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Wicked Wednesdays: Tarot Reading with Tobias + Devil’s Botany – LIVE

Glimpse into what your future holds with an individual reading with resident Tarot Reader, Tobias, at The Last Tuesday Society. Tickets include a Devil’s Botany Absinthe to sip on while embarking on a 15 minute private tarot reading.

Tobias is an experienced reader who provides personal and inclusive sessions, tailored to each individual’s preferred experience. Do you want to ask the cards a question? Perhaps you seek general advice? Or maybe you simply wish to try it out as a new experience! Whatever you would like to gain from your reading, you are welcome.

To reserve a table for drinks in The Absinthe Parlour, book via: https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/

Individual tarot readings will last roughly 15 minutes.

Event is for over 18s only.

 

The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society
The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society

Wicked Wednesdays: Tarot Reading with Tobias + Devil’s Botany – LIVE

Glimpse into what your future holds with an individual reading with resident Tarot Reader, Tobias, at The Last Tuesday Society. Tickets include a Devil’s Botany Absinthe to sip on while embarking on a 15 minute private tarot reading.

Tobias is an experienced reader who provides personal and inclusive sessions, tailored to each individual’s preferred experience. Do you want to ask the cards a question? Perhaps you seek general advice? Or maybe you simply wish to try it out as a new experience! Whatever you would like to gain from your reading, you are welcome.

To reserve a table for drinks in The Absinthe Parlour, book via: https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/

Individual tarot readings will last roughly 15 minutes.

Event is for over 18s only.

 

The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society
The Absinthe Parlour at The Last Tuesday Society

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives – Dr Helen Frisby – Zoom

The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives

A sin-eater was a ‘long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal’ (Aubrey, 1687) who, by eating a special meal over the coffin, consumed a dead person’s sins and thus helped them enter heaven. In this talk Dr Helen Frisby surveys the historical evidence for this fascinating old funerary character and their mysterious rituals in service of the souls of the dead. As it turns out, things aren’t quite what they might first seem – but Helen will suggest that it’s the sin-eater’s very elusiveness within the historical record which has enabled them to rise again in present-day film, TV and literature.

Bio

Dr Helen Frisby has taught history at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and funeral directing at the University of Bath where she’s also a Visiting Research Fellow. Hon. Secretary of The Folklore Society, Helen has appeared on The History Channel and BBC radio. She continues to research and publish on topics relating to death, funerals and bereavement, past and present.

Curated & Hosted by

Marguerite Johnson is a cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, specialising in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. She also researches Classical Reception Studies, with a regular focus on Australia. In addition to ancient world studies, Marguerite is interested in sexual histories in modernity as well as magic in the west more broadly, especially the practices and art of Australian witch, Rosaleen Norton. She is Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She lives in Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesvos.

Image is: ‘Two Old Ones Eating Soup or Two Witches’ by Francisco Goya (1823). Public domain courtesy of Wikimedia.

don’t worry if you miss it – we will send you a recording valid for two weeks the next day

(C)ARTOMANCIE: When Divination Meets Art with Bel Senlle – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe.

Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

(C)ARTOMANCIE: when divination meets art, how can we approach artwork with a magician’s mind?

Bel Senlle will talk about the interception of artefacts, animism and interpretation: how do we make meaning? What’s the relationship between art and magic? Come and learn about the principles of divination and create an oracular-system of your own.

Bel Senlle is an artist, author, tarot reader, and a psychologist in training. She’s a resident practitioner at The College of Psychic Studies and at She’s Lost Control. Based in London Bel has been invited to offer her experiences in the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brasil, and the USA.

Claridad, Bel’s first tarot deck, created in Spanish, has sold worldwide since 2019. The English co-edition was published in 2023 by Watkins and distributed by Penguin Random House.

Part of her work includes also hosting artistic-esoteric events such as classes or sessions for brands: some of her clients were Brits Awards 2023, Warner Music, the Royal Academy of Arts, H&M, & Other Stories, Monki, Astley Clarke, Fabric, Chelsea Fringe, Estelle Manor, and numerous private clients.

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today. The Last Tuesday Society’s curious Monday night lecture series is sponsored by Devil’s Botany.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances. Please note, the museum of curiosities is not opened on Mondays during our lectures.

Fabulous Freaks of Yesteryear by Carl Abrahamsson – LIVE

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture. Tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Chocolate Absinthe.

Doors open at 6:30pm and talk starts at 7pm

Fabulous Freaks of Yesteryear by Carl Abrahamsson

This talk on the phenomenon of the Freak draws on historical examples and then moves on up to today’s celebrity culture, with many illustrated examples. It’s a mix of Sideshow culture, older examples, and the way people on the outside have worked with and often manipulated the ”perfect” normalcy of the inside.

The premise of this talk is that nothing much has actually changed in today’s societies – the ”freaks” are merely of a different kind/nature, and far more prone to be ”judged” via subjectivity and strategy. Are we entertained? Are we allowed to be?

Carl Abrahamsson is a Swedish author who writes fiction, and also books about occulture. I also work with filmmaking, in publishing, photography and music.

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today. The Last Tuesday Society’s curious Monday night lecture series is sponsored by Devil’s Botany.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances. Please note, the museum of curiosities is not opened on Mondays during our lectures.

Fabulous Freaks

Strange History and Homelife of Renaissance Magicians with Rachel Morris

Please note this is NOT a ZOOM Lecture but an in person lecture, tickets include a complimentary glass of Devil’s Botany Absinthe

THE STRANGE HISTORY AND HOMELIFE OF RENAISSANCE MAGICIANS WITH RACHEL MORRIS

Join author Rachel Morris for a highly atmospheric exploration of the charismatic magicians of the Tudor and Renaissance courts and the wives and families who kept the whole magical show on the road.

All things were believable back then – wizards, alchemy, fairies, angels. This is the story of those magical times.

This event will offer a luminous deep dive into the lives of men from Dee to Kepler to Bruno, who were also scientists, astrologers, mathematicians and alchemists.

The remarkable ideas of these magical men still permeate modern culture, from Philip Pullman to C S Lewis. But what do we know of the rest of their households – the lovers, wives, mothers and daughters?

In The Years of the Wizard Rachel Morris also vividly reimagines the less documented lives of the magicians’ families and lovers whose stories have too often been overshadowed by those of the powerful men in their company.

Women supported the travelling households by packing up the libraries, feeding the assistants, entertaining the patrons and educating the children as well as archiving, documenting and collaborating on magical work. Without them, this astonishing era of discovery would have ground to an emphatic halt.

AUTHOR BIO

Former director of the museum-making company Metaphor, Rachel Morris has been part of the creation, design and delivery of some of the most exciting displays, renovations and museums of the last few decades, from the new Cast Courts at the V&A and the Ashmolean, Oxford to the Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum and Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Rachel is also the author of The Museum Makers and two novels.

Devil’s Botany is the UK’s first absinthe distillery, founded by Directors of The Last Tuesday Society’s Absinthe Parlour & Cocktail Bar. Celebrating spirit’s connection to art, literature, magic & mixology, Devil’s Botany is unleashing the future of absinthe with bold expressions for the adventurous drinkers of today.

The venue opens at 18:30. Doors will close at 19:00 to avoid disrupting the speaker. We kindly ask that all guests arrive before 19:00. Refunds are not possible for in person events with less than seven days notice in any circumstances.

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo – LIVE

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo
The Menagerie at The Museum is Back!
Come, descend the spiral staircase and enter our world – then meet, handle and even cuddle our scaly, furry and even feathered friends. We can’t promise exactly what animals are coming though we have a strong inkling there will be ducks, there will be reptiles, there will be insects and there may be something furry!

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo – LIVE

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo
The Menagerie at The Museum is Back!
Come, descend the spiral staircase and enter our world – then meet, handle and even cuddle our scaly, furry and even feathered friends. We can’t promise exactly what animals are coming though we have a strong inkling there will be ducks, there will be reptiles, there will be insects and there may be something furry!

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo – LIVE

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo
The Menagerie at The Museum is Back!
Come, descend the spiral staircase and enter our world – then meet, handle and even cuddle our scaly, furry and even feathered friends. We can’t promise exactly what animals are coming though we have a strong inkling there will be ducks, there will be reptiles, there will be insects and there may be something furry!

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo – LIVE

Menagerie in The Museum – a Petting Zoo
The Menagerie at The Museum is Back!
Come, descend the spiral staircase and enter our world – then meet, handle and even cuddle our scaly, furry and even feathered friends. We can’t promise exactly what animals are coming though we have a strong inkling there will be ducks, there will be reptiles, there will be insects and there may be something furry!