what’s on
The Sondering is an intentionally intimate gathering you’ll share with just 300 fellow mortals. (Weekend tickets only.) Who will you dance, laugh, cry, and connect with in the fells?
Arrivals open at 3:00 PM on Friday. Programming runs through midnight on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday across an energetic arc of Reflection, Release, and Return.
Below is a flavour of what’s in store; though bear in mind it remains fluid, because, well... life! If emotions ever overflow, our experienced care team is on hand to help you ground and re-regulate with free tea and optional hugs in the Sondering Support bowtop caravan.
Sonder with us this autumn equinox.
friday
REFLECT
welcome - festival founders
OPENING CEREMONy - SOPHY BANKS GRIEF TENDING HANNAH FOX - IMMERSIVE SONDERING CHARACTER STORYTELLING, POETRY & FOLK - SIMON SYLVESTER. JESS OLIVIA NEILL. MARK BORTHWICK. EMILY C. COOKE. SPUME - IMMERSIVE ART INSTALLATION. HORIZONTALISMROSA FOX - AERIAL ARTISTJACK MCNEILL - CLARINETTISTSPIRITED FOLLOWERS - EXPERIMENTAL FOLKOORYA - QUEER ELECTRO-PUNKLONAN - HEART FILLING DJ SET TEMPLE SOUNDS & GUIDED BREATH - ROWAN & LISA CARR
SATURDAY
REFLECT
GUIDED WILD SWIMMING IN RYDAL WITH LAUREN MUNROE BENNETROWAN & LISA CARR - DEATH MEDITATION AND death YOGA nidra WITH Emily Johnson - end of life rights and realitiesemily fairlie baker -natural fabric dyeing workshop abi griffin woven farewell - willow coffin weaving and craftsrewilding death care panel talk with - radical undertaker Rosie Grant of Natural Endings, eco-creative funeral maker KATY VIGURS OF Dead Good, and community funeral director Joanna Shears.jess olivia neill -letters to loss workshop evie fehilly - clowning workshop grace emily manning - sondering shroud making workshopKate Unwin - Working with the Wheel of the Year art workshopLUCI BRIGINSHAW - SOPRANO OPERA SIMON SYLVESTER - PERSONAL STORY WORKSHOP and communal poem makingRachel Clara Reed - Between conflict & connection WORKSHOP RHEGOLITH - FIELD SOUND RECORDING WORKSHOP RE-TURNING RITUAL - SOLO GUIDED RITUAL WITH NATALIE VICKERS AND KATY MOLLOY ROBBER’S DAUGHTER TAROT TENT
PLUS SELF-LED ACTIVITIES FROM DEAD GOOD
9D BREATHWORK SESSIONS and moreTICKETS + ADD-ONS // BOOK HERE //
TICKETS + ADD-ONS // BOOK HERE //
SATURDAY
RELEASE
RYDAL CAVE SUNSET VOCAL RITUAL
JAMES ROWLAND - james rowland DIES AT THE END THEATRE MARK BORTHWICK - FIRESIDE STORYTELLING CAVE VOCAL sunset RITUAL - RYDAL CAVE. mouthful. EMöSHPIT - GUIDED R.A.G.E RAVE Lonán Jenkins - IRISH WAKE TRADITIONS TALK DEAD GOOD FILM CLUB - FILMS ABOUT DEATH. TALKS ABOUT LIFELAUREL MORGAN - KEENING INSPIRED LAMENTSHKIESHA - DANCE OF GRIEF RHEGOLITH - AUDIO VISUAL EXPRESSION FROM WORKSHOP BEGINSLADIES OF MIDNIGHT BLUE - AFRO-LATIN PERCUSSION, BRASS & VOCAL CHANTSYARD - POST-PUNK NOISE + TECHNO MADAM WEST - DJ SUNDAY
RELEASE & RETURN
COFFIN
ROUTE
PILGRIMAGE
ROWAN CARR - ANCESTRAL HEALING MIDNIGHT MOTH RITUAL - DEAD GOOD EVIE KING - GET AHEAD OF BEING DEAD talk and workshopANDREW WAITE - TRAD FOLK ACCORDIONMOUTHFUL - SINGING WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCESELLA JARMAN PINTO - FOLK AND JAZZ DEEP CABARET - SONGS OF DECAY FOR NATURERACHEL CLARA REED - TREE/BODY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOpGROUP GRIEF TENDING - SOPHY BANKSCOFFIN ROUTE RITUAL & PILGRIMAGE JOHN HAYCOCK - FREE TO PUBLIC PERFORMANCE IN ST OSWALD’S CHURCH GRASMERELEILA ALICE SMITH - LIGHT AND SHADE EQUINOX ART WORKSHOP SOLO BANTON - DUB & REGGAEDEEP LISTENING CLOSING CEREMONY +++
DELICIOUS LOCAL FOOD
GLAMPING UPGRADES AND SAUNA PASSES AVAILABLE
TICKETS + ADD-ONS // BOOK HERE //
TICKETS + ADD-ONS // BOOK HERE //
cloud 9
kitchen
Gemma & Bryony partners in life and as owners of Cloud Nine Kitchen, bring restaurant-quality world street food to the festival.
Serving bold global fusion vibes from 'Florence', their iconic converted ambulance with friendly smiles, pricing and using local goodies including meat from the farm.
Made with love.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner options.
Friday - Monday
Full menu including meat from the farm
Coffees and sweet treats
earthworm
kitchen
Local legends Earthworm Kitchen will be bringing 100% plant based, vibrant and nutrient dense scrumptiousness to the festival.
Feed the worms!
breakfast lunch and dinner options
Friday - Sunday
100% plant based menu
Coffees and sweet treats