At Winter Solstice as we enter the longest night of the year, the sun stands still and the world is turned upside down.

Howlsavla Gwav

Cornish for Winter Solstice, comes from

howl: sun, savla: to halt or stop and gwav: winter.

To our ancestors it seemed the sun had stopped in its journey across the sky.
To stave off the darkness they gathered in ceremony to call back the light and bring renewal to the land.

Drawing on these roots, we come together for a Ceremony of the Sun, processing with a merrie band of musicians, masked guise dancers, and a cast of characters both mighty and mischievous – from buccas and beasts to Sun and Moon, ‘oss and teaser, and Oak and Holly King who battle to claim their place to reign beside the Goddess at the season’s turn.

Join us in calling back the sun, to bring dark and light into balance and keep the wheel of the year turning.

‘Come, new life, come!’
‘Dus, bewnans noweth, Dus!’