Date: To be confirmed - Spring 2009 Watch this space!

Sat & Sun, 20th and 21st Dec 08 10 am - 4.30 pm both days

Saturday evening performance at 7.30 pm at: Radford Mill Farm, near Bath Join us for an exquisite solstice event at the farm, in unmissable Ayo style....light up your spirit with music and dance, and warm your heart in the presence of kindred souls and joyous companionship!!!

Fee for the 2 days with Ayo: £ 65 (this includes Sat. evening performance)

If you want to stay at the farm, B & B is £ 15 (limited spaces available)

If you want to buy food, it will be £ 10 per meal at the farm.

PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 25 MAX. ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS......YOU WILL NEED TO BOOK AND PAY UPFRONT TO SECURE A PLACE: f.f.info, contact me: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Our favourite Refugee Week photographer, Monica Connell, whose photos also adorn our website, has just published a fantastic book called `A Universal Passion`. It`s full of beautiful full colour photos and poignant and interesting interviews with many Doris teachers and other artists....

Buy a copy at the Summer School and then collect the signatures of the teachers in the book, or if you can’t wait that long contact the publishers at 

www.redcliffepress.co.uk/

For sale at a special Doris price of £12.50

We are happy to welcome back Sufi Sheikh Ahmad Dede and his Whirling Dervishes. The Sheikh offers a unique insight into connecting with the universal divine through the ancient Sufi practice of whirling. Accompanied by his musicians and his dervishes he will lead daily workshops and an evening meditation or `dhikr.`

We are thrilled to announce that we will have reknowned flamenco teacher Felipe de Algeciras at the Summer School this year. Regarded as the one of the very best flamenco teachers in the UK he will be bringing the passion and emotional intensity of this exciting dance to the Doris fields for the very first time.

As we did last year we will have a African Arts Space at Doris.

It will be a place to hang out, learn new skills, get inspired and make friends.

 Doris Elder Adesose Wallace will be exhibiting and selling his paintings of African communities, jamming, chatting and holding the space.

Sculptor and artist Joseph Gibbs will be based at the Afican Arts Space and will be exhibiting his work and creating a new piece during the Summer School.

This year we are very excited to be offering a taste of Tibetan culture again. People who came last year will remember seeing Ugyen Choephells extraordinary Thangka paintings and meeting Dawa and Shelok in their Tibetan cultural workshops and Foldong who was selling arts and crafts from Tibet.

This year we have dance and song workshops from Tibet as well. We have invited Tibetan dancer Lobsang Chonzor Bhutia who will be teaching traditional Tibetan dances.

With the help of Ugyen & Jane Choephell we have invited back Tibetan buddhist monk Jamyang Ketup, the head trustee of the Tharlam Sarsang Namgyaling Monastery in Nepal, to the Summer School.  He belongs to the Sakya order of Tibetan buddhism and has travelled widely throughout the world as he is reknowned for his expertise in the sacred arts. He came to the UK in 2003 with three other monks to feature in their Tibet Arts festivals which were held in 8 venues in Wales and the south west. The monks created sand mandalas and butter sculptures and provided a unique insight into the Tibetan sacred arts. Like last year, Jamyang Ketup will be creating another sand mandala at Doris, talking about his work and introducing the technique of mandala making.  Ugyen Choephell will also have his exquiste paintings.
www.thangka.co.uk