News & Events
News & Events
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Join author Nana Tomova and artist Rima Staines to celebrate the launch of Bulgarian Folk Tales.
Online, June 7th 8-9pm UK time
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We will be bringing Between to the FITM talks stage where we will focus on the radical possibilities - both personally and politically - there are to be found in reconnecting with the power of our deep imagination.
Fire in the Mountain is a festival, a party, a camp, a group of friends and a shared dream.
Rooted on an ancient farm that nestles between the Cambrian mountains and beautiful Cardigan bay - every summer we throw a small and much-loved music festival while red kites soar in the skies above.
We explore new and old folk culture, we celebrate creativity of all kinds and we seek the friendly spirits of mischief and joy. This is a festival where the land holds the heart - and we, the people, craft a kaleidoscope of beautiful experiences around it.
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Rima and Danny will bring Between to Music Magic Myth festival …
Deep in the French countryside, in the ruins of a 19th century industrial farm known as La Briche, the third edition of the Rites of Spring is manifesting: a ritualistic rave organized by the Music Magic Myth gang.
This is an invitation to inhabit our creative sanctuary for 72 hours of music magic and myth. Our home becomes yours: a place where technodelic sounds meets Dionysian ritualistic oriented people.
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Danny & Rima will be bringing BETWEEN to the table at THE LAST SUPPER CLUB: A Feast of Inner Alchemy & Sacred Union hosted by Darren Le Baron in collaboration with the Psychedelic Society.
Hosted at a private venue in Stoke Newington, Hackney, The Last Supper Club is a seasonal ritual-theatrical banquet and immersive cultural experience. Through food, story, sound, and ceremony, guests are guided along a mythic journey of communion, descent, death, and rebirth.
This is not a lecture. This is not ceremony-as-usual.
This is a living, breathing psychedelic cabaret—where ancient myth meets with modern nightlife, where entertainment becomes initiation, and where the shared table transforms into an altar of imagination, connection, and renewal.
Tickets HERE
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Danny and Rima will be bringing BETWEEN to London’s Crypt Gallery as part of Sense Ability - a five-week cultural programme designed to create a sanctuary for pausing, sensory grounding and coming together.
The evening and weekend programme is shaped to forge deeper awareness and relationship with the living wisdom of the body and the land, engaging with foundational subjects that sustain life as we know it.
Buy tickets HERE
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I will be presenting a short online talk at the Oddity and Strangeness Conference convened by the marvellous London Arts Based Research Centre entitled - Spirit Lines - The Vitality of Imperfection.
I'm very excited about this - if you've followed my work for a long time you will know that my focus has always circled round the uncanny and the strange, the edge-places and edge-people. This talk elaborates my research into cultural and arts practices that illuminate for us why the outliers are important. The conference spans two days, and all the presentations will be fascinating, I'm sure.
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I will be exhibiting my work at the Witchcraft & Women Summit at the University of Exeter, organised by Seed Talks.
November 22 2025
More info here
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I have a new piece on show at the Manger Gallery in Derbyshire as part of the REAL UNICORNS exhibition, curated by Michael Cook.
Nov 2025-Feb 2026
More info here
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Rima will be part of this forthcoming Mythic Arts exhibition.
19th June - 30th August 2025
More info to follow.
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The Otherworld (whether we believe in it or not) is a place we all wonder about, long for and recognise whenever we set foot there. It holds sought-after inspiration and insight for us - both individually and collectively - and the ways there are many and varied.
Join renegade consciousness researcher and hypnotist Danny Nemu and artist-magician of the liminal realms Rima Staines to explore the different mannerisms and mechanisms of the imagination as the powerful threshold-crossing vehicle it is.
🗝️🚪
See more of our respective work at:
www.dannynemu.com
www.rimastaines.com
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We are excited to be bringing this new offering to Crops Not Shops Sacred Earth Roots & Culture Gathering this Solstice weekend and then subsequently elsewhere. (Follow and sign up to our newsletters for first news of events in your neck of the woods...) -
6-7pm. 26th July 2025
Green Hill Arts Moretonhampstead, Devon
Once upon a time art and magic were considered very close disciplines, if not one and the same thing. Over time we have embraced rational thought and relegated art to a nice place above the mantelpiece.
Rima Staines is a life-long artist whose otherworldly work focuses on the crossroads between art, magic, and folklore, and whose current Amulet-making project explores the threshold-crossing role of an artist as well as what it means to turn the magic of her own art upon herself.
Terri Windling is an award-winning author, artist and folklorist whose own work has also centred on these mythic borderlands.
You are invited to join Terri and Rima as they wander in conversation through the wonderland-realms of art and magic and discuss the beautiful, wild and vital powers that an artist is tasked with harnessing under their paintbrush, and ask: How can we reignite our creative life with the uncanny paradigm-upturning power it once held?
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A 5-day course in soulful art-making and paint-making with Rima Staines & Caroline Ross
7-11 July 2025
NB :: POSTPONED :: Please subscribe to newsletter for updates
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Make a painted talisman with oils on wood, explore the magic of art-making, and the art of magic-making.
June 19-22 2025
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Make a painted talisman with oils on wood, explore the magic of art-making, and the art of magic-making.
Green Scythe Fair
7-8th June 2025
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A weekend of folk crafts, ancestral study and spellbinding arts with Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid & artist Rima Staines.
*** POSTPONED *** please subscribe to newsletter for updates.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
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Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid and artist Rima Staines present a unique course, uncovering the lore and power of amulets, old and new.
Combining Rima’s artistic practice with Yelala’s knowledge of Jewish folklore and anthropology, we welcome people of all cultures, and of all faiths and none to explore ancient knowledge and personal interpretation of amulet craft and meaning.
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OPEN STUDIO GUEST ARTIST
Rima Staines will be at Southcombe Barn Gallery 7-21 Sept transporting folk into the liminal as part of a new season of arts focusing on artist-women and the occult.
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Artist as Amulet-Maker talk at Sacred Arts - Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expressions and Ritual conference at Birkbeck University organised by the London Arts-Based Research Centre.
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Artist as Amulet-Maker talk at Therapeutic Landscapes: Ritual, Folklore and Wellbeing - Conference held at Worcester University, organised by the Folk Cultures Research Group, March 2024
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Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid and artist Rima Staines present a unique course, uncovering the lore and power of amulets, old and new.
Combining Rima’s artistic practice with Yelala’s knowledge of Jewish folklore and anthropology, we welcome people of all cultures, and of all faiths and none to explore ancient knowledge and personal interpretation of amulet craft and meaning.
Yelala Amulets Course, February 2024
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The Artist As Magician
The Artist as Magician: A Conversation with Rima Staines & Terri Windling
Saturday July 26th, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Once upon a time, art and magic were not merely related - they were the same act: a way of shaping reality, summoning meaning, and crossing thresholds. In our modern world, rationality has taken center stage, and art is too often confined to decoration. But what if we could reclaim its wild, transformative power?
Join artist Rima Staines, known for her mythic, otherworldly creations, and author, folklorist, and artist Terri Windling, whose work dwells in the mythic borderlands, for a conversation about the ancient and ever-renewing connection between art and enchantment.
Together, they’ll explore questions such as:
What does it mean to be an artist working at the threshold between the visible and invisible?
How can creative acts be forms of spellwork, invocation, or healing?
And how might we rekindle our artistic lives with the paradigm-shifting power they once held?
Rima will speak about her current Amulet-making project, which turns her own magic inward, and both women will share insights from lifetimes spent at the intersection of art and folklore.
Come prepared to listen, dream, and perhaps be changed.
Tickets: £7 per person
Location: Green Hill Arts -
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BETWEEN: Portals to the Otherworlds
Crossing Thresholds of the Imagination with Art & Hypnosis
The Otherworld (whether we believe in it or not) is a place we all wonder about, long for and recognise whenever we set foot there. It holds sought-after inspiration and insight for us - both individually and collectively - and the ways there are many and varied.
Join renegade consciousness researcher and hypnotist Danny Nemu and artist-magician of the liminal realms Rima Staines to explore the different mannerisms and mechanisms of the imagination as the powerful threshold-crossing vehicle it is.
🗝️🚪
See more of our respective work at:
www.tranceformhypno.com
www.rimastaines.com
We are excited to be bringing this new offering to Crops Not Shops Sacred Earth Roots & Culture Gathering this Solstice weekend and then subsequently elsewhere. (Follow and sign up to our newsletters for first news of events in your neck of the woods...) -
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Folk Amulet Painting Workshops
This is a talisman to make your imagination-seeds grow. I painted it in a couple of hours on a piece of driftwood.
As you know I am fascinated by the intersection between art and magic and what questions that threshold throws up about agency, otherworlds, imagination, craft and many, many more things. I am not in the business of making pretty objects for no purpose: for me the act of making imagery is to poke my fingers into the fabric of space-time and tie and untie knots, to move things in the unseen layers that we all feel. If you too are intrigued by this, and want to come and make a rustic painted talisman with me for your own particular wish or protection, I'm delighted to tell you that I will be offering some workshops doing just this at a couple of wonderful forthcoming fairs in Somerset. The first is the gorgeous Green Scythe Fair (www.greenfair.org.uk) on 7th & 8th June and the second is the fabulous @cropsnotshops Sacred Earth Roots & Culture gathering over the solstice weekend 19th - 23rd June. I'll have my little wagon gallery at both and art work on show, and I look forward to meeting you there!
There's much more to come in the realm of art×magic, so do watch this weed-entangled space... -
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THIS PAINTED EARTH
A 5-day course in soulful art-making and paint-making with Rima Staines & Caroline Ross
7-11 July 2025
NB :: POSTPONED :: Please subscribe to newsletter for updates.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
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Sacred HeARTh Retreat
A weekend of folk crafts, ancestral study and spellbinding arts with Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid & artist Rima Staines.
*** POSTPONED *** please subscribe to newsletter for updates.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
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SECOND SIGHT - Solo Exhibition
Rima Staines solo exhibition at Southcombe Barn Gallery 7-21 Sept 2024 transporting folk into the liminal as part of a new season of arts focusing on artist-women and the occult.
