CAMDEN’S MOST HORRID: a performance of formidable endings

“Theatre of Blood” Event

CAMDEN’S MOST HORRID: a performance of formidable endings



“You are cordially invited to a historical meeting by Dr Evan Cranks who will enthral us with the details from his latest discovery found hidden in the depths of the Camden Catacombs”.
Curious to learn more about one of London’s labyrinth of tunnels, you turn up with note book and pen, however the meeting takes a turn for the worse when the speaker recites the unusual inscription and unleashes...... well let’s just say “Don’t judge a book by its cover”
This Month discover the darker side to Camden’s past and its plethora of unsavoury characters as we continue our theatre/living history performances in a variety of ‘non theatre’ locations

This unique performance has been produced by Phantasmagoria events to highlight the libraries essential role in society as one of one of the few remaining centres of community, many of which could be under threat of closure due to the recent economic crisis.

YOUR PERFORMERS

The Band of Players are an eclectic group of actors who perform a variety of theatrical and living history performances, in order to highlight many of our ancient locations, myths and stories. Everyone is giving their time for free for this project
Many thanks to Holy Cross Community Centre Trust
© All words and content Phantasmagoria Events & London Paranormal 2010-2011

THE VENUE
Local Studies Library
Holborn Library
Theobalds Road, WC1
London, United Kingdom
Date: Friday 6th May and Saturday 7th May
Time: Friday: 7.30 – 8.30pm ( doors open 7pm)
Saturday: Matinee – 2.30pm – 3.00pm ( doors open 1.30pm)
Price: Free Admission.

http://www.londonparanormal.com/theatreofbloodmay2011.html

The Goblin King's Banquet

Heston Blumenthal eat your heart out! We present a disturbingly enchanted feast to feed your absurd edible fantasies.
Guerrilla Zoo teams up with famed and deranged food designers Blanch and Shock
For one night only the GoblinKing presents his most ill-frequented and unpopular goblin noshery for all your delectable delicacies!
Join us for a once in a life time experience amongst the bustling goblin hordes deep in the Labyrinth:
Watch in delight and terror grotesque goblin burlesque and twisted cirque performances!
Swoon to sinister live music and dance magic dance!
..and try not to get eaten!



Guerrilla Zoo presents The Goblin King's Banquet
Thursday 14th April 2011
@ Secret London Location
7pm until past the witching hour

TASTE and EXPERIENCE
The finest wonders of enchanted cuisine in an authentic bustling goblin noshery, with rare and obscure delicacies to tantalise tongues and enslave taste buds, captured and hand crafted by The Goblin King’s famed and deranged food desginers Blanch and Shock.

> Exquisit and ludicrously delicious 3-Course epic feast
> Grotesque Performances & Twisted Cirque
> Sinister Live Music & DJs for magic dances

Details to be revealed...

Tickets strictly limited to 80 seats
£60 (per person)
Buy your ticket NOW! They won't last long


For tickets and dis-information
http://www.guerrillazoo.com/the-goblin-kings-banquet
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129437200461850

Bloody Women: From Gothic to Horror

Bloody Women: From Gothic to Horror

Uncovers women's contributions to horror, from gothic drama to vampire chic. Includes seminal silents by women pioneering the genre, recent classic horror movies made by women, a programme of cutting-edge horror shorts by emerging women filmmakers, and a panel discussion on women's role in the genre.

http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/3234/bloody-women/bloody-women-from-gothic-to-horror.html

Jack the Ripper talk & Nights at the Museum

Birkbeck College: 3 March, 7.30pm
Professor Susanne Scholz of Frankfurt University will talk on Jack the Ripper, with a response from Alex Warwick (Westminster), co-editor of Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History.

Birkbeck College: 5 March, 6pm
Nights at the Museum – Candlelight, spooky spaces, and cursed objects: Panel with Luisa Cale, Fiona Candlin and Roger Luckhurst.

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/our-research/centres/night-shift/upcoming-events

The Carnival of Death:Perceptions of Death in Europe and the Americas

Conference and Exhibition dates: 24-26 Feb 2011
Venue: Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Keynote speakers: Briony Campbell, Paul Preston, Laurie Lipton

Link here for Programme & Registration form

Please note that completed registration forms and fees MUST be received by Friday, 11th February 2011

The exhibition is free and open to all
Opening times: Thursday & Friday, 9am – 6pm, Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Venue: Jessel Room, Senate House South Block
Artists include Colette Copeland, David Glyn, Erik and Rune Eriksson, Spiros Jacovides, Laurie Lipton, Matt Rowe, Sarah Sparkes

In the most general terms death is defined as the final and irreversible cessation of the vital functions in an organism, the ending of life. However, the precise definition of death and the exact time of the transition from life to death differ according to culture, religion and legal system.

The essential insecurities and doubts over the nature and state of death have affected cultural production since the beginning of civilization. Likewise our attitude towards death is characterised by anxieties and ambiguities. ‘On the one hand the horror of death drives us off, for we prefer life; on the other an element at once solemn and terrifying fascinates us and disturbs us profoundly,’ writes George Bataille. Death can be ‘a consummation devoutly to be wished’ to say it with Hamlet, or ‘a wonderful gain’ to quote Schopenhauer. But while philosophers and poets explore the dark attraction of death, in everyday life we push all thought of it aside. Death, and above all our own death, must not impinge upon the living.


From the beginning of Modernism death and the dying have been pushed from the centre of family and community to the edges of society. The hygienic, clean and sterile spaces of hospitals, hospices and morgues have replaced the intimacy of the home, while cemeteries have been moved from the centre of town to the outskirts. The progress in medical science has lead to an increase in life expectancy in the Western world resulting in an ever ageing population – it seems as though we have almost found a cure for death. Medical apparatus now allow us to keep a body alive and prolong physical existence even after the brain has died – but what then does it mean to be human and how can we die in a humane way? Recent cases of assisted suicide of terminally ill people have sparked off discussions in the UK around the right to die and the dignity of death.

Meanwhile changes in religious believes and practices are turning ancient traditions into commercial enterprises and festivities such as Halloween parties or Mexico’s Día de los muertos or Rio de Janeiro’s carnival , which are marketed as major tourist attractions. Western societies no longer have the time or the space to mourn as they used to. Rather the public mourning and posthumous apotheosis of celebrities such as Princess Di or more recently Michael Jackson appear to have taken the place of the private. Here mourning has become public spectacle, international and accessible to all via TV, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

This conference sets out to look at death in the contemporary world and how changes in society since the turn of the 19th century have affected our perceptions of death. It consists of three broad themes which interconnect with each other: Death and Desire; Death and Power; and Rituals and Customs. We invite papers from a wide variety of disciplines and approaches such as: anthropology, art history, cultural studies, film studies, fine art, history, law, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, theology, etc

2011 at Treadwells

Coming talks, launches, workshops and events at Treadwells Bookshop
Click here for further details
Most will take place in their new location 33 Store Street, Bloomsbury. see details

26 January 11 (Wednesday)
Gnostic Legacies: The Wilder Shores of Gnosis
Dr Jonathan Hill
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

03 February 11 (Thursday)
A Phallic Night: A Historical Look at 'Phallic Worship'
Phil Hine
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

04 February 11 (Friday)
Through A Glass Darkly: Performance Inspired by Victorian Seances of the Fraudulent Mediums
The London Magician
Price: £10.00 in advance
Time: 7.15 for 7.30 start

09 February 11 (Wednesday)
'O Great Inanna': A Night of the Sumerian Goddess's Tales
June Peters, Storyteller
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

16 February 11 (Wednesday)
Demons, Daimons or Angels?: Astral Intelligence in Ficino's Natural Magic
Dr Angela Voss (University of Exeter)
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start celestial 6

17 February 11 (Thursday)
The Monstrous Lesbian II: A Flower of Evil
Lindsay River
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

02 March 11 (Wednesday)
Thomas the Rhymer: The Shamanic Journey in the Ballad
Dr Michael Berman
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

03 March 11 (Thursday)
Power of the Word: Neoplatonism's Gift to Western Magic
Earl Fontainelle (University of Exeter)
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

04 March 11 (Friday)
Through A Glass Darkly: Performance Inspired by Victorian Seances of the Fraudulent Mediums
The London Magician
Price: £10.00 in advance
Time: 7.15 for 7.30 start

20 March 11 (Sunday)
Spring Equinox Ritual: Ceremony at Treadwell's
Marysia Kay and Friends
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

31 March 11 (Thursday)
The Training and work of Sangoma: South African 'Witch Doctor'
Bernie Rowen
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

01 April 11 (Friday)
Launch Party: 'Elementals' Hypno-Sis and Treadwell's
Price: Free but advance RSVP required
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

06 April 11 (Wednesday)
Interview with a Witch: Tam Campbell in conversation with Christina Oakley-Harrington
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

14 April 11 (Thursday)
Towards a Philosophy of Demonology: Far Reaches of Continental Philosophy and the Occult
Dr Patricia MacCormack
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

20 April 11 (Wednesday)
The Virago: Mk II
Elisa Gray
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start virago

21 April 11 (Thursday)
Vodou Flags: Sequined Spirits of Haiti
Gabriel Toso
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

28 April 11 (Thursday)
Crossing over Annan Water: A Scottish Ballad for Magical Journeys
Dr Michael Berman
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

29 April 11 (Friday)
Book Launch Party: Mandrake Press
Price: Free but advance RSVP required
Time: 7.00pm to 9.30 pm

12 May 11 (Thursday)
Demons of the Flesh: Philosophy of Occult Body Modification
Alex Unku
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

24 May 11 (Tuesday)
Polyamory and Paganism:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

25 May 11 (Wednesday)
BDSM and Pagan Spirituality:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

26 May 11 (Thursday)
Ethical Psychic Vampirism:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

27 May 11 (Friday)
Magic and Mysteries in the Northern Tradition:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

28 May 11 (Saturday)
BDSM as a Shamanic Path: Weekend Intensive
Raven Kaldera
Price: see website
Time: Saturday & Sunday all day

31 May 11 (Tuesday)
Queer and Pagan:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

01 June 11 (Wednesday)
Spirit Possession:
Raven Kaldera
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

09 June 11 (Thursday)
Is nothing sacred?: Radical and Transgressive Frontiers in Chaos Magic
Dr Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University)
Price: £7.00
Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start

The Witching Hour: Darkness and the Architectural Uncanny

An exhibition of photography, painting and film exploring the power of buildings to unsettle or intimidate. The artworks feature diverse sites, from a cemetery and tunnels to the streets where Jack the Ripper murdered his victims.
PM Gallery and House, Ealing W5 5EQ. Entry is free.
21 January - 12 March 2011
For opening times and more information, see the gallery website.

The Hendrick's Lecture 2011

The 2011 Hendrick's Lecture Series
Talks and Lectures announced by the The Last Tuesday Society, from gothic lantern show to cryptology.
Educational & Informative Talks start at 7pm on the dot at Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors, 11 Mare Street, E8

LECTURE CALENDAR

FEBRUARY
3rd February 2011
Cryptozoology - On the Track of Unknown Animals with Richard Freeman
4th February 2011
The Light and Shadow Parlour - The Bizarre, Surreal and Horror in the Moving Image
11th February 2011
Love Birds - The Courtship Dance of the Great Crested Grebe and What Owls Eat on Valentines Day with RSPB officer, Dan Parkinson
14th February 2011
Valentines Day - An Erotic Magic Lantern Show with Mervyn Heard
22nd February 2011
The Master Class on the Art of Being a Gentleman with Gustav Temple
24th February 2011
The Sultan of Zanzibar: the bizarre world of Horace de Vere Cole with Martyn Downer

MARCH
2nd March 2011
From Hackney to Hastings with Nicholas Johnson, Iain Sinclair and Rebecca E Marshall
4th March 2011
The Light and Shadow Parlour
9th March 2011
Panties Inferno - The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho's Billionaire King of Burlesque
11th March 2011
David Bramwell on Utopia - In Search of the World's Most Extraordinary Communities

APRIL
4th April 2011
The Light and Shadow Parlour
30th April 2011
Walpurgisnacht - An Gothic Magic Lantern Show with Mervyn Heard

MAY
12th May 2011
Selina Hastings on Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh