Jon Bowen & Chris Lyle, ‘Dea something or other’, Midwinter 2011. Photo: Alfie Bowen. Another image of the goddess giving fiery birth to the New Year’s sun. This kind of event is not far from the Street Theatre of Welfare State International, and even closer to events that John Fox and Sue Gill have created since. However, there’s something inherently challenging about sacred rites to unfamiliar deities in the woods at night that leads ordinary, sane people to refuse their invitations or walk out half way through.