PSYCHOPOMPS -The Lands and Personages of the Dead
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Online/Live, Activity and Classes
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Tickets from £5.00
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Tue, 19th Oct 2021 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
A Live, Illustrated Zoom Talk with Cultural Commentator Joanna Ebenstein
Death always was—and continues to be—a great mystery. Today, many of us approach this mystery through a scientific, rationalistic lens. The majority of our ancestors, on the other hand, experienced death as part of a rich, invisible world with its own personalities and terrains, and myths explaining the origin of mortality and what happens when the body dies. These world views were replete with their own dedicated gods and goddesses; psychopomps who oversaw the journey through a liminal space from the realm of the living to the realm of the dead; rites of passage to contain and define the journey; and detailed descriptions of the places where the souls of the dead traveled to when the stage of embodiment came to an end.
In this richly illustrated talk, writer and founder of Morbid Anatomy, Joanna Ebenstein will take us on a tour of some of the fascinating ways our ancestors understood and imagined death and its personages and terrains, with an eye towards how these ideas live on today in our religion, our psychology, and a renewed interest in the occult and the invisible realms.
Tickets £5 including a 20% donation to the Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Joanna Ebenstein
Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based writer, curator, photographer and graphic designer. She is the creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library and event series, and was cofounder and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. Her books include Death: 'A Graveside Companion', 'The Anatomical Venus' and 'The Morbid Anatomy Anthology' (with Colin Dickey). Her work explores the intersections of art and medicine, death and culture, and the objective and subjective.
PLEASE NOTE - This talk will take place virtually via Zoom. Ticket sales will end at 5:00 pm BST on the day of the lecture. A link to the conference will be sent to the email used at checkout at 3:00 pm BST on the day of the event. Please email suzette@acuriousinvitation.com in the event your link fails to arrive.
Image credit - Anubis, the Egyptian Guardian of the Dead, preparing a mummy; located in the tomb of Sennedjem, Thebes, Egypt. Public Domain courtesy of Joanna Ebenstein.
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Psychopomps
Live, Online Talk
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19:00 - 21:00 | £5.00 |
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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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