Hwæt Zine (2025)

13/06/2025

🌞Team Hwæt! is Out of Office!🌞

Our shop is still open but we won't be shipping until the end of the month, so please be patient if ordering from us 🙏

We are off to Orkney! Our absolutely incredible pal is taking us on a 10 day "Magical Mystery Tour" in her campervan (named Emily Spinach) and we are beyond excited. We've done many road trips with Katie in the past, and this one is going to be a good un! We will be driving up to the Highlands and then onto Orkney, stopping along the way for some surprise adventures en route. Katie has put together this MONUMENTAL folder of info and clues for us to decipher for each mini adventure on the itinerary. What an absolute diamond you are Katie!

We will be stopping to see some magical things, and probably some old stones and maybe some neolithic burial chambers, but WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW!! One thing we do know is that we will be spending the summer solstice sunrise among some of the oldest and most beautiful ancient stones in the UK.

It's all very exciting and we count our lucky stars every day that we have a wonderful pal like Katie to join us on our adventures (or in this case, to organise the adventure!)

Keep your eyes peeled for some travel diary posts as we uncover what mysteries lay in wait for us ✨👀✨

01/06/2025

We've been working on some things... 🌿

As well as putting the finishing touches to issue no.6, we've been grinding away at another pocket zine which will be delving into a certain character from British folklore - The Green Man.

We spent the whole day yesterday building our very own foliate mask and after an early start to finalise his leafy visage we took it off into the woods today to capture him in his natural habitat.

Both zines we are working on have been a long time coming, but we are excited to finally be nearing completion on both of them. Watch this space for updates! 👀

08/05/2025

🌞What. A. Weekend!🌞

Months and months of hard work and meticulous planning from ourselves and culminated in an overwhelmingly wonderful sold out weekend of folk, food and fun which we are never going to forget.

It was a bringing together of incredible people; the performers, the artists, the florists, the food vendors, a tarot reader, the dancers, a very generous brewery, our amazing sound tech, videographer and stage manager, the lovely venue staff and a beautifully attentive, engaged and passionate audience. It was a thoroughly wholesome affair from top to bottom and these astounding photos from .right.off capture it beautifully.

We cannot believe that it went so smoothly - it goes to show that when you get the right heads together, amazing things can happen ✨

Thank you to everyone involved, we are truly humbled. Would we be mad enough to do it all again?!
Quite possibly!

05/05/2025

🌞SALT of the EARTH T-SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER🌞

Following the huge sell-out success of our first ever folk festival we have decided to celebrate with a small run of t-shirts!

We had lots of folk at Salt of the Earth ask if we had t-shirts for sale... So we've made it happen!

We are doing a super limited run of shirts and screen printed posters which you can buy separately or as a bundle. If you buy the bundle, we will also throw in 4 special pub coasters. The shirts have been ordered from the wonderful guys at and are printed on earth positive off white t-shirts (because we all know pure white shirts rarely stay white!)
These will be shipped at the end of the month.

The art prints are screenprinted by Bunty of Team Hwæt! and .etc_ at their wonderful workplace . They are printed on heavyweight textured seaweed paper and are signed and numbered.

These are very limited so grab one before they go!
Link to our we shop is in our bio 🔗

01/05/2025

Happy May Day!

We cannot wait to welcome in the May with everyone this weekend at our Salt Of The Earth festival with .

We've gone all out for this weekend, including making this DIY Jack-in-the-Green at home! Bunty put this together over the last couple of weeks, and we're looking forward to it's debut appearance this weekend 🌿

Jack-in-the-Greens have been an integral part of May Day celebrations for hundreds of years, and are thought to have developed out of traditions involving milkmaids and chimney sweeps. Despite the abundance of greenery, Jack-in-the-Green is largely an urban tradition, involving a procession through a town or city with musicians and other characters in tow. So it’s a good way to bring the beauty of nature into the city, seeing a merging of town and countryside, of old and new.

10/02/2025

🌿 Hey folks! 🌿

Here's a little extra information for ticket holders to the upcoming Salt of the Earth Folk Fest.

Tickets are selling very fast so if you'd like to secure one, head to the link in our bio. Tickets are only £35 for the whole weekend.

If anyone has any further questions about anything please give us a message and we will be happy to help out.

04/02/2025

🦇 ONLY 2 TICKETS LEFT! 🦇

Thank you to everyone who has booked in for our Whitby edition of our Lore of the Land guided folklore walk. There are only two tickets left so if you were umm-ing and ahh-ing about it, you've been warned!

We absolutely cannot wait to take folks on this wonderful adventure to Whitby and beyond, where we will take in stories of sunken ships, haunted woods, viking burials, witches, bogles and giants. After our nice big walk and a short stop at the pub we will be heading back to for an intimate and cosy night of music and storytelling.

The link to the last two tickets in in our bio ✨🎟️✨

02/02/2025

After a day of walking in the woods with the sun shining and bouncing off the newly bloomed snowdrops, we celebrated Imbolc by making our very first Brigid's Crosses this evening. We couldn't get our hands on any reeds but some wheat soaked in water did the trick. The tradition of weaving a cross from reeds or straw is one that dates back as far as the 17th century and signifies the beginning of spring. It's a very mindful practice and we chose to weave whilst listening to a great album by , A Web of Braided Willow, which seemed rather apt for the occasion 🌾

31/01/2025

🪨 LORE OF THE LAND - WHITBY 🪨

*TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE*

The third iteration of Lore of the Land is here! And this time we’re headed to Britain’s goth capital, Whitby.

Join the folklore fiends behind Hwæt! and trad folk specialist Johnny Campbell on a guided storytelling adventure taking in haunted woods, ancient standing stones, Viking burial grounds, sunken ships, hidden castle ruins, and much more.

Tickets also include an evening of storytelling and folk music back at the legendary La Rosa Hotel in Whitby. For anyone wanting to stay the night, La Rosa and Jet Black Jewel have kindly offered discount codes for their beautiful hotel rooms.

Also included will be a very special Lore of the Land Whitby zine, which will be made especially and contain stories, photos and illustrations inspired by the stories we tell on the walk.

This is our longest and most epic walk yet, and we cannot wait to share it with folks. The day will run from 11am until around 9pm so it's a big one!

Join us as we go beyond Dracula and the ghost tours, into an unseen Whitby of fairies and bogles, hobs and giants, saints and martyrs.

Ticket link can be found below. Spaces are extremely limited so act fast!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lore-of-the-land-whitby-walk-and-gig-with-hwt-johnny-campbell-tickets-1222753120499

31/01/2025

We are overwhelmed at the response to our little festival so far and want thank all of you who have picked up tickets for the weekend. Over half of the reduced price early bird tickets have sold so don't hang around if you want to save a few quid!

It's set to be a great weekend and we can't wait to share it with you all.

The ticket link can be found via the link below🎟️

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/ngbzbmbrjlkm

28/01/2025

☀️ VERY EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT ☀️

Earlybird tickets are now available for SALT OF THE EARTH, a May Day celebration bringing together the best of folk culture, from music and art to morris dancing and craft workshops!

This winter’s been long and there’s still some way to go, but the days are getting brighter and the daffodils are poised ready to bloom – before you know it, spring will be here. What better way to celebrate than a specially curated folk festival in the beautiful town of Saltaire, featuring music both traditional and experimental, as well as appearances from morris sides and rappers (the sword dancing kind, not the hip-hop kind). We’ve also got art exhibitions, flower crown workshops, Hwæt’s Folklore Funfair, food stalls, a may pole, a Jack in the Green and more!

May Day was once one of the highlights of the year, when folks around the country would ‘go maying’ to celebrate the renewed season of life and light. So let’s revive the occasion – come maying with us this May Day Weekend.

SALT OF THE EARTH, from Mek Summat and Hwaet! Zine

May 3rd and 4th 2025

Caroline St Social Club, Saltaire

Get your tickets now from www.ticketsource.co.uk/meksummat

Reduced price £30 earlybird tickets are only available for a limited time!

A lot of work is going into this and we’re incredibly excited to be putting it together.

Keep an eye on our socials for further updates!

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