May 12, 2025 5:00 PM UTC
Hannah Close is a writer, photographer and cultural curator working with islands and oceans.
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Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She teaches collaborative non-fiction and radical kinship with the other-than-human world.
Learn moreIn this workshop, writer Charlotte Du Cann will show how myths can transform and align human beings with the energies and intelligence of the sentient Earth.
How can myth become a portal into the deep time of your local territory?
In this workshop, writer and Dark Mountain co-director Charlotte Du Cann will show how myths work as a 'tech' to transform and align human beings with the energies and intelligence of the sentient Earth. Relating the four initiatory tasks of Psyche (from the story of 'Eros and Psyche') to the four elements of this course we will explore how to develop a practice that weaves together imagination and the living world.
The session will include guidance on how to work with myth as a frame and anchor in times of disruption. how to widen your perception and deepen your relationships with place and time. There will also be an opportunity to discuss your encounters with others and forge them into creative work
Please bring an elemental object from your local wild or feral territory with you. And a notebook!
Hannah Close is a writer, photographer and cultural curator working with islands and oceans.
Learn moreHannah Close is a writer, photographer and cultural curator working with islands and oceans. She is part of the Dark Mountain Project team and has published creative nonfiction both there and with the Centre for Humans and Nature, and her photography has been published in the Guardian, Telegraph and Times. Hannah is currently making a documentary called Islandness, and also co-convenes sailing residencies for artists. She lives between a wild Hebridean island and the salty southwest coast of the UK with her dog Rune.
Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She teaches collaborative non-fiction and radical kinship with the other-than-human world.
Learn moreCharlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. She teaches collaborative non-fiction and radical kinship with the other-than-human world. Once upon a time, Charlotte was a features and fashion journalist in London. Then she spent a decade travelling, mostly in the Americas, before settling in Suffolk to write a series of books about mythos and reconnecting with the Earth, starting with 52 Flowers That Shook My World, and most recently with After Ithaca – Journeys in Deep Time. She currently writes a Substack column about metaphysical practice for collapsing times called The Red Tent.