Category Archives: workshop 2016

The Face of a Queen by Alethea Kehas

Reblogged from Alethea Kehas, who played Guinevere at the recent leaf and Flame Workshop. Legends tell of a queen of great beauty. Guinevere, thought by some to be part mortal, part Fae, a queen who seduced hearts and intoxicated the … Continue reading

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Finding Gawain – Act Four by Steve Tanham

Reblogged from SteveTanham at The Silent Eye… continuing Steve’s personal journey as Gawain. (image: detail from ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch. Wikipedia Creative Commons) Finding Gawain – Act Four Reckoning… Within the forest there is a sense of … Continue reading

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The Foliate Man: A Knight’s Tale by Jan Malique

Reblogged from Jan Malique at Strange Goings On In The Shed It’s been a week since my return from a workshop in Derbyshire, a deeply profound experience. How dramatic this statement sounds, but there is great truth buried within the dramatics. … Continue reading

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Dark-Veiled Foul Hag: Lady Ragnell Speaks. Foliate Man Part Two from Alienora

The second of Alienora’s articles on her experience at Leaf and Flame: The Foliate Man Cursed! Crouched in crunching bones and cruelly deformed face! Left, at the whim of a power greater than I, to limp haltingly through the Enchanted … Continue reading

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A quiet whisper

The Daily Echo will be going a little quiet for a few days as we gather in the north for the annual Silent Eye weekend workshop on which we have been working for the past year. Old friends and new … Continue reading

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Doing nothing

I’m in the last few hours before the run north for the workshop this weekend. As soon as I close the front door behind me, anything that has been neglected or forgotten will cease to matter and simply have to … Continue reading

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North by sort of northeast

I’ve been in the north for the monthly meeting. It means that I get to at least see, if not necessarily play on the moors, so, as you can imagine, I am happy. The evening meeting saw us read through … Continue reading

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Sunday lunch

Sunday morning, we worked on the scripts for the April workshop, before packing the car with our bags and heading back the way I had come just a few days and many adventures earlier… except this time, I was not … Continue reading

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Tesseracting – Steve Tanham

Reblogged from Steve Tanham I am proposing to add a new word to the English language… The new word is ‘Tesseracting’; and I want to use it to replace a beautiful word that, in my opinion, has been degraded to … Continue reading

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Animal Magic

     Stuart France at The Silent Eye (photo – Sue Vincent) Bird-King In the Valley of Birds was consternation. All the birds had met there to choose a king but none could agree on which of their number it … Continue reading

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