Druid Conference in the West Midlands

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, 07 March 2002 Page Views: 3134

'DRUID 2002?, a conference for all druid order members and others at the Amblecote and Wollaston Rooms, First Floor, Town Hall, The Crown Centre, Stourbridge, West Midlands on Saturday August 24th 2002, between 10.30 am and 7.30 pm.

The PF WM conference was addressed by, amongst others, the BDO's Philip Shallcrass and the beloved Ronald Hutton. Greywolf reported that Professor Hutton felt that it had been the ?perfect pagan conference? by being not too large, not too small and with a good balance. We intend to repeat that formula again. On that day the opening ritual was conducted by members of the BDO?s Hedd Wyn?s Grove, whose Geoff Boswell (your humble writer) is responsible now for the running of the project.

We have already secured the services of Bobcat (Emma Restall Orr) to speak for the BDO, and Louise Turner to represent the Druids Of Albion, and the representative for OBOD is to be the excellent Matt McCabe. From the Ancient Order of Druids we have Roger Hudson and our special guest from the University of Bristol is the inimitable Professor Ronald Hutton. We have negotiated to bring you these speakers from the Orders to address the attendees in an educational, entertaining and progressive programme of druidic topics with an open forum debate afterwards at the end of the day. This will form part of the Druid Forum events, and the MC on the day will be Philip Shallcrass (Greywolf) on behalf of the Druid Forum and the Bards of Caer Abiri and Cor Gawr.

The town of Stourbridge has excellent bus and rail links, many shops and cafes and there are numerous car parks within walking distance of the Town Hall. The venue boasts a large room for the talks, a bar area which will be open and another room for merchandising and the opening and closing rites.

There will be a multi-tier entrance fee; order members and prepaid tickets £9, children under 12 £5, concessions £7.50 and the general public on the day £11. It is hoped that the returns from the entrance fee will pay the travelling expenses of the speakers and the venue costs. Any additional revenue generated will be put forward by the organiser to use in one of the many new BDO projects. Merchandisers lined up for the day include the wonderful Jon and Julia Day fronting Capall Bann Publishing, Sandy and Magpie with Fairmoon Trading, Pat with Kaftanworld, Tony and Rose of Labyrinth Books, and selling his hand made jewellery is our own Brochfael Ysgithrog. Also there displaying his art work with pieces to sell will be the exceptional Bill Worthington, the artist for the incomparable Druid Animal Oracle. Bring lots of money! Entertainment will be in the format of a stunning 90 minute slide show with harp and narration from author and recording artist Fred Hageneder of Spirit of the Trees.

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