Linnea Farm, Lakeview Room
You are invited to a day at Magic School to experience story-telling and place-based learning with play, expressive movement, art, storytelling and magic!
At Magic School, you are offered many fantastical pathways to connect with magic within yourself and nature. This is for those who love to play, create, craft and paint. Our magical mentor Rue will share collaborative storytelling, earth art, songs, spells and more!
(online)
School of Witchcraft for Queer Youth is an online space tending to the well being of queer and allied youth through magical arts and divination skills. The skills offered through this school are ones that promote self-witnessing, self-knowledge, processing big emotions and tools for healing the self as well as ethical guidance for use of magic including consent practices and best practices in the practice of magic. Activities include tarot, astrology, herbalism, scrying, intuitive magic, spellwork and more.
Option for in-peron connection: We partner with Silent DJ Victoria to host free COVID safe outdoor dances for youth to move their bodies and build connection with peers in the greater magical queer youth community.
We’ll connect us to seasonal energies, lunar cycles and astrological movements. Together we will workshop magical skills and act as a support group for tending magical relationship and exploring lessons of queer mysticism for resiliency. Topics include: queerness, animism, elements and magic specific to each one, introduction to magic, casting, calling, grounding, ancestors, trance, stars, plants, queer magic, story magic, psychic skills...and many more.
(in-person)
Seaside story school offers outdoor or indoor nature-connection workshops that include inquiry-based learning, play, story-telling and hands-on experiences. These workshops can be interage and be adjusted to include grade K-5 curriculum content.
Mentor: Rue McDonald
Why Storytelling?
It’s my philosophy that stories can tie narratives together in ways sentences just can’t. They are positive and connective ways to build group cohesion in a fun and playful way. Play and story are central ways children learn about the world and are an important part of childrens’ learning. Story is also a great way to relate with nature and build a sense of connection to place and natural processes.
To book a workshop or workshop series, please contact us to discuss custom workshops.
Seasonal Stories: Walking With the Wheel
Ages 5 - 13 | 75 mins | $200
Stories bring us into relationship to seasonal changes. When we walk with the wheel of the changing year, the stories are there to help us connect with place and nature. Let’s connect with stories to bring us in deeper relationship with the seasons!
Stories of Place: Tracking Continuity & Change
Ages 7 - 13 | 75 mins | $200
When we arrive in a place, we are walking into a story that has been going on since time immemorial. When we turn our curiosity to the story of place we can track continuity and change - like the impacts of colonial processes - all of which helps us create deeper relationships with the stories of place.
Gender Diversity and the Moon
Ages 5 - 13 | 75 mins | $200
The moon is always changing. It is only full or new for a fraction of a second. Come along with Rue (they/them) in a hands-on interactive outdoor workshop to explore the journey of the moon phases as they relate to gender diversity.