoked, the hall is set
will ye join us, wanderer, in the saga's of old?
Discover - Connect - be Inspired
£60
'Early Bird'
booking
£80
'Usual' price
Festival ticket price
All 7 speakers + Q&A panel session + recording of event
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We invite you to come, rest by the fire and sit with the voices of our long gone ancestors. We expect this festival to sell out quickly. ​Bookings for this festival are through the MCS ('Centre for Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred'.) ​Please note! When booking your ticket, you will be re-directed to MCS.
To book your ticket, please click the following button
The Years Festival Speakers
(alphabetical order - surname)
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Peter
Knight
Stone Seeker
Shamanic Practitioner
and Author
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Dr Louise
Livingstone
'Heart Sense' Founder and Practitioner
Authoress and Lecturer
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Paul
Smith
Artist and Musician
Spiritual Poet
and Druidic Practitioner
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Tor
Webster
Glastonbury Tour Guide
and Film Maker
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Andreas
Kornevall
Storyteller
and Ecological Activist
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Jay
Livingstone
Shamanic Practitioner
Spiritual Coach and Mentor
Storyteller and Author and Lecturer
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Sue
Wallace-Knight
Stone Seeker
Shamanic Practitioner
Authoress and Therapist
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