Friday 26 September 2014

This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London


Now to 2 October; Tales from the Autumn House art exhibition. Venue: The Belfry, St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9PA. Open Thursdays and Fridays from 6pm to 9pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm to 5pm. You can find out more here: www.facebook.com/talesfromtheautumnhouse. Twitter: @theautumnhouse. Artist website: http://www.haslandgraphica.com/

Now to 11 January 2015. Witches and Wicked Bodies - an exhibition about historic portrayals of witchcraft in art (this is an updated version of the exhibition that was on in Scotlands last year).  Venue: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.  This is a free event, open during normal museum hours. For further information visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org

Friday 26 September, Hidden Energy Fields Revealed. Lecture by Harry Oldfield at Rilko (Research Into Lost Knowledge). Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Doors open 6.45pm, lectures starts 7.15pm. Entrance: £8/£6. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php

Friday 26 September, A Skeptic's Guide to Ghost Hunting. Talk by Hayley Stevens at Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub. Venue: The Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NY. Time: 7.30pm. (Note, this is not the normal day of the month for this meeting) http://greenwich.skepticsinthepub.org/

Friday 26 September, Abraxas #6 Launch Party. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm start. Free event but advance booking essential. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 27 September; Way of the Leopard – An introduction to Sangoma Medicine. Workshop with John Lockley, organised by Alternatives. Venue: Colet House, The Study Society, 151 Talgarth Road, London, W14 9DA . Time: 10.30am - 5.30pm. Tickets £65/£55. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Saturday 27 September; Seriously Spooked - one-day convention about ghost investigations run by ASSAP. Venue: Conference Aston, Aston University, Birmingham city centre. Tickets £25. Details and tickets: http://www.assap.ac.uk/Spooked/

Saturday 27 September; Past Life Regression Workshop with Zena Wright. Venue: Spirit of Isis, Sun Street, Waltham Abbey, Essex. Time: 10.30am - 4pm. £15. Free parking in the Abbey Gardens car park. www.wendystokes.co.uk http://www.spiritofisis-healing.co.uk/circles-and-workshops.html

Saturday 27 September; Egyptian priests and priestesses of the last thousand years BC. Gallery Talk. Venue: Room 4, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.13pm-2pm. Free event, just drop in. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Saturday 27 September; Wicca Introduced. The Children of Artemis one-day introductory Wiccan course in London with an informal question and answer session at a local pub afterwards. Venue: Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 11am until 6.30pm. Ticket Price: CoA Members £22, non members £27. To book a place and for more details, visit: http://www.witchfest.net/wiccaintro.htm

Saturday 27 September; The 3 Lucks: the keys to live an abundant life and find your true calling. A talk by Laurent Langlais on Destiny, Chinese astrology and Feng shui. Venue: The King and Queen Pub, 1 Foley St, London W1W 6DL. Time: 2.30pm. Tickets: £13; £11 early bird. Paypal for early bird: Laurent.langlais@spacessential.com or at the door. http://www.laurentlanglais.com/

Saturday 27 September; London Dreamtime present… the sleeping ones. Venue: A secret location near Nunhead. Price: £3. Time: 5.30pm. Early reservations essential. For more details visit http://londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Sunday 28 September; Healing the Mother Wound. Workshop with Bethany Webster, organised by Alternatives. Venue: Heythrop College, University of London, 23 Kensington Square, London, W8 5HN. Time: 10.30am - 5.30pm. Tickets £65/£55. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Sunday 28 September; Holistic and Mystic Fair. Venue: The Arc, Caterham on the Hill, Surrey CR3 5XY. Time: 10am – 5pm. Tickets: Adults £3 or two for £5 if bought online in advance, accompanied children free, concessions £2. Details: http://holisticandmystic.com/

Sunday 28 September; Michaelmas Festival at Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT, Entrance is free. Time: 2.30pm – 8pm. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/

Monday September 29; Day of Silence for Michaelmas at Chalice Well World Peace Garden, in Glastonbury. Join in as you please, event runs from 11am - 4pm. Free admission, but advance booking essential. For more details and to book, visit the website http://www.chalicewell.org.uk/

Monday September 29; Her: A Storytelling Performance at Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7pm-9pm. Tickets £10, advance booking recommended. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday September 29; 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 29; The Hidden Messages in Water. Talk by Dr. Yasuyuki Nemoto – International Secretary to Dr. Masaru Emoto, organised by Alternatives. Venue: St James's Church Piccadilly, 197 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL. Time: 7pm - 8.30pm. Tickets £8/£12. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Tuesday 30 September; 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

Tuesday 30 September; The Yes Frequency - talk by Gary Quinn. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12 Advance booking advised. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Wednesday 1 October; Wheel of the Year talk with Cobwebs at Cauldrons at Romford Shopping Hall. Event for beginners. Cost is £25, deposit of £5. Time 10am-noon. http://www.cobwebsandcauldrons.co.uk/

Wednesday 1 October; Sacred Landscape Geometry: From Neolithic to Post-Roman - lecture by Robin Heath. Venue: The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, 19-22 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3SG. Time: 7pm. Tickets £8/£6. Tel: 0207 613 8547. http://www.psta.org.uk/

Wednesday 1 October; 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

Friday 3 October; Evil Hags and Mothers: Women and Witchcraft in Germany. Lecture at the BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 6.30pm-7.30pm. Tickets £5/£3 For more details and to book tickets visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/events_calendar.aspx

Friday 3 October; Therion’s Teutons - Aleister Crowley’s Berlin and Beyond. Lecture by William Thirteen. 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/

Friday 3 October to Sunday 5 October; A Shamanic Experience - The Power Of The Drum. A full weekend of shamanic mysteries at Caer Corhain Shamamic Development Centre of the Isle of Sheppey, North Kent. £250 for the entire weekend, £180 for Drum Making, £40 each for Sat/Sunday. For more details and information on how to book, visit http://www.touchtheearthuk.com/

Saturday 4 October; Sigil Magick. Afternoon Workshop with Mark Vincent. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 12.45pm for 1pm start. Finishes 5.30 pm. Tickets £30, advance booking essential. Call 0207 419 8507. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 4 October; Kensington Gardens Pagan Well Walk. A three-mile walk to sacred sites and wells with short pagan ritual. Meet at Bayswater Underground Station, 89 Queensway London W2 4QH at 11.30am. Organised by London Pagan and Heathen Circle. To book a place, visit: http://www.meetup.com/London-Pagan-Circle

Saturday 4 October; The Warrior's Call at Avebury - Earth Web 2014. Rite to protect the Earth from fracking. Main ritual at Avebury stone circle, in Wiltshire, but people are invited to do their own rituals wherever they are if they can't get to Avebury. Time: 2pm. Details of the Avebury rite: https://www.facebook.com/events/1543073425916337/ Details of what you can do on your own: http://www.warriorscall.org/archives/854

Saturday 4 October; Harvest Full Moon Rite with the London Wicca Meetup Group - a rite for all members of the group who have already attended a meet-up rite. Initial meeting at The Wheatsheaf, 2 Upper Tooting Road, Tooting Bec, SW17 7PG. Time: 7.15pm to move on to a private house later. For more details and to reserve a place, call 07581 198380 and 07848 448669. To going the meet-up group visit http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Wicca-Meetup-Group

Saturday 4 October; 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.

Saturday 4 October - Sunday 5 October; Plant Consciousness two-day event at Regent's University Conference Centre, Tuke Hall, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4NS. Tickets per workshop from £45. For more details and to book visit: http://www.plantconsciousness.com/

Sunday 5 October; Super Sense. Workshop with Andy Shipley, organised by Alternatives. Venue: Heythrop College, University of London, 23 Kensington Square, London, W8 5HN. Time: 10.30am - 5pm. Tickets £65/£55. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Sunday 5 October; Crystal Healing and Divination Workshop with Wanda Sellar. Venue: 50 Gloucester Place, London W1U 8EA. Starts at 2pm. Tickets: £15 (£10 concessions, £7 TS members). For full details: http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk/

Sunday 5 October; Ghouls' Night Out - Symposium of Sickness. An evening of comedy, film, live music and talks on the subject of splatterpunk and gore hosted by occult comedian Andrew O’Neill. Venue: The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB. Time: 7pm. Tickets £7 plus booking fee. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/518231474974938/.

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