Cross Bones Vigil Ceremony by John Crow

Kith and kindred,

The next Cross Bones vigil and ceremony will be on Monday 23rd June at 7pm. Please be at the Memorial Gates in Redcross Way by 7pm to ensure you fully participate.

Please bring a thing of beauty to offer to the memory of our beloved Goose and her outcast dead... a totem or token to tie to the Memorial Gates or help create a new shrine on the graveyard...

a song, poem, musical instrument... a little food or drink to share, maybe a rug to sit on... and your own divine humanity...

Goose willing and weather permitting, we'll be going onsite for an informal picnic and mini-festival. If you've never been initiated into the secret history and transforming vision of The Goose and her Cross Bones Portal, this is your chance. If you've been involved in the greening of the site, come see the fruits of your labours.

To catch up on the magic unfolding here, check out our new Cross Bones Graveyard website, with its many buried treasures:

http://www.crossbones.org.uk

The website includes a Gallery, and sections on the History, Memorial Gates, Goose Garden, The Halloween of Cross Bones, The Southwark Mysteries and other Goose and Crow inspired work, including Books about Cross Bones, with a link to buy my books online at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=john+constable%2C+oberon

(If you prefer to shop local and for real, you can get these books at the National Theatre bookshop or Crockett & Powell bookshop in Lower Marsh. :-)

I've also done an audio-walk around Bankside: Shakesepare's Secret London, available from Redrok:

http://www.redrok-media.com/tutorialDetails.asp?ID=4&ID1=38

The Cross Bones website gives details of my forthcoming 4 free walks on July 12th and 13th - see under Events:

http://crossbones.org.uk/#/events/4527977528

I'm also doing 3 walks entitled New Troy - a walk in the City of Legend for the City of London Festival. These walks cost £10 per person. Details and online booking at: www.colf.org

Hope to see you for the vigil at Cross Bones, or on one of the walks, if not before.

Geese and Love

xxx John

Emma Restall Orr's Talks & Book launch at Atlantis

Living With Honour : A Pagan Ethics
Evening Talk at Atlantis Bookshop
Friday 15 August 2008
7 for 7.30 pm
Given the anarchistic nature of most modern Pagan paths, to present a Pagan ethics could be seen brash but this is what Emma has done in her latest book, Living With Honour. At Atlantis, she will talk about the basis of her ideas, reasoning her vision from her own animistic Druidic perspective, exploring the nature of honour, of duty and ecstasy, and where an ethical framework can and should sit within modern Paganism. She'll take questions from the floor from those who've read the book and those who haven't.

Cost : £5 (incl glass of wine)

Kissing The Hag : The Dark Goddess and the Unacceptable Nature of Woman
Workshop and Book Launch at Atlantis Bookshop
Saturday 22 November 2008

Emma Restall Orr's book, Kissing the Hag, is about the many faces of the dark goddess of nature and how she has a tendency to make us impossible and miserable. It is an uncompromising book, thick with women's stories, taking the reader from the wild freedom of childhood, and on through the complications of our female nature: the dismissive and frigid, the promiscuous, the needy and demanding, the destructive, the manipulative, to the boring old bag. It is a thought-provoking book, a challenging book, and perhaps most of all a book of devotion. The workshop will be an opportunity to explore these aspects of nature - it is for wild women devoted to the dark goddess and those who fear her, and for the men who have to deal with women who are bloody wonderful and bloody difficult.

FFI please contact the bookshop.

The Atlantis Bookshop
49a Museum Street, London WC1A 1LY
020 7405 2120
atlantis@theatlantisbookshop.com
www.theatlantisbookshop.com