Dragon Valley
An ark for the circus.
Welcome to the valley, my strange and curious friend.
Dragon Valley was created as a living place you and I can access and find each other outside of the book. A way to come together.
A place where story, music, ritual, conversation, imagination and real human experience meet.
Several times a year, we open the valley for a full online gathering. A portal to step through your screen and meet one another there.
A whole day you can enter, leave, return to, cook through, listen through, dance through, cry through, laugh through and make your own.
The first gathering
The First Dragon Valley Gathering
22 January 2027
From morning into evening, Dragon Valley will open for a full day of music, conversation, ceremony, movement, storytelling and live experience.
Where you might find yourself
The Ceremony Ground
You might enter here for the Wood Dragon’s opening ceremony.
The Red Tent
You might find yourself here to speak and weep through your womb.
The Meeting Hut
You might sit here for a conversation about intimacy, relationship or community.
The Training Ground
You might visit here for a different kind of conversation about learning, creativity, young people and the world we are making for them.
More meeting spaces are being made as the valley grows.
You might arrive for a musician you love and stay for something you never expected.
You do not have to attend everything
- Come and go.
- Put us on in the kitchen.
- Join from the sofa.
- Bring tea.
- Bring your family for part of it.
- Disappear for an hour and come back.
For one day, come and live in Dragon Valley with us.
What happens inside the valley?
Each gathering is personally curated around the people, conversations and experiences that feel right for that particular moment.
- Live music
- Ceremony
- Conversation
- Movement
- Storytelling
- Guided experiences
- Interviews
- Unexpected things
And throughout the day, the world of DragonBacks will begin to appear.
Dragon Valley is one of the places where the world becomes lived.
The line-up
The full line-up for the first Dragon Valley gathering will be announced soon.
We are inviting an extraordinary group of artists, musicians, teachers, space holders and people whose work we deeply trust.
Each person is invited because what they bring belongs inside the valley.
- Full line-up announcement
- Coming soon
Join us
- The gathering
- Dragon Valley
- When
- 22 January 2027
- Where
- A full day, live online
- How to be there
- Come for the whole day, or move in and out as you please
More details and the full programme will be released soon.
This is only the beginning
Dragon Valley will open several times a year. Each gathering will be different.
Some may gather around:
- Myth
- Creativity
- Grief
- Love
- Belonging
- Learning
- Eros
- Community
- Initiation
- Music
- The changing world
But always with curiosity, warmth, depth and play.
The places inside Dragon Valley will grow as the books grow too. New stories. New spaces. New people. New gatherings.
But the invitation remains the same.
Come into the valley.
Step onto the ark. Join the circus.
DragonBacks · by Olivka Wilk
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