Friday 16 August 2013

This Week's Pagan Events In and Around London


Saturday 17 August; Learn to Make a Bronze-Age Style Sword. Venue: Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton Lane, Chalton, Hants. Cost: £175 includes materials. For more details and to book tickets call 02392 598838 or visit http://www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/

Sunday 18 August; Dawn of the Oak. Pagan moot on the third Sunday of each month. Venue: Upstairs at The Castle, 34-35 Cowcross Road, Farringdon, London EC1M 6DB (near Farringdon tube). Time: 3pm-6pm.

Monday 19 August; Croydon Crows. PF moot held every 3rd Monday of each month at the Skylark pub, South End, South Croydon from 8pm onwards.

Tuesday 20 August; Outdoor Wiccan Full Moon ritual facilitated by Mani Navasothy of Quantum Phoenix. Venue: Queen's Woods, North London (a 10 min walk from HighGate tube station). Time: Gather at 6.30pm in the front garden of Woodman's Pub for a walk to the ritual site about 7.30pm. Fees: £1 per person. http://quantumphoenix.net/2013/08/14/wicca-full-moon-astro-blue-moon-outdoor-ritual-20-august-2013/

Wednesday 21 August; The Thin Veil of London. A walk through Holborn and Bloomsbury looking for the London depicted by visionary horror writer Arthur Machen. The walks begin at 6pm at a pub in Bloomsbury, and end at 8.30pm at a pub that serves food. Tickets are £12 per person (£10 concessions). For more information, and to book tickets, visit the Minimum Labyrinth website: http://www.minimumlabyrinth.org/the-thin-veil-of-london.html You can read my review of the walk here: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/07/images-and-reflections-of-thin-veil-of.html

Wednesday 21 August; King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake. Story-telling with June Peters and Bernard Kelly Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7, advance booking recommended. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday 22 August; The Thin Veil of London. A walk through Holborn and Bloomsbury looking for the London depicted by visionary horror writer Arthur Machen. The walks begin at 6pm at a pub in Bloomsbury, and end at 8.30pm at a pub that serves food. Tickets are £12 per person (£10 concessions). For more information, and to book tickets, visit the Minimum Labyrinth website: http://www.minimumlabyrinth.org/the-thin-veil-of-london.html You can read my review of the walk here: http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/07/images-and-reflections-of-thin-veil-of.html

Friday 23 August; Crossbones Vigil 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/

Friday 23 August; Orryelle, Akoustik Timbre Frekuency and English Heretic. Ritual music and performance. Venue: Mother Live, 333 Old Street, London EC1V 9LE. Time: 8pm start. Entry: £5 on the door. More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/487457244658594/

Friday 23 - Sunday 25 August; Conference for Consciousness and Human Evolution. Venue: Millennium Gloucester Hotel and Conference Centre, Kensington, 4-18 Harrington Gardens, London, SW7 4LH. Three-day tickets cost £180 booked online. For more details and to book visit: http://www.tcche.org/index.html

Saturday 24 August; Ecstatic Dance London Masked Summer Ball London. Location given only to members of the meet-up group. Tickets £15. Time: 7.30pm to 10.30pm. To join the group and book tickets visit: http://www.meetup.com/london-ecstatic-dance/events/124437342/

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