The first five WildKin camps will center around the theme of an element. Our camp stories comes from listening to the land around our venue, and seeing how each element is present.
2024 - weaving the threads of Community and Fire
Theme
Dancing with Fire between Earth below and Stars above – the power of imagination abounds
Respecting Fire gathered round the Heart/Hearth – the power to burn and break down
Weaving Fire through Crafting and Cooking – the power to create our fate
Singing Fire with Community’s stories and silence – the power to build our spirits up
Breathing Fire within and without – we are transformed – we are WildKin
Story
Life forms a tapestry of connection and interdependence between communities of so many levels, from the microscopic to the galactic, rooting down deep, spreading out wide., and soaring up high.
Fire is a sacred part of the WildKin experience, giving soothing and inviting warmth, enticing us to tend the wood and embers and ash, and reminding us of the great care that must be taken in this landscape shaped by fire in many ways – cultural, natural, accidental, intentional.
Sitting around the campfire as a constellation of star-bright community, stories are shared and heard, and we listen to the words and sounds and songs and silence of many kinds of kin, and the ever present crackle and pop of flickering flames.
Working with fire as a tool, we cook and share nourishing food and drinks with each other, and with green-blooded kin, fertilised by scraps and ash, transformed by heat and flame.
Playing with fire as a creative force – crafting and mending and pieces of art are birthed and wrought and emerge from the hands and hearts of those inspired and fueled by this bright flame of expression and power.
This year at WildKin Witchcamp, we dance with the destructive, regenerative, transformative, and creative aspects of Fire.
2022 – Blue Gum and Air
While here, we practice presence. We are fully and wholly present in these lands with these spirits and these beings.
We look to the ridges of the gully encompassed by tall guardians and teachers. Our green kin, the mighty Blue Gum.
The Blue Gums speak, and they say, “bring your children so we may teach them” and “Come sit with me. Closer, snuggle in. I haven’t had human touch in a while.”, “Lean on me. Let your head go. You will always find your rest in me.”
This year at WildKin Witchcamp, we delve deep into the magic of sharing right relationship with the Blue Gum.
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2021 – Lyrebird and Earth
Our theme for 2021 was the element of Earth. Foundational and stable. Rock, bark, Hawkesbury sandstone. Grounding us in this new place, this new camp, amongst our Wild Kin.
During our camp visioning at the venue, there was a strong Lyrebird presence. So in 2021, we were singing and dancing and learning alongside the Lyrebird. What do they have to teach us about the element of earth, and about this place? What stories will we co-create?
