GREEN CANTERBURY TALES

This week I met up with a small group of women poets, writers and storytellers who want to take up the challenge to 'Walk for the Earth.' Our group,'Seeds of Inspiration', involves a kind of pagan pilgrimage to sacred sites, which we will circumnavigate at Beltane, the Summer Solstice and Lammas, before joining others at the Confest in Canterbury in September 2013. We'll be having conversations, gathering and telling stories and maybe even performing our work on green themes-if we can find venues.  Below is more information about the project. If you would like to start a seed group of your own and join  Walk for the Earth see www.greencanterburytales.co.uk.

"Storytellers, poets, musicians, artists and those concerned about the state of our world. You are invited to gather in your localities around Britain to make a story pilgrimage across the country towards Canterbury.  We will walk, cycle, ride and use other forms of slow travel, declaring our care for the world through storytelling, poetry and music.

Starting in May 2013 we will converge on Canterbury in September 2013, celebrating our journeys with a conference-festival (Confest). This will be a 21st century Canterbury Tales on a sustainability theme: A WALK FOR THE EARTH.

We want this pilgrimage to be a positive affirmation of the power of the spoken word. Stories of people alive now will mingle with tales of old to honour both traditional roots and contemporary shoots. We will reach out to diverse groups of people. We will learn once more to love this venerable land, to move through it along highways and byways with a sense of adventure, respect and appreciation.

We want to keep asking ourselves and each other: ‘What matters? What can we do? How do we live?’ We want to give voice to the low impact, Earth-friendly, human scale, creative and courageous alternative to all that is corrupt and dysfunctional in mainstream culture. We are inspired by the thought of hundreds (if not thousands) of people from all over Britain walking simultaneously, as if along spokes of a wheel, and converging on an ancient sacred centre to celebrate simple yet immensely rich journeys." (www. greencanterburytales.com)