*STOP PRESS* No #Hoodening (or Mumming) tonight at Boyden Gate. We *will* be performing with our #hoodenhorse at Themagnetbroadstairs 6.30ish, then the Crown in Sarre 8.30ish. Tomorrow at w etc. - details at hoodening.org.uk/hoodening-sche…

Para los que leen español: acaba de aparecer un artículo sobre Hoodening en la revista de Los Carochos (loscarochos.es/revista/)

One for fans of #hoodening, Mari Lwyd, Old Tup, Obby Oss Padstow 🇬🇧, Minehead & other 'obby 'osses, Autohoodening, Abbots Bromley horn dancers, soul caking, Comberbach mummers, and similar folk guising traditions. Maybe even shamanism & morris dance? Some Ben Edge included too.

A last chance to see some East Kent #hoodenhorses in the 'flesh' before they return to their stables for another year - or in some cases, head towards Maidstone Museum for the forthcoming animal #guising exhibition.

Hooden Horse Day in Sandwich, with Deal and Canterbury Hoodeners, stags & modern Whitstable beasts (May Day, hooden replicas, Mari Lwyd). All to appear in Maidstone Museum exhibition from February and Ozaru Books book out now.

Almost tempted to change our profile pic, given the wonderful painting just created by Ben Edge - come and see the real thing at the Maidstone Museum #hoodenhorse exhibition, museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event…

Tomorrow (April 1) assorted beasts run amok at Maidstone Museum as part of the Animal Guising / Kentish Hooden Horse exhibition. Free entry. 10.30+13.30 Whitstable Hoodeners 11.30+14.30 Dover Tales 12.00+14.00 Broadstairs FolkWeek IME 12.30 Curator's tour museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event…

This Saturday 29/4 at Maidstone Museum: "Folk Customs Now!" inc. #autohoodening (Infinite Opera), talks by The Folklore Podcast & Ben Edge, curator's tour, etc. See youtube.com/watch?v=b60quA… for previous tour inc. contributions by Broadstairs FolkWeek #hoodenhorse herd… #folklorethursday

Everything you wanted to know about #hoodening and #hoodenhorses but never dared ask is - probably - contained in hoodening.org.uk, the Ozaru Books publications shown there, the current exhibition at Maidstone Museum … and the podcast below. Enjoy! #folklorethursday 🐴

Next Saturday, 27 May, Bethlem Gallery in Bromley is offering a mask-making workshop including hooden horses, then a parade of folk costumes with mixed Morris sides - it promises to be, er, Bedlam! bethlemgallery.com/whats-on/folk-…

Don't forget 27 May is also the last special event of the Hoodening/Animal Guising exhibition at Maidstone Museum - a hoodening play, handbells, a hooden herd, an iguanodon of course, and more. museum.maidstone.gov.uk/whats-on/event…

Calling #folklore experts in USA (+Canada?): Western Folklore are looking for someone to review the recent book by James Frost / Ozaru Books about #hoodening and other #guising traditions (you get a free copy, of course). More info at: westernfolklore.org/ReviewTitles.h…

Last 'event' at Maidstone Museum's great "Animal #Guising and the Kentish #HoodenHorse" exhibition - James Frost giving a curator's tour, Geoff Doel talking about #MariLwyd and other horse traditions, and handbells from the Bedford Ensemble. 3 weeks until it closes!🐴

"… and hooden horse James Frost" - yes! 🤎 Finally someone understands how you become the beast, a melding and merging of identities…🐴 Like shamanic method acting, praps… (without any claim to be shamans or actors!)

We #hoodeners will be taking our #hoodenhorse #hoodening soon, as we have done for over 50 years. Details at hoodening.org.uk/hoodening-sche…

Last night of the season tonight: theSeasideMuseum Herne Bay 6.00 @BowerStMorris Margate Arts Club 7.30 Bell Inn St Nicholas-at-Wade 9.30ish. Great to have Skulls & Sheets with us hoodening yesterday. Raising money for dementia (via Holy Trinity Margate): justgiving.com/crowdfunding/h…

Fans of #Hoodening may well like this forthcoming book "An Annual Affair: Some Traditional British Calendar Customs", full of photos of rarer local events (we're included). Good support so far but still some weeks left to choose which 'reward' option you want.

Our 2024 charity is SERV Kent - volunteers taking blood supplies across East Kent. We hope to cover the running costs of 2 bikes for next year. Please donate by this QR code, justgiving.com/crowdfunding/h…, or throw some notes in the nosebag at any of our #hoodening performances. 🐴

As below, at hoodening.org.uk/hoodening-sche…, and facebook.com/hoodeners/ threads.net/@hoodenhorse instagram.com/hoodenhorse/ folksocial.org/@hoodeners bsky.app/profile/hooden… (which are all better ways to find us now), the #thanet #eastkent #hoodenhorse rides out again from tonight! 🐴

Better find us now at facebook.com/hoodeners/ threads.net/@hoodenhorse instagram.com/hoodenhorse/ bsky.app/profile/hooden… but anyway: the #thanet #eastkent #hoodenhorse wakes again, venues = hoodening.org.uk/hoodening-sche… (more welcome) and cause this year The Gap Project via QR code below.