{"title": "Early Gardnerians and Their Objects", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Treadwell's Books", "address": "Store Street 33, WC1E 7BS London", "price": "£30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "religion/witchcraft"], "description": "An afternoon of talks, short films and a small exhibition about the lives and magical tools of early Wiccans, marking the launch of a new collaborative book. Christina Oakley Harrington, founder and director of Treadwell's, joins Simon Costin, director of the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, to bring to light objects from Wicca's founding generations. The book is a collaboration between Treadwell's, the museum, and photographer and videographer Christen Goguen, printed by Ancient Magic Books, run by photographer James Meredew. Artefacts from the museum's collection are on show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/early-gardnerians-and-their-objects-42718/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c3c06bb522fb9647d9ef4444ac772acbb09c10d4717dea4da56e1df244b2c5b-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Treadwell's Books", "address": "Store Street 33, WC1E 7BS London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Witchcraft in England's North", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Treadwell's Books", "address": "Store Street 33, WC1E 7BS London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/witchcraft"], "description": "An in-person event titled \"Witchcraft in England's North\". It takes place at Treadwell's Books, a bookshop at 33 Store Street in London. 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His intricate drawings and sculptures blur the boundaries between art and ritual, and his work has rarely been exhibited publicly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-occult-temple-of-agape-the-magickal-worlds-of-rufus-whit-79101/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5b800c02b190784bb5ed71bcf1795fa49aeff44f01dd55764776b10a76753cad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tea with a Medium", "start": "2026-11-18T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Atlantis Bookshop", "address": "49a Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1A 1LY, UK", "price": "£60", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/spirituality/spiritualism"], "description": "Tea with a Medium is an afternoon sitting of mediumship for just five people, held in the Gardner Room at The Atlantis Bookshop, recalling Victorian spiritualist meetings. It is led by Gary Wright, an occult practitioner and psychic medium with over 15 years of professional experience rooted in traditional witchcraft and Scottish seership practices. Each attendee may ask questions about mediumship and spirit and receives a personal message from spirit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tea-with-a-medium-80893/", "official_url": "https://theatlantisbookshop.com/events/event/tea-with-a-medium-16/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68a0ee4d37f7f1b07403e20ea929c108512f401a9cef5147384abc2bde3b8d82-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Handle with Care: Conversations Through Objects", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00Z", "place": "The Forum", "address": "Bardolph Avenue 1, CR0 9BG Croydon", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/medical-history", "art"], "description": "Handle with Care: Conversations Through Objects is a drop-in object-handling event at Wellcome Collection, with different stations where you can touch and explore items from the collection at your own pace, alongside other creative activities. It is run by the venue's Visitor Experience and Engagement team and is for anyone interested in the connections between health, history and art. The session is relaxed, so you can move freely, leave and re-enter whenever you wish, and a chill-out space with low lighting, comfortable seating and sensory aids is available. The event is British Sign Language interpreted and takes place in the Forum, reached by lift or stairs to level 1 through the 'Being Human' gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/handle-with-care-conversations-through-objects-40250/", "official_url": "https://wellcomecollection.org/events/handle-with-care-conversations-through-objects-november-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4f881746466ba5f32eea8704ac4939aad3b179b5f639f74d5db5d86a49bdc8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dark Fairy Tales From Around The World, with Viktor Wynd", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "Early Bird £15, full price £20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "An in-person live lecture at a museum of curiosities in East London, where storyteller Viktor Wynd tells dark, macabre fairy tales from around the world, including gruesome German tales, macabre stories from Borneo and Papua New Guinea, and shapeshifting creatures from Wales – explicitly not the Ladybird or Disney versions, so possibly unsuitable for tender ears. Viktor Wynd is the proprietor of the museum, which he calls London's infamous Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History, and has spent twenty-five years telling traditional tales from the Brothers Grimm, The Arabian Nights and many countries to audiences across the globe. Each ticket includes a complimentary glass of Devil's Botany Absinthe, from London's first absinthe distillery, and early bird tickets cost £15 with full price at £20, with only 30 tickets available. A signed copy of his new book Dark Fairy Tales can be bought alongside the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dark-fairy-tales-from-around-the-world-with-viktor-wynd-79102/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/dark-fairy-tales-from-around-the-world-with-viktor-wynd-live-10/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c804595c0a24ab94d1774578355d02bb4b6ba997db28f7f0a69ce1a76e1d05a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flow State – Samhain Special", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Oxford House", "address": "Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG London", "price": "7.50", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/witch-persecution", "literature/creative-writing", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Flow State – Samhain Special is a candlelit immersive writing workshop held in Oxford House's secret Victorian chapel. It is led by Ruby Holder, after two sold-out earlier Flow State sessions. Participants are guided through exercises using sound, film, props and other creative tools to kickstart creativity and generate early-stage material through free writing. This Samhain special focuses on pagan Samhain (Hallowe'en) practices, the Essex witch trials, and applying magic, folk horror and ritual imagery to contemporary storytelling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flow-state-samhain-special-41801/", "official_url": "https://www.oxfordhouse.org.uk/event/flow-state-samhain-special-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6cb7d18451e101f56c184cf506d3cc0b55da2d618791952a5f115ce6f841c34f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "As Old as the Hills: Britain’s Dark Folklore with Green Lung’s Tom Templar & Thomas Williams FSA", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:00:00Z", "place": "Society of Antiquaries", "address": "Burlington House, Piccadilly", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/folklore"], "description": "An evening talk at the Society of Antiquaries on Britain's dark folklore, from occult practitioners and haunted barrows to Victorian cemeteries, bodies hidden in the wych elm and the devil himself. Tom Templar, lead singer of the hard rock band Green Lung, is in conversation with historian Thomas Williams FSA, author of Viking Britain and Lost Realms, about his lyrical inspiration and Britain's ancient and uncanny past. The evening includes a display of the Society's antiquarian collections on the history and folklore of the British landscape, and the ticket includes a complimentary drink.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/as-old-as-the-hills-britains-dark-folklore-with-green-lungs-38658/", "official_url": "https://www.sal.org.uk/events/dark-folklore/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c776be5422a3375d7afb81a481e5f0e2e60338e925f491013039ca515ccdf21-600.webp"}, {"title": "Art Book Club", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "place": "Museum of Croydon", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature/book-club"], "description": "Art Book Club is a relaxed, friendly monthly discussion of an art-related book, held in the Clocktower Café. It is run by the Museum of Croydon as part of a programme of events around its current exhibition, Shaping Croydon: Architecture and Ambition, which explores the area's architectural past, present, and future through the lens of local photographers. This session looks at 'The Use of Photography' by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, a meditation on eroticism, photography and writing by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, newly translated into English by Alison L. Strayer. Visitors can join the museum's WhatsApp community or simply turn up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-book-club-37218/", "official_url": "https://museumofcroydon.com/whats-on-listings/8gwooer5x4edxx2hnksjdh24cur3sz-afx3c-kgpc6-fabza-a7sle-kncaj", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c590a6ecf0a78cd264754694f592d60777f5fdb5429cb227267e559f703f5ac9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lilith: An Exploration of Myth, Folktale & Feminine Archetypes", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/art-history", "society/folklore"], "description": "A live, in-person lecture on the myths and evolving symbols of Lilith, a figure of folklore, scripture and art history who appears as both demon and muse. It is led by Art History & Contextual lecturer Deborah Máire, who explores goddesses, demons and warriors through folktales, visual art, esoteric writings and the lives of the models and muses behind works from the Pre-Raphaelites to feminist reinterpretations. Doors open at 6:30pm and the talk starts at 7pm, with the award-winning Absinthe Parlour cocktail bar hidden within the museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lilith-an-exploration-of-myth-folktale-feminine-archetypes-79106/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/lilith-an-exploration-of-myth-folktale-feminine-archetypes-live/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/44b0ec513220709fd5584e95800e7f053f5eb6e61884daa5450da3f8a98128ba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Piccolissimo book launch | Published by COSE", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A book launch celebrating Piccolissimo, a miniature book published by COSE. The book was conceived by Alex Sonsino and Giulia Nardi and explores the tenderness of tiny things through photographs in which Alex's finger becomes a landscape and resting place for a collection of small objects. The photographs give the objects context, scale and unexpected intimacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/piccolissimo-book-launch-published-by-cose-76840/", "official_url": "https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/piccolissimo-book-launch-published-by-cose-thursday-5-november-6-8pm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7c60749de9a853f411ba558e87a02b25670084c3f61e5595d96e7af659a832b-2000.webp"}]}