This year’s Gävlebocken will be inaugurated in an upcoming live event you can watch “Livesändning av Gävlebockens invigning 3 december 2023” (Live broadcast of Gävlebock’s inauguration on December 3, 2023).
In this house we (the Library Cats and I) traditionally follow along every year with the uncertain fate of the seasonal huge straw goat statue in Gävle. Perhaps you’ll join the in suspense-fun!
Milwaukee Krampusnacht 2023, December 3, 2023 in Milwaukee, WI.
“Milwaukee Krampusnacht 2023: Sunday Dec. 3!
The Original Milwaukee Krampus Celebration!”
“Milwaukee Krampusnacht returns to the Brewery District on Sunday, December 3, 3-10pm.”
Also, in addition to lots of other enterainments, on the OnMilwaukee Great Hall Stage, at 5:30pm, will be Al Ridenour, author of The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
“We are thrilled to work with Feral House to bring Al Ridenour to Krampusnacht! Al wrote the beautifully done book The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil, a definitive book on Krampus and other, similar traditions. You do not want to miss this opportunity. Tickets are $20 plus fees and very limited …”
Also, watch Milwaukee Krampusnacht Parade 2022
Celebrate Crowleymas at The Atlantis Bookshop, on Aleister Crowley’s Greater Feast (not Lesser Feast in October), December 1, 2023, London, UK; an in-person event, but you can also grab a Crowleymas gift and charity donation, for yourself or another, from elsewhere.
“The Atlantis Bookshop
Friday 1st December from 7pm
Cost £10
Continuing our tradition of commemorating the passing of our most notorious customer, Aleister Crowley, we are once again opening up the Shop for an evening of fun, entertainment and festivities.
This is now the seventy-sixth anniversary of his death, or Celebration of his Greater Feast as he would have called it. If you would like to attend, please click the button below to cover admission (which includes drinks, nibbles and your Crowleymass gift).”
“Like last year, we are once again offering our Crowleymass gift to you for sale if you are unable to join us on this occasion. We can pop it into the post for you to arrive in plenty of time before Yule. If you would still like to receive your annual Crowleymass gift, but cannot make it to our evening event, please click on the button below and we’ll do the rest. A portion of the money raised will go to charity. We will send your gift to the address provided by PayPal – if you would like it sent elsewhere, please email us.”
Book launch for Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) and Austin Osman Spare – The Valley of Fear – Private View, both on the same date, at the same time, and same place. Hosted by The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum in London, UK on November 22, 2023.
The book launch is about a newly revised and expanded Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Phil Baker, foreword by Alan Moore; featuring 8 more colour pages and a new 2023 afterword.
“BOOK LAUNCH Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) – PHIL BAKER
Book launch and signing for Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded) The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist By Phil Baker
“Join us in The Viktor Wynd Museum’s ‘Austin Osman Spare Room’ – home to a collection of original drawings and paintings by Spare – for the launch and signing of
Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded)
The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
By Phil Baker”
“Austin Osman Spare – The Valley of Fear – Private View
Exhibition of Drawings from the Legendary 1924 sketchbook – ‘The Valley of Fear’ & launch party / signing for Phil Baker’s Biography”
“You are Invited to a Private View of Drawings from Austin Osman Spare’s legendary 1924 sketchbook – ‘The Valley of Fear’
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural Museum’s ‘Spare Room’ is the only permanent gallery dedicated to work by the great 20th century artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) – one of the greatest stars of the Edwardian Artworld – hailed as a godfather to both Surrealism and Pop Art- and perhaps the most significant figure in the British Occult during the 20th century.
The event will also serve as the launch party for the new edition of Phil Baker’s Austin Osman Spare biography – copies available to pre-order – for collection on the night only
In 2023 the museum acquired 5 (or possibly 6 – watch this space) drawings that will now go on view amongst other works by the artist in the museum”
Happy astronomical Samhain, when ☉ is at 15° ♏︎ (Sun at 15° Scorpio), which occurs at 16:36 UTC on November 7 in 2023.
Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art with Amy Hale, presented by Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society, November 9, 2023, online.
“Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art – Dr Amy Hale
This lecture will explore the ways that esoteric understandings of color as an entity and force developed through Neoplatonic thought”
“‘Colors are Forces, the Signatures of the Forces’: Esoteric Theories of Color and Modern Art
This lecture will explore the ways that esoteric understandings of color as an entity and force developed through Neoplatonic thought, Renaissance magic, the earliest sciences of optics and into modern esoteric and occult theory and practice. I will look at the role of color in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Theosophy and the work of Rudolph Steiner, perhaps providing greater insight into artists such as Hilma af Klint, Ithell Colquhoun, Ethel Le Rossignol and others who clearly saw color in a way that went far beyond symbol.”
Satan’s Places: In search of Baphomet and the Black Mass with Andy Sharp, presented by Viktor Wynd & The Last Tuesday Society, November 5, 2023, online.
“Satan’s Places: In search of Baphomet and the Black Mass – Andy Sharp
This richly illustrated talk traces an itinerary from the ruins of Mendes in Egypt via the tophets of Tunisia to the hills of Dublin”
“We take a chronological trip from antiquity to the kaleidoscopic 1960s following the hoof steps of the Devil, his sacrifices and sacrileges, some apocryphal, others horrifically real. This richly illustrated talk traces an itinerary from the ruins of Mendes in Egypt via the tophets of Tunisia to the hills of Dublin, before heading to Belgium and Paris to luxuriate in the sumptuous robes of 19th-century European decadence, in search of the bona fide Black Mass. We explore the obsessions of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ brilliant depiction of Satanism in his infamous novel Là-bas, and the opulent churches and strange events in Bruges that fired his imagination, before reprising the fictional Mass at the denouement of his book.”
It’s the September Equinox, Autumnal in the Northern Hemisphere, as Sun entered Libra (☉ in 0° ♎︎), on September 23, 2023 at 06:50 UTC!
When The Moon Spun Round, a performance, inspired by the poetry and stories of W B Yeats, by Fidget Feet and Ceol Connected at Dublin Fringe Festival, September 23, 2023.
“Performance for Young Audiences · Theatre · Music · Circus · Dance · Young Radicals”
“Performances
23 September
13:00 & 16:00, €7/€5
Venue
Draíocht Blanchardstown – Main Auditorium
Duration
50mins”
“Do you know what happened when the moon spun round? When darkness tumbled upon us, the cats came out to play and the mischievous lady of the river explored what lies behind the moon.
A wonderfully dark and dreamy performance for young audiences, with a beautiful display of aerial dance performed by Fidget Feet’s aerial performers entwined with Ceol Connected and Jym Daly’s melodic and enchanting airs.
Inspired by the poetry and stories of WB Yeats, this coming together of artists and performers from the worlds of aerial dance and traditional arts has resulted in a unique experience that is sure to leave audiences of all ages enthralled.
‘It was the cats who noticed it first; the moon had spun round. And with a great and mischievous smile, the moon asked for a new dance for all.'”
Also
“When the Moon Spun Round: Fidget Feet turn Yeats’s poems for children into a stage show. Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected.”
