The Night of the Witch is almost upon us! Please join myself and Treadwell's illustrious Christina Oakley Harrington for a double-bill evening of witchly lectures at the META Center here in NYC on June 25th. Christina is coming all the way from London, so be sure to get your tickets now for this rare US appearance.
The Night of the Witch with Christina Oakley Harrington & Pam Grossman
Remedios Varo
Date: Wednesday, June 25th
Time: 7pm (6:45pm doors)
Admission: $20
tickets available here
Address: META Center 214 W 29th St # 16, New York, NY 10001
Presented by Treadwell’s Books and Phantasmaphile
Please join us for this double-bill evening of witch-themed lectures at the META Center:
Witch Pictures – Pam Grossman
The witch burst into Western art in the late 15th century and never left: the likes of Durer, Fuseli, Goya, and Blake used the image of magical women to titillate their patrons or reflect their own anxieties with results both grotesque and beguiling. Then in the 19th century, women took up the brush to create works inspired by personal occult experiences, thus reclaiming the witch. We see a female ‘witchcraft’ in action in Abstraction, Surrealism, and Modernism, making a corner of art history where craft and Craft are one and the same.
British Witchcraft: the Fifties to the Seventies - Christina Oakley Harrington
British Witchraft revived in the 1950s and 1960s. To the horror and fascination of the English press and public, some of these witches gave interviews and even allowed secret rites to be photographed. They wanted the world to know a non-Christian basis of ethics, a radical concept of the sacred, and the power of altered states of consciousness. Both tradition-based and forward-thinking, they were paradoxical. Tonight’s speaker comes from the UK Wiccan community, and brings these characters to life and shares insights into their vision of the Craft.
The event will be followed by an informal social at OCabanon restaurant: all are invited.
Pam Grossman is the Brooklyn-based guiding spirit of Phantasmaphile, co-founder of Observatory, and the co-organizer of the biannual Occult Humanities Conference at NYU.
Christina Oakley Harrington is founder of London’s famed Treadwell’s Bookshop and a former academic; she also co-edits Abraxas Journal and gives occasional lectures.
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