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Wise Women In Conversation with Sharon Blackie

Dartington Hall, The Elmhirst Centre, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

  • 8pm to 9:30pm
  • £14.00
  • Save to calendar 2024-10-15 00:00:00 2024-10-15 00:00:00 Europe/London Wise Women In Conversation with Sharon Blackie Wise Women In Conversation with Sharon Blackie at Dartington HallTuesday 15th October – 8pm to 9:30pmTickets from £14The award-winning author and psychologist discusses the myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond.From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. But women today are searching for po... The Elmhirst Centre, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL Dartington Hall
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Wise Women In Conversation with Sharon Blackie at Dartington Hall

Tuesday 15th October – 8pm to 9:30pm

Tickets from £14

The award-winning author and psychologist discusses the myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond.

From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women.
But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and Sharon Blackie’s dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being – and almost always have the last laugh.

These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically, reimagine and reclaim the power of the second half of life.

Drawing on her many decades as a psychologist as well as a folklorist and mythologist, join the award-winning author of Hagitude as she discusses her new book, Wise Women, a collection of stories about older women in European folklore; stories populated by a diverse range of older women who hold the protagonist’s fate in the palm of their gnarly old hands, who see the bigger picture (and probably were the ones who painted it in the first place), or who have the last laugh, and offers ideas about how these might inform and inspire older women today.

We’re all looking to become Wise Women, each in our own unique way. Sharon Blackie re-members the beautiful, lost fragments of our rich European traditions, and seeking to reenchant a time of life which can seem dreary, and which most of us approach with trepidation, offers ideas for reweaving them into the fabric of a more meaningful and exhilarating everyday.

Sharon Blackie will be in conversation with writer and broadcaster Sophie Pierce.

The event will be followed by a book signing.

Sharon’s book will be for sale at its cost price of £20 during the event, or we are offering a special pre-order deal of £30 for a signed book & ticket option.

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Dartington Hall

The Elmhirst Centre, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL

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