Here are events in London and other parts of the UK over the next week or so that could be of interest to pagans. If you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at badwitch1234@gmail.com.
Now to 27 November; Folklore, Magic and Mysteries: Modern Witchcraft and Folk Culture in Britain - exhibition of artefacts, manuscripts and documents from the Doreen Valiente Foundation (the picture at the top shows a Book of Shadows on display there). Venue: Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton BN1 6SD. Opening times: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 2-5pm until 30 September, then at weekends and some Fridays in October and November. Free entry to exhibition with Preston Manor admission (adult £5.85, child (5-15) £3.15). Details: http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/prestonmanor/Now to 27 November, Sunken Cities - Egypt’s Lost Worlds. Major exhibition at the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets £16.50. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Now - 20 November; The Asahi Shimbun Displays: Rock art power and symbolism in southern Africa. Exhibition in Room 3, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Free, just drop in. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Now - Sunday 20 November 2016; Festival of Non-Violence. Art exhibition together with a series of events and workshops. Venue: London Inter Faith Centre, 125 Salusbury Rd, London NW6 6RG. Festival of Non-Violence website: http://londoninterfaith.org.uk/study/festival-of-non-violence/ London Inter Faith Centre website: http://londoninterfaith.org.uk
Wednesday 16 November; After Death Consciousness and Processes - part of an ongoing study class. Venue: Theosophical Society in London. Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8EA. Time: 7pm. Details: http://www.meetup.com/Theosophical-Society-in-London/
Wednesday 16 November; Solar Plexus Healing Journey with Sound run by Himesh and the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Columbia Hotel (Regency Suite), 95 - 99 Lancaster Gate London W2 3NS. Time: 7pm. Tickets: £25. http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/
Wednesday 16 November; More Mead Moot promoted by Pagan FutureFests. Venue: Hope Pub, 48 West Street, Carhsalton SM5 2PR. Time: from 7.30pm. Meets on the third Wednesday of each month. https://www.facebook.com/Pagan-FutureFests-352385661439366/ http://www.meetup.com/Londonpagancommunity/
Thursday 17 November; Meetup with Barbara Briggs and talk about the Pilgrimage on the Path of Love. Venue: 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 17 November; Founders Day of the Theosophical Society - excerpts from the historical launch lecture of the society. Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8EA. Time: 7pm. Free event. Details: http://www.meetup.com/Theosophical-Society-in-London/
Thursday 17 November; The Circle of Ankerwycke moot on the third Thursday in each month. Venue: Function room at the back of the Two Rivers Pub, 43 Church Street, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 4EN. Time: 8pm.
Thursday 17 November; Drum Circle to Shamanic Journey. Venue: Caer Corhrain, 1 Southleas farm cottages, Lower Road, Minster, Sheppey ME12 3SW. Time: 8pm. This takes place on the third Thursday each month. For more information visit http://www.touchtheearthuk.com/
Friday 18 November; Meet up with Zakariya Adeel and talk about Combined Astrology. Venue: Watkins Books, 19-21 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ. Time: 6pm. Free event. For more details Tel 020 7836 2182 or visit the website http://www.watkinsbooks.com/
Friday 18 November; ‘Spirits of the Autumn Mist’ Gong Soundbath with Diana Vernon MCSH. ‘As earth and nature hibernate, let us focus on renewal and our inner peace. In our beautiful candle-lit period hall, experience a calming and rejuvenating sound bath, and let the resonance of gongs, chimes, singing bowls and sansula clear the spent energy of the year to greet the months ahead’Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensbury Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7-8.30pm. Tickets: £20 for members / £22 for non-members/ On the door £24. Pre-booking advisable. Tel: 020 7589 3292 www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk
Friday 18 November; Group Healing Night with Crystal Bowl Sound Bath with the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Windsor Suite, Columbia Hotel, 95- 99 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3NS. Time: 7pm. £10. Details and reservations: http://www.meetup.com/londonspirituality/
Friday 18 November; Can Architecture support Consciousness? Talk by Richard Coleman. Venue: 35 Rudolf Steiner House, Park Rd, London NW1 6XT. Time: 7.30pm - 9pm. Entry: £5 (£3 concessions) - no need to prebook, just turn up. Details: http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/
Friday 18 November; Filotico Arts presents Magic and Power in Alf Layla Wa Layla: The Thousand And One Nights. Picking threads of magic and power in The Thousand and One Nights. Venue: Venue 2, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. Tickets: £5/£8. Time: 7.30pm https://www.richmix.org.uk/events/spoken-word/magic-and-power-alf-layla-wa-layla-thousand-and-one-nights
Saturday 19-26 November; Autopsia Thanatopolis.Exhibition at the Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade, London, WC1N. Details: http://www.thehorsehospital.com/now/autopsia-thanatopolis/
Saturday 19 November; The Haunted Landscape: British Folklore, Ghosts and Magic. Day of talks hosted by the London Fortean Society. Venue: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. Time: 10am - 5.30pm. Tickets £20 / £16 concessions plus booking fee. http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-haunted-landscape-british-folklore-and-ghosts-tickets-27882202418
Saturday 19 -Sunday 20 November; Spiritual Psychology: the Outer Personality and the Deeper Self. Two-day Workshop with Vivianne and Chris Crowley. Venue: Treadwell's, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: Sat 10am – 5.30pm. Sun 10.15am – 4.20 pm. Tickets £120, advance booking required. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/
Saturday 19 November; The Body and Soul Fayre organised by Grey Visions. There will be more than 30 stalls, a candle magic workshop, a free group meditation, a free talk, and a mediumship platform show at 6pm. Venue: The Assembly Halls, 16-18 Gates Green Road, West Wickham, Kent BR4 9JW. From 2:30pm to 8pm. For details, email greyvisions@outlook.com or https://www.facebook.com/events/1171768749550450/
Sunday 20 November; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/
Sunday 20 November; Silence and stories - a meditative walk with Jules Allen. An opportunity to learn about and participate in walking meditation together with a chance to hear the extraordinary stories of some of those now laid to rest in Paddington Cemetery. Event ends with tea, cake and a space for sharing. Venue: London Inter Faith Centre, 125 Salusbury Rd, London NW6 6RG. Time: 2pm - 4.30pm. Entrance: free event - all welcome. Begins and ends at the London Inter Faith Centre. Part of the Festival of Non-Violence. Festival of Non-Violence website: http://londoninterfaith.org.uk/study/festival-of-non-violence/ London Inter Faith Centre website: http://londoninterfaith.org.uk
Sunday 20 November; 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 21 - Sunday 27 November; Doreen: An English Witch. A play about Doreen Valiente at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, Sussex. Tickets £5-£15. Evening performances start at 8pm. Bookings: https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/53293/chk/ef4d/
Monday 21 November; Embracing Jekyll and Hyde. Talk by Malcolm Stern. Organised by Alternatives. Venue: St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL, Doors open 6.30pm. Talk starts: 7pm. Book signings at the end. Tickets £12/£8 online. For more details and to book tickets: http://www.alternatives.org.uk/
Monday 21 November; The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare, lecture with Jonathan Allen. Venue: The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art and Natural History, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. Time: 7pm. Tickets £11/£5.95. http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/
Monday 21 November; Pagan Pathfinders - Exploring the Elements. Venue in Finchley, London N3. Time: 7.30pm. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1204013102978904/
Tuesday 22 November; Film Screening and Discussion: Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino and The Andean Holy Mountain Tradition with Jeffrey Wium. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-9pm. Cost: £14/£18. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Tuesday 22 November; Behind The Veil - Shamanism. Journey Group - everyone welcome - Inviting Joy in our Lives. Venue: Private venue in London, address on booking. Time: 7pm for 7.15pm start. Suggested donation: £10-£25. Details: http://www.meetup.com/Behind-The-Veil-Shamanism/
Thursday 24 November,Curator's introduction to the BP exhibition Sunken cities: Egypt's lost worlds. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.30pm. Free, but booking advised. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/
Thursday 24 November; The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, Illustrated talk by Sylvia Francke hosted by Earthstars Sacred Space. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT. Time: doors open 7pm, talk at 7.30pm. https://www.facebook.com/Earthstars-Sacred-Space-104790729559515/
Thursday 24 November, Religion and Ritual by the River: Archaeology in the Inter-Tidal
Interested. Talk by Nathalie Cohen hosted by London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets: £4 / £2 concessions https://www.wegottickets.com/event/378558
Thursday 24 November; The Art House and the Crick Crack Club Present Cinema of the Imagination! Little Red Riding Hood, and other Lost Girls. Performance Storytelling by Nell Phoenix. Venue: ArtHouse Crouch End, 159A Tottenham Lane, N8 9BT. Time: 8.30pm. Audience: 14 (Or Thereabouts) + Tickets £8/10. http://www.arthousecrouchend.co.uk/crickcrackclub/
Friday 25 November; Meet up with Lars Muhl and talk about The Seer. Venue: 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 25 November; The Astrology of the ‘Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’. Lecture by Demian Allan. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-8.30pm. Cost: £10/£12. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/
Friday 25 November; The John Michell Memorial Lecture: John Wood and the Cosmological Vision of Albion. Talk by Simon Wilson. Venue: Rilko (Research Into Lost Knowledge). Public lecture. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 6.45pm, lecture starts 7.15pm. Entrance: £8/£6. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php
Friday 25 November; Eily: Austin Spare's Muse - Jerusalem Press book launch. Venue: Treadwell's, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm start. Free, but advance booking required. For further details: info@treadwells-london.com http://www.treadwells-london.com/
Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 November; Spellcrafting With Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki. Venue: Islington Ecology Centre, Gillespie Park, London. Time. Starts 9.30am Saturday, ends 5pm Sunday. Cost is £145, Deposit is £75. To reserve a place contact Maria-Teresa either at mariateresaharmer@yahoo.co.uk. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1255811307797519/
Sunday 27 November; September Kith of the Tree and Well Moot. A talk and discussion on Yuletide and a seasonal Blot ceremony. Venue: The Horseshoe Inn, 26 Melior Street, London SE1. Time: 2pm. Details: https://www.facebook.com/groups/860184530737157/
Sunday 27 November; Psychedelic Supper: The Magic of Mushrooms, hosted by The Psychedelic Society of London. Venue: Hosted by The Psychedelic Society of London. Starts: 6pm. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1802699160001049/
Note: None of these events are organised by myself, so please check with the organisers about tickets and timings before turning up to anything listed on my blog. I try to keep my events listing accurate, but do not always know of late changes, cancellations or whether events are sold out.
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