THE ORPHIC MYSTERIES - A Dream Incubation Workshop
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1 review - Dissenters Chapel
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £20.00
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n/a
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Sat, 23rd Oct 2021 @ 19:00 - 20:30
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19:00 - 20:30
Sarah Janes invites you to undertake a chthonic journey through the imaginal realm of dark radiance and prophecy and to drink the cool water of the Lake of Memory.
Orphism is an ancient Greek belief, that holds that humans embody a duality: their physical bodies having been created by the Titans, but their divine spark or soul deriving from Dionysus, the god of fertility, wine and ritual madness, who descended into the underworld and returned. In order to achieve salvation from our Titanic, material existence, we have to be initiated into the Dionysian mysteries and undergo teletē, a ritual purification and reliving of the suffering and death of the Dionysus. Otherwise our souls will be destined to undergo an eternal cycle of reincarnation.
Taking the golden tablets of the ancient Orphic Mysteries as inspiration, Sarah Janes will guide workshop participants through hypnagogic reverie, using classical incubation techniques from antiquity. Once in the Underworld of your subconscious, you will encounter the goddess Mnemosyne - guardian of the Lake of Memory and the personification of remembrance.
Sarah Janes
Sarah Janes is a writer and researcher with a particular interest in the sleep and dream traditions of antiquity, the evolution of imaginal and oracular culture and the potential of lucid dreaming as a modern healing device. Her first book Pool of Mnemosyne: An Initiation in Dreams is published by Inner Traditions/Bear & Co. Available 2022.
Image Credit - The Child's Dream of Pantomime by Alfred Crowquill. Public Domain courtesy of the Wellcome Collection
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The Orphic Mysteries
A Dream Incubation Workshop |
19:00 - 20:30 | £20.00 |
Location
Address
Dissenters Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, 391 Ladbroke Grove, London, W10 5AB
Nearest Station
Ladbroke Grove (Tube)
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Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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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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