What to expect at the

Nne Agwu Storytelling Festival. 

 

Exclusive use of the campsite and an opportunity to come together in community as indigenous Melanin rich people!

 

Arrival 

• On arrival you will receive a beautiful and warm welcome. Ndeewu! If you arrive in your own vehicle you will be given a parking space. They are limited so you must book in advance.

• You will be guided to the welcome marquee which doubles up for first aid. 

• Our wonderful welcome  committee will check for your name on our village list. If by some small chance your name is absent we will ask you for proof of payment. 

• You will fill in a short medical form so we know how to best support your health and well-being during your stay.

• You will be given a programme for the 6 days. It is important you read through the programme and reference it. 

• Your pass allows you to attend all workshops, performances, sessions. 

• We will help you transport your belongings to your accommodation.

 

Accommodation 

• Please read our what to bring page HERE

• If you have never been camping before let us know, we will support you.

• If you have your own accommodation, we will work with you to erect your tent and organise your accommodation. 

• If you hired a tent, which will already be erected for you. We will guide you to your tent. The erected tents are for you who have your own bedding

• If you hired a glamp, we will guide you to your fully furnished 5m bell tent or part furnished 4m bell tent.

 

Food

• There will be food for available for purchase on arrival so you can eat after your journey. 

• During your stay you can prepare your own healthy vegan ital food with your own cooking equipment having brought food with you. 

• We have open fires you can cook on bring pots and pans. There will be fresh produce on sale. 

• Or you will take a complete break from domesticity and use one of our great caterers who provide delicious healthy body strengthening food. 

• Or mix and match between the options.

 

Opening ceremony

• We start the whole proceeding with an opening ceremony which includes pouring libations for liberation, calling the powerful leadership energy of High priestess warrior Kandake Amaniranes and calling the divine forces of the cosmos and those energies that will protect and guide us on this journey.  We will introduce ourselves to each other with stories, drumming, singing and dancing. We acknowledge the physical we and the spiritual we.

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Wellbeing practitioners.

• You can have massage, counselling, tapping, family constellation and other therapies will be available to hold space for your development. These are one to one therapies you can book

• We have Tai Chi, we have yoga, we have martial arts. Check programme

• Therapies & practices to strengthen our mind, body & spirit; to enable an opening of our chakras and cleansing of our aura to hear our divine stories & the messages they hold. 

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Workshop and performances 

• We have oral traditional practices: learn how to be a storyteller, write stories, perform stories, tell stories to our children, our family, our friends, our community, the world. We have poetry, spoken word, singing & dance workshops, all the various ways with which to express our inner spirit. 

• We have ritual and ceremony making workshops

• We have performances from some of the best storytellers, spoken word artist and poets in the UK, I would even say in the world. We have round the fire under the stars jam sessions.

• First we had the voice, we spoke, we called, we shouted, we sang, we made different sounds, to communicate and innerstand each other. Then came the drumbeat to resonate with our heartbeat. It's a whole language in itself and it's based on our original languages. We've got drummers for children and drummers for adults.

• Adults' workshops are open to children. Young people's workshops are open to adults and all children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. The safety of all under 16 years old are the responsibility of their guardian(s). We wish to create an intergenerational vibration, where we can all work together. Grow together, be audience and participant simultaneously.

• Powerful night walks along the clifftops,  through the forest and down into the bays and on the beaches. 

• Check programme for timetable

 

Hygiene Facilities

• Flushing toilets, 

• Hot showers, 

• Equipped kitchens, 

• Open fires

• A hot tub.

 

Environment:

• Our environment is healing. Surrounded by clean air we can inhale deeply and cleanse our mind for the purposes of healing and self-love.

• Woodlands, meadows, open fields and beaches

• Together, we will open our hearts to each other. We will hug, we will laugh, we will joke. We will eat and feed ourselves divine and beautiful food.

• On every level, it's a celebration of who we are! 

• Listen to genuine testimonies HERE

• Join us to create an African village, specifically for the diaspora in the countryside of the British landscape. 

• So there we have it, fantastic and always amazing. Always beautiful. Always divine. Our DNA is activated. Reset to remember the village.

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Closing Ceremony

• We end the festival with a closing thanks ceremony! We share who we now with new stories, dances and drum beats as we bid farewell. It is interactive, engaging and fabulous. The energy we take away with us keeps us going and uplifts us until we meet again. With each new encounter that upliftment returns and magnifies.

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