REMINDER: Come to TONIGHT'S lecture on Wonder at Observatory!

Phantasmaphile presents an evening with Jeff Hoke, creator of The Museum of Lost Wonder and Clint Marsh, author of The Mentalist's Handbook at OBSERVATORY

Through the mediums of self-published pamphlets and the books they inspired, these artistic collaborators have devoted themselves to navigating the border between personal wonder and historical fact.

A writer and publisher of “practical esoterica,” Marsh will tell how childhood exposure to a private library of occult tomes sent him on a lifelong journey walking the line between skepticism and belief. The events leading to the creation of The Mentalist’s Handbook—and the letters Marsh receives from its readers—form the basis of an ongoing study of the crossroads of imagination and reality.  http://wonderella.org/ 

Hoke will discuss the alchemical structure of The Museum of Lost Wonder—an activity book whose projects bridge art, science, and personal enlightenment. These themes are explored further in Hoke’s latest work, Tomb of Illumination. Here, the final resting place of Christian Rosenkreutz is used as a metaphor for the historical separation of art and science, holding hopes for the reunification of fact with faith and consciousness with the worlds beyond.  http://www.lostwonder.org/ 

The Museum of Lost Wonder and The Mentalist’s Handbook (both published by Weiser Books) and Hoke’s Tomb of Illumination folio will be available for purchase.

Date:  Thursday, October 29th

Time:  8pm

Admission:  $5

DIRECTIONS TO OBSERVATORY:  ***PLEASE USE NEVINS ST./PROTEUS GOWANUS ENTRANCE***
 
Observatory is located at 543 Union Street at Nevins St., in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn.  The entrance is currently through Proteus Gowanus gallery, in the alley off Nevins St (see below for full details).

R  or M train to Union Street in Brooklyn:

Walk two long blocks on Union (towards the Gowanus Canal) to Nevins Street. 543 Union Street is the large red brick building on right. Go right on Nevins and left down alley through large black gates. Proteus Gowanus is the second door on the left.  

F or G train to Carroll Street:

Walk one block to Union. Turn right, walk two long blocks on Union towards the Gowanus Canal, cross the bridge, take left on Nevins, go down the alley to Proteus Gowanus, the second door on the left.

See you there!

Comments

[michael]

i live out of state but this sounds like my holy grail.

might it be taped, youtubed or something?