This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London

Here are some of the events in and near London that could be of interest to pagans over the next week or so. If you know of an event that you want listed, please email the details to me at [email protected].

Now – 16 December; Curses! by Bompas and Parr. Exhibition and immersive installation at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology UCL, Malet Place, London, WC1 6BT. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/events/curses-bompas-parr

Now to 31 December; The London Stone on Display. Venue: Museum of London, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN. Free exhibition during museum opening hours. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london

Now – Wednesday 28 February 2018; Harry Potter: A History of Magic. Venue: PACCAR Gallery, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB. Timed slots every day. Tickets £16 adult, £8 child. Enquiries: 01937 546546. https://www.bl.uk/
Now – 8 April 2018; Exhibition: Living with Gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond. Venue: British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: £15 standard, members free but booking essential. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Now – Wednesday 28 February 2018; The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic: An exhibition dedicated to Cornwall’s most magical Museum, featuring photographs from Of Shadows: One Hundred Objects from The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic by Sara Hannant and Simon Costin. Last Tuesday Society. Venue: Viktor Wynd’s Museum of Curiosities, 11 Mare Street, London E8 4RP. http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/

Monday 27 November; The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). Talk by Dr Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh. Organised by Alternatives. Venue: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL, Starts: 7pm. Tickets £10/£15 online. http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Wednesday 29 November; Time to Meditate – group meditation. Venue: Buddha on a Bicycle, Covent Garden, London. Arrive 6pm for 6.10pm start. Donations of £3 recommended. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Wednesday 29 November; Lean into Love – Awakening your Heart Chakra. Fourth session in the Chakra Series with Rachael of Welford Wellbeing. Venue: She’s Lost Control, 42 Valentine Road, London E9 7AD. Time: 7pm. Tickets from £18 per session. www.sheslostcontrol.co.uk

Wednesday 29 November; Hertford Pagan Moot. Venue: White Horse Pub, 33 Castle Street, Hertford, Herts SG14 1HH (45 mins from central London). The pub does not have disabled access. This moot meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 8pm. https://www.facebook.com/groups/104788436218047/

Thursday 30 November; Curator’s introduction to Living with Gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.30pm. Free, but advance booking required. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Thursday 30 November; Earthstars Group Meeting: King Arthur’s Camlan. Presentation by Laurence Main. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 4SH. Time: Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Entry £12. https://www.facebook.com/Earthstars-Sacred-Space-104790729559515/

Thursday 30 November; The Key to Theosophy study class. Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8EA. Time: 7pm. Free entry but donations welcome. https://www.meetup.com/Theosophical-Society-in-London/  and http://www.theosophicalsociety.org.uk/

Thursday 30 November; Kenneth Grant’s First Typhonian Trilogy. Lecture by Michael Staley . Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday 30 November; Helen Duncan: Medium on Trial. Talk by Geraldine Beskin (pictured left) at The London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Time: 7.45pm. Tickets: £2/£4. http://forteanlondon.blogspot.co.uk/

Friday 1 December; Crystal Goddess event – learn about the uses of crystals. Venue: Wicca Moon, 50 Well Hall Rd, London, SE9 6SH. Free event. Time: noon. For details  email [email protected] or call 020 8850 7803. You can also visit the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WiccaMoonEltham/

Friday 1 December; Crowleymass – celebrating the anniversary of the death of Aleister Crowley. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49A Museum St, London WC1A 1LY. Time: 7pm. Cost tba, advance booking essential. Tel: 020 7405 2120 or email [email protected]. Website: http://www.theatlantisbookshop.com/

Friday 1 December; The History of Witchcraft: part one in the British Museum with the London Wicca Meetup Group. Venue: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG, Time: 7pm. You must reserve a place in advance. Details: https://www.meetup.com/The-London-Wicca-Meetup-Group/

Friday 1 December; How to Hack Your Own Life – using eurythmy as rescue remedy. Workshop with Hanne Kristiansen Risvik. Hosted by Earthstars Sacred Space. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 4SH. Time: Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Entry £12. https://www.facebook.com/Earthstars-Sacred-Space-104790729559515/

Saturday 2 December; Digital workshop: Teens code the collection: lucky charms. For ages 13-15, but must be accompanied by an adult. Venue: Samsung Centre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 11am-4pm. Free, just drop in. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Saturday 2 December; Talk and Northern Rite for Winter Lecture with Heathen Blot, with Andre and Amanda Henriques. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 5pm. Tickets £10. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Sunday 3 December; Yule Solstice. Magical workshop with Edwin Courtenay. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 10am-5pm. Cost: £75/£95. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Sunday 3 December; Fungus Foray, with The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. Venue: Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, The Soanes Centre, Southern Grove, London E3 4PX. Time: 1pm. Tickets: £10/£12. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fungus-foray-tickets-38843394639

Sunday 3 December; Care of Magical Creatures with Patrick Aryee. Hogwarts Curriculum Lecture – part of a series running alongside the Harry Potter Exhibition. Venue: British Library Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. Time: 2pm-3.15pm. Tickets: £15/£10. Visit https://www.bl.uk/events/hogwarts-curriculum-lectures? or call 01937 546546

Sunday 3 December; Faiths in Tune – interfaith music performances: light and fire. Venue: Great Court, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tickets: free. Time: 2pm. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Sunday 3 December; Full Moon Magic Ceremony. Venue: Hazelwood Crescent, London, W10 5FT (Exact address will be provided after booking). Time: 4pm start. Tickets: £10 http://uk.funzing.com/funz/full-moon-magic-ceremony-11769?

Sunday 3 December; She sings to the Moon: Distance Meditation for the Full Moon, with Women Who Dance With Their Souls. Venue: your own home. Time: 8pm. https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Dance-With-Their-Souls/

Monday 4 December; Tarot practise evening with the Tarot and Healing Group. Venue: First floor, The Knights Templer, Carey Street, London, WC2A 1DT. Time: 7pm. Entry: £5, but you must be a member of the meetup group and reserve a place in advance. https://www.meetup.com/Tarot-and-Healing-Group/

Monday 4 December; Venus Rising SoulSisters Online Woman’s Temple. Online event. Time: 4pm-6pm. Donations of £11+ welcome. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1667039529994833/
Monday 4 December; Fairies – Human Relations in British Lore. Lecture by John Kruse. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm. Tickets £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Tuesday 5 December; Women, Witches and Witch Trials. Anita Anand chairs a panel of expert historians including Margo Burns, the x10 great-granddaughter of one of key protagonists of the Salem Witch Trials, Malcolm Gaskill, and Ulinka Rublack. Venue: Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. NW1 2DB. This is also being live-screened to various libraries in city centres in other parts of the UK. Full Price: £15, members/unemployed: £10. Enquiries: 01937 546546. [email protected] https://www.bl.uk/events/women-witches-and-witch-trials

Tuesday 5 December; Romford Moot Yule event organised my Mamma Moon Magic. Yule social at The Golden Lion, Romford. Time: 7.30pm. Bring a wrapped gift and food to share. https://www.facebook.com/mammamoonmagick/

Tuesday 5 December; Witches’ Inn Gathering. Venue: Red Lion, 48 Linkfield Lane, Redhill, RH1 1DP. Starts at 8pm. Moots are the first Tuesday of each month. For more details visit: https://www.facebook.com/The-Witches-Inn-1568424150049437/

Wednesday 6 December; Traditional Tibetan spiritual chanting from the Dalai Lama’s Gyuto monks. 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/

Wednesday 6 December; Time to Meditate – group meditation. Venue: Buddha on a Bicycle, Covent Garden, London. Arrive 6pm for 6.10pm start. Donations of £3 recommended. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Wednesday 6 December; Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub – Is Memory Just an Illusion?  Talk by Dr Julia Shaw . Venue: The Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NY. Time: 7.30pm. Details: http://greenwich.skepticsinthepub.org/

Thursday 7 December; Curator’s introduction to Living with Gods: peoples, places and worlds beyond. Venue: BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.30pm. Free, but advance booking required. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Friday 8 December; Gallery talk: Lost or found? Anglo-Saxon beliefs before Christianity. Venue: Room 41, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time: 1.15pm. Free event. For more details visit: https://www.britishmuseum.org/

Friday 8 December; Open Evening at The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 5pm-9pm. Cost: £25. Advance booking essential. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 8 December; Oasis of Sound – Sound Bath and Mantra with Anne Malone. Organised by the Oasis of Sound Meetup Group. Venue: The Life Centre Islington, Brittania Row, North London. Tickets £15. Time: 7.30pm. Details: https://www.meetup.com/Oasis-of-Sound-Sound-Bath-n-Sound-Scape/

Saturday 9 December; Radical Potions: exploring herbal folk medicine of London’s past, hosted by Gone Wild Herbs and others. Venue: The Imaginarium of St Nick London, 32 Southwark Street, London SE1 1TU. Time: noon. Tickets £30/£25.  www.designmynight.com  and https://www.facebook.com/events/326274791179635/

Saturday 9 December; Mars, Planet of Passion. Afternoon Seminar with Chris and Vivianne Crowley. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm. Tickets £20. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Saturday 9 December; Psychic Saturday hosted by The Witches’ Inn and Crossed Palms. Venue: The Essential Training Organization, The Pilot Building Quarryside Business Park Thornton Side Unit 1, Redhill, RH12LJ. Time: noon. https://www.facebook.com/events/339063503188595/

Sunday 10 December; Tarot Cards for the Absolute Beginner. Day workshop with Sue Merlyn. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 11am-5.30pm. Tickets £75. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Note: I try to ensure my listings are accurate, but am not responsible for any of these events. Please contact the organiser for full details before turning up to anything. If you notice something that needs changing or correcting on my listing, please email [email protected].

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