Touch&Play UK Festival 2022 
 

LANDSCAPES OF MYTH AND MYSTERY

EarthSpirit Center near Glastonbury

July 30th - August 5th 2022 - a six day event, one day more than last year!

After our wonderfully successful 2021 festival, we return to the ancient lands of Avalon for our second yearly gathering, growing Touch&Play community in the UK.

Cradled in this ancient landscape of myth and sacred mystery we will call in and weave together six days of dancing and feasting, six days of embodied sensuality, ritual and exploratory sexuality.  This year as each day unfolds and the unfurling of the week reveals itself we'll drop deeper into the sacred ritual of sensual play and the exploration of body and self.

In the day we explore, we play, we dance and make connections.
....as the night closes in we will step into the ritual hours, opening to myth and mystery.

The T&P UK FESTIVAL is founded on the practises of Contact Improvisation, dance, sexuality, Embodiment, kink, play, expression and exploration. We are looking for offerings spanning these areas.  At its heart Touch&Play is a vision for reclaiming the sacredness of the body. We create this opportunity to imagine a new way of being in relationship that centers on play, imagination, healing and reconnection to ourselves, our communities and nature.
We invite you to come home to this diverse community of dancers, somatic explorers and embodied humans.
This is a festival about play, vulnerability and building community rich in emotional, sensorial and erotic intelligence.

Workshop Offerings:

• Contact Improvisation
• Wheel Of Consent
• Body Painting
• Radical Life Drawing
• Breath Play
• Embodiment Practices
• Different Dance styles - Fusion/Capoeira 
• Ritual
• Performance
• Desire Gambling
• Intimacy And Nature Workshops
• Love Lounge / Sexy space / Temple
• Liquid Love
• Kink
• Singing Circles & Fantastic Live Music
• and still more flavours to be added...

Big Marquee Dance Space, 2 Indoor Workshop Spaces, Dungeon, Cuddle & Play Yurt, Large Lounge, Hot Tub, Sauna, Woodlands, 3 vegetarian meals per day, Tea's and coffee's on tap, Hot showers.

Facilitators, Musicians & Artists: Daniel Hayes, Lee Bolton, Jamus Wood, Daniel Hernandez & Chloe Wykes, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Rupert James Alison, Calu de la Tierra, Laura von Nordheim, Briony Greenhill, Richard Sarco Thomas, David Basak, Genevieve Simmons, Esmeralda Vere, Georgie Lo, Raphael Buttigieg, Zoe River Phenoix, Bela Emerson, Roisin Greene.

Touch&Play UK Organisers Team:  Daniel Hayes, Lee Bolton, Jamus Wood supported by Matthew Adams and Esmeralda Vere

Touch&Play UK organisers reserve the right to change or make adjustments to the teaching team at any given time and at short notice.  Thank you for your understanding.

The Earth Spirit Retreat Center

We will dance, explore and play at a high quality retreat center in a beautiful landscape between two nature reserves; and just two minutes walk from St Andrew's church, which has within its cemetery a yew tree of 1,800 years old. The seventeenth century farm buildings have been beautifully restored and specially converted for use as a venue. They are set within seven acres of fields and gardens.

The complex is based around a converted 52' (15.5m) long barn, with oak timbers, reed torching (lining the inside of the roof) and stone walls. The feeling is medieval, but with modern comforts such as under-floor heating and a large woodstove. The high roof and skylights create a light, airy atmosphere.

For a closer a look check out there website: https://www.earthspirit-centre..


Tickets: 

Full 6 Day Retreat Ticket (this is an additional day to last year) starting from:   £580 camping /  £625 Dorm /  £660 Better Shared Room.  We have a limited number of low income tickets please write to us at uk.touchandplay@gmail.com  

(Includes high quality retreat center, accommodation, all meals, hot tub, sauna , workshops and other Earth Spirit facilities)

Helper Tickets, only 8 available (£390 camping/£430 dormitory). 

Low Income Tickets: T&P includes people with varying personal economies by providing a limited number of subsidised tickets. Please tell why you're needing a low-income ticket. To Apply please send us an email entitled low income tickets and tell a little about your financial situation to uk.touchandplay@gmail.com

Pay in 2 Instalments: You can now make a £175 upfront payment and pay the remainder on arrival.