Thursday 28 August 2014

This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London


Now to 30 August; Dread Falls Theatre presents Father Dagon, combining actors, dancers, musicians and visual artists to create a world in which roaming audiences experience H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction. Venue: The Rag Factory; 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ. Start times at 7pm and 9.15pm. Tickets £15/£10 from: http://www.skiddle.com/groups/dreadfallstheatre/events.html

Now to 31 August; The Ring Cycle - free open air theatre at The Scoop. Series of plays adapted from Richard Wagner's librettos by Lisa Kuma. Times: 6pm: The Rhine Gold; 7pm: The Valkyrie; 8.30pm: Siegfried; 9.30pm: Twilight of the God. The Scoop at More London is on the South Bank of the Thames between Tower Bridge and London Bridge. Nearest station is London Bridge. Free event, just turn up. More details: http://www.freeopenairtheatre.org/

Thursday 28 August; London Urban Legends walk with LFS host Scott Wood, author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories.Meet 7.30pm on the south-side of London Bridge by the spike. Walk ends at The Bell pub, Middlesex Street E1. Cost £3 / £2 concessions. https://www.facebook.com/events/680894938657287/

Thursday 28 August; Spiritual Awakening.Talk and book signing by Tim Van Der Vliet at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Thursday 28 August; When the Fairies met Queen Victoria. Lecture by Peter Jennings, author of the recent book Blacksmith Gods. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £10, advance booking recommended. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Friday 29 August; The journey from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England, Gallery talk at the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.15pm-2pm. Free event. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Saturday, August 30; Pagan Federation London Annual Conference. Theme is 'Magical Pathways'. Day event with talks, workshops, pagan market and opening and closing rituals. Venue: Leytonstone Business and Enterprise Specialist School. 159 Colworth Rd, London E11 1JD. Starts at 10.30am. http://london.paganfed.org/

Sunday 31 August; Walking Tour: Occult London with Delianne Forget run via Treadwell's Books. Meeting place will be a central London tube station, details given to those who book. Time: 2pm - 5pm. Price: £10. Book online via http://www.treadwells-london.com/ or call 020 7419 8507.

Monday September 1; Healing and Meditation Circle - no experience required. Venue: Spirit of Isis, Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Every Monday 11am - 1pm. No booking required, £7. Free parking in the Abbey Gardens car park. www.wendystokes.co.uk

Monday September 1; Psychic Circle run by Shamanic Spirit at a venue in Croydon, South London. The circle is held on Mondays fortnightly starting at 7.30pm. Cost £5. For more details and to book places call 07952 041477. For more information, visit http://shamanicspirit.co.uk/.

Monday, September 1; From Deadly Spiders to Alien Mummies - Challenging the Mystery Mongers. Talk by Paolo Viscardi of the Horniman Museum at Skeptics in the Pub. Venue: The Monarch Bar, 40-42 Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London NW1 8BG. Time: 7.30pm. http://london.skepticsinthepub.org/

Monday, September 1; Surrealism and the Idea of Magic. Lecture by John Macmillan. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Tickets £7, advance booking recommended. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday September 1; Chance to join Inspiral Medium's founder, Jay Gage, in a monthly circle with the Goddesses - September is about Diana, Goddess of the Hunt. Venue: Garden Cabin, Belmont Hall, Parker Road, Grays, Thurrock, Essex, RM17 6RB. Price £10. Time: 8pm-10pm. For full details and to book, visit: http://www.inspiralmediums.com/ourshop/prod_3478985-Goddess-Circle-with-Jay-Gage.html

Tuesday 2 September; Cobwebs and Cauldrons Moot. Venue: White Horse Pub, Chadwell Heath, Essex. Moot normally takes place on the first Tuesday of every month. 7.30pm start. https://www.facebook.com/cobwebs.cauldrons

Wednesday 3 September; The Witches' Inn. Pagan moot at The Feathers Hotel, 42 High St, Merstham, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3EA. Starts at 8pm. Moots are on the first Wednesday of each month. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Witches-Inn/1568424150049437

Wednesday 3 September; Introduction to Witchcraft with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. Workshop for beginners. Cost is £25, deposit of £5. Time 2pm. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Thursday 4 September; The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis.Talk and book signing by Mick Collins at Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6.30pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/

Friday 5 September; Group Social and Healing Night organised by the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Westminster Quakers Meeting House, 8 Hop Gardens, off St Martins Lane, London WC2N 4EA, London. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10, booking essential. Details: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/

Friday 5 September; Book launch with Steve Patterson: Cecil Williamson's Book of Witchcraft, A Grimoire of the Museum of Witchcraft. Venue The Atlantis Bookshop, Museum Street WC1. Time: 7.30pm. To reserve a place and for more details contact The Atlantis Bookshop on 020 7405 2120.

Saturday, 6 September; Hekate Symposium 2014. Venue: The Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury High St, Glastonbury. Time: 9am - 11pm, Cost: £45/£38. Details and tickets: http://theurgia.co.uk/

Saturday, 6 September; Boudicca's Statue To Buckingham Palace (Albion Shall Not Be Fracked) Albion Protection March and Vigil. Meet at 2pm at the Boudicca Statue on the Thames Embankment, London. https://www.facebook.com/events/597538603698328/

Saturday 6 September; Billy Cook - a Spiritual Rainbow. Workshop on how to use colour with mediumship. Organised by Inspiral Mediums. Venue: Belmont Village Hall, Grays, London RM17. Starts: 1.30pm. Price £30. https://www.facebook.com/events/554694241305967/

Saturday 6 September; Hendon Heathens Moot, Venue: Greyhound Pub, Church End, Hendon, London, NW4 4JT. Time: 6pm. Hendon Heathens meets at this pub the first Saturday of every month.

Sunday 7 September; London Dreamtime storytelling at Dulwich Picture Gallery Family Sunday - Persephone Goddess of the Summer. Venue: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Rd, Southwark, London SE21 7AD. Time: 2pm-4pm. Free. For more details visit http://londondreamtime.com/calendar/ or http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Sunday 7 September; Mini Herb Walk. The Friends of Canons Park have invited the Organiser of North West London Herbals Friends meetup to run 3 mini herb walks at their Fun Day. One at 2pm, one at 3pm and another at 4pm. Meet at Canons Park Station, Whitechurch Lane, Harrow HA8 6RN.

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