Mabon Fire Walk
Step into the extraordinary with MABON’s Fire Walk. Guided safely over glowing embers, participants confront fear, embrace focus, and celebrate personal courage. This transformative experience blends ritual, mindfulness, and spectacle, leaving every walker with a sense of achievement, connection, and the thrill of dancing with fire in a safe, electrifying setting.
Apple of Affirmation
- Rebecca Wyn Kelly
For Mabon, the festival of balance and harvest, this “apple of affirmation” altar stands as an offering to the season. It honours abundance, ripeness, and the turning of the year.
You are invited to approach the altar and choose an apple. Hold it gently in your hands. Whisper into its skin—an affirmation, a blessing, or an intention for the season ahead. Let your breath and your words sink into the fruit, transforming it into a vessel of your voice.
When you are ready, carry your apple to the press. Place it among the others, and together they are pressed—many voices becoming one flow. As the sweetness is released, it mingles into a shared offering. Drink the fresh juice, tasting your intention woven with the abundance of the harvest.
The altar becomes a living cycle of offering and return: fruit gathered, affirmed, transformed, and consumed. In this act of folk ritual, we honour Mabon—the balance of day and night, the blessings of harvest, and the renewal of our own voices within the turning year.
Rebecca Wyn Kelly is a Welsh-speaking artist specialising in ritual and land art. Through large-scale, site-responsive installations, she explores the evolving relationship between human intervention and the natural world. Her work captures moments of disintegration and reconstruction, offering a poignant reflection on environmental decay, renewal, and transformation .
Fireside Chats
Jonathan Woolway (St Johns/The Shed) | Lucy Peterson (Peterson Tea) | Stephen Terry (Hardwick) | Musral Saiq (Cue Point) | Polly Baldwin (Jolly Allotment) | Maisey McBagley (McBagley BBQ) | Dawie Beyers (Farmers Pantr)
We’re bringing together a gathering of good people to dive into our favourite subject: food. Curated by Simon Wright of Wright’s Food Emporium, these thoughtful conversations will explore everything from the healing power of food and fire the current state of school dinners in Wales. Expect lively, honest, and thought-provoking discussion from a brilliant panel of chefs, producers, writers, and change makers. Whether you're here to learn, share, or challenge ideas, this space is for curious minds and passionate voices. Come join the conversation — food for thought.
Simon Wright is a renowned restaurateur, broadcaster, and food writer with over three decades of experience shaping the Welsh food scene. Former editor of the AA Restaurant Guide and Gordon Ramsay’s consultant on Kitchen Nightmares, he has long championed integrity, sustainability, and local produce. Simon’s acclaimed restaurant, Y Polyn, established in Carmarthenshire, became a benchmark for honest, ingredient-led dining in Wales. Named Wales’s True Taste Ambassador, he has written extensively on food culture and farming, and serves as Professor of Practice at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. At MABON, Simon curates the food talks, guiding conversations with insight and authority.
Mabon Market
It all starts with great produce, made by good people. At MABON’S New Wave Producers Market, we’re celebrating a new generation of independent Welsh food and drink makers who are redefining what local tastes like. From raw milk cheeses and small-batch kimchi to craft ferments, wild honey, handmade sauces, sourdough, charcuterie, and more — this small but mighty market champions those who work with care, creativity, and connection to the land. Meet the makers, taste their stories, and take home something truly special.