What You'll Learn
- Explores the connection between fairy tales, ecology, and ancestral memory, highlighting the transformative power of deep listening and animal tracking.
When Women Were the Land
July 14, 2024 10:00 PM UTC
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, poet, scholar of ancient history, animal tracker, and artist.
Learn moreTrace pathways of myth, archaeology, nature connection back into pre-patriarchal cultures indigenous to these lands, cultures that centered the earth and the female divine.
About this webinar
In this webinar Sylvia V Lindsteadt explores traditional patriarchal narratives, emphasising the importance of embodied experiences and interdependence in early European cultures. Sylvia delves into the significance of reimagining European foundation myths for individuals with mixed ancestry, honouring indigenous histories and mythologies. Sylvia also explores the connection between fairy tales, ecology, and ancestral memory, highlighting the transformative power of deep listening and animal tracking.
Through these discussions, Sylvia emphasises the need to reorient ourselves with nature and reimagine practices that have been lost or marginalised. This was a wonderful conversation that is a taster of a course curated and facilitated by Sylvia V Lindsteat called When Women Were the Land, taking place later this year in December.
About your teacher
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, poet, scholar of ancient history, animal tracker, and artist.
Learn moreSylvia V. Linsteadt is a novelist, mythologist, scholar of ancient history, and a certified animal tracker. Her work over the last 12 years—both fiction and non-fiction—is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism and bioregionalism, and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land. She is the author of the collections The Venus Year, and Our Lady of the Dark Country, two novels for young readers, The Wild Folk and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, 2018 and 2019), and the post-apocalyptic folktale cycle Tatterdemalion (Unbound 2017) with painter Rima Staines. Her works of nonfiction include the award-winning Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017).