Festive Potions: Exploring Herbal Remedies of London’s Past
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- The Imaginarium
Description
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Classes, Daytime and Something A Little Different
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Tickets from £30.00
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Sat, 9th Dec 2017 @ 12:00 - 14:30
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12:00 - 14:30
Join herbalist Rasheeqa of Hedge Herbs for a journey into the old-time London apothecaries and the medicine & healers of the people, discovering the tradition of radical herbalism that we stand in today in our communities.
London is always in gentle revolution and we are blessed to live and work in colourful communities of folk who are making the city greener and wilder through cultivating community gardening projects and medicine gardens.
Radical herbalist Nicolas Culpeper (practicing in Spitalfields in the early 1600s) believed in using locally-sourced, sustainable herbs for medicine and treated many many people in need, often for free and in deprived parts of the city at a time when physicians of the Royal College of Surgeons would only give their services to the wealthy. He saw health as being in the public domain, not a commercial secret and we herbalists today share this approach. We are developing mutual care, shared community health and knowledge of using plant medicine in our homes - so bringing back a healing apothecary in every neighbourhood is the vision! Offering plant medicines we have grown and gathered in our street planters, gardens, allotments and local wild places.
The Radical Potions workshop at The Imaginarium will revisit some of those old apothecary remedies and the self-help guidance ethos of Culpeper. We will explore how people, often wise women healers in the domestic setting, were working with health in centuries past in London and share some traditional recipes. The beautiful workshop venue is set close to the old Herb Garret and Borough Market on the river, sites of plant medicine and the herbs and spices of the grocers. We will taste the plague remedy Four Thieves Vinegar and make a couple of potions for winter ailments that you will take home with you, along with inspiration and new skills to get creative with medicinal herbs through the season!
30% of proceeds from this workshop will go to support the London Herbalists Without Borders campaign: making and offering plant medicine & herbal healthcare and solidarity to people in need.
Rasheeqa is a practicing medical herbalist with a lot of experience in teaching, passionate about sharing plant medicine knowledge and bringing the joy and excitement of herbs to the world around her. She has been offering popular workshops, courses, talks and walks in London over the last 5 years as Hedge Herbs.
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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” - Lewis Carroll
Welcome to the Imaginarium a factory of Ideas, feasts and festival flavour like you've never seen before...
Set in the olde London, Victorian surroundings of The Hunter Penrose, The Imaginarium is an Independent six-week festival inspired by the boundless nature of imagination. A platform for artists, a stage for musicians and performers, a table to share food, drinks, stories (and the occasional dance) on, featuring an impressive showcase of events from the capital’s most innovative and imaginative thinkers and tinkers.
Food & drink available on the night
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Tickets/Times
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including recipes and remedies to take home
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12:00 - 14:30 | £30.00 |
Location
Address
The Imaginarium, Hunter Penrose, 32 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1TU
Nearest Station
London Bridge (Tube)
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Organiser
Hedge Herbs
Mama Marbles Productions
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4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
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6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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