a Zoom Lecture Series on The Occult, Death, Art, Sex, Whales, Crows & Everything in Between with Speakers including Marina Warner, Ronald Hutton, Philip Hoare, Mark Cocker & Many More
Jan 1st 2016 - Dec 1st 2030
Watch on demand recordings of our Zoom lectures, Workshops and Masterclasses.
Dec 1st 2020 - Nov 20th 2029
For use on our digital lectures, workshops & masterclasses.
Jan 1st 1970 - Nov 1st 2029
Join Directors of London's most curious absinthe parlour & cocktail bar for virtual lectures, tastings and workshops.
Jan 1st 2021 - Nov 25th 2027
The Society is Delighted to Announce the Opening of the Cornish Branch of our Infamous Museum within The National Maritime Museum, Falmouth, complete with Unicorn Skeleton, a Fairy, Mermaid & The World's Only Taxidermy Swoose
Mar 20th 2020 - Jan 3rd 2022
Paul Benney Night Paintings - 31st Oct 2020 to 31st January 2021
Jan 1st 2016 - Dec 31st 2025
Join Viktor Wynd on Expeditions to Papua New Guinea, In Search of Voodoo in West Africa & Beyond
Oct 2nd 2018 - Dec 1st 2022
Mouse / Mole / Rat / Rabbit / Crow / Squirrel / Snake / Puppy / Hedgehog / Crab / Fox & Goat Taxidermy Courses from £35 Anthropomorphic & Naturalistic
May 1st 2015 - Dec 31st 2021
Join Dr Stephen Asma, author of "On Monsters", as he examines the human condition by looking at what scares us most
Apr 21st 2021 - Apr 21st 2021
In this lecture, historian of religions Per Faxneld discusses how contemporary feminists use Satan as an empowering figure, but also how gender equality has been a complicated and contested issue in many Satanic groups.
Apr 22nd 2021 - Apr 22nd 2021
Professor Marzluff will examine the interaction between Ravens, Wolves & People
Apr 25th 2021 - Apr 25th 2021
Join Dr Brett Kahr to learn what Freud—having lived through WWI, the Spanish Flu, and Nazi occupation—can teach us in this new pandemic
Apr 26th 2021 - Apr 26th 2021
Learn how to make and use powerful sigils, in this two-part workshop with chaos magician Dave Lee.
Apr 21st 2021 - Apr 28th 2021
Join Deanna Petherbridge to explore European witchcraft from the ancient world to present day through a rich survey of images
May 2nd 2021 - May 2nd 2021
Sunday 2nd & Saturday 8th May, ticket includes both sessions. This is a four-hour seminar, split over two days, to explore some of the techniques of nature writing. We will pay careful attention to language, and also to the power and importance of your initial observations. It is this preliminary work that often determines whether the words you choose will be original, fresh and suggestive.
May 2nd 2021 - May 2nd 2021
Join Professor Alyce Mahon to trace how the Marquis de Sade became an icon of free expression and explore his influence on Surrealist art
May 4th 2021 - May 4th 2021
Join practicing medium Tiffany Hopkins on a monthly exploration of the history of Spiritualism, its cultural impact, and notable figures.
May 5th 2021 - May 5th 2021
This evening Mr.Wynd will choose some of his favourite tales picked up on his travels across Papua New Guinea. Strange, Wondrous Tales.
May 9th 2021 - May 9th 2021
This zoom talk is a psychonautic scientific trip to the weirdest outposts of the psychedelic terrain, inhaling anything and everything relevant from psychology, psychiatry, parapsychology, anthropology, neuroscience, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, biochemistry, religious studies, cultural history, shamanism and the occult along the way
May 11th 2021 - May 11th 2021
Join psychic medium Patti Negri for an intimate online seance where each participant will have the chance to summon a specific spirit
Mar 13th 2021 - May 15th 2021
Philip Hoare on how to depict the impossible, a monster more bizarre than any medieval Apocalypse or engravings of krakens and rhinoceroses? Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
May 16th 2021 - May 16th 2021
In this Zoom Lecture Prof. Ronald Hutton opens a door onto a world in which ritual nudity has been, since ancient times, a constant feature of Magic & Initiation
May 17th 2021 - May 17th 2021
Explore English occultist Austin Osman Spare's Tarot Deck with author Jonathan Allen on Zoom
May 19th 2021 - May 19th 2021
Often misrepresented, stereotyped and misunderstood, this talk will discuss the history of Haitian Vodou. Vodou is a religion that emerged from the cultural traditions of enslaved Africans, syncretised with forced Catholicism, on the Caribbean Island of Haiti
May 23rd 2021 - May 23rd 2021
Join writer and translator Philip Terry to learn about France's Ouvroir de littérature potentielle or Workshop of Potential Literature
May 25th 2021 - May 25th 2021
The science and social science of butterflies just gets better and better. Our love affair with these fickle sprites of the sunshine hours continually deepens. The more we learn about them, the more we discover and the more complex they become, and the more we are enthralled and entertained. This talk looks at all this, and more.
May 30th 2021 - May 30th 2021
This illustrated Lecture will look closely at the extraordinary range of Masks and traditions current in contemporary mexico
Jun 2nd 2021 - Jun 2nd 2021
This talk will explore the ways in which plants have informed artists, mystics and scientists throughout history and around the world
Jun 6th 2021 - Jun 6th 2021
Join art historian Dr David Boyd Haycock to explore the fascinating history of the Surrealist movement in Britain
Jun 8th 2021 - Jun 8th 2021
Leonora Carrington's Son - Gaby Weisz - talks about his recent memoir of his mother with Viktor Wynd - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy
Jun 13th 2021 - Jun 13th 2021
Join artist and educator John Cussans to learn about Beau Dick, an influential Canadian artist and member of the Hamatsa secret society
Jun 15th 2021 - Jun 15th 2021
Join Manon Hedenborg White for a Zoom Lecture on Babalon and her meaning in modern occultism as a goddess of ego-death, eroticism, and transgressive femininity.
Jun 17th 2021 - Jun 17th 2021
Make hay (metaphorically speaking!) with The Apothecary’s Daughteras on Zoom as she discusses the meaning and rituals behind the summer solstice, whilst bringing to light a selection of her favourite seasonal plants, and those with particular connection to the magic of midsummer.
Jun 20th 2021 - Jun 20th 2021
Professor Ronald Hutton examines Dragons in Myths & Legends
Jun 24th 2021 - Jun 24th 2021
Live on Zoom from Mexico City Teresa Arcq will discuss her LACMA exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and The United States
Jun 27th 2021 - Jun 27th 2021
Step into the fascinating world of bird watching as award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker lays out its history and practice
Jun 28th 2021 - Jun 28th 2021
Explore the Origins & Rituals of Absinthe with a Virtual Tasting & Talk with Devil's Botany
Jun 29th 2021 - Jun 29th 2021
Join Alex Langstone, author of "From Granite to Sea", to explore the breathtaking real locations of Cornish myth and legend
Jul 4th 2021 - Jul 4th 2021
This frightening lecture shows how Hitler and Himmler infected the Nazi Party with the dangerous belief that, through occult skills, the 'master race' could gain dominion over the world.
Jul 6th 2021 - Jul 6th 2021
Join Viktor Wynd in Cornwall via Zoom) for a Guided tour of his Cornish UnNatural History Museum - nestled within The National Maritime Museum Falmouth
Jul 8th 2021 - Jul 8th 2021
Susan Owens on her book - The Ghost - a Cultural History - Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid anatomy
Jul 11th 2021 - Jul 11th 2021
Walter Potter's Curious World of Taxidermy with Mexico based curator, author and co-founder of Morbid Anatomy , Joanna Ebenstein
Jul 12th 2021 - Jul 12th 2021
Gary Lachman will look at how occult thought and ideas influenced some of the most important and influential writers and poets of the past two centuries
Jul 18th 2021 - Jul 18th 2021
Join acclaimed performer Robert Lloyd Parry as he brings to life the beloved ghost stories of M.R. James
Jul 22nd 2021 - Jul 22nd 2021
Charles Waterton used his skill to fabricate imaginary creatures, forming three-dimensional religious and political cartoons that lampooned issues and people that attracted his ire.
Sep 6th 2021 - Sep 6th 2021
Join Professor Dawn Ades to explore the paradoxical role of Surrealist women artists in a movement that both elevated and silenced them
Sep 12th 2021 - Sep 12th 2021
Once the official creed of mighty Persian Empires, Zoroastrianism probably had an influence on the religious ideas of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Sep 14th 2021 - Sep 14th 2021
Carl Hoffman will talk about his book – Savage Harvest - The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Sep 19th 2021 - Sep 19th 2021
Examining the older, darker, more scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies, elves, gnomes, brownies and pixies and had to deal with them
Sep 21st 2021 - Sep 21st 2021
In this zoom lecture Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion.
Sep 26th 2021 - Sep 26th 2021
This Zoom lecture will explore witchcraft and witch-hunting in New England in the seventeenth century, in communities shaped by a profound belief in the devil and his minions
Oct 3rd 2021 - Oct 3rd 2021
Join Professor Jonathan P. Eburne to explore how crime informed the surrealist movement in Europe
Oct 4th 2021 - Oct 4th 2021
4-week online course Tuesdays, October 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th 6:30-9:30pm Taught via Zoom by Karen Bachmann In this four-week class, students will learn about the history of--and create their own piece of-- Victorian Hairwork.
Oct 5th 2021 - Oct 8th 2021
Why do we need ghosts? How many kinds of ghost are there? What are they? And where are they? Join film-writer Roger Clarke to find out
Oct 11th 2021 - Oct 11th 2021
The Artist & Occultist's biographer tells all in this Zoom lecture in collaboration with New York's Morbid Anatomy
Oct 17th 2021 - Oct 17th 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Professor Malcolm Gaskill shines a light on a decade rife with self-professed witchfinders in England and abroad
Oct 26th 2021 - Oct 26th 2021
Explore the history of Halloween—from its murky pagan past and supernatural associations—with Professor Ronald Hutton on Zoom
Nov 1st 2021 - Nov 1st 2021
Lecture on one of the most interesting, dynamic, and theoretically sophisticated women Surrealists & Occultists by Dr.Amy Hale
Nov 7th 2021 - Nov 7th 2021
Can't wait till next Halloween? Join Richard Suggett for a fascinating look at the people and places associated with witchcraft in Wales
Nov 10th 2021 - Nov 10th 2021
Owen Davies illuminates the many fascinating forms these recondite books have taken and exactly what these books held. Zoom Lecture in collaboration with Morbid Anatomy
Nov 14th 2021 - Nov 14th 2021
Gone With The Wynd Expedition #5 to Papua New Guinea's New Britain, Duke of York Isles and New Ireland To Witness Three Spectacular Tribal Ceremonies, Climb An Active Volcano, Meet Megapode Egg Hunters and Snorkel on Some of the World’s Most Pristine Coral Reefs and Swim with Dolphins
Nov 1st 2021 - Nov 14th 2021
Gone With The Wynd Expedition # 6 We will take you to one of the most remote and little visited parts of Papua New Guinea... the Sepik River. At 1,126 kilometres, the Sepik River is Papua New Guinea’s answer to the Amazon. It is the country’s longest river and is often referred to as Papua New Guinea’s ‘cultural heart’ because it is so rich and varied in its tribal cultures. A land almost lost in time, where Spirits roam.
Nov 13th 2021 - Nov 27th 2021
Prof. Ronald Hutton will reveal a complex and fascinating world rich in magical tradition, in which cunning folk and charmers flourished
Dec 1st 2021 - Dec 1st 2021
Join Directors of London's Most Curious Cocktail Bar for a Virtual Cocktail Workshop
Feb 12th 2021 - Dec 31st 2021
Birthdays, corporate events, staff gatherings, holiday dos, divorce parties... Find out more about our private hire options!
Dec 1st 2018 - Nov 16th 2022
Sigil Magic - discover the power of sigil magic with this two session zoom workshop by chaos magician Julian Vayne Two day course - Tuesday 9th & Tuesday 16th February, 7-830pm
Feb 9th 2021 - Jan 1st 2025
23rd Feb & 2nd March 7-830pm tickets include both sessions This approach to magic blends influences from punk DIY culture, Discordian crazy wisdom, contemporary science and the western esoteric tradition.
Feb 23rd 2021 - Jan 12th 2027
Join the reclusive Viktor Wynd on a journey into the bowels of the earth and his basement museum.
Aug 23rd 2017 - Jun 30th 2027
Join Viktor Wynd, for a night of Tall Tales from The Brother's Grimm, The Arabian Nights or Ireland accompanied by a Glass of The World's Most Unusual Gin (& T)
Aug 3rd 2027 - Jun 30th 2027
Have your Tarot Cards Read by Clover Peake
Sep 5th 2019 - Dec 28th 2028
Viktor Wynd's Weekend Cottage in Suffolk is sometimes available to rent on Airbnb - a short drive from the beach at Walberswick and Southwold.
Jan 13th 2020 - Jan 31st 2029
Join us at The Society on a Wednesday evening as we invite The Dark Knight of Cholesterol to share his secretly sourced selection of dairy delights for kindred lovers of cheese & wine alike.
Mar 13th 2019 - Jan 1st 2031
Join Directors, Allison Crawbuck & Rhys Everett, at The Last Tuesday Society as they reveal the origins & rituals the infamous Green Fairy.
Feb 6th 2019 - Dec 31st 2031