Event description


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Witchfest Midlands returns to Staffordshire University in 2023 on the 27th of May, bigger than ever. Filled with Talks and Workshops during the day, a bigger Esoteric Market than the year before and two amazing live bands to end the day the best way possible!

Speakers:
Prof Ronald Hutton
Pete Jennings
Rachel Patterson
Cat Treadwell
Laura Daligan
Moira Hodgkinson
Merlyn
Jonathan Argento
And more

Evening Entertainment:

Damh the Bard
Amarynthia

 

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Speakers

Professor Ronald Hutton

  • Ronald Hutton is both the senior Professor of History at Bristol University and the Gresham Professor of Divinity at London. Author of eighteen books, and eighty-six essays in academic journals and collections.

Pete Jennings

  • Pete Jennings – a legend in his own lunchtime: so Heathen he can’t pass a quietly sleeping innocent village without visiting it to rescue the gold, silver, women and mead.

Rachel Patterson

  • Best selling author of over twenty books on Witchcraft. High Priestess and Elder of the Kitchen Witch Coven and online School of Witchcraft. Known as The Kitchen Witch she also loves cake.

Merlyn

  • Children of Artemis / Witchfest
  • Founder of Children of Artemis and Witchfest, Gardnerian HP and member of the Pagan Community for over 30 years.

Mhara Starling

  • Mhara Starling is a native Welsh speaker, born in North Wales. She is a Swynwraig, a Welsh folk Witch, and author of Welsh Witchcraft.
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Cat Treadwell

  • Cat is a professional Pagan Priest and Author from Derbyshire. She volunteers as a speaker and a writer for several Pagan and charitable organisations, and travels far and wide performing rituals as needed.

Barbara Meiklejohn-Free

  • Celebrity Witch and known as The Highland Seer. Barbara is a bestselling, award-winning author, teacher, advocate and protector of the great Earth-centred traditions.

Flavia Kate Peters

  • Celebrity Witch, High Priestess and best-selling author of 10 oracle decks & 7 books to date. Recognised as the UK’s leading elemental expert she is a teacher of natural & ancient magick.
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Kevin Groves

  • Solitary practitioner of Egyptian, symbolic and Chaos Magic, a healer and a regular contributor to CoA events on the subject of visualisation and astral magic.
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Jonathan Argento

  • Regular speaker at pagan events and has mentored witches for over 20 years. He facilitates The Wickham Coven, The Wild Witchcraft Conference and holds an MA in Religious Studies
Laura Daligan

Laura Daligan

  • Laura Daligan is an artist, witch, tarot reader, teacher, fire dancer and one of the original 'YouTube Witches'. Witchcraft consultant for the British Museum and studying a Masters in Viking Studies.

Rufus Harrington

  • Rufus is a psychotherapist and has trained over 300 therapists to work for the NHS. He is the Clinical Director of Cognitive Behavioural Studies at the University of Cumbria. He runs a thriving private practice, teaches the magical arts and plays the drums in a band.

Moira Hodgkinson

  • Moira Hodgkinson is a witch and author with over thirty years of experience in the craft both as a solitary witch and in coven settings, and is a guest speaker and workshop leader at pagan festivals and events.

Jenny Cartledge

  • Jenny is a Solitary Pagan Witch, who has written for Witchcraft and Wicca Magazine and contributes to Children of Artemis.

Jessica Howard

  • She is the author of 'The Art of Lithomancy' and 'The Water Witch: An Introduction to Water Witchcraft', and runs her own website which also offers free courses on a range of magickal subjects

Raegan Shanti

  • Raegan Shanti is an eclectic Pagan witch, specialising in the use of dance and movement for magical purposes and the intersection of Hinduism and Western Paganism

Paul A.T. Wilson

  • Paul Wilson is a professional writer, storyteller, folklorist and historian who specialises in the Early-Medieval period in Britain as well as local folklore from the Isle of Wight.

Suzie Quartly

  • Suzie has been following paganism since the mid 90's and currently runs a moot in the Woking area of Surrey. Her hobbies include visiting pubs, and ambition is to visit more pubs.

Jane Osborne

  • Jane specialises in healing trauma from past lives and breaking negative cycles allowing the freed Inner Self to flourish.
Damh the Bard

Damh the Bard

  • Musician, songwriter and modern-day Bard who draws inspiration from the land and the old stories of Albion. Splitting his time between performing and doing talks and workshop he is always entertaining.

Amarynthia

  • Amarynthia, is a 4-piece band centred around male and female vocals, guitar, mandolin, flute and drums. they take their influences from witchcraft, writing original songs based around spiritual beliefs.