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Matriarchy for Future – Festival
3. – 6. Juli 2025
Kasteel de Berckt, bei Venlo NL
40 km von Duisburg
What’s in it for you…?
Here you can find more offers for body, mind and soul
In addition to music and lectures/workshops on the five main topics of social issues, politics, ecology, economics and spirituality, you will find numerous other offers such as films, performance, yoga, body, mind and soul. The list is constantly being updated.
Films on matriarchal themes and discussions with the filmmakers
Andrea Lötscher – Film Baltic Healing
In the Latvian pirts (traditional sauna/steam bath), an old European healing tradition has survived to the present day.
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Andrea Lötscher is an ethnologist and filmmaker. She was born in Basel in 1974. She spent her childhood in Switzerland and Canada. She has lived in Germany since 1989.
1994 – 2001 Studied ethnology at the WWU Münster, degree: Master
2001 Edited a first documentary film project
2001-2004 Worked as an assistant director and editor in a Cologne film production company
2007 Founded Mondrosen – Documentary Films. Since then she has worked as a freelance filmmaker in the field of documentary film, image film, and documentation. Over 120 short films and two long documentaries have been produced.
Since the beginning of 2024 she has been studying “Modern Matriarchy Research” at the HAGIA Academy.
BALTIC HEALING. A documentary film followed by a film discussion
In the Latvian Pirts (traditional sauna/steam bath), an ancient European healing tradition has survived to the present day. It is based on herbal medicine and is connected to nature and the festivals of the year.
BALTIC HEALING was filmed in June 2023 during the summer solstice celebrations. The documentary portrays four healers who work in the Pirts. The Pirts ritual is compared to returning to the womb and subsequent rebirth. During the ritual, the healers use flowers, medicinal herbs, bundles of birch branches, herbal body scrubs, massages, ancient chants… and fly agarics (Amanita muscaria)… to reconnect their patients with their body and soul.
Because that is healing: returning to our true self.
Francesca Rosati Freeman – Mosuo-Film and Matricomunità
The author and film producer will be showing her film about the Mosuo at the festival and talking about her Facebook group, where more than 400 members are discussing a matriarchal future.
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Francesca Rosati Freeman, Teacher, writer, documentarist, lives in France.
Books: Benvenuti nel paese delle donne. 2010 ; Sur les rives du lac Mère. 2015;
Films: Nu Guo. In The Name of The Mother, awarded in France, 2015.
Gammu. Montagna, Dea, Madre. 2016, a short film about Moso women and Nature.
Since 2021 she has been running Matricomunità, a group of 410 members, with the aim of informing and training women interested in matriarchal values and how to apply them in daily life.
Laura Hirch – Womenbodiment
My journey sought to discover the potential for peace, which, as it turns out, is an inherent aspect of our nature.
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Laura Hirch (*1987) is a conscious filmmaker, journalist, artist and student of ancient herstory and matriarchal research. Her projects, including the independent docu-series “From the Goddess,” focus on themes of women’s wisdom/ herstory, healing, spirituality, and art, aiming to highlight the sacred roles of women in society and to challenge the patriarchal narrative. Based in Munich and Berlin, she blends her spiritual and eco-feminist perspectives into her creative endeavors.
From the Goddess – Docuseries
At our festival, Laura will present one episode of her 6-part docu series FROM THE GODDESS which explores the roles of women and goddess spirituality in both historical and modern contexts. Her project aims to highlight the sacredness of women and their contributions to society, while also addressing the impacts of patriarchy and envisioning a more balanced future.
In this series, magnificent Goddess scholars like Max Dashu, Vicki Noble, Joan Marler, Miriam Robbins Dexter, Hallie Iglehart Austen, Starr Goode, Charlene Spretnak, Starhawk, Arisiak Rasak, Cristina Biaggi, Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth, and many many more are featured.
Film Room
She will also curate a Matriarchy Film Room where you can retreat from the buzzing festival life and watch films about Matriarchy, Female Wisdom and Herstory all day long.
Uscha Madeisky and Dagmar Margotsdotter – MatriaVal
Uscha Madeisky and Dagmar Margotsdotter founded the association MatriaVal, publish the Mutterlandbriefe and produce documentaries about matriarchal peoples.
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Association MatriaVal e.V.
The association MatriaVal e.V. is concerned with matriarchal societies and matriarchal values. The Val in the association’s name comes from val=value (value).
Matriarchal societies are societies in balance, they are oriented towards nature, peaceful in all areas, women and men respect each other and old age is highly respected. Mothers are at the centre and the maternal principle of nurturing and caring is the basis for the entire social structure. Numerous matriarchal societies exist worldwide.
Motherland letters
The motherland letters come to women four times a year: in spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Reports and stories are told about matriarchies around the world and all the different activities, projects and experiences that bring matriarchal elements into our everyday lives, be it in ourselves, in the family or in public spaces.
Motherland (documentary film)
The home of the Minangkabau is in West Sumatra, Indonesia. With several million members, they form the largest matriarchal society in the world. They live according to Adat, the maternal natural law – in peaceful coexistence with Islam. House, farm and land are in the hands of women. The film tells of everyday life from the perspective of 33-year-old Yelfia Susanti, who knows how to ensure balance and a good life for everyone with her large clan.
A film by Uschi Madeisky, Dagmar Margotsdotter, Yelfia Susanti
Where the free women live (documentary film)
The Mosuo people live in the south of China, around Lake Lugu. The Mosuo are known for their harmonious coexistence. There is no jealousy, no violence and no war. They do not know opposites such as “poor” and “rich”. Striving for power is foreign to them. They are considered to be very content and happy people. The entire social coexistence is based on the living environment of women and children. Men are the caring supporters.
A film about the matriarchy of the Mosuo by Uschi Madeisky, Daniela Parr, Dagmar Margotsdotter
https://matriacon.net/
https://www.tomult.de/
Performance, music and small theater
Simon Weiland – Musical theatre
In his musical theatre, Simon Weiland projects fairy tale material into the present day.
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Simon Weiland projects in his musical theater fairy tale material into the present day. For this piece, he was inspired by Heide Göttner-Abendroth’s “History of Matriarchal Societies” and Christina Schlatters / Kurt Derungs’ “Sources, Cults, Magic Mountains.” His performances combine word acrobatics, expressive theater and guitar.
«The Magic Lamp»
A magician is determined to pull a magic lamp out of the earth. But the doer / maker / macho reaches his limits. Only a so-called good-for-nothing like Aladdin is able to retrieve the magic lamp: Aladdin has retained the childlike openness to be able to wonder and be enchanted. Aladdin does not encounter the magic of making and machines in the earth (the latter three words are related in terms of etymology), but the magic of being touched and gripped. He learns about love. The genie of the lamp has a lot to say to the modern world.
Rituals, vision quests, circle dances and much more
Yaël Deckelbaum – Voice Ceremony
With her energy and empowering message, this beautiful woman, singer, songwriter and peace activist is committed to a peaceful future.
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Yael Deckelbaum is a musician and peace activist known for her song «Prayer of the Mothers», which became the anthem of the March of Hope. She uses her music to inspire positive change and support nonviolent communication between cultures in conflict, emphasizing the need for female leadership.
Voice Ceremony
For thousands of years, the female voice has been restricted and silenced. Like our sexuality, our voice is the key that connects us to our true power. It is magnificent, it is beautiful, it is wise and holds great spiritual expression. An expression that we have not allowed ourselves to express freely for far too many generations.
For all people, the voice is a ladder – a meeting point between spirit and matter. And for most of us, access to this gateway is limited by the partitions that life has taught us to erect.
Through our breathing, through exercises and some simple tools, we will learn to dissolve these barriers of shame, judgement and guilt and free the wings of the hidden voice, to love it again, to enjoy this free expression as individuals and as part of a group, and to join our voices in harmony.
Market offers, information and book stands
Friederike de Bruin – The Oldenburg Oil Manufactory
Freshly pressed seed oils, pressing on site possible. Raw food quality, aesthetic, also special creations.
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Friederike de Bruin, daughter of a large family, lives with her daughter, sister, nephews and mother in a multi-generational house, has community experience, is an artist, doula, and caregiver for the dying. Started anew after a health crisis. Politically active, peace work.
The Oldenburg Oil Manufactory
High-quality oils and elixirs (cold-pressed oils with herbs), special, healing mixtures, e.g. women’s power elixir, Artemisia annua elixir, skin oils and culinary specialties.
Gerit Sonntag – Magas-Verlag
Books that empower women. Books about menarche, menstruation, birth, menopause, vulva art, female sexuality, female spirituality, goddesses.
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Gerit Sonntag
For five years I was a volunteer for Mother Hood e.V., which campaigns for better birth conditions. I helped set up the association Midwives for Germany e.V. In 2021 I founded the Magas publishing house, mainly to have relevant books translated into German. I run the publishing house as a one-woman publishing house as a side job. My main job is in the public sector, in the field of research funding. I have a daughter and a son and have been divorced since 8/2024. I speak German, English and French and have completed further training as a moderator and relaxation trainer, among other things.
Magas-Verlag
We are an independent small publishing house, founded in 2021, specializing in the topics of menstruation, pregnancy, birth, menopause, goddesses and female sexuality.
«Go back to the body, that is where most of the disagreements in Western culture arise.» (Carolee Schneemann)
In pre-Christian cultures, the female body was treated with respect, even worshipped as divine. After all, it is the woman who creates new life.
Katharina van den Bos – Goddess Soaps
I invite you to discover energetic goddesses and other primal female symbols as sensual, unique natural soaps …
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Katharina van den Bos
I first learned about energetic soap treatments in 1998. Then I came across an interview by Gabriele Johannsmann and Gabriele Fischer about the healing power of Palaeolithic goddess figures.
I felt for sure that women could reactivate their self-healing powers through these images of women. Later I received a gift in the form of a Venus of Willendorf as a herbal soap. Like a flash, I had the unifying idea of creating my own healing goddess soaps.
Goddess soaps
Sensual and fragrant natural soaps for conscious and healing women’s body care.
Creative work with images of women, primal female symbols and natural soap materials – that brings endless joy.
There are always new «goddesses» in my soap sculpture repertoire, because there are still many «new» ones to be discovered.
To feel the concentrated energy of the goddess body soaps in daily pleasurable, nourishing and healing use. To absorb «them» through your own skin and let it get under your skin – that is my intention.
Nicole Schnier-Söhn and Beate Müllers – Primitive feminine clothing
Handmade clothing for women made from natural materials, also in larger sizes
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Nicole Schnier-Söhn and Beate Müllers
We have been working together for over 20 years and have worked a lot with traditional costumes, which inspired us to incorporate the principle of preserving energy into our cuts. This has resulted in long-lasting, very feminine clothing.
Primitive feminine clothing that strengthens and protects, small edition of handmade unique pieces. Inspired by the meaning and effect of traditional costumes from all over the world. Cuts that allow energy to flow freely.
Natural materials that have a positive effect on our body’s frequency.
Natural, energetic, protective, dignified, offline.
Renate Fuchs – Marketplace of the goddesses
Come to the encounter and exchange …
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Renate Fuchs-Haberl,
The «Wild Poppy Woman», as a speaker for modern matriarchy research at the Int. Academy Hagia, conveys knowledge about matriarchal cultures that is important for our time. She is a landscape mythologist, ritual woman, author and deals with the spiritual-shamanic women’s traditions of the Alpine region.
Goddesses’ Marketplace
From my own experience, I know that it is not that easy to find attractive and beautiful goddess and women’s products. That is why I offer products on my goddesses’ marketplace that you can order from me, buy at my events or pick up from me in Nußdorf am Haunsberg.