Monday, 23 April 2012

This Week's Pagan Events in London and Elsewhere

Monday, 23 April; Waking the Dead in the Middle Ages: The Tales the Graves Tell. Lecture by Dr James Holloway at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7. Reserve a place by emailing info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday, 23 April; Return to Love. Talk by Marianne Williamson, Author of the book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles.Organised through Alternatives, The Conference Room, St James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL, London. Time: 6pm. Tickets: £15/10 concs. Advance booking through Alternatives on http://www.alternatives.org.uk/Site/EventDescription.aspx?EventID=982

Monday, 23 April; The Book of Mirrors - Journey Into Wicca. Talk by Luthaneal Adams, author of the book of the same name, at pagan forum Secret Chiefs. Venue: Devereux public house, 20 Devereux Court, off Essex Street, London WC2R 3JJ. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8.30pm. Admission £2. http://secretchiefslondon.wordpress.com/

Monday 23 April; St George's Day to honour The Goose and the outcast dead of Cross Bones Graveyard. Gather from 6.45pm in Redcross Way outside the Memorial Gates, SE1, opposite the Boot and Flogger, just north of the junction with Union Street. Nearest tubes Borough or London Bridge, 5 minutes walk away. The event is free. http://www.crossbones.org.uk/

Tuesday 24 April; Karma and Reincarnation. Talk by Mark Bennett, co-author of Gods , Guides and Guardian Angels,at the Aetherius Society Meetup. Venue: Inner Potential Centre, 36 Kelvedon Road, Fulham, London SW6 5BW. From 7pm - 8.30pm. £5 entrance fee. Light refreshments included. For more details, visit http://www.meetup.com/The-Aetherius-Society-London/

Tuesday 24 April; Chertsey Moot. A social moot held on the last Tuesday of the month at the Golden Grove pub, Ruxbury Road, St Annes Hill, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 9EN. All welcome. From 8pm to 11pm. For more details, email: sian_ap_pysgotwr@yahoo.co.uk

Wednesday 25 April; Atlantis Bookshops Presents The Moot with No Name. Talk at Milfords, 1 Milford Lane, Covent Garden, London WC2R 3LL. Milford Lane is the street parallel to Essex Street. Meet from 7.30pm, event starts at 8pm. Admission £5. Visit http://www.theatlantisbookshopevents.com//

Thursday, 26 April; Fr. Achad's Rite of Isis. A rare chance to see a Thelemic rite performed. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £15. Reserve a place by emailing info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday, 26 April; Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? Talk and discussion with panelists at London Fortean Society, upstairs at the Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. 7.30pm for 8pm start. £3/£2 concessions. For more details, visit http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/was-shakespeare-shakespeare.html

Friday, 27 April; Research into Lost Knowledge Organisation (Rilko) Members AGM from 6.45pm to 7.15pm to be followed at 7.30pm by The Robert Cowley Memorial Public Lecture: Metaphysics and The Media: A Consideration of the Spiritual In Contemporary Culture. Lecture by Michael King. Venue: Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, W1U 8EA. Admission £7 non-members, £5 members. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php

Friday, 27 April 2012 - Sat 27 Apr 2013; Signs, Symbols, Secrets: An Illustrated Guide to Alchemy. Free exhibition of images and writings about the quest for the philosophers’ stone. Venue: Science Musuem, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD. For more details visit: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/signs_symbols_secrets_alchemy.aspx

Saturday 28 April; Sigil Magick: A Half-day Intensive Workshop with Mark Smith. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm to 5.30pm. Tickets £25. Reserve a place by emailing info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Sunday 29 April; Mysteries of Beltane: Intensive Day Course on Symbol, Folklore, Magic with Suzanne Corbieh. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 11am to 5.30pm. Tickets £35 (£20 deposit in advance). Reserve a place by emailing info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Sunday, 29 April; Anderida Gorsedd Beltane open ritual at the Long Man of Wilmington, Sussex. Meet near the car park between 1.30pm and 2pm for a walk up to the chalk hill figure at 2pm. Afterwards back to the Giants Rest pub in Wilmington for a social drink together.

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