Wild Twin Community Folk School

12/05/2025

You and yours are warmly invited to our Yule Community Feast (vegetarian potluck style) & Pagan Carol Singalong to celebrate the Winter Solstice & holiday cheer in the warmth of community. This is a family friendly event - children welcome.� Details in the event page below.

11/19/2025

11/19/2025

Join our monthly song circle, where all our voices are equal. Sing easy-to-learn group songs in community. No singing experience required. Everyone is welcome. Bring your friends!

Held 6:45pm-8:30pm on the third Thursday of every month at (search for the FOLC farm in maps).

With the approaching holiday season we’ll be peppering in some pagan caroling songs in anticipation of our upcoming pagan caroling stroll in late December (date TBA).

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11/19/2025

Samhain 2025 was wholesome, intimate and nourishing. Thank you everyone for being a part of this community gathering of song, storytellng, remembrance, and celebration.

Next seasonal festival will be Imbolc 2026!

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11/19/2025

Big thank you to our volunteers who helped make this rag bunting decoration for our community events!

Bunting has its roots in 17th-century Britain and early America. Originally a naval term, it referred to the lightweight wool fabric — buntine — used for flags, ribbons, and signal-flags aboard ships. By the 18th century, bunting had expanded beyond maritime use and became a beloved form of festive and patriotic decoration appearing at colonial gatherings, and becoming especially prominent during the Civil War.

Rag bunting in particular carries an echo of something older. Its tattered, wind-worn strips recall the ancient Celtic healing practice of tying rags to trees near sacred wells — the “clootie wells” of Scotland and Ireland (from the Scots word clootie, meaning cloth). Pilgrims would knot a piece of cloth to a branch, often dipped in the well’s water, believing that as the rag faded and dissolved, so too would the illness, grief, or burden it represented. Rooted in pre-Christian pagan ritual, this tradition survives into the present day — a quiet lineage that threads itself into the rustic beauty of rag bunting 🌞

11/19/2025

Our mission 🌞 let’s tend the village fire together 🔥

11/07/2025

Join an upcoming 6-week Gaelic work song series, facilitated by folklorist and tradition-bearer Genevieve Galarneau. Flyer with info attached.

02/15/2025

We're excited to host our first traveling storyteller, Frank Salzano of the Medicine of the Starry Heavens, visiting from Western North Carolina. Frank is an astrologer, cultural astronomer and storyteller that focuses on Vedic astrology, cross-cultural star myths and celestial folklore.

His magic is storytelling under a starry night sky, taking listeners on a mythopoetic journey that weaves the latest in cultural astronomy with the evolution of the world’s mythologies, cross-cultural star lore, ancient astrology, and ancestral perceptions, for an embodied ritual relationship to the starry heavens. We’re excited to host him in collaboration with the FOLC Farm.

In honor of Venus’s upcoming retrograde and descent into the Underworld, Frank will lead us in a storytelling under the stars, for a contemporary telling of Layla & Majnun, the classic Sufi folktale popularized by Nizami, the great 12th-century Persian epic poet. This tale is like Romeo & Juliet meets the enchanted, animist heart of the indigenous desert soul.

Time: 6-9pm // Doors - 6pm, story - 6:30pm
Where: The FOLC Farm, 3625 SE 15th St, Gainesville FL
Free, donation suggested: $12-36
All donations go to the storyteller

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/646625134467819/

02/15/2025

We're excited about some upcoming storytelling events in our community. Check them out:

"THE FLOATING KINGDOM: An Evening of Original Mythobardic Storytelling & Song, with Mica Sun & Samara Jade" @ The FOLC Farm. RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/3837623813126874

01/21/2025

Welcome! The Wild Twin Community Folk School nurtures grassroots community connection around old ways of human-being — storytelling, song, ritual, music, celebration, craft, and relationship with place. We are a group of non-experts working together to offer wholesome, meaningful alternatives to the perfectionism, isolation, and rush of modernity. Through our gatherings, seasonal festivals, and workshops, we aspire to tend the village fire, keep alive the old ways, and nourish our relationships with land, spirit, and each other.

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