Come and explore the deep connection and sustenance that ancient myths provide us in this current time of polycrisis. We will travel upon the words of award-winning storyteller,  Katrice Horsley,  witnessing life the eyes of an ancient tree, whose roots are pushed into the past, whose trunk is in the ever-present and whose branches arch and lean towards the possible future. Enmeshed within the show it are powerful old  stories that will sing in your blood, long after the listening.

Come and enmesh yourself in the ancient, as you sit side by side with others in this present,  and then let your imagination yearn towards a future where we are all connected by the stories we share and the stories we hear.

Come and let myths be your mycelium, your connection, your sense-making.

Katrice Horsley is a narrative strategist, storyteller and former UK Storytelling Laureate whose work is rooted in a lifelong belief that words and stories are not just entertainment but vital to how we make sense of ourselves and the world we inhabit..

With a background in child's play and development, Katrice has spent decades exploring how story shapes us from our earliest breath. She has performed at some of the UK's most well-known gatherings — Glastonbury Festival, The Wilderness Festival, Hay Literary Festival , Cheltenham Literary Festival  and Birmingham Book Festival — and carried her work to international storytelling festivals across Belgium, Singapore, Mexico, the Netherlands, Denmark and beyond. She has been is a regular presence at Festival at the Edge, the UK's largest storytelling festival.

Her workshop practice spans the personal and the professional: she has designed and delivered storytelling programmes for the US Olympic Medical Committee, UNHCR, The International Red Cross and Nordea Bank, whilst also working with hundreds of people to deepen and transform how they tell and perform stories.

At the Silva Festival, Katrice will be sharing both performance and workshop space. She does so with great joy as this is a festival whose heart beats in exactly the territory she finds most alive: the entanglement of mythology, ecology, and what it means to be human.