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We are in the process of preparing for this very special event and arts festival at the Quadrangle @thequadrangle_kent between 2-4 July. This gathering will be held by a group of wonderous beings who have journeyed together for the last 18 months through our course 'vessel of pollinators'. Join us for this very special moment to gather and connect to a collection of themes around what it means to be human, and how we can shape the new collective ecosystems needed for this radically changing world. Here are some photos from the location where we will gather. It is truly a special place and we look forward to welcoming you. Very limited spaces available, to book your place see link in bio. Families Welcome !!

Join us for The Hive - Our Place on Earth 2nd-4th July, The Quadrangle in Kent @thequadrangle_kent Tickets are now on sale to join us for this very special arts festival and exhibition that we are bringing together with 16 international artists. The gathering  will explore reconnection and healing, cultivating exchanges of knowledge, imagination, empowerment and connection. Awakening deeper relationships with the earth, with creative expression, and with more sustainable ways of being. We will gather with The Hive to explore: how to love, how to care, how to grieve, how to feel joy, how to heal,how to come back home to our nature. Allowing the symbol of the bee to inspire notions of collectivity and our role as change-makers to pollinate and spread the energy of hope.  The 3 days will move between workshops, talks, ceremony, performance and a range of fire side, river side and land based experiences.  Places are available to join us for camping, to join for the day or to support us to hold the space by becoming a householder.  Tickets are limited, more info and buy your tickets through link in bio. Artists include: Patricia Brien, Magi Winmill-Hermann Sarah Dark, Jessica Eichman, Annabie Daly, Cat Rogers Aga Tamiola, Clare Carr-Saunders, Serazer Pekerman, Telma Leamaro Antunes, Kirsty Whiten, Mireia Bes Mouries Collective: Maria Juliana Byck, Eliana Otta Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Thalia Dimitropoulou Photo by @ale.tarraf from collective performance in Greece as part of our course 'Vessel of Pollinators'

Will you join us to awaken a deeper relationship with the earth? Between 2-4th July we will gather, with a wonderful group of 16 artists to cultivate exchanges of knowledge, imagination, empowerment and connection. We gather to explore: how to love, how to care, how to grieve, how to feel joy, how to heal, how to come back home to our nature. This three-day arts festival will be hosted by The Quadrangle @thequadrangle_kent nestled within the beautiful Kent countryside.  The Hive, our place on earth marks the culmination of an 18-month shared journey through "The Vessel of Pollinators".  An alchemical voyage of personal and collective healing, finding the vital tool of our authentic source, so that we can weave new ways of connecting and being in this radically changing world.  Join us for workshops, performance, installation and roaming experiences.  Artists include:  Patricia Brien, Magi Winmill-Hermann Sarah Dark,  Jessica Eichman, Annabie Daly, Cat Rogers Aga Tamiola, Clare Carr-Saunders, Serazer Pekerman, Telma Leamaro Antunes,  Kirsty Whiten, Mireia Bes Mouries Collective: Maria Juliana Byck, Eliana Otta Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Thalia Dimitropoulou Tickets on sale through our website see link in bio. Photos 2,3,5 by Ale Tarraf Photo 4 Mireia Bes Cover image by Aga Tamiola

With the birth of the new cycle and this first full moon, we emerge from the deep wonder of winter and all its weavings.  This moment marks the closing of our 18 months journey and course 'vessel of pollinators' - an alchemical voyage into personal and collective healing, finding the vital tools of our authentic source, so that we can begin to weave new ways of connecting and being in this radically changing world. It was a deep honour to journey with such incredible artists and visionaries so deeply over the last 18 months.  Together we emerge as 'the wild medicine circus' , an organism of 16 international artists, holding a special vision of pollination. As this journey closes, the next opens as we move towards the production of a 3 day arts festival in early summer, which we are calling 'the hive, our place on earth' More details to follow soon! Save the date 2-4th July 2026 Photograph of magical moment with artist and pollinator @kirstywhitenstudio , during our course gatherings in Greece in October, 35mm photograph by @ale.tarraf

*sound on* We have been called to create an unique arts school that cultivates our relationship to creativity and each other that is deeply rooted to place. A school situated on 24 hectares of wild land in Central Portugal and your support with our fundraiser can make this dream come true. This calling comes after weaving stories of land and people for more than 15 years, travelling to many places and communities to hold workshops, gatherings and retreats. Hosting and listening to many lands.This land chose us! So we are weaving the golden threads to root these teachings into a unique school of arts, where the crafts, ecological poetics will meet to elevate our potential for hope in the currents of the heart. To create the change we want to see in our future. See link in bio, share our story @ilhaandus Be your part in making this dream come true by joining us in our fundraiser.

The Silent Lantern and the Golden Thread Saturday 14th February 1pm - 10pm, London Join us for a very special ceremony of collective dreaming, movement and meditation to nourish the heart and inner light. Meeting with silence and mystery as our inner lover Amongst the distraction, chaos and huge shifts that are happening in the world right now we are being presented with a golden thread, an opportunity to connect with the rising current of the spirit of love, a current to bring each of us ever more closely to the light of the universal heart. This ceremony will explore the harmonisation of togetherness and solitude as an ancient practice of ´love making´. A process to meet fullness in our incompleteness. A process to explore the connection with our inner light and silence, as a space for reconciliation and peace. A practice to remember that we have the power to become a lantern to the world. More information, see link in bio early bird until 14th January "The void exhales form form inhales silence The golden thread appears Not by denying darkness but transforming it A knowing of what shines and what remains unseen A knowing that Silence always speaks louder than sound" Hosted by St Ethelburgha's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace London Photos by @ale.tarraf

Dear friends,  This year marked our 15th year of working together and we feel blessed to have shared so many magical journeys with many people from all over the world.  We are in an important moment in the world right now, a time of disconnection and separation and a moment where the importance of arts schools is being undervalued - a moment where the collective rising of a new dawn is essential.  With this as a seed we wanted to share our calling to establish a Rural School of Arts and Peoples Forest in a green valley in central Portugal. With an invitation to join us in bringing this vision to life, should you feel called to do so. A School as a holistic and healing place that will reposition Arts teaching to  form a nest for our teaching programs  House of the Four Lands alongside programs of other wonderful artists and makers. To offer a place for nourishment and expansion for artists and creatives - a place driven by creativity, community and collective guardianship. A place rooted in the wisdom of the surrounding villages.  We have launched a crowdfunder to make this possible and we are calling on our wider community to join us in making this vision a reality.  If you like what we do, your support on this journey would be wonderful.  THANK YOU looking forward to what comes next See link in bio @ilhaandus  Many seeds plant a forest. We are calling for seeds

This is a little peek into the world of our course and journey 'vessel of pollinators'. This extract is from a collective offering we created in Athens following a 5 day in- person gathering. The sharing came from explored ideas of pollination through a series of elemental and archetypal practices. The piece unfolded organically to become a resonance skin and a healing current - a place where the self merged to become the collective, so that the wild medicine of the heart could nourish the surroundings. We journeyed through this ancient score that sung through our veins as the first public offering of our group, it felt just right. So much gratitude to all the dear beings that made this possible! To all the pollinators for bringing their song. To @mouries_collective for the invitation Photos by @ale.tarraf

We remember a very special offering under the moonlight as we carried the golden scrolls imbued from the top of the mountains. Mountains that spoke of love, war, myth, prayer, Mountains that call their part of the eternal story We gathered with our vessel of pollinators a wrapping of textures, songs, and resonance For the last 12 months we have been blessed to gather with an incredible group of beings from all over the world, called to journey with us as part of our Vessel of Pollinators course and offering. A journey that delves within, to meet the essence of pollen that we carry within ourselves. A journey that nourishes this inner landscape of myth to flourish and offer its blessings in return to the eternal story We look forward to sharing more soon! Photos by @ale.tarraf #arts #mystery #cosmicegg #cyclicalreturn #ruralschoolofarts

15 years have passed We experience ourselves in a cyclical return A return to essence, To the cosmic egg With the bundles that Brought us here We carry the stories And the trust To bring this back to the egg Where it all began We have something very exciting to share with you soon Photo by @ale.tarraf #arts #mystery #cosmicegg #cyclicalreturn #ruralschoolofarts

At this time as the veils thin, we emerge from an incredibly deep journey to the ancient lands of Greece, with our course group 'Vessel of Pollinators'.  Here on the cliffs, overlooking the pelvic sea of the sanctuary of Goddess of Hera,  we journeyed into a land between worlds, an archetypal theatre becoming the wild medicine circus.  We are utterly grateful for this time together, and we look forward to sharing more from this work soon Photo by @ale.tarraf

VESSEL OF POLLINATORS, An embodied course running from late summer 2024 - spring 2026 Join us for a special online Q&A session on the 11th July at 7pm GMT, where you can come and ask any questions around the course. 'Vessel of Pollinators' is the new offering from The House of the Four Lands; our teaching mythology and methodology that we brought into being after working with people from all over the world through our socially engaged creative practice. Vessel of Pollinators is a 18 month course and journey of embodiment, created to attune your inner and outer senses, to develop a deeper understanding of how to listen in to the ecosystems around you. How these feelings can be shaped and sculpted into a practice of art and service as part of the community you want to inhabit. ​"Vessel of pollinators is moment to allow the gifts and the magic of your pollen to spread to form an ecosystem of abundance. For the best magic can not be created alone or without nourishment" The arc of the journey will flow through two parts : Practice-based research project: Which will offer the opportunity to develop and evolve your own personal project throughout the time of the course. The Nourishment Vessel : 7 Special teaching modules consisting of guided journeys, circle work, individual and collective processes, gatherings and residencies, which will form a creative community of practice. The teachings for this journey combine a range of practices - artistic, embodied, ecological, spiritual and esoteric, positioned to bring the journeyer to the embodiment of their fullness. The practices flow through the lands like a confluence of rivers, forming the circulatory system that embraces both individual and collective transformation. To read more about this course, visit /vessel-of-pollinators To join the q&a and if you would like to receive the full course information pack, write to us on [email protected]