SELFS: South East London Folklore Society

Possibly south-east London’s largest moot is SELFS, the South East London Folklore Society.

Website: www.selfs.org.uk.   The contact e-mail is: scott@selfs.org.uk.

SELFS meets every second Monday of the month upstairs at The Spanish Galleon, 48 Greenwich Church Street, SE10 9BL. Talks start at 8.00pm and costs £2.50 / £1.50 concessions. The room has recently become non-smoking, to the relief of many and the consternation of, well, one so far!

Greenwich Mainline & DLR: Turn left from the main exit, walk about 5-10 minutes, the Galleon is on your right, at the cross-roads.

Cutty Sark DLR: Turn left from the station, right when you get to the road, the Spanish Galleon is across the road.
Buses: 177, 180, 188, 199, 286, 386.

Upcoming talks are:

12th June: John Repsch – The Music, Magic and Madness of Joe Meek
Joe Meek is the cult British composer who dabbled in the occult and wrote innovative, chart-topping songs about séances, satellites and aliens. Writer and environmentalist John Repsch wrote the biography of Joe Meek in 1989. Bizarre and fascinating though Meek's life story was, Repsch had to publish it himself. The book has since spawned a BBC 2 'Arena' documentary, an avalanche of CDs and is scheduled to be made into a film this year starring Rhys Ifans.

10th July: Geraldine Beskin – Austin Osman Spare
The proprietress of Atlantis Bookshop casts he research skills on to the life of south-east London’s own artist, magician and god-less father of Chaos Magic, Austin Osman Spare.

14th August: John Rimmer - Charles Fort and Forteana
John, editor of the much respected Magonia magazine, discusses the life and work of one of the paranormal’s most influential and original thinkers, Charles Fort. Fort is most famous now, of course, for giving the journal of strange phenomena the Fortean Times its name.
The talk will be followed by a panel discussion on Fort, his writings and his legacy which all are invited to take part in. As well as John, Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor and Rachel Carthy will be on the panel.

11th September: John Callow - Isobel Gowdie, the Queen of the Witches