The rites at Stonehenge for the Gorsedd of Cor Gawr are led by Christine Cleere (Vixx), together with a small group of supporting priests. For any information
on the Gorsedd, or contributions for the Cor Gawr pages, please visit the Gorsedd web page or subscribe to our Facebook Group. You can contact Christine here.
Sunday 13th December 2009
Alban Arthan (Midwinter) Gathering
ALL TICKETS NOW SOLD OUT!
The Cor Gawr Gorsedd midwinter gathering will be from 4:30pm-6:30pm on Sunday 13th December 2009. Those with tickets should gather from 4pm in Stonehenge car park.
Please ensure you bring your tickets with you as you will need the pass to enter the car park. The car park
must be cleared by 7pm.
For further information on the ticket availability, contact: Cor Gawr Tickets
Mist at Sunrise - Photo: Lesley Hilton
Additional Dates already agreed provisionally with
English Heritage are as follows. Please remember that events organized
for Stonehenge are always at risk of last minute cancellation (owing to
any recent damage or risk of disturbance). If you are in any doubt as
to whether the event is still happening, get in touch with Christine
Cleere, Cor Gawr Organiser
- Midsummer : Thursday 24 June 2010 (dawn)
- Midsummer : Friday 24 June 2011 (dawn)
Dates awaiting confirmation from English Heritage are:
- Midwinter : Sunday 19th December 2010 (dusk)
- Midwinter : Sunday 18th December 2011 (dusk)
- Midsummer : Sunday 24th June 2012 (dawn)
- Midwinter : Sunday 16th December 2012 (dawn)
As the Gorsedd works on a Special Access pass, the
Cor Gawr rituals are ticketed events, with a number limit of 100
people. The tickets are often sold out up to a month before the date,
so do book early. There is a maximum of 6 tickets per application. We
ask for £2 per person, please, in order to cover our administration costs. Please send
stamped addressed envelope or IRCs (see below for address). If you have
booked multiple tickets, please include the names of everyone you have
booked tickets for in your request. Please note that tickets must be
paid for in advance, and cannot be picked up at the site. They must be
brought with you to the Gorsedd as they contain a pass for the car park
without which you will not be admitted.
Following deduction of our administration costs and in recognition of the costs incurred by English Heritage, 50% of the remaining proceeds are donated to English Heritage towards the upkeep of the stones. This donation does not denote that the Gorsedd or The Druid Network necessarily support or endorse any statments or policies implemented by English Heritage. Should there be any remaining funds from the rites, these go to TDN tree planting projects.
Everyone is asked to bring offerings to the spirits
of place bread and mead for the shared feasting (mead must be in
plastic bottles as glass ones will not be permitted within the Stones),
and contributions to the eisteddfod should they wish. Please dress
warmly!
If your have any photos of one of the Gorseddau, or poetry, or anything that would contribute to a review page, please send to Christine Cleere.
Deaf Access
Review of the Gorsedd, Alban Hefin (Midsummer) 2008
Review of the Gorsedd, Alban Hefin (Midsummer) 2006
Review of the Gorsedd, Alban Arthan (Midwinter) 2005
Review of the Gorsedd, Alban Hefin (Midsummer) 2004
Review of the Gorsedd, Alban Hefin (Midsummer) 2003
What's in a name? - A short note by Kestrel on the name 'Gorsedd of Cor Gawr'
FFI about the Gorsedd, see our Directory page.
FFI about accomodation around Stonehenge see our Accomodation
page.
