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We are hosting an event in Brighton
on Saturday 20 August.
A veritable Summer of Love distilled into one brimful cup of
intoxication, illumination and revelation.
Speakers, dancers, performance art, and ritual combine to create a truly
magical happening in a secret, central and spectacular location from eleven
until eleven.
This is a limited numbers ticket only event.
Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold
author of Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones will be
leaving behind the jungles of Brazil to make a rare UK appearance. He
will be ritually opening the event, presenting and launching his new title
for Scarlet Imprint: Pomba Gira & the Quimbanda of Mbumba Nzila.
(Pre-order and details of this title will be sent to our subscribers in
July.)
ritual + presentation
Jake Stratton-Kent has been lured from the West Country
to talk on ‘Familiar and Unfamiliar Spirits’. Exploring
the Lares Compitales, Viales and Familiaris as the origin of the Verum
spirit and Kimbanda Exu crossover. A tour de force, combining his work
on the Grimorium Verum, the origins of magic as expressed in Geosophia
and their flowering in the cults of the New World.
presentation
Peter Grey dissects one of the most
notorious of the grimoire rituals, through Grand Grimoire, Red
and Black Dragons, paring back the layers of artifice to a raw
shamanic confrontation ‘In the skin of the Beast’.
An exegesis with far reaching implications for grimoire magicians and
their dealings with Lucifer.
presentation
Alkistis Dimech articulates the occult
anatomy of the dancer, exploring the mysteries of concealment and revelation
through the body. Physical praxis, cross-tradition research and an appetite
for the carnal, trangressive and irrational have led her to reorient the
body as the primal present and archaic source of knowing. In the ‘Mirror
of Sacrifice’ the dancer encounters self as sacrifice, the
act as divine epiphany, and the manifestation of Life in Death. Among
the themes covered may be: imitation and doubling; witnessing & the
dynamic of an audience; and a disclosure of some techniques to create
what she calls 'the lucid body'.
presentation + evening performance
Ulysses Black is not a name known to
the occult community, despite having generated, under different guises,
considerable interest through much sought after publications and artwork.
As Ulysses Black he assails the issue of identity through performance
art and ritual action. From influences such as Joseph Beuys and Hermann
Nitsch as well as the Western Magical Tradition he plots a return to mythical
Ithaca.
presentation + evening performance
Michael Azzato, a devotee of Babalon, will be peforming
an Egyptian Sha'abi Dance.
evening performance
Nous will be on decks and effects,
unfurling Ismaili Gnostic soundscapes in a storm of sonic heresy.
evening performance
Tickets:
A day and night event ticket costs £15
A day ticket costs £10
E-tickets will be sent out with the location details and directions.
This is a zero profit event run for the magical community.
Getting there:
Brighton is an hour from London by train from Victoria or London Bridge
station.
Brighton train station is five minutes walk from the venue.
Trains return to London until late.
http://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/
The Pool Valley bus station is a five minute walk from
the venue.
http://www.nationalexpress.com/coach/destinations/england/south/brighton/brighton-coach-station.aspx
Car share and accomodation offers and requests can be
found on the Facebook event page. (live at the weekend)
About Brighton:
Brighton is the pleasure city of the Regency period and beyond. An artistic
and bohemian idyll, the cremation place of Crowley, the ground zero of
TOPY, queer, proud and vibrant. It abounds with bed and breakfasts, hostels
and hotels for those who wish to stay overnight or make a weekend of it.
http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=Brighton
We look forward to seeing you there.
Click the image to download the poster as a high res pdf
photo credit: Mrs Midian
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Brighton
Saturday 20 August 2011
11am-11pm
Thanks to all who made this event
such a success. Video will be
made public soon.
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