Calling the creatives, feminine lovers, artists, mother nature tenders, musicians, performers, dancers, celebrators, healers, movers, and shakers, soul seekers, Celtic calendar followers, and all those wishing for more magic, mystery, and play. 

Join us in welcoming the energy, warmth, and creative expression of this beautiful time of year with the magnificent Marya Stark and special guests.

• MARYA STARK LIVE IN CONCERT
• HOLLY COLES LIVE
• FILM SCREENING: UNDERGROUND RIVER CELEBRATING WATER SPIRITS THROUGH THE MOVEMENT OF WOMEN
• BELTANE DANCING with live music and dj's
  
  Wednesday, May 1st 
  19:00 - 23:00
  The Jam Jar Bristol

Highlights

• Live music by Marya Stark ~ immersion ~ entertainment
• Beltane Celebration ~ embodiment ~ Dance Journey
• UnderGround River Film ~ Movement Journey ~ Water Spirit Storytelling
• Beltane DJ Dance Party ~ Integrating aliveness and vitality into the body
  
  Motherlove, a community of women becoming the change they wish to see in the world presents a BELTANE CELEBRATION marking the beginning of summer. We all need hope, community, and play after a long winter with a group who care deeply. 
  
  The event will include local talents to warm up (To be announced soon), Live Concert from Marya Stark featuring, DJ's and the Screening of Underground River, a collaborative ceremonial art film by Marya Stark and Earthbased Media.
  
  Doors open at 7pm
  
  Why this event, why now?
  
  * To come together for the joy of it
  * To receive nourishment through song, music, and movement at a time when we move less than ever before
  * To nurture our nature through play, fun, and sound so we can feel our aliveness
  * To acknowledge the earth's need to renew and restore through seasonal change and in doing so, remember our own seasonal needs too
  * To acknowledge our ancestors, their stories, their contributions so that we can remember what is important and meaningful to us in our lives
  * To enjoy our body's as creative vessels for expression in beautiful and healing ways
  
  Marya Stark, what a joy to receive you on UK soil! 
  
  Join us in extending a warm welcome to Marya Stark as she arrives in the UK from the US! Renowned for her captivating “Lineage” album, Marya's music has touched the hearts of women's circles worldwide, bringing together souls through tracks like "Linage," "Voice of My Womb," and "Women Who Run with Wolves,"among others. 
  
  Marya's creative brilliance illuminates both light and dark, unveiling the unseen and making it visible to all. Get ready for an unforgettable experience as we celebrate her artistry and journey together! 
  
  This is a European Exclusive Concert Performance and Film Screening Event, making it extra special for those who attend. 
  
  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2lntMaVHOro0wJYMYHco9d?si=XkZy-_sVRSCgI_nlNWcUuw&nd=1&dlsi=5a3b708288dc4707 
  
  About Marya
  
  Marya Stark is a discoverer of archetypes, storyteller, bard, and muse. She is a multimedia enchantress, and a carrier of myth, mystery, and medicine songs with which she embarks to create a ceremony of the human experience, taking her audience on lucid journeys through the caverns of the Soul. In addition to her solo work, Marya is also a member of the all female band Starling Arrow, along with Rising Appalachia, Tina Malia, and Ayla Nereo. 
  
  About the Film
  
  This film is a celebration of the waters of the world, a movement honouring the sacredness of grief, the spirits of the elemental guardians, the weaving of the rivers, inter-generational restoration of the water gates, and the cleansing of the Soul from the depth of the waters within. 
  
  It is formed around Marya's forthcoming album Underground River (a collaboration with Daniel Berkman) and is a wordless story of the journey of the waters.
  
  The Music
  
  ‘Underground River’ is a concept album composed by Marya Stark and Daniel Berkman inspired by lucid dreams and ancestral spirits of the water. The album features non-linguistic vocal choral arrangements, kora, ondomo, cello, minimal sound design, and sonically explores aspects of the global water cycle. ‘Underground River’ is a representation of the subterranean emotional body of the individual, the collective emotional body of humanity, and our relationship to the worlds of water..
  
  This impressionistic soundscape conveys a conversation between water spirits. It is being released alongside a greater body of multi-media artwork, including an original commissioned watercolor and acrylic painting, film photography, and 12 minute film piece featuring a multicultural cast of 18 women in various choreographies demonstrating the ancestral feminine relationship to the waters of life. 
  
  This dance film uses clips from 4 different songs to seamlessly weave a river of modern dance. It conveys women converging to honor the elders, build bridges between generations, walking together as a symbol of the rivers of the lands returning to the sea. The dancers embody different vignettes of animate water spirits, forming cymatic geometries with the sound and movement. It is an origin story for aquatic life, and harkens to the great Greek myths of the nymphs, the naiads and the oceanids. It also has roots in african folklore and the water spirits called the Kuntumble.
  
  There is one single that has been released, 'Water Into Water.' 
  https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZgJAakvPV2GBKxKBW0LCX?si=bv2Ef3X3SK6v0DZH5djgrg 
  
  A second single 'Alluvium' is being mastered for release in early April.
  
  Genres and placements related to world, meditation, sound healing, chorale, psychedelic therapy, hypnotic, savasana, brain food, wild ambiance, morning zen, gentle yoga, instrumental, mantra, impressionism, indian chillRecommended for playlists that support Beautiful Chorus, Trevor Hall, Deya Dova, East Forest, Ayla Nereo, Garth Stevenson, Porangui
  
  Questions
  
  If you have any questions, please email hello@candicequartermain.com
  
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