Event One
Come help us create, come be part of the
Coming of the rains CARNIVAL PARADE 💦
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It all begins with an idea.
We want to fly a giant street puppet of the Wounded Wild…
a hybrid creature from country that needs your help to rise
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We need the energy of a CARNIVAL PARADE
to celebrate the coming rains,
dance life back to country after the long dry.
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When: Long weekend, Sat, May 31 - 3-5pm
Where: WOODITJUP-MARGARET RIVER
Register your interest:
https://events.humanitix.com/carnival-parade-celebrate-the-rains-margaret-river or use qr code above
PROMENADE from THE HEART, up Walcliffe Rd through our COMMUNITY PRECINCT to REUTHER PARK at the TOP OF THE HILL ROUNDABOUT on Bussell Hwy and back to the outdoor stage and community grassed area to showcase our floats!
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Bring your ideas to our first gathering!
SATURDAY, FEB 1ST at 11AM,
THE HEART OUTDOOR STAGE,
Walcliffe Rd, Margaret River - between the AMR Shire building and The Heart, Margaret River
Theme: Celebrate the coming of the rains after the long dry.
For float ideas, think:
friends, groups, clubs, families, community, workmates, playmates
quirky wheels and fun dancing feet
no petrol cars, no emissions, no pollution
reduce-reuse-repurpose-recycle-replant
leave only footsteps, take only photos
With massive thanks for financial and in-kind support from
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River
and ArtsMargaret River.
CONTACT: Margot Edwards, margot@thewildingstories.com
Ph: 0420940123 Follow The Wilding Stories on Insta or FB
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cover image by Noelle Otto, Pexels
The Wilding Stories Listening Lounge at The Marritree Bookshop, Witchcliffe
We are all daughters. Drawn from collective threads of local women's story and woven through the lens of magic realism, The Wilding Stories allows space for women to listen and reflect on being women, together. And behind the tale of witches and weeds and brewing discontent, lies a powerful metaphor from Mother Earth.
Guided by Wilding writer and facilitator, Margot Edwards, hear powerful recorded audio versions of a tale told three ways. First a simple folktale read by Fiona Press, next as campfire yarn told by Noongar elder Lynette Narkle & actor Melodie Reynolds, and finally a powerful lyric poem rapt in haunting ballad performed by poet Sari Bennett & singer-songwriters Daniella 'Mama KIn' Caruana, Tilly Kelleher and Bec Schofield.
An adult event, welcoming people identifying as women or women's friends. Join us upstairs in the perfect space of the Witch and the Windmill, for a deep listening experience, followed by collective conversation.
Herbal teas available on the night. Bring your own nibbles
The Wilding Stories at Nannup Music Festival
Like a version … Join facilitators Margot Edwards and Tilly Kelleher for a collective, deep listening experience of three pre-recorded audio versions of The Wilding - an original folktale told in ancient Celtic tradition, a Noongar-English yarn around the campfire, and rousing a-capella ballad wrapped around lyric performance poem.
Followed by a 45 minute conversation around the craft of taking story to song, reinterpretations , versions, the nature of cross-cultural archetypes and folktale traditions and our collective fascinations with re-arranging and performing in contemporary framings.
Recording artists - Danielle (Mama Kin) Caruana, Tilly Kelleher, Bec Schofield, Sari Bennett, Dr Lynette Narkle, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra, Fiona Press
Writers and arrangements - Margot Edwards, Sari Bennett, Danielle Caruana, Tilly Kelleher, Bec Schofield and Dr Lynette Narkle.
The Wilding Stories at Nannup Music Festival
Like a version … Join facilitators Margot Edwards and Tilly Kelleher for a collective, deep listening experience of three pre-recorded audio versions of The Wilding - an original folktale told in ancient Celtic tradition, a Noongar-English yarn around the campfire, and rousing a-capella ballad wrapped around lyric performance poem.
Followed by a 45 minute conversation around the craft of taking story to song, reinterpretations , versions, the nature of cross-cultural archetypes and folktale traditions and our collective fascinations with re-arranging and performing in contemporary framings.
Recording artists - Danielle (Mama Kin) Caruana, Tilly Kelleher, Bec Schofield, Sari Bennett, Dr Lynette Narkle, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra, Fiona Press
Writers and arrangements - Margot Edwards, Sari Bennett, Danielle Caruana, Tilly Kelleher, Bec Schofield and Dr Lynette Narkle.
The Wilding Stories at The Wild Village Festival 2022
The Wilding Stories joins The Wild Village Festival in the beautiful Dwellingup Forest 23-26th September 2022.
Join The Wilding Stories for a collective listening and sharing experience - a tale of reconnection and transformation for sisters and mothers and daughters, creating space for women to reflect on being women, together.
About the Festival: Wild Village is an intentional, soul-fueled boutique festival of free expression and ecstatic celebration. A creation of sisterhood and long-lasting community.
An intimate gathering for 3 nights & 4 days, deep in the Dwellingup Forest, cocooned by nature. Joining hands with soulful facilitators, practitioners and guides who will offer their knowledge in workshops throughout the day focusing on personal growth and development, art & movement, connecting us to our roots, self, our sisterhood and primal senses.
Tickets: https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/wild-village-festival
23-26th September 2022 (Long weekend)
Dwellingup Forest, Western Australia
The Wilding Stories at Margaret River Reader's and Writer's Festival 2022
Join in a collective listening lounge and poetry workshop with Audio story facilitator, Margot Edwards and Poet, Miranda Aitken.
Friday 13 May 2022
10-1pm
Readers & Writers Room.
FREE event.
Register for the listening lounge here:
https://mrrwfestival.com/tickets/3-the-wilding-stories-workshop/
Register for Poetry workshop here: https://artsmr20.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/52436
Women are raising their voices across the globe, joining hands in solidarity through the intuitive and healing power of story and song. Calling for an end to suppression and bringing women to the centre of their own storying, new narratives are rising everywhere, uncovering and reimagining aspects of the feminine long-held underground.
Experience the Wilding Stories Listening Lounge as a group, followed by a morning of collective reflection and poetry creation exploring the power of many women’s voices and channelling your own poetic voice in response.
Proudly supported by Lotterywest.
The Wilding Stories at Bunbury Fringe 2022
The Listening Lounge returns again in 2022 as part of Bunbury Fringe, offering a collective listening experience inside the South West Women's Health Centre Saturday, and Fringe Gardens on Sunday. Facilitated by key project artist, Margot Edwards.
The audio installation runs for 1.5-hour sessions including 45 mins deep listening to the three audio story versions and an essential 45 mins allowed for shared or private reflection and discussion.
Please note two venues are hosting this event, see below info for separate ticketing links.
Session 1
South West Women’s Health Centre
Saturday, 22 Jan at 10.30am
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bunbury-fringe-the-wilding-stories-1030am-session-tickets-227383017727
Session 2
South West Women’s Health Centre
Saturday, 22 Jan at 1.30 pm
🎟 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/bunbury-fringe-the-wildings-130pm-session-tickets-227391723767
Session 3 & 4
Lotus Space @ Bunbury Fringe Gardens
Sunday, 23 Jan Sunday at 11am and 1pm🎟 https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bunburyfringe/616615#
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More about this event
Capture three versions of a magnificent yet harrowing tale of hope… The session is hosted by Margot Edwards from Margaret River.
A lament in the Celtic tradition; a powerhouse call from ancient Indigenous women's business; a melodic ballad for the soul. Each Wilding story contains fragments of many women's stories, across diverse cultures, retold in many women's voices.
The Wilding is an original modern folktale of two sisters - The Hearth Sister and The Wild One - standing together to overpower a demonic father; enacting liberation from despair; saying 'no more' to all forms of violence and abuse against women in their homes, their workplaces and in the wider world.
It is also a tale of reconnection, of harnessing the aspects of self, with recognising that none of us need be alone, with reaching out to call in what we need, with navigating the rocky wild terrain of change.
And it is a story of surrender, of releasing intergenerational trauma; of liberating our children, of honouring a mother's sacrifices, of daughters acknowledging and respecting their differences and their common ground, of duality in life and death, of reflection on the pain and beauty of our mother's passing.
Drawn from collective threads and woven through the lens of magic realism, The Wilding Stories allows space for women to reflect on being women, together. And behind the tale of witches and weeds and brewing discontent, lies a powerful metaphor from Mother Earth.
Denmark Festival of Voice
Opening a safe space for listening, and an invitation for creative reflection to those who wish to engage in artistic response and/or creating new interpretations of the original tale.
Saturday program
Listening Lounge - The Wilding Stories
CRC GARDEN ROOM
10.30am
1.30pm
4pm
Sunday program
Listening Lounge - The Wilding Stories
CRC GARDEN ROOM
1pm
2.30pm
4pm
Weekend tickets available at https://www.denmarkfestivalofvoice.com.au/tickets.
The Wilding Stories at Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival
Listening Lounge @ HEART Upstairs Balcony
The Wilding Stories opens a safe space for listening and shared creative reflection, as it empowers “no more” in the context of violence against women.
Writer/producer Margot Edwards has collaborated with diverse storytellers, Danielle ‘Mama Kin’ Caruana, Lynette Narkle, Melodie Reynolds, Fiona Press, Sari Bennett, Bec Schofield and Tilly Kelleher to produce three multi-dimensional audio versions of her original tale.
Please be advised this audio installation contains emotive content. Three listening experiences, allow one hour.
The Wilding Stories at Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival
Listening Lounge @ HEART Upstairs Balcony
The Wilding Stories opens a safe space for listening and shared creative reflection, as it empowers “no more” in the context of violence against women.
Writer/producer Margot Edwards has collaborated with diverse storytellers, Danielle ‘Mama Kin’ Caruana, Lynette Narkle, Melodie Reynolds, Fiona Press, Sari Bennett, Bec Schofield and Tilly Kelleher to produce three multi-dimensional audio versions of her original tale.
Please be advised this audio installation contains emotive content. Three listening experiences, allow one hour.
The Wilding Stories at Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival
Listening Lounge @ HEART Upstairs Balcony
The Wilding Stories opens a safe space for listening and shared creative reflection, as it empowers “no more” in the context of violence against women.
Writer/producer Margot Edwards has collaborated with diverse storytellers, Danielle ‘Mama Kin’ Caruana, Lynette Narkle, Melodie Reynolds, Fiona Press, Sari Bennett, Bec Schofield and Tilly Kelleher to produce three multi-dimensional audio versions of her original tale.
Please be advised this audio installation contains emotive content. Three listening experiences, allow one hour.
The Wilding Stories at Bunbury Fringe
Come to listen, and share your own response to this powerful tale with us at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery during Bunbury Fringe Festivals ‘Fringe Buddies’ program of new works in January 2021 to create your own response with weaving, painting, clay, movement or words.
The Wilding Stories – an audio storytelling project - told and retold by powerful women’s voices in powerful ways. The Wilding Stories opens a safe story space, to engage many in this vital conversation.
Click here to register for a session.
5 spaces available per session 11 am - 4 pm
The Wilding Stories at Bunbury Fringe (Saturday 23rd January)
Come to listen, and share your own response to this powerful tale with us at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery during Bunbury Fringe Festivals ‘Fringe Buddies’ program of new works in January 2021 to create your own response with weaving, painting, clay, movement or words.
The Wilding Stories – an audio storytelling project - told and retold by powerful women’s voices in powerful ways. The Wilding Stories opens a safe story space, to engage many in this vital conversation.
Click here to register for a session.
5 spaces available per session 11 am - 4 pm
The Wilding Stories at Bunbury Fringe (Friday 22nd January)
Come to listen, and share your own response to this powerful tale with us at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery during Bunbury Fringe Festivals ‘Fringe Buddies’ program of new works in January 2021 to create your own response with weaving, painting, clay, movement or words.
The Wilding Stories – an audio storytelling project - told and retold by powerful women’s voices in powerful ways. The Wilding Stories opens a safe story space, to engage many in this vital conversation.
Click here to register for a session.
5 spaces available per session 11 am - 4 pm