This Week's Pagan Events In and Near London

Here are events in London plus a few in other parts of the UK over the next 10 days 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 [email protected].

Thursday 23 February; Moments. Talk and book signing by Laura Lovehearts. 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 23 February; Developing Extrasensory Abilities: Telepathic Communication with the Meditation, Sensing Energy and Intuition Development Meetup Group. Venue: St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7. Time: 6.30pm. Price: £12. Details and booking: https://www.meetup.com/Sensing-Energy-and-Intuition-Development/

Thursday 23 February; Crossbones Vigil to honour The Goose and the outcast dead of Cross Bones Graveyard. Bring a flower, a ribbon, a totem or memento to tie to the shrine. Gather from 6.45pm for a 7pm start in Redcross Way outside the Memorial Gates, London SE1 1TA. For more details, visit http://www.crossbones.org.uk/ The new website is: http://crossbones.org.uk/

Thursday 23 February; Wilhelm Reich and the Occulted Body Lecture. Lecture by Dan Lowe. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.15pm for 7.30pmstart. Ticket price £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Thursday 23 February; Killer Clowns: Moral Panic and Urban Myth – talk at London Fortean Society by Scott Wood, author of London Urban Legends. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7EX. Tickets £4/£2 plus online booking fee. Time: 7.45pm. Bookings: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/383003 Details: https://www.facebook.com/LondonForteanSociety/

Thursday 23 February; The Art House and the Crick Crack Club Present Others from the Other Side. Performance storytelling by Clare Muireann Murphy live on the Arthouse stage. 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 24 February; Perpetual Choirs. Talk by Giles Bryant. 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/£10. http://www.rilko.net/EZ/rilko/rilko/home.php

Friday 24 February; Gerrie March presents her Students. Venue: College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm. Cost: £10/£12. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Friday 24 February; Earthstars Group Meeting. Merlin, Thresholds and the Fatherless Child. A presentation by Elen Sentier, author of the book Merlin: Once and Future Wizard. Venue:  Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Rd, London NW1 6XT. Time: doors open 7pm, talk at 7.30pm. Entry £12.  https://www.facebook.com/Earthstars-Sacred-Space-104790729559515/ or www.elensentier.co.uk

Friday 24 February; London Dreamtime: Haunted Hampstead. A walk through Hampstead’s narrow alleyways, picturesque streets and dark woodlands. Venue: Meet in a secret location. Time: 7.30pm. Price: £9 tickets. For details email [email protected] or visit http://londondreamtime.com/calendar/

Sunday 26 February; Meditation at Russell Brands Trew Era Cafe, 30 Whitmore Road, London N1 5QA. Starts 10.15am. Free event. Details: https://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Sunday 26 February; South London Red Tent Meetup. Women-only event and you must be a member of the group to attend. Venue: The Horse and Groom, 60 Streatham High Road, South London. Time: 11.30am. Details and booking here: https://www.meetup.com/South-London-Red-Tent/

Sunday 26 February; Living in the Body – Not Just in the Head. Workshop. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. Time: 1pm. Cost: £35. Details: http://www.trudylewis.com/

Sunday 26 February; Children of The Wild Wood – Initiatory Study Circle: Stone Magic organised by Grove of the Green Goddess. Venue: The Goat Pub, Carshalton Road, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 4HJ, Near Mitcham Junction train Station/tram link. Time: 2pm. Donations of £3 welcome. https://www.meetup.com/Grove-of-The-Green-Goddess/

Sunday 26 February; Ageless Wisdom for Everyone – talk about Theosophy. Venue: The Theosophical Society, 50 Gloucester Place London, W1U 8EA. Time: 2pm. Details: https://www.meetup.com/Theosophical-Society-in-London/

Sunday 26 February; The Thin Veil of London. Two-hour walk around Holborn and Bloomsbury, interwoven with mysteries from the stories of Arthur Machen, with Minimum Labyrinth. Tickets:  £17.50 (£12.50 concessions). Time: 4pm-6.30pm. Details and booking:  www.minimumlabyrinth.org.

Sunday 26 February; Remote Rite: Dark Moon Banishing Rite with the London Pagan Community and the Grove of the Green Goddess. You must be a member of the meetup group to book for this event and take part. Time: 7.30pm https://www.meetup.com/Londonpagancommunity/

Sunday 26 February; New Moon Circle of Sisterhood -Journey to the Dark Goddess – Women Only with Behind the Veil Shamanism. Venue: The Hall, St Philips Church, Earls Court Road, London W8 6QH. Time: 7.30pm. Entry: £18. Details: http://www.meetup.com/Behind-The-Veil-Shamanism/

Monday 27 February; London Drawing Group at the British Museum: Witches and Feminine Magick. Venue: The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Time@ 11am-4pm. Donations £5. Paper and Pencils provided. You must book at ticket in advance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ldg-at-the-british-museum-witches-and-feminine-magick-tickets-32024770952

Monday 27 February-Friday 31 March; Exhibition – The Four Elements in the Human Body by the Visual Arts and Sculpure Students of Emerson College. Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35, Park Road, London, NW1 6XT. http://www.rsh.anth.org.uk/

Monday 27 February; Hand Magic Class: Energy of Earth with the Meditation, Sensing Energy and Intuition Development Meetup Group. Venue: St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7. Time: 6pm. Price: £10. Details and booking: https://www.meetup.com/Sensing-Energy-and-Intuition-Development/

Monday 27 February; The Art of Dying. Talk by Felicity Warner organised by Alternatives. Venue: St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL, Doors open 6.30pm. Event starts: 7pm. Tickets £8/£12 online. For more details and to book tickets http://www.alternatives.org.uk/

Monday 27 February; William Blake among the Druids, Lecture by Ruth Clydesdale. Venue: Treadwells, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS. Time: 7.30pm start. Ticket price £8. Tel: 0207 419 8507 or email: [email protected] http://www.treadwells-london.com/

Monday 27 February; Moonlight Goddess Gathering – monthly event organised by Anoushka through Funzing. Venue: Clifton Gardens, London, W9 1DT. Time: 7.15pm. Tickets: £20. Details and bookings: http://uk.funzing.com/funz/2940?

Monday 27 February; Witches Gathering (Usually meets on the last Monday of each month.) Venue: downstairs in the cellar of the Cittie of Yorke, 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BS. Starting for 7.30pm. onwards. For any questions email [email protected] or visit http://www.witchfest.net/

Monday 27 February; Monumental Memories: Indigenous memory and Stonehenge. Talk by Dr Lynne Kelly at The London Fortean Society. Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7EX. Tickets £4/£2 plus online booking fee. Time: 7.45pm. Bookings: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/386802 Details: https://www.facebook.com/LondonForteanSociety/

Tuesday 28 February; How to Break Out of Plato’s Cave with Carl H Smith. Organised by Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness. Venue: October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AL. Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start to 8.30pm. Entry £8 /£6 Concessions. https://www.facebook.com/events/214517289016323/

Tuesday 28 February; Haunted data, weird science and archives of the future. Talk by Professor Lisa Blackman. Part of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit Invited Speaker Series at Goldsmiths. Venue: Room LG01, Prof Stuart Hall Bulding, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Time: 6.10pm. Free entry, no need to book. Details: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/apru/speakers

Tuesday 28 February; Healing Energy Workshop: Connecting to your Spirit Guides with the Meditation, Sensing Energy and Intuition Development Meetup Group. Venue: St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London SW7. Time: 7pm. Price: £15. Details and booking: https://www.meetup.com/Sensing-Energy-and-Intuition-Development/

Tuesday 28 February; Gongs and Ancient Instruments Explained and Experienced with Gong Master Olaf Nixon. Venue: The College of Psychic Studies, 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB. Time: 7pm-9pm. Cost: £15/£19. Advance booking recommended. For details call: 020 7589 3292 or visit https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/

Tuesday 28 February; 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: [email protected]

Wednesday 1 March; Let’s Meditate – group meditation. Venue: Buddha on a Bicycle, Covent Garden, London. Starts 6pm. Donations of £3 recommended. Details: http://www.meetup.com/meditation-trust-london/

Thursday 2 March;  The Lazy Guru’s Guide to Life. Talk and book signing by Lawrence Shorter. 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 2 March; Expression – Part of the Divine I Am Ancestral Series (Money, Expression, Power) at the London College of Spirituality. Venue: Columbia Hotel, 95-99 Lancaster Gate, London W2 3NY. Time: 7pm. Tickets £33. http://www.londoncollegeofspirituality.co.uk/

Saturday 4 March; The Hedge Witches Celebrate Spring. A one-day workshop to make magical lotions and potions for yourself and to spring clean your home. Venue: 4 Moore St, Strood, Kent ME2 3BD. Time: 10am to 4pm (approx). Cost £50 Includes lunch (detox soup and roll), tea and coffee. Booking essential ~ email [email protected] or [email protected]
www.mayeve.co.uk

Saturday 4 March; Candle Magic Afternoon Workshop – I am running another session of my popular candle magic workshops based on my book Pagan Portals – Candle Magic. Venue: Treadwell’s Bookshop, 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury London, WC1E 7BS. Time: 1pm to 3.15pm. Cost: £20 per person. You can book online at https://www.treadwells-london.com/events/ or reserve a place by calling 020 7419 8507, emailing [email protected] or visiting the shop.

Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 March; How Do We Live with Death? Weekend of talks, part of a year-long festival called Belief and Beyond Belief about what it means to be human. Venue: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX. Weekend tickets £25. More details and booking: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/festivals-series/belief-and-beyond-belief

Saturday 4 – 18 March; The Mystical Art of Karen Cater. Exhibition to coincide with Pagan Art, Folk Art book launch. Karen will be in residence on 4, 11 and 18 March. Venue: The Atlantis Bookshop, 49A Museum St, London WC1A 1LY. The shop is near the British Museum. The exhibition is open every day except Sundays from 10.30am to 6pm, For details, email [email protected], phone 020 7405 2120 or pop in to the shop.

Sunday 5 March; Isidias Navigatum- Goddess Isis Blessing of the Fleet Ceremony 2017 with London Woodland Witches Magicians and Outdoor Pagans. Venue: Richmond Riverside. Meet at Richmond train station at 1.30pm to walk to the site. Cost £3. You must reserve a place in advance. Wear outdoor clothes and bring food and drink to share. Details and bookings:  https://www.meetup.com/London-Woodland-Witches-Outdoor-Pagans/

Note: I am not responsible for any of these events except my candle magic workshop. Although I try to make sure the details on my listing are accurate, I do not always know about late changes or ticket availability etc. Please contact the organiser before attending any event.

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