The Pleasure of Your Beautiful Company & The Fairy Horde is Requested
for a Devil’s Botany Absinthe Cocktail Reception
To Celebrate the opening of our new exhibition – the extraordinary, marvellous and magical original illustrations created by Transylvanian Artist & archaeologist Luciana Nedelea
Viktor Wynd will be signing and doodling on copies of the book
Some of the original illustrations will be available to buy
Tuesday September 23rd 6-8pm
Hosted for London Cocktail Week 2025
Ready for a deep dive into the curious and captivating world of absinthe? Join Allison Crawbuck and Rhys Everett, the brilliant minds behind The Last Tuesday Society and Devil’s Botany, for a guided tasting that’s anything but ordinary.
Leave your inhibitions at the door and channel your inner Green Fairy as we unravel the mysteries of absinthe and its key ingredient, the so-called “wicked weed” wormwood. You’ll sip and savor your way through an award-winning lineup, including a wormwood vodka, a wormwood gin, two absinthes, and a devilishly indulgent absinthe liqueur.
Once your senses are well and truly awakened, Allison and Rhys will bring the spirit’s tantalizing history to life. You’ll hear stories of absinthe’s journey from a cure-all concoction to a notorious staple in London’s cocktail scene, and learn the truth behind its near-century-long ban.
As a final treat, your ticket includes admission to the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, so you can keep the strange and wonderful vibes going all night long. A special menu of Devil’s Botany cocktails will be available to help you continue your adventure!
Tickets include a welcome cocktail, a tasting of 5 spirits and liqueurs, and admission to the musuem.
Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first Absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society. Distilled with a background in mixology, the award-winning Devil’s Botany range of absinthes and absinthe liqueurs has been expertly crafted for cocktails at their distillery in East London. Celebrating absinthe as a muse in art, music and mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers and alternative thinkers of today.
About The Absinthe Parlour
Step into a world of wonder and weirdness! The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society isn’t just a bar; it’s an experience. Get lost in a labyrinth of cocktails, oddities, and absinthe-laced memories at London’s most curious cocktail bar founded by owners of Devil’s Botany Distillery: Allison Crawbuck & Rhys Everett. Here, the drinks are as curious as the decor. But the journey doesn’t have to end there. After a glass or two of the green fairy, we dare you to descend into the depths of the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Explore a basement filled with the bizarre and the beautiful, including unicorns, mermaids, two-headed lambs, magical soaps, and even skeleton fairies. Come to The Absinthe Parlour, where every night is an adventure and every sip tells a story.
Shortlisted “Bar of the Year 2024” — The Spirits BusinessVoted “Best Bar in London” – DesignMyNight Awards 2019
Refund Policy: Refunds for in-person events are only possible up to 7 days prior to the event date.
Age Restriction: Event is only suitable for those aged 18 years and over
New Menu Launch at The Absinthe Parlour | The Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street London E8 4RP on Wednesday 1st October 7pm – 11pm. Admission to the event is free. Reservations are required via link here: https://bookings.designmynight.com/
London’s most freakish hideout, The Absinthe Parlour, is gearing up for it’s 10 year anniversary at The Last Tuesday Society with the launch of a brand-new cocktail menu that’s as playful, nostalgic, and offbeat as the bar itself.
The Absinthe Parlour is throwing a party on Wednesday 1st October to celebrate the new menu launch with free Devil’s Botany drinks for the first 100 guests plus £6 cocktails and £4 museum admission all night long.
The new menu, aptly titled Let The Good Times Roll, takes guests on a journey through drinks that blur the line between nostalgia and spectacle. Inspired by the directors’ roots in South Brooklyn and the infamous Coney Island side shows, expect retro flavours, carnival curiosities, and a touch of the unexpected:
For traditionalists, the ritual absinthe fountains remain at the heart of the Parlour, offering guests a timeless taste of the green fairy.
Celebrating a decade of eccentricity, The Absinthe Parlour’s new menu is an ode to fun, flavour, and the freakish spirit that makes The Last Tuesday Society one of London’s most infamous drinking dens.
Let the good times roll.
Free Devil’s Botany drinks for the first 100 guests with reservations plus £6 cocktails and £4 museum tickets all night long
The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society, 11 Mare Street London E8 4RP
️ Wednesday 1st October 7pm – 11pm
️ Admission to the event is free. Reservations are required via https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour
For interviews and press access: [email protected]
About The Absinthe Parlour
Step into a world of wonder and weirdness! The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society isn’t just a bar; it’s an experience. Get lost in a labyrinth of cocktails, oddities, and absinthe-laced memories at London’s most curious cocktail bar founded by owners of Devil’s Botany Distillery: Allison Crawbuck & Rhys Everett. Here, the drinks are as curious as the decor. But the journey doesn’t have to end there. After a glass or two of the green fairy, we dare you to descend into the depths of the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities. Explore a basement filled with the bizarre and the beautiful, including unicorns, mermaids, two-headed lambs, magical soaps, and even skeleton fairies. Come to The Absinthe Parlour, your sanctuary for the strange.
Greek Myth and Religion
What did the Ancient Greeks actually believe – and how did it shape the way they lived their lives?
Philip Matyszak, a noted scholar of Greek myth and religion and author of numerous books such as A Year in the Life of Ancient Greece (Michael O’Mara, 2021), will guide us through the Ancient Greeks’ belief system, bringing their world to life. He’ll give us an overview of how their religion worked, explaining how their gods embodied concepts and forces – from wisdom to the weather – that were part of their daily reality.
We’ll also learn how their myths, with their complex and flawed heroes, differ from the moralism of popular stories today, exploring and explain the human condition rather than trying to improve it. Matyszak views the Greeks’ many myths as part of one large, rambling story that runs across four generations with a cast of dozens, if not hundreds. The same characters interact and pop up in each other’s stories: Theseus kidnaps Helen of Troy, is rescued from Hades by Hercules, who meets Medea and buries Icarus. And its span is immense: from cosmogony, where humans do not yet exist, to Seven Against Thebes, where the gods barely feature, it is a tale that goes from one end of the known world to the other.
Speaker Bio
Philip Matyszak has a doctorate in Roman history from St John’s College, Oxford. He is the author of many books on classical civilization, including Chronicle of the Roman Republic, The Enemies of Rome, The Sons of Caesar, Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day, Lives of the Romans (with Joanne Berry) and Legionary.
don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day
Psychedelics and Memories of Birth, Abuse and Alien Abduction
Psychoanalysing the psychedelic phenomena of recovered memories of abuse, birth and alien abduction
From earliest life every one of us is immersed in a world of pure novelty, preoccupied with weaving the fluctuations of experience into a stable and coherent tapestry. We theorise and construct understandings and expectations of space, time, the social world and ourselves within it from the threads of culture we happen upon in our maturation. Yet novelty insists upon us, disrupting all attempts to complete the picture. Protected by only this thinnest of veils, every so often we experience something so apparently novel it creates a hole in the very fabric of our reality. These rips, tears and ruptures can undermine faith in our habitual ways of knowing, our own memories and even our sensory perceptions themselves, demanding suture. In this talk we will draw on contemporary psychoanalytic and philosophical theories of trauma, revelation, gaslighting and eye witness testimony to think about some of the more far-out experiences that can be engendered by psychedelics, and one of their unfortunate results, epistemic injury.
Speaker Bio
Timmy Davis is the founder of The Psychedelic Experience Clinic, director of Psychedelic Policy and Regulation at the Centre for Evidence Based Drug Policy (CEBDP), policy director at the Psilocybin Access Rights (PAR) campaign and a trainee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Curated and hosted by
Maya Bracknell Watson is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, retired cult leader and psychedelic researcher.
Her background is in psychedelic parapsychology research with Greenwich University, specialising in exceptional human experience and entity encounters on psychedelics, and as an artist. She has studied shamanism for 10 years, working closely with Amerindian indigenous shamanic cultures of Mexico and Peru and western neoshamanic groups, focusing on the introduction and integration of indiginous and animistic knowledge and perspectives to westerners and western ontologies.
She publicly lectures on the subjects of psychedelics and shamanism, and produces art on the subjects informed by her research and experience, including films, performances, writing and immersive worlds. She has performed and exhibited at the Tate Britain and Breaking Convention and is the creator and host of Psychedelicacies, an online lecture series.
Walking between the worlds of art, psychedelic science and shamanism she works to bridge them and uses each as investigatory tools to inform and articulate each other.
don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day
Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person event at our museum at the Sarcophagus Table
Doors open at 6:30pm and performance starts at 7.00pm
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Doors open at 8:00pm and performance starts at 8.30pm
“Bah! Humbug!” An evening of AntiChristmas storytelling for those lacking in Christmas spirit with Giles Abbott – LIVE
Book early–against all our sourest wishes this event is very popular.
Giles Abbott has been telling stories since 1999 working nationally and internationally with folk stories, myths, legends, even one-man versions of Shakespeare plays as well as Iron-Age myths from Britain and Scandinavia, new works from historical/biographical sources and contemporary tales from right here, right now.
Giles is the UK’s only professional blind storyteller, also a busy Voice Teacher and Voice Artist. His storytelling is distinguished by his poetic flair for language and his rich speaking voice.
“The audience has succumbed to Abbott’s narrative charm from minute one.” review of “Macbeth”, Der Rheinische Post,
“Wit, wisdom and a voice like melted chocolate.” Honor Giles, Word Of Mouth Storytelling, Manchester
“A story so mesmerizing that it left me speechless. Giles Abbott from U.K received a standing ovation. His magical words kept the audience glued for more than an hour, and his stories will ring in my ears for many more years to come.” Divya, Khatakar International Storytelling Festival, Delhi, India
We are unable to give refunds for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances
Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person event at our museum at the Sarcophagus Table
Doors open at 6:30pm and performance starts at 7.00pm
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Doors open at 8:00pm and performance starts at 8.30pm
“Love Knot – a twisted knot of tales for Valentine’s” – LIVE
The Path of True Love is seldom smooth. How can you wake your true love if they’re bewitched? How will your true love find you if they’ve lost their eyes? How can you meet your true love if there’s a 50ft lizard in the way? Or how can you join with your love tomorrow if you’re due to die today? And what if your lover turns out to be a psycho? All will be unravelled in this twisted knot of tales twining threads from Germany, Scandinavia, Greece and England. Ingenius, desperate and desperately romantic.
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Giles Abbott has been telling stories for a living since 2000. Audiences have said, of his live work “a story so breathtaking it left me speechless!” and of his recorded work “I shouldn’t have stayed up until half three listening to this, but now that I have I can’t even pretend to regret it. Wonderful story, beautifully told. Giles is fantastic.
We are unable to give refunds for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances
The Life and Stories of H.C. Andersen
Long before Disney and Pixar, there was Hans Christian Andersen—a poor shoemaker’s son from Odense whose imagination would enchant the world. In this lecture, we journey through the extraordinary life of Denmark’s most celebrated storyteller, from his humble beginnings and restless travels across Europe to his friendships with royalty, artists, and literary greats.
We will uncover the inspiration behind timeless tales like The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen, and The Ugly Duckling, exploring how Andersen’s own triumphs, heartbreaks, and unrequited loves found their way into his fables. Alongside his fairy tales, we will meet the man himself—eccentric, romantic, and endlessly curious—through his diaries, letters, and the anecdotes of those who knew him.
Blending biography, history, and literary magic, this talk invites you to step into a 19th-century world of candlelit parlours, grand salons, and windswept northern shores, where every life holds the seed of a fairy tale—if only we learn how to tell it.
Speaker Bio
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience, Lena’s New Book – Mythical Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore is now available on Amazon
Speaker Bio:
Cat Irving has been the Human Remains Conservator for Surgeons’ Hall since 2015 and has been caring for anatomical and pathological museum collections for over twenty years. After a degree in Anatomical Science she began removing brains and sewing up bodies at the Edinburgh City Mortuary. Following training in the care of wet tissue collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England she worked with the preparations of William Hunter at the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow University, where she is now Consultant Human Remains Conservator. Cat is a licensed anatomist, and gives regular talks on anatomy and medical history. She recently carried out conservation work on the skeleton of serial killer William Burke
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